Healthy Living 101

[skatinjay27]

no just married so sometimes i see between the lines...

if you post was cut n dry then sorry for the assumption.

[Chad-1stGen]

Just wanted to say that my wife and I finished week 1 of P90X strong. Did all workouts plus the stretch X on Sunday and stuck the nutrition plan.

1 down, 11 to go.

[Vegas69]

I hit my goal weight of 175 a few weeks ago. Since then I've been adding daily calorie intake. I'm eating very well and satisfied all day. I'm still losing weight! I jumped on the scale this morning at 172.6. I need to get back to tracking my diet and force myself to eat more than I need to be full. It's amazing what a consistent healthy diet and excercise will do over time.

Speaking of excercise. I ran 3 miles in 25:47 this morning which gets me solidly into the high 8 minute mile range. Not great by runner standards but I've kept most of my mass. I've been running for 9 months now. Clearly the weight loss and nutrition change has helped but it's been a slow process. Two weeks ago I was really struggling.

My high intensity weight training has also taken off. While I'm not lifting the sheer weight I did back in my gym rat days, lately I've been able to lift some fairly heavy weight with only 15-30 seconds max between sets. I've now got great endurance lifting fairly heavy weights. I do everything from a farmers walk, jumps onto a podium, and up and down a flight of steps using every 3rd step between weight sets.

The payoff is being in the best shape of my life and my body is looking great! I've been getting so many remarks lately. I was at the parts store last weekend and the parts guy said, " You look like you could lift this battery with one arm to shoulder level". I did too.

"Everything you have today you've attracted by the person you've become" -Jim Rohn

"Success is not something you find or chase, success is attracted to you by the person you become."-Jim Rohn

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job."-Jim Rohn

How do you do that? Some examples:

Read books that inspire you and educate you on the area of your life you would like to improve.

Listen to educational cd's in your car instead of the radio.

Book end you day. I like to start mine outside on the patio with Kelli or doing something around the house.
At the end of the day I read a book before bed most days.

Excercise

Improve your nutrition

Volunteer for charity work

Share your knowledge with those that will benefit

Work on your relationships

There are countless more ways to improve yourself. The real key to the equation here is these are all positive influences in your life. The more positive influences you have daily, the less the negative things are going to affect you attitude and philosophy on life.

How NOT to succeed: "A few errors in judgement repeated EVERYDAY"-Jim Rohn

How to succeed: "A few good disciplines repeated EVERYDAY"-Jim Rohn

They don't need to be momumental to start. It can be an apple everyday, a walk around the block, telling your wife you love her.

[James OLC]

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

I set a goal weight for myself on June 24th, the day I started using myfitnesspal, and this morning i hit it for the first time! I'm stoked. I'm sure I'll bounce above it for a bit as my weight tends to bounce around day to day but will be steadily at or under it soon. That is a weight loss of 23.2 lbs from 6/24 until today.

Oh and P90X day 4 Yoga X workout done.

That pretty much mirrors where I am at this point - less the P90X. I'm down 24 pounds since July 1 and am fighting through another frustrating plateau. I'm an old fart so I'm just doing the old Power90 before trying X. I have another 15 pounds to my goal - I know I'll make it... it's just a matter of when...

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by James OLC

That pretty much mirrors where I am at this point - less the P90X. I'm down 24 pounds since July 1 and am fighting through another frustrating plateau. I'm an old fart so I'm just doing the old Power90 before trying X. I have another 15 pounds to my goal - I know I'll make it... it's just a matter of when...

Stop back by my house --- I'll fatten you up a bit more!

[James OLC]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Stop back by my house --- I'll fatten you up a bit more!

So Good.....

[skatinjay27]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

The payoff is being in the best shape of my life and my body is looking great! I've been getting so many remarks lately. I was at the parts store last weekend and the parts guy said, " You look like you could lift this battery with one arm to shoulder level". I did too.

nice! but why do you need to go to the parts store for some AAA batteries ?
you can get them from the corner store you know.

july 20th (209lb)was when i truely decided to get on a new path for my nutrition and exercise, i last weighed myself on saturday and was 190lb my waist is down 4 inchs but my upper body and arm are actually larger/wider than before because my weight training has been focused on mass gaining exercise routines . when i look in the mirror ive still got alot more work to do to get to where i want (im thinking to look the way i want ill need to get down near todds weight) but im excited to do so!

BUT i still suck big time at running...i cant run a full mile steady,i need to take like 30sec walking breaks. i have gotten to where i can make it a 1/2 mile then i need to walk for like 1min, then i can finish it out... its still alot better that when i started and was dying after running 100 feet though lol.
the problem isnt physical pain though its that im out of breath, any advice or tips for that?

my wife has also been doing very well (had a baby in march) shes been eating super clean like me and goes to the gym 4-5 time a week about 45 min with weights and 30 min cardio, and on one of those days works with a personal trainer.
how kelli doing todd?

[hifi875]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

I hit my goal weight of 175 a few weeks ago. Since then I've been adding daily calorie intake. I'm eating very well and satisfied all day. I'm still losing weight! I jumped on the scale this morning at 172.6. I need to get back to tracking my diet and force myself to eat more than I need to be full. It's amazing what a consistent healthy diet and excercise will do over time.

