09-20-21, 03:06 PM | |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Hi everyone,
Oops I got behind again. I've been feeling really stressed out lately. I am totally bloated (pounds, inches, you name it) and am feeling frustrated that I can't seem to lose weight, or even maintain weight lately. Work is extremely stressful especially this time of year, my birthday is coming up soon (in several weeks) and I wanted to really weigh less and feel better about myself as a birthday gift to myself but it's not going well so far. But I still have a lot of lead time. I'm trying to cut out the junk food, and I have mostly, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I suspect being stressed is bloating me but it's hard to try to not stress out. Or try to relax but it feels like working to relax, and not feeling relaxed, just makes me feel more stressed out and annoyed. Anyway, on Friday I truly did not have time to work out, but I wasn't going to take no for an answer, so I ended up doing this very light cardio+stretch workout during a meeting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gLo_0Jpe-s) and it was actually pretty good! It was better than nothing. Saturday I could do more so I did Cathe Pyramid Upper/Lower the premix where it mixes both workouts, then the stability ball abs and stretch on the same DVD for a 68 minute workout. Sunday I was short on time and my DH and I were going to be walking around all day (we went to a renaissance festival) so I just did Pure Barre Resistance #1 warm up through seat with a short quickie stretch. It was great and I didn't feel tired walking around after that. Today is a rest day but when I read about weight loss, I keep running into "add more steps into your day to burn calories but not increase your appetite" and my steps are HORRENDOUS. On the days I run or have an outing, at most once a week, I get in maybe 5000 steps but most days I get less than 1000 That doesn't include any workout I do of course, but I've mostly been doing weight training. So I'm going to try getting in 5000 steps a day if I can and see how that goes. I'm not even entertaining 10k steps a day right now. So I went out for a long walk with the dogs, actually 2 dogs first for a longer walk and then the other 2 for a shorter walk, and got in closer to 6000 steps and am really happy with that. Tomorrow is a rest day but will try to get my steps in again. Then probably more Firm strength, Cathe, and barre. Eventmom and Buzzer I hate mealtime meetings too. I've gotten into the routine of working out at lunch, so it really disrupts my schedule. When the pandemic ends and life goes back to normal (or whatever) I'm going to have to get used to waking up really early and working out before work again. That will probably be good for me though. I keep a close eye on my calories, for me I don't think it's so much portion control (although I can probably improve on that) but the binge eating of junk food. I'll have a great 1,500 calorie day and then totally BLOW another 1,500 calories on junk food for a 3,000 calorie day on a bad day. If I can just cut out mistakes like that, I think I would be just fine. Buzzer Firm Super Sculpt really fits a TON in and I love it too! But yes you better have your equipment ready because they move super fast to fit in so much stuff. I think I did Super Sculpt because you mentioned it sometime recently LOL! Yes, it is like my estranged sister died! That's how I feel. The unlikelihood that I will see her/talk to her again is basically permanent. When she first cut me out of her life, I had dreams where we were just chatting and it felt nice (no drama) then I would wake up and be like "oh yea, we had a falling out" and it was sad. Thankfully I don't really have those dreams anymore.
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