All Things Fit

[jaim91]

if i'm ever in need of some serious motivation all i need to do is look for progress pics on BB. the journal i read before hitting the gym this a.m. was so inspiring that i swear it made me pump harder than ever.

Where do you live? Why are you up so early?!?! lol...I hope when it says 5 am, it doesn't ACTUALLY mean 5 am my time. Poor girl

Rest = growth hun. Is there no other time you can go?

[pacificgrl]

Where do you live? Why are you up so early?!?! lol...I hope when it says 5 am, it doesn't ACTUALLY mean 5 am my time. Poor girl

Rest = growth hun. Is there no other time you can go?

who needs sleep? lift now, rest later.

truth is i'm an early riser so i'm up at 5a even when i "sleep in." i get about 6.5 hours sleep, workout in an empty gym, eat breakfast, back to bed for 1 hour before work. then i'm done for the day. life o' luxury...

[pacificgrl]

Where do you live? Why are you up so early?!?! lol...I hope when it says 5 am, it doesn't ACTUALLY mean 5 am my time. Poor girl

Rest = growth hun. Is there no other time you can go?

i should have made some kind of noob comment like, "oh, i work out at 5am because i hear your metabolism is faster at that hour..." or something along those lines!

[stewart3860]

i should have made some kind of noob comment like, "oh, i work out at 5am because i hear your metabolism is faster at that hour..." or something along those lines!

lol

[jaim91]

i should have made some kind of noob comment like, "oh, i work out at 5am because i hear your metabolism is faster at that hour..." or something along those lines!

Smartass lol!

[Mo_ria]

i should have made some kind of noob comment like, "oh, i work out at 5am because i hear your metabolism is faster at that hour..." or something along those lines!

The only thing fast about me at that hour is that I am fast asleep!

[pacificgrl]

all the bragging about being an early riser didn't get me very far bc i'm totally run down and i'm taking a sick day. i feel a throat thing coming on and there's noo way i'm risking being sick on my upcoming vacation.

i took progress pics today and here's my approach to those: when i make progress, i'll show you my pics.

ha, ha! anyway i definitely am suddenly seeing/believing all the healthy things i've heard for years:
#1 it's not about a number on the scale- do you know how many women on here are 20-30lbs heavier than I am but have the same size waist and even smaller hips!??
#2 that skinny isn't everything- i finally see that looking frail really isn't attractive and my clothing will probably fit better when there's solid muscle underneath. plus staying on a low cal diet would suck as i get older - i'd have to go even lower to maintain the same weight bc there would be no fat burning muscle.

as far as the food goes, i'm definitely not sure skipping the full carb-up was a good idea. i haven't managed any energy to do HIIT all week. i'll have to do a carb-up when i get back from vacation on monday.

getting a body fat test done later today and i'm determined not to be discouraged if there's no change. one thing is that i'm very full in between meals from all the fats i'm getting but i'm eating about 1800 calories any way since i don't want my metabolism to slow. never said i was logical....

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[pacificgrl]

so i've been the same weight for the past two years. maybe a 1-2lb fluctuation during that whole time... and now i've never been fatter. my body fat is up (28%), weight is up several pounds, and i haven't got much energy for cardio. so what do i do now? decrease cals?
i think i need to return to my slightly higher protein and lower fat.. and lower calories overall?

[jaim91]

so i've been the same weight for the past two years. maybe a 1-2lb fluctuation during that whole time... and now i've never been fatter. my body fat is up (28%), weight is up several pounds, and i haven't got much energy for cardio. so what do i do now? decrease cals?
i think i need to return to my slightly higher protein and lower fat.. and lower calories overall?

See post below

ha, ha! anyway i definitely am suddenly seeing/believing all the healthy things i've heard for years:
#1 it's not about a number on the scale- do you know how many women on here are 20-30lbs heavier than I am but have the same size waist and even smaller hips!??
#2 that skinny isn't everything- i finally see that looking frail really isn't attractive and my clothing will probably fit better when there's solid muscle underneath. plus staying on a low cal diet would suck as i get older - i'd have to go even lower to maintain the same weight bc there would be no fat burning muscle.

Be careful girl. At your weight, fat loss is a slippery slope. I would just keep plugging away at it. It took me a WHOLE YEAR to reach my goal. You've been at it for a couple weeks Rome wasn't built in a day, hun. Don't worry...stay positive!

