Food & Exercise -- 1/27/2004

Food:

* 8:30 (home): 30g All Bran Bran Buds, 30g Flax Plus Granola, 22g whey
protein, 1 cup skim milk
* 12:00 (work, brought from home): 1/2 protein bar
* 1:45 (restaurant): 1/2 piece raisin walnut bread; salad w/ grilled
rare tuna, mixed greens, tomato, dates, ginger, vinaigrette
* 5:30 (during workout): apple
* 8:00 (driving home): 1/2 protein bar
* 9:00 (home): turkey burger on whole wheat English muffin w/ 2 slices
f/f cheese, dill pickle slices, and catsup; 1 bite-sized chocolate

Totals: 1534 calories, 49g fat (29%), 172g carbs (45%), 127g protein
(33%)

Exercise:

5:00 -- Olympic lifting (max day) + cardio

* Shoulder warmups
* Overhead squats w/ hollow bar: 1x10
* Classic snatch: 2x5 w/ hollow bar; 2x3x15kg/33lbs; 1x3x20/44;
1x3x22.5/49.5; 1x1x25/55; 1x2x27.5/61.5; 3 unsuccessful but close
attempts at 30/66 {27.5 is the max I've done since hurting my
shoulder. I've done it a couple of times before but the last time was
in competition and I was 20 lbs. heavier; it went up easy today but I
still couldn't quite get 30. I have a psychological problem with
these :-) .}
* Classic clean & jerk: 2x30/66; 1x35/77; 1x37.5/82.5 (plus a first
attempt with a missed jerk); clean w/ missed jerk at 40/88; clean, no
jerk at 42.5/93.5; missed clean attempt at 45/99; 2 cleans, 1 jerk at
35/77
* Back squats: 1x5x20/44; 1x3x30/66; 1x3x40/88; 2x3x50/110; 1x5x40/88
* Ahmed-assisted chins: 1x6; 1x5 {He says my first reps were "all me",
but I'm not really lowering all the way down yet. This is getting
close, though.}

* Stationary bike: 20 minutes, random program, level 6, average speed
90 rpm

(No lunchtime walk. Had a phone meeting that lasted all through the
normal lunch hour, and then a late lunch date with friends.)

Chris
262/134/(130-140)
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

1/21 1800
1/22 3000+?
1/23 3500+?
1/24 1807
1/25 3751
1/26 1788

Today: 1806

Planned calorie limit: 1812

7:30 cherry low-fat yogurt, ¾ cup cottage cheese
10:00 2.5 oz sliced ham, 1 slice flax/wheat bread, w/ 1 tbls. lowfat mayo
12:00 1 cup garlic potato soup, 1.5 cup green beans from garden
2:00 1 giant pear
5:00 3 oz pork chop, 1 cup brussel sprouts, ½ large yam w/s &p

exercise: Thurs = off day

Heidi
262/234/233
Losing 100lbs 1lb at a time.
Start 10/24/04


"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
Food:

* 8:30 (home): 30g All Bran Bran Buds, 30g Flax Plus Granola, 22g whey
protein, 1 cup skim milk
* 12:00 (work, brought from home): 1/2 protein bar
* 1:45 (restaurant): 1/2 piece raisin walnut bread; salad w/ grilled
rare tuna, mixed greens, tomato, dates, ginger, vinaigrette
* 5:30 (during workout): apple
* 8:00 (driving home): 1/2 protein bar
* 9:00 (home): turkey burger on whole wheat English muffin w/ 2 slices
f/f cheese, dill pickle slices, and catsup; 1 bite-sized chocolate

Totals: 1534 calories, 49g fat (29%), 172g carbs (45%), 127g protein
(33%)

Exercise:

5:00 -- Olympic lifting (max day) + cardio

* Shoulder warmups
* Overhead squats w/ hollow bar: 1x10
* Classic snatch: 2x5 w/ hollow bar; 2x3x15kg/33lbs; 1x3x20/44;
1x3x22.5/49.5; 1x1x25/55; 1x2x27.5/61.5; 3 unsuccessful but close
attempts at 30/66 {27.5 is the max I've done since hurting my
shoulder. I've done it a couple of times before but the last time was
in competition and I was 20 lbs. heavier; it went up easy today but I
still couldn't quite get 30. I have a psychological problem with
these :-) .}
* Classic clean & jerk: 2x30/66; 1x35/77; 1x37.5/82.5 (plus a first
attempt with a missed jerk); clean w/ missed jerk at 40/88; clean, no
jerk at 42.5/93.5; missed clean attempt at 45/99; 2 cleans, 1 jerk at
35/77
* Back squats: 1x5x20/44; 1x3x30/66; 1x3x40/88; 2x3x50/110; 1x5x40/88
* Ahmed-assisted chins: 1x6; 1x5 {He says my first reps were "all me",
but I'm not really lowering all the way down yet. This is getting
close, though.}

* Stationary bike: 20 minutes, random program, level 6, average speed
90 rpm

(No lunchtime walk. Had a phone meeting that lasted all through the
normal lunch hour, and then a late lunch date with friends.)

Chris
262/134/(130-140)
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I'll reply to my own post.

I'm really going backwards here. Before Xmas I was losing weight steadily.
I'm now 8 pounds above my low and increasing. My exercise stays fairly
constant so I must be eating more calories than I use to.

