Well it's actually not what I'd ideally like to do. When I lost my thirty or so pounds over a year ago, I had a treadmill, and I looooved couch 2 5k. I've moved away from my treadmill, (and have gained back that weight), so I'm mainly doing a circuit mix of cardio, free weight and body weight exercises at home, or the elliptical at the gym.

Last night was the elliptical. I upped the resistance and still made it thirty minutes, so I felt pretty proud of myself. :)

Nothing all that interesting to help change up your routine, though.

Riestrella:
OMIGOD. I could buy St. James Place!
Ladies, move ovah, you've got some competition in the house....

Philana:
You... waited until you were hungry... before you ate?



.....................I don't understand.

Surly:
Good job! I hate when I'm on the elliptical and the guy beside me is going twice as fast as I am and barely breaking a sweat. Always makes me feel better to look over and see that my resistance is like twice what his is! ;)

Good job at going for the full thirty minutes!!!

Me:
I set another random goal for myself last night. On top of my 30+ laps 3 times a week in the pool, I'd also climb the stairs of my apartment (25 flights) twice a week.

Oh. Man. I live on the 12th, so I hopped merrily down to the basement, then turned to start my ascent. 3 flights in, my legs started screaming. And I mean... screaming. I continued the same speed with muscles crying and protesting in agony until the 11th flight, where I actually had to sit down. I hadn't realized that my heart was pounding like a drum on my ribcage, and I could feel the blood pulsing in my ears. I was panting so hard it was echoing up and down the (thankfully abandoned) stairwell, and I got a good wave of nausea.

I may have overkilled a little. And I may be a bit out of shape.

So then I climbed to the 25th by going one flight, then pacing back and forth on each landing three times before taking the next. But I made it!!!! And then sat down at the top again and put my head between my knees for a minute.

Went back to my apartment, feeling a bit sick to my stomach and like my legs were filled with a no-name brand of Jell-O (like real Jell-O but sh!ttier) but extremely proud of myself. :D

And this morning, I was down a full pound from yesterday...! 172.8 to 171.8. Clearly just a water-weight loss, but I'm happy anyhow. :)

Bahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

My weight loss has been slow the last couple of weeks, but I have a great feeling for next week's weigh in! :)

Philana - I definitely feel more full after eating a bunch of healthy fruits and veggies. It takes a few days though to get used to it, but it definitely works and it makes you feel so good about yourself. :)

OMG Jelbb - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - that sounds like such torture. Awesome feeling though? And yeh.. only eating when hungry is kinda a new concept to me too ;). So far it works. I just have to make sure I don't eat too little.

So - I just went on another c25k run (I've restarted it after quitting in week 5 the last time) and it went great. I take our dog, a german shepherd and she takes up all my attention trying to get her to not pull me over and basically just teaching her what I expect of her when we run together that time flies by so before I know it the lady in my earphones is telling me I can walk again. Yay for the dog! She is gonna stay my running buddy till the bitter end.

I was content with just cutting calories and excersising only a little but realizing how LONG it's gonna take to get at goal that way I am looking into more excersise. The new gym I am a just really isn't working for me. I moved recently and the gym where I used to live was great, went there 5 days a week. But htis one has old machines and it's small and no real guidance. So I think I am gonna do-it-myself.

Am gonna buy a twiststepper for at home, we have dumbbells so I am trying to figure out how to do that properly and I'll go swimming twice a week. That should do it. I ride my bike to work 4 times a week and it's about 3 miles so that helps. What I REALLY want is a racingbike so I can go long distances for hours. I just love that. But need to save up for that.

Ah, I am rambling! lol.
Lat0r!

OMG :D i've just realised i misspelled eliptical as EPILEPTICAL :D:D:D:D:D LOL!!! (as my excuse, english is not my mothertounge :o )

Been super on plan the last few days. Excercise and yummy healthy food choices. Feeling great and looking forward to next weeks weigh in!

Question: What day is my weigh-in deadline in US, since Riestrella is in UK (right?)? I usually weigh-in on Sundays & post on Mondays (that would be 3 days from now), but should I post tomorrow instead so I don't get a missed W.I.?

