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Accountability for one please... this one.
Goldie replied to Goldie's topic in Daily Battle Logs and Epic Quests
I've been a bit absent. A few things have changed. I'vecut my workouts in half. After 2 years of doing an hour or more a day my body was begging for a break. Since cutting back in the last 2 weeks i've noticed I can go harder during my 30 mins sessions without tiring. I'm really sweating by the end. Also my appetite is way less ferocious. For the first few days I was barely hungry and it was nice to feel I had better control over my eating. I also now spend more time walking which I forgot how much I love! It's also great news for my little dog. Our walks have doubled and I chase her around a bit and I really think she loves the longer walks too. So today - HAPPY NEW YEAR! I've done 4500 jump rop reps and 40 push ups. I'm nowabout to take my dog for a 30-40 minute walk. Food wise I have had 2 white rolls with butter and cheese. Not great choices but I hadn't eaten since 1pm yesterday (I ot engrossed in work and then went out with friends for NYE and by the time I got home I was too tired to do anything about feeling hungry!) -
So Nerds of the UK I have a question... I moved to a new town and left my friends behind. Admittedly I could go visit which I do occasionally but I am aware I would like some more friends and foundations in the new place. It seems I've lost the art of meeting people now I'm older! When I was younger *early twenties) I met friends through friends or while out partying/pubbing/clubbing. Now those sort of activities aren't high on my list of priorities and i'm finding my social life has dwindled. So I wondered if anyone has been in the same situation and how you went about righting it? At the moment I'm looking into taking a lifeguarding course perhaps and/or body massage therapy course which i hope might help. Any other ideas or suggestions? I considered online dating but i'm not sure i want to 'put myself out there' like that - i'd rther make friends and if something fourished from that it would be ace but i'd rather have a nice bunch of buddies to call on or who can call on me. I won't lie - i'm also a bit shy which i think can come across as snobby or unapproachable, I'm working on this!! So, ny help would be ace!
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Thanks Lexphoenix That made interesting reading and there was an element of reassurance. The overwhelming guilt and fear for missing a workout was extremely noticeable. When i finish my half hour sessions now it takes a huge amount of willpower to not carry on for a further 30 mins. She describes herself as crying with frustration and there are times when i feel that way! I see people jogging during the day and think to myself 'you should be doing more'. Also the fear of getting fatter is totally enveloping. I literally believe in my rediculous irrational mind tht i could gain stones in a matter of days! Trying to break that crazy idea is so hard. I don't weigh myself and just go by clothes. I seem ok - I'm trying to take it with a pinch of salt as I'm headed in to the time of month (sorry any guys reading this!) so a week in and i'm doing half hour sessions. This allows me an extra half hour in bed (always appreciated) and it allows me to workout harder because i don't get tired as much during my workout. My appetite is more controlled and i think about food less. The first few days I just wasn't hungry at all - xmas dinner was a very poor effort where I was stuffed after eating only half a plate! This has been quite overwhelming. I hadn't realised how much food and exercise had started to take over my life rather than being something enjoyable. I don't know when this change happened but now I have had all sorts of emotions flood through me which i think were being hidden by the strains i was putting on myself mentally and physically. It's been quite overwhelming!
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BONUS CHALLENGE: 12 Days of Christmas Challenge
Goldie replied to BarefootDawsy's topic in Rebel Army Base Camp
This is awesome! Fab idea! Nice Christmas and New Year theme too. Although I only read it today so will be a day late but definitely count me in. :0) -
Just wanted to check back in and say thanks to everyone who posted advice especially while i was feeling so lost (I am still aware how daft that sounds but i really was feeling unsure of what action to take to make myself feel better!). I took Sunday as an active rest day and then cut my workouts in half so they were intense yesterday and today but only half an hour rather than an hour. I'm feeling less tired and less sore already and my appetite has dropped considerably. In the space of two days! I feel less anxious around food and i'm thinking about it less. There were days when I was literally hungry all day long. I guess there is a point where you're exercising too much and it's actually detrimental because you're undoing all the work with your increased appetite. The 30mins intense exercise allows me to push harder but not feel starving afterwards. I'll keep an eye on that and see if it continues to improve. Generally i'm cutting myself some slack. I have friends and colleagues who don't do any exercise at all, ever! In that sense I'm doing a great job! I'm going to continue with the 30 mins of intense cardio a day and perhaps do bodyweight challenges each day so i keep my muscle mass still. Also when i feel the need for a break i'm going to take one. More listening and appreciating my body and what it does for me than pushing it to breaking point. Life is too short.
