Weight Loss and Exercise #4

Back on the bike today. I woke up feeling pretty good. Not tired, not hungry.

30 mins on a recumbent bike. A "rolling hills" workout. Rather leisurely, with HR around 108-111, but still.

75 mins of absolutely serene relaxing yoga today
personal training tomorrow

Peed AND biked yesterday. Huge nonscale victories today - first, i did not have to stop and rest after my shower, i was not out of breath. 2nd, after my repeat mammogram i ubered to the shopping district and picked up my insulin (late again), walked across the street to get $100 in laundry quarters, then a short walk to krogers for veggies etc and just regular cheddar cheese. I really need new glasses, i cant see shyte on the shelves.

Then ubered home. The driver made me walk like 25 yards down to his car!!! I was like, "didnt you see me waving at you?!" He goes, "are you done?" It was effin hilarious. I didnt know key and peele were driving uber on the side.

Anyway - i havent done this level of activity since "before panini" as someone said yesterday on youtube.

I just grazed today mostly. I had half a granola bar and couple sodas this morning around 6AM. Then at 7:30 I got an iced matcha that had no flavor. Which was weird. It was just like this skim milk with a hint of unsweetened matcha. I drank less than half of it. I drank my iced tea, not like that had much flavor either.

I shared a box of Annies sweet potato and pumkin pasta for lunch with my niece at 11. Neither of us finished the 2.5 serving box.

After that I had a honey nut Cheerios granola bar and a Goldfish graham for a snack and a few pickle/ cool ranch Doritos for dinner.

It wasn't the best but my stomach feels fine.

Another personal training session. Still exploratory, still a lot of time spent with the trainer explaining things, but I did some exercises, including one that is (I forgot the name) squatting with a barbell that is moving up and down a stand and then leg presses and the weight was 140 lbs. My legs got tired.
Then I did 44 mins on a recumbent bike, alternating higher and lower resistance. It is a fancy bike with many workouts and RunTV. One of the workouts I did today showed a video as if I had been biking in a national park in Virginia (I forgot which one) in the fall. Beautiful, stunning foliage! And I was glad it was on screen and I did not actually bike there, because I would have been afraid of cars. There were some cars.

The top of my thighs are pleasantly tired now. I wonder if I will feel sore when I wake up tomorrow.

I wounder what would happen if I went a day without calorie counting and just did intuitive eating. Idk. I've always counted my calories as best as I could, but maybe I'll try it.

I think that's a good idea Moutaindewed. It's always good to mix things up. I've heard people can sometimes lose weight by not calorie counting. Actually I have , 15 lbs once and 30some another time. I did follow some basic guidelines but I ate what I wanted and didn't calorie count.


This time around I'm seen very frequently entering food into my tracker and I'm losing that weight. Whatever works I guess as long as it is safe.

Sounds amazing.

I finally found some cotton candy grapes, and i ended up peeing all night, i guess my blood sugar didnt appreciate them. But they were pretty yummy!

I am sore all over today. Feeling a little better since coffee. Probably wont be good until sunday.

I’ve also found intuitive eating works for me - calorie counting is actually triggery for me as I had an eating disorder when I was young, it takes my brain down a route I don’t want to go down.

I’m reading on here because I’ve done no exercise bar one half hour swim these last 2 weeks because of a horrible virus. Anyhow I hope to get myself into a routine once Christmas madness at work is out of the way.

A nutritionist once YELLED at me for counting calories or macros or ww points, she was like get a life just eat more salads.

oh they are my favorite green grapes. I absolutely love them. I discovered them at Trader Joe's several years ago.

Grapes in general are unkind to blood sugar per a report from one the CGM companies I am subscribed to, probably Levels. So it is important to not eat them alone but pair them with protein. But I love the taste of unadulterated cotton candy grapes! Not paired with anything...

Three activities this evening:
- Yin yoga for 60 mins. It's yoga for the connective tissue. Second time at this studio but today there was a different teacher