The thing is before, when I was losing weight, I never monitored my
calories. I ate fairly lean during the week then on the weekend I'd pig out
a bit. I only weighed myself once a month.

Now I feel that I'm more obsessed with the whole thing. I use Fitday. I
calculate how many calories per day and per week, and the average per day in
a week. It's become more about numbers than listening to the needs of my
body.

I remember seeing Margaret Cho in one of her stand up sets in which she
talks about her obsession with dieting and how one day she just decided to
'take herself out of the game'. It does feel like a bit of a game to me too.
And at this point a game that I'm losing. Can anyone understand this?

So I'm going back to what *was* working for me and won't be monitoring or
posting my calories anymore. Maybe that's something that's helpful to some
people but doesn't work for me. I'll still post from time to time but for
now ...

Adios!

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:09:11 GMT, "BCJ" wrote:

So I'm going back to what *was* working for me and won't be monitoring or
posting my calories anymore. Maybe that's something that's helpful to some
people but doesn't work for me. I'll still post from time to time but for
now ...

Adios!


You could still check in and let us know how it's going. Ig may be
right that you're trying to achieve a lower weight than is desirable
for your body, which would certainly make it more challenging. I hope
your change of plan works for you. Maybe it will help cut back on the
"binges", which would be a good thing, since I think they were getting
you discouraged.

Chris
262/134/(130-140)
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I think you and I may be in a similar position. We're not overweight but
still struggling to have or maintain the body that we want. And the thing is
dieting *is* a struggle. It's like a constant battle that I've taken on. I
get tired of it. I realize it's not how I want to be living.

I have a vision of the person I want to be. Instead of dieting to get to
that person I feel I should just try being that person everyday, acting like
that person would act. You said it -
depending a lot on my frame of mind

Thank you for your good wishes. I hope your mileage varies too

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:09:11 GMT, "BCJ" wrote:

I'll reply to my own post.

I'm really going backwards here. Before Xmas I was losing weight steadily.
I'm now 8 pounds above my low and increasing. My exercise stays fairly
constant so I must be eating more calories than I use to.

The thing is before, when I was losing weight, I never monitored my
calories. I ate fairly lean during the week then on the weekend I'd pig out
a bit. I only weighed myself once a month.

Now I feel that I'm more obsessed with the whole thing. I use Fitday. I
calculate how many calories per day and per week, and the average per day in
a week. It's become more about numbers than listening to the needs of my
body.

I remember seeing Margaret Cho in one of her stand up sets in which she
talks about her obsession with dieting and how one day she just decided to
'take herself out of the game'. It does feel like a bit of a game to me too.
And at this point a game that I'm losing. Can anyone understand this?

So I'm going back to what *was* working for me and won't be monitoring or
posting my calories anymore. Maybe that's something that's helpful to some
people but doesn't work for me. I'll still post from time to time but for
now ...

Adios!

BCJ, this all makes a huge amount of sense to me. Although you
haven't told us a lot about yourself, I assume you are a person like
me who is subject to binge/dieting behaviour with the consequent
fluctuations in weight and tendency to obsess about food and weight
issues.

I've had so much practice at this game that I know how to follow my
WOE without logging everything. Although at present I'm using Fitday,
I spend as little time as possible on the logging in and also on
analysing what I've eaten. I just glance at the total calories and
the percentage of fat/protein/carbs. At the end of the day, I may
very occasionally not have a further snack because this would take me
over 1500, but most days the calories just look after themselves and
always fall somewhere between 1300 and 1500.

It is a recorded fact for me that the longest times I've been able to
sustain consistent weight loss and stick to my WOE for months on end
are those when I've recorded nothing about my food intake (except
roughly totting it up in my head through the course of the day and
paying a bit more attention to very calorie dense foods), and have
avoided weighing myself more than once a month.

I hope what you've decided will work for you - I don't see why it
shouldn't, but just because you're not posting about your food intake
any more doesn't mean you need to stop posting altogether, so I hope
we'll hear from you again.

janice

"BCJ" wrote in message
...
I'll reply to my own post.

I'm really going backwards here. Before Xmas I was losing weight steadily.
I'm now 8 pounds above my low and increasing. My exercise stays fairly
constant so I must be eating more calories than I use to.

The thing is before, when I was losing weight, I never monitored my
calories. I ate fairly lean during the week then on the weekend I'd pig
out a bit. I only weighed myself once a month.

Now I feel that I'm more obsessed with the whole thing. I use Fitday. I
calculate how many calories per day and per week, and the average per day
in a week. It's become more about numbers than listening to the needs of
my body.

I remember seeing Margaret Cho in one of her stand up sets in which she
talks about her obsession with dieting and how one day she just decided to
'take herself out of the game'. It does feel like a bit of a game to me
too. And at this point a game that I'm losing. Can anyone understand this?

So I'm going back to what *was* working for me and won't be monitoring or
posting my calories anymore. Maybe that's something that's helpful to some
people but doesn't work for me. I'll still post from time to time but for
now ...

What works for some doesn't work for all. I was pretty burned out on all of
the weight loss stuff just over a year ago and took some time away from
things and found it to be quite helpful to get some perspective. I got
really sick of my entire existence revolving around all of the weight I
lost. Best of luck to you.

Jenn