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Caring about one's looks - a difficult endeavour
Goldie replied to UmbrellaFrog's topic in General Fitness
Hi there I can relate. I'm taller and broader than my petite, cute featured friends. When we're in a group I'm the one a head above the others and the only person who can't enter in to the 'I'm a size 2 but want to be a size 0' conversations! I look ridiculous in pretty/cute/frilly/flowery dresses. When I wear heels I feel (and possibly look) a bit of a joke! In my picture for this site it happens to be what I consider a 'good' day and lets face it - black and white pictures make everyone look acceptable! Please excuse my broken looking nose! So - basically - when I wake up in the morning I look like the blonde version of sid vicious! Spikey blonde crazy hair. My skin is pale and I have blonde eyelashes which make them difficult to see! I am quite boyish to look at (luckily a youngish boy!!!? Got to take the compliments where you can!) So the way I get around it all? I avoid frills and floaty and cute dresses etc. in general I wear them very rarely - same with skirts. The benefit of this is when I do wear a dress/skirt with a pair of heels people are so amazed (I also have quite good legs from exercising... I had to have something of worth to flaunt!) it can only be a good thing. So i stick to dresses that cover my chest mostly but are short (well above the knee) to show some leg. I go for the tulip dresses/skirts or fairly body hugging. I go with bold prints or just one colour. I also try to make sure I have a 3 quarter or cap sleeve. I'm sure it's psychological but it makes me feel better about how broad I am! Anyhow, dresses aside. With Jeans I used to wear baggy all the time and I discovered in time this actually accentuated the boyish look rather than making me feel invisible (which is what I was trying to achieve in my youth!) and now I wear straight leg jeans and flats. Or I wear kick flare jeans. I stick with sweetheart line tops which are pretty but not overly girly and I usually have a black cardigan close to hand just in case I feel a desperate need to cover myself. On the make up front I try not to wear too much of it. I'm not a fan. I'll only do a full face when I'm going somewhere super special. My core items are eyeliner and mascara. They darken up my eyes and create a good contrast against my blonde hair. All this aside it really sounds as though you've hit a confidence crisis even though you've acheived so much. I'm trying to drop weight and struggling massively. Are you not giving yourself credit for what you've done so far? I'm starting to sound like a therapist and I promise i'm not trying to. They just sound like feelings and thoughts I've had and still have on occasion. I try to knock it on the head by thinking 'make the best of what you got and go have some fun' and cracking on. Life is too short to try and make yourself invisible. What colour hair and eyes do you have? Would you consider a hair colour change? ridiculous as it sounds but having something nice done or a real change can make you feel a little more inspired. I'm naturally blonde but went red for a while which was a fab change and oddly because I didn't look the same in the mirror I felt like I was playing a different character and I could be a little bolder on a social level. I don't know if i'm helping or giving useless advice but I'm overwhelmed someone might feel the same I do on occasion but also a little sad as it can be quite a suffocating way to feel too. -
If I'm honest I started out loving it but as i increased the time spent doing it i'd become more 'bored' of it and as i got more tired I felt more unwilling to do it! I was fuelled on by the dream of dropping lbs (which isn't happening anyway!). I prefer short and intense so when I was doing 30 mins of jump rope that felt good. The 60 min sessions make me tired and relcutant to get out of bed and do! I think going forward i need to cut down the amount of time I spend on cardio sessions. Back to 2- mins whee it felt good to complete. Before about 3 months ago I was doing only cardio. The circuits are the introduction of any weights at all. I've seen changes in my body (more muscular thighs!) but not really what I wanted. If anything I feel bigger - I'm willing to keep trying though I'd just like my efforts to throw me out some results. Are there body weight moves I can do with fewer reps? I do push ups and squats but i only have a 20lb weight to work with. Maybe i need to do 2 days with 30 mins of cardio, 2 days of pure weights, 1 day of circuits and 1 rest day.
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Thanks everyone. I felt a little goofy as I was writing it down but when I reread it as though it were someone else on the board it didn't seem so crazy and it made me feel less lost. Yesterday i felt really broken! This morning, onve i put it all down I could see a number of ways out of my current rut! Athena - that's encouraging to know. I imagine for a woman it would be a little slower to focus purely on diet. Do you follow a very strict paleo diet? Do you do cardio and weights or focus mostly/purely on weights? Kristen - thank you. When I reread it I sort of thought 'i sound quite mature trying to fix this rather than carrying on down a destructive avenue!' but I wanted to ask on here more for reassurance than to find an answer I think. I think you're right in the sense that perhaps I have some underlying issues which might be causing obstacles to suceeding and I need to address those and my relationship with food before I can put a plan in place. Weirdquark - I've been toying with the idea of yoga because I imagine after a few tough sessions it must feel really nice to do a thorough stretch out. Probably good for the mind also. Currently I rotate: day 1 - run for 50-60 mins day 2 - circuits: (15 press ups, 15 20lb squats, 550 jump rope reps) x 8 day 3 - 1 hr skipping day 4 - circuits day 5 - run and so on....! I haven't been taking any rest until today - i did go for a 6 mile walk (half with the dogs and half on my own) - it felt lovely and relaxed!
