I’m 5’6, 130.
I was kind of shocked at the fitday number myself – I didn’t mean to eat that little. More likely it’s a miscalculation, since I am eating 3 1/2 meals, involving meat & nuts & mayonnaise.
I’m not loony, if that’s what you’re worried about.
Oh I know you’re a bit loony, but I was never worried about that part!
Just seems like such a small amount of food to be fueling so much work, and I would suggest an extra meal/snack/portion.
but, i say that without knowing what your goals are or where you are with your progress soooo…
im pretty much talking out of my ass. hows my breath?
Like roses and baby powder.
Yep, I probably need more food. I’m going to buy some protein.
Serious goals: lift as heavy as I can. Unserious goals: be purty. (The plan had been to get to a 200 lb squat, 265 deadlift, and 130 lb bench by the end of the summer; instead, I got to 185, 250, and, sadly, 105.) So I guess my short-term goal is to get back where I was in August, medium-term to actually hit the 200/265/130 stuff, and long-term to do even better.
The “purty” aspect of things is harder to quantify. (Way back last winter I had a weight-loss goal. I didn’t get anywhere near it. I ate less, got a lot stronger and weighed the same. For some reason, I really, really never lose weight.) So I guess I throw my hands up and say I don’t know anything about that.
I like your goals. all of em.
I know. You really, really care what I think.
Purty is difficult to quantify, bc it’s so subjective. Even if it’s just you and a mirror, what you like and dont like is bound to change.
congrats on the work you did achieve, im sure it wont take you long to get back there, right before you blow past it.
Alisa, I hear you on the weight losss goal…I have shelved it for now, and am working on good nutrition and lifting as heavy as I can. I know how to lose weight. I have done it several times in the past. What I have never done is lose fat while building muscle. I am not going overboard with my eating, but I am not sweating it right now. I figure once my body gets used to the lifting, it will be easier for me to play with losing the fat.
I have lost several inches all the way around, but not lost any weight at all,not an ounce. But I really don’t care, because I know, logically, that my body composition is changing and I AM losing fat, but building muscle.
Sorry, just rambling. And I weigh a LOT more than 130…I am a skosh taller than you, at 5 ft 7. I gained a ton of weight during my late husband’s cancer treatment and after he died. A lot of it is a complete blank…I simply can’t remember what I was eating and when. I did not have the mental energy to plan meals, shop, and cook. I have vague recollections of looking in the yawningly empty chest freezer and eating five year old fruitcake from Aunt Bess, without bothering to thaw it. Heck, I don’t recall peeling off the Christmas print aluminum foil; for all I know, I ate that too.
I look my best around 140-150 or so. Any less than that, I cannot keep any muscle it seems, and I am one cranky-ass starving bitch. In my teens and 20’s, I was around 120-130,thought I was fat,and starved myself half to death and popped speed to keep from eating. Not recommended, as it really messes with your metabolism!
I guess I am saying, appreciate your body for what it is right now, because someday you will look back and think, “DAMN! I was HAWT! What the fuck was I thinking???”
Oh, wow, I’m sorry – that sounds like an awful time.
I hear you on the appreciating your body, and I think I’m actually pretty relaxed about it – certainly not tempted to starve myself.
Yesterday was a day off – I was bushed!
today:
1670 kcal, P/F/C 139.1/95.8/33.4
squats: 1x5@45, 1x5@95, 1x5@115, 1x5@135, 1x5@155, 3x5@165
press: 1x5@45, 1x5@55, 3x5@60
row: 3x5@95
40 hanging leg raises.
squats: 1x10@45, 1x5@95, 1x5@115, 1x5@135
(with box) 1x5@135, 1x5@155, 3x5@175
bench: 1x10@45, 1x10@65, 1x5@75, 1x5@85, 3/4/3@90, 1x7@65
deadlift: 1x5@135, 1x5@175, then felt like I had to puke and decided to postpone deadlifting.
9 bike sprints, 30s each.
Food and drink was … er … abundant.
Gonna do sprints.
10x30s, 30s rest.
food: 1461 kcal, P/F/C 117.7/94.5/19.8
squats: 1x5@45, 1x5@95, 1x5@115, 1x5@135, 1x5@155, 1x5@165, 3x5@175
bench: 1x10@45, 1x10@65, 1x5@75, 1x5@85, 1x5@90 (easy!) 3/3/2 @ 95
(my butt comes up off the bench on heavy weights. Is this cheating?)
deadlift: 1x5@135, 1x5@175, 1x5@205, 1x5@225, 1x3@245
RDL’s: 3x10@135
40 hanging leg raises
50 pushups (in batches)
1385 kcal, p/f/c 157.1/64.2/24.7
(yes, I will be able to eat more when my protein comes in the mail.)
Also, baby’s got new shoes! Chucks (actually the Payless variety.) They are a delight to deadlift in.
Good lord you’re whooping my ass in DL and squat!
Well, adjust for the fact that I’m bigger.
You must be excited to be back in the gym. Are you training with the powerlifters yet?!?! Sounds like fun.
They have not started practice yet – I’ll let you know how it goes.
And yes, it is refreshing to be getting back to it.
You don’t look very big in your pictures 
what’s your ht/wt?
5’6’', 130.
I’m the local giant among girls at my gym, though.
Way too tired for exercise; call it an off day. (Though I do have a new plan to do pushups every day. I hate pushups because I have no pecs, which is why I should do them. The hope is that it will improve my bench.)
1436 kcal, p/f/c 169.9/53.8/38.8
Also, my mom’s started going to the gym all by herself!
No free weights, but machines and cardio. I’m happy for her. It doesn’t hurt her joints as much as the walking/jogging did.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Also, my mom’s started going to the gym all by herself!
No free weights, but machines and cardio. I’m happy for her. It doesn’t hurt her joints as much as the walking/jogging did.[/quote]
That is great! You may have saved her from lots of aging-relaed stuff like bone loss. How old is she?
She’s 52.
And yes, the women in my family tend to shrink (in height) when they get old; maybe she’ll be spared some of that if she goes to the gym.