Fitness log

[platedlizard]

I'm getting lazy and fat again. Well, actually I've BEEN fat (verging on obese according to several BMI indexes I've read). So I've decided to up my exercise routine. Make it more routine-y, I guess.



Current weight: 165 pounds.
Goal weight: 120 pounds

Exercise: running on treadmill
Total calories: 265
Current time/speed: 20 minutes/5.5 mph (running) and 10 minutes/1.5 mph (cool down)
Goal time/speed: 30 minutes/6mph

Food eaten:

Breakfast: 1 bowl cereal/milk, 2 cups coffee/milk/sugar, orange juice

Lunch: spaghetti with sauce, parmesan cheese

Dinner: 6 jalepeno poppers (with cream cheese and bacon wrappers)

Snacks: 1 small bowl dry cereal. 1 cup yogurt. 1 peach. Raw broccoli (good!) with ranch dip (bad!) 1 cup milk. 1 cut OJ.

Alcoholic drinks: 2.5 beers.


I am so not going to add the calories up for all of that. But, no doubt, it more then counteracted the good of running. At least I didn't eat out.

Comments

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Getting back in the exercise habit will help a lot! It'll matter a little bit less when you do have days like that. :)

120 wow, are you in the 5'2" - 5'4" range?

[platedlizard.livejournal.com]

I'm about 5'3. I'm actually about an inch shorter then my dad, lol. (Mom's about 5'7 or '8, I think. What are you, Mom?)

I exercise semi-regularly since I actually have trouble sleeping if I don't so this more about increasing the number of times I workout a week,.

I might not actually get to 120 since I build muscle easily, which is totally okay by me since muscle is leaner then fat.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Hah, how good am I? I was gonna say 5'3" but I second guessed and gave a range. :p Kudos for choosing a healthy goal, instead of attempting to achieve the hungry starlet look. ;)

I've got 50lbs to lose myself. *sigh* I bear it really well, no one believes I'm more than 20lbs overweight. Still, it's bad for me, and I've been doing my best to get healthy again.

Your whole family is on the shorter side... erm, wait, I don't know your ethnic background, maybe you're tall, lol! I'm the shortest one in my family at 5'6". :o

[platedlizard.livejournal.com]

Well, Mom's not short, she's about as tall as the average American male, lol. She says that she jumped into the short end of the gene pool when she married Dad. My sister's shorter then I am, though, and she's the ex-Marine!

LOL, I'm the typical white girl. (Actually I once wrote a short story where it turned out that my dad was a dwarf. Not the Little Person type. The Tolkeinish type. My dad's a rock hound who was working a small mine for crystals at the time, so it totally made sense. Maybe I should post it sometime.)

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Your sister is an ex-Marine? Phew, that's... scary and cool. :)

Oh yeah that sounds like a terrifically fun story. You should post!

[intervigilum.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds like most of the stuff you ate will be metabolized quickly--the pasta and the sauce are not that bad at all. The cereal, milk, OJ, yogurt, peach, broccoli...those are all pretty good. They may have calories, but the good news is that a lot of them isn't from fat, really.

(Growing up with vulumesky--remember Skyler?--has turned me into A SECRET AGENT OF PERSONAL FITNESS AND TRAINING BY PROXY. He's a personal trainer and has been since I was like, sixteen, so over the years I had to hear a lot about things I didn't think would ever apply to my life in any way, shape, or form. I was wrong!)

The beers are bad, but eh whatever. It's not like a change can come in a day..and beer is tasty. XD

But the running is GOOOOOOOOD. Don't start the "oh well, everything I eat counteracts the running anyway" train of thought! If you do it every day or every other day, it will start to make a difference if you couple it with mostly healthy eating.

GO YOU

[platedlizard.livejournal.com]

Yay! A free personal trainer!

When I eat at home I tend to eat fairly healthy, the side effect of having lots of pets that need fresh produce as part of their diet. It's when I eat out that I fall down, mostly. And it looks like I'm going to be working at a place that is basically 'lunch break, what the heck is that?' so I *know* I'm going to be starving at the end of the day. (fortunately the first three weeks or so I will still be an extern, and they will be REQUIRED to give me a 30 minute sit down lunch). So a couple of my major goals foodwise will be learning to eat a big breakfast (which means getting up early enough to cook one since eating out somewhere that isn't fastfood isn't cheap) and packing a lunch, and bringing an end of the day snack so I can make it home without heading over to the nearest restaurant.

...and that kinda got long and rambly. Sorry!

When I was your age, I was 5'5". I'm probably shorter now. luv

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