Between the BLs (Biggest Loser) Summer Challenge 2010 Part 1

[maiziezoe]

Tell us one thing that you can do today to get help get yourself where you want to be.

I ran this morning. Had my best time to date. It felt good to run.

Sometimes, when I am running, I imagine I am Forrest Gump... I just want to keep running and running and running.

 

[wtpclc]

Need some advice.

Just wondering what you guys eat before working out, and how long before your workout do you eat?

I completely forgot about eating before my run on Tuesday and when I got home I felt like throwing up. I had to lie down for about 15 minutes and eat something very slowly before the feeling passed.

So just wanted to know what you guys do.

Thanks for your advice!

This is hard. It's somehthing you really have to figure out foryourself. DH cannot eat 4 hours or so before he works out. I eat a power bar (snickers energy, Trio or Luna) about an hour before the work out. If it's hot or going ot be a long workout, I drink 16 to 20 oz of a sports drink an hour before also. If it's a shorter work out< i drink 8 to 12 oz water with my energy bar. HTH! Finding your balance tends to be more of an art than a science.

 

[wtpclc]

Tell us one thing that you can do today to get help get yourself where you want to be.

I ran this morning. Had my best time to date. It felt good to run.

Sometimes, when I am running, I imagine I am Forrest Gump... I just want to keep running and running and running.

Great job!!!

Corinna - Very good plan!

LuVBaloo - I can't imagine tracking all of us.

 

[Connie96]

You guys give great advice! Unfortunately I can't eat my lunch before I go, but I can write down everything I've eaten today:

7am: yogurt, apple, Vitamuffin, 10 am: orange, 2 Tbsp. raw cashews

And everything I plan to eat for dinner:

LC Butternut Squash Ravioli, Sugar-Free Jello Pudding

I think I have a compromise -- eat 1 piece of the pizza (I actually can do that), and do not eat the hummus or my planned afternoon snack of wasa crackers and laughing cow cheese (8pts). Instead, eat the veggies I brought for lunch as my afternoon snack.

I definitely don't want the pizza looking back at me from the scale tomorrow so, I'm going to see if it's really good pizza. If it's cardboard with sauce, the above plan goes out the window and I'll be back to my hummus and veggies. I don't have to choose to eat it because it's there, if I really want it, I can have it, but then I do have to adjust my day and thinking...I have the power! I feel like He-Man

You guys are the BEST!

Thanks!

Maria

Outstanding plan, Maria! Sounds perfect.

I have to remember I can certainly buy my own pizza whenever I want it -- this is not a special, once in a lifetime opportunity.

Maria

OMG! Isn't that the truth?! I can't count the times that I couldn't decide what to eat as though it was my last meal on death row or something!! I eat every day. Eating is not a special occasion! I oughta stick that little tidbit on my fridge and on the steering wheel in my car!

I run early in the day... so I don't eat before I run. I drink coffee.

On Saturdays, I run in the morning also, but I do go ahead and eat a quick bowl of cereal (Kashi GoLean is my cereal of choice) about 30 minutes to an hour before hitting the road. Always seems to work out great.

 

[keenercam]

Accountability! I have to ask myself if I want the pizza more, or the lower weigh in. I keep going back and forth...I think I may eventually decide to eat three bites of pizza (assuming it is good pizza), and then eat my regular lunch and snacks. I know that sounds wasteful, I wish I could be stronger in the moment...I will let you guys know what happens. I am feeling pretty wishy washy right now. We get so few perks, it's hard not to take advantage when one is offered. I have to remember I can certainly buy my own pizza whenever I want it -- this is not a special, once in a lifetime opportunity.

Maria

Maria -- My friend's WW leader told her that she only ever eats 3 bites of a tempting food -- one to get the taste of it, one to enjoy, and one to say goodbye. She immediately discards the remainder. I'm not sure I could do it, but I find it fascinating.

Tell us one thing that you can do today to get help get yourself where you want to be.

I can continue to politely decline when DD and DH call me on their way home from work suggesting fast food and asking me what I’d like. So far I have been on track every single day since my first day home from the hospital last Wednesday. This is huge for me, especially when so many people are encouraging me to indulge myself through this difficult, painful recovery.

