Treadmill: (random cycle)
Time: 16 minutes
Calories burned: 111
The hubby worked out up in the weights (chest press/leg press/etc.) section, and I did a two reps on both the arm press (right name?) and the chest press.
Note to self: Remember to take paper along next time to accurately report what we do…
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Hrm…
Well, I never did hear from Andi (the new workout partner I previously mentioned) on Friday, so I guess she got offended because I left after an hour of working out — I wasn’t trying to offend her, I just wanted to spend time with my hubby on his night off from work (he works nights as a DM for a local paper, so he works 5-6 nights a week from midnight to about noon).
So…fast forward to yesterday…
My hubby joined Crunch so that we could work out together - hooray! Part of what’s been keeping me from going to the gym to work out has been that we only have a few hours each day to spend with one another (between when he wakes up, usually around 6 pm-ish, and when he goes to work, at around midnight), and with him joining the gym I can spend time with him *while* working out.
Wish us luck! ;-)
So…fast forward to yesterday…
My hubby joined Crunch so that we could work out together - hooray! Part of what’s been keeping me from going to the gym to work out has been that we only have a few hours each day to spend with one another (between when he wakes up, usually around 6 pm-ish, and when he goes to work, at around midnight), and with him joining the gym I can spend time with him *while* working out.
Wish us luck! ;-)
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Had a good workout at Crunch tonight…
I think I found a workout partner that I can work out with! She and her hubby recently joined Crunch, and she was perusing their website a few days ago when she happened upon my ad from a month ago trying to find a workout partner. We got to talking in e-mail, and our diet histories are very similar (i.e. both starved ourselves to a smaller size), as well as we’re both former band geeks.
We met up tonight to work out and it went extremely well I think. We went on the treadmill for 15 minutes and then the exercise bike for 15 minutes as well. I would have liked to have stayed longer, but John has tonight off from work and I wanted to spend time with him since he had to work last night (yesterday was our 2-month wedding anniversary).
She’s planning to go either at 6 or 7 tomorrow night — I asked her to call my cellphone before she heads over, but if she doesn’t, I’ll head over at about 6:45…
Calories burned:
Treadmill (hill cycle): 118
Bike (hill cycle, diff. 2): 96
* Total Calories Burned: 214
Could have done better, could have done worse…but at least I’m still walking! :-)
We met up tonight to work out and it went extremely well I think. We went on the treadmill for 15 minutes and then the exercise bike for 15 minutes as well. I would have liked to have stayed longer, but John has tonight off from work and I wanted to spend time with him since he had to work last night (yesterday was our 2-month wedding anniversary).
She’s planning to go either at 6 or 7 tomorrow night — I asked her to call my cellphone before she heads over, but if she doesn’t, I’ll head over at about 6:45…
Calories burned:
Treadmill (hill cycle): 118
Bike (hill cycle, diff. 2): 96
* Total Calories Burned: 214
Could have done better, could have done worse…but at least I’m still walking! :-)
Saturday, October 25, 2003
Feeling almost human again…
Feeling almost human again…or at least I haven’t had to take sinus meds just to be able to breathe through my nose at night. That’s a start at least! I think part of why this sinus infection has so efficiently kicked my butt is because I’m not taking any antibiotics to help shake it - blame my health insurance for not kicking in yet - ack.
The hubby went and got the code for the fitness building here at the apartment complex, and we’re going to start working out there together. I figure that it will give me a workout partner, and he wouldn’t mind losing a few extra pounds, so we’re both up for it! I can put my Crunch membership on hold for periods of up to 6 months, so that’s a good thing that I can still have there in the future :-)
The hubby went and got the code for the fitness building here at the apartment complex, and we’re going to start working out there together. I figure that it will give me a workout partner, and he wouldn’t mind losing a few extra pounds, so we’re both up for it! I can put my Crunch membership on hold for periods of up to 6 months, so that’s a good thing that I can still have there in the future :-)
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Sinus infections suck…
A week later and this sinus infection still wants to kick my butt. At least I can now sleep without waking up with a sore throat, but I still have to blow my nose at semi-regular intervals. Ugh.
We finally located my electronic bathroom scale - it was in the back of the hubby’s car. Apparently when I moved back in July, I lumped it into the trunk of my car with other loose items. When my car’s transmission decided it didn’t want to work going forward, we moved everything into the hubby’s car because I had a get a new one. We just never got around to taking the last of my stuff out of his car…oops! But at least the scale has been located yet again!
