New Goals

I have finally finsished BFFM! What an undertaking that was. 300+ pages, all of them vital information, for sure.

So, I figured out my calories burned, my heart rate during exercise and calories in. Calories in is set at about 2300 and since my average calorie burn over the last month was 2853, I decided 2850 has a nice round ring to it.

I was measured by a different trainer today since mine was out. Wow, eithe I am up 3.5% BF or they measure very differently. Today's trainer didn't seem to pinch the calipers too tightly.

I was pretty good today. I ate mostly clean at 2000 cals, did both strength training, beginner workout from BFFM and 55 minutes of cardio today. Yeah. Gearing up for the food festivities tomorrow.

Tired, must.get.sleep.or.I.will.passout.
Betsey

Sidelined...again

Put me on the DL for this week. Well, not disabled really, but really sick. I ended up with 102.3 fever this week and have not made it into the gym at all or done any cardio for my break at the office. I hope to feel better next week.

B

Positives for today

Ok, I didn't work out. I didn't eat clean. I did actually read a lot of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle eBook I bought. Wow, it's an eye opener. For years, I've been shooting to weigh 145. It's based on BMI, which I know is useless. When I was on Weight Watchers, I did the math for what 26 BMI would be ad 145 was it for my height. Actually, when you set a weight goal, WW requires that the maximum be 26 BMI for women. Now that I know BMI is complete crap that tells you no more than the scale, I see the error of my thinking. I've read through chapter four of the BFFM book and it really resonates with me.

So from where I am now, still sitting at 227, I was shooting for an 82 lb weight loss. Now, I can see that would be unreasonable. My current skinfold reading is 33% body fat at 227 and 5'5". Doing the math, my fat lbs are 75 (74.91) and my lean body weight is 152. My bones, water and muscle are more weight than my old goal weight. See, that IS unreasonable.

So now, my goal is not based on weight or BMI, it's based on body composition. I am currently at 33% body fat. My 12-month goal is 16% body fat. Wow, that sounds really lean to me. If I feed the muscle and burn the fat (concept of the book...keep the muscle or lean body mass, and burn fat through exercise), I would be at 16% body fat at 180 lbs. Wow, that's very different from 145.

So, here's the daily goals: drink half my body weight in ounces in water everyday, eat six small meals each day (b'fast, lunch & dinner a bit bigger at around 400 cals & snacks around 200, which would put me around 1800 cals). Hmm, maybe that's not enough calories though, since I burn anywhere between 2400-3000 cals a day. Will have to try that to see if I can actually lose any weight. It might be too agressive of a calorie deficit.

Betsey

Another day another workout, strength today

I worked out with my trainer James today. I told him it had been awhile since I'd done strength training and all the daily cardio I've been doing hasn't dropped a tenth of a pound in the last two weeks. Major bummer. I do love doing Turbo. I can feel that it tightens my muscles, but it hasn't helped me lose weight this month. You'd think with the number of calories I burn coupled with what I eat that I would be dropping the pounds, but it just ain't happenin'.

Stats for today are:
calories burned as of 9:30: 2741
steps taken: 11, 349
calories in: ??

Betsey

Wow, has it really been since 10/28 that I blogged?

Oops, there goes my daily promise to myself. At least doing this blog does inspire and motivate me to move, which is wonderful. That's the whole point, right, to be accountable? Even though I have not been posting, I have been exercising.

Tonight, I did my cardio kick box in two sets, repeating a section and moving on when I returned home. As of 10:45, I burned 3167 calories today, walked 16, 418 steps. I did not log my calories, but I know dinner was 360, b'fast was about 400 with 2, 200 calorie snacks an lunch was about 480 calories, which is about 1640 cals about. So I ate about half the calories I burned today. I know this is not the best way to eat and I should eat more, but sometimes it's so hard to get all my calories in. I am not losing weight. I weighed in this AM at 227.2, exactly where I was when I started this blog a week ago. I know I need to eat more and get strength training in.

Betsey

Just Walking today...nuttin' else

Lots of walking. Two hours of strolling around a festival. No time to properly exercise between running around, volunteering at the festival and finishing out my homework. I always wait until the last minute to do my homework. I don't know why I have to stress myself out like that...

I am bummed because I, yet again, forgot to wear my bugg! For the whole time we were gone at the festival, I have no idea how many calories I expended.

More Turbo tomorrow!

Betsey

Another workout today, split in two!

Today, I've been pretty good, except for a trip to Costco and little nibbles. How do you put those into your food diary? I am not sure. A bit of beef, a quarter inch square of cupcake. I know it adds up, but how to log it? Not sure.

Well, because of the nibbling and a long break between lunch and dinner (lunch at 11:30 & dinner at 9 PM), I did skip two meals: my AM & PM snacks. I will get in my evening snack.

So here's my stats for today.

Calories burned as of 10:30 PM: 3150
Calories logged for day: 1510
steps taken: 15,561
total physical activity time: 1hr 48 mins
Nutrition: protein 22%; carbs 58%; fat 20% of days calories

Tomorrow, I will be doing a few hours of walking around a festival with two small children and then working a table for my employer as a volunteer. Hopefully, it will be fun!

B

Workout 3

Today was an all around good day.

I logged my food and ate pretty well, with calorie in total of 1941 and calories out, as of 8 PM is 2737. No crap, but planned food.

Step goal: met; goal is 10K & I did 14,676. Steps are largely due to the Turbo Kick during my morning workout.

