LAdies a little help

[flexygrl]

Thank you spatts. If it's okay I will post my meals and workouts here for the next couple of days. I will really love any suggestions!

As far as BF, I really don't know. Haven't checked it in over a month. Last time it was still high. I will try and check it tonight and let you all know.

 

[spatts]

Sounds like a great idea to me!

 

[flexygrl]

May 15, 2003 Food Log

Good Morning Everyone,

I will edit this throughout the day. Any tips would be great. Todays workout plans:

1 hour spinning class (around 7:00)
Some sort of weight training, maybe chest...

Breakfast:

2 slices of lite whole wheat toast
2tps of butter(can't believe it's not butter spread)
Half of a pure pro-protein bar.
Had a major chocolate craving. Had 2 sugar free chocolate wafer thingy's

Lunch:

4 oz of very, very lean beef
Salad with full flat blue cheese dressing on the side
Sunflower seeds
less then a tsp of cheese
less then a tsp of hummus

 

[spatts]

So you're training AFTER dong cardio on an empty stomach AFTER a fasted state?

I have to suggest that this isn't a good idea.

You're asking for injury, lack of results, overtraining...

You might have better luck if you ate something (IE oats), did your weight training (like you mean it), and then do cardio after.

I know there's at least one person in here that feels she gets better results from doing cardio before weights, but it just doesn't make any physiological sense to me. Normally I'd say do whatever works, but it doesn't sound like that's working for you, so far.

Personally, I would tighten up my training split so I had 3-4 mornings that were all cardio, and I could do it on an empty stomach....but no weights.

 

[flexygrl]

Thanks spatts! I was so ready to wake up this morning and do an hour of cardio, but the snooze button won. I will train first today, then do cardio. Thanks again for your help!!

 

[Nonerz]

One thing that I've had to do was toss out the peanut butter completely...only because I love the stuff and found myself choosing things that I could eat with it!

Diet has been the hardest for me, by far, as it is with most women I would venture to say. I've replaced a lot of things with better options for starters. Cutting down on carbs (especially at night) has definitely made a difference. I opt for green beans, asparagus, and broccoli for the most part.

Portion control is a biggie for me as well...my family likes to eat. So for every event imaginable, we celebrated with food! BBQ's and parties have been a regular thing with us. Let me tell you, we don't skimp on the portions and there is always food leftover! So growing up, my sense of "portion" has always been distorted. Plus I will eat everything on my plate, so I have to keep that in mind when I'm serving up my food!

Something that we don't really talk about on the boards (that I've noticed, but I could be wrong--they probably do on the diet board) is why some of us eat. I have been really looking at my moods and reasons for eating lately. Boredom? Stress? Sadness? Happiness? There are reasons why we can sit down and eat and eat, even if we physically aren't hungry. The more I read about the topic, the more I hear that food becomes your best friend...at least for me that has been true. It's comforting and makes you feel good (for at least a little while). It's an escape.

So this may be a bit off topic, but I think it's worthwhile to look at if diet is your Achilles heel, like me.

 

[flexygrl]

Nonerz,

Thanks for your reply. Yes you are soooo right! We had a mother's day barbecue and I sent my parents and my sister's boyfriend home with most of the food, because I CANT have it in the house. They did leave the chips and yesterday I wound up eating a bowl of popcorn and about 5 tortilla's. This is a vast improvement over what I use to do. I recently lost close to 25 pounds. Another 15 and I will be absolutely satified. I just can't seem to get there. I really think that I am starting to sabotage myself. I don't know why. I've been really trying to work at it.

 

[Nonerz]

I hear ya girlie! I moved back in with my parents from Sept 2002-March 2003 and boy was it hard! They have tons of shit there...all that taste really good too! Although living rent-free is nice, I paid for it with the weight I gained while living there! I went from 135 to 147 during that time! And it wasn't muscle! The stress I was going through, combined with the availability of junk/bad food was enough to put me back to where I started (well, not really, but that's how it feels sometimes). I am stronger and have more muscle than I did last year, but if I didn't gain so much fat, I would be feeling hot to trot!

What I've been doing is trying to put myself in a position to win. What I mean by that, is if someone gives me chocolate or something I know I shouldn't eat--I'll give it away. If I hold on to it, I'll give in later and eat it in a moment of weakness! My cupboards, fridge and freezer are filled with good stuff. I used to get these incredible desires for cereal late at night, so for a while, I kept the milk at work and the cereal at home! This way, I'd take my bowl of ceral to work and add the milk! I couldn't overdo it or eat it when the cravings struck!

Now if I could only get rid of the shit at my boyfriends house! He ordered 2 pizzas last night! I was a good girl (even though I didn't want to be) and had my fish & green beans...boo hoo! Oh well, I need to "win" battles like that...it helps me in the long run.

By the way, why do you think you're starting to sabotage yourself? What do you mean by that?

 

[flexygrl]

Hi,

I don't know how to explain it. It's not like I go to Mcd's and binge or anything like that. It's just that since April I've been not really eating that great. I didn't do any damage really, but I just can't string a few days of eating well together. Like last night, I was like screw this and ate popcorn and chips and these stupid sugar free candies. I don't know. I just feel like I'm in a funk or something.

J

 

[JJFigure]

Nonerz - I've actually thought a lot about why I choose the cheat foods I crave, and I think it has to do with the foods you were given as treats when you were a child. For example, I never crave pizza; I grew up in a small town in Montana that only had a gas station and post office, so I never ate pizza as a child. However, it was always a huge treat to get to clean out the mixing bowl (or steal big globs behind her back) when Mom baked cookies. So, I tend to crave cookie dough.

However, after enough diet cycles, my cravings seem to be changing. After this last comp, my big craving was for blueberries; that's the only thing I really craved. Ok, and maybe a big glass of wine.

Anyway - very off topic. One thing you should be doing, Flexygrl, is keeping a diet log. I personally hate having to log cheat foods, so I'm much less likely to break down.