I'm sorry I am so swamped with work that I don't have time to catch up with everyone. Have a great day, my BL friends!

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Maria

 

[keenercam]

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Maria

Congratulations, Maria!! Awesome choice! Just think of how sick you'd have felt from the grease, and you'd have regretted wasting the calories on it. You rock!!!

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Congratulations, Maria!! Awesome choice! Just think of how sick you'd have felt from the grease, and you'd have regretted wasting the calories on it. You rock!!!

Thanks, Cam! -- I totally needed that!

Maria

 

[wtpclc]

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Maria

Great job, Maria! It feels so good when we do the right thing! (Why is it so hard to make that choice some days, though? )

Cam - Umm...telling you what I'd do isn't the same as encourgaing you to indulge, right?

 

[keenercam]

. . . .Cam - Umm...telling you what I'd do isn't the same as encourgaing you to indulge, right?

Carrie -- LOL! I can't tell you how many people have told me that I should have Howard and the kids leave all kinds of food for me in the morning and that they'd have a list of what they wanted to spend the evening eating. I have even discouraged my family from doing takeout since I can't cook. I keep making suggestions based on what I know was in the freezer before I went into the hospital. Now if I could just get someone to make a darn salad!!!

 

[lisah0711]

So for the QOTD todayTell us one thing that you can do today to help yourself get to where you want to be.

Forgot to answer the QOTD again but I did fix the typo in the question -- luckily you guys know what I mean, even when I don't make any sense.

The one thing that I can do today is control what I eat and make sure I get my run in regardless of what else is going on.

jennz, enjoy your vacation!

Today is supposed to be a running day, and thunderstorms are in the forecast for this afternoon. I guess my one thing will be to get the workout however I can if lightning prevents me from running. And if it's just raining... Well, I'll just go on and get wet!!

It's okay to get wet but I don't care how fast you can run, you can't run faster than lightning!

Just wondering what you guys eat before working out, and how long before your workout do you eat?

Boy, that is a tough one because it is easy to eat too much and feel sick from that during a run, too. Or if you have too much water or not enough you can get that icky feeling, too.

Remember that my health & happiness is important and I'm worth taking the time to make it happen. In 10 years the kids won't remember how messy the house was, but they will remember Mom being able to play with them. So today the goal is to do my running and my girls want to come and be helpers (or just play while I run around the schoolyard.) So I've told the girls that I have to do my running today as long as it isn't pouring rain. If its lightly raining, we'll go out to do it and the girls are looking forward to bringing out their umbrellas .

It doesn't get much better than hanging out with your umbrella splashing in puddles!

I ran this morning. Had my best time to date. It felt good to run.

Sometimes, when I am running, I imagine I am Forrest Gump... I just want to keep running and running and running.

Sorry, Ann, but I don't think of Forrest Gump when I think of you! I think of a funny, happy person who's kid microwaves her phone!

LuVBaloo - I can't imagine tracking all of us.

It's a big job and she does a great job for us!

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Yay for you, Maria!

 

[princessbride6205]

Greenfield1984 - I'd recommend eating something before you run or workout. I've discovered I get a stitch in my side if I run within 1-2 hours of eating a meal, but I don't like running on empty either. If you are a morning exerciser, I'd take a few sips of juice and a small handful of dry cereal. Just something for your body to work off of. After the whole night, your body doesn't have any quickly-available calories to burn. I went to a talk with the nutritionist for the Orlando Magic, and the above was her advice. I know some weight loss programs call for exercising on an empty stomach, but I don't think the science backs up that idea.

 

[Connie96]

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Maria

As Jillian Michaels would say... You are a ROCK STAR! Great job, Maria.

 

[LuvBaloo]

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Maria

Your co-worker deserves a little kick in her butt. There was nothing wrong with you, you took control and made the choice that worked for you.
I was watching Zoey 101 yesterday with my girls, and the science girl had a watch that could shoot little lazers out, so when somebody annoyed her, she sent a little zap at them. Somedays I think that would be really cool, to send a little zap to somebody's butt when they say something unintentionally hurtful.

