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Hal: My nebulous goal number is 130. Right now, I’m waffling because I don’t really have a serious drive to REACH this goal. My pants are fitting better. BUT, because of a few trips off the path, I’ve lost the majority of the ground I’ve gained. I’m 146 and I’ll probably be 148 tomorrow. I dunno. I feel a little trapped. Am I putting too much weight on the number on the scale? Yes, I think I am. I don’t want to look at the scale again til next week when I’ve had some solid eating for consecutive days. I feel like I oscillate between diet and binge eating.

I don’t know. I’m having a Debbie Downer day. It happens.

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…give it everything you got for another 2-3 weeks and if your still not feeling it then don’t do it.

But at least you can say you did it and gave it a fair shot.

Is it the weight you don’t want to lose or the different style/restrictive-ness of it that you don’t like?

you were trying this because you CAN! no one is holding a gun to your head :slight_smile:
How long are you supposed to stay on plan??

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[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
…give it everything you got for another 2-3 weeks and if your still not feeling it then don’t do it.

But at least you can say you did it and gave it a fair shot.

Is it the weight you don’t want to lose or the different style/restrictive-ness of it that you don’t like?

you were trying this because you CAN! no one is holding a gun to your head :slight_smile:
How long are you supposed to stay on plan?? [/quote]
I WANT to lose weight but I have this really bad tendency of binging whenever there’s chocolate or sugar in my house. I recognized this with the help of a friend here and we’ve come up with a plan for the week for me. The eating style works well with how I like eating and I respond well to high protein diets. My problem is, if I have one thing with sugar in it, I want more! My self-control flies out the window.

I’m just giving the weight on the scale too much power over me right now. That’s all. I hold onto water really easy and I don’t let it go for a few days. As such, I went from 143 on Saturday morning to 146+ today. The over 145 number messes with my head, cause hey, that’s where I started this whole journey! In my mind, I was back to square one, like the 10 day trial I put myself through was useless.

I’ve put the scale away for the week. I threw all the bad stuff out of the house again and I’ll see where I sit on Monday.

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I would weigh once a week to get a baseline…once in the evening BEFORe your start carbing…and then the next morning?

I don’t do well with restricting food. Once I do the little rebel in me wants it even more. Thats good you came up with a strategy. Is it to just not have any of your bingy foods??

All these little games our minds want to play sigh
…when it comes to losing lbs you gotta do what works overall to keep it off in the end.

Can you see yourself doing all these things to MAINTAIN once you get to where you want??

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Relax.

The only weight you need to pay that much attention to is the weight on the bar.

“Bitchez be crazy, yo!” is a saying. Not a lifestyle :slight_smile:

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^^^ ANOTHER ALBERTAN !! So exciting!! Wow, i never knew there were so many of us, Lol.

Stop obsessing over the scale pixie! I’ve come to the conclusion that sometimes it has no idea WTF it’s talking about…

Too many other factors come into play. JESUS I am probably 5lbs lighter today because of my morning bout of IBS, HAHA.

But then in a few days I’ll be up again.
Can’t let it get ya down is all, it might be demotivaiting.

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UGH! I’m a TOTAL binge eater!! Its bad. I’m all or nothing!!

So what I do is no goodies or grains M-F (I don’t eat potatoes either, but that’s cuz I don’t like them), just lots of veggies/protein and fruit. Then I have my cheat day on Saturday, which for me can get hefty, but I’m sure for a sensible person would be probably “normal”. lol! And for that I can have whatever I want and how much I please. Then on Sunday I go back to moderating, altho there might be saturday spill over, but I don’t freak out (it is the Lord’s day after all).

This has, for the most part, helped me maintain. So I imagine if you can have a sensible cheat day (not a Maschy glutton day), then you could possibly cut on something like this…Just a thought!

But yeah, stick with what you’re doing for a few weeks, then reassess!

And btw, power shrugs?! Wow. I give you mad props for those. Getting yoked, girl!

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Thanks for the support :slight_smile:

MiM: The strategy basically revolves around making sure that if I DO have a treat, it MUST be PWO and I have to have a solid meal after the treat. This way, the sugar won’t be the last thing to hit my mouth, so it won’t leave the sweet aftertaste where my body craves more. Yam fries or sticky white rice on the week days for my PWO carbs, then on Saturdays, go do some sprints or a morning class, have my cookie, then eat afterwards.

Masch: Thanks girl! That’s a pretty good meal strategy you have going :slight_smile:

12/02/01 Workout:

Warmups:
5 minutes on the elliptical
Agile 8

A1) 2 board bench: 55x5, 70x5, 80x5, 90x4, 95x2x2, 100x1, 110x1 (PR bitches!), 75x8
A2) BW SQx10x8

Soooo… This wasn’t scheduled to be a test week for me, but it turned into one for my 2 board bench. I was supposed to do 95x2 for three sets but the first two sets were so easy, I just said fuck it and started to let it ride. 100 was smooth. Okay. Go big or go home! 110. God, was that a struggle. But damn, leg drive for the win!! It wasn’t a pretty press by any stretch of the imagination but I didn’t give up on it :slight_smile: FUCK YEAH!

B1) assisted pullups: (-80)x8, (-70)x5, (-65)x3x3, (-85)x8
B2) kb swings: 35x6x6

C1) plank: 1 minute front, 45 seconds each side, then one minute front to finish it off. No rest in between.

Stretching and steam room.

I’m such a girl. I almost jumped up and down after I racked the bar. As it was, I was grinning like an idiot. I needed that :slight_smile:

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Oh wait, no, your strategy makes much more sense! See, at least yours is based in science. I’ll definitely be interested to see how it works. I need a good eating plan! I think it sounds like it’ll work wonders.

