| What I Ate Wednesday |
[May. 16th, 2012|08:48 pm] |
Decided to give WIAW a go as I've seen a few people on Twitter doing it. I've been feeling a bit crappy about my food consumption recently, and any nice critiques are welcome; but if you fancy telling me I eat too much crap or am a fat slob (fat yes, slob no!) then please step off!
Wednesday isn't a lifting day for me - instead, I do a 'boxercise' class at lunchtime in my work gym. I was 73.5kg this morning (I try to stick around 72-73kg) and am 5'2" tall.
( Pics below )
Overall, I think that's about 1700kcals. But I know all about how people underreport what they eat, so I'm not sure - I use MyPlate to track as best I can. Also, I will never know exactly what's in the food from my work canteen, calorie- and nutrient-wise.
I think, ideally, I'd like to follow a high-protein, high-fat, low-carb diet like the one espoused on Lift Big Eat Big, but given I eat out so much (evenings, 3-5 times a week; every lunchtime) it's hard to know what I'm eating. And I'm not prepared to start eating at home every night (lunch is a different matter, as we have no fridge or food prep area at work). Also, I'm so busy (honest!) I only get to do a 'big shop' maybe once every couple of months. I know, excuses! But one of my goals is to have a great relationship & enjoy dating, so what can you do? :-) |
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[May. 13th, 2012|07:01 pm] |
Today was totally normal until Matt left at about 5pm. Then this happened:
I decided to strim the lawn, since it was dry and the grass is about knee-high. So I got the strimmer out of the shed, and was setting it up, when I heard a rustle from the end of the garden. I looked up to see a small squirrel, who - casually as anything - walked past me, into the house. I was so surprised, I just let it. I mean, it's not going to go far into the house once it realises, right? Yeah so, by the time I get in the house it's upstairs, in Rachel's room, with the cat. Smudge & I spend about 10 fruitless minutes trying to get it out, but eventually it goes under her chest of drawers and neither of us can reach it.
So, I opened the bedroom window, closed the door and hoped the squirrel would find its way out. I went back downstairs to carry on strimming, whereupon the strimmer caught fire. Yep, you couldn't make it up. Strimmer deposited in the rubbish, I went back into Rachel's room to check on the squirrel. Fortunately, at this point she came home! To find me on my knees in her room, with a pair of oven gloves, being growled at (growled!!) by a squirrel.
Fast forward much running around, we finally cornered the squirrel in the loo, and Rachel took it outside in the oven glove. It didn't want to go - as soon as she released it, it ran back towards the house and I only just managed to shut the back door (meaning the squirrel face planted on the glass). WTF. Finally it ran off behind the shed...
... Where, 10 minutes later, Smudge flushed it out, and they wound up having a stand-off on the fence for seemingly ages. Until, eventually, the squirrel went into next-door's garden. Smudge doesn't go next door, they have a dog.
The end. Maybe. But seriously, WTF? Deranged squirrel? Sick? Is it one of the critters who lives in the loft (thanks to the hole in my roof) and was it trying to find a shortcut home? And who knew squirrels growled?!?
Also, bummer about my strimmer. |
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| Fitocracy! and Obesity! |
[Feb. 7th, 2012|04:11 pm] |
I'm going to rave at you a bit about Fitocracy (and if you want an invite, hit me up). I bloody love it. It's like World Of Warcraft for fitness - you log what you do, you level up and you can complete quests etc. At the moment I'm using the quests to inform my non-weightlifting workouts, e.g. "The Paperboy", which is to cycle for 20 minutes then run half a mile as fast as you can. I was getting a bit bored with my cardio (again) so this is really getting me back into it.
I also went to get weighed by Behar today, for the first time since... November? Maybe? I am very heavy at the moment - back up to 75kg, which is almost as heavy as I was before I started working out full stop (i.e. 4 years ago). I'm trying not to feel awful about it, but..... argh!*
I really really REALLY don't want to give up the whole London Fooderati going-to-popups thing, but it's having the inevitable side-effect of making me fatter. How are there so many slim people on the London Fooderati circuit? I hate them all.
Oh well. More cardio for me (and no more spontaneous pie-making at the weekends).
At 75kg and 158cm tall I'm once more squarely back in the obese zone (BMI of 30 on the nose). However, I feel fucking fantastic at the moment. Seriously! My lifting has gone atmospheric, and I'm currently deadlifting 90+kgs on a regular basis. Last night I did 3 reps of 95kg, and last week it was 5 reps at 90. I feel SO STRONG right now. I guess the extra bodyweight helps.
