Figure/Physique Countdown 2010

Chrissie; I did wonder who he was ad wot woz going on, nit that I mind anybody popping in, made me giggle when I swa updates today, but was a bit confused last night!

Flick; no tomorrow, feeling quite confident, had a VERY good week. And I'm peeing a LOT today which is a good sign for me that I'm fat burning!

xx

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... or that you're drinking more water lol... :-D

gOOD LUCK FOR TOMORROW

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Stayed the same.
S'only 4 full days of being spot on, but should've seen at least a pound for that.
I have my monthlies so maybe that, don't think so but will track losses at this time from now on so I now better pre comp next year.
And I was a little contipated!?
BUT I do feel slimmer. A couple of skirts I've worn this week fit better, even with monthlies.
Muscle tone can't offset that much in a week, so...
... must try harder.
Have plan for the w/e so no cheats and I can be a fortnightly loss kinda person, so lets see what happens next week and then make changes if nessesary.

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That was a lot of excuses... :-/

And 4 days isn't a good week... That's only just over half the week infact..

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flick161


That was a lot of excuses... :-/

 
It was wasn't it! I thought you'd like that! 
Just off to gym for 2nd cardio sesh tho.
xx

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Come on you, you can do this

I promise you, as soon as it all clicks it becomes SO much easier x

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Welshy


Come on you, you can do this

I promise you, as soon as it all clicks it becomes SO much easier x

 

BUT for it to click you need to become consistent. Consistency is key. 

Welshy you're so far into your groove now it's amazing!

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Absolutely!
That's what the next month is about nothing spectacular just to be consistant.
Made it thru to Fri with all WO's complete:
20 cardio every am
30 cardio mon, Wed + Fri pm's
Chest n Tris Tues pm and back n bis Thurs pm
Day off yesterday, stuck to diet thru day then slight cheat meal with a glass of wine last night.
Back to diet today, just off to do legs n shoulders...
... and then do it all again!
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hififi



Have plan for the w/e so no cheats and I can be a fortnightly loss kinda person, so lets see what happens next week and then make changes if nessesary.

 
Did you mean another weekend then???

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hififi


Absolutely!
That's what the next month is about nothing spectacular just to be consistant.
Made it thru to Fri with all WO's complete:
20 cardio every am
30 cardio mon, Wed + Fri pm's
Chest n Tris Tues pm and back n bis Thurs pm
Day off yesterday, stuck to diet thru day then slight cheat meal with a glass of wine last night.
Back to diet today, just off to do legs n shoulders...
... and then do it all again!
xx

You can do it ! .. Can you fit anymore cardio in at all ? Maybe increase the PM to 45 mins ? I know you're getting up super early as it is.

flick161


BUT for it to click you need to become consistent. Consistency is key. 

Welshy you're so far into your groove now it's amazing!

Aww thank you x

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commitment to purpose......

Do it.

It's not easy, no one said it would be.......THAT is exactly why you are doing this angel.  Anything that is easy to accomplish isn't ever worth it, in my experience.

DONT make me come and inflict my bonkerosity and general looniness on you in person..................you REALLY don't want that to happen.

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ChrissieG


commitment to purpose......

Do it.

It's not easy, no one said it would be.......THAT is exactly why you are doing this angel.  Anything that is easy to accomplish isn't ever worth it, in my experience.

DONT make me come and inflict my bonkerosity and general looniness on you in person..................you REALLY don't want that to happen.

You really don't... The worse thing about Chrissie is that traning-wise, she'll try anything... It's really quite scary sometimes. She'd never Barbell-benched until we went to visit her last year, and she ended up benching 40 or 50kgs on her first attempt! Unless you want her to inflict that kind of madness upon you Fi, I'd play nicely!!! :-D

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How's it going this week missy? Hope you have/had a fun time at club!!

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Not had a good week psycologically, hence no posting.
Will try to formulate some kind of an update today/ tomorrow.
Hubby has man flu so no club for me.
xx

