Killyourfeet

Is your name Annie?! My name is Annie! Hi Annie! Cutting out processed foods is great. I know I've felt better since limiting it in my diet. Your numbers are looking good, and you're off to a great start! Looking forward to seeing more of your posts!

Nice! Sounds like you've had a few good days! That's a pretty sweet looking mouse (I love clicky-buttons too Not sure if that's the right word). Happy gaming!

I believe AJ Styles (Allen Jones) had a back injury while he was with NJPW, shortly before coming on with WWE, and he's back to doing all the things since he started DDP Yoga. It seems to be working out very well for us non-wrestlers so far. Although, we aren't exactly injured (just me being a plank of wood, and the boyfriend having osteoarthritis), but boyfriend says he's felt better since we started, and I've noticed an slight increase in stamina and flexibility. Hopefully the trend continues!

Thanks! Yeah, food prep day is kind of insane. And it's always fun to try to find the biggest onion at the store (I think I just have a weird sense of fun). And I'm trying to not sweat the scale, which is hard. In other news: Going paleo again. I mean, for the most part. During this last year, I became unofficially diagnosed with PCOS. Part of PCOS means insulin resistance. Which explains a lot about my feelings towards food and the resistance I experience when trying to lose fat. I went primarily paleo a few years ago, with a lot of success, but then life happened, and long story short, I'm here again. So in addition to all the exercise I do, I'm going to do my best to implement some diet additional diet changes. Which means no more rice, bread, pasta...ah well, I've done it before, and I can do it again. Today's exercise! Road cycling: ~9 miles DDP Yoga! Today's food! Breakfast: Lemon fiber bar Lunch: Homemade chili (ground beef, hot ground sausage, onion, diced tomatoes, black beans, spices), salad (spinach, baby romaine, low fat feta, balsamic vinaigrette) Dinner: Fish with vegetables of some sort Today's positivity! See my exultation about Autumn posted above. Thoughts? So I've been sick with a cold, and it peaked yesterday with a hell of a migraine. It was the worst, but thankfully I didn't throw up. I skipped school, and almost left early from work because of the sickness. I'm feeling better today, but what I'm most excited about is... As of tomorrow, it's finally Autumn!! No more summer! No more sweating to death! No more flys invading my house! I'm still in Arizona, though, so no beanies or scarves or mittens or sweaters, really. It never gets quite that cold. But I love the cold. I was in Idaho two February's ago, and just had a light jacket and it was WONDERFUL. *sigh* Someday, I'll live in an area that's kind to my viking roots. Forests, snow, rivers...it'll be grand.

Greetings and solicitations! Er, wait. Saultations. Yeah, that's the one. Congrats on quitting smoking! That's a wonderful first step towards health. I like this log a lot, you've outlined your starting point, and why you want to get healthy. That's always difficult to recognize (it was for me, anyway). And everyone starts somewhere! You're in a good position to kick this health thing's (toned) butt! You got this! Also, WHAT IS MAPLE BACON JERKY AND WHERE CAN I GET SOME BECAUSE THAT SOUNDS AMAZING?!

Mrf. So I have become sick. I'm 77% sure it's just a cold, and so far my symptoms are pretty mild. Last year, though, I'm just about positive that I got the flu, since I had a fever around 104 for three days in a row. I just wish this didn't happen when I have tests to study for. Also! I got a heart rate monitor. It's kinda lame, just a cheap little watch that I have to put my finger on to get it to work. But I wanted to try one out before dropping some real money down on one (by that I mean, like, $50). Today's exercise! Road cycling: ~9 miles DDP Yoga! Today's food! Same ol', same ol'. Although, I'm finally out of all the food I prepped last week, so a grocery store trip is due. I averages around 1600-2200 calories last week. Today's positivity! It was cloudy this morning, and I love gloomy weather. Thoughts? Meh, not really. I'm functioning on half a brain right now, just trying to make through the rest of the day. Conserving what limited energy i have.

