Posts by staceyolson

Original Post by cubedjohn:

Can you define ziz zagging calories? I've not heard of that term!

Zig zagging is where you calculate an entire weeks worth of calories and change it up from day to day so you have high calories and low calories but at the end of the week, its the same amount as if you ate consistently everyday.

So on Monday you would eat 1800 and tuesday maybe 1200 and wednesday 1450 or something like that.

If you go to

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calc ulator.htm

it calculates a whole weeks work schedule for you based on your stats.

I'm really disappointed in this group...

No I don't EVER weigh myself at night but I did that once.

I havent been calorie counting butI'm doing a new thing (sounds weird and funny but...) ONLY eating when I'm hungry. I rate my hungry on a scale of 1-10 and when I get to a 4-6 I eat something.

I know we should all do that but I have been just eating on a schedule so I've changed to this and I havent calorie counted and I've lost like a pound in a couple days... It's going pretty good. I think I am going to combine that with calorie counting too though.

How is everyone?!

My week is going to be CRAZY but my short goal from mon-thurs I will work out at least twice, hopefully 4 times! But my goal is 2!

Lets everyone make a short term, weekly goal for themselves!! Let us know what they are...

I think it depends how long you go to the gym for. When I was pumping iron, I hated going to the gym because it took forever but now I just go for a quick cardio (30-60 mins depends on how I'm feeling) and then do yoga at home.

Actaully, I hate going to the gym, I dont love it but I just remember how good I feel afterwards and I really dont even think about going or not. I look at it as brushing my teeth, just something I have to do. It's not a question of whether I want to or not, because I HAVE to.

I also think of the long term goal I have... I really want to get looking good for teaching, I have really great teaching clothes that I want to fit into... but if I skip the gym too often or up my calories, that wont be possible. If I think that its only 30 minutes today for a great goal in 2 months, it seems more achievable and worth it.

You can find lots of infirmation about it if you google it. It is basically itervals like this:

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Week 1       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 60 sec rest        ;  X 6

Week 2       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 6

Week 3       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest         X 8

 Week 4       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 10   

Week 5       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 12

Week 6       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 14   

Week 7       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 15

I was sweating like crazy, I am on week 2 because I got to 6 and realized I could go further so I skipped to week 3 (actaully week 4 because I took out week 1, it's supposed to be an 8 week program). It took me 13 minutes and I was crazy sweating! It was great!!

I am 5'4'' and and the scale is actaully not as bad as I thought. Today it was at 146.6 which is better than the 149 I thought it had got up to.I want to get down to 130 but if I was 125 I would be ecstatic!

I havent over indulged in 2 days, I am right on my calories. You know whats crazy. For me to loose weight, all I have to do it not over do my calories. I dont even have to work that hard except to reach 1500 and not go over. Its just like I get to 1500 at about 7 or 8 o clock and then I am up studying until around 11 and just want to eat more.

My school is going great. I only have class until 1 on Tues and Thursday and I have 2 classes on Mon and Wed but one is 4-6 so I stay in the library and study until my 4 o clock class so its really great. And I dont have class on Fridays! It's wonderful!

There is a super bitch that lives in the basement suite and long story short, me and my roommates are now moving! So thats a little stressful but not until Nov 1.

I start my teaching practicum Nov 14th! So I will be moving back to my boyfriends house about 4 hours from my university. I am excited to get back to living together and teaching is going to be excited!

Laura, it seems likes its just a lower carb diet? And seems like it might be not enough calories? But she I would love to take a look at it! My email address is sta_ceyq@hotmail.com.

It frusterating when you know everything that everyone is telling you, you just dont want to do it haha. BUT Laura, you will be happy to know that I just discovered Tomato and Onion flavored tuna! 80 calories a can and I had it for dinner with some wheat thins and melted some cheese on top... YUM! I worked out today and I am at 1502 calories!!! Yay for me. I think I am just going to drink lots tonight so I stay away from calories. I am going to cook some chicken for dinner tomorrow and really do good... doesn't it always go that way? fall off the wagon and then get right back into it full swing! Love it!

I am doing horrible... I had maccaronin the last 2 days, school is getting crazy so I haven't worked out since Thursday. I feel aweful and I am back up to 148 lbs! I was at 144... I am super sad. I don't know what to do... I am trying but I'm just hungry and lazy and love snacking....

