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Monday, June 06, 2011
  
The UV Project: 6/1- 6/5
THIS IS YOUR SUMMER!!!!!!!
Exercise:
 What can you do? If you can’t see yourself (insert exercise here) every day, you shouldn’t be doing it to lose weight in the first place.
 Get out and mooooove:
What do you love to do for cardio? Get out and move a little each day, and do some serious cardio at least twice. How many minutes/what was the intensity for the past 5 days? (Keep track for next week!)
Wed: 55 mins Zumba @ 75% MHR
Thurs: 49 mins Combat @ 81% MHR
Fri: —
Sat: 52 mins kickboxing @ 76% MHR
Sun: —
 Work your muscles:
Lower Body/Upper body/Core or a mix- Try to fit in 2 days of ST before Monday and tell us about it. (Keep track of reps/weight for next week)
Wed: lower body
◊ Hip Abductions on machine- each leg 3x15x30lbs
◊ Hip Adductions on machine- each leg 3x15x70lbs
◊ Seated Hamstring Curls 3x15x70lbs
◊ Standing Calf Raises 7x15
◊ Glute Isolator (donkey kick machine)- right side 3x15x40lbs / left side 3x15x50lbs
Thurs: core
◊ 1 hour Pilates, about half-focused on core
◊ Seated Back Extensions on machine 3x15x25lbs
Fri: —
Sat: —
Sun: lower body
◊ Lying Hip Abductions- each leg 3x15
◊ Lying Hip Adductions- each leg 3x15
◊ Bridge-Ups 3x15
◊ Single Leg Raises on propped arms- each leg 3x15
◊ Standing Calf Raises 5x15
 Food:
If you’ve never tracked a bite of food, it’s time to start! It doesn’t need to be perfect but losing weight is a science. Tracking food (whether you go over or not) is vital to getting fit and healthy.
Wed: slightly over on cals; wthin carb, fat, & protein ranges
Thurs: within carbs & all macronutrient ranges
Fri: over on cals & fat; in carb & protein ranges
Sat: within cals & all macronutrient ranges
Sun: within cals, fat, & protein; over on carbs
 Water:
Drink it! It hydrates you, curbs hunger, and makes your skin look fabulous! Have trouble remembering? Buy a 32 ouncer (Nalgene, Camelbak, etc) and fill, drink, repeat. Congrats on drinking 8 glasses!
Wed: 15 cups
Thurs: 10 cups
Fri: 9 cups
Sat: 9 cups
Sun: 10 cups
Sun:
Get at least 15-30 minutes of sun exposure 2-4 times this week. Vitamin D is essential for those healthy bones we are building (wear at least SPF 15) Reduce stress and enhance your mood with a 30 minute walk in your neighborhood!
Wed: 2.5 hours gardening raspberry patch
Thurs: 1.5 hours gardening raspberry patch
Fri: —
Sat: —
Sun: 1 hour walking my cat
Read a fitness article!
www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness
www.sparkpeople.com/resource/fitness.asp
www.self.com/fitness
- Done! www.sparkpeople.com/resource/
fitness_articles.asp?id=428
Friday, June 03, 2011
Realizing on your own, without needing anyone to tell you, that you’ll never have a flat stomach or get rid of your gut or be able to wear a bikini is a blow. It’s like being told there’s no Santa. It’s ok to mourn the loss of those dreams. It’s ok to be sad knowing that you’ll never reach the goals and standards that have stood as a glittering beacon of motivation for the close-to-20 years you’ve wanted to lose weight. It’s ok to get down because weight gain and loss has ravaged your body and left you with a plentitude of stretch marks and loose skin and a myriad of other issues that remind you on a daily basis of the worst possible times of your life that you’d like to forget.
But even though all those things are true, and it’s ok to feel upset about them, you need to remember:
This is not a waste. You’ve proven to yourself that you have courage and determination; willpower and persistence; the ability to NOT be lazy; to show grit; to battle your depression head-on; to rise above your pain and obstacles, barriers, hang-ups and holdups, fears, and history of weaknesses, failures, timidity, self-defeatism, and standing in your own way.
