Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know about a great class that's held at 5:30 pm on Tuesdays at Crunch - Circuit City. Quite a few us from DI/The New You Challenge (me, Carla M, Linda B, Nichelle M...) go each week and welcome everyone else to join us. It's challenging, I'm not going to lie, but if you're looking for the most bang for your workout buck like I am (I don't want to be at the gym all darn day, everyday), this hour is it!
A class can have everything from trampolining to pushups/situps to kickboxing to "ball slams" and "woodchoppers". The exercises vary and you don't do any one for very long, so it's nearly impossible to get bored. You can also adapt each to your skill level quite easily. The hour flies right by! This is my one "can't miss" workout each week, so I wanted to get the word out about it. See me if you have any questions or want to use a guest pass to try it out. :-)
Meghan
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Food Journal
Hey guys,
This is Doug again. I was talking about the online food journal that I use at the meeting today. I use a site called www.fitday.com . Although you can pay to use the service, you don't have to and they give you all of the features you would need for free anyways.
I find entering my food in there pretty easy, especially after the first few days and you have all of your "usuals" in there. You can search for pre made entries and adjust the portion to what you ate. They usually already have the nutritional information for what I am eating that is accurate enough but in case they don't have what you are looking for you can make your own custom entries with whatever calorie, protein, carb, etc., amounts you want. Once you have made a custom food made, you can pick it easily from a drop down from then on.
You can also keep track of a few other things besides food. If you track your exercise you do during the day then it will tell you how many calories you have burned, in addition to your base amount burned by your metabolism. Also you can enter in your weigh-ins and it will make a nice line graph of your progress for you.
Here is the public version of my food journal that you all can look at and keep track of my progress if you really want to.
http://www.fitday.com/fitness/PublicJournals.html?Owner=fraysh
If someone wants me to show them around the site, I can show you how I make use of it.
Doug
This is Doug again. I was talking about the online food journal that I use at the meeting today. I use a site called www.fitday.com . Although you can pay to use the service, you don't have to and they give you all of the features you would need for free anyways.
I find entering my food in there pretty easy, especially after the first few days and you have all of your "usuals" in there. You can search for pre made entries and adjust the portion to what you ate. They usually already have the nutritional information for what I am eating that is accurate enough but in case they don't have what you are looking for you can make your own custom entries with whatever calorie, protein, carb, etc., amounts you want. Once you have made a custom food made, you can pick it easily from a drop down from then on.
You can also keep track of a few other things besides food. If you track your exercise you do during the day then it will tell you how many calories you have burned, in addition to your base amount burned by your metabolism. Also you can enter in your weigh-ins and it will make a nice line graph of your progress for you.
Here is the public version of my food journal that you all can look at and keep track of my progress if you really want to.
http://www.fitday.com/fitness/PublicJournals.html?Owner=fraysh
If someone wants me to show them around the site, I can show you how I make use of it.
Doug
Monday, February 23, 2009
Fat Girl in the picture!!
So I celebrated my birthday with my girlfriends this weekend. Besides the obvious (that I drank, ate chips, salsa and cheese dip) I saw myself in pictures and was horrified. Why is it that you see yourself in the mirror everyday, but as soon as you see yourself in a picture reality sets in. I'm the fat girl in the picture and it made me so sad. So should I be more upset at the fact that all I notice about myself is that I'm the "fat girl" or that I let myself get that way.
Dena
Dena
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Hey everybody,
This is Doug. If you don't know me, I'm one of the skinny IT guys, not the one with the beard. My goal is probably different than most people in that I am trying to gain weight. Hopefully the majority of that is muscle but if there is some fat in there it isn't a big deal. It is supposedly easier to just gain weight without worrying about exact composition and then reduce body fat afterwards. Right now I weigh around 172 lbs. When I started taking this seriously at the start of February, I was at 170, so there has been some progress so far. Of course my weigh-ins can vary by plus or minus half a pound depending on factors like when I last ate so I try not to hit the scales that often. My end goal is to be around 200 lbs but for now the short term is to hit 175 by March 20th.
The plan to reach my goal can be summarized pretty easily as "lift and eat everything in sight". I've started a structured weight lifting program that I might expand upon in a future post. And the diet is harder than one might think. It's a challenge to get yourself to eat 2700-3000 calories a day especially if you are getting them from healthy sources and not junk food. I'm also doing some cardio to get my cardiovascular fitness up but that is sort of secondary to my main goals.
Thanks for letting me share guys. I'll try to keep you all updated on my progress. If anyone wants some help with weight lifting or nutrition advice, I can share what little knowledge I have.
Doug
This is Doug. If you don't know me, I'm one of the skinny IT guys, not the one with the beard. My goal is probably different than most people in that I am trying to gain weight. Hopefully the majority of that is muscle but if there is some fat in there it isn't a big deal. It is supposedly easier to just gain weight without worrying about exact composition and then reduce body fat afterwards. Right now I weigh around 172 lbs. When I started taking this seriously at the start of February, I was at 170, so there has been some progress so far. Of course my weigh-ins can vary by plus or minus half a pound depending on factors like when I last ate so I try not to hit the scales that often. My end goal is to be around 200 lbs but for now the short term is to hit 175 by March 20th.
The plan to reach my goal can be summarized pretty easily as "lift and eat everything in sight". I've started a structured weight lifting program that I might expand upon in a future post. And the diet is harder than one might think. It's a challenge to get yourself to eat 2700-3000 calories a day especially if you are getting them from healthy sources and not junk food. I'm also doing some cardio to get my cardiovascular fitness up but that is sort of secondary to my main goals.
Thanks for letting me share guys. I'll try to keep you all updated on my progress. If anyone wants some help with weight lifting or nutrition advice, I can share what little knowledge I have.
Doug
I turned 40 on Monday and I am no where near where I wanted to be (health and fitness wise) at this age. Please Lord give me the strength to not continue to beat myself up and put myself down...I know this is half my battle, but it's also something I've done my whole life. Maybe that's why I've battle weight issues my whole life...hmmmm.
Dena
Dena
Friday, February 6, 2009
Welcome to All!!
I have been given the task of coming up with something incredibly motivating and inspirational for the first post on our "DI New You Challenge" blog. Our goal for creating this blog was to offer support as often as you need it.
I have come to realize that I need to do something different. As I am getting older the task of losing weight is not a simple as it used to be. Mother Nature is not kind and it's true what "they" say...it's much harder to lose weight the older you get. Everyday I renew my challenge to eat better that day (no cheating) and go to the gym and some days it works and most days not. My issue is really the weekend...I love to eat out and have some cocktails!! :-)
Last year I wanted to lose 30 lbs...instead I gained 10 lbs so this year's challenge is now up to 40 lbs. I really need to rely more on the people around me for support because (clearly) I can't find the motivation on my own. I plan to use this blog and our monthly meetings to make change in my routine by listening to what works for other and adjusting it to fit my lifestyle. I look forward to hearing from everyone and hope that together each of us can create a "New You" in 2009.
Dena
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