And fuck yeah for your 110 bench! Nice job, girl! You deserve to be smiling!! Woot woot! You killed it AND buried it :slight_smile:

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damn good bench day. :slight_smile:

I also sport the biggest grin when I hit a milestone. It looks especially looney in contrast to my constant scouling.

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Masch: Based on the pics you’ve posted, your eating plan is doing wonders :slight_smile: Stick with it!

Mainy: Thanks :slight_smile: I’m pretty sure the guys one bench over thought I was crazy.

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[quote]PixieThrower wrote:

[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
…give it everything you got for another 2-3 weeks and if your still not feeling it then don’t do it.

But at least you can say you did it and gave it a fair shot.

Is it the weight you don’t want to lose or the different style/restrictive-ness of it that you don’t like?

you were trying this because you CAN! no one is holding a gun to your head :slight_smile:
How long are you supposed to stay on plan?? [/quote]
I WANT to lose weight but I have this really bad tendency of binging whenever there’s chocolate or sugar in my house. I recognized this with the help of a friend here and we’ve come up with a plan for the week for me. The eating style works well with how I like eating and I respond well to high protein diets. My problem is, if I have one thing with sugar in it, I want more! My self-control flies out the window.

I’m just giving the weight on the scale too much power over me right now. That’s all. I hold onto water really easy and I don’t let it go for a few days. As such, I went from 143 on Saturday morning to 146+ today. The over 145 number messes with my head, cause hey, that’s where I started this whole journey! In my mind, I was back to square one, like the 10 day trial I put myself through was useless.

I’ve put the scale away for the week. I threw all the bad stuff out of the house again and I’ll see where I sit on Monday.[/quote]

Dieting (aka eating healthy for me) is so frustrating. I can’t eat appropriate servings of pretzels or cookies…you know the real simple carbs. It’s madness. You have a treat because you deserve one and a plan to eat an appropriate serving and then–you have one and kabam. I don’t know. Half the bag/box is empty.

Eating healthy and well should not be so hard. But, i understand that it can be.

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yeah. i keep making cake… could you try replacing sugar with one of those no calorie sweeteners? i’m a bit ambivalent about them but i’ll admit the main reason i haven’t tried this is because they cost more…

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[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
Dieting (aka eating healthy for me) is so frustrating. I can’t eat appropriate servings of pretzels or cookies…you know the real simple carbs. It’s madness. You have a treat because you deserve one and a plan to eat an appropriate serving and then–you have one and kabam. I don’t know. Half the bag/box is empty.

Eating healthy and well should not be so hard. But, i understand that it can be. [/quote]
This is my issue too :slight_smile:

To combat this, there are no treats in my house and any treat I do have can only survive in the biosphere of my car on the way home from the gym. I literally plan on picking up a treat before I work out tonight, leaving it in the car, and smashing it on my way home. Hard to binge eat when you only buy one cookie :slight_smile:

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I do best with no sugar except PWO Treat.

I don’t keep sugar or nut butter or bread in my house. Of course I live alone so its easy for me to impose these outside barriers to fucking up LOL.

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110 woo! Do want.

I’m in the same food boat as everyone. Foods like me so much they decide to stay.

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Hal: That is a definite benefit of being single :slight_smile:

Patch: Yeah, I know what you mean. Kinda frustrating :stuck_out_tongue:

12/02/03 Workout:

Warmups:
5 minutes on the elliptical
knee rehab
Agile 8

Bench squats: 65x10
Free squats: 65x5, 75x5, 85x5, 95x5x2

B1) OHP: 45x5, 55x5, 60x5, 65x3, 70x1, 55x7
B2) Hamstring curls: 45x7x6

C1) DB bench: 30x11x3
C2) Single arm DB OHP: 20x6x3

Stretching and steam room.

Woo squats! The first set at 95 was okay, second was a little wobbly. It’s hard to focus on glute activation on squats to make sure the proper muscles are working :stuck_out_tongue: My knee is a little tired right now so I’m icing it tonight and doing some more stretching and foam rolling. I’ll see how it feels tomorrow. The icing on the cake for this workout was my PWO cookie!!! I’m such a cookie monster :slight_smile:

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Have you read about the ‘carb nite,’ solution? Same author, different strategy. Almost anabolic diet like.
I may give it a go after my Dr’s ok.

Spring is almost here!!

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Ha, I wish it would hurry up! After an unusually mild winter we’re now getting freezing temps in Europe. England is faring better than the continent but even in London it’s only creeping above freezing in the afternoon.

Pixie - you’re just like me when it comes to weight loss. I really want to get leaner but I find I can’t maintain an iron will for more than a week or two at most. I do buy treats in smaller quantities and don’t keep much in my flat but I really start want stuff like trail mix after a long day at school and can smash a 1000 calorie bag of the stuff very quickly. Ugh.

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MiM: Yeah, I’ve heard about the Carb Nite diet. One reason I didn’t go that way is because I want to try to put on a little muscle and get stronger while I’m trying to get leaner. I may not see the results of getting leaner right now, but I am getting stronger :slight_smile:

Cal: I wish spring would get here, too! It feels like the days are getting longer here already and I’m doing a little happy dance over that. This is the mildest winter I can remember having in a long time. It still has a lot of time to make me into a liar but so far we’ve had about two weeks of what I would consider actual winter. Diet wise, I’d been thinking that we’re very alike, too. I think it really comes down to the fact that after cutting for a week, we like the way we look, so we relax. Do you compete, or do anything, that is divided by weight groups? If you have no specific reason to keep pushing, it’s hard to continue to be strict when you look in the mirror and are happy with what you see :slight_smile: