Chillicat's journal

[runveerun]

Chocolate = more energy for squats

It's a win win situation really :grin: It has some sort of protein in it and think of all that calcium!

[Chillicat]

Aha yes, very true Vee! I'll test it out tomorrow, which is my 'extra' day for shoulders and triceps and lots of abs.

[Chillicat]

Worked from home today, so went to gym first thing instead of lunchtime. Skipped the 'extra legs and abs' that I normally do on a Thursday and brought forward Sunday's lower body workout - am anticipating a late night of royal wedding partying tomorrow night so won't manage gym on Saturday, so thought it best to think ahead and do one of my main workouts a wee bit earlier than usual rather than a bonus workout which is ok to skip. So instead of legs on Sun I'll do my normal Sat chest/tri/shoulders workout (did extra shoulders and tri yesterday so didn't bring that one forward).

[Chillicat]

Oh dear. Routine medical visit today and naturally they decided to weigh me as always. I am carrying several kilos worth of excess easter eggs, hot cross buns, and royal wedding festivity food (white bread cucumber sandwiches and heart shaped truffles and the like!).

Knew it wouldn't be a pleasant sight on the scales, as after one week of extremely good eating, and several more weeks of OK eating, I got all 'it's only once a year' about easter and gorged myself stupid on creme eggs (they're soooooooooooo good!). Then knowing I was going to a royal wedding party I thought 'well, one more week won't hurt'...

But the scales put me at the upper end of my weight, the number I never like to go over, so time for some serious non-drinking and healthy eating. So I am committed to four solid weeks of eating sensibly, and assuming I make some progress I can then treat myself to a day at the food and wine show - but I have to earn it. Love the food and wine show, and don't want to miss it, but I'm not allowed to go if I continue to be such a pig. So time to get my head out of the trough and maybe even do some cardio :shifty:

[Chillicat]

Extra legs and abs today.

Also jumped on my own scales, which are 2.5kg friendlier than the nurse's (unlikely that I lost 2.5kg between yesterday and today - Biggest Loser I am not!), but would still like to shift 5kg. Turned down birthday cake at work today, and calories all good today, so I'm on my way. Will also decline the morning tea at work tomorrow. Feeling virtuous :wink:

[samuelNZ]

Awesome self control! Wish I had it, then I could have turned down the 2 Dominos pizzas I just ate :oops:

KUTGW

[VampireChick]

Extra legs and abs today.

Also jumped on my own scales, which are 2.5kg friendlier than the nurse's (unlikely that I lost 2.5kg between yesterday and today - Biggest Loser I am not!), but would still like to shift 5kg. Turned down birthday cake at work today, and calories all good today, so I'm on my way. Will also decline the morning tea at work tomorrow. Feeling virtuous :wink:

Yeah I've never been a fan of the nurse's scales...there's always a 2 kg different at least so I just pretend they're wrong :pfft:

[runveerun]

Extra legs and abs today.

Also jumped on my own scales, which are 2.5kg friendlier than the nurse's (unlikely that I lost 2.5kg between yesterday and today - Biggest Loser I am not!), but would still like to shift 5kg. Turned down birthday cake at work today, and calories all good today, so I'm on my way. Will also decline the morning tea at work tomorrow. Feeling virtuous :wink:

Yeah I've never been a fan of the nurse's scales...there's always a 2 kg different at least so I just pretend they're wrong :pfft:

The nurse at my doctors always takes 2kgs off the reading so I am lulled into a false sense of slimness! Until I weigh myself at home again. :pfft: :oops:

[Chillicat]

Awesome self control! Wish I had it, then I could have turned down the 2 Dominos pizzas I just ate :oops:

KUTGW

Thanks! But you wouldn't say 'awesome self control' if you'd see me gorging on easter eggs and hot cross buns! Now it's a case of having to before I turn into a fat lump!

Yeah I've never been a fan of the nurse's scales...there's always a 2 kg different at least so I just pretend they're wrong :pfft:

The nurse at my doctors always takes 2kgs off the reading so I am lulled into a false sense of slimness! Until I weigh myself at home again. :pfft: :oops:

There are a couple of nurse offices at my medical centre, each with scales - one always seems to underweigh (I weigh less than I did at home, even after having brekky and a drink, so definitely not right) and the other seems to overweigh - I just got the nasty one this week! Just goes to show that you need to weight on the same scales for consistency since they're all a wee bit different.

But the overweighing was the kick up the butt I needed - I started April well, but then with the lack of walking (not walking to and/or from home to work anymore now it's cooler) and things like easter, things got a wee bit out of hand.

[Chillicat]

Been a bit sick and low on energy this last week, so haven't been able to do a great deal of lifting. This week I've just been doing 1 exercise per muscle group, then hitting the treadmill for a nice stroll as I haven't got the energy for anything else (or inclination if I'm honest - hate running!).

Weight is stable, but with all the lying about I haven't lost anything in the last week, so need to up my cardio game.

In an attempt to introduce more cardio I'm going to do a class or two each week - likely one pump and one spin. It's been a long time since I did either, but with my general dislike of cardio I need the class atmosphere of a spin class to make me work harder. And I like pump so I don't really need to rationalise that one. Will be hard though, out of practice! Hopefully will to tomorrow's lunchtime class if my morning workshop finishes on time.

[Chillicat]

Pump class yesterday, first in about a year - unbelievable chest DOMS today. I think it's from the pressups which I also haven't done in a while.

Wow, doing a class after such a long time was hard! I was ok with the squats (though weight very much reduced), but chest was a real killer. The bar felt light as a feather (only 10kg total), but by halfway through the track my arms had had enough of the constant reps. I switched to a bar half the weight, but it felt exactly the same, so I think it was more of a case of the rep range than the weight - so just something I need to get used to, and no sense lowering the weights as it'll hurt regardless til I get used to bench pressing for 4 mins solid again!

Great fun, and will make an effort to include a class once a week.

[teamfatboy]

Nice work, CC :clap:

I found exactly the same when I did a pump-like class - working the muscles differently, ultra-high rep count or slow reps, it really had the bits that had been having a sheltered life :shifty:

but it's all good, and it's fun

[Chillicat]

Nice work, CC :clap:

I found exactly the same when I did a pump-like class - working the muscles differently, ultra-high rep count or slow reps, it really had the bits that had been having a sheltered life :shifty:

but it's all good, and it's fun

Yeah, it is fun, especially when it's a great instructor like Riz, who I just love to bits.

I was still sore around chest and triceps area yesterday so did legs instead - just some squats and SLDLS then cardio. Very light though, as I've been exhausted recently. Had every intention of doing spin on Friday, but was so exhausted just walking to the train station in the morning, and really struggled through the morning, so thought it best not to.

Shortly off to the gym (if my husband ever decides to wake up!), and will do chest and tris and some more cardio.

Weight is exactly on track, lost just over half a kg this week which made up for the stagnation while I was sick. Hoping that an increase in energy will mean I can do a nice hard spin class tomorrow and work off a ton of calories.

[Chillicat]

Took just on 2 hours for my face to stop being red after the pump class this lunchtime! Only managed to do 35 mins of the actual class (plus about 10 mins before the class started), as had to get back to work - but definitely worked (though the calories were pretty pissy according to my HRM).

[Chillicat]

Shocker of a fortnight with muchos eating and not so muchos training. Planned to set it right on Wednesday by doing the double: spin followed by pump, but alas my colleague wanted me to come out to my old college for a Samoan Language Week thing he was doing, and of course that meant lots of food!

So I'm steering clear of the scales and implementing damage control as much as possible.

Given my new focus of wanting to lose a few kgs, I've rejigged my workout plan. So far it's been an ideal rather than an actuality, as there's often something at work that stops me attending the classes I want to go to, but I've tried as much as possible to sort out my calendar the week before to ensure I can make adequate changes.

Essentially the plan is:

Sat - chest/tris/shoulders

Sun - legs

Mon - spin class

Tue - back/biceps

Wed - pump class (and/or possibly spin class)

Thur - abs/cardio (can use as a catch up day for anything missed, or a pump day if I'm working at home since J'ville has a 9.15am pump class)

Fri - spin class

So far I haven't actually followed this ideal, as I say with one thing and another, it's more of a guideline.

I've been wearing my HRM to classes and while doing cardio and worked out the following, which helps me to decide what cardio to do:

7.8 calories per minute burnt in a spin class

5.2 calories per minute burnt in a pump class

4.5 calories per minute while strolling on the treadmill

I reckon I'll improve on my spin and pump efforts now that I've got a couple of classes of each under my belt, and get more cardio fit. I also realised looking at this that I'm pretty much wasting my time on the treadmill, so I'll focus fully on weights on weights days, and leave the calorie burning efforts to when I do classes.

[Chillicat]

My journal is in danger of slipping onto page 2, so I thought I should do an update.

Well, basically I'm just plugging along, still no amazing goals other than not looking like a saggy old 40+ year old who's let herself go (and who doesn't have kids to use as an excuse!).

I've got myself into a new weekly schedule over the last couple of months that is pretty much set for now, as i'm really enjoying it.

Sat - full on legs session

Sun - full on chest, tris, shoulders session

Mon - spin class

Tue - back, biceps and usually a wee bit of extra tris/shoulders

Wed - spin class

Thurs - usually a day off

Fri - spin class

Yep, I've gone from complete cardio-avoidance to a full on spin junkie. When I started about 2 months ago I was managing a 45 minute session/320 calories. I'm now making sure I go early enough to do a full 60 mins and am up to 550-560 calories (563 yesterday!), so my ability to complete a session has improved, and the work I put in has improved (on a calories per minute basis).

And the amazing thing is that I actually enjoy it. In the past it's always been something to endure rather than enjoy, and I was constantly clock watching. Now I'm always looking at my watch, but it's not for the time but to check my heart rate and to make sure I'm pushing myself as much as I can.

In terms of losing a bit of flabbage, it's now 10 weeks since I started getting my eating back on track. My intention was to lose 5kg, but I've only managed 3kg - but that's all good - I'm not exactly a heifer anyway, and not dieting for competition or anything, so as long as I'm seeing progress I'm fine with a slower rate.

I hit a plateau about 6 weeks back where I hardly seemed to be eating anything not on the plan and had started really getting into the spinning, but the weight was not shifting a single bit - I figured that it was just my body saying 'hmmmm, there's not much food going in and lots of exercise suddenly happening, so let's just hang onto the reserves for a bit' - and then sure enough, I didn't just give up and now in the last few weeks I've seen some movement on the scales.

So yeah, still just plodding away really. Not worth updating this on a daily basis, as the weights aren't really all that interesting - same old same old, nothing to add.

[VampireChick]

3kg is still pretty awesome! Good to see you're back into it (and have been for a while!)

[Chillicat]

3kg is still pretty awesome! Good to see you're back into it (and have been for a while!)

Thanks! I'm working at balance - since I'm not working towards a competition or anything, I'm more focused on having a life that involves nice food and drink (which for me are some of life's enjoyments), but also balance, and I'm happy to sacrifice a couple of kilos for that. It's understandable for a person to be 'that food nazi' if they are competing or working towards something of importance, but I want to be able to go out and have a giant piece of chocolate brownie cheesecake with raspberry cream (which is divine by the way) without feeling any guilt at all - and still staying within the weight I want to be.

I pretty much work to an 80/20 kind of format - eat extremely well about 80% of the time and 20% of my meals are a wee bit more relaxed.

[VampireChick]

For sure! I'm DEFINITELY looking forward to the day when I don't have to be 100% (actually, more like 95%)....I miss the 80% clean eating method!

[Chillicat]

Just did a spin class. Hosea Gear was in it. Yum.

That's all.

[teamfatboy]

Just put the rugby players back where you find them, CC....

good work on keeping on keeping on, btw.. must find time to train at CF one lunchtime...haven't been in daylight for ages!

[Chillicat]

Just put the rugby players back where you find them, CC....

good work on keeping on keeping on, btw.. must find time to train at CF one lunchtime...haven't been in daylight for ages!

Awwww do I have to?!

Yeah, you should come back. I'm going to start going a bit earlier (not lunchtime rush) in the hope of spotting more rugby boys over the next month since they're meant to be using CF. With SA in town right now, I want another look at Pierre Spies's arms - mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Chillicat]

Hello, still here, just about to get shunted to page 2 so thought I should do a quick update.

Um, well, I'm a statistic. All those news articles about rugby making people fat - yep, I'm one of them. Still been going to gym regularly but also been eating a lot of shit and drinking muchos vinos while watching almost every single game (bar a couple while on road trips - missed maybe 3 all 6 weeks), so on a balance things are looking up but that's not a good thing, that's the scales going up, not the weights I'm lifting (and I'm a chick, so don't like weight going up!).

So back into stuff properly now, good eats and more consistency with gymming (no excuses!)

Also, train/bus fare about to increase by almost 30% next week, and my income is going up by 0% this year, so now that spring has sprung I'll start walking at least half way to and from work each day. That should help the fat busting.

[runveerun]

Hi CC! Nice to have another girl back! Not many left here :cry:

Welcome back to le board!

[Chillicat]

Hiya Vee! I don't post much these days, because I get a bit bored with saying pretty much the same thing every day. But I still lurk and read all your journals and post occasionally.

I haven't really made any effort to improve this year, and my hopeless attempts to lose a bit of weight have proved that even if I had a desire to prance about in a spangly bikini and stripper heels (which I don't) that I never will because I just don't have what it takes to lose even 5kg to look good, nevermind a whole ton that these bbers need to look amazing.

Which is quite depressing really!

But nevermind, I will just carry on plodding away, and who knows, maybe make more of an effort next year if I feel inspired.