ormaybemidgets Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Every time I'm sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story.This challenge's goals, from the signup thread:4 days a week workout plan: running and pilates. Eating wise: eat real food, NOT SUGAR. Life goal... things are okay now, but they don't stay okay forever. Develop a contingency plan, and convince self that it's okay to not be okay.4/11 MondayNothing! I didn't realize the challenge had started, but also I had a scheduling mixup that resulted in no gym time. 1 Link to comment
MMyers Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Good luck to you too, especially with the sugar! 1 Link to comment
pinupgeek Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Good luck with being awesome! I like your goals, especially your life goal. 1 Human RangerMy Current Challenge Link to comment
Faline Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 I love your life goal!!!! 1 Sadness Is Easy Because It is Surrender http://twitter.com/#!/PsychoLoLCat Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Thanks guys! Thanks Mike! There's a certain amount of candy built into my life, sugar helps me study, I'm just trying to be better at it.4/12 TuesdayTreadmill: intervals0-3 min at 3.53-5 min at 5.55-6 min at 6.06-8 min at 5.58-9 min at 6.59-11 min at 5.511-12 min at 7.012-14 min at 5.514-15 min at 7.515-16 min at 7.516-18 min at 5.518-19 min at 7.019-21 min at 5.521-22 min at 6.522-24 min at 5.524-25 min at 6.025-27 min at 5.527-30 min at 3.5With only ONE one-minute break. Then, 20 squats and 20 lunges (10 each side). 1 Link to comment
Alethea Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Nice, Ormay! I totally cheer the sugar goal. I'm so glad I did mine. I've actually learned to like coffee without sugar, which I didn't think was POSSIBLE. 1 "Let another say. 'Perhaps the worst will not happen.' You yourself must say. 'Well, what if it does happen? Let us see who wins!' ". - Seneca, 63 AD "There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength." - Henry Rollins Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 I totally cheer the sugar goal. I'm so glad I did mine.Uh, you did the completely awesome NO sugar thing. I'm doing, "huh, how about a little less sugar." My problem is, that when I'm hungry, and it's not a meal time, I think - don't eat food! Food has calories! Food is bad for you! But sugar, oh, candy's nothing. Candy is just sugar. Allll gooooood. I've broken out of that a little bit, but I've got more to go.4/13 WednesdayPilates: 30 Minute Mat Fundamentals video. I didn't love this video. It's 30 minutes, and my other one is 40, and it really seems like it's just the same stuff crammed into 10 less minutes. I guess there's something to doing the moves faster, but I wasn't a big fan. 1 Link to comment
Suse Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Sugar is a complete bitch to give up. I've really cut back... I used to have 2 tspns in my tea (and I drink a LOT of tea) now I am down to 1/2 a tspn. I went 1 week sugar free but decided that I just need to have those few grains in my tea to make life enjoyable! Instead of eating candy when you are studying, what about some really dark chocolate, 80%... you dont want to have as much and at least it doesnt have HFCS in it?? Nice goals... you can do it... all of it! Been a long time since I've been on the boards. Nice to see the same names here! 1 Link to comment
Faline Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Hmm I second trying to add in some dark chocolate...it can be just enuf to get the sugar fix...I also do a protein shake with fruit, milk, protein powder and almond butter than makes me feel like I am eating a frosty so I cheat with my mind not with my tummy 1 Sadness Is Easy Because It is Surrender http://twitter.com/#!/PsychoLoLCat Link to comment
pinupgeek Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Thirding dark chocolate...especially if it has something like almonds or cherries or blueberries in it. Then it's kind of decadent. Or substitute honey for sugar--good for cooking or if you're drinking tea. Probably not good if you're drinking coffee. 1 Human RangerMy Current Challenge Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Thanks for the dark chocolate suggestion, all! I may pick some up next time I'm at the store. The problem is less "I want a sweet food" and more "I'm hungry, so I'll just eat candy." Hey Suse! 4/14 Thursday Nothing - laziness and tiredness. 4/15 Friday Nothing - timing issue / failure to plan issue. That means I need to workout today and tomorrow to fulfill 4x a week. 1 Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 4/16 SaturdayNothingYeah, I know... But I planned to just workout twice today, once treadmill and once pilates. Easy to imagine yesterday, when I was making excuses to not workout, harder today when I'm wiped from the run.4/17 SundayTreadmill: intervalsTwo, one-minute breaks. My goal was to only break once, but I was so tired, I thought I was going to die. (Okay, not really DIE.) Still, so. tired. The lesson I learned was to workout when you feel like it, and not put it off. I was hyped from coffee and a Burn Notice marathon, but put off going to the gym until I did more work, then at the gym had no motivation. And the gym was FULL. It's a little apartment gym, and there were five people there all the time! A couple groups came in and out, and still a solid 5 people the whole time. Nuts. Plus the tv was (a) on NASCAR and ( on mute, I was not happy. 1 Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Week 1 Summary:4 days a week workout plan: running and pilates. Ran twice, Pilates once. Did NOT meet 4x a week plan. Maybe I'll go for an average.Eating wise: eat real food, NOT SUGAR.I'm doing better, I think. I am running low on straight-up candy, although somehow I always seem to find more. I do especially well when boyfriend's over, since I don't lay in bed and shove candy in my face while he's there.Life goal... things are okay now, but they don't stay okay forever. Develop a contingency plan, and convince self that it's okay to not be okay.I'm trying, I'm trying. 1 Link to comment