[pacificgrl]

See post below



Be careful girl. At your weight, fat loss is a slippery slope. I would just keep plugging away at it. It took me a WHOLE YEAR to reach my goal. You've been at it for a couple weeks Rome wasn't built in a day, hun. Don't worry...stay positive!

thx jaim. damn journal throwing my words back at me!

i hear ya but my jeans are tighter and i'm really mushy... i think the whole drinking fat/eating slabs of butter has to come to a halt... i'm sticking with it but i think i'm going to try upp'ing my proteins back to 150g and lowering the fats a bit so i'm more in the 65/30/5 split... ty. hope you had a good day.

[pacificgrl]

tonight's workout was decent - leg curls, squats, chest press, bicep curls, calf raises, and a bit of ab work for good measure.

i'm leaving tomorrow for a resort that's completely devoted to wellness so the carb-up won't happen until i return next week. i'm pulling together my new routine with three day splits and then the following week when i meet with my trainer, he/she can tweak it.

today's food was clean as can be and my carbs were 20g. calorie total was 1800.

[Mo_ria]

tonight's workout was decent - leg curls, squats, chest press, bicep curls, calf raises, and a bit of ab work for good measure.

i'm leaving tomorrow for a resort that's completely devoted to wellness so the carb-up won't happen until i return next week. i'm pulling together my new routine with three day splits and then the following week when i meet with my trainer, he/she can tweak it.

today's food was clean as can be and my carbs were 20g. calorie total was 1800.

I'm very curious to see what happens when you meet with your trainer...Have fun at the resort---sounds like it's going to be lovely!

[jaim91]

HAVE SUPER FUN WELLNESS RETREAT!!! Come back energized adn ready to kick @$$!!!

[pacificgrl]

there's a computer room... and i couldn't resist checking in on BB.

the dining is supppper duper easy for keto. went on a hike yesterday and today i'm going to do lifting, a dip in the pool, and whatever else.

there are tons of cardio classes and i'm so freaking low on energy that i don't know if i can muster it up! i'm strongly considering switching to carb cycling, guys... being on keto, 20g's of carb without the fiber i'm stuck (if you know what i mean) and am drooling when i look at apples. plus headaches... what do you think of doing carb cycling for my goals? keto lets me keep my cals high w/o gaining but i hate doing the one meal/one day carb-ups... so i'm thinking there's another way. i'm really freaking afraid of making myself MORE carb sensitive than i was before i started.

MO - yes, i am so excited to get things rolling with this trainer. my boyfriend is treating me to the sessions and he's insisted that we wait until my actual birthday to give me the dude's number. i think it's sweet but i wanna be ripped already.

JAIM - you're such a huge motivator!

[Mo_ria]

I gotta be honest, for about the first month on keto I was exhausted. I took a LOT of acetyl-l-carnitine and some stimulants (fire caps and amphetalean are awesome!), which helped. The headaches sucked, but they were gone after about week 3. I still do a lot of fiber and magnesium. Maybe these things will help you to adjust.

Are you only carbing up for one meal? I'm confused...I do the carb up starting after my early evening workout Friday through early evening Saturday.

Glad you're enjoying your time away!
Mo

[pacificgrl]

I gotta be honest, for about the first month on keto I was exhausted. .

Are you only carbing up for one meal?
Mo

glad to know that the headaches and lethargy subside. i do have some supps that help but i hate crashing afterwards. i'm a no caffeine kinda gal... i just don't know if i want to be reliant on fiber supps... UNLESS i know that what i'm doing with keto can only be done with keto. maybe all this will feel different after a carb-up on monday or tuesday.

yes, i experimented with doing a one meal carb-up last weekend but i don't think that did the trick. i also can't stand loading it all into one day... it's a bit too much for my system to handle but i'm not lifting heavy enough to really draw it out over the course of two days, ya know?

i lifted today, 3 sets of 10:
leg extensions
leg press
squats
some awesome glut machine
resistance bands (side lunges)
walking lunges
lat pulldowns
bicep curls
and some of this crazy ab things... hyperextensions i think they're called.

the precor machines they have here are top of the line. looove them. then i did a hike, jacuzzi, etc. tomorrow i'm going to shoulders and chest plus a bit of cardio (spin?)

