Ok So This Time I Promise. I am going to do it. I know this because I just got fired from a job that was literally killing me. I gained nearly 60 pounds in the last 2.5 years due to extreme stress. I can no longer live my life like this anymore. Stress can not be the harbinger of overeating which equates to death. Through my friendships a weight loss team has formed. We exercise nearly everyday together and I couldn't be happier. If you read my past blog posts you know a little bit about my story and I will not dredge up the past, it is time to focus on the future. I am continuing this blog about a week and half in to my exercising, so let's just start there.
In the last 2 months after being fired I lost 20 pounds because the stress was lifted and I started a new diet, or lifestyle as the Health fanatics would like to call it, which enabled me to control my food intake and with the help of exercise helped me lose an additional 6 pounds in week 1. And the Elliptical is my best friend.
Breakdown (2000 Strides = approx 1 mile):
Day 1:
Elliptical
30 Min Weight Loss - Strides: 4166 Cal: 431
30 Min Interval - Strides: 4582 Cal: 469
Day 2:
60 Min Interval - Strides: 8410 Cal: 962
Day 3:
60 Min Interval - Strides: 8078 Cal: 958
Day 4:
60 Min Interval - Strides: 8532 Cal: 934
Day 5:
60 Min Interval - Strides: 7764 Cal: 841
30 Min Weight Loss - Strides: 4106 Cal:461
End of Week 1:
5 gym trips, 27 Miles, 5966 Calories Lost and my weight came in at 6 pounds less.
It's a good start to my new life.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Friday, April 1, 2011
Day 1 No driving rule
Just took a leisurely 3.7 mile walk around the neighborhood. To my surprise a new gym is opening up about 2 blocks from my house, perfection. Day 1 no car: success.
No Driving rule Explained:
I have no job, but I still need to eat. I have been driving everywhere to pick up and come home and eat while watching TV or doing some other non productive thing. I thught, time for my lazy ass to get outside. Solution: No driving anymore unless: Job Interview, Job, or Bootcamp. I can't afford the raising prices of gas, so my solution solves 2 problems for me. That's it. I have a trip planned for the Palm Desert next weekend which I will not walk to (I live in LA), but I will do this until then.
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No Driving rule Explained:
I have no job, but I still need to eat. I have been driving everywhere to pick up and come home and eat while watching TV or doing some other non productive thing. I thught, time for my lazy ass to get outside. Solution: No driving anymore unless: Job Interview, Job, or Bootcamp. I can't afford the raising prices of gas, so my solution solves 2 problems for me. That's it. I have a trip planned for the Palm Desert next weekend which I will not walk to (I live in LA), but I will do this until then.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Bootcamp again!
If anyone asks is it hard to get back in the old ways when you go off track for a few months, the answer Hell Yeah it is. Starting over after the beginning of what has to be one of the worst years (more to follow) proved to be such a bitch this morning. It'll get better, because after all, I proved it about the same time last year.
I mostly wanted to try this iPad app for the first time, so now I can update the Blog like I am supposed to without the use of my computer.
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I mostly wanted to try this iPad app for the first time, so now I can update the Blog like I am supposed to without the use of my computer.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Here's The Bootcamp Schedule Weeks 1-3
(DOW) - Fit Body Bootcamp + Beachbody P90x
Week 1-3
* (TH) - Cardio/Body Weight + Chest And Back, Ab Ripper X
(FR) - Weights + Shoulders And Arms, Ab Ripper X
(SA) - N/A + YogaX
(SU) - N/A + KenpoX
(MO) - Weights + Legs And Back, Ab Ripper X
(TU) - Cardio/Body Weight + Plyometrics
(WE) - Rest + xStretch
This works out so I can still do my Tuesday Night Trivia and recover on Wednesday. And Saturday I left to be a little easier just in case what of what Friday may bring, which is why Thursday and Friday are intense, to off set the weekend. Kenpo X, (I had to look it up too) from the description, seems to be cardio - self defense (punching and kicking, etc.) I refuse to skim through the video until the day I do it, to keep myself from anticipating the worst, so I'll let you know more about what it is when I do it.
Oh and 1 final thing, I am not posting weight weekly or daily anymore. I shouldn't be looking closely to the scale when you do weight training, so I will have markers from the start of week 1, followed by week 4, until the end of the 90 days. Depending on how the pictures turn out (yes there WILL be pictures), I will post those from week 1 on week 4. A set schedule on those I will not make, but I do promise there will be some (P90x requires them).
