Movin' and Groovin' Thread
 

For those that are exercising while on the diet, post your workouts here! Let's support, encourage and motivate each other.

Thanks for starting this thread boyz4us.
A very good session of Hot Yoga yesterday, today a hike during my lunch break and going to a class tonight that a friend is starting combining yoga and meditation (clearly yoga is one of my jams:). A really nice sunny day here in Colorado so great day to be out for a bit.

Usually I get a couple good sessions in a week of something or other, but this week my goal is on the "off" days to do at least do a little walk or stretching for 15 or 20 minutes. Also within a month I want to get back to some strength training. The yoga I do is the intense kind, so there is some strength training involved, but want to add in some weights soon. So writing it here to "declare" to myself the goals:)

Thanks boyz4us, My weekend included Weight training Friday, 2 mile walk 1 mile jog on Saturday and 2 miles walked Sunday. Today I walked 1.75 miles. I did have my weight in this morning and had gained .8 lbs. I was fine with it. I knew going in this morning I felt like I had some water retention. Around week 5 I had a stall week. The next week I saw a 4 pound loss. Hoping to see a whoosh next week.
Great to see this thread. I do like my exercise and as the weather warms up I look forward to being active outside.
Grateful4health, I have always wanted to try yoga. Is there any dvd's that you recommend?

Rebelgrl there are so many dvds out there and so many types of yoga - I liked Rodney Yee's DVDs for a long time...he's kind of old school.
I go to a studio and I like the intensity of the Bikram/ hot yoga. Best thing is maybe try a few free downloads or check out some free classes and see what type you like. But ask me any other questions, I'm happy to answer.

Btw re: weekly weigh ins, I almost always had two weeks of stall or a little up, and then one or two drop weeks. In the drop weeks not many inches, but on the plateau weeks more inches. I had to learn to gage it more by the month, and just know I was in it until I met goal, and it was going to take however long my particular body wanted to take.

Hey Ipeeps, Just finished my 2 mile walk at our local track. Anyone get some activity in today? Thanks grateful4health. I am going to check some out online tonight.

Got a long hike in yesterday, today 1 hour hot yoga :yoga: (which felt esp. great today for some reason) and a short outside walk. Tomorrow is a busier day so I’m using my lunch break to go for a 45 minute walk.

Sorry I haven't been back to post on the thread I started. I am glad you are enjoying it!
Monday I did a 2 mile run/walk. It was suppose to be all run but my legs just didn't have it in them so I did intervals.
Tuesday: I used yesterday as a rest day-since I had either walked or run every day prior for the past week and thought my legs could probably use a break.
Wednesday (today)-Plan is to go for a run again-hoping I feel better this time out. If I don't have the energy, I will walk. I am o.k. with that at this point. (Phase 1 week 2).

Boyz4us, I know for me the first three weeks were a real adjustment period. I think listening to your body as you are doing is the best way to go.
Grateful4health, sounds like you had a very active day. I was looking at your stats. Your weightloss is awesome. How long did it take you to lose that much weight on IP?
I will meet with a trainer today for a strength training session. Hope everyone has a great OP day.

Grateful4Health - I love those days when yoga feels especially good. I always love a good yoga class but there's definitely days where the body and/or mind needs it more. I didn't have time to do my Tuesday vinyasa flow class so I went to the gym instead yesterday. I'm probably going to make my cousin go to a hot yoga class with me while she visits this weekend.

rebelgrl87 - Yay for meeting with a trainer! Hope you get a lot from that. Have fun!

Yesterday I went to the gym and did some weight lifting (chest and triceps), followed by intervals on the treadmill, and finished with 15 minutes of light yoga. So nice. :)

Originally Posted by rebelgrl87:
Boyz4us, I know for me the first three weeks were a real adjustment period. I think listening to your body as you are doing is the best way to go.
Grateful4health, sounds like you had a very active day. I was looking at your stats. Your weightloss is awesome. How long did it take you to lose that much weight on IP?
I will meet with a trainer today for a strength training session. Hope everyone has a great OP day.

Yes, I agree. The first time I did IP I followed it to the letter about no real exercise until after 3 weeks and then light walking only.
Yesterday it was beautiful here and my run felt so much better. I just did what felt good and decided to pull back a bit from my attempts-I ran 1 mile, walked 1/4, ran another 1/4 and then walked 2.5 for a total of 4 miles. I will slowly build from here.

Hi, I just wrote a post on another thread that I am copying here below...
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Kira I hadn't been following your thread but happened across it this morning. I saw your profile pictures - wow, you look amazing, a huge change in health. I also read back a few pages and saw the outline of your story more - we really do have a very similar history.

