Exercise/Calorie question

I am a mortgage banker and have had many days when I worked 10-12 hours. If
you are motivated enough to improve your health... you find time. I wake up
30 mins earlier a couple of times a week to go for a walk now, in addition
to curves....

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"Susan Jones-Anderson" wrote in message
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LOL!!!!!!
Yea JayJay, ya damned TROLL - Don't you know anything about making an
effort to exercise? LOL

Ahhhh.. wunnerful... this was the laugh I needed after a
monster/emotional day.. Thanks

Cammie, no disrespect meant.. but JayJay is not a troll. In fact she is
a well respected poster here to asd and she is likely one of the most
adamant folks who post here about getting off your duff and taking TIME
to improve yourself through exercising. You'd do well to take some
advice.

Susan
260/219/160

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"Cammie" wrote in message
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"JayJay" wrote in message
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well, if that's your attitude - then you are destine to remain fat.

Well you are a wealth of wisdom, I and everyone else surely could have
done
with your response. At least I am making SOME effort to find SOME
time
every day to exercise. Excuse me troll.

Curves is AWESOME.... they have 5000 locations that you can visit when away
on biz trips too.

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"Cammie" wrote in message
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"Cammie" wrote in message
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I have time for about 30-40 minutes of exercise per day whether walking
at
lunch or on my treadmill at night. I work 10+ hour days, then I have
committee meetings after work and travel and business dinners. I just
do
not have time on a regular basis for much exercise in quantity as you
suggest. I surely have no time for 1-1.5 hours of walking, there is
just
no
way. That is why I asked what I could accomplish a 30-40 min timespan
that
would be most beneficial to burn calories.


Also, having said that... I am the one who recently asked about Curves and
if it was beneficial. I was interested in it because Curves is 30 minutes
and I believe only 3 times per week. I haven't seriously looked into
that,
I do have a stationary bike, glider and treadmill at home and a regimen of
using those three machines for 30-40 min a day just isn't showing me any
weight loss and I only have an average of 1200 calories a day except for a
weekly business meeting when I still try to watch but I probably do go
2000
that one day.

I am an AE for a Leading Wholesale Mortgage company.... I too make damn
good money and work hellish hours. I also travel some.... so I know where
you are coming from in terms of $$$ and time and stress. The hardest step
is the first one. Check out Curves, I've been going 7 weeks now and love
it. I make myself leave the office in time to work out 3x a week, and I
wake up early to try to make a Saturday class. They are open until 8:00
here, so that often means me working until 7 and rushing to gym. It has
helped my sleep as well.

I've only been posting/lurking here for about a week. I *think* that the
other posters in this thread were using some sort of tough love approach.
However, this is just an assumption and may or may not be their method....

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"Cammie" wrote in message
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my god I ask for some simple advise and I get people who do not know me,
critisizing me. I am a New York lawyer with a large lawfirm and you
obviously have no idea what 10 and sometimes 14 hour days are like and the
money is very damn good or I wouldn't be doing it. Thanks for the support
in telling me that even though I am trying hard to do 30-40 minutes every
single day to exercise, will just assure me to stay fast. Thanks a lot for
the vote of confidence people. And I keep a weekly schedule of every
single
thing that goes into my mouth, that is how I know I do 1200 on average
with
2000 occasionally... you people talk to me like I'm stupid and beneath
you.
Sorry I asked.

"Cammie" wrote in message ...
"JayJay" wrote in message
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well, if that's your attitude - then you are destine to remain fat.

Well you are a wealth of wisdom, I and everyone else surely could have done
with your response. At least I am making SOME effort to find SOME time
every day to exercise. Excuse me troll.

I'm sorry, but "don't have time" means "don't want to badly enough".
Set aside a time for exercise. Make it part of a daily routine: just
like taking a shower and brushing your teeth.

Having said that, however, I think an exercise bike or an elliptical
trainer that allows both leg and arm motion and has resistance
settings would be good for exercise. If you don't currently exercise,
it will take you a while to work up to 30 or 40 minutes, so time
shouldn't be that big of an issue right away. Push youself both in
time and intensity.

good luck,
AL

On 9/23/2003 9:43 PM, Cammie wrote:
I have time for about 30-40 minutes of exercise per day whether walking at
lunch or on my treadmill at night. I work 10+ hour days, then I have
committee meetings after work and travel and business dinners. I just do
not have time on a regular basis for much exercise in quantity as you
suggest. I surely have no time for 1-1.5 hours of walking, there is just no
way. That is why I asked what I could accomplish a 30-40 min timespan that
would be most beneficial to burn calories.

I travel a lot for work as well. I was in the fortunate situation where
I booked my own rooms and I was usually able to find hotels that had
exercise facilities. Typically they have a few treadmills and a few
exercise bikes. Since I bike at home I used the treadmill in the hotels
as a change of pace. This helped a lot since the travelling that I have
done is car travelling and moving around helped a lot.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:21:44 GMT, "Cammie"
wrote:

Besides aerobics, what one exercise burns the most calories in LEAST amount
of time?

Preferably a floor exercise... or does walking (treadmill) burn more than
any floor exercise does?

I'm pretty overweight and cannot do aerobics so this is why I ruled that
out. I have very limited time to exercise, so I"m looking for the best for
fastest burn.