I did personal training today with James at 24hr for about an hour. We did about 20 minutes of agility, strength work and about 45 minutes of Turbo Kick. He kicked my butt with agility training and I kicked his butt with Turbo. It was great!!

No major philosophical work today. Just waiting to go to sleep. I am wiped after a long week of poor sleeping (two children under 4 will do that to ya).

B

Workout 2, complete

I was feeling really crappy today, so I thought that some good old fashioned sweat might help. It did. I did my turbo kick cardio again, this time with the DVD, not just my iPod. It's a fun one. I will see if I can get to the gym tomorrow for a strength workout. Things are finally slowing down at work enough to attempt it. Still need to figure out how to post a darn picture...

Heading to bed after another day.

Yeah!! I did it!

Even though I had another rough night with the boys deciding that 1AM was a great time to get up this morning, I forced myself to get some cardio in today. It was fun. It was definitely not slow cardio. I do Turbo Kick (actually certified to teach it) and have been trying to learn Round 25. I was able to take it all the way through the anaerobic section. Yeah!

Calorie burn so far (as of 9PM) is 2602, steps are 10,189.

Yeah!!

The good news & bad news

Good news first, of course...I walked 10,160 steps so far today. I ate an okay breakfast, an okay lunch as a so-so dinner. Better than yesterday. I will get in some yoga poses before bed.

Bad news, I didn't get the exercise in I had planned. I was just too tired. Exhausted actually. I haven't had regular caffeine in five years and I got slipped some with yesterday's dinner. I was up til 2AM with my mind unable to quiet. Up at 5:30, as usual.

Tomorrow won't be a high walk day unless I go to the gym and do my interval treadmill training. I found I like the treadmill best for my intervals. It's a tough workout when you primarily use elevation to create the interval.

So far, as of 9:30 PM, my calorie burn is 2341. Not too stellar. Yesterday's was better. Let's see what tomorrow brings. It's bedtime.

Wow, what did I do today toward my goal...

Um...nothing?

I didn't eat clean. For any meal. I ate a fried egg in bread (hubby calls it Popeye Eggs, not sure why...) with real maple syrup. No mid-morning snack. Tuna sandwich with mayo, capers and toasted onions for lunch, ohhh and a half a snickerdoodle cookie. Peanut butter honey dipped apple for an afternoon snack. Crepe with swiss cheese, deli ham and a fried egg on top at a French cafe in San Francisco for dinner. With loads of decaf coffee with sugar cubes becuase they didn't have Splenda. Ugh, I hate it that I ate that way today.

Did I shred anything? No. I didn't even tear anything! Or nick anything...I did homework and drove around San Francisco all evening. Fun, but not what I'd call active. Out of my 10,000 steps per day goal, I did 5655 as of 9PM. Burned 2533 calories so far.

Plan for tomorrow? Go to the gym, at least do a 20 min treadmill interval and maybe some Turbo Training. If I really feel like I have the time, maybe some Piyo (pilates and yoga). Eat better. Of course, that wouldn't take much. Also, will log my food to see what I eat against what I burn. That's why I bought the bugg, right?

Betsey

The Walk - Day 1!

Well Geez, I feel like such a dork. I love my bodybugg and wear it ALL THE TIME. I do this big walk to cure diabetes thing and I forgot to put it back on after my shower this morning. I know I walked at least 4 miles today.

We had a hard time figuring out exactly where the walk was, so we parked about half a mile away. We shared pulling the boys behind us in the wagon, which added about another 120 lbs to the whole exercise. The walk itself wasn't too long, about 45 minutes to walk, but I wouldn't call it a workout because I lost count of how many times we had to stop and go back for our 3 year old Ryan. The 2.5 mile walk was fun, so many people on the trail, it was great!

DH has some pictures to upload and I will include that here once we get it on the internet.

I need to make a correction: my starting weight is 227. Kind of funny, before I lost 62 lbs before I got pregnant with Tucker (8 mos), 230 was my set/plateau point and 250 was my absolute, "must go on diet" weight. Now, my comfort level has changed and I don't feel good at 227. I made it down to 191 and I want to get there and beyond.

Although a specific weight is not my goal, my intention is to burn unwanted fat. My fat % is about 32 right now and my goal in the next 12 weeks is to get to 30%.

More tomorrow!
Betsey

Wow, Day 0 on my body transformation!

I plan on using this space to document my journey to health. I need to figure out how to post pictures, well I need to take some also. No recent pics.

Current stats: weight is 227 and my body fat % is 32 when it was last checked.

My goal for the next 12 weeks is to bring my body fat down to 30%

I have a bodybugg and regularly check my calorie burn through out the day. When I exercise, I burn about 3000 calories and when I do not, I burn about 2500. I am a nursing mom and I need to make sure I eat enough calories to produce milk for my son yet not so much that I keep weight on. I try to go to the gym 4x a week.

I've been losing some here and there since I got my bodybugg, but haven't been really consistent at the gym due to illness in the family, including my own 3 week bout with a sinus infection. I hope this blog keeps me more motivated to stick to my program. I need to be better about journaling my food. I tend to eat so much cleaner when I write it all down.

Tomorrow's plan is to do a JDRF walk-a-thon which is a 2 mile walk in San Francisco. The whole family is going on the walk. I am just elated that my husband a couch potato wants to do the walk. I hope it to be a fun day.

Betsey