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So last week I was feeling I’d made progress:
·         I’d only had 2 small slices of pizza and 1 large glass of wine on my ‘no cheat, cheat’ night, as usually I could’ve demolished a whole 12” myself +garlic bread+couple of beers and a pudding.
·         I’d made every planned WO, for the first time since I can remember.
But this wasn’t good enough.
Your tough love comments combined with my ‘female, irrational, hormonal, ex-eating disorder’ brain then sent me on a downer:
·         I mayaswell give up now, I’m crap
Vs
·         don’t be so f*****g stupid, you’ve done two weeks of your plan, that’s just stupid to think like that
Welshy’s doing SoOo well, and don’t get me wrong I’m not a complete bitch, I am REALLY happy for you huni, but then I beat myself up doubly bad.
BUT I didn’t binge or back off the schedule, I plodded on, but as I had nothing positive to post, I didn’t bother.
I hate feeling like this. Welshy , you were worrying your weight loss was precious muscle, I worry that my downers increase my cortisol levels and negate any efforts on my part to lose weight (fat).
Again this week weight remained the same. Only a mad man does the same thing over and again and expects to get different results. So something has to change.
I had a very productive WO week. Yes welshy I can increase my cardio and did on Wed, Thurs and Fri’s PM session to 40mins; 20 psyco interval minutes on stairmaster (Chrissie, no hands) followed by 20 steady on recumbent bike. I can only get 20mins in of an AM at mo with it being dark, cold, wet and needing to commute. I want this but not at the expense of my complete sanity. When the clocks go forward and it gets warmer and lighter I may well think about getting up a little earlier to power walk outside for longer, as I did really enjoy that earlier this year, and would be able to that of an evening also.  
Did chest n Tris Tues but cardio thurs instead of back n bis as neck was a bit sore? Thinking I could maybe do alternate weeks of chest n tris n back n bis to get an extra PM cardio session in whilst trying to get weight off? I think alternate week upper body WO’s be enough to maintain muscle mass I’ve built up? For my first efforts to get on stage?
I had been logging food intake on DailyBurn.com and my average daily intake mon-Fri  is 1800 cals. There have been a few healthy extras that I’ve been adding to salads, like seed sprinkle which, obviously given last 2 weeks results, I can’t get away with. BUT, I have to keep evening meals varied and interesting or else I end up going totally off the rails after a 2 week good period and undo all my efforts, as this has been my pattern. Mon-Fri  thru the day I am perfect. So a bit more effort needed in an evening, and Mark is being NO help. So I’ll pay all that more attention.
Diet+ WO Mon-Fri:
5.45: Espresso
6am: 20mins Cardio
7am: 25g oats made as porridge with water + shake (25g)
10am: 150 lowfat cottage cheese+150g honeydew melon
12pm: 50g tinned tuna+50g tinned salmon+raw corgette+2 de-seeded toms+tbsp balsamic.
2pm: 150 lowfat cottage cheese+150g honeydew melon
4pm: Apple+50g lowfat cheese
6pm: Shake (25g)+banana
7pm: espresso
7.15pm: Either weights (tues) or 40mins cardio (mon,wed,thurs,fri)
9pm: Salad/veg with 150g chicken breast or fish (+baked potato tues after weights)
 
The weekends I hate. My meal timings go out and meals are less frequent. I don’t think I have so many too many cals but prob half the days cals are had in 1 meal rather than 3, not so late, we have dinner at 6pm. So this may need more attention.
I don’t class Fri pm as a cheat meal, we have fish n chips BUT:
·         I weigh 130g of oven chips (only 5% fat)
·         have 2 breaded fish fingers with a peice of white fish steamed
·         a small brown bread bun, no spread
·         mushy/processed peas with fresh mint
is that really so bad? No really tell me, cos I know 16 weeks out I won’t be having it but at the mo, it falls within my 1800 cals a day, on which I should be losing. I’ll tighten up on the sprinkles the other nights to be able keep this.
Sat: Breakki is oat+eggwhite omelette with toms, corgette,50g each lowfat cheese.
Again, so bad? Bla bla, as above.  Lunch as thru the week. Dinner a ‘not too excessive cheat’. No take aways, credit cruch, maybe a ‘finest’ meal from tesco or the ‘two dine for £10’ from M&S and I try to stay with under 5% fat. If I have beer it is just a pint. I’m not a pudding person really so I’ll be happy with a ¼ of a choccie protein bar just for a taste of something choccie, and not a flapjack one as I know they’re a LOT higher carb, one with 20g carb p/bar.
Sun: Breakki as thru the week, then leg n shoulder WO. We then have a roast dinner BUT only boiled/steamed veg and no meat juice gravy or anything silly like that.
 