I had mentioned in an earlier entry that I was going to try to find a workout partner, but I decided that I would be better off working out alone right now. For one thing, the classes we’d talked about attending would put me getting back to the apartment after dark, something that I don’t feel safe doing due to various reasons. For another thing, I need to get myself back into a routine, which could take up to a month to be able to establish for myself. So, my goal is to start going to the gym after work today so that I can start establishing the aforementioned routine…wish me luck!!
10/22/03 - 7:30 a.m. - 235.5 lbs.
We finally located my electronic bathroom scale - it was in the back of the hubby’s car. Apparently when I moved back in July, I lumped it into the trunk of my car with other loose items. When my car’s transmission decided it didn’t want to work going forward, we moved everything into the hubby’s car because I had a get a new one. We just never got around to taking the last of my stuff out of his car…oops! But at least the scale has been located yet again!
I had mentioned in an earlier entry that I was going to try to find a workout partner, but I decided that I would be better off working out alone right now. For one thing, the classes we’d talked about attending would put me getting back to the apartment after dark, something that I don’t feel safe doing due to various reasons. For another thing, I need to get myself back into a routine, which could take up to a month to be able to establish for myself. So, my goal is to start going to the gym after work today so that I can start establishing the aforementioned routine…wish me luck!!
10/22/03 - 7:30 a.m. - 235.5 lbs.
Monday, October 13, 2003
Ugh…
I was supposed to be meeting a potential workout partner at the gym tonight for ‘5 Senses Yoga’ but this stupid sinus infection is kicking my butt :-(
We rescheduled to meet Wednesday night for Yoga instead.
I just hope I a)feel human and b)can breathe by then!
Wish me luck!!
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Tonight the hubby and I are going to search the closets for my bathroom scale so that I can accurately measure my ’start’ weight - I just wish we could remember where we unpacked it to - ack!
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Note to self: Remember to check with co-workers to see if competition is still going to happen…
We rescheduled to meet Wednesday night for Yoga instead.
I just hope I a)feel human and b)can breathe by then!
Wish me luck!!
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Tonight the hubby and I are going to search the closets for my bathroom scale so that I can accurately measure my ’start’ weight - I just wish we could remember where we unpacked it to - ack!
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Note to self: Remember to check with co-workers to see if competition is still going to happen…
Sunday, October 12, 2003
New journal with a renewed motivation…
Created this new journal today *just* for diet and weight loss recording. Here goes!
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A little background on myself…
I’m 26 years old, born and raised in Georgia. I was never naturally a “toothpick”, but I was naturally a 10/12, which worked well for my 5′2″ frame (I’m ‘big-boned’ for my height per my doctors). When I was in high school, I was always active - marching band, flag corps, dance corps, and I even ran the local lap with the cross country team from time to time (had a few friends on it who invited me to work out with them).
When I was in 10th grade, I took something my father said way too seriously — he and my mother had been through a fairly messy divorce when I was in middle school, and I had opted to move in with my father shortly before I started high school — “Allison, you’re fat like your mother.” I took what he said way too seriously and started losing weight.
No, not losing weight, shedding it. I stopped eating other than the occasional milkshake or salad from the school cafeteria. I dropped from a size 12 down to a size 6, at which point my father started complimenting my “weight loss” results. From all that non-eating, I wound up spending a good later portion of the summer before starting 11th grade in bed, sick. I knew that I was dehydrated because I wound up ‘bribing’ my younger sister to bring my glasses upon glasses of water because I was always thirsty. My father took me to the doctor once, who said that I must have been fighting the flu and that I should be getting better soon. I remember passing in and out of (what seemed to me) consciousness as I lay in bed. After a morning in which I twice passed out — we’re talking I ran into the wall and slumped to the ground — my father decided to take me to the hospital.
After going to Smyrna Hospital where I kept getting asked if I could possibly be pregnant, and I kept cracking jokes about “If I was, it would be the next virgin birth” (hey, give me a break, I was sick, ok?), I was transferred to Scottish Rite.
The initial tests showed that I had low blood counts (the count that’s normally 12 — hemoglobin? — was down to 2 or 3). After a couple of days of tests, including getting a marrow sample from my hip (tip: do not look at the tool they use before this procedure!!), a scan where they inject a small dose of radiation (where they stick you under what looks like a communion wafer so they can watch the flow of blood through your body), my first OBGYN appointment, and an upper and lower colonoscopy, they discovered that I had stomach ulcers.
Oddly enough, I had never had any symptoms of the ulcers - no odd bleeding, no stomach discomfort…
So, I was put on Zantac for a couple of years, as well as on birth control pills to regulate my periods (to control any unscheduled blood loss.
So, my junior year I started off on flag corps, then switched to pit percussion during the rest of the season because I had to eat at regular intervals, and my band director wouldn’t let me as long as I was wearing my flag corps uniform — plus I think she was worried that I would get sick again.
