Healthy Habits 2/29

shedev

Weight is holding steady. Food is ok. Having pain in my right hip over the last couple days. Doing stretching to try to work it out.

9 years ago

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Carla

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Signed up for an important event the end of July. Now I can plan the rest of my race season, and the training necessary to meet my goals.

The chiro who fixed my shoulder gave me some exercises that I've kept up, and now that shoulder feels great! I've got my swim stroke back, and am completely pain free.

9 years ago

gradfashionista

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Shedev, sorry to hear about the hip pain. I hope the stretches help!

Runcarla, that's great! What does your training schedule look like (long runs, sprints, run/walk, etc.)?

Still putting in 4 weightlifting workouts a week, and am really enjoying the added cardio. This week, I'm testing working maxes and have encountered a hitch in my program very early on. For some reason, I'm not able to hit the minimum number of reps in my upper body lifts and I'm trying to diagnose why. For the lower body, I managed one set of 13 squats at 150lb, and one set of 10 deadlifts at 225lb. Happy with those numbers. Foodwise, I've upped my protein substantially and have found that my breakfast brownie, with its 37g of protein, keeps me going nicely until dinner.

9 years ago

Sal

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Good week last week - three gym sessions, two fast walks with friends, and a very active day at athletics with my son

Having a bit of a sweet tooth lately and boring of my breakfasts..want to introduce a change there. Maybe more protein focussed.

9 years ago

anne

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Shedev - hope your hip improves

Runcarla - so good that your shoulder is back in businesss and feeling good!

GF - what are you doing for cardio. You always impress me with your weightlifting. Are you saying you go from morning until evening on one brownie!!?

Sally - well done on the exercise. I sometimes, like this morning, have blueberries with cottage cheese (and sometimes plain yoghurt too) for breakfast to try to have more protein.

My exercise continues to be very gentle and I'm still seeing a physio for the knee. She tried using rocktape on it this week and I saw an improvement. My wrist is improving too.

Food-wise since the 20 Feb, I've been challenging myself to limit myself to a certain number of desserts and a certain number of rice/refined carbs meal a month. I've already used up all my allocated desserts!! (I have a separate dark chocolate allowance though) My weight is down a little bit but maybe will improve since I won't get to have any dessert for the rest of the month!!

9 years ago

Carla

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GF, right now I'm trying to build power for my main event, which is Sprint distance triathlon (750m swim, 20k bike, 5k run). I run 3 X per week during my lunch break 5K). After work I fit in: swim 2 X per week 2000m, and right now I'm doing 1 (indoor) bike 25-30k with a 1 mile run immediately after (brick workout for transition.)

I do weights 3 X per week - starting with a 1 mile warm-up run, then super set X 4: squats with Lat pull down, single leg press with DB chest press, a shoulder tri set of side raises, front raises, shoulder press with DB, incline biceps curl with face pull, and triceps press with a special stretch my chiro assigned to deal with a muscle imbalance that was giving me a right shoulder problem. During the workout that falls on the weekend, I do 4 sets of walking lunges SS with the shoulder routine

Saturday am I do a short (1 mile) up to long (6 mile) run, depending how early I get up - followed by a 90 min. Yoga class!

Since my runs are short, I run straight through.

9 years ago

MsMaven

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In February I lost the 4 pounds I gained in January. Now I'm working on losing the December pounds.

"My" ducks are back and a few days ago the turkeys came back. They owned this property before we moved in, and now they use it as turkey day care, which means more work for me cleaning up after them. While they are annoying at times, they do require me to get up out of my chair and move around more than I have all winter.

Looking at my daily food record I see that I have a very healthy diet for the most part, and the slow weight loss comes about because of extra calories from wine. So alcohol-free March and then I'll reevaluate.

I've read that alcohol causes extra belly fat. I'm not sure how those wine calories settle in the abdominal region, but then, you can't believe everything you read on the Internet.

9 years ago

gradfashionista

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Anne, I'm doing the stair climber and its masochistic never-ending flights. Even on a low level, it gets my heart rate up. And yeah, I tend to do a brownie breakfast (eaten closer to lunch time), and then a huge dinner. It's definitely not ideal, but I work better that way, and it allows me to exercise more comfortably.

Runcarla, that is a lot of training! It sounds like you're hitting all the right muscle groups.

Ms. Maven, congrats. I've heard that beer causes belly fat, but wine is supposed to slow gastric emptying (i.e. keeps you full longer). From the studies of alcohol that I've looked at, it's usually the sugars in cocktails or the feeling of inhibition, leading to less nutritious food choices, that lead to weight gain.

9 years ago

Anonymous

Just rocking along with the reduced-calorie diet and regular exercise. I've lost 5 lbs and my pants fit WAY better now! I have more energy, too. Amazing the difference a few pounds can make. I've noticed that the planks I've been doing are really helping with my LBL (light bladder leakage). (Sorry if that's TMI.)

9 years ago

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