Speaking of excercise. I ran 3 miles in 25:47 this morning which gets me solidly into the high 8 minute mile range. Not great by runner standards but I've kept most of my mass. I've been running for 9 months now. Clearly the weight loss and nutrition change has helped but it's been a slow process. Two weeks ago I was really struggling.

My high intensity weight training has also taken off. While I'm not lifting the sheer weight I did back in my gym rat days, lately I've been able to lift some fairly heavy weight with only 15-30 seconds max between sets. I've now got great endurance lifting fairly heavy weights. I do everything from a farmers walk, jumps onto a podium, and up and down a flight of steps using every 3rd step between weight sets.

The payoff is being in the best shape of my life and my body is looking great! I've been getting so many remarks lately. I was at the parts store last weekend and the parts guy said, " You look like you could lift this battery with one arm to shoulder level". I did too.

"Everything you have today you've attracted by the person you've become" -Jim Rohn

"Success is not something you find or chase, success is attracted to you by the person you become."-Jim Rohn

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job."-Jim Rohn

How do you do that? Some examples:

Read books that inspire you and educate you on the area of your life you would like to improve.

Listen to educational cd's in your car instead of the radio.

Book end you day. I like to start mine outside on the patio with Kelli or doing something around the house.
At the end of the day I read a book before bed most days.

Excercise

Improve your nutrition

Volunteer for charity work

Share your knowledge with those that will benefit

Work on your relationships

There are countless more ways to improve yourself. The real key to the equation here is these are all positive influences in your life. The more positive influences you have daily, the less the negative things are going to affect you attitude and philosophy on life.

How NOT to succeed: "A few errors in judgement repeated EVERYDAY"-Jim Rohn

How to succeed: "A few good disciplines repeated EVERYDAY"-Jim Rohn

They don't need to be momumental to start. It can be an apple everyday, a walk around the block, telling your wife you love her.

Great job on the running. You have good speed now you just need to extend a little and get to over 40 minutes of running at that pace. You can do it. My wife runs with me some but wont go past 3 miles because she is hardheaded and don't want to admit that running has done more for her than curves or any other thing she has tried. anyway she ended up running 6 miles with me and didn't struggle at all. You can do it easy. I am missing lifting, with marathon training i am lucky to get 1-2 days a week. but i am ready to get back to it after nov. 4.

[yield2me]

I’m 31 and had my first baby 6-1/2 months ago. When I was 27 weeks along, I had the mandatory test for gestational diabetes. My OBGYN was shocked when my blood sugars were off the charts. I was not the typical pregnant lady who would be diagnosed with it (overweight before the pregnancy, diabetes in the family, etc.). I’m about 5’ 4-1/2” and weighed about 125 before I was pregnant. I was already a fairly healthy eater before the pregnancy, but when I found out I was pregnant, I started eating even healthier. Then when I found out I had gestational diabetes, I was almost depressed because I had already been eating really healthy and now I had to be on a special super low carb/no yummy stuff at all kinda diet. It sucked. I had to check my blood sugar 4 times a day and call in my blood sugar numbers twice a week along with everything I had been eating. The doctors/nurses/dieticians were pretty strict. The first 5-6 weeks I was on this diabetic diet, I didn’t gain a single pound. I only gained 18 pounds total for the whole pregnancy (baby boy also decided to show up almost 6 weeks early). So after delivery I went back to eating like I used to and the last 5 pounds of baby weight just would not leave. So I incorporated the diabetic diet, lower calories & portions and a little bit of an Atkins-type diet and I use myfitnesspal.com. The only difference is that if I’m really craving something, I’ll eat it, but in a much smaller portion and then go right back to eating healthy. For me, if I crave something, that craving does not go away until I eat it. Talk about torture for a pregnant lady with diabetes! That was about 10 weeks ago I started that lifestyle change and I have lost 12 pounds. I now weigh 118 which is 7 pounds less now than I did when I got pregnant! And that’s next to no exercise! (hard to find time for that when you have a 6 month old!). 118 is what I weighed back when I was 23 when we got married (almost 8 years ago). So I’m good with this weight. Now it’s just maintaining it and incorporating exercise to tone up when I can find the time.

And the hubby is doing awesome too! Ed (pokey64) is down 30 pounds in the past 10 weeks and down a total of 64 pounds from his heaviest!

Good job everyone on the progress so far! Keep up the good work!

[Denvervet]

Originally Posted by skatinjay27

nice! but why do you need to go to the parts store for some AAA batteries ?
you can get them from the corner store you know.

july 20th (209lb)was when i truely decided to get on a new path for my nutrition and exercise, i last weighed myself on saturday and was 190lb my waist is down 4 inchs but my upper body and arm are actually larger/wider than before because my weight training has been focused on mass gaining exercise routines . when i look in the mirror ive still got alot more work to do to get to where i want (im thinking to look the way i want ill need to get down near todds weight) but im excited to do so!

BUT i still suck big time at running...i cant run a full mile steady,i need to take like 30sec walking breaks. i have gotten to where i can make it a 1/2 mile then i need to walk for like 1min, then i can finish it out... its still alot better that when i started and was dying after running 100 feet though lol.
the problem isnt physical pain though its that im out of breath, any advice or tips for that?

my wife has also been doing very well (had a baby in march) shes been eating super clean like me and goes to the gym 4-5 time a week about 45 min with weights and 30 min cardio, and on one of those days works with a personal trainer.
how kelli doing todd?

You may want to get a physical to rule out a medical condition just to be sure.