Posting "newbie" thread for longhornchick

[Sassy69]

Here ya go girl - your own thread --


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Hello!! I am new to this site, Mithrandir is a good friend of mine and I always see him on here and he told me to get myself on here and to stop bothering him with all my questions ...SOO here I am. To start off I am 21 about 5'2" and 108 lbs. I don't know my bodyfat % but it cannot be much. I have been working out since January and my real goal is to just be toned more than I ever have been. I do cardio 4 days a week, and weights the other three, but I have seen less improvement in the past month and I am wondering if I am doing something wrong. I have never had a weight problem and I only started working out to look a little better than I already did and now I am addicted to it! I have seen so many positive results and I eat better and I just feel better overall. The only problems I have been having are eating enough (I only eat about twice a day and it's not much, I just feel so busy that I don't have time to eat). It's usually relatively healthy though. My biggest problem areas are 1) the small amount of fat/cellulite under my butt that I cannot seem to get rid of and 2) my stomach (it's more toned than it ever has been, I just feel like it can be better....I have the side tone but I want the middle one...you know what I mean? ANYWAY I want to thank Sassy for helping me know even where to start writing and I hope that yall can give me some good pointers, and I hope I can learn from yall and one day share my knowledge with a newbie like me! I am so excited!! THANKS GUYS!!

 

[starfish]

Longhorn? UT?

Welcome

 

[flowerz]

''..My biggest problem areas are 1) the small amount of fat/cellulite under my butt that I cannot seem to get rid of...''

Two words...squats & Lunges

Welcome...

 

[Sassy69]

''..My biggest problem areas are 1) the small amount of fat/cellulite under my butt that I cannot seem to get rid of...''

Two words...squats & Lunges

Welcome...

Three words.. diet.

 

[longhornchick]

Yea I go to UT I like it here alot....well thanks so much for the tips so far ladies...I wanted to say that I have been doing squats and I made it up to about 135 or 140 before I stopped about a month ago because sitting leg press was making me more sore (I am now up to 155 on that) and I was feeling like I was getting more out of that one, but I haven't tried lunges...do you recommend that while holding like 10 lb. weights? And now for my diet question....from reading through alot of past posts I can see I have more to learn about eating right than anything else. It's not that I eat unhealty but I don't think I eat often enough, I guess, or so I have been told. I wanted to ask yall if things like 1% instead of skim milk and honey wheat bread instead of whole wheat and real mayo in my tuna instead of FF, are the things that are keeping me from getting rid of the small amount of fat I can feel that covers my abs and on my thighs and butt ....for now I think that's about it!! Thanks alot yall!!

 

[Miss24k]

Hey girl, welcome

can you post up your diet? And your weight traing that you do 3 times a week in more detail?

 

[longhornchick]

Sure! Here is my diet and weight training scedule:

Diet:

Breakfast: Bowl of fiber one and pice of fruit
lunch: fruit sometimes PBJ if I have the time
dinner: chicken breast, or tuna w/ real mayo onions and gr. pepper on honey wheat bread, or maybe a hamburger helper with 90/10 ground beef
*I drink milk all the time too and it's always 1%
*I also skip alot of meals, sometimes I am not hungry, sometimes I don't have the time...I know, it's bad

Weight training:

I can't seem to get up in the AM to do cardio so I do it at night but always on an empty stomach and I usually run 2.5-3 miles I do this every two days then I do weights on the third day, after I run I do crunches (200-250), bench sit-ups (45-60), obliques on the machine (55lbs. 12-15 times X3), leg raises (80) and bicycle crunches (exhaustion)

When I do weights I do leg workouts more than upper body, usually I will do leg press first (155lbs 12-15 times X4) then hip adduction or abduction or both (the ones that work the inner and outer thighs (inner I do 55lbs 10-12 X3) and (outer 70lbs. 10-12 times X3) then I will do the glute machine (87.5 lbs 12-15 times X3), the calf machine (120 lbs. 15 times X3) and then abs, bench sit ups, oblique machine, leg raises and bicycle crunches....I do abs everyday....overkill?

I have seen alot of improvement in the amount of the weight I can do and the way my legs look....I do upper body rarely, I know I need to even this out but I was a swimmer in HS and I swam butterfly so my back and arms are not lacking in tone really, just muscle, and for now I am OK with that

So what do yall think? Am I all over the place or what??

 

[PaganPunkstress]

remember to diet!
you can weight train all you want but you wont see awesome results until you eat healthy.
thats what I just started doing and im seeing some great results.

 

[Miss24k]

You're not eating enough.... check out Shadow's project thread.

Sorry I can't be of ore help today, I can't think straight.

 

[Sassy69]

If you put your meal plan into a food counts program like www.fitday.com (free!) you can see just how much you aren't eating and just how much you aren't feeding your body the nutrients it needs. This might help to illustrate what needs to change in your diet & eating habits. Just as you shouldn't obsess over eating, you shoudl make time to eat what you should be eating to feed your body if you expect it to respond to all the work you do in the gym. It takes some planning, but if you think about all the people who spend all their time & money on gym memberships & stuff and then cant' figure out why they arent' losing bodyfat, take a look at the diet ....