I know I’m trying to ‘have my cake and eat it’ so to speak, but I’m still learning and as I say going too hard core doesn’t work as I just go off the rails. I’m trying to get consistent, so that when 16/20 weeks come I may stand a chance of going ‘hard core’.
Or I’ll just give up, but I don’t want to, not just yet anyhoo.
So, plan for this week: Tighten evening meals  up and continue with 40mins PM cardio.
Thanks for getting to the end of this self wallowing, I plan to have a much more positive post next week, I wouldn’t hold your breath! But I’ll try my damndest!
xx
 

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That's a really tough thing to post hun, not many people would be so candid ;-)

Notes (not mean ones, they clearly don't help so I'll leave alone from now on):
What day is your cheat meal? I got a little confused with mentions of roast dinners, M & S Dinners, Fish and Chip night and the 2 small slices of pizza night. Do you have a set cheat? Because if you don't have one then you'll carry on justifying this here and there when it'd prob better to have one designated meal and that's it.

In all seriousness, if you think you're sticking to 1800 cals, AND doing 60 mins(?) cardio a day, and training, and not losing weight, don't you think it's time you saw a doctor? That's a lot to be doing and not making any progress - perhaps there's something more underlying there, such as a health issue?

Sorry to hear Mark's poorly, I hope he gets better soon :-) And I hope you start to get that chin up soon and not hide away when things get tough - come talk to us! ;-)

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hi,

bored tonight so im reading peoples journals that i have never been in before!

Sounds like your having a bit of a rough time getting your head round the diet and what needs to be done.  I can identify with alot of what your feeling, many years ago i did some silly things with me eating.  For alot of the cutting diet for my first competition this year i was struggling like mad to get my head round the weight loss, and feeling sooo small if i said i never thought about quitting i would be lying.

BUT stick with it, and you will start to enjoy it, results will come, and you will start to feel much more positive.  I dont really want to critisise, as from your post its obvious that rather than motivate, it demoralises you.  The only piece of advice i can give is that as said already consistency is the key, and a few little things really do add up and have an effect, i will leave it at that!

Hope you can get the head to a more positive place, if you can do that, then you will really start to see the results.  we all go through it, so dont beat yourself up about it too much. 

daz

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Oh Fi... *massive snuggles*

I'm so so sorry you're feeling like this

It's horrible when you're putting in so much effort, which you are, and you feel like you're getting nowhere.

I think you may be trying something and not giving it enough time ? I could be totally wrong however. Things do take time to kick in and work and then when you see the progress it keeps you on track.

I tend to have 1 scheduled cheat meal a week and that keeps me on the straight and narrow, I hear you with the weekends though, I tend to get up late and then manage to miss a few meals sometimes.

I don't know what advice to give, I'm still so new to all this but if there is ANYTHING I can do to help I'm here x

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OMYGOD!
Thank you all soOo much, that's picked me up no end
I hate being so needy and was just thinking earlier that I remember this time last year posting and flick you were telling me off for pigging out on maximuscle bars! And here we are again
I'm gonna aim to post every evening, exactly what I've eaten and exercise done and then we can see what I am and am not doing.
 

Welshy

I think you may be trying something and not giving it enough time ? I tend to have 1 scheduled cheat meal a week and that keeps me on the straight and narrow

 
Who, me, not give things enough time?!!?

flick161


That's a really tough thing to post hun, not many people would be so candid ;-)

Notes (not mean ones, they clearly don't help so I'll leave alone from now on):
What day is your cheat meal? I got a little confused with mentions of roast dinners, M & S Dinners, Fish and Chip night and the 2 small slices of pizza night. Do you have a set cheat? Because if you don't have one then you'll carry on justifying this here and there when it'd prob better to have one designated meal and that's it.

In all seriousness, if you think you're sticking to 1800 cals, AND doing 60 mins(?) cardio a day, and training, and not losing weight, don't you think it's time you saw a doctor? That's a lot to be doing and not making any progress - perhaps there's something more underlying there, such as a health issue?

Sorry to hear Mark's poorly, I hope he gets better soon :-) And I hope you start to get that chin up soon and not hide away when things get tough - come talk to us! ;-)

Thanks huni. I'm glad everyone's taken it in the manner it was intended.
You and Welshy are right, I need to designate my cheat meal and be done with it, but enjoy it!
As I say, I aim to post every evening, exactly what I've eaten and exercise done, then if by x-mas it looks like I'm being a star pupil and no results I'll investigate. But I think we all know I'm just being too lax for 2.25 days a week that's undoing my fantastic 4.75.

dazc

a few little things really do add up and have an effect

 
Thanx for posting, your comments were very helpful and spot on. I'm so tansparent that after a breif reading you've got me dotted!

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YAY She's back ! x

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