Greetings All & Welcome

A little about myself first,
I AM TIRED OF BEING FAT!! (chuckle)
About three years ago my weight was up to 178. I am 5'6, 28yrs and my frame tends to hold weight well. That summer 2003 my 8yr boyfriend broke it off with me, and yes immediately started seeing someone younger and thinner. (The Jerk!). SO I got sad smoked and drank and worked (my work is outdoors walking a lot to perform wildlife studies). I didn't eat a whole lot for the next two months and dropped 20lbs. Towards the end of the summer I met a man my age who had abs! and we started dating. Needless to say dating someone in extremely good physical shape and very active was a great motivator for me to get into shape, (god forbid he actually see me naked at the point I was!)(lol). So I started biking 15miles 4days a week and walking a lot. I dropped down to 145 and it was beautiful... .
Needless to say I had to leave and start graduate school, so a few years later after maintaining at 155, I was back up to 175 last month and now am determined to kick ass! I just started commiting to LCing on 2/21/2006. So far I have dropped 5lbs (5before I started which may have been due to TOM). I have been working out like mad to shed the pounds quick. I know a lot of people out there don't have the time I do so I am thankful.

My Excercise week...no weights yet
BTW I keep my hr in the lower fat burning zone
2/19 Elliptical105min 1025cal
2/20 cheated & rest day
2/21 Elliptical110min 1100cal
2/22 Elliptical 105min 1025cal
2/23 Elliptical 100min 950cal (this was going to be my rest day but I overate a bit so felt obligated to go)
2/24 rest day
2/25 Elliptical 100min 1100cal (Switched from level 4 to 5)
TOTAL 5100

I am hoping not to overtrain myself so want to take two rest days a week. May rock climb those days to build muscle, we shall see. I also want to avoid going into starvation mode so am trying to get in between 1600-1800 calories a day.
Cheers!

Hey there Jesakit, You just keep on keepin on! You'll have no problem losing. And by your birthday ,you will turn the heads.Heck maybe you'll even run into your old boyfriend and then you can really flaunt it ! LOL!

All right, another week begins today. Using Sunday as the first day of the week since well...Monday, it's Monday, and that's usually the day of the week I like to work out the least. Do not want to start my week by not working out and begin some terrible trend, so beautiful relaxing Sunday it is.
I am going to try and rock climb on my days off of cardio or at least some type of strength training. Ugh we'll see. You know those people who can pratically live at the gym are so lucky. Gee I'm done with my cardio, think I'll grab a snack, read a little then do my weights. OK, I admit I'm jealous of wealthy folk that can afford to lead this kind of lifestyle. Right now, I'm a poor graduate student who has a lot of free time BUT should be getting her thesis done with that time.
I'm just hoping when I'm in better shape this procrastinating thing will be removed!

Today began pretty slow for the first ten minutes, I was kinda bummed at first but I think it was because I hadn't eaten in the three hours before hand. Knew this might happen going in but didn't have any quick fixes for workout calories at home. No lettuce or broccoli . But I do have to say after the initial start everything started falling into place.

One thing I do have to say is that when watching other folks at the gym most of them were going at these very fast paces with really red faces (hey that rhymed!). While I was just chugging along at my 10cal/min+ pace. I don't know if it's very healthy to go that high of an intensity before the body is ready for it. Anyone else out there have an opinion?
2/26 Elliptical 96min 1000cals whew!
2/27 Elliptical 50min 500cals
2/28 rest day (hip joints ache)
3/1 rest day (thought I'd give the joints another rest day)
3/2 Elliptical 110min 1000cals
3/3 rest day
3/4 Elliptical 1000cals
TOTAl 3500 ToDate 8600

jesakit, is the precor that you are talking about, the elliptical machine?

Yes it is!
I'm going to edit to say elliptical (the one with the moving handles).
Cheers!

Girl, how in the hell do you go on the ET that long? I need your secret, will pay in cheese (or other food drug of choice)! If I can get through 15 minutes, its a miracle! That thing is a killer! Please, oh please, tell me when you first started you couldn't do 5 minutes and i'll feel oh so much better!

