The TFP Health Club

Sorry that you are a weak drinker. May I suggest a stronger drink...

 

Might I suggest Spanx for the costume and agree with B.A. Baraka on the rest of his ideas.

This morning I weighed 6 lbs less than I did in the morning 2 weeks ago. And that's with weight training, too. I dipped a little lower, but started hitting the leg weights harder so I came back up just a little. But my pants fit better.

Gym 4 - 5 days a week (2 days just cardio for 45-60m, 3 days 30m cardio, 20-30m weights/machines), less beer, more sleep, cooking at home more. For me, 6 lbs in two weeks is good. The faster I lose it, the easier I gain it back. Fibro's a bitch like that.

We bought a La Creuset Dutch oven and make soups, roasts, chickens, and amazingly flavorful and low cal/fat dishes because nothing sticks to the damn thing, so you don't need oil, ha ha. I'm also eating 3 meals almost every day, which makes a difference. Hard fried egg (no butter or oil), veggie sausage, and light whole grain bread = 300 calorie pre workout breakfast. Or multigrain peanut butter Cheerios with lactaid fat free milk splashed on it for non preworkout breakfasts. Salad, sushi, or sandwich for lunch, and portion controlled dinner. It's working. First time I've gone back to the gym this hard without a flare up. Woo hoo!

 

Hmmm Spanx are just not my thing - I often think hmm wouldn't that be easy - I'm a firm believer in if it looks too good to be true it probably is! Anyway the unitard is pretty much backless! That leaves a bigger problem of how on earth am I going to hide my favourite white push up bra?!?!?! (The unitard is black and backless!) I also have absolutely no idea how much I weigh, therefore cannot obsess over x amount lost/gained, I generally couldn't care less!

 

Thought I would share this.....I was mentioning my NSV on myfitnesspal this morning and someone asked if I'd taken a picture...I hadn't but I have now. This is a comparison shot of me in the same outfit at dragon con in September and today. That 3 inches I've lost in my chest and the 2 in my waist is showing in my clothes woooooo I know I still have a ways to go, but this totally motivates me!!

 

I haven't taken pictures, but I might post one of me in the suit I got married in, for comparison. I've lost about 30 since I got married... The suit jacket could fit another person in it with me now. myfitnesspal app sure does help.

 

Dave kept telling me I looked smaller, and its not like I didnt believe him, but I really didnt see how 13 pounds was going to be that noticeable, when Im a bigger girl....even looking in the mirror there was only one place I could tell looked a little smaller (lower tummy) but when I got dressed this morning and saw my skirt was too big now and that the shirt was hanging on me....I became a believer lol

hey if you want to be friends on MFP, Im on there under mistressfaye, if you dont...thats cool

 

I'll look you up. It really is surprising once you start noticing that you've lost weight. My woman told me she could tell I lost weight months ago, and it took me until I went down from a 36 to a 34 pants waist to tell... Might just be too hard on ourselves

 

So, after nearly a month of boozing too much and eating like shit I tried to do my regular training ride home today, and felt like crap.

The interesting thing is that my weight hasn't changed, at all, but I certainly don't feel nearly as fit as I did and I have a lot less control of my moods. In other words, I can feel the depression start to creep back up.

I think it's time for me to have a long, hard think about what booze really means to me. Not only is having a pretty big impact on my health, it's impacting my finances.

 

It's a balance that can be altered very easily. Pull it back together and feel good! Oh yeah, headed to the gym at lunch today.

 

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm a high functioning alcoholic, but I most certainly have a problem with it. I find it extremely hard to just have a drink or two and leave it at that, especially when I'm with friends. So, I either drink a lot or not at all.

Next year I'm committed to some fairly challenging health goals, and about the only way I can really achieve them is to drink very little, if at all.

 

Shani, I have decided that I will now call you HottieFaye instead. You are looking most fine. You and, indeed, this entire thread inspire me.

I'm currently coming in at about 343 lbs. I'm hypertensive. My knees hurt, my back is effed up, I get winded far too easily. I am sedentary a great deal of the time. My eating habits tend to be unhealthy, excessive, and often compulsive. So I suppose it may be time to take a look at myself, how I eat, how I move.

So, thanxz for the thread, an thanxz for the inspiration.

 

Follow-up. I know I weighed myself a week or so ago, and I know the scale read 343. This morning, it read 334. So, apparently, without trying, I have dropped 9 pounds. At any rate, I started a journal today so I can keep track of what's going in, my activity, my mood, whatever whatever. I think I'll take a before photo of myself so I have a point of reference....

 

Keeping a journal helps. I've gained a bit back since I got slack with mine.. Back to the grind

 

Total agreement, with you.

For me, all food and exercise is logged as nutrient proportions and calories. I've been doing it since 26th May, and it's gotta be the most powerful tool for control I've found. It takes all the art and hope and hoplessness out of the equation. There's just cause, effect, and precision in measuring the how much. Beautiful.

And bloody well done keeping on track given everything else you've been having to put up with. Yes.

 

Well, I've at least maintained, but haven't been losing since all the stress hit the fan. I'm pulling through now, and the situations are working out too. Maybe I should have a mental health journal too...

 

Eh .. I'm glad to hear that. As I've said elsewhere, I wouldn't be able to take the ride you've had to survive.

Mental health journal ... makes sense. I keep one. I've found that the habit of doing it turns it into something like a torch without an off-switch - stops the blackest moments from ever being totally dark. And 'cos it shines on the brightest moment, they never get taken for granted and forgotten when, in the dark, I need to remeber them. I'm not talking about nostalgic pleasure, but bout times when I have been on my top game .. problem solving, dealing with challenges, even horrible times I've fought through and 'won': recalling those to mind can remember not only the events to inspire confidence, but also the skills-in-the-blood themselves, those resources I actually used effectively in that other black time, which, remembered, fire up and begin to work in this black time.

 

I've actually tried journaling of life events, but I drop it soon after starting it. Part of me just doesn't want to rehash these things. Part of me is very lazy.

 

I changed gyms. After one orientation session with a trainer (it was free, and I thought I was getting a tour of the gym) from I learned I've been doing it wrong for years. Did free weights, squats, modified pull ups and push ups. 3 days later and I'm still dying. Going to do cardio tomorrow. And some upper body stuff of my shoulder isn't slipping.... Stupid bitch apparently doesn't "get" fibro responses to muscle strain. Should have known better. Going to start again, just slower and a little lighter. I'll get there. I just have to modify things a bit and listen to my body. Otherwise I spend too much time trying to recover. And shoot myself in the connective tissue.