Right on time for the Holiday Season, we're starting Round 5 of our Commitment to Exercise for 2013.
So far we have:
Bill 3 x
Drastic 5 x
Ergophobe 4x
Littleman 4 x
Rumbas 4 x
Week 1 - 4/4
Week 1 - 5/3
Week 1 - 4/4
Dismal - 2/4
I did walk back and forth from hotel to Pubcon every day, though, so that was a min of 3 miles not counting walking to dinner on two occasions. But I'm feeling like crap.
4/5 last week and will be short this week too, out of town.
3/3 .... I'm counting my day prowling malls after PubCon as a walking session!
I'm glad to see you are joining us again Buckworks.
As of Week One:
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
2/3
Yesterday I stepped on the scale and the number was the lowest it's been for at least twenty years.
Yesterday, a good friend asked if I was okay and said I looked unwell.
Ya can't win ...
Week 2 - 4/4
2/5 last week, had absolutely no time until the weekend.
>Yesterday, a good friend asked if I was okay and said I looked unwell.
When I got close to my target last year (almost back there again), a couple family members said I didn't look healthy, but I was doing great. They're just used to most everyone being overweight, at least to some degree.
2/4 last week... oh sigh!
Promise: this week will be different!
@ my age this is the only contribution that I can make to this thread:
As of Week Two:
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - ?/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
>>Yesterday, a good friend asked if I was okay and said I looked unwell.
My weight loss has been very slow, over several years, so I don't get this much from people who see me every day, but I have a few relatives I see only once in a while and I get grief from them. "You're too skinny now"
Anyway, on that note, I am changing gears. I lost a 100 pounds and now I think it is time to add back some muscle. I think I'm going to let my weight creep up gradually until spring while lifting and then cut down -- hopefully with a bit more muscle.
That's funny Mr. Mackin. Sometimes I feel like picking up that brick would be too much work.
@Mackin - until I read the inscription, I thought you were trying to motivate me to build that damn retaining wall before the snow flies. I keep saying that's my autumn workout plan, but my numbers the last two weeks show how successful I've been with that plan.
@Bucky - it's a strange thing, but every woman I know who starts exercising eventually seems to start getting negative feedback (and far more often from other women than from men for some reason). I know you're too sane to do something foolishly unhealthy just to lose weight - stick to sane, healthy weight loss and keep feeling better and better!
@ergophobe: get your shit together. No more 2/4s dammit!
Quotesane, healthy weight loss and keep feeling better and better!
I don't actually notice feeling much different, the change has been so gradual. I've been losing maybe half a pound or a pound a week for over a year now.
I credit the book "Wheat Belly" which I learned about from Tedster. In a nutshell, its thesis is that modern wheat varieties contain compounds which stimulate the appetite beyond what the body actually needs. If you avoid foods made from modern wheat varieties, your appetite will be more in line with your true requirements.
For me that
seems to be true.
I haven't completely cut out wheat, but many days I have none, and overall I might consume 90% less than I used to. Social life accounts for most of the remainder! I eat veggies and fruits, other grains, meat, eggs, nuts, legumes, and generally eat what I want when I want, including sinful sweet stuff. Just not wheat.
I haven't set a particular goal weight, so it will be interesting to see how things progress. FWIW my blood sugar was normal last time it was checked.
8/5
1/4
4/4
>>I don't actually notice feeling much different
Maybe so. I remember in the early 1980s when I first cleaned up my diet, I didn't notice anything. Then I went back to school and, the first stressful day I fell back into old "stress" foods - caffeine and ice cream. I felt sick and then suddenly it hit me - I felt like I had every single day before I cleaned up my diet.
I expect bit by bit you'll start to notice things that were hard before that will become easy... and one of these days you'll be walking from the hotel to Pubcon with me and Bob (and Neil one day this year)... if I keep going (didn't find it that fun this year).
>Wheat Belly
I know opinions on nutrition and fat loss are all over the place and that everybody has their own. That said, I have to chime in on the topic.
Buckworks, I'd take it a step further and say it is all refined carbs, or carbs without fiber, that are mostly to blame -- it doesn't matter what the original source is, be it wheat, rice, corn, potato or sugar. Being an over eater by nature I can eat an enormous amount of food with refined carbs before I am satisfied. That's why the atikins and the calories in and calories out people are both right. It isn't that carbs make you fat, it's that they make you over eat and the over eating makes you fat.
Those sugar packed drinks have to be the biggest danger these days. They say that the obesity numbers are leveling off in North America, but I think there's going to be a second wave of increased girth with all the new sugar drinks being mass marketed by McDonald's, Starbucks and the like.
QuoteIt isn't that carbs make you fat, it's that they make you over eat and the over eating makes you fat.
Exactly. And Wheat Belly's thesis is that carbs from wheat are the worst of all for that. Because modern varieties contain appetite-stimulating compounds that older varieties didn't.
Sorry I can't name specifics ... I listened to Wheat Belly as an audio book rather than reading it as a book where I could write notes in the margins!
All I can say is that years of being "plus size" started to reverse when I started cutting out wheat, without consciously cutting back on anything else.
