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02 February 2013
Over my RDI yesterday and today, but with exercise I'm still under by more than 500 cals for each day. So not too bothered. I've not had a day where I've had more cals than I've used since I started.
Going to the gym tomorrow. Planning for another 5km on the rowing machine. Managed it in 29.08 minutes back on Thursday. Hard work, but anything that can burn 250 cals in half an hour must really be giving you a workout.
So tomorrow's workout plan is:
Rowing machine. 5km in half an hour. Five minute break. Weights for 45 minutes. Walk at min 8km/ph (5 miles an hour) for 20 minutes.
This should hopefully burn about 500 cals - and the weights will include the 100 ab exercise reps for the challenge that I'm doing.
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29 January 2013
Following the weighing fail of the gym on Sunday and the lesson learnt - never weigh directly after exercise, and especially not weight training exercise. The reason being your muscles that you have been pushing so they'll grow retain water like crazy for about four hours following and you'll end up weighing about 3 lb heavier than you were before directly before you went in the gym.
So I went to Boots today to use their all singing all dancing digital weighing scales with body fat reader.
Turns out that what I really weigh is 150.5 pounds/68.2kg. So happy me today.
I did the body fat read out too. Body fat of 27.4% which is on the low end of average - with 26.8 being where good starts. Below 22% is excellent and below about 19% you're looking at professional athelete level.
Perhaps more interesting than the percentages was finding out what my current lean mass (Bones, organs, skin, muscles etc) is. It's 111.1 lb or 50.4kg
I need to maintain this or else I'm losing muscle instead of fat - which would be a bad thing. I want to lose fat, not just weight regardless of how it comes off.
Weigh-in:
150.5 lb
lost so far:
9.5 lb
still to go:
17.5 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 8.8 lb a week
28 January 2013
Back from the gym. Used the hill climb machine today - wow does to get your heart rate up and your thighs working. 20 mins to climb 350m burning 150 calories, with a sustained heart rate of 156.
I don't think I could use it every workout, but I'm going to use it once a week - maybe aim for a different cardio machine each session - so bike, treadmill, elliptical and hill climb.
Have used up my calories for today - first time in a week. A combination of protein shake post workout and nuts as a snack. With the exercise though I'm still about 900 cal under what I need to maintain - so I'm not worried about using up the full days amount.
No gym tomorrow as the husband is out in the evening, so I'm at home with the little one. I'll be doing Jillian Michaels ab workout once little one is asleep - so the day won't be devoid of exercise.
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28 January 2013
This might explain the difference in weighing scale readings yesterday.
The 151 lb was before exercising, the 153 was after.
http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/c/question/57854/30027
Apparently weighing more for a few hours after exercising is pretty common - due to a lot of things, but mainly muscles retaining water to help repair themselves and grow after the workout.
So no more weighing after a 2 hour gym session for me - I'll weigh before instead.
I'll weigh in on Wednesday before my workout and take that as my reading. Hoping it will be around the 150 lb mark.
Today is also the first day of the 12 week abs challenge, so I'll be doing that tonight. Going to use the Jillian Michaels standing abs workout. I can do part one and three easily enough, part two makes be fall over - it's a problem of balance rather than muscle so I'm not to sure what to do about that. Maybe mix it up and put in a set from a a different workout.
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27 January 2013
Shouldn't have used two different weighing scales :( One says I'm 149 lb and one says 153 lb It's a loss in both cases, and while I want to believe it is a 4 lb lose I think it's unlikely. So I'm going to record the loss here as 1 lb.
Hopefully though I'm building a little bit of muscle as well. I've been to the gym Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and this Sunday - totaling about three hours on weights and about four and a half of cardio, plus walking to and from the gym to the bus station.
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