[jaim91]

Hun, when you deplete your body for the rest of the week, one carb up meal isn't going to cut it in terms of refilling your muscles.

Try to avoid the excessive cardio, you may lose muscle mass instead of just fat. I would do calisthenics (pushups, dips, situps, squats, etc.) to keep muscle mass and keep fit while you're away. But remember, ENJOY!!!!

P.S. Thanks for the compliment...I heart you!!

[pacificgrl]

Hun, when you deplete your body for the rest of the week, one carb up meal isn't going to cut it in terms of refilling your muscles.

Try to avoid the excessive cardio, you may lose muscle mass instead of just fat. I would do calisthenics (pushups, dips, situps, squats, etc.) to keep muscle mass and keep fit while you're away. But remember, ENJOY!!!!

P.S. Thanks for the compliment...I heart you!!

must keep focus. jaim is keeping me in line another 24h, right jaim? my heart was puuumping yesterday during that lifting session bc i didn't rest longer than 20sec in between sets. i used to do a "boot camp" class before. if you ever teach one, i'll tell you as a student it ROCKED to alternate stations of weights and then calisthenics. thx for the reminder. i'll try that bc i don't like staring at the clock in between sets or exercises.

sore today, slender thighs tomorrow! my boyfriend gave me an awesome lifting book to use. today is going to stuff i really love - decline bench press and all sorts of shoulder raises.

question for experienced folks - what's the deal with the nausea that comes up when i reach the full exersion on a lift? when i do leg extensions and i'm exerting a lot of strength, i get this intense feeling.. almost like nausea. must be a good thing.

i had lamb for the first time last night. it was delish.

i'm going to lift mid-morning and maybe take a very brief dip in the pool. the dining room doesn't open for another 40 minutes and i'm ready to knaw off my arm... i might have to camp outside.

[jaim91]

must keep focus. jaim is keeping me in line another 24h, right jaim?

question for experienced folks - what's the deal with the nausea that comes up when i reach the full exersion on a lift? when i do leg extensions and i'm exerting a lot of strength, i get this intense feeling.. almost like nausea. must be a good thing.

Try my best yo But you keep yourself in line, I'm just kind of like the bumpers in your bowling game, lol.

In terms of the nausea, it's "relatively" normal. You know you hear stories of Arnold and Ronnie vomitting everywhere in the gym on leg day. Or Branch Warren carrying around a pail with him...I looked around on google.com for you, but couldn't find any real evidence about why people get nauseous in the gym. Maybe it has something to do with straining so hard, or maybe fogetting to breathe while pushing out so you get light headed

[pacificgrl]

Try my best yo But you keep yourself in line, I'm just kind of like the bumpers in your bowling game, lol.

In terms of the nausea, it's "relatively" normal. You know you hear stories of Arnold and Ronnie vomitting everywhere in the gym on leg day. Or Branch Warren carrying around a pail with him...I looked around on google.com for you, but couldn't find any real evidence about why people get nauseous in the gym. Maybe it has something to do with straining so hard, or maybe fogetting to breathe while pushing out so you get light headed

duh, i must remember to breathe. glad to know i'm not alone on this one:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...=nausea+squats

today's workout: shoulders and tri's
front raises
chest press
two shoulder exercises that i forget the name of... W and goal something...
tricep pulldown/extension
tricep kickback
abs (20x2 sets- crunches, bicycles, side crunches, "penguins")

[jaim91]

Yo!

Aight, so I was thinking, I know you're about to start working with a trainer and everything, so I don't want to impose on your financial situation or anything. But I would like to suggest something if you have the time/money:

Look into the Cut Diet Lean Mass or Bulking for Ectomorphs, both available from scivationbooks.com for free. I'm on the modified Cut diet right now, and let me tell you, joining TS was the best decision of my life. The supplements and the help are just fantastic. PM me for details, but I really think that you + TS could be a pefect marriage. I'm going to suggest the same thing to Mo_ria, but for cutting vs. bulking with fat loss.

P.S. I need some female presence in my journal, lol

[Mo_ria]

BTW, I have totally hurled in the gym before. During leg day, of course. This was back before I had all of my gnarly injuries...these guys were staring at me like, "Damn!". Totally embarrassing. I have also hurled during cardio, too. Good times!
Mo

[boyscouT]

there's a computer room... and i couldn't resist checking in on BB.

LOL! It always sucks you in .