You can’t go back and change the past. You can’t change the decisions that led to you gaining weight. You can’t stop the hurts from happening, you can’t time-warp yourself into preventing the arrival of a body that would eventually look like this after 'improvement'. But you hated your body and wanted to lose weight for over 15 years before you actually committed to doing it. You didn’t tackle your issues and start changing on the inside the way you wanted until you lost a MASSIVE amount of weight. So, as much as you hate what gaining that weight did to your body, maybe that’s just what it was gonna take for you to get where you are now. Maybe you needed to reach 258 lbs because it was gonna take you over 100-lb-loss worth of time to get to a point where you were able to like yourself at all or feel good about your body on any level or actually be able to deal with all your crappy emotions and depressing life circumstances in a way that’s not totally self-destructive. Cuz you know what? Your stomach and arms DID look a h*ll of a lot better when you weighed 175 lbs 8 years ago, but you still hated who were you were and what you looked like. The worst of the eating disorders, self-injury, depression, maladaptive coping techniques, they all came after that. And you sometimes still do feel like crap now but you’re *dealing* with the ED and depression and you’re not turning to self-medication to deal with all the things in your life that are wrong.
You are strong. Even though your knees won’t work right and your neck and back hurt, YOU. ARE. STRONG. You have a body with limitations but it has taken you this far. It has allowed you to use exercise to strengthen your mind. Even if sometimes it seems like you’re weak because you have to modify/avoid certain workouts or because you’re vain as h*ll and just cry about the reality of your appearance not matching your dreams, you’re strong. You’re strong because you’re listening to the little voice of reason in your head. You’re strong because when you feel like sh!t on the inside, you keep going anyway. Because you could throw in the towel, because you could say “$%^& it” and stay in bed crying or binge-eating or –drinking; and because you DON’T.
That is strength.
So look down and see your battle scars. See the effects of all the things that went wrong in your life. See the mistakes you made, and see the people that have hurt you, and see the pain and grief that confront you every single day. Feel the regret and shame but don’t let them overwhelm you. Use them to become a stronger person. Use them to become better than you were when you gained the weight, to be better than the people that think nothing of stabbing an emotional machete into your soul, use them to cultivate forgiveness and hope and optimism. Take your pain and regrets and body-image issues and transform them into something that makes you beautiful in a way that a bikini body or a perky @ss don’t guarantee.
♦ August 14th, 2010: post-5K
3 months after starting/3 weeks after completing the C25K program
Hitting your personal goals of running the entire distance and doing it in less than 35 mins
♦ December 2010: recovering from tonsillectomy
Being told not to work out at all for 2 weeks
Downloading and doing the Zumba routine for Beenie Man’s “Gimmie Gimmie” at a really low intensity level because you missed it so much and just couldn’t go 2 weeks without
♦ Early Spring 2011: finding your list from last summer of things you don’t like and want to change about yourself & in your life
Realizing you’ve actively worked on changing almost everything listed
♦ March 8th, 2011: first Stride class
Watching E demonstrate & cue plank walks, thinking there’s no way you could do them, fighting the temptation to quit, and doing all of them
♦ April 16th, 2011: visiting R for Easter
Getting out of the car and having him say “You look AWESOME”
  
♦ May 27th, 2011: fitting into size 8 pants for the first time in your life
See your tears of joy in the first pic
♦ Late Spring 2011: watching season 11 of The Biggest Loser
Tearing up for weeks hearing the contestants talk about how much they’ve changed internally, because you can finally relate
Thursday, June 02, 2011
A lifetime of weight struggles and regular upsizing of clothing has taught me that it's MUCH better--at least for my ego--to have clothes that are too big than too small. But you know what's seriously NOT COOL? Wearing underwear that you think are a "little too big" with shorts that you think are a "little too big" (and therefore, not necessitating that you wear your too-big belt to semi-hold them up) in public and having them both repeatedly fall down. That is SO EMBARRASSING. Luckily I yanked 'em up as discretely as possible time and again before they dropped low enough to show my goods; but dear god, by the time I got to the car to come home, my underwear were so low they were literally almost below my shorts. 
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