Health & Fitness • Page 16

about to start watching this and i have my Reese's snack sticks in front of me as my meal time snack.

 

why don't you sign up for some cooking classes and show off your skills? you may even find someone who is as into cooking as you are. teach each other a thing or two.

 

so i ended up buying a fitbit today, used to use one all the time and had great results but have gained 20 pounds since then I want to burn. If anyone has one, can I add you on fitbit? Id love to have other people on here so I have more motivation to hit my daily goals and such.

 

You can look me up with my email. [email protected]

 

I stayed at my dad's house late and was gonna pick up fast food on the way home since I didn't wanna cook but I circled back around and went home. Now I'm making meatless mandarin orange chicken. Woo!

 

I also finally got a Fitbit after dilly dallying for ages! I haven't set it up yet but hope to do it tonight. I shall be sure to post when I do as I also thought adding people from this thread would be great :)

 

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first thing i did when i got up today? took a short walk. i've never woken up and immediately done exercise but boy, that was quite enjoyable and a good way to kick off the day. no running or jogging or being Mr. America, just a simple, pleasant 20 minute walk.

 

Not sure how the weather is in WI, but in Maryland, I love a morning walk/jog. Air smells more pleasant in the morning.

 

in Wisconsin we usually have all four seasons a day, year round, so it just depends on what season the day starts with. fresher air, less traffic, more peaceful. good boost to begin the day.

 

i feel like I should be able to hit 10,000 steps a day pretty easily, my goal is too start walking home from work everyday which is about a 8km walk. The hard part for me I think will be dieting at the same time. Back in October I started taking anti-anxiety med's for the first time and one of the side effects was a massive increase in appetite. I became very unhinged when it came to snacking all the time (be it at work or at home) which is the cause my weight gain. I was pretty focused on just improving my mental health that I didn't really do anything about it, but now that I am a lot more stable I need to lose the all the weight I gained from that.


During high school i weighed around 225 and it took me about 3 years of on and off working out and dieting to eventually bring it down to 175. Now that im back up close to 200 pounds I cant help but feel miserable about it, feels like I completely wasted all those years of hard work just to let my self go again. It feels like I let my self down by letting all that progress go to waste.

 

I'm legit mad that I'll miss walking today. I can't control the weather, I know, but I've done 51 of the last 53 days and haven't missed one in over a month so it's still frustrating.

 

Morning is the best time to walk/run in WI imo. But I also like going in the late evening because it's cooler. Mornings are more my speed now because it's hard to walk at night with a little one.

 

I need to start getting up earlier to go run/work out because it's still 80+ in the evenings when I get off work. But I have an 8-5 job and I HATE getting up early haha. Anyone have any routines or habits that work for them for getting themselves out of bed?

 

I made it 3/4 of a mile early this am before the humidity got to me. I thought someone was going to end up scraping me off of the road.

 

I find myself at work doing minor things when no one is looking to keep my heart rate elevated, like push ups

This is going to sound so dumb, so i'm gonna say why it worked for me. Going to bed earlier is the only way I was able to get into a habit of early morning exercise/workouts, but mostly because I suffer from pretty bad insomnia that was only ever cured by weed haha. I, on a regular basis, only sleep 4-6 hours a night so pushing back my bed time to earlier times was the only way I began getting up at 6am daily for runs or the gym which is right down the road from me. If you don't like evening workouts, much like myself, find a planet fitness and go late at night. That worked for me when I lived in Philly and would work late.

 

I agree with going to bed earlier. Things that worked for me were putting out my clothes and shoes next to the bed so that when I woke up the first thing I did was put them on. Also making a new playlist the night before and having it set to go. Being totally ready to go the night before made me more excited to wake up and go

 

im not really dieting, but i cut out sodas for the most part last year, and ive set a goal to go on at least 150 5k runs this year. I post a pic from each run with its number on instagram to keep myself honest. I'm finally a little bit ahead of pace, which was my goal since it's about to become unbearable to run outside, but i just can't run in the gym (plus it's too expensive).

 

ive never really cared about my weight, but running does make me feel more healthy, and cutting down on sugar is just part of my personal crusade against an industry who should be taxed out the wazoo for waht they're doing to the world's population.

 

so, i wasn't going to run / go to the gym today. i was running errands, had my morning walk, the weather is better suited for a nap than exercise, but i forced myself to go and goddamn am i glad / shocked at my ability to overcome myself. there are so many little, unseen benefits to healthier eating / activities / lifestyle that i imagine most miss and think people do such activities just for muscles, but i do it for everything BUT the muscles. two months ago i never would have had the energy / willpower to be able to say, "no, we're going to the gym. even if just for a half hour walk. we're going" (that's me talking to myself, not another person) and yet that's exactly what i did today.

 

someone else mentioned in this thread, i feel bad for forgetting who, but they recommended "Sugar Coated" a documentary on Netflix about the sugar industry / health associations. i watched it last night and it was real good. since you hate the sugar companies already you probably don't need to watch it, but i still recommend it haha. lots of shady stuff going on with a lot of companies.

 

trifecta here:

everyone knows the saying, "pain doesn't last" but i thought of (maybe) a new one while running while my knee was bugging me:

pain and discomfort are short term, but feeling good / proud of yourself is long term.

 

The little obstacles of overcoming and forcing yourself to go to the gym/exercise are the best ones. Really shows how dedicated and willing you are to put yourself through grueling scenarios. It's a nice pat on the back.

 

oh ive seen it. it's horrifying. there is also an episode on the Cracked podcast about the sugar/food industry that will blow your mind about how fucked we've been for so long.

the whole low-fat food craze of the 80s has single-handedly turned us all into adult-onset diabetic monsters.

 

Has anyone ever weighted themselves in the morning, stepped off, let the scale reset, then step back on, and get a completely different weight? This happens to me every morning. My initial weigh in is always 3 or so lbs heavier than if i step off then back on.

I'm using a digital scale on a hard surface. Not sure what causes this to happen, and not sure which weight is more accurate.