An extra large for you! Thanks for the info. I used to own an et, but it was obviously not the same quality as the ones at the gym, so it was so much easier to go for 45 minutes. I read that the longer I warm up doing lite cardio, the longer I'll be able to go without feeling the stiffness and burn in my legs, so I'm also going to try that today. I want to burn 1000 calories and hour, too! You're my inspiration!!
Have a great day!

Ok so my weeks 3 & 4 were completely slacked off. However, there was some sort of activity going on so....

Week 5
3/5 elliptical 100min 1000cals
3/6 nada
3/7 nada
3/8 snorkeling 120min ?cals
3/9 strolled 2 miles 200cals
3/10 elliptical 105min 1000cals
3/11 strolled 4 miles 400cals
TOTAL 2600cals ToDate 11,200

Week 4
3/12 strolled 2 miles 200cals
3/13 nada
3/14 elliptical 110min 1000cals
3/15 nada
3/16 nada
3/17 nada
3/18 strolled 4 miles 400cals
TOTAL 1600cals ToDate 12,800

And that's all she wrote.

God, it is so amazing how time flies when you let the days slip by.

3/19 Elliptical 100min 1000cals
3/20 Elliptical 37min 475cals
3/21 rest day
3/22 accidental rest day
3/23 Eliptical 85min 1000cals (I decided to get it over with quicker so, revved up the a engine to a higher gear)
3/24 Rest Day
3/25 Elliptical 63min 760cals
Treadmill 48min 0.5incline 3.2miles 340cals

Weekly total 3575 ToDate 16,375

So, I've added in treadmill work. Running a 5K sounds doable. Apparently once you get into it enough to run a race running actually becomes addictive. This is my main motivation. Plus it's a great way to meet people, get exercise, and raise money for a good cause.
Cheers!

Going to try and incorporate some weight training this week and running/shuffling. I plan to do the running bit every other day or so to give my muscles and joints some healing time from the high impact. My running goal is to be below 12min/mile sometime in May.

3/26 Rest Day (I actually drove to the gym and they were closed b/c of the school holiday)
3/27 Treadmill shuffle 3.2miles avg. 13:39 350cals
Elliptical 57min 650cals
Incline Press 10x25
Chest Press 12x30
Pull-downs 12x30
Triceps 12x20 (OW!)

Note to self - need to bring a snack along for running days!
After tonights workout I know my quads are going to be hurtin pretty good tomorrow, ah well, I was hoping that 1 day would be enough rest time, but maybe two would be better in the beginning while building my quads up.

3/28 Elliptical 85min 1000cals (My quads weren't sore!!!!)
3/29 Elliptical 42min 450cals (A guilt workout from overeating at dinner. This was supposed to be my rest day. What can a half workout hurt?)
3/30
3/31
4/1

Thank-you.

Well, yes and no. The area with muscle, yes....I'm starting to get some striations, and size. In the mammary gland area, no....sadly. And as I lose fat, unfortunately some is leaving there....not happy about that. They aren't sagging a lot but they are deflating some, which changes their shape....not for the better. But....at least they stay hidden.
I'm glad you are going to start weight training more. Weight training makes all the difference in your body composition.

Your workouts look good - HOLY COW - 85 min on Elliptical machine!!!!! You are woman - Hear you Roar!

I'm doing a lot of strength training - a modified version of BFL (Body for Life) and Cardio - the Elliptical machine. But, I only do the Cardio approxmiately 30 min. I know I need to up that, just haven't been able to. I'm starting my 5th week, so I've heard after 6 weeks, you should up your exercise, so during my 7th week, I'll aim for 45 min on Elliptical.

KUTGW!

4/1 Treadmill 60min 3.2miles Cals my calculation 350 Polartech 727
4/2 My hip hurts WAAAAAAAAH!
4/3 Still a little achey
4/4 OK now just plain lazy
4/5 Treadmill 60min 3.2miles + 15 warm/cool
4/6 Treadmill 60min 3.2miles + 10 warm/cool
4/7 Rest Day

My heart rate is still higher than I would like it to be (167) for just walking below 4mph. Well, maybe next week it'll be better.

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