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Starting Fresh

Monday, September 01, 2008

If you do not know what happened, feel free to read my updated spark page. :)

Today, I am starting fresh. I am:

1)Updating my bodybugg subscription
2)Counting calories again
3)Exercising consistently again
4)Weighing and measuring myself monthly again

It has been a long 9 months but I am now ready to begin again. This time, I will not make it my life. I was eating so little and working out so hard that there was no way I could do that for the rest of my life. So, this time, I will begin with small changes. I will wear my bodybugg and figure out what I should be eating. I will eat just a little less than that amount. I will exercise for only 30 minutes a day, with two days of weights and the rest interval cardio..esp running. I will get 12,000 steps a day. I will re evaluate monthly.

I bought a Omron Body Composition Monitor Scale which measures all of these things. I know that these may be off but it is the trend that will be important. :)


Beginning Measurements:

Weight... 149
Body Fat%...41.8
Muscle%...25.6
Visceral Fat Level...8
Resting metabolism...1322
BMI...29.3



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TRECECOOKS 9/1/2008 12:46PM

    I'm so glad you're back, and starting afresh!! I have probably been on a plateau for a good while, which was not helped by my scattered eating. I have joined the Y, and am loving my strength training. I can't do cardio at the moment, but I am going to try WATP this afternoon. We'll see. . .

I really want either a bodybugg, or a HRM, so I can really get a handle on my BMR.

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J3NN.NET 9/1/2008 11:35AM

    Hey!

I'm right there with you!! I pretty much took the entire summer off, as you probably noticed from my blog LOL. I gained about 25 lbs, half of which I know is water weight because I gained 12 lbs of it within several days last month! Ugh.

Anyway, I'm glad that I'm not alone in restarting, but when I set out to do this last year, I knew ahead of time that I would be taking time off and accept gains as part of it all. I'm still down 80-ish lbs and I know I'll be back to my lowest weight in no time at all and then I'm shooting for under 200 for the first time since I was under 10 years old! Yikes. It's scary. I'm just used to being fat lol.

I'm sure a lot of your scale gain is water too. As females we're naturally prone to retaining a lot of water along with weight gain. Thank you, Mother Nature! lol emoticon

I was averaging 1800-2100 for a year and for my activity level (according to BodyBugg and HRM), no wonder my body was just exhausted! It gets tired of being in a deficit and over-trained.

So, the month of September I am going to do basically what you do; eat more but just less than I know I'm burning. The key to my weight loss is making sure I stay low on sodium. It affects my weigh-ins the most.

I'm not restarting until Thursday, I have too much going on this week, but I'm definitely taking it a little lighter this time. No more 1200 calorie days. Heck, I'm not even crazy about 1500 calorie days lol! So, I guess my average for the month of October will be around 2200-2400 and I'll probably finish out the whole year like that and maybe into next year. Or maybe until I plateau for more than 3 months lol. I'm not in a hurry. emoticon

If I can get under 200 lbs by Spring I'll be happy! We'll see what happens.

Good luck and don't think you're alone, because you're definitely not. If there's anything I can help you with, drop me an email. I'm totally into this guiltless lifestyle as opposed to feeling like I'm "off my diet." If I want 67 free days in a row, so be it! My husband tells me, "don't justify it, just do what makes you happy." He's so right... sometimes. hahaha

I'm going to change my blog around in the next 10 days or so and add lots of stuff.

Have fun!

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PS. I picked up a book the other day called "The New Rules of Lifting for Women" -- you probably saw it on my blog. I haven't read it yet but I hear it doesn't encourage you to "diet" or to even run a deficit. I read that it encourages you to just eat at maintenance or something like that. It might be something that you're interested in reading. I can't wait to see what it says!

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