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i just clashed with my boss a lot and i was having to travel furthur because i moved to a different part of town

i'm just seeing it as an opportunity to spend more time at the gym and make yummy bb'er friendly recipes like laurasaur \:D/

i weighed myself again tonight and was 65.7.. hmmmmmmm

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Wow bugger about the job... but BG's right, don't throw all the carbs away.

Even at the amount you posted, it'd be as much about the timing of carbs as quantity, I'd suggest. Move that spud to lunchtime, lose the ricebubbles - replace them with a protein shake - and look at the timing of cardio as well.

..and don't sweat the numbers on the scale, use girth measurements, either as well or instead of. Chest, hips, waist, quad/thigh, biceps, calf would give you an accurate consistent view of what's going on :nod:

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urgh so i've picked up some stomach bug so i found it hard to keep my food down today... :?

breakfast: 1/2 serve sculpt + coffee with trim milk

lunch: can of tuna

lunch: minus the can of tuna :(:(

snack: orange

dinner: homemade pizza - wholemeal base, tomato, capsicum, mushroom, onion, spinach with a sprinkling of cheese

before bed: hot choc with trim milk - 1/2 hot chocolate with trim milk :(

i still managed a half hour swim though at a slow pace - probably swam about 50 lengths

drinking heaps of water at the moment and hopefully this bug will be gone tomorrow

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thanks vee

i still feel like crap, headache and stuff

managed to keep down all my food today though

breakfast: orange, kiwifruit, banana

snack: 2x rice thin with tomato and homemade hummus

lunch: boiled egg and bacon mmmmmm

snack: black coffee

dinner: tuna quiche (made this for 2 people)- wholemeal base, 2 cans of tuna, 3 tomatoes, 2 mushrooms, 3 eggs, bit of milk and salt and pepper yum yum

no workout today, gonna do a gym workout and a distance swim tomorrow hopefully if i'm well :)

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feelin heaps better today :)

went out last night though and drunk a biiiit too much, but don't worry i only drank spirits! no sugary crap ha ha haaaaaaaoowww my head

it's amazing how much your strength goes down when you've got a hangover

Workout:

5 mins walk 3% incline 6kmph

5 mins run 10kmph

5 mins incline walk 12% 6kmph

10x5x1 wide grip assisted chin ups

10x5x1 close grip assisted chin ups

10x10x1 wide grip

7x10x1 wide grip

5x5x1 wide grip

2x5x1 close grip (fail! haha)

i was almost fainting here even after drinking 2 bottles of wate so i thought it was best i leave before i injure myself :?

diet:

brunch: 2 boiled eggs and a glass of trim milk

snack: coffee with trim milk

lunch: avocado and peanut butter sandwich on wholemeal bread (yes i know peanut butter is crap)

dinner: homemade tomato soup with 1 pita bread to dip in yum yum

the good news is i've picked up some casual work, woo!!

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been busy busy working for this stupid catering business, takes a lot of energy out of you

i've been sticking to my swimming plan

did an awesome 1.25km fast today!! and then a VERRRRYY slow 500m i was so tired after the fast swim

my diet is under control at the moment, i eat my carbs at lunch time and mainly protein. have split up my meals into 5 smallish meals instead of 3 big ones

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been busy busy working for this stupid catering business, takes a lot of energy out of you

i've been sticking to my swimming plan

did an awesome 1.25km fast today!! and then a VERRRRYY slow 500m i was so tired after the fast swim

my diet is under control at the moment, i eat my carbs at lunch time and mainly protein. have split up my meals into 5 smallish meals instead of 3 big ones

Crikey - the only way I could swim that far is if I tied a rope to the Interislander!

Great to hear you've managed to keep the diet under control, it takes a lot of will power to do that when things get tough, so good on you!

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over the last few days i've decided to start doing body for life!! :pfft: thanks vee!

haven't had much time to start my programme properly as of yet because i'm working 12 hours a day 4 days a week- goddamn casual hospo!!

and it usually takes me 1 day of rest to get the energy to go to the gym again!

I've got a job interview for a 9-5/5 on monday so fingers crossed

so far to kick start before i actually start documenting my bfl progress i'm going for 20 min runs every second day, found some heavy things in the garage to lift and been doing squats at home, today i can hardly walk so i must be doing something right!

wish me luck on my 12 week journey to a sexy muscular body!!

Note: i'm still doing my swimming training on top of the 20 min cardio - going to have to do distance swimming atleast 4 times a week so i can get trained up enough for this ocea swim. I hope it's not cheating :-s

I'm thinking of doing this later on in the week when i'm more tired as i don't get sore muscles from it

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haha, i'm sure you'll make it!

what do your friends and family think of the goals you have for yourself now?

i was trying to explain to my hubby about it and he pulled the "oh you look fine the way you are" line hahaha and some of the girlies think i'm gonna turn all butch on them once i start to build up!

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Um...maybe it's the way you wrote it, but I think you'd have to consider the amount of swimming you're doing, count it as cardio time, and include it in your diet prep.

I think the two can be done together, no worries, and with the right diet, careful mix of protein/carbs/fat, and care about meal timings you'll be surprised at what you can achieve.

But if you don't get the balance right, the excess cardio will cannabalise muscle, not body fat - undoing the good weights work that lays down toned muscle.

Good luck!

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Some supported me, some didn't understand so I just didn't discuss it with the people who didn't understand. My work mates who do NO exercise and eat CRAP say I'm too thin and think I'm mad but I just take it on the chin and keep going. I look thin compared to them as they are all over weight!!! My step mother who was very supportive throughout the whole BFL then said to me last week "What dissapointing results" and that I didn't look that good!! My husband has been great and been supportive and put up with my obsession over muscles!! I guess you just have to do it for yourself and don't listen to any negative comments and only take on board the positives! If you explain to your man that you want to do this so you will be healthier and therefore happier I'm sure he will understand, he might even be inspired by you!!

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My husband has been great and been supportive and put up with my obsession over muscles!! If you explain to your man that you want to do this so you will be healthier and therefore happier I'm sure he will understand, he might even be inspired by you!!

haha, i managed to get mine to come for a run with me last week, he's pretty unfit and runty :pfft: maybe i should play one of those tapes while he sleeps.

"i want to get muscular and fit. being thin and runty is undesirable." and perhaps add in "do what your wife says"

:pfft: :pfft: :pfft:

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Um...it's my personal understanding that the best approach is to consider the whole package when you're working out your diet and training.

Just as a diet for a building worker, doing physical labour, is different from a sit-on-his-backside office worker who needs less calories, so it's true that your diet needs will vary based on your total activity for the day/week.

No matter what form the activity takes, if the most effective way for the body to cope is to breakdown muscle rather than put more on, or burn fat, that's what will happen.

So, looking across a week, if you were doing 20m of cardio on weights days AND doing oceanswim training for (say 20 minutes) four times a week...what you'd need to take into account in your planning is that effectively you're doing 40m cardio daily.

If it's all low-intensity stuff (around 65% max HR), AND you allow for the energy expenditure in your diet, you can manage it.

But yes, even if the only energy expended in 20m of low-intensity swimming was 200-300 cal, if you don't get the diet right, it will have an impact. If your diet, for example, was 2000 cals/ day, and you didn't allow for the extra activity in the swim, then you're running a deficit and you can't necessarily expect to retain muscle in those circumstances.

I believe it can all be managed by looking at what you need to get daily, and then when's the best time to get it. That would differ depending on whether its weight or swimming.

...and as for the "Do what your wife says" tapes, for goodness sakes don't tell my wife where to get them!

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