Well, I keep meaning to update. But I write my updates on my laptop, which I typically use in the morning, and it doesn't save so I can simply pull up what I've already written on my desktop. Ah, well. So things that have happened recently. My buddy got his gym up and running! I was there yesterday, it's pretty legit. All Olympic platforms and racks. And a few bikes. All in all, it was pretty cool, and I'm excited. Gonna build some beasts in that place, for sure. So I haven't been hitting it too heavy the past few weeks (at least in part due to the fact that I don't have a lot of weight at my disposal), but yesterday, I did: Front squats: 160# three-rep max Road cycling: 10.2 miles I'm a little disappointed. I weighed myself this morning. 233 pounds. I don't know why, I've been really good about keeping my calories around or under 2000 every day and I exercise almost daily. So...what gives. Bleh.

Thank you! I actually rooted around and did find that previous thread where people discussed it. The boyfriend and I actually just did the first workout today! The only space we had was in our tiny bedroom, so it got pretty warm pretty quickly, I tell you what. I enjoyed it though! Will be doing again in the future.

So I'm a WWE fan. One of my favorite wrestlers swears by this program called DDP Yoga (a program created by a fellow wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page) for strength building and injury recovery. Now, I'm about as flexible as a crowbar, and have considered yoga as a way to increase flexibility for myself. My boyfriend, without whom I probably wouldn't have even heard about this program, has osteoarthritis in his hips and knees, so a no-impact workout regimen is ideal to get him started on the path to getting healthy (Which he has expressed an interest in). Has anyone tried this program? Or have any recommendations for yoga programs that worked for them?

Today's exercise! Road cycling: 8.8 miles. (My work schedule changed this week, so my weekly average of riding will probably go up to around 40 miles ) DDP Yoga! Today's food! Breakfast: None Lunch: Portion of breakfast quiche (egg, milk, half and half, tomato, spinach, onion, cheese, pie crust). I made a huge one and portioned it for the week. Also had beef + black beans + brown rice + homemade salsa + low fat sour cream (1 tbsp) Dinner: Tilapia with spinach and baby romaine salad Today's positivity! So over the weekend, I felt that I needed a pick-me-up, so I purchased a few new shirts and new workout pants! I'm wearing them now, and love them because they have a zippable pocket in which to put my phone so I can easily listen to music. Plus, they make my butt look great. Thoughts? So, the boyfriend and I enjoy WWE. We watch, usually, two shows per week and a third when there is a Pay-Per-View. Personally, I like it because those wrestlers are STRONG. There's no way around it. They are professional athletes. But, to my story. So one of the boyfriend's favorite wrestlers swears by this program called DDP Yoga, which is a program put together by Diamond Dallas Page (a fellow wrestler), and focuses on no-impact strength building. One of the barriers to the boyfriend getting fit is the pain he deals with, since he has osteoarthritis in his hips and knees. But he wants to get fit, so we're trying this program together. I'm excited, since I'm about as flexible as a crowbar, and I'm happy to have a workout buddy now!

Nice! That's awesome Keep at it, you're doing great! Looking forward to hearing more about your successes

Well, after taking a few days off, I'm ready to get back at it. I binged videogames, did some studying, cleaned the house, it was a good time. However, on Sunday I did have instant ramen for the first time in maybe a year and my LORD did I regret it. The broth tasted good, but the amount of salt and whatever the heck those noodles are made of certainly took a toll. I'm not as equipped to handle junk as I used to be, bleh. But anyway. Today's exercise! Road cycling: 8.8 miles 5x10 Squat @100# Flexibility yoga Today's food! Breakfast: None, I'm fasting until after 5pm Lunch: None, probably Dinner: TBD, probably a sandwich from Sprouts Today's positivity! So it's been raining! We're getting some of the rain and wind from the hurricane that passed over Mexico the other day. So for us, that meant pleasant steady rainfall for the entire day. It kind of sucked riding my bike in the rain to school and work, but a classmate/coworker gave me a ride home last night, which was very nice of her! Thoughts? So the reason for the fast today is because I'm going to be training how to test cholesterol, which will require me to test my own. Since it's been over 2 years since the last time I had my cholesterol checked, I am interested to know how I'm doing in that area.

Woot! Congrats on reaching 10h! You're rockin' it!