My senior year I was back up to a size 8/10 by graduation time.
My freshman year of college I went to Georgia Southern University, and was constantly walking everywhere. I marched flute, I walked to all of my classes, as well as the laundrymat and library. So I was walking at least 1-2 miles every day. Yet I still started to gain weight. I remember the first time I noticed was February 1996 - I noticed because I had gotten those ‘wrinkles’ on the insides of my knees. I was doing stomach crunches, yet still starting to gain.
I got up to a size 18/20 within the next year(ish), and now I’m a 20/22. My metabolism was basically killed from my starving myself 10 years ago, and even eating right doesn’t dent my weight by much.
So, it is now October 2003, and I’m determined to do everything I can to get back to where I physically want to be - a size 12/14 (135 lbs). I have the gym membership (Crunch), I have Weight Watchers materials, I just need to get rid of my sinus infection so I can breathe, and then I get this this diet started!
My goal timeframe: To get to 125-135 by June 2005, exactly 10 years after I graduated from high school. Hey, gotta impress them at the reunion anyway, right? ;-)
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A little background on myself…
I’m 26 years old, born and raised in Georgia. I was never naturally a “toothpick”, but I was naturally a 10/12, which worked well for my 5′2″ frame (I’m ‘big-boned’ for my height per my doctors). When I was in high school, I was always active - marching band, flag corps, dance corps, and I even ran the local lap with the cross country team from time to time (had a few friends on it who invited me to work out with them).
When I was in 10th grade, I took something my father said way too seriously — he and my mother had been through a fairly messy divorce when I was in middle school, and I had opted to move in with my father shortly before I started high school — “Allison, you’re fat like your mother.” I took what he said way too seriously and started losing weight.
No, not losing weight, shedding it. I stopped eating other than the occasional milkshake or salad from the school cafeteria. I dropped from a size 12 down to a size 6, at which point my father started complimenting my “weight loss” results. From all that non-eating, I wound up spending a good later portion of the summer before starting 11th grade in bed, sick. I knew that I was dehydrated because I wound up ‘bribing’ my younger sister to bring my glasses upon glasses of water because I was always thirsty. My father took me to the doctor once, who said that I must have been fighting the flu and that I should be getting better soon. I remember passing in and out of (what seemed to me) consciousness as I lay in bed. After a morning in which I twice passed out — we’re talking I ran into the wall and slumped to the ground — my father decided to take me to the hospital.
After going to Smyrna Hospital where I kept getting asked if I could possibly be pregnant, and I kept cracking jokes about “If I was, it would be the next virgin birth” (hey, give me a break, I was sick, ok?), I was transferred to Scottish Rite.
The initial tests showed that I had low blood counts (the count that’s normally 12 — hemoglobin? — was down to 2 or 3). After a couple of days of tests, including getting a marrow sample from my hip (tip: do not look at the tool they use before this procedure!!), a scan where they inject a small dose of radiation (where they stick you under what looks like a communion wafer so they can watch the flow of blood through your body), my first OBGYN appointment, and an upper and lower colonoscopy, they discovered that I had stomach ulcers.
Oddly enough, I had never had any symptoms of the ulcers - no odd bleeding, no stomach discomfort…
So, I was put on Zantac for a couple of years, as well as on birth control pills to regulate my periods (to control any unscheduled blood loss.
So, my junior year I started off on flag corps, then switched to pit percussion during the rest of the season because I had to eat at regular intervals, and my band director wouldn’t let me as long as I was wearing my flag corps uniform — plus I think she was worried that I would get sick again.
My senior year I was back up to a size 8/10 by graduation time.
My freshman year of college I went to Georgia Southern University, and was constantly walking everywhere. I marched flute, I walked to all of my classes, as well as the laundrymat and library. So I was walking at least 1-2 miles every day. Yet I still started to gain weight. I remember the first time I noticed was February 1996 - I noticed because I had gotten those ‘wrinkles’ on the insides of my knees. I was doing stomach crunches, yet still starting to gain.
I got up to a size 18/20 within the next year(ish), and now I’m a 20/22. My metabolism was basically killed from my starving myself 10 years ago, and even eating right doesn’t dent my weight by much.
So, it is now October 2003, and I’m determined to do everything I can to get back to where I physically want to be - a size 12/14 (135 lbs). I have the gym membership (Crunch), I have Weight Watchers materials, I just need to get rid of my sinus infection so I can breathe, and then I get this this diet started!
My goal timeframe: To get to 125-135 by June 2005, exactly 10 years after I graduated from high school. Hey, gotta impress them at the reunion anyway, right? ;-)
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