Posts by cbridge16

welcome msh!

I believe 50 kilos = 110.3 and 51 = 112.5, how tall are you msh?

Soo...my little update. I fell off the wagon, never go back on. Had a massive drinking night of Friday, and had an extremely bloated Saturday weight. So ate well/not too bad Sunday-Tuesday and I weighed in this morning at 132!!

I couldn't believe it, i haven't worked out in a week and a half and have not logged any calories, not quite sure how I did that?

I'll check back in a few days to see where I go from here, but I'm feeling pretty 'woohoo' today. Only two more pounds until I see something below 130. That is now my New Years Eve goal.

hey ladies, speaking of falling off the wagon. i had such a bad week last week. i may not check in until next week when i've made a good effort to get back to where i was before the bad week. i've just been so tired lately it's hard to motivate myself to the gym.

i'll let you know how i go this week, hopefully better!

i was doing really well, but then for the first time since joining I've stopped logging my food, since last Saturday. Over the weekend I had a bbq, and sorta snacked while preparing and ate randomly and drank, so I sorta said forget trying to figure out how much I ate.

This was a bad trend because yesterday I just did not hold back at all, I ate mostly healthy food, but I know a ton of it. I think the holiday season has finally hit, it's not so much the food, but the alcohol.

I'll log my food today and try to do spinning tonight, which I haven't done since Saturday.

It's been a bad week, but I think I'll just do what I can for the rest of it (considering I have a Christmas work party on Friday) and just try to get back on track next week (although I have two more Christmas parties next week!).

Welcome lousrock1!

firebrand- yes, enjoy yourself, definitely. but as vnaloo suggested, if you have opportunities to stay on track, try to. so the night you go out for bulgarian food, make a real effort to eat healthy in the day and then you can enjoy your dinner more. i know the bad weather is tough, i grew up in boston and it gets pretty cold there too. also, when i studied in Rome i put on probably 15 at least, i didnt' have a scale there or when i came back, but i didn't fit into any of my clothes by the end of it. when i got back to boston and in a normal routine, without really trying i remember i dropped a lot of it.

vnaloo- spinning is awesome, i used to never ride a bike at all and in general i won't push myself if I'm working out alone. if you can do 20 minutes on your own, then being in a class with an instructor, you'd make it the whole way. my class is 45 minutes, which includes a warm up at the start and cool down at the end, so really like 35 minutes tough.

speaking of, i'm feeling very proud of myself for having gone to spinning yesterday because i was so tired in the day and though i just want to get home and veg out, but i did it, and then i felt great. Although, i have eaten a lot of chocolate covered raisins today. i haven't lost any more yet, but the spinning i think is what will help, because i'm having a hard time eating any less, so upping the calorie burn should do something. hopefully!

I was doing really well the first few weeks I started, but then I think I got too comfortable with how well I was doing and ended up gaining a pound.

I worked really hard this week to stay at my calorie goal (which still meant I went over by 100 or 200 some days). Although, celebrating Thanksgiving yesterday (strange I know, but I'm living in Australia) I did really well. I did spinning class in the morning, ate a healthy breakfast, and then by the time we were having dinner I was starving! I loaded my plate, but made sure to take plenty of the veggie options, but then on desert I completely indulged. I still came out well weighing in this morning, down from the day before at 133.6, but I haven't been able to get below 133.4.

I'm going to work really hard again this week and hopefully get down one more.

Warbler02, I've always found if I'm on a low calorie diet, the best thing to boost losing more is one day in the week, or one day every 10 days, letting myself induldge. I don't mean on pizza and icecream, but plenty of healthy carbs, like a big pasta dinner. I think having one day every once and awhile helps your body know that you're not in 'starving' mode, so the following next 10 days your body will let you drop. I suggest this oppose to just adding an extra 100 or 200 calories a day, because you're body will get used to that intake as well.

I think that's why Thanksgiving dinner was good for me yesterday.

Just my thoughts, any one else?

I use the elliptical trainer as well. When I log my activity, I log it to match the same amount of calories as what the machine says, because I think it is the most accurate. I find in general the activities seem to be over estimating actual calories burned.

What I do is log my activity on the underestimated side to be conservative about my calorie balance. For example, if I play tennis for 2 hours, I will only log it as 1 or 1.5 hours. I tend to do the same for logging food, I over estimate what calories I've consumed, to be conservative. This way I know I'm meeting my 500 calorie deficit.