I'd like to reintroduce myself

[flygirl1]

Hi to everyone! I have been on the forum for a few years and have learned SO MUCH. I haven't posted a lot, and haven't been following for the past year or so due to personal distractions. I am back on actively reading and will be posting. Until a year ago my diet was pretty clean. I've been weight training for 4 1/2 years, but have no desire to compete. My workout is a four day split, sometimes I change it to a five or six day for variety. I do AM cardio 30-45 minutes, and sometimes cardio after weights for 20 min or so. HOWEVER, my diet has been CRAP for the past year -- pretty much anything and everything I have wanted to eat. I'm lucky I haven't done more damage than I have. I'm 5'4", 137 lbs -- haven't had my BF measured recently, but attached a couple of pics -- they aren't great, but you get the idea. And FYI when you are looking at the pics, the breasts are silicone

My goal is to lower my bf to something that is reasonably maintainable with a clean diet and working out.

So, I have decided to clean my act up, and log my diet on fitday. I am basically following Daisy's Girl's plan with very minor modifications. My job is to travel (I'm a pilot) so sometimes that can be difficult with the diet. I can take protein powder, protein pancakes, and pack a few day's worth of chicken breasts and broc or green beans in a cooler. However, I do need to eat dinner with my co-workers sometimes so that I don't appear completely unsociable.

My job pays all my gym fees on the road, and I normally have a lot of time to work out as well. My two greatest challenges are 1). Resisting temptation to eat the wrong foods when at a restaurant, and 2). Keeping a cheat meal or cheat day to just that. In the past, once I have cheated its all over. I do have good willpower at home. I only buy healthy stuff for the house.

Outside of my regular workout schedule I am quite active. I ski several nights a week in the winter, and during spring, summer, and fall, maintain my house and four acres of land. Its not uncommon for me to spend 4 hours a day weedeating, mowing, raking, mulching, trimming trees, etc. I also have eight four-legged animals, and one 14 year old two legged one to keep me busy.

I guess I should add that I have a AAAI/ISMA certification in both Personal Fitness Training and Sports Nutrition.

Anyway, I will be participating in the forum now. Its great to see you all doing so well and is also very motivating. Congrats, Daisy Girl, on your good news!

 

[Sassy69]

Wow girl! You are one active lady! How cool to be a pilot! (I'm a desk jockey myself...)

Sounds like you are on top of teh diet / training -- like you noted, the challenge is finding a way to make it work consistently and w/o stress in your regular daily life. Restaurants -- you can still just get teh ol' chicken & steamed broccoli w/ a plain baked potato, and be a real pain to the waiter & ask for nothing on the food, etc. I do it all the time. If anything my friends yell at me for orderign the same boring thing, but I'd rather do that than get something that's buried in mystery butter sauce and feel like garbage later.

Re-welcome to the boards!

 

[flygirl1]

Wow girl! You are one active lady! How cool to be a pilot! (I'm a desk jockey myself...)

Sassy you look FREAKIN FABULOUS! Congrats on your competition. I can't even imagine the work you have put in and it shows.

You know the most difficult part of the restaurant thing is that my company PAYS us to eat at the best restaurants in the country, or world for that matter. I mean our meal at Chops in Atlanta was over $400 for three of us. It is SO SO hard not to eat the garlic mashed potatoes and dessert, and drink wine of course. I could but then the temptation the next day is worse -- I want to eat everything in sight. Am I the only one that deals with this? It is even more difficult because I am not training for a time specific goal like a competition...

 

[Sassy69]

The competition thing - that is the ONLY time in my life when I've been able to bring my diet & training together (well that a trip to Cancun I did a few ys ago...), and mind you, I LOVE the gym and I've been training since 1982. But the diet & the focus are key for me. Now that I've finished a 4 month run of focus on that competition, I'm almost literally lost as far as how to eat, how to focus, etc. I was allowed the 1 week to relax & eat whatever, though from previous experience I know that if I eat a lot of shit I will blow up immediately w/ water weight because my body is still so fine tuned on the uber clean food that I can't easily process a lot of sugar / fat / salt.

As of tomorrow I'm back on a controlled diet & training for a show date in 3 months. So there's some room for cheat, but generally not much. It is hard to make that switch mentally but I know how good it feels to have lost the weight and I'm not looking to get sloppy & bring it back. Not to mention I'm NOT going back to wearing my "fat" clothes, esp with summer coming.

One thing I'm doing is usign a new product called Dietex from VPX that did wonders for appetite suppressing -- more just making my cravings irelevant, but not affecting my ability to eat what I needed to eat at the times I was supposed to eat. How effective this stuff is seems to depend on the person - worked wonders for me, others didnt' help at all.

 

[flygirl1]

The competition thing - that is the ONLY time in my life when I've been able to bring my diet & training together

I understand that completely because I am an intensely single-focused and goal oriented person. I have an acquaitance that won a local figure competition here in PA. I watched her workout and talked to her as she was getting close to the competition and before that I had NO IDEA of the sacrifice and work it takes -- I mean I still don't because I haven't experience it firsthand. But after she went from like 115 lbs competition weight to 130 in a week or two. She still looked great, but I know she wasn't happy with that much weight gain. I have so much admiration for you doing another in 3 months -- I'll be watching.

I will look into the Dietex definitely. I am not really hungry eating six meals a day. No cravings either. Its just the willpower at a restaurant. Maybe I should post my restaurant meals so that I am accountable for the world to see. I'm going to be in Bermuda this upcoming weekend..

 

[Sassy69]

Competition BB is literally 24/7 trainign w/ diet, training & recovery so it isn't an easy thing to do. BB is also filled w/ "obsessive" and "addictive" people -- yep it is definitely a lifestyle commitment. But I find generally that if you make a big deal out of beign at a restaurant,. it will become a big deal. If you are just looking at it as a place to eat, you can take the challenge to be getting a clean piece of meat for dinner - and thinking that a really good restaurante (if you are there to enjoy the quality of the place) should be able to deliver you an excellent piece of steak or seomthing plain and savor that. I've been to some really hi-end places in S. Florida for seafood & steak and I still find that the best I've ever had is what I slap on my own grill w/ some salt & pepper and some paprika on the fish.

 

[Daisy_Girl]

Welcome "back" to the boards! I am really looking forward to you posting more!

 

[flygirl1]

Welcome "back" to the boards! I am really looking forward to you posting more!

I take it this is your first pregnancy? I wish you no morning sickness!

 

[Daisy_Girl]

Yup ... first one. I am worried about the M/S, especially being a teacher. I don't think my kids would appreciate their teacher yakking in the garbage can, lol

Oh well, if it means baby is healthy and things are going well, I'll take being sick!

 

[*Bunny*]

Welcome back chicky