I'm not doing this round but I might go as a plus one with one of my regular team mates. Will depend on $$$$ since I'm also paying off a trip OS for next year & might be moving in the next couple of months.
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I'm not doing this round but I might go as a plus one with one of my regular team mates. Will depend on $$$$ since I'm also paying off a trip OS for next year & might be moving in the next couple of months.
If I'm not doing round 2, when do I get locked out of the website?
I want to print out my stats and some recipes, but will be much easier from work rather than home ...
Well I signed up. Don't need to travel
Bit the bullet. Now will have to spend the arvo doing the pre season
Wondering if someone could help...
Wondering how many calories you need to burn off each day/week on the 12wbt?
Trying to ascertain the amount of exercise I'd need to commit to.
Ta :)
N2L, you're supposed to exercise 6 days a week...I managed 3-5 days for the first half, and 1-3 for the second half :redface: I found the food changes alone were more than enough for me to begin losing weight, although for R2 I'm aiming to stick to the entire plan to the T.
Thanks PZ :)
So she doesn't indicate the sort of cal burn off you should be aiming for?
I'm thinking of doing it but not for the food plan - more for motivation and exercise.
500 cals a day, N2L. Allowance to consume 1200.
N2L I only made it to the gym once a week for over half the program (you know the hours I work) ... Still smashed it. Stuck to the eating about 95% of the time. Sometimes client lunches and breakfasts got in the way, but I made the eating work basically the whole time.
N2l depending on weight depends how much you should burn, on her page it says if youre under 100kg, burn between 400-600 per day, if you're over 100kg, then burn between 600-1000 calories per day :)
Thanks :)
Does that mean purposeful exercise only? Or incidental too?
Purposeful. HRM allegedly makes it heaps easier to calculate, but I have no idea how to make mine work. It has buttons.
I have a polar HRM. I've also discovered a really good app - run keeper - which calculates kms and calories burnt.
Maybe you can show me how to use mine.:
So many buttons.
If I was closer I'd help you out pn! Do you know what type you have? Is it an ft4?
PN, if it's an FT4 I can email you the user manual PDF :)
Oh this is going to be harder then I thought with a new baby!! Specially a velcro baby.
Luckily food is he main factor in losing weight for me cause I can at least focus on what I put in my mouth if I dont have time to exercise
Don't worry Bea, DD2 is a Velcro baby too...it's totally manageable time wise I've found. Energy is the big one for me but I've found the more I exercise, the more energy I have.
Oh you sweet girls. I have the manual. It's not the issue ... the user is ;)
Oohhhhh alrighty then. Well, I can't help there! I sold mine because I found it too fiddly lol!!
Well, have plans downloaded and printed out (had to buy a new printer)
Still have to do the fitness test, so for the moment I am assuming beginner. That program looks scary. Will need to be up at 6am to fit it all in.
Have not told DH (so much for saying my commitment out loud)
Reworking the shopping list now. Looks like I need to go shopping mid week for some items, otherwise they will not be fresh enough.
I didn't tell ex when I first signed up either, Astrid. I spoke out loud to others, who I knew would be more supportive and not judgemental. ;)
DH is supportive and not supportive all at the same time. So I have told him we are back to healthy eating and that we are following a meal plan (he is used to this from us doing the 1MKC).
Notice a lot of the recipes want cooked chicken breast. Do you just cook all this up at the start of the week, even freeze it? Or just cook as you need?
Depends. If it is dinners, I cook it fresh. If it is lunch I may bulk cook, but as it is just me, I cook it one day, eat the second portion the next day.
I used to broil a whole pile of chicken breasts on a sunday, portion them into containers in the freezer and pull them out when needed.:
But I used to cook up most things on a Sunday and freeze them. Made it easier.
Once I'm living full time at the farm, I'm going to be doing the Sunday cookfest again (most food from the menus I've already got).
I cooked it, and then tubbed it up in convenient portion sizes and froze/fridged it depending on when it was going to be needed.
I found one weekly shop was fine, as long as I used my Fridge Mates (tupperware crispers) for the cucumber, celery, lettuce etc.
Good luck, girlies!!
Thanks ladies! Might move my shopping day to Sunday from Friday. Will also move any fish meal to later in the week, fish is something we both would rather buy fresh and eat on the night. There are a few seafood outlets near work.
I like to make my own chicken stock, so I thought I could poach a heap of chicken breasts in it as I am making it, just pull them out when done and let the stock simmer for hours.
I am so daunted by the exercise. Don't have enough bandwidth to watch a 45 minute+ workout video. I can see myself taking 2 hours for the 1 hour workout as I will be looking up what to do every 5 minutes.