Anyway. Fitocracy! Come & join me, it's ace! And obesity! It actually feels pretty great!
* And I know muscle weighs more than fat; however I'm still 35% bodyfat, which is "overfat" in BMI-by-bodyfat terms. |
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| NYRs |
[Jan. 2nd, 2012|09:02 pm] |
I went over all my new year's resolutions with Matt on new year's eve, back to 2007, and he was surprised (and possibly impressed) that I'm pretty good at keeping mine. I guess it does help that I make resolutions like "remember all my [great-]nieces' & [great-]nephews' birthdays" and "stop being such a tightwad & spend more money on myself" as opposed to "run a marathon"...
So, my resolutions for 2012. I wonder if I'll manage to keep these ones as well?
1) Try to qualify for the GBPF British powerlifting championships. Which means I'll need to have a combined total over 3 lifts of 245kg at a bodyweight of <72kg. At the moment my total is 217.5kg @ 71.4kg, but after Xmas I'm something like *ahem* 75kg. I'll be honest: I'm only about 50-50 that I'll manage this, but it's something to work towards.
2) Go to boxercise at my work gym every week (caveat: assuming I stay at the Telegraph). Or if not every week (because of work commitments etc), then to try not to miss more than one a fortnight.
3) Eat more apples. I forget how much I like them!
4) Try to regulate how upset / self-hating I get when I see people talking about losing weight easily / "I stopped eating chocolate & started cycling for 10 mins three times a week, and the weight just fell off!" etc. Try to remember that everyone has a different body and that mine is no worse than theirs. And also that some people are insensitive fuckwits.
5) Moisturise! I'm getting keenly aware that I'm nearly 35 (eep!) and that my skin is horribly dry/crepey. I have loads of moisturiser in my room but I rarely use it. Need to give myself a kick up the arse about this.
6) Eh, not sure about this one, but... makeup. I don't wear it, I know I look nicer with a bit of tinted moisturiser & mascara on, and I carry both in my handbag every day, but I only put them on if I'm going out in the evening (and only then if I'm going out "special"). I tried to get into the habit of wearing makeup every day when I started at the Telegraph, but I only lasted about 3 weeks. Plus I'm on day 2 of the new year, and I've not worn any yet! We shall see. |
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| 8 week challenge, week 4 |
[Nov. 28th, 2011|03:07 pm] |
Well, I've completed week 4 of my 8-week gym challenge. I haven't been weighed & measured yet, but TBH I really don't think I've lost any weight or size. Insert snippy comment here about losing fucking weight. Blah blah fucking blah.
So, I made it to the gym FIVE TIMES last week! Five times! And frankly, I feel fantastic for it if still fat.
On Monday I did a high-rep high-volume back & shoulder workout, the centrepiece of which deadlifting 5 sets of 10 reps @ 50kg. My back was sore as hell afterwards, but hey! I deadlifted 50kg 50 times! There were some other bits involving machine rows, bent-over rows and upright rows, all at high reps.
On Tuesday I did my cardio workout - 3km on the crosstrainer, 5km on the bike and a 1km row. All that takes me the best part of an hour (inc. getting changed) so I can't really do more in my lunchbreak.
On Wednesday I *had* intended to go to Bethnal Green to do an upper-body workout, but decided I could do it almost as well in my work gym (BG is 45 mins there, 1 hour back; and my coach wouldn't have been there anyhow). I did another high-rep set of arm & chest exercises. It felt good to be doing flat dumbbell presses with the 12kg dumbbells while the lean body-beautiful men who go to my work gym were doing the same with lighter weights. Grrrr etc.
On Thursday I had a 30 minute personal training session at my work gym, doing cardio circuits. It was great! And I didn't throw up this time!
On Saturday it was back to Bethnal Green to do some high-rep squats & stuff. I appear to have pulled my hamstrings doing stiff-legged deadlifts, though (maybe 50kg was too much, given I've not done them for months).