It's difficult to give advise about weight loss without knowing
certain things about you such as weight, height, gender (yes it's an
issue), and any other problems that might effect what kind of
exercises you can do. (joint problems etc) The only thing we have to
go on is that you are "pretty overweight", "cannot do aerobics", and
judging by your username, you might be female. Therefore, I'l do the
best I can given this limited information.

Due to mobility issues, very overfat people just don't burn a lot of
calories with exercise as compared to calorie restriction. This is how
I lost my weight. I started out by dieting and dieting hard and I kept
it up day after day, week after week, month after month and as I lost
the weight, I added more and more types of exercise. I started out by
walking more and taking stairs instead of elevators and escalators.
When I got down to the point where "impact" type exercises became
possible, I started doing "HIIT" (High Intensity Interval Training)
routines which IS a way to burn a lot of calories in a short amount of
time. Basically you alternate between an aerobic pace and going "all
out". One example would be a run alternating between 2 minutes of
light jogging and 30 seconds of pretending you are being chased by a
bear. Do a web search on those terms for more info.

So my advise would be to start out by losing weight primarily by
dieting and slowly adding exercise into your routine until you get
down to the point where real cardio is possible and when you get to
that point, then spend your "limited" exercise time doing moderate to
intense cardio or alternate between cardio and a HIIT routine and
continue to diet, you'll still lose most of your weight by dieting.

--
Ron Ritzman
http://www.panix.com/~ritzlart
Smart people can figure out my email address

On 9/23/2003 9:47 PM, Cammie wrote:
I do have a stationary bike, glider and treadmill at home and a regimen of
using those three machines for 30-40 min a day just isn't showing me any
weight loss and I only have an average of 1200 calories a day except for a
weekly business meeting when I still try to watch but I probably do go 2000
that one day.

Business meetings are hard. When I travel I usually end up having lunch
with guys in their 20s. They are at an age where they still have super
good metabolism and can seemingly eat anything (recently one confided in
me that he was gaining weight and was happy to see that I was eating
better at these lunches so that he felt like he could eat better as
well). Anyway, we go out to these rural areas and install computers and
eat lunch. Most of these places have fried food or fried food. I ask
for broiled and it kind of throws them for a loop but they do it for me.
It seems like it should be easy but I sometimes feel like I am being a
royal pain with my requests which are generally fairly simple --
dressing on the side, no cheese with my salad, broiled fish, etc.
Anyway, you can eat well at business meetings but it can be a tough
situation. Hang in there.

The other thing is you might want to keep a food journal. People in
this group use everything form spreadsheets to web programs (fitday.com
seems to be popular) to Palm programs (I use BalanceLog and someone else
uses CalorieKing). Anyway, you may want to track your foods for a few
weeks to see if you are eating more or less than what you think you are
eating. I find it to be super helpful and not really a chore at all.
It helps me to stay on track with my calorie intake which is certainly
an important part of the equation :-)

On 9/23/2003 11:10 PM, Perple Glow wrote:
I am an AE for a Leading Wholesale Mortgage company.... I too make damn
good money and work hellish hours. I also travel some.... so I know where
you are coming from in terms of $$$ and time and stress. The hardest step
is the first one. Check out Curves, I've been going 7 weeks now and love
it. I make myself leave the office in time to work out 3x a week, and I
wake up early to try to make a Saturday class. They are open until 8:00
here, so that often means me working until 7 and rushing to gym. It has
helped my sleep as well.

That's actually a really good point. Since changing my schedule to
include more and more exercise I have slept better. Also, if I have to
leave work to make it a class, I don't always feel the need to say I am
going to the gym or I need to leave now or I won't be able get a ride in
before dark or I have to go to dog school, etc. To some extent, all
they need to know is I have an appointment to be somewhere else (well,
and that I have my work done).

Anyway, it's all about choices. For me, making better choices :-)

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:45:54 -0400, "JayJay"
wrote:

well, if that's your attitude - then you are destine to remain fat.

Actually, her story sounds familiar. With some exceptions, 30-40
minutes a day is probably all that most people with real lives have
for exercise. Therefore, for such people, it's probably best to use
that time exercising for the cardio and resistance benefit and forget
about the calories. Do that with the diet.

So unless one is someone like me who has the time to spend all day
going up and down a mountain, the 30-40 minutes is the best approach.
It's something that can be done long term and it's easy to incorporate
into most modern lifestyles.

--
Ron Ritzman
http://www.panix.com/~ritzlart
Smart people can figure out my email address

"Cammie" wrote in message
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It seems to me what we have here are some people who have lost some weight
who either 1) have egos about it or 2) think they are the authority on
everything. I thought I was asking for some simple laid back advise at
possibly a friendly NG but I got criticized and judged and no help what so
ever.

The things is....is asd is not simply a "there, there dear" ng. We do not
just provide nice words. Support sometimes means being a bit more honest
than one would care to admit.

Let's face it; all of us are here because we have been or are overweight. To
varying degrees, we have been where you are. We have face the denial anf
igured out it wasn't a river in Egypt.

If you want to make the time for exercise, you will, simple as that. If you
don't, you'll keep finding excuses and remain overweight.

Martha
Who *finally* got down to 152 this morning. : )
173/152/130