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
As of Week Two:
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 -
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 3 was bad, but week 4 was cool. I lift things up and put them down and feeling somewhat run over from:
5/4
quite heavy workouts. Feeling good getting into squats, dead lifts and bench pressing again.
>carbs
I totally agree. It's not the carbs per se that makes me fat - it's the sheer volume of them.
I'm like you LM, I can eat a ton of food and will do so if I don't control myself. I simply will empty the plate or the pan if I don't really make effort not to. Also, I can eat 24/7 and sometimes do so - however keeping most of carbs out and fueling my intake with high protein and fat, it seems to fit my metabolism much better. Still hovering around 100kg though, but have moved a lot of fat and replaced it with mucsle - at least that's what the gains in the gym is telling me.
7/5
Lots of vball lately. 5 matches last week (one double header, still counted that night as one tho, 4 vball + 3 gym)
Knees were giving me problems, but doing hack squats cleared that right up.
4/4
Nice hike up around 10,000 to 12,000 feet for a couple of days - not a soul in sight except my wife once up high and already some areas of knee-deep snow up there. I really needed that!
As of Week Four:
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
Week 4 - 4/4
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 -
Week 4 -
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)
Week 4 - 7/5
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 5/4
Week 5 -4/4
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 4/3
Week 5 - 3/4
week 5 - 9/5
5 x gym
3 x vball matches
1 day motocross
I was 1/3 for week 4...stomach flu. <yech>
2/3 for me last week.
Week 6 - 4/4
3/3
1/5 - mostly took the week off, holiday and all that.
Week 6 - 4/4
Here's what I have as of week six. Ergophobe, what did you do week 5 & 6? Buckworks, what was your number for week 5?
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 1/3
Week 6 - 2/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 4/3
Week 5 -
Week 6 - 3/3
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)
Week 4 - 7/5
Week 5 - 9/5
Week 6 - 1/5
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 6/4
Week 6 - 4/4 (plus 500 pushups spread throughout the week)
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 5/4
Week 5 - 3/4
Week 6 - 4/4
<edit>Edited my week 6 to 4/4 as per the post above ;)</edit>
I've been lax on the reporting... now that I tack most workouts on the Garmin, I have to plug the damn thing in to remember what I did. This is going to get ugly in another 20 years if I don't upgrade to the implants... I'm going to plug it in now
week 6 - 4/4 (plus 500 pushups spread throughout the week)
week 5 - 6/4
So far this week only 3/4 plus 143 pullups (goal is 200 this week)... plus 40 mins of snow shoveling, but it's just a fluffy nine inches.
Week 7 - 4/4
3/3
Week 7 - 3/3
3/4
4/4 plus 205 pullups
4/5
Here is the total as of Week 7:
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 1/3
Week 6 - 2/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 4/3
Week 5 - ?
Week 6 - 3/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)
Week 4 - 7/5
Week 5 - 9/5
Week 6 - 1/5
Week 7 - 4/5
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 6/4
Week 6 - 4/4 (plus 500 pushups spread throughout the week)
Week 7 - 4/4 plus 205 pullups
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 5/4
Week 5 - 3/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 3/4
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Week 8 - 4/4
Week 8 - 2/3
4/4
2/5
4/4
I don't mean to record my "extras" but every week I'm trying one "distributed" exercise that's not part of a session. Last week it was 2 20-minute stretch sessions every day except Sunday.
Totals as of week 8
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 1/3
Week 6 - 2/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Week 8 - 2/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 4/3
Week 5 - ?
Week 6 - 3/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Week 8 - 1/3
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)
Week 4 - 7/5
Week 5 - 9/5
Week 6 - 1/5
Week 7 - 4/5
Week 8 - 2/5
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 6/4
Week 6 - 4/4 (plus 500 pushups spread throughout the week)
Week 7 - 4/4 plus 205 pullups
Week 8 - 4/4
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 5/4
Week 5 - 3/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 3/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4
Week 8 - 1/3
Week 9 - 1/3
A spell of thirty-below weather is cramping my style!
2/3 - week 9
Too many year-end parties thwarted me again. I'm surprised I made it twice. ;)
0/3 - hello Xmas, family and travelling. This week is bound to be scares as well.
Totals as of week 9
Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 1/3
Week 6 - 2/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Week 8 - 2/3
Week 9 - 2/3
Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 4/3
Week 5 - ?
Week 6 - 3/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Week 8 - 1/3
Week 9 - 1/3
Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)
Week 4 - 7/5
Week 5 - 9/5
Week 6 - 1/5
Week 7 - 4/5
Week 8 - 2/5
Week 9 - ?
Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 6/4
Week 6 - 4/4 (plus 500 pushups spread throughout the week)
Week 7 - 4/4 plus 205 pullups
Week 8 - 4/4
Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4
Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 5/4
Week 5 - 3/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 3/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 0/3
Week 10 - 4/4
0/4 week 10.
0/3 - when the wind chills are below minus forty it's time to snuggle with a mug of cocoa and a good book.
week 10 - 2/3