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Old March 31st, 2007, 06:52 PM
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Hey fellow spring flinger!
I totally relate to the " shrinking boobs " syndrome! Had to talk myself into accepting it. The way i look at it, smaller bust with a defined waist rather than huge ones where one can't figure out where they start & where my stomach ends!
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Old March 31st, 2007, 08:51 PM
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Cheers Rashmi! That's an awesome way of putting it
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Hi, and thanks both of you for your posts. I know what you mean about having a bigger bust but the rest of you being huge. I think maybe it was an excuse for me. You know the kind of thing - "I can't be bothered to try and lose all this weight, and I like eating cakes and desserts and lots of chocolate, so ..... I'm really quite happy with my bust the way it is now, so I'll focus on that instead of the rest of my body. Looks at those boobs in the mirror. Don't they look nice? No, I'm definitely not going to start dietting and lose this lovely bust." And then something happens, that trigger that most of us have when we realise it's time, and things like that don't really matter any more. We just know the most important thing is to lose the weight.

Risty, I've probably gone from not monitoring at all to excessive monitoring now. I justify it by saying an average weight over the week is a more accurate indication of my weight loss than my weight on one day a week. I think that is true - I've weighed 153lb on both of the last two Fridays, so if I'd gone by those figures I would have lost nothing this week and that would have been depressing as well as inaccurate - but it's really just an excuse to weigh myself every day because I can't stay off the scales! I've also been measuring my bust, waist and hips on Fridays, and last Friday I added upper arm, thigh and calf as well (those three being places I'd like to see results). I've had to set up a spreadsheet to keep track of it all!
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This is it! 1 April! Let's rock Spring Flings! Good luck to you! I'm happy we're on the same team!
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Old April 1st, 2007, 06:30 AM
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OK, I'm just going to follow Exotic Wind around while we say hello to all the Spring Flingers
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Hey Spring flinger! Good luck
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Old April 1st, 2007, 10:17 AM
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Yeah I understand what you mean. I only wanted to weight myself once a week, but I end up doing it every morning, just to make sure I'm still in the right direction, and not gaining anything! So yeah, I feel like I'm overdoing it just a tad, but hey, at least I don't weight myself multiple times a day.

I get my mom to do my measurements every 10 pounds I lose. So in a couple more pounds (at 165) will be my next measurement. She measures around my chest, waist, lower abdomen, hips, thigh (upper - basically the biggest part of my thigh ), calf, and upper arm. I think that's everything. We have a measurement chart on paper that she writes it on. But yeah, I find it easier for her to do it for me than to do it myself... plus... I might cheat and make it too tight J/k! It's been a while since my last measurement seeing as I was stuck at 175 forever! So I'm excited to see how much I've lost in inches when I get to 165. From the last time I got measured and I can't quite remember the total inches but it's something between 12-16 inches total or something. So I can't wait for the next total!

Anyways, I hope you have a great day and keep up the good work.
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Old April 1st, 2007, 10:38 AM
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Hello there my fellow springer. Here wishing you luck with the challenge.
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Old April 2nd, 2007, 12:13 AM
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- but it's really just an excuse to weigh myself every day because I can't stay off the scales!
Neither can i. I was advised to to weigh myself once a week coz weight fluctuates on a daily basis. But i need my scales fix everymorning!! The ecstacy ( i call it scales orgasm) on the day the scales show that i've lost weight far outweigh the disappointments on the other days!!

have a nice day!
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I'm just in love with my scales. They have been hovering around 152/153 for the last few days. I'm really hoping to see 151 soon.

Hi to all my fellow spring flingers.
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Hi Ali- thanks for stopping by my diary!
It's been a pleasure reading yours. You sound so different from just a few weeks ago and your first post on your diary- much more upbeat, which is fantastic! Sounds like you've really found your momentum!

Any luck on the job search?
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Hi Alibran

Congratulations on losing so much weight already! I'm trying to up my exercise level to yours, as you're doing so well. I just wanted to stop in and say hello and nice job
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Hi Ali- thanks for stopping by my diary!
It's been a pleasure reading yours. You sound so different from just a few weeks ago and your first post on your diary- much more upbeat, which is fantastic! Sounds like you've really found your momentum!

