[quote]talenaah wrote:
damn, Alisa…i hope that cold doesn’t get serious. i’m suffering from one now myself. you might want to go against your wishes for low cals right now and feed the body if you need it to recover…[/quote]
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Feel better soon Alisa, and take care of yourself!
Sorry to hear about the cold. I hope it goes away quickly! You’re working so hard like the others have said leave room for recovery.
Don’t get discouraged about the weight; it’s harder to lose when you’re already lean, but you’re doing the right things. It does take a bit of time. Besides, we all know how little sense the scale makes at times.
You guys are super sweet; thanks for the good wishes.
Nope, still no weight loss, but my usual Tight Jeans are looser.
So, I’ve been super tired due to this cold, and took the past two days off (if I count rest days as fungible this doesn’t count as missing a workout.) Diet’s been good though.
Good girl sticking with the diet while youre under the weather, also good use of vocab (lol!).
Feel better!
little bodyweight day.
pushups: 30 with those handle things, 8 “extended range of motion” (that is, chest to ground and up)
dips: 12 bodyweight, 10/5/5 @10 lbs
chins: 10/5/5 bodyweight, 2 @10 lbs (first time weighted chins!) 1 wide grip
jumping lunges 15 each leg
10 reverse crunches
tired tired tired, but getting better.
foodposting:
breakfast: peanuts
lunch: salad with chicken breast, apple
snack: sugar-free fro-yo with cashews and papaya
dinner: meatballs, one of those veggie packs with broccoli and celery
1030 kcal, p/f/c 84.9/47.7/48.6
wow that wasn’t much; no wonder I’m hungry.
Nice job on those weighted chins!!
And yeah, no wonder you’re hungry. Peanuts for breakfast? That’s it?
Alisa, great dips and chins! Its good news that you are on the mend, but a few more calories might help the recovery and hurt your cutting.
oh, that last day ain’t intentional. Just the way it turned out. (There’s no way I could consistently eat that little – are you kidding?)
Good, just so long as you don’t make a habit of it! 
Nice on the chins!
Sick + diet = suck 
Glad you are feeling better.
no weight loss all week. FML. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.
^ but what about that thing about FEELING or looking better? There were so many times in the past that the scale would.not.budge. but I was losing inches!
can’t be said enough, but it’s TRUE!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
^ but what about that thing about FEELING or looking better? There were so many times in the past that the scale would.not.budge. but I was losing inches!
can’t be said enough, but it’s TRUE!
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Agreed. In addition to this…sometimes a ‘free’ meal or a carb refeed would spark things again for me.
and AND, you may not have that much to ‘lose,’ to see significant, ‘wow I’m losing so fast’, results…what your all of 140 something? most is muscle, and the other looks to be the normal female padding 
don’t be so hard on yourself!!
SMACK
feel better now?
ah maybe so.
I wanted to get from “meh, normal” to “whoa, she works out.” It’s just something I’ve always wanted to do. I’m starting to think that’s a whole different physical process than getting from overweight to not overweight.
There is intense stuff that I’m not doing (and can’t do, for practical reasons) – weighing food, eating every three hours, 2-a-day workouts all the time. There is intense stuff that I could, in principle, do, but I’m scared of – MiM’s “no fat, no carbs” diet, doing a bunch of running on top of everything. Or there’s just sticking to what I’m doing, which isn’t so bad, after all. I mean, there’s evidence here that I’m not a lazybones, I think. But maybe I’ll never get past “meh, normal.”
A dude who’s into this stuff did say I looked leaner but I think that’s gotta be subjective.
ahahaha, noooo, are you crazy?!
I was OVERweight…YOU are NOT! I don’t know what you are seeing when you look in the mirror, but you gotta give yourself SOME credit, sheesh…
I liked the girl who was kicking butt and lifting heavy things, and was HAPPY about that alone…
Maybe it’s your cold bug talking?
oh, I’m in a fairly good “place” (I hate that phrase, but in this case it’s accurate.) I know I’m not overweight.
I’ll be back to lifting heavy things soon and I’ll be happy about that. I know how to get better at lifting heavy things. I don’t really know how to do this, so I’m in the position of trying to figure out something that really leaves me lost and uncertain. Think I’ll just keep on plugging though… on paper (or hypertext) it sure looks like it SHOULD work, so maybe it will.
Hey Alisa,
Just stopping in with some words of encouragment. I am trying to lose some extra pounds accumluated over the holiday season right now. Which usually comes off really easy but not so much this time around, but just wanted to say keep your head up and doing things the right way and it will come off just maybe not as quick I we would like sometimes.
Also, saw were you weren’t really into running are you doing any kind of complexes or circuit stuff I know for me I am not a big fan of running either. Usually I do some complexes in place of the all the running.