Invest $30 in her DVDs. They are all but the same as the workouts she puts up anyway. When I first did it, she didn't put them up at all, you had to buy the DVDs. But they are good and they are broken down into 5 or 10 minutes blocks, so you can do all or 3 or 2 depending on time and condition etc. Well worth it.
Fitness test done yesterday. Managed to do the 1Km run in less than 8 min which surprised me. Really need help with my technique for push ups and planking though.
First work out this morning. Followed the at home one. I nearly threw up. Probably does not help that I tend to need breakfast when I wake and can feel ill from crappy sleep (thanks DD2)
So I struggled to eat breakfast afterwards and did not feel better till about 9:30 when I finally finished my breakfast at work.
Think I will definitely order in the DVD's, hated having to check the paper work, set the timer (need to work out how to lower the volume on my phone app), plus I had to move between inside and outside depending on what I am doing.
I do have a 38 minute DVD that came with the MB weight set I bought, so that might useful till the others come in.
Oh, I think DH has worked out what I am doing. No negative comments, just laughing at me wanting to throw up.
Got the 3 dvd Crunchtime from Target for only $28 (thought it was more but it scanned less), so cheaper than online.
Food I have been pretty good, exercise I could be doing a lot better, so my aim this week is to not miss a workout.
Just catching up on the videos on the website now.
Terrible week for me. No planning, no exercise, just winging it. Hardly ate anything today as I was stuffing around on PC uploading things to sell and doing housework. I dread the scales tommorrow
I have been a very naughty nutter.
Too much icecream (to soothe my poor throat) and too much grog (functions, etc).
Monday is a new week. Might not weigh myself for a week or two ...
My scales broke and i have decided to stay off them for a few weeks seeing as i was becoming scales obsessed despite not doing anything to make them move down. Uni semester is over after this weekend so hopefully things become less stressful around here and more focused on fresh instead of fast. I have already booked to go to adelaide so i want to make it worthwhile... even three weeks later i should hopefully make a big dent this round.
Been sick with a bad cold this past week. Did exercise the first few days, but then crashed big time and just could not get out of bed. Food still been reasonable, but feeling ick has meant I have had lots more cuppas and probably nibbled on a few things extra not really thinking.
Was good last night. DH brought home pizza and I did not have a piece. He is now suffering for it though and has requested healthy food for dinner ;)
Debating purchasing a set of scales, I use the Wii at the moment and it takes up too much valuable exercise time doing a weigh in on it. Plus it tells me off for losing to quickly!
I would stick with what you are doing for now, only because the change to scales cn cause a big fluctuation and may be disheartening? It's part of the reason i am not buying new scales for now :lol:. but totally a personal choice.
How is everyone going. No movement last weigh in, which I suppose is better than gaining. Feeling and looking slimmer. Have had a few comments, so feels pretty good ;) Wearing a nice work skirt now that is the type that you have to be just the right size or it wont fit, so making the most of it for now.
Finding cardio hard to do in our small lounge room, toning though is not so bad. Just wish the kids would stay in bed and the dog would stop thinking some positions mean "come for a pat"
Had a great weigh in this week, which makes up for the previous week of zilch ;)
I will admit to not pushing myself enough. I think the first day where I pushed myself to almost vomiting has scared me, it was very hard to do all the morning routine and get to work after that. So I have finally lashed out an bought a HRM. Just a beginners model, the Polar F4. Hoping it suits my needs. Could have got a Suunto one through Flybuys, but was just under in points, I have not being doing as much shopping through Coles lately, otherwise I would have had it.
Not doing the full SSS workout, but I think lugging wood for over an hour makes a good substitute ;) Well I can only guess, if I already had the HRM then I would know!
ETA: Just read back a couple of pages, seems some have or have had the F4. Lets hope I don't find it too fiddly.
I totally thought my weigh in was going to be messed up majorly - but I had a 1.8kg loss!
FX that continues ;)
Big oops. DH just found out how much this is costing :hiding: I am paying for it from my own pocket money, but still he is cranky. So I better be following the plans 100% and do really well to shut him up.
Lol, my DH was like that too at first...27.6kg later... ;):
Great weight loss there PZ :clap:
I understand his point. We have the 1MKC plans and the Weigh it up ones, plus the CSIRO books. I did not really join for the meal plans, more for the mindset stuff and exercise along with the social support that comes from doing a program that others are doing.
Probably better he found out from me, than working out himself that it cost money ;)
I do admit though I think the 12WBT plans a bit better than the 1MKC ones, except that are not as seasonal as they need to be (a recipe this week called for 2 cups of fresh basil, it is not basil season!!)