Any luck on the job search?
I feel a thousand times better than I did when I first came here. I think it's partly because all the exercise I'm doing is making me feel good, and spring has really come here and the sun's out and it's warm and lovely. But a lot of it, I think, is because I'm doing something positive about it, and that makes me feel better about myself.

I'll be starting my new job three weeks today, and I'm going to be a bus driver, which should be fun. I have to do 2/3 weeks training first, to get my licence, then I'll have someone with me for the first couple of months on the job, but after that it will just be me, on my own, with my bus and my passengers. I can't wait. (Well, I can because it will upset my exercise routine, but I am looking forward to it, and the money will be nice too.)
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Hi Alibran

Congratulations on losing so much weight already! I'm trying to up my exercise level to yours, as you're doing so well. I just wanted to stop in and say hello and nice job
Thanks

Bear in mind I'm not working at the moment. Things may have to change when I start my new job. But the exercise is really great. The main reason I exercise so much is because I love my food. The more I exercise, the more I can eat. So .... lots of exercise.

And I still love the gym. It's becoming my second home.
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Today was the warmest day of the year so far - officially, they said so on the weather forecast. But tomorrow is not going to be so good, apparently, nor Wednesday, but Thursday is going to be better again. Typical, since L has tomorrow and Wednesday off work and I want to go for the long walk we've been planning. If we don't do it in the next three weeks, it will be ages before we get to do it at all because once I start my job we won't get any days off together for a while. And it will take us a good few hours to walk all the way to the beach and back.

Anyway, I went to the gym this morning. For the first time, it was actually dry enough to walk across the fields to the gym in my white trainers, which is quite scary really. It's only the beginning of April and there's hardly any mud at all. I know this is our first spring here, but I'm sure it should be wetter than this. Water shortages are a terrible thing. I think I'll have to look for a spot to put a water butt, so we can make the most of any rain there is.

Gym was good. I met the PT who did my induction (she was doing a fitness review for someone else) and she didn't mention that I didn't seem to be following the plan she had made up for me. She had put me down for less than 30 minutes of cardio, and I was doing 60, and I'd more than doubled the weight she told me I should be lifting (and it needs increasing again because some of the lifts are becoming very easy). She asked how I was getting on, so I said great, and I was pushing myself a lot harder than I had when I started.

I was talking to one of the other women there about the bike-with-the-arms, as I call it. I hate the thing, but I have started using it for 20 minutes as part of my cardio workout because I've figured if I find it that bad, it must be doing me some good. I checked my heart rate when I got off it today, and it was only 138, and I'd felt as if I was going to die. She asked me what my heart rate was like when I first started, and I said, "I couldn't have done 20 minutes on it when I first started," which made me realise how far my fitness is coming on.

Now might be a good time to detail my current routine, since it seems to be fairly settled:

Monday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Tuesday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Wednesday - rest
Thursday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Friday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Saturday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Sunday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio

Cardio is made up of:

Treadmill - 20 mins interval training using gradient (speed 3.6 mph, gradient 2.5 to 8.5)
Bike-with-arms - 20 mins steady 17mph
Elliptical - 20 mins level 6, "effort" 90 (whatever that means)

I'm gradually increasing the speed on the treadmill to get to 4 mph, the speed on the bike to get to 20mph, and the level on the elliptical as it starts to get easier. On my 1 hour 20 mins days, I usually do an extra 20 mins on the treadmill.

Some cardio only days are replaced with a walk of at least 1 hour 30 mins, if the weather's nice. This is not a relaxing kind of walk. I try to average 3mph, even though some of the hills are so steep you're practically climbing up them.

Resistance training is all using the fixed equipment at the moment because that's what I was taught and I'm still getting used to it. I want to move on to free weights before too long because that's what Steve would recommend and Steve's a really-cool-guy-who-knows-a-lot, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing first because: a) I don't want to look like an idiot, and b) if I drop something on my foot and break my toes I'll have a hard time exercising at all.

Back to my day today .... I'd done my workout, made a half hearted attempted at some housework, played with my beautiful cat in the garden for a while, and was looking forward to a nice relaxing evening, when L came home from work and said, "Let's go for a walk." So, off we went for an hour's non-relaxing kind of walk. I had just eaten one of L's lemon cakes, so that was probably a good thing.

Life is pretty good at the moment.

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