* The only change to week 1 I have to make so far is, I did not go to Body Fit in the morning on TH.
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Week 1-3
* (TH) - Cardio/Body Weight + Chest And Back, Ab Ripper X
(FR) - Weights + Shoulders And Arms, Ab Ripper X
(SA) - N/A + YogaX
(SU) - N/A + KenpoX
(MO) - Weights + Legs And Back, Ab Ripper X
(TU) - Cardio/Body Weight + Plyometrics
(WE) - Rest + xStretch
This works out so I can still do my Tuesday Night Trivia and recover on Wednesday. And Saturday I left to be a little easier just in case what of what Friday may bring, which is why Thursday and Friday are intense, to off set the weekend. Kenpo X, (I had to look it up too) from the description, seems to be cardio - self defense (punching and kicking, etc.) I refuse to skim through the video until the day I do it, to keep myself from anticipating the worst, so I'll let you know more about what it is when I do it.
Oh and 1 final thing, I am not posting weight weekly or daily anymore. I shouldn't be looking closely to the scale when you do weight training, so I will have markers from the start of week 1, followed by week 4, until the end of the 90 days. Depending on how the pictures turn out (yes there WILL be pictures), I will post those from week 1 on week 4. A set schedule on those I will not make, but I do promise there will be some (P90x requires them).
* The only change to week 1 I have to make so far is, I did not go to Body Fit in the morning on TH.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Hello Again!
Alright, I am back. Hit a little depression streak with not having a job and finances being up in the air, but all is getting back to the norm-ish. I did go to Greece (end of June) and had a blast and it was so beautiful. I am extremely fortunate to have Grandparents who take all of the family on these trips once a year. Out of (my own) pocket expense = none, and the experience was unforgettable. Then I came home....
Nothing out of the ordinary, but unemployment was still at a stand still waiting government approval, which didn't get resolved, for me, up until the beginning of August. 2 months no money coming in and no jobs to speak of, other than clothing, and with a body like mine and not being female, it was not going to happen. But regardless, all that is in the past.
I am on a fresh start...again. Sound familiar, almost like the first post. New rules, new bootcamp, and a whole new set of weights.
Ok so we all know that Oprah's final season is upon us. My goal is to be off insulin and physically fit by the close of her season (which is around my birthday, which will be in time for my sweet sixteen times 2), with no plastic surgery to help me through. Why Oprah, you may ask, why not, I would answer. Her battle over weight and her guests' weight has been shown all through time on her show, and my battle has been through my whole life. So that's why! I am hoping to be fit before the season finale, but I am going to keep that as a goal and if it is sooner than, great!
New bootcamp:
http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/best_sellers/p90x.do?tnt=P90X_SHAKE_A2&code=P90XDOTCOM
This will be a replacement for my normal bootcamp until I can start doing the payments again. Then I will be doing BOTH.
New weights:
I got a 160lb weight system (Bar and Dumbbells) at a sporting goods store for extremely cheap (due to wrong signage). Yay for me, bad for them.
So here I go again. First day was today, which was back and shoulders and some abs. I hurt and I am sore. So now I am going to relax in the pool. See you tomorrow.
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Nothing out of the ordinary, but unemployment was still at a stand still waiting government approval, which didn't get resolved, for me, up until the beginning of August. 2 months no money coming in and no jobs to speak of, other than clothing, and with a body like mine and not being female, it was not going to happen. But regardless, all that is in the past.
I am on a fresh start...again. Sound familiar, almost like the first post. New rules, new bootcamp, and a whole new set of weights.
Ok so we all know that Oprah's final season is upon us. My goal is to be off insulin and physically fit by the close of her season (which is around my birthday, which will be in time for my sweet sixteen times 2), with no plastic surgery to help me through. Why Oprah, you may ask, why not, I would answer. Her battle over weight and her guests' weight has been shown all through time on her show, and my battle has been through my whole life. So that's why! I am hoping to be fit before the season finale, but I am going to keep that as a goal and if it is sooner than, great!
New bootcamp:
http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/best_sellers/p90x.do?tnt=P90X_SHAKE_A2&code=P90XDOTCOM
This will be a replacement for my normal bootcamp until I can start doing the payments again. Then I will be doing BOTH.
