Brat's Fall

[CF-OC_gal]

more to come

Here's the goal list:
Here are the goals for the next month.

1. Re-establish a regular 6 day on , one day rest workout schedule.(3 strength/stability, 2-3 cardio, 0-1 flexibility/relaxation)

2. Just for fun, try to lose 3 more lbs just to say I got under 120lbs. Then try doing a BW pull up. Regardless I'll do this as a "sympathy diet" for all those people who are trying to lose weight.

3. After screwing around doing goal number 2, try to gain and maintain weight. In one month I would say maintaining at 2lbs + higher in weight would be realistic. (that's 124lbs) (winter is coming too so it's quite possible without trying).

4. Go one complete month without missing taking any iron or multi-vitamin supplements.

5. 7-8 hours sleep each day (may include time taking a catnap)

6. Just for one month only, cut back on saturated fats and dairy products and all the other "bad foods" I usually keep in my daily routine. have them on weekend "cheat days" (ug I hate that term!) only. Sorry I have to keep the red meats when my iron stores are so vulnerable. I'll also pass on alcohol drinks for a month, not that it changes much about my diet anyway.

[.V.]

Looking forward to it.





Hey, I had to reply or I wouldn't get to watch your fall workout thing progress.

haha P - beat you to it. Yeah, I see you are in this thread too.

[CF-OC_gal]

122lbs this morning
6 hours sleep

** Thanks Mr P for the burpee suggestion. I feel that I have done a workout all over but ever so slightly - mostly in the obliques.

Meal 1:
2 fresh peaches, 1 small banana
multi-vitamin and iron pill
1 lg egg + 2 tbsp egg white, approx.1/4 tsp coconut oil (1 cal, 1 gm sat. fat) scrambled
8 oz black organic Mexican blend coffee

blood test and working

Nibblings all day at work:
2 pieces of 1 calorie gum
1/4 cup peanuts and natural almonds
4 oz. OJ and iron pill, salmon oil (1000mg)
wood fire baked poppyseed bagel

Meal 2:
1 packet tuna (85g/22g Protein)- 1.5 tbsp Hellmans
4 kalamata olives
1peach
iron pill

20 min dog walk

1 rye cracker and 1 tbsp peanut butter
cuppa reg. tea w/tbsp 2% milk

20 min. yoga

I discovered one thing today - coffee is not worth craving if it doesn't have cream! I feel a caffeine withdrawal headache may be in my future before the month is out. And hats of to hardcore dieters. This kind of stoic eating really sucks bad!

[CF-OC_gal]

122lbs
6 hours sleep

Meal 1:
2 peaches
multi vitamin and iron pill
muselix bagel
1tsp butter, 1.5 tbsp P.butter
8 oz black coffee

Meal 2
1 peach
250 ml container of 2% cottage cheese (1 cup)
2 rye crackers
2 pieces gum
iron pill

20 min brisk dog walk

peach
1.4 cup peanuts
4 oz orange juice, iron pill, salmon oil pill

Meal 3
3/4 c pasta shells
3/4 cup fake veal stroganoff (made with can of mushroom soup)
cuppa tea w 1-2 tbsp 2% milk

It's not a great excuse but I was beat by 7pm. When I work my "other job" I'm up 4 flights of stairs from the main entrance and the photocopier. I must have ran those suckers for customers 15-20 times over the course of my shift. I wasn't getting winded at the top like I usually do. (Thank god I didn't wear heels today - that slows me down and fires the stabilisers more)

Hi Brat,

I've got a better and catchier title for your new thread:

"Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner with Brat".

Almost sounds like a new cooking program on cable TV.

It's fun to read your appetizer food consumption but you are omitting the main courses.

[CF-OC_gal]

Well I'm eating "clean" now LOL.

All I can say is that it sucks and it sure is setting up some monster sized fantasies about food! You'd have to be stupid to want to eat like this as a lifestyle. All I think about all day is the food I don't get to eat! I don't care how "cut" the goal is! I'm doing it for 2 weeks like I said as a sympathy diet in respect of the sacrifices that others here make in the name of good health and fitness. The best part is that when I resume my normal food choices I should induce some decent weight gain from having restricted for this time. By then, hopefully, I'll be working out harder too.

[CF-OC_gal]

9 hours sleep last night
122lbs all day yesterday and this morning

Morning dog walk - 20 min
Bike ride and back to get my deposit from the summer gym then I hopped in my car and bought a 3 mo. pass for my last winter gym then stayed for a workout.
Evening dog walk - 15 min.

A M A Z I N G !
*full body warmup with 9 lb bodybar - 15 rep scheme

LEG DAY (13 sets in total)
Squats: 45x10, 65x10, 85x4
Leg press: 90x10, 180x6
Good mornings: 45x10x10
Leg curl machine: 40x10, 50x6x5
Standing calf raise: 180x10, 210x8x9

Well I'm impressed! I didn't lose much over the summer. I guess those 3-4 workouts I did manage to get in were better than 0. Boy am I going to hurt tomorrow.


