It was a v. good day today <333
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kol... I joined a gym today and got cupcakes from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ren_sama! BEST DAY! BEST DAY!
While we were Smart Final-ing, I picked up these today and actually used one for left over veggies tonight. Go me! I thought post 60 minute jog/walk on the treadmill would be a great time to officially kick off the "Return to Operation: Defatting Diet" tonight with very tasty results. I need to figure out sneaky ways to up my protein numbers-- I have to have at least 60g a day to keep Sparkpeople happy, and I barely managed 40 today!
Anyway, for those interested in what I do for Operation: Defatting, I made a little guide.
1. Resume daily Sparkpeople-ing.
Sparkpeople is a huge factor in my initial huge loss of weight. They have forums, Fitness journals, optional daily nagging e-mails, nutrition tracking & help, fitness tracking & help, and a lot more. The whole place is free, too, which makes me v. v. happy XD
First of all, the site works for me because it has a motivational system of points based on activity on the site. The whole system functions enough like neopoints from Neopets that it motivates me to log on just to get points. That next points trophy is SOOO mine!
But the big reason I love Sparkpeople? The Nutrition tracker. You guys know how much I love recording things! Both of these trackers help teach you how to recognize proper healthy behaviors and actually rewards you for doing them. Accountability is a HUGE thing for me when it comes to weight loss, and Sparkpeople definitely offers that for me.
Their nutritional suggestions for losing weight is pretty simple. Based on how much you want to lose and your baseline activities, they shoot out a pretty reasonable suggested calorie count for the day. What I really like is you don't have a SINGLE number, but a range to fall within. They also break down the calories into coming from 55% Carbohydrates, 30% fats, and 15% Proteins, figuring out an exact number to shoot for on a given day for you.
And I always fail to reach my protein goal, probably because I suck XD.
But keeping an eye on your carb/fat/protein ratios does help a lot with portion control, something that is next to impossible for me to do unless I'm physically constrained to eat less like I was in January. So getting a program or website to do all the fancy calculating and just have me inputting foods I ate into my nutrition tracker? Yeah, I'm down with that.
And yeah, if you see a fitnaw on there, that's me <33.
2. Yay calorie burning!
I try and compromise between burning and cutting out at least 500 calories a day from my diet. If I can consistently maintain the 500 calorie drop, body sheds roughly a pound every 5-6 days. And since I love eating, I try and burn as much of that 500 as I can. It is much harder now that I'm bike-less, let me tell you, but still possible!
Granted I typically burn about 100 calories jogging to work every day, so that helps a lot too.
I've found that changing up how many calories I have in a day actually helps with my personal weight loss, too. Staying at consistently 1,100 calories a day made me gain weight. Fluctuating between 1,300 and 1,700? The pounds they are a leaving.
A lot of this is because I'm at my heart a pretty active person-- I love sports, I love working out, I just can't do them at my best because of the lungs and the fat. But slowly both of those improve and it is like a whole new me is coming out :D.
Plus, after exercising I get story ideas and write better, so that's a definite plus ;)
3. Weigh Myself once a week & take measurements once a month
I don't weigh myself every day anymore-- it just makes me get pissed off, because my weight fluctuates ridiculous numbers in a given day. But weighing myself once a week, at the same time, lets me see first hand how well I'm doing on defatting.
The same is true of measuring. I only take measurements of bust, hips, & stomach, because these are the only measurements I'm interested in. Plus it was creepy when I lost three inches off my neck and I don't want to see that happening to my arms, thank you very much.
4. Complain about progress on LJ
Seriously? If I didn't know you guys followed progress, I probably would have gotten stuck at 190 pounds and never continued this awesome lifestyle change. You guys keep me going <333.
