I'd always heard that it's bad to miss meals, and that skipping them would suggest to your body that you're in danger of starving - and that it should, therefore, encourage your body to store more fat. But some new studies seem to suggest that alternating feasting and fasting could be healthy and just maybe promote weight loss.
I'm kinda curious to try this - I tend to naturally go through cycles of wanting to eat a lot and not wanting to eat much at all, so maybe I should just go with the flow and let myself alternate gorging and fasting...As long as I keep an eye on the foods I do eat, and make sure I'm gorging on nice healthy fruits and veggies, of course.
Hi everybody, this is ruffian_wind's fitness journal. I decided that I would start posting under this name instead. I will also be posting on Fridays from now on because that is how my training schedule is laid out.
firesplace had asked me how many miles I've cycled this year. It's really hard to tell because I didn't count anything from January-June 29 of this year. I was commuting sporadically to and from work in between then. I started documenting my training from June 29th until present day. If you want to read all about that, then please feel free to read my journal and/or add me if you want. All of my posts are public, and I discuss training rides, how I felt, things I ate, and weight I lost.
Training summary for week 13 (9/21-9/27) Goal: 45 miles (6 miles a day, 1 day of rest, one long 15+ mile ride, 1 day of rest)
Day 85: 7.8 miles Day 86: 0 miles (day of rest) Day 87: 17 miles (Erie Canal Trail...beautiful but hard on a road bike!!) Day 88: 6 miles Day 89: 6 miles Day 90: 7 miles Day 91: 6 miles (projected)
Total miles: 49.8 +4.8
My goal for next week: Same, with the possibility of a longer ride on the weekend. I hope you all are doing well!</lj>
I do have an excuse though: With the moving plans and being out of town for the entire weekend... well, I wasn't in the same state as my DDR pads most of the time, and told myself I was too busy to pull them out at other times. Yeah, I know, I could still have gotten some exercising in... D'oh!
Unfortunately, I'm probably not going to have time to do really any exercise in the next few days before I leave town more-or-less permanently. The entire month of October I'm going to be a house guest of my Uncle's and other friends within driving distance of Tacoma, so I seriously doubt I'm going to get much exercise done in that time. The good news is that the house we're buying has an awesome spot to set up my DDR gear to rock out fierce.
So.... for now, I'm not going to lie to myself and say that I'm going to make time or have good opportunity for exercise in the next month. However, I am committing to resuming exercise as soon as possible in the month of November, as soon as I get the DDR gear set up (which should be fairly soon after we get moved.)
In the mean time, I do hope to continue to read and offer support to people in this LJ community, eh!
I once again met my goal of walking four days last week. Zero workouts though... got to get better about that.
Today, I'll be walking home from school instead of from work as I've started some night classes. The community college is about the same distance from my apartment as my work is, so, fun times.
Belly Dancing every day - I decided every day wasn't good, I should just do 5 days. And I did it. And it was fun. I've been feeling more active and graceful, and noticing it in everyday activities, like leaning over to load boxes of soda under the grocery cart.
Watch my eating - Did that, for the most part. I didn't stuff myself like I usually do with a really good meal. I still need to work on it, I'm such a hedonist, and NOT eating those last few bites of a really tasty something-or-another just seems wrong and takes SO much willpower.
Cut back ALL occasional sweets - Mostly. I had a bowl of ice cream on Friday. >.> But I felt so HEAVY afterwards. It made me feel bad physically.
Next week's goals:
More belly dancing! *shimmyshimmyshake*
Get smaller portions at meals (less temptation to overeat)
No unhealthy sweets (I got myself some "No Sugar Added" frozen fruit bars to curb the urge to indulge)
I read it (yes all 5 pages), and wow. o.O Explains a LOT. I still plan to exercise, because I'm feeling the difference in my muscle tone, but that losing weight thing... Looks like my choice to cut out sweets is a step in the right direction. The bread thing will be hard. I don't think I could go all Atkins. Bleh. Not healthy anyhow.
Last week's goal: *Ride the bike for 1/2 hour 5 days this week --I had to cheat a little - I walked for a couple hours rather than riding the bike one day, because I had to take Kiefer to the dentist. Still, I think it counts!
This week's already turning out to be crazy, so I'm going to cut back just a bit and pick it up next week. =)
This week's goal: *Ride bike for 1/2 hour 2 days this week *Do 1/2 hour other equivalent exercise
I have a habit of snacking when I'm bored. This is not good and also not good. It's tough to keep healthy low calorie snacks like vegetables around (at work at least) since they could go bad. Rather than try to go "cold turkey," I've taken to drinking coffee or tea. They are flavorful, have no calories (as long as you don't add cream or sugar) and take long enough to prepare and consume to occupy my boredom. Fun times!
Goals for last week: Play DDR for an hour each day from Fri->Mon. Unfortunately I didn't do it this time because I was unexpectedly out of town Fri->Sun interviewing for a job. The good news is that I got the job, but the bad news is I was away from my DDR equipment (and too busy anyway) to exercise Fri->Sun. I did get my hour in on Monday when I was home, though.
Interesting thing: I tried out the heart monitor while playing DDR. If the monitor is to be believed, when I'm playing 5-6 foot songs, I'm bouncing around at about 85% of my max heart rate (or about 155-160 bpm). When I play the fast 7-8 footers, I'm around 95-99% (or, 173 to 180 bpm). I even got the watch alarm to go off a couple times by exceeding my theoretical max heart rate during especially challenging songs. The really odd part is that when I'm sitting at 80-85% I'm not out of breath at all, so I'm not sure the estimates make sense for me. :/ In theory, though, this heart rate means it is supposed to be anaerobic exercise, even though I can keep up those kind of songs non-stop for hours.
Anyway... I'm out of town again on Sun->Tue this next week again, but I should be able to play DDR on Fri and Sat for one hour each day. I also plan to play for 1/2 hour on Wed and Thurs.
So I didn't do all of my 100 mile ride; 52 degrees, rain, and 30mph wind gusts kept me from going the whole distance and stopping at only 60 miles. That's ok; I think that's still a hell of an effort for someone with exercise/cold/wind-induced asthma like I have!
Biking goals for this week: 1. Do 6-10 miles Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and Tuesday 2. Do 10-15 miles Wednesday and Monday 3. Do a long (30-50 mile) ride on Saturday
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