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I wondered if anyone on the boards chooses not to exercise and just follow an eating routine to maintain/lose weight? Or perhaps you did before introducing exercise. What is an average day like? How has your progress been? Why do you opt not to exercise? I've been working out intensely for a year and a half and I would like to reign it in a little. I exercise at 5am to fit it in and get it done and over the course of the year and a half i've had to double my efforts to see the same results (recently it's not been working at all!) I got in to a 'if a few days a week are good, everyday will be brilliant!'. This was fine when I was doing 30 mins a day but now i'm doing an hour its tiring me out. Yesterday it just seemed to cave in on me a bit! I'm tired, I feel extreme guilt over missed workouts and the stress really grinds on me, its starting to effect my social life (I opt not to go out or see friends if I feel I've had a bad exercise/food day) and this may sound really nuts but I feel uncomfortable in my own skin like I don't know who I am anymore! It's the most unnerving feeling! After a sit down and a review of my plan I realised because I initially lost weight on introducing intense exercise I've become completely focused on this as the only way. My diet has gone by the way side and I'm not taking any rest days. I'm on a poor poor 'health' track. So I'm thinking of going back to basics. Maybe take 4-7 days off from exercise to get rested and then review my exercise plan and start fresh. I need to take some time off from exercise and look at my eating (currently i notice when i exercise hard everyday and I'm tired I eat to try and get energy which is not exactly getting me to my goal!). I also need to take 1-2 rest days a week and make sure that when I start exercising again I stick to this. I'm more sharing this to get any advice if people have had the same sort of issues or could give me advice going forward at all? I'm nervous but I know that trying to carry on doing this when it's making me anxious, a little unhappy and not getting the results I want is madness and I have to make changes.
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Thanks everyone. I decided to give it a go and did a 24 hour fast and I was suprised how effective it was coupled with exercise. Obviously I doubt very much that it succeeded in driving weight loss but it was odd how fine I felt and how there was no hunger after a while. Also it seemed to help shed a lot of water weight and the following day I felt less 'puffy'. Definitely will be doing it again if for nothing else but the awesome feeling.
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Hi everyone I wanted to start a thread on this because I notice in odd posts here and there people (especially women) mentioning what they have seen change in their figure since exercising/changing eating habits/both! When I started out with just cardio 2 years ago it was very intense compared to the basic walking I had been doing before. My body was so shocked it just shed fat very quick and I was straight up and down - not a lot of curves and my fun bags (boobs!) vanished! 2 years on my body had adapted and I had doubled my cardio efforts to get the same results. I then contacted Spezzy after finding this page and she encouraged me to get in to weights. I started halving my time between cardio and circuits (including weights). Since then I've noticed really starnge changes on my body. It's definitely given me tone - I have core muscles like never before but also my butt is rounder, waist smaller and thighs are more muscular. It feels weird to put on jeans and have them feel tighter around my butt and thighs but baggy around my waist! So basically its given me some serious curves and tone (so far!). Initially I was a bit freaked out 'oh my god my butt and thighs are fatter but i've been working so hard, how has this happened!!!?' but I realised there was nothing wrong but it was my thinking that had to change. I'm getting stronger and shedding dangerous belly fat. Go me! It's been a long time since I've genuinely thought about how I view thin and strong. It was really refreshing and i think it was this journey from sedentary to cardio to cardio and weights that has taught me an interesting lesson about how I view my body. Just thought i'd share. So how has exercise and eating chnaged your body? What surprised you most?
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Do many people here do intermittant fasting? Has it helped in your goals at all? Could you give some detail? Have you tried it and really disliked it? I ask because I was surprised to see it as a suggestion. Obviously i'm no expert and I take the advice here and in the NF blog as suggestions - i know that what works for one person may not work for another. Since starting exercise and researching on the web everywhere you look it states you shouldn't go longer than 3 hrs without eating, beware of starvation mode, you'll ruin your metabolism... you get the picture. So have i taken those warnings too literally and they actually mean if you drop cals significantly for a long period of time you do damage (I got the impression from the articles etc that you did damage as soon as you went beyond that 3-4 hour window without eating!) and that doing it once in a while can be beneficial?
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That. Is. Awesome. Congratulations! I'm miles behind you on the pull up front but I'm going to do one. I'm inspired... 2013. It's gonna be my pull up year!
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Nice work! Congratulations!!x
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What's your routine? (there's something in here for everyone!)
Goldie replied to Goldie's topic in Rebel Army Base Camp
Hi LRB - crossfit rings a bell in my head... isn't this extremely hardcore circuits?