Plus, whenever I complain on LJ it keeps me from bottling angst up and emotional eat/binge, so it kills two birds with one stone. Yay for happy making ;)
ren_sama! BEST DAY! BEST DAY!While we were Smart Final-ing, I picked up these today and actually used one for left over veggies tonight. Go me! I thought post 60 minute jog/walk on the treadmill would be a great time to officially kick off the "Return to Operation: Defatting Diet" tonight with very tasty results. I need to figure out sneaky ways to up my protein numbers-- I have to have at least 60g a day to keep Sparkpeople happy, and I barely managed 40 today!
Anyway, for those interested in what I do for Operation: Defatting, I made a little guide.
1. Resume daily Sparkpeople-ing.
Sparkpeople is a huge factor in my initial huge loss of weight. They have forums, Fitness journals, optional daily nagging e-mails, nutrition tracking & help, fitness tracking & help, and a lot more. The whole place is free, too, which makes me v. v. happy XD
First of all, the site works for me because it has a motivational system of points based on activity on the site. The whole system functions enough like neopoints from Neopets that it motivates me to log on just to get points. That next points trophy is SOOO mine!
But the big reason I love Sparkpeople? The Nutrition tracker. You guys know how much I love recording things! Both of these trackers help teach you how to recognize proper healthy behaviors and actually rewards you for doing them. Accountability is a HUGE thing for me when it comes to weight loss, and Sparkpeople definitely offers that for me.
Their nutritional suggestions for losing weight is pretty simple. Based on how much you want to lose and your baseline activities, they shoot out a pretty reasonable suggested calorie count for the day. What I really like is you don't have a SINGLE number, but a range to fall within. They also break down the calories into coming from 55% Carbohydrates, 30% fats, and 15% Proteins, figuring out an exact number to shoot for on a given day for you.
And I always fail to reach my protein goal, probably because I suck XD.
But keeping an eye on your carb/fat/protein ratios does help a lot with portion control, something that is next to impossible for me to do unless I'm physically constrained to eat less like I was in January. So getting a program or website to do all the fancy calculating and just have me inputting foods I ate into my nutrition tracker? Yeah, I'm down with that.
And yeah, if you see a fitnaw on there, that's me <33.
2. Yay calorie burning!
I try and compromise between burning and cutting out at least 500 calories a day from my diet. If I can consistently maintain the 500 calorie drop, body sheds roughly a pound every 5-6 days. And since I love eating, I try and burn as much of that 500 as I can. It is much harder now that I'm bike-less, let me tell you, but still possible!
Granted I typically burn about 100 calories jogging to work every day, so that helps a lot too.
I've found that changing up how many calories I have in a day actually helps with my personal weight loss, too. Staying at consistently 1,100 calories a day made me gain weight. Fluctuating between 1,300 and 1,700? The pounds they are a leaving.
A lot of this is because I'm at my heart a pretty active person-- I love sports, I love working out, I just can't do them at my best because of the lungs and the fat. But slowly both of those improve and it is like a whole new me is coming out :D.
Plus, after exercising I get story ideas and write better, so that's a definite plus ;)
3. Weigh Myself once a week & take measurements once a month
I don't weigh myself every day anymore-- it just makes me get pissed off, because my weight fluctuates ridiculous numbers in a given day. But weighing myself once a week, at the same time, lets me see first hand how well I'm doing on defatting.
The same is true of measuring. I only take measurements of bust, hips, & stomach, because these are the only measurements I'm interested in. Plus it was creepy when I lost three inches off my neck and I don't want to see that happening to my arms, thank you very much.
4. Complain about progress on LJ
Seriously? If I didn't know you guys followed progress, I probably would have gotten stuck at 190 pounds and never continued this awesome lifestyle change. You guys keep me going <333.
Plus, whenever I complain on LJ it keeps me from bottling angst up and emotional eat/binge, so it kills two birds with one stone. Yay for happy making ;)
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Date: 2008-12-21 04:52 am (UTC)Re: you probably know this already
Date: 2008-12-21 07:49 pm (UTC)I picked up more of my Kashi cereal-- that stuff is packed with protein :DD