Meal 1
3 oz OJ
multi vitamin and iron pill
sesame bagel
2 tsp butter, 2 tbsp P.butter
8 oz black coffee

7" dia tortilla
1 lg egg + 2 tbsp egg white, approx.1/4 tsp coconut oil (1 cal, 1 gm sat. fat) scrambled
1 tbsp parmesan cheese
1 sm. peach

1 pear
2 sm peaches
iron pill

1.4 cup peanuts, 4 almonds

workout

protein drink (soy milk,OJ, big scoop of egg'n whey powder)
iron pill, salmon pill

Meal 3 - Fishy pasta salad
3/4 cup cooked pasta shells
@ 100g+ broiled salmon
1/2 gr.pepper, 1/2 cuke, 1 cob corn
3 tbsp ceasar dressing (150 cals- 0 trans fat 0 sat fat)
garlic bagel + tbsp butter

[CF-OC_gal]

OK for comparison this is where I was at with a leg workout the begining of March, the last time I posted a workout:

http://www.discussfitness.com/forums/328204-post77.html

weight(lbs) x (reps in 1st set) x (reps in 2nd set at that same weight)

1. back extensions: 20x9x9
2. Squats: 85 x 7 x 8
3. leg press: 180x10, 200x9
4. SLD: 65x10, 85x9
5. stndg calf raise machine (single leg L then R ) 30lbx 10x7, both together 100 x 10 (my left ankle is nervous of an "arthritic snap" at the extreme top of the movement and extreme bottom)

Compare that to today! I think that wearing heels again and climbing stairs with them have worked the stabilizers in my ankles. And I was 130 lbs at that time.

LEG DAY (13 sets in total)
Squats: 45x10, 65x10, 85x4
Leg press: 90x10, 180x6
Good mornings: 45x10x10
Leg curl machine: 40x10, 50x6x5
Standing calf raise: 180x10, 210x8x9


Now here's the plan that I'll attempt to get going starting this Saturday (starting with a day off!) Now if I can manage to get those early morning workouts going again I'll be laughing.

Saturday - off

Sunday: Full body
EXERCISE (2-3 sets each)
Deadlifts or Good mornings
Lunges
Chin-ups or pulldowns
Bench Press
Shoulder press
BB or DB curls


Monday: CV training - run to increase time

Tuesday: Legs( quads, hams, calves, lower back) 2-3 sets of 6-8
EXERCISE
Back extensions
Squat
Lunge or leg press
Leg curls
Standing calf raise

Wednesday - Yoga or stretching or a BW routine or a DVD pilates/dance thing.

Thursday: Upper Body – 2-3 sets of 6-8
EXERCISE
Bent over rowing (BBor DB)
Cable rowing
Bench press
Flyes
Front raise
Tricep rope pushdown

Friday
CV training - run intervals

[minime]

hey brat! I am enjoying reading your new journal.. It seems you really like peaches!

I bet you will be happy to finish this diet in two weeks - it does seem quite restrictive.

good luck with getting below 120 and doing that bw pullup! im still trying for that myself...stupid pullups being so hard *grumble grumble*

[minime]

oh i forgot to say - 210 on the standing calf raise? wow!

[SarahPT]

Hi there,
Coffee with cream...ew! I guess I'm lucky I don't like cream.
What kind of yoga do you do?

Sarah

[CF-OC_gal]

Originally Posted by minime

hey brat! I am enjoying reading your new journal.. It seems you really like peaches!

I live alone right now and peaches come in baskets so I have to eat them before they go bad. Today is probably the end of that. Watch for canteloupe next. The large ones were featured this week.

BTW - don't fall into the trap of getting all googli-eyed impressed about machine weights that people report. So much depends on the machine. I've seen huge variations in the weight setting I can use from one gym to another with things like tricep press and pull downs. It all has to do with the pulley,cable, lever and cam configurations. Thank you anyways, it's encouraging.

Oh Sarah! You are not lucky at all for not liking cream. It's like having sex to make a baby when you are truly in love!! I have a few Richard Hittleman books on yoga (yes, from the 70's) It's good stuff for loosening up. I think it's called hatha yoga. Thanks for posting in my journal. Are you going to start one? I'd love to see what you do day to day.

[CF-OC_gal]

Sept.8

Did I mention that I signed my house up for sale yesterday? I have been into some major furniture shuffling and panicy house cleaning to get ready for the sign to go on the lawn next weekend. Can you say STRESS!

Morning weight: 124lbs!
7.5 hours sleep

Meal 1
3 sm. peaches
iron pill, multi vitamin
8 oz black coffee
(opps I didn't get around to finishing the protein part of breakfast)

Meal 2
1 cup cooked millet
1/4 cup ground nuts (peanuts/almonds)
1/2 cup chick peas
1/2 tbsp butter
salt and pepper

1/2 hour gardening

2 pieces gum

4 oz OJ + iron pill
2 tbsp peanut butter
2 ryvita crackers

cuppa tea w/2% milk
20 min brisk dog walk

[CF-OC_gal]

Weight: 122lbs
Sleep 4 hrs
(was moving furniture and books last night - house makeover)

Yes my legs hurt and I'm walking funny!

Cheat day! I even failed miserably at it.
DON'T EAT LIKE THIS!

10oz coffee with 3tbps cream
2 small peaches
(intended to make eggs but ran out of time)

work (sales) and it was busy today

2 pieces gum
1 pear
1/4 cup peanuts (maybe??)
1/2 sesame rye cracker
6 oz OJ

iron pill

10 oz coffee with 3tbsp cream

2hour sleep

1/2 cup millet/nut/chick pea mix
1 tsp butter
2 1/2 cups green salad mix + 5 olives
1/2 broiled salmon filet
3 tbs ceasar dressing
approx. 1 tbsp - 70/30 bittersweet chocolate slab

Workout - Day 1 = day off

[gymgirl]

dang brat, you must have been tired today. i don't know how people function on such little sleep! on the weekends i sleep 9 hours or more with a couple of 1 hour naps during the day. lol

btw i think one of my posts got deleted or something. i posted something earlier in your journal (last wed. maybe) and i don't see it. anyhow no worries, i think i was commenting on your goals.