Just to encourage, I think we have written a little more about it on other threads also, but as we were writing, I also was having a lot of difficulty with weight loss even though eating very well and exercising heavily. It actually took me three years to convince my doctor this was the case, as 95% of the population are convinced that someone is lying when they say this, and actually are eating more than they think.

I wanted to write a little more here in case others happen across this thread and it helps them decide whether to do IP. I think I will also re-post a copy in the exercise thread.

Prior to doing IP, I was at times going to hot yoga once a day 7 days a week, sometimes twice a day, and other times alternating with a fantastic personal trainer with very hard workouts. On the days I did yoga I also often walked for an hour on my lunch break. I was tracking every single thing I ate, sometimes going down to 900 calories, usually around 1200 average depending on the workout day, following my trainer and doctor's recommendations religiously. I did boot camps. I went for nearly two years without eating sugar or gluten, and drank a glass of wine maybe every three months. I had some low form of carb, maybe a sweet potato, brown rice, etc. every two days or so, sometimes every day, but small and measured. I did a cleanse of some type every two months. I was not eating much meat, maybe chicken breast every few days, sometimes for a month totally vegetarian. Everything organic. It was crazy how hard I was trying and how disciplined I had become.

I had been through a health scare in 2009 and had a very bad car accident, couldn't exercise much for a year, gained quite a bit of weight, and like you started to fight some depression and anxiety. After that year I was determined to get healthy again, and started a very healthy lifestyle that I describe above.

I am well aware of compulsion and addiction issues, and definitely have used food as a drug or to calm anxiety, and was successful and not doing this for the most part, and if I did it was still within my program.

I tracked everything I ate and all my exercise. I lost maybe a pound every few months. Finally both my trainer and doctor said "there's something wrong". There was a thryoid issue, but overall my body was just shot. IP was the first thing that truly worked. It was truly a godsend for me. So far in maintenance I am finally processing foods again as it feels I should. I can tell my body is still very carb sensitive - even an extra apple seems to trigger it to retain water and hold weight. Also stress seems to play a part - even with food exactly the same, during stressful times my body starts to hold weight. So I'm still working with it, but at least now my body is at a healthy weight and I know what to do to correct things.
It will be a lifelong focus.

I also stopped a little short of goal for the same reasons you did. I will see how it goes the next few months, and I may do another 3 weeks of IP in 6 months to lose another 5 lbs if that feels accurate at that time, but right now my body can't handle the restriction any more, and it feels right to have the plan I have now, which is very similar to the one you have planned for yourself.

Hopefully we can stay in touch a little through the threads as we continue in maintenance and share our discoveries and realizations. I would like very much to hear how things go for you.

Good luck to everyone here - I am very inspired by all of your successes!

Originally Posted by rebelgrl87:
Boyz4us, I know for me the first three weeks were a real adjustment period. I think listening to your body as you are doing is the best way to go.
Grateful4health, sounds like you had a very active day. I was looking at your stats. Your weightloss is awesome. How long did it take you to lose that much weight on IP?
I will meet with a trainer today for a strength training session. Hope everyone has a great OP day.

rebelgrl87 To answer your question - I lost a big chunk really fast the first few months - I think about 40 pounds in about three months. Then about 8 lbs for a month for three months, then it all got very slow once I was within about 10 or 15 lbs of goal, that last part was just two or three pounds a month for four months, toward the end just one or two until I finally decided to phase off. I was on almost exactly one year all together until I went to Phase 4. I did all the Phases exactly as instructed except I only did Phase 2 for one week because I waited a little too long to start that.

I had to do a lot of little adjustments throughout to keep things going - I often had weeks with no loss - I would take out restricted, then add restricted, then add a little oil or fat, then add more red meat, then I had two weeks of substituting an IP packet for the 8oz of meat, things like that. These were all things my doctor recommended. Looking back I don't know if it really mattered, I think just staying the course however I could was the key. The changes I think just helped with the diet fatigue in general, and I have a really active mind so it helped just engage me in some change.:)

hey everyone. Hope you have enjoyed Good Friday. I met with a trainer again today. We had a great workout. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be beautiful here. Hoping to get some walking outside done. Hoping the scales move downward this week. Have a great Easter weekend.

Just posted a little update about my week and P1 day on the Maintainers thread, didn’t want to clutter things up here by reposting but here it is if you want to have a look:) http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/idea...l-18-a-12.html

Beautiful day today, will likely be a more restful day today but will do yoga sometime this weekend. My yoga studio has classes that incorporate weights, and I want to look into doing one of those this week. Also my trainer that I used before IP is where I used to live, about 2 hours away, but I decided last week I want to make a trip this month to see her and ask her to help me put a program together I can do at the gym here. So those are my April goals:)… will let you know how it progresses. I think I’m getting acclimated enough now to maintenance that I can start to push more into using more weights and a little higher intensity cardio.

Trying Pilates today after work.... kind of excited to check it out.