Today's exercise! Road cycling: 8.8 miles Today's food! 1554 Cal, 179g carbs (much better), 69g fat, 69g protein (also better), 2348mg sodium, 59g sugar 9(better) Not a bad day. I'm not including the pie slice I'm going to get later tonight, because I'm treating myself. It's been a long, but good, week. Today's positivity! I have ridden at least 35.7 miles this week on my bike. I say 'at least' because I didn't start using Strava until halfway through Monday. So It's probably more like 36-37 miles total. Before Monday I was using MapMyRun, but I like the layout and clean look of Strava. Both are good for tracking distance, and there are definitely a few features of MapMyRun that I wish Strava had. But I like Strava. Thoughts? I'm pooped from this week. Not overly excited about the study/cleaning weekend, but I always love the days when I don't have to set my alarm.

Thank you both, @Jittersthe.Clown and @CloneClubber, I appreciate the encouraging words. Today's exercise! Road cycling: 7.1 miles 5x10 Squat @100# Today's food! I did not eat as much protein today as I probably should have. The chicken I purchased the other day has turned to be really, really gross. It's...gristly and feels like chewing tendons. I don't like it. I keep taking like 1-2 bites and trying to stomach it and it just isn't working out well. I settled for frozen chicken strips I made in the oven just now. Also, I felt that I ate kind of a lot today, and it wasn't all good, but MyFitnesPal tells me that I consumed ~1335 calories, 217g carbs (YIKES), 41g fat, 47g protein (DOUBLE YIKES), 1863mg sodium (yay!) and 65g sugar (eesh). So...not great, but not terrible. However! That leads me to... Today's positivity! So I have major willpower issues when it comes to food. I want to eat it all, all the time. It's a struggle, hour to hour. BUT! Today, I really REALLY wanted Applebee's chicken wings, because on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or any weekday after 9pm, they have 50 cent wings. Which, a) are freaking delicious because it's more or less fried chicken breast drenched in sauce (I'm partial to bbq and any spicy/sweet sauce), and b ) appeal to my desire to not spend a ton of money. But I resisted the urge! Because I really don't need to eat 20 chicken wings in one sitting. I'm very proud of myself. Thoughts? So I decided to dig up some old pictures of myself. Since I see myself everyday, it's a bit difficult to recognize when I look different. It's been an interesting experience. So here's a side-by-side comparison So the picture on the left was taken literally this morning while I was getting ready (hence the toothbrush). So apart from the fact that my hair is now blue (and yet, somehow still the exact same length), I do see quite a bit of difference between these two pictures. I mean, I remember the day that that right picture was taken, and how much like a stuffed sausage I felt. I remember how amazing it felt to take that belt off, and take off those pants that were too tight. Those pants were size 16. The pants I'm wearing today are size 14, and I wear a belt. Don't get me wrong, I'm still pudgy. But the difference between muscle and fat is amazing. I weigh almost exactly the same. But I look pretty different. Anyway. Just took some time for reflection today.

Hi! You have some good goals there I like the money-saving one, I may need to employ something like that...anyway, good luck with your goals!

Today's exercise! Road cycling: 9 miles 5x10 Squat @100# Today's food! On MyFitnessPal, too lazy to write it all out here again. Today's positivity! I am actually putting off procrastinating! I've already started organizing my notes to prepare for a test that I won't have for another 2 weeks! I would love to not have to pull all-nighters again this semester. I didn't get as many A's last year as I would have liked, and I attribute that to putting off studying until the day before the test (which resulted in me getting hardly any sleep and feeling like hammered dog poop for days following). Not this semester. Straight A's, baby. Thoughts? Today was a pretty good day, but I'm definitely feeling more fatigued. I'm so happy for my current schedule, though. All my classes start at 9am or later (I don't start until 11 on Fridays!), so I don't feel as rushed or deprived of sleep in the mornings as I have been since January. I would go week after week with my alarm set for 5am Monday through Sunday and it was the worst. This is better though, I feel much healthier mentally.

Oh, yeah, I totally necro'd this thread. I've been gone for a bit (three years isn't that long, right??), and missed all the inspirational things people post. Decided I'd try to bring it back.