New weights:
I got a 160lb weight system (Bar and Dumbbells) at a sporting goods store for extremely cheap (due to wrong signage). Yay for me, bad for them.
So here I go again. First day was today, which was back and shoulders and some abs. I hurt and I am sore. So now I am going to relax in the pool. See you tomorrow.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Hesitancy
Hesitancy
So, at this moment, there are exactly seven minutes before midnight, at which I turn 31. I need to get something off my mind and continue with my blog the way I intended it. Once this is done, everything else I want to talk about should come pretty easy.....
So the reason for the abrupt writer's block right after posting 4th grade is this. I was molested for many years and I do believe it started during that grade if not right before. It was not by a relative, but by my housekeeper's son. He was a few years older than me, and we went to the same elementary/junior high school, not to mention he stayed with us. I can't remember when or even how it started, but it continued for awhile.
As I said in an earlier post I think my parents must have figured out something, otherwise why the hell would they have sent me to School Counselor, because I forged their signatures on notes my teachers sent home, I think not.
As I grew older I never felt comfortable in my own skin, I never wanted to date, I always wanted to keep my friends real close, I was never comfortable with intimacy. For all these years I have been able to mask all my fears from the outside, but unable to mask them from myself.
I will never forget when I had a conversation with my mom and her friend, Susan Lowenstein, who was an extraordinary woman and psychologist. (remember I am using alias') The conversation went as follows, paint me a picture. That was it, not deep thoughts, no how are you feeling today, just paint me a picture. Not sure when this was (as you may figure out later, I will be saying that alot, my timeline is so fucked up from blocking out certain memories, that I forget when events happen and sometimes events all together), but here was/is my picture. A dark alley; the night had painted the bricks all around me a deep navy almost black color; there stood a little girl with her back to wall with a light that shone on her from the sky; she was wearing ragged clothes and had dirty hair and had a single tear that was running down her cheek. That was my picture, and that little girl was me, and there are times, that I still see her. I am not sure what Ms. Lowenstein, and my mom though at the moment, but I now finally know what it meant for myself.
Welcome to my blog!
It is now 50 minutes passed the hour that my birthday started. I am going to stop for now because as you all know, I have bootcamp in just a few hours. I said what I needed to say, in brief expect, more in depth as time passes.
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So, at this moment, there are exactly seven minutes before midnight, at which I turn 31. I need to get something off my mind and continue with my blog the way I intended it. Once this is done, everything else I want to talk about should come pretty easy.....
So the reason for the abrupt writer's block right after posting 4th grade is this. I was molested for many years and I do believe it started during that grade if not right before. It was not by a relative, but by my housekeeper's son. He was a few years older than me, and we went to the same elementary/junior high school, not to mention he stayed with us. I can't remember when or even how it started, but it continued for awhile.
As I said in an earlier post I think my parents must have figured out something, otherwise why the hell would they have sent me to School Counselor, because I forged their signatures on notes my teachers sent home, I think not.
As I grew older I never felt comfortable in my own skin, I never wanted to date, I always wanted to keep my friends real close, I was never comfortable with intimacy. For all these years I have been able to mask all my fears from the outside, but unable to mask them from myself.
I will never forget when I had a conversation with my mom and her friend, Susan Lowenstein, who was an extraordinary woman and psychologist. (remember I am using alias') The conversation went as follows, paint me a picture. That was it, not deep thoughts, no how are you feeling today, just paint me a picture. Not sure when this was (as you may figure out later, I will be saying that alot, my timeline is so fucked up from blocking out certain memories, that I forget when events happen and sometimes events all together), but here was/is my picture. A dark alley; the night had painted the bricks all around me a deep navy almost black color; there stood a little girl with her back to wall with a light that shone on her from the sky; she was wearing ragged clothes and had dirty hair and had a single tear that was running down her cheek. That was my picture, and that little girl was me, and there are times, that I still see her. I am not sure what Ms. Lowenstein, and my mom though at the moment, but I now finally know what it meant for myself.
Welcome to my blog!
It is now 50 minutes passed the hour that my birthday started. I am going to stop for now because as you all know, I have bootcamp in just a few hours. I said what I needed to say, in brief expect, more in depth as time passes.
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