Trying not to think about the weight thing too much, but YOU KNOW. Can't help thinking that if anyone else was working out like this, they'd be losing weight in no time. Damn you, non-existent deity *shakes tiny fist*
I could really go a bar of chocolate right now, though :-( |
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| 8 week challenge, week 3 |
[Nov. 22nd, 2011|11:03 am] |
Slightly belatedly... I am now into week 4 of my 8 week challenge. So far, not so good - I have lost 0.5" off my waist (but that could seriously just be as a result of a light breakfast) and lost the kilogram I gained in the first week.
But! I do feel a lot better, cardio-wise. Right now my back is killing me after a heavy deadlift session last night, but otherwise I feel great.
Last week I did:
Monday
Squats - 40kg x 5 reps x 2 sets; 50kg x 3 reps; 55kg x 3 reps; 60kg (!) x 2 reps x 4; 60kg x 4 reps (!!); 50kg x 5 reps. Then I DIED.
Dimel deadlifts: 40kg x 20 reps x 2
Good mornings: 2 sets of 10 reps with 20kg bar
Glutes & hams (on the roman chair): 3 sets of 10
Bike: 20 mins
Abs
Tuesday
Crosstrainer: 3km
Bike: 5km
Rowing machine: 1km
Abs
Thursday
Bench press: 20kg x 10 reps x 2; 25kg x 5 reps x 2; 30kg x 5 reps x 3; 35kg x 3 reps x 5
Chest fly: 3 sets of 10 with 6kg dumbbells
Machine row: 3 sets of 10 with 10kg plates
Upright row: 3 sets of 5 with 20kg bar
Tricep dips with bodyweight: 3 sets of 10
Bicep curls: 3 sets of 10 with 12.5kg bar
Bike: 10 mins
Abs
Friday
Crosstrainer: 3km
Bike: 5km
Rowing machine: 1km
Abs
I feel awesome but am visibly (to me) fatter round the belly than I have been for ages. All that booze at the weekend (and, um, the Cornetto I had for dinner on Friday) are not helping.
All that said, I can't quite believe I managed to do 60kg squats for reps last Monday! :-D
I'm considering trying to qualify for the British championships next year (which will be in August or September). I doubt I'll manage it, but why not give it a bash? Except I *will* have to regulate my drinking :-( |
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[Nov. 14th, 2011|12:11 pm] |
I've decided to be brave and *not* skip the weigh-in for the 8-week challenge this week. I know it'll be bad, but I need to put my big girl panties on & deal with it. I really can't see me making my goals now, though! Oh well. Damn you, high tea at Pennyhill Park!
On the upside, I feel quite strong when lifting at the gym at the moment, which is an inevitable side-effect of getting heavier. I was easily doing 70kg deadlifts for reps on Thursday, barely breaking a sweat.
I just got my cardio goals for this week in an email. They are to row 1000m, cycle 5000m and run 3000m at least twice this week. Trouble is: it takes me 20 minutes to run 2.5km if I absolutely pank it out, and in my work gym the longest you can use the treadmills for is 20 minutes! Oh dear. Looks like I'll have to be a treadmill hog.
I've been wondering how I can try to maintain my weight, what with all this eating out/drinking Matt & I do. I don't want to stop eating out all the time (it's what I'd prefer to spend my money on!) and choosing one or two nights a week to drink - to the exclusion of other nights - seems really hard. Last week I drank Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday. At least this week I'm not seeing Matt until Friday (although I'm going out for drinks on Wednesday...)
Fscking dilemmas. I don't think the people who advocate healthy eating/diets really adjust for dating!
Anyway, this is what I did last week, exercise-wise:
Monday: upper-body workout (70 minutes) + 20 minutes cycle
Tuesday: 15 mins crosstrainer; 10 mins cycle; 1000m row
Thursday: shoulder & back workout (70 minutes) + 10 minutes cycle
Friday: 1000m row; 15 mins treadmill; 20 minutes cycle
Only 4 workouts, could do better! |
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[Nov. 8th, 2011|09:22 am] |
I have completed week 1 of my 8-week Challenge and guess what?
I've gained 1kg. Now up to 75.3kg, which is probably the heaviest I've been for a year or so.
My physical measurements are all exactly the same, though (except my right bicep, which is 0.5" smaller), so who knows where that extra kilo has gone. Possibly on my brain?
I'm going to try to not let it get me down, but you know. Meh. I guess I only worked out 5 times last week ("only").
And to add to today's woe, all my trains were screwed this morning, ergo I missed the window of opportunity to work out today. I'm in a meeting 9.30am-5.30pm. Yay. |
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