Had weight training tonight with the trainer, another good session. Followed that up with 15 mins of interval training according to the cardio machine. Good times!

Food behaviour = good again today!

looks like ya doing great, well done on your loss so far, Keep up the good work

Soooo.............. after reading a lot of journals, and in their first week or so a lot of people lose anywhere from 3-10lbs. I'm a tiny bit frustrated at my real lack of progress on the whole scale thing because I'm still at 204.

I know Steve keeps saying not to watch the scale much (I've only weighed myself twice so far) .. its just a little frustrating. My calorie intake is roughly between 1500-1800, all healthy foods so its not that my nutrition is failing me. It might be the strength training that I'm doing thats building muscle, who knows right.

Hopefully its just a minor phase and it'll all melt away really fast :P

Ah well, I'll give it until end of month/first week of December before I worry.

Payday today! Wonder if I should buy a scale for home other than rely on the one that gets used a lot at the gym? Something to consider, I would like to be amused by the fluctuations of water weight - last night I weighed low 204 pre workout, mid 205 post workout because I chugged around/over a litre of water. LOL

Don't get to fustrated, the scales are not everything, you will gain some muscle with the weights but that is a good thing. Try taking some body measurments, inches and a healthy lifestyle mean more than weight.

That is a better idea, actually. How often should one take body measurements? Once a week, once every 1.5-2 weeks?

The benefits of my eating healthier & exercise experience thus far:

-spending less money on junk food at work

-back and neck pain practically non-existent (had to go to a massage therapist for headaches/neck and back pain 3 weeks ago).

-all around just feeling better, morale wise and physically

-energy levels have evened out, no more peaks and valleys during the day.

-despite the one pound loss, I have found some extra room in a couple pairs of pants. Minor victory

I usually have my measurements done every 8 weeks or so but around every 4 weeks when Im preparing for a competition.

Hip and waist are good choices so your hip to waist ratio can be worked out, a ratio over .8 for woman is bad.

The measurements I have tracked are

Hip, Waist, bust, upper arm (Both Sides), thigh, calf (both sides), Bodyfat % (Calipers, Durnin/Womersley)

Oh geez, I was thinking of measuring in way too early increments!

I'm off to the gym for cardio and then home for supper!

Enjoy your workout, I also need to hit the gym this morning

I was doing a lot of reading last night and parts of today, and ran across some calculations and here they are:

BMR = 1719
Maintenance to maintain current weight = 2664

I also registered with FitDay and WOW, there is a lot of information you can track in there. I'll be using that a lot it looks like.

203 today, wee I'm thinking its all about the minor victories, lol

No gym trip today so I'll be back there tomorrow and Monday. Did a lot of walking around shopping malls today as some compensation.

only a so-so day for me.. I've been feeling a little detached from everything, not sure why but thats just how it is today.

So my first couple sessions with the trainer have been okay. I don't know what to think of the sessions themselves, however. They're short, a half hour in length and we only use the weight machines - no free weights!

What is up with that? I could track my own progress on the weight machines just as easily and cheaper, I did the math and the training works out to 62.50 per hour :O

I'll see how this week goes (we meet Mondays and Thursdays) and make a decision after Thursday.

It's my boyfriend's birthday today, so I am off to get my protein on in the form of a steak!

Tell your trainer you are more interested in working with free weights. If you are met with resistance, maybe you would be better off without paying for one?

I actually did mention it to her a couple times in the first two sessions, I guess I'll bring it up again. I don't know if she's uncomfortable with doing free weights or what, because once she just sorta blew it off and said we'll start with weight machines first. Then the second session we did a full body workout on the machines, then we did abs.

I meet her again tomorrow, so we'll see. Am I trying to rush too early into free weights, maybe? I'm only starting my third week of exercise. I dunno.

I bought a proper scale that does the whole BMI and all that. I weighed in at 201! 4lbs lost in 2 full weeks, yay - maybe even less because I ate a fair sized meal two and a half hours ago.

I sooo don't want to go to the gym today - I'm being lazy! But I didn't go yesterday either and I really should. Its only a cardio session anyway.

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Also! I wanted to add I am updating my May 2009 goal weight to 160 for now. 145-150 is the long term goal, but maybe not doable by end of May. But who knows, right? I would be ridiculously happy at 160 considering where I am now.

I don't think its rushing in on using the free weights. Start at a lighter weight to get comfortable with the movements on the exercises, then build up to heavier weights. Maybe you need to change PTs if she's not comfortable with them? I don't know... I think I've seen Steve lamenting a few times here that a lot of PTs tend to shy away from the free weights.

I ended up making it to the gym last night. I upgraded to 40 minutes of steady state cardio, my first week was 30 minutes, second week was 35 minutes.

.............. had a good day at work today, relatively productive. I had a problem thats been haunting me for over a week, and I finally got it solved today. My theory turned out to be true, but it took over a week for my user to get herself straightened out and would explain her story different to me each time.

Oh yeah, I guess I should mention I'm a contractor working for the provincial health ministry. I'm a network administrator, so basically I'm looking at firewall/network logs and code all day. We manage over 200 internet/intranet connections for health facilities in the province.

In fitness news, I had another good day of eating. But I missed my afternoon snack and was STARVING by the time I made it to the gym right after work tonight. I also had a headache before I went to the gym. We did some free weights and some killer back extensions. However by the time I left, I must've drank too much water because I was nauseated, starving and had a killer headache. I had to come home and lay in the dark for a bit to recuperate.

I have to try get more protein, some days I run short and end up not having a protein based supper. I gotta look for some protein shakes maybe. Tomorrow night we have skinless chicken breast on tap! Side dish undecided yet.