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Continuing on. I am into my second week of really pushing my level of exercise, duration and intensity. I know that I am hitting my current max. And, hitting it twice a day. Phew! I cannot believe it is me pushing so hard. When it comes to exercise, I haven't exactly been a poster child. Actually, I am trying to increase both my intensity and duration. I forget to have a plan before I get on the elliptical. I am going to have to write out a plan and tape it up so I know what I am aiming at and know when I have gotten there. I get so into the push once I get started. This morning for instance, I was going to take it easy and go for time instead of speed. Started great. Nice and slow for the first 3 minutes. Step it up a notch for another minutes. Stepped it up again to finish out the first 15 minutes. Next thing you know, I start going for it with all I am worth. Watching the distance, time, speed I go back and forth trying to push for the next mile, the next five minutes, increasing my speed. And I was going to take it easy and go for a longer time? lol. I think I will have to cover up the readouts, get on the elliptical with one specific goal and stick to it. Ok, I have talked myself into it, I am going to write out a plan and tape it up.
I am looking for new ways to stay motivated. I have given up on the scale for the time being and switched to measurements. Got out the tape measure yesterday and to my surprise the news was not near as bad as I expected! I have never watched the inches, only the pounds. It will be fun seeing how this works.
I can look at my body in the mirror and acutally count cans of Crisco hanging from it. The 2 causing the most problems being the two on my inner thighs. Clankety clank, clankety clank! Very irritating.
To reach my weight goal of 135, I still have something like 53 pounds to lose which would be the same as 17 3-pound cans of crisco. Now, when I count what I actually see hanging there, I just don't see 17 cans. It gives me hope that I will be very happy in the 150 to 160 weight range.
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Keep up the great work! Slowly but surely, you'll get there!
27 Jul 10 by member: Runesinger
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I am all about writing out an exercise plan...I just did that today, in fact. I have a bad habit of getting over-ambitious & doing too much & my body hates me for DAYS after. A couple weeks back I got this idea in my head that I could bike 11 miles a day on the stationary bike, & even did it 2 days in a row. It would have worked great, if before that I had been biking more than 4-5 miles every 3 days, lol. It took me the entire weekend to recover from those 2 days!
I have found that creating small, short-term challenges for myself helps keep my motivation up. I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fanatical about tracking my food & exercise. I keep a spreadsheet of how much I've done of each activity so I can track the minutes & the distance, & make a plan so I increase the intensity at a responsible rate. My goal for this week is to walk 10 miles, & so far I've done 6. For next week, I'll probably see how it goes the first couple days, increasing the intensity just a little each day, then set a goal just beyond where I think I might end up.
I've tried a couple of the official Challenges here, but I find that I prefer to create my own. That way if I decide to scrap them or modify them I don't have to answer to anybody...they're just for me, anyway.
OK, enough rambling...good luck hon!!
27 Jul 10 by member: kstubblefield
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Datadoll, I felt like I was on that elliptical with you. Whew! LOL Good writing there. And I know what you mean about the cans of Crisco. I hope this body snaps back into shape, but who knows at this age.
28 Jul 10 by member: cocobutt
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Oh, I am sure that even at our age, if we really go after the fat, are bodies will surprise us. At least if we go about it right. I really believe that our bodies, when well nourished, can do amazing things, including repairing the damage we have inflicted on them. I hear so many women that are just certain they are going to have all this loose skin hanging on their bodies when the weight is off. I am certain, even though I can see the loss of elasticity in my skin, that when the fat is gone, there will not be big flaps of skin. Will my skin be as smooth as a babies bottom? Well I doubt that! I am 60 years old! lol I think when the fat is gone, I will still be in a 60 year old body. Well, probably 61. ; ) I really don't like the batwings though. I am going to start arm, shoulder and back exercises. Hopefully it will be possible to tone those triceps and lats.
28 Jul 10 by member: datadoll
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And Kstubblefield, thanks for the encouragement. I think I found an easy fix. Before I got on the elliptical I had two goals. Time and distance. I told myself I wanted to go 8 miles and stay on the elliiptical for 45 minutes. Rather than doing 8 miles in 45 minutes, I just did both. I was at 8 miles before the 45 minutes so I used the excess time as cool down. It worked perfectly. Now, as my intensity is increased, I will just use up the extra time as cooldown. When I end up with too much time on the other end, add more mileage. If I cant make that in the time allotted, I will add time. That way I will continually be increasing time and intensity. For today I did 8.15 miles in 45 minutes which averages 10.9 mph. I am very proud of that, I could only do 5 minutes when I started the elliptical on May 14.
28 Jul 10 by member: datadoll
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Hmmm...batwings...that just sounds like a Challenge waiting to happen ;-)
Love the journal entries datadoll, I look forward to them each day as it's almost as if you are in my mind!
01 Aug 10 by member: Fluffy@50
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