Health & Fitness • Page 33

when i move im making a concentrated effort to eat better and work out. really unhappy with my body shape at the moment

 

I've just started using the rowing machine recently too, it's surprisingly fun

 

Cancelling my gym membership! I'm super hyped. Since I'm going to be walking by the corporate gym every day in about a month, I'm going to join a couple of classes there and use up those perks. Hopefully proximity will get me more motivation... that's been an issue lately.

 

Anyone starting Whole 30 on Jan 2?

This will be my second go around and I got great results the first time. Of course I didn't keep up the good habits so here I go again.

 

Finally trying to make a concerted effort to food "detox" and fix things. I've put a lot of the weight back on and just generally imploded.

 

You can do it!

 

First goal is to get back to being calorie neutral. Then back to a deficit. It's really fucking hard

 

I need to check myself. I say this all the time but I need to do it for real. My weight is steadily increasing and I'm nervous that it'll just creep up on me one day. I keep excusing it cause I look fine I think but one day I'm gonna wake up and be like wtf!! I eat too much sugar for sure. I've been cooling it on junk food but it's hard when I get asked out to eat. It's such a social thing. Like that's what I do with friends and coworkers - we go to eat. If I'm not invited to go out I usually don't do it too often. I've been trying to eat small when I go out and then maybe eat a healthy snack at home after.

I know everyone says exercising is hard when they work, but I am really exhausted after. I spend the day being hit and kicked and have things thrown at me and am pushed and headbutted and bitten and by the end of the day I'm dead. On the weekends I don't even wanna move. My other downfall is I get too in my head and let others influence me. Everyone acts like a certified nutritionist and they all have opinions and when I make improvements in my diet I just hear why I'm not doing it right or am losing nutrients or should be doing it thar way, and realistically duh I know to focus on me and just try my best and do my pace, but with so much conflicting info and perspectives I get defeated. Meh.

 

I feel all of this. Eating well is so hard when every nice thing people do for you at work is food based. Or when you go out and have drinks with your girlfriend every weekend. Etc

 

Def! We have candy drawers at work and thank God I don't eat chocolate cause that's mostly what it is. Growing up, eating at restaurants was always a luxury and I still feel the need to go all out and treat myself when I do it. The healthier options look so boring next to all the others!

 

almost every day the week before Christmas a parent would send in some kind of food or snack or treat for the faculty. That shit is TOUGH

 

It is!! We didn't get any this year but last year a parent gave me a bunch of candy and a ton of buñuelos and I couldn't just not eat it!! Hoping it'll be easier now that the holidays are over and my dad stops giving me pumpkin cream cheese rolls.

 

Oh yeah. The guilt if food goes to waste or you don't eat (and therefore appreciate and show gratitude for) the food they gave. One of the myriad reasons it's going to be a lifetime-long battle.

 

This is day 3 of whole 30 for me. Definitely going better than it did the first time around.

Also have gone to the gym at 530am the last three days. Trying to make it a habit.

 

Yeah, the amount of faux science and misleading articles on weight loss, diets, etc is staggering on the internet and people that buy into fad or pop diets is astounding. They also tend to become the ones trying to offer all sorts of dieting advice when they start their own haha.

Most people wanting or trying to lose weight or diet don't understand that weight maintenance and weight loss is simple calories in vs. calories out. As long as you're not filling your daily 1500-2000kcals with just chocolate and soda or complete junk, having a calorie neutral (maintenance) or calorie deficit (weight loss) is essentially all it takes. Diets are really mostly for hitting specific macros or avoiding certain foods for health/ethical/moral reasons like Keto or vegetarian/vegan diets.

 

I ate really terribly last night. I think I hit 2000 calories for the first time in a year. Two Reese's trees and two Twix Santas. And they didn't make me sick, which sucks.

Back to shakes for me. I need to stop being a dumb and grabbing candy when I'm depressed.

 

I miss running outside. It's -5 outside today, that simply just won't work.

 

Yeah, I try and do the treadmill and I just can't. I'll break it into 1-mile segments between lifts at the gym, but it's not the same. I need a trail or course outside to keep my attention haha

 

Started counting my calories yesterday. Hoping to lose a few just from portion control.

 

My gym has an indoor track. Its about 10 laps per mile. Better than running on the treadmill.

I recommend rowing to anyone that doesn't like the impact running has on your knees and feet. It's more enjoyable for me.

 

I started Whole30 today. Thinking it's going to be more of a permanent thing in my diet, though. I gotta see some changes.

I also started in on my fitness goals. Gonna list them here so that maybe it'll help keep me accountable:

Swimming
1) Swim 150 miles in 2017. (1 torturous first mile down as of today)
2) Lower my fastest mile time (currently at 26:30)
3) Swim two miles in under an hour consistently like in summer 2013

Gonna have to work up a lot to get those lower two if today's first swim back was any indication.

Weight: I'd like to get down to 160, but I'd be happy with up to 175 depending on what I actually look like when clothes are off, haha. Currently at 184, so diet is majorly in play for this.

I also want to get up to lifting five days a week again. And flexibility back. I really need to do yoga.

 

I brought a lil mini fruit platter for my work lunch and I was happy until I realized someone refilled the office candy bowl and someone put fudge on my desk. Whhhhy are ppl doing this 2 me

 

I want to get into lifting but it's intimidating at the gym.

 

I used to get embarrassed about lifting because I'm very much weaker than most of the meatheads at the gym. But, I also realized that I was letting that be an excuse. As soon as I started lifting, I realized no one cared and then I ended up getting good pointers from those people I was convinced would make fun of me. I'm still way too weak, though.

 

I'll come stab for you