Merf. So yesterday, I had a whole thing written out and never got around to posting it. BECAUSE THIS DROPPED LAST NIGHT. And I was doing the pre-launch events, so I kind of forgot. BUT NOW I CAN'T PLAY BECAUSE I HAVE TO BE AN ADULT AND GO TO WORK AND SCHOOL AND SUCH. *Regains composure* Anyway. I logged all my food and exercise on MyFitnessPal yesterday, so I won't reiterate it here. Today' exercise! Road cycling: 8.8 miles 5x10 Squat @100# (I'm planning on making this my daily minimum. So new goal! Do at least this every single day) Today's food! Breakfast: Protein shake Lunch: Chicken with peas and carrots, 1 cup applesauce, 1/4c almonds, 1 Nature Valley peanut butter bar. My pharmacist left a Hershey's chocolate thing on my desk today too! So I ate that. Dinner: A burrito bowl type thing. Today's positivity! A girl I trained at work last week came and shadowed me again today. She's already improved so much over the past week, and she speaks so confidently on the phone with patients! I'm so proud of her. Thoughts? I'm really tired today. I kept hitting the snooze button for a literal hour and a half. It was set for 7:30, and I finally dragged myself out of the bedroom at 9. I sort of regret only taking one of my caffeine tabs, I was foggy until about 1pm. But not a bad day, overall.

Hi there! Good goal! The logs really are quite helpful. I don't know how an Ewok is going to manage to run a 10k, but I'm interested to see it. Good luck to you!

Hey there! Welcome to the forums, and god luck with your diet I'm envious of your lifts!

Today's exercise! 5x10 Squat @100# Today's food! Breakfast: 1 egg, 3 bacons, about 10 almonds Lunch: Other half of tuna sandwich Dinner: 1 pretty gosh dang large pineapple and pepperoni calzone from the pizza place down the street from where I live After dinner: 4-5 cups of hot chocolate, 3-4 cups of maple syrup kettle potato chips. I couldn't help it. Today's positivity! Got to wake up when I was ready today, I had absolutely no reason to set the alarm. Woke up at almost 9am. That doesn't happen for me a lot, so it was magical. Thoughts? Funny story from today. So the DnD group I meet with on Sundays recently (three weeks ago) decided that we wanted to start playing a Star Wars RPG campaign. So today we kicked off the campaign, had an encounter, and one of our party looted a dead droid, stuffed a damaged heavy pistol with no stun setting or safety into the front of his pants, and rolled a "target loses a limb" critical. What I'm saying is, he shot his dick off. In the end, we let him get away with just very bad burns, a lesson learned, and a still-attached "limb." But it was hilarious.

Well! I had something I wanted to say, but then I forgot. Ah, well. Oh! Wait, no, it's gone again. Oh yes! Ok, it's back. So, I weighed myself this morning. Start weight: 233 lbs (8/24/16) Current weight: 231 lbs (8/27/16) Pounds lost thus far: 2 lbs Off to a good start. My plan is to do some exercise later today after work, since I haven't really been doing any lifting for about a week. Also didn't bike to work today, since I'm not a morning person and I had to be there at 9 this morning. Blech Today's Exercise! EMOM: 3x full snatch, 2x jerk, 1x split jerk @100#; 10 minutes total Fexibility yoga: ~20 minutes Today's Food! Breakfast: 1 lemon fiber bar, 1 applesauce cup, 1/4c almonds, 1 tablespoon cake frosting Lunch: Sprouts. I only ate half the sandwich, saving the other half for another time Dinner: Boston Market: Half of a chicken pot pie (chicken, carrots, peas, potato, puff pastry, cream sauce), 1 cornbread muffin Today's Successes! Did not buy junk from the work vending machine! Joined an MtG draft, which still puts me on the verge of an anxiety attack, but everyone is always so nice. This is the...third? Draft I've participated in. Today's Positivity! So the fun part about working in an MTM pharmacy call center is that I get to talk to some pretty amazing individuals from all over the U.S. For example, there was a lady I talked to once who was over 70 years old. This in and of itself is not unusual, I primarily talk to patients who are over 60. What made this particular interaction memorable was that she was a weightlifter. We ended up talking about weightlifting for a good 10 minutes. She was totally with it, very sharp mind and a very strong body, both of which she has maintained despite her age. I hope to be that badass when I'm 70. Thoughts? Today has been a pretty decent day. It's only 5pm, though, I usually get the afternoon hangers about this time. But I had some grapes to get my sugar up, hopefully I make it through the rest of the day. I need to drink more water, though, I haven't even had a liter yet, and I'm thirsty. Been doing really well to not give in to my cravings. Let's keep it going.

Yee! Sounds like quite the year. But it seems you've come out better for it Can't wait to see you regain your former glory, and good luck!