Best of luck on your goals!

[pacificgrl]

Yo!

Aight, so I was thinking, I know you're about to start working with a trainer and everything, so I don't want to impose on your financial situation or anything. But I would like to suggest something if you have the time/money:

Look into the Cut Diet Lean Mass or Bulking for Ectomorphs, both available from scivationbooks.com for free. I'm on the modified Cut diet right now, and let me tell you, joining TS was the best decision of my life. The supplements and the help are just fantastic. PM me for details, but I really think that you + TS could be a pefect marriage. I'm going to suggest the same thing to Mo_ria, but for cutting vs. bulking with fat loss.

P.S. I need some female presence in my journal, lol

the rule is that even though i want to gain lean mass, there's no use of the word "bulking" in this journal, ok? LOL i'll pm you when i've given it a read. i realize i need to join a real gym and not hte dinky one in my building. sooo it's a lot of new things all at once but i'm never one to focus anyway.

i'm swearing on something holy that i've been reading your journal. i'm so on top of it that i know you did hyperextensions the other day, went to the comp, had a cheat, etc. the convo was steering to supplement talk and i lost out but maybe once i read up on scivation i'll understand what the heck extend (?) is.

[pacificgrl]

BTW, I have totally hurled in the gym before. During leg day, of course. This was back before I had all of my gnarly injuries...these guys were staring at me like, "Damn!". Totally embarrassing. I have also hurled during cardio, too. Good times!
Mo

poor thing. holy... i can't do cardio within 2 hours of eating bc of the hurl potential. was it your breathing on the legs that did you in? i hope that's a passing phase for us!

[pacificgrl]

LOL! It always sucks you in .

Best of luck on your goals!

with over 43,000 posts, i'm sure you can relate.
BB is now very much a part of my morning ritual... and afternoon diversion... and evening wind down... and did i mention when i can't sleep i log on? lol...

[pacificgrl]

digital calipers. discuss.

got the body comp done by a personal trainer who found the idea of being at 28% BF impossible. she did the digital caliper test on me and got at 20% reading with a +/- 3% margin of error. she said i'm somewhere between 17-20%. her feedback was that i should absoultely keep doing what i'm doing only that i might want to increase LBM through weight lifting. she said there's not much to pinch and i don't want to dip too low. since i've started keto i've gotten a bit more body fat (hips/butt up 1", thighs too) but all the DOM's i'm experiencing shows a fair amount of muscle dev too.

finished my book yesterday in a hot tub. i'm too sore to do any cardio today so i might do the quick swim i've been talking about for three days. we're driving back home in the afternoon. this has been the greatest vacation ever - it's going to be very depressing to go back home to work!

[stewart3860]

I am addicted to this site too...mostly lurking tho. Sorry to hear your vacation is almost over, but yay for 17-20% bodyfat. Did you happen to see which brand of calipers she was using?

I get the nausea/feeling like I'm gonna pass out/seeing stars when I'm in the gym. uck, not a good feeling, but at least I know i'm giving it all i've got.

Ahh...good for your mo_ria, for working that hard in the gym! ouch!

[pacificgrl]

I am addicted to this site too...mostly lurking tho. Sorry to hear your vacation is almost over, but yay for 17-20% bodyfat. Did you happen to see which brand of calipers she was using?

I get the nausea/feeling like I'm gonna pass out/seeing stars when I'm in the gym. uck, not a good feeling, but at least I know i'm giving it all i've got.

Ahh...good for your mo_ria, for working that hard in the gym! ouch!

i know it's going to be insanely depressing to go home but if i plan the next vacation maybe it won't be so bleak. i didn't notice the brand bc i've never seen digital calipers before and that was fascinating enough. i can try to find out for you.

what a crazy idea that DOM's and headaches are good things to show ketosis/training. well, i've got a crazy headache and inner thighs are super sore. did you get headaches when you were doing keto? how has your food plan been? i weighed in this morning and i'm up a bit but i'm thinking that i should go by the tape measure to see if it's LBM.

[stewart3860]

my food plan is pretty good actually. it's nice to be able to eat carbs again, but i'm not having any cheat foods for the first two weeks. I actually gained 4 lbs of LBM on keto in 4 weeks, so it's a very good muscle building diet. I get headaches when I don't drink enough water...and keto would sometimes make me dehydrated. are you drinking enough water?