Nice reading how everyone's doing. I take 6 Zumba classes a week (I'm an instructor & we team-teach) and I've also been doing 1 ballet workout & 1 belly dance class a week. Haven't seen any major weight changes in this month yet, but I know its food-related.. I've cut down on the fast food & chocolate candy this week, so hopefully that will have helped somewhat.. my friend's aunt sold tamales this week, so I bought a dozen (who turns down homemade tamles?) and I've been trying to limit myself to 2 per sitting, but I've had a couple munch-out binges this week too.. I should get more nuts & fruit for healthy snacks next week :)

:hug: to everyone and wish you luck.. Keep it up.. I need to shift into a higher gear ;)

Riestrella Haha about the Monopoly money.
Not sure I want to divulge details about the weekend. Thank you for asking though. Might give a summary over the next day or two. It involves a guy.
Maybe I will tune into a Pixar movie.

philana where do you go for your smoothie recipes?
Is there a "song" you can download for the C25k program? where it tells you when to walk/run? It's getting pretty chilly, but maybe I could do it on the treadmill. I'd rather have someone just boss me around and tell me when to do what vs keeping track of time on my own. :)

lilypad kudos on the 10k! I was thinking about doing a 1k beer walk this weekend...same benefits, right? ;) (it's something in my area. You walk around indoor shops sampling cheeses and beers. haha)

Jelbb you make me laugh so much! :rofl:
...and you made my jaw DROP reading about all of those stairs! Maybe I'll work on going up and down the stairs at my apt building (of course, mine only goes up to the 4th floor).

Lol!! It's like you tried to squish together "epileptic" and "eliptical." I'm not so sure about the image that conjures up. :D

And I mispell stuff in english all the time, and I'm not only a native speaker, but an english major, so I think that's a pretty good excuse.

:lol: That was prob one of the funniest things i've read in awhile...

I saw a drop today on the scale...back down to 188 after hovering around 191 for a bit. Still think I was retaining water due to weight training. Next week is usually when I have a few pound drop in weight(thank you body patterns) so looking forward to it =D

I'm having a crappy workout week in addition to it being TOM. Hopefully things change next week. I can't get too far behind, I am on a schedule with the whole half marathon training. On the other hand, I had a job interview for a microbiology position! I'm super excited because it's exactly the sort of job I want at the kind of company I'd like to work for.

P.s. I think the reason I'm having a crappy workout week is that the weather changed and now it's cold out. I hate the cold.

Exception,
Here is a link to a website that agrees with what several people have tried to explain. I also copied a little bit of information direction from the website.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/40...weight-faster/

-Overweight people have greater mass, so they have biophysics in their favor when they exercise. The more someone weighs, the more calories he burns in activity. They have greater mass to propel, so it requires more energy to move that mass. A 150-lb. person burns about 236 calories walking at 3 mph for 60 minutes; it would take him more than two weeks of daily hour-long walks to burn off 1 lb. A 250-lb. person burns 393 calories in 60 minutes of walking at 3 mph, so he would burn off 1.7 lbs in the same time period. Of course, he would have worked harder at it, because he had more weight to move around.

-Bigger bodies have higher maintenance costs. The more you weigh the more calories you burn, even when you do nothing. A 5-foot, 8-inch tall, 40-year-old female who weighs 150 lbs. has a BMR of 1,439 calories, estimates BMI-Calculator.net. Her 250-lb. counterpart has a BMR of 1,874 calories, a 435 calorie difference. If they were both placed on the same calorie-restricted diet, the heavier woman would have a greater calorie deficit between what she ate and what she needed to maintain her weight. The heavier woman could lose as much as 1 lb. more every eight days because of her greater metabolism.

Hi everyone!

i've been quite quiet and figured i'd give a big hello to everyone! great job on keeping up with the weigh ins! i feel like accountability is the first step before diet and exercise, so great job everyone!

for me, i'm getting bored of calorie counting, even though it's been successful for me. in 115, which is almost 4 months, i've lost about 25 lbs. This brings my total weight loss from the way beginning to 76 lbs.

The last 40 lbs have always been the problem. The first 60 just sort of fell off, sometimes at a rate of a lb a day. Now, the last 40 have been sort of lopping off slowly. the first 25 came off at a rate of about 1.5 a week, but now i'm slowing to 1.2 lbs a week. :(. i decided to drop my calories from 1428 to 1323 to see if it makes a difference and reflect the lost weight..

I agree, let's keep it fun and not say stuff like "shady" "that woman" and whatnot. Most of us are having a good time on these boards. Let's keep it that way!