Carrie -- LOL! I can't tell you how many people have told me that I should have Howard and the kids leave all kinds of food for me in the morning and that they'd have a list of what they wanted to spend the evening eating. I have even discouraged my family from doing takeout since I can't cook. I keep making suggestions based on what I know was in the freezer before I went into the hospital. Now if I could just get someone to make a darn salad!!!

and I bet your family really appreciates you when you are back to being healthy.

I am sticking to my plan to day to have no pop for the day. I'd really like some but its just not good for me, so I'll add some crystal light to my water at lunch and other than that I'll get in my plain water throughout the day.

And for the COW - I have a royal blue stainless steel water bottle I use at work. If I get 3 in, I'm over the daily 48oz. At home, my favourite glass is a coca-cola Christmas one. I've got a glass one with snowflakes and a plastic one with Santa & a polar bear.

 

[Greenfield1984]

Ok, here's the update -- I took 1 piece of cheese pizza and a bottle of water, and I looked at the grease sitting on the top, and I just couldn't do it. I gave it to my co-worker, came back to my desk, and it's hummus and veggies all the way! Whew! I can't believe how much effort I just put into that decision. But if feels good -- I feel like I made a conscious choice, and even though my co-worker said, "What is wrong with you?" -- which almost made me cry, I know I made the right choice for me.

Maria

Good job Maria! I'm glad you made the right choice for you! Seeing all that grease on pizza usually makes me avoid it too (or when I get a muffin and the bag is all wet from the grease...eewww)

Thanks everyone for your advice on what to eat. It's definitely different for every person! I'll just have to keep playing around with it until I find a formula that works for me

 

[wtpclc]

Thanks everyone for your advice on what to eat. It's definitely different for every person! I'll just have to keep playing around with it until I find a formula that works for me

Nicole had a good idea with the little bit of juice and the handful of cereal. That's a great starting point. If it's not enough, you can work your way up from there, but that should not give you the yucky reactions that over-eating before might. Let us know how it goes!

Cam - I just don't think they know what to do without you. I know you hate to be a bother. Have you asked for a salad? (Besides take out last night)

 

[bellaphia]

I don't know what it is but you guys are cracking me up today...running in the rain, Forrest Gump, Zoey 101...
Am I the only non-runner here? it sounds like all of you are major work-out queens/kings...I'm a big walker but always wished I had the running gene-I am in such awe of you all-keep up the good work

 

[Connie96]

I don't know what it is but you guys are cracking me up today...running in the rain, Forrest Gump, Zoey 101...
Am I the only non-runner here? it sounds like all of you are major work-out queens/kings...I'm a big walker but always wished I had the running gene-I am in such awe of you all-keep up the good work

I always thought runners were nuts. I always did my very best to get out of running when I was in school and when I did decide I wanted to start running I was, I don't know, 26 or so, so I guess it was about 10 years ago. I stick with it for a while and then get away from it for a while, but I always enjoy coming back to it. The two things you need to start running are the right shoes and the right bra. Once you have those, running (to me) is more therapy than it is exercise. I do timed run/walk intervals, so it's not like I'm just running miles and miles without stopping (today's workout is run 3 minutes, walk 1 minute, 15 times - week 6 of 10K training plan).

I get a charge from being outside after being stuck inside my office all week. Some people enjoy music while running, but I like hearing the sounds of being outside - birds, kids, cars, the wind. I enjoy the solitude of running, when I'm the only voice in my head. I will never be a "workout queen". But, there is sanity in running that I never knew about until I tried it for myself.

 

[wtpclc]

I don't know what it is but you guys are cracking me up today...running in the rain, Forrest Gump, Zoey 101...
Am I the only non-runner here? it sounds like all of you are major work-out queens/kings...I'm a big walker but always wished I had the running gene-I am in such awe of you all-keep up the good work

Nothing wrong with being a walker! Ther'e snot neccesarily a running gene, though. ;-) Anyone can do it. They key is to slow down if you ar ehaving problems. takes a lon goime to figure out a pace. And you will still have your ups and downs. If you wan tot run, Runnign for mortals is a good start. I know many do COuch to 5K, but that seems really hard to me. If you don't want to run, though, it probably just porves you ar ea bit more sane than some of us!

 

[wtpclc]

I just got a chance to look at soem articles from USA Triathlon on eating/not calorie counting. It's not a plan tha tworks for everyone, but it can work. In case you're interested:

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