Help me! What can I do to loose the weight? Specific daily goals? I think the main thing is getting off zigzagging for a bit and just eating around 1400 cals a day and start working out again.

What else? What an a university student do to keep it healthy and cheap? I do like to cook but I tend to want to just eat when I get back from school, not cook so much. I guess I should just get back into cooking.

I think we (the 4 of us that are left) should all focus on each member of the group for at least one post and post any suggestions that we have for that person.

What does everyone think? How about Laura goes first? She seems like she is the least motivated and sturuggling.

So Laura post everything that you can to help us help you. Your weaknesses, your strengths, your typical day, your favorite food, your favorite weakness, everything you can think up of and then we will each post a whole helping post?

I think that we have been just coming on here and venting but we haven't really be HELPING each other succeed. I think this would be a good way to get back to helping each other and really getting on track.

Catherine, you gotta get facebook!!

I am on it way more than I'm on here so I will see messages from you and everything, plus its way more fun than this site!

Me and Rachel are already set up on facebook together... join!

So this group is totally gone... anyone still alive or willing to keep trying? I am doing really great. I was at the gym for like an hour and a half today! and I am eating so great! I am really excited!!

Oh god! I forgot... and it looks like everyone else did too! I'm not doing it this week because I am really bummed out. I sucked last week so next week it going to be great! I am starting a workout program today!

Hey! Sorry. I was moving back to university. The move went great in all aspects except my nutrition but I am back on the boat today! I had my first day back today and my eating is going really great. Also, I moved into a place that has an eliptical trainer in front of the TV!! So I am going to be on that a lot.

I am disappointed in us! Where are all of you?!?!

Hope everyone's great!

So I posted without reading everyone previous posts and feel like a complete tool!

I am so sorry that everyone is having a hard time! But really, it's just weight! I hate to think that we are overly compulsive and not having a good time with our lives and being so obsessive. It's really not the end of the world if we get caught up in parties and life. Aren't you going to be happier that you had a good time instead of not having a good time because you are too concentrated on not eating those nacho's. But also, we can have fun and be part of it all without over indulging.

I think we need to really not get down on ourselves and just continue to be mindful but continue to enjoy life without guilt!!!

Happy ThursdaY!!!

Ya, I am going to start good on Tuesday I think. I am moving 4 hours away from my current house back to University for the year! I am really excited!

I said to my boyfriend last night that I am going to be eating healthy and mindfully like I always do but for the next week I am going to just do whatever I want. I eat mindfully throughout the day always but I am having a girlfriend over for wine and pizza tomorrow and last night my boyfriend and I went out for a nice dinner, also on Friday all of my friends are going out as a going away party. So I am going to be good but really let loose when those occasions come. I think that it's fine.

Once I'm in Edmonton I am really going to get on the straight and narrow because I will be only buying food for me and my schedule is going to be great with lots of workout time! I love school because there is real schedule and normality and my summer job has been all over the place with shift work.

Anyways, that's where I am at. I am excited for weigh in day!! Hope everyone is giving it all they got!

Ya, basically zig zagging is the same amount of calories at the end of the week as I would eat if I was at a constant calories amount, like say I ate 1600 calories a day, I would be eating 11 200 calories a week. But in zig-zagging, I eat 11 200 calories a week but sometimes I eat 1200 and sometimes I eat 1800 but at the end of the week, it still equals the weekly calorie amount.

I really like it because I get to have super high days like 1800 and then I'll just have low days. Apparently, its really good because it keeps your metabolism guessing instead of getting stalled at 1600 calories a day. I think it's a good system, I like it. It's really not that much planning, I have it as a journal on my profile and just check how much I'm going to be eating that day. It's not that much different, just cut a snack or something and then you've lowered your calories. The hardest thing is the high calorie days, it's really hard to get it up to 1800 when you eat really low cal foods haha.

I was actually wondering what everyone here had lost, if we could post just pounds lost since we've started this group, it would help me out a lot. I am just wondering if I am losing faster or lower than a majority here. I don't want to compare or have a competition, I just want to know if zig-zagging is really helping me get to my goal any faster. I've lost 6 pounds thus far. Everyone else?