Can’t be any more than the kilogram of chocolate I just ate to reward myself. 
I’d pick one scale and stick to it; scales can be off. Even if your scale is the one that’s off, though, you’ll at least be able to track the progress accurately, if not the exact weight. My husband uses our bathroom scale for his weigh-ins, while I use the Wii Fit. (Now that I think of it, I should weigh in on the scale, then try the Fit - and tell the Fit that I have 0 lbs of clothing on - to compare accuracy.)
I have my smallest jeans on. I will likely change out of them before leaving the house, since they’re a little more snug than I am usually comfortable with, but it feels good.
I am also sore as a mofo from 2 days of running and BootCamp. Today will be a rest day for me. But it’s that really good sore from working new muscles, in this case my core, which previously I had likened to overcooked spaghetti.
Yay for us losers!
Yay for everyone that did so good this week. I made it through yesterday with only 1 piece of chocolate and gave a lot of it away. Normally chocolate is one of the things that I would overdo it on but lately I don’t crave sweets at all. I don’t really crave anything in particular because my dinners are pretty varied. Even when I wasn’t trying to lose weight I ate the same things for breakfast and lunch everyday and the only difference now is that I eat a bit less cereal for breakfast and use a bit less dressing on my salad. Even though I work out 6 days a week, during the winter I get almost no other exercise now that I’ve retired. It’s been raining for 10 days straight and the most incidental exercise I get is running through the storm to the car every few days. Sedentary doesn’t begin to describe moving my butt from the computer to the couch to read and back. Yesterday I added in a mild second dance workout in the afternoon because I feel pretty low-energy by mid-day from all of the sitting around. Luckily spring will be here in a few weeks and I can get back to working around the property for a few hours a day. Housework is starting to feel like an exciting opportunity to move.
Well done jali.
On saturday, I took my 25 y.o. stepson out for a run - he claimed to have not run for ages. I had done 5 miles on Friday (intervals up a hill), so was not at my absolute best. I led out at a fairly good clip for the first 3 miles. While he was there all the way, I got the feeling he struggled just a bit towards the end. I let him set the pace for the return. I could have gone a bit faster than the pace he set, and let him off the hook and didn’t do the last mile for the full 6 miles. But putting that sort of pressure on someone who has 17 years on me was a good feeling.
I then spent the rest of the day in the bathroom scraping artex off the walls, and didn’t finish until after 10pm. I was knackered and my arms are still a bit sore.
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There was a car commercial a few years ago that had a line I liked…It’s not bragging, if you can do it.
I think I’m going to stop logging my food after next week for the reason you’re stating. It’s starting to tick me off that everything I type in they want me to put in some big chain restaurant meal or prepackaged item (I couldn’t find plain cooked oatmeal on there at all).
Awesome! I’m jealous. I LOVE rollerskating. I wish I had somewhere to do it here. There are only 2 rinks in Vegas and they are owned by some sort of Family Christian outfit- no rock music of any kind. Blech.
I tried skating in the street, but the first time you hit a yard rock from someones yard (desert landscaping) and damn near go crashing into the asphalt… it’s not fun anymore.
I just weighed myself by chance over there last weekend. But I went and bought my own so I’m not going back and forth on different scales. I am going to use my scale from here on out.
It’s kind of frustrating, for sure. I get the feeling that a lot of the choices are user entered for places they eat at. For my local joints, If I get a sandwich, I have to break it down into all of its components to log the food (lame). I decided that even though it’s annoying, I am going to keep doing it for a while, until I get a feel for the right amount of calories for the day.
For now it is a good reminder to keep myself in check. I am trying to keep myself less than 1900 cal/day with exercising 5-6 days/week. That’s coming off eating 2500-3000 cal/day :eek: based on plugging in what I was eating before.
Video, or it didn’t happen 
Sounds like a great day, jali!
I love rollerskating too, jali and used to skate everywhere in my 20s and early 30s but then got very busy and got out of the habit. I still have my skates and broke them out a few months ago and I could still do all of the dance turns and spins that I used to do. It was a lot of fun but I have to admit that I was a lot more worried about falling and breaking something than I used to be. Things take a long time to heal at my age. It was great exercise - I never gained a pound when I skated every day.
I’ve been doing a calorie restricted diet, cutting 500 a day so i can hopefully lose a pound a week, plus any extra weight loss from the calories burnt from my excercise sessions. I am doing some strength training, when i get round to it, but I’ve found my BMR is actually getting lower the more my muscle % goes up and the lower my fat %
Anybody know why this would happen?
Could it just be the scales I’m using? They have a built in body composition thingy, and I know it may be less accurate than other methods, it should at least be consistent
Og knows what I was eating before, but where you’re currently at is about where I’ve been for the past 13 months, and I’ve lost 140 pounds. So, I say you’ve got the right idea!
Well that was frustrating. The power just went out 3 times during my workout with just enough time in between to get it started again before it went out again. I gave up and used the dreaded exercise bike for the rest of the time. Time crawls for me on that one more than anything else, even if I watch a movie or something. But at least I didn’t use it as an excuse to blow off working out.
Spazcat and LVgeogeek, do you eat the same foods frequently enough to be able to easily track calories yourself? I haven’t used sparkpeople because I have a spreadsheet built where I already have the calories for all of the brands and amounts that I usually eat and normally only need to add in dinner to track my daily calories. I eat pretty low on the food chain and rarely go out to eat so it’s hard for me to match what I eat to name brands and restaurant chains. It would probably be more work for someone with a very varied diet but it’s easy for me to do it.