Malva Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 4 days a week workout plan: running and pilates. Ran twice, Pilates once. Did NOT meet 4x a week plan. Maybe I'll go for an average.I am also going for an average in my challenge this time - or rather, a total at the end of the challenge. I think this is a good scheme to give another route to success. 1 Level 1 Earth Mother Druid STR-2 DEX-1 STA-3 CON-3 WIS-3 CHA-3 Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 4/18 MondayNothing. Lots of work I had to do.4/19 TuesdayTreadmill: intervalsOnly ONE one-minute break, good for me!Diet ups and downs: + not finishing my dinner at Chili's when I stopped to realize I didn't like it, + turning down boyfriend's insistent offer of dessert at Chili's, - eating out all the time in the first place, - shoving food in my face before I even realize I'm doing it, + eating only two cupcakes of the 18 I made and giving away the rest. 1 Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 4/20 Wednesday Nothing: sick 4/21 Thursday Sick BBWW: 10 minute circuit x 2 20 squats 10x2 pushups 20 lunges 10x2 something with a "p"... what am I trying to describe? 1 Link to comment
pinupgeek Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Planks? Good on you for only eating two of your cupcakes! That's why I love baking...I get to nibble while I'm mixing. And turning down dessert, also good! 1 Human RangerMy Current Challenge Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 It was dips! LOL, that doesn't start with a p. This is what cold medicine does to me. I can't believe that my arms actually hurt today. From 40 pushups and 40 dips? Come on, Samantha. As to today, not sure what/if I'm going to do. I'm trying to be a good STUDENT and study tonight, it might be too much to ask me to be a good Nerd Fitness-er too. We'll see. It'll be pilates if anything. Also I was EXHAUSTED today, beyond tired. I slept the same amount I always do, I ate the same breakfast I always do, I drank the same amount of coffee. And yet I was at work for 40 minutes before I had to run out to Sbucks, AND I was still exhaustedly tired all day until my next chance to have coffee - which is right now, and I am havin' it. Oh, and to provide a joke from the 4 year old I babysit: "A duck and a goose walk... a duck and a goose go... A duck is in the street and a truck says HONK and it's funny because ducks say honk! That's hilarious. Haha. I can't stop laughing." 1 Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 04/22 FridayNothing.04/23 SaturdayAbbreviated BBWW but with a more acceptable time:7 minute circuit x 220 squats10x2 pushups20 lunges10x2 dips04/24 SundayNothingHad an awesome Easter weekend with boyfriend. Made Easter brunch (oven-baked pancake (healthy), eggs, and bacon. Wonderful) and cakes in eggs (wonderful, although they came out NOTHING like the picture, cake exploded EVERYWHERE). I do not look forward to us moving to different states.Not sure how to rate the diet for this weekend. I'm not sure if I eat better or worse with boyfriend, but definitely differently: + I do snack less/not at all, + I eat less/no candy, - our meals are takeout/restaurant more often than not, + when we eat a big meal that means I only eat once, - he will breakout a small-meal sized snack late at night while I say "it is too late for chicken!", + when we eat it's food food and not sugar. 1 Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 04/25 Monday Nothing and 04/26 Tuesday Nothing Monday had a legit excuse, Tuesday did not... it was about 1PM Monday when I realized this week is the longest week ever. Why is this? Make it end. 1 Link to comment
pinupgeek Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Your diet with your boyfriend sounds good. I like that you have dips in your workout...I may have to steal that. And Wednesday is halfway over now. Only two more (technically) days left in the week! 1 Human RangerMy Current Challenge Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Thanks pinupgeek. I think if I ever solve my diet it will come in two stages: switching to real food, then worrying about the content of the real food. And I do eat more real food with boyfriend, since he doesn't like sweets.04/27 WednesdayNothing, no excuse.Ugh, what a long week... dragging by, dragging by. I need to start working out right when I get home (but that's when I'm hungry! but that's when I'm tired! but I need just a bit of time to recharge!) Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted April 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 04/28 ThursdayMy heart was not in it...My stomach was full of candy...Time was not on my side (due mainly to points #1 and #2)...Abbreviated BBWW:5 minute circuit x 220 squats10x2 pushups20 lunges10x2 dipsAlso, they keep playing this song on TBS to advertise a UFC event. It's 5% pleasure, 50% pain, 100% reason to remember the name. Link to comment
MMyers Posted April 29, 2011 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Thanks Sammy-Antha, you're doing great too. Just don't let the crappy days get to you buddy. Link to comment
ormaybemidgets Posted May 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2011 04/29 FridayNothing. Excuse: absolutely no time.04/30 SaturdayNothing. No excuse05/01 SundayTreadmill: intervalsOnly one, one-minute break (again). Link to comment
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