Now I don’t feel so bad about slashing my calorie intake and hovering around the lower end of the recommended intake. If I eat more calories, I just try to make sure they are ‘good for me’ calories.
Oh, and congrats on the big loss!! What sort of workouts were you doing? I have my treadmill and I just got a balance ball to use with my hand weights, but I want to branch out.
I get bored easily by food, so I really try to vary what I eat. I think when I get the hang of what the calories are in certain foods (and portions), it will be much easirer. When we eat out it’s a general rotation of about 10 different restaurants- none of them big chains- so the calorie guess work is going to be tough.
Yesterday’s weigh-in put me at 203.8, which is -1.8 from the previous week, which itself was -4.6 from the week before (I didn’t update last week). Total weight lost: 12.8lbs. I’m hoping to break 200 in the next two weeks.
In other news, we got Wii Fit, which is a much better work-out than I actually expected. A half hour of yoga and strength training today left me tired but invigorated, and feeling great for the rest of the day. Pretty soon I want to get outside and jogging so I can get through our annual series of 5Ks starting in April.
Thanks, LVgeogeek! I’ve mainly stuck to the treadmill, with some weight training mixed in, but not heavy duty stuff. Right now I do 30 minutes on the treadmill, at an incline of 5-15 degrees and speeds ranging from 4.2 to 6.5 mph. It’s based on the treadmill’s weight loss program, and it alternates like this:
1 min @ 4.2 mph, 8 degrees
2 min @ 4.2 mph, 15 degrees
1 min @ 4.2 mph, 8 degrees
1 min @ 6.5 mph, 5 degrees
The base routine of the program (@ max level) is 0-10 degrees @ 4.2-6.0 mph, so after each one minute interval I have to reset it to my routine, which is a bit of a pain, but eh…what can you do?
For a while I was doing 20-30 minutes on the elliptical @ 80% of max heart rate and 20-30 minutes on the treadmill on the base routine, but it got to the point that I just found the elliptical too boring.
Now, being bored by food…I can surely relate. I’ve barely budged from the initial food plan I devised after my initial nutritionist visit. I’ve just sort of conditioned myself to think of eating to live rather than living to eat, and looking forward to the once a month poker game where I usually indulge my cheating side
Honestly, I really do still live to eat…as soon as I’m done with my meal or snack, I feel let down and eagerly looking forward to the next one. I wish that wasn’t the way, but it is what it is I guess.
I think you might be confusing BMR with BMI. Basal Metabolic Rate varies with age, lean body mass, activity level, overall fitness, and genetics. The Body Mass Index is a very rough tool for evaluating the risk of heart disease based on height and weight. It does not necessarily correspond to body fat except in a mostly sedentary population. It is especially unsuited to evaluating athletes.
My BMI is 24.2 right now, which puts me right at the edge of “overweight.” I’ve got a 29 or 30" waist, about the same as when I was in high school. The extra weight I’m carrying is muscle. Many power athletes and bodybuilders are well into what the BMI tables would call unhealthy. Since it doesn’t measure body fat at all, if you’re heavier than the average for your height, it flags you.
As I’ve said in other threads, my Tanita electrical impedance scale was basically useless. I rarely check my weight anymore at all, and only look at the “body fat” reading out of curiosity. It fluctuates a lot. Even when I was first losing weight a couple of years back, the fat measurement didn’t really correspond to the scale. I checked the weight value with a doctor’s scale, and that was accurate within 500 g or better, but the body fat value stayed roughly the same while I lost the first few kilos, then started going up as I lost more.
It shows wildly inaccurate values now that I’m in good shape. One day could be 21%, another 25%. I don’t think it’s ever shown below 20% even though my estimate based on other means — as accurate as I can get without body fat calipers — say that I’m fluctuating around the low teens. I’ve stayed at the same body weight for a few months and if anything I am still slowly losing fat, since I’ve been able to keep increasing the weight I can lift, and am still getting faster at the runs and aerobic components of my workouts. It’s very unlikely that you can lift more weight with less muscle.
I think my biggest problem is tracking calories in general. It’s way too nitpicky for me. I have a fairly good idea of what I’m eating and when I’ve started slipping. If I stick to the limits the site gives me, I get an annoying hunger headache. I have a good general idea of how I should eat anyway, so I need to stick to that. It means I may have to go semi-vegetarian over the summer, but if my Grand Life Plan goes the way it looks to be going now, I’ll be living with a vegetarian for a while anyway.
Eliptical machines are akward for me. For some reason I could never get the rhythm down to make it effective :o
Right now 3.5 mph on the treadmill is almost jogging form me… my knee isn’t quite up to that yet (I took a fall getting into the shower right before New Years) so I just back it down to 3 mph when it ramps up to 3.5, that way I am not overexerting my knee.
On the treadmill program I have been doing it goes the incline goes 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 0 and it’s at 3 mph the whole time except at the beginning and end for warm up/ cool down. 10% incline is the max that the treadmill will do.
Now I just have to get my mountain bike tuned up so I can go ride some trails to add some variety before the weather gets too freakin hot!
This is pretty much how I feel, but now I just tell myself ‘NO’ going back for another helping. Maybe just one more bite if it’s really good, but that’s it.
So it’s safe to say it may be due to the inaccuracy of the scales?
I probably should have made it clearer, but I was under the impression that as my muscle mass increases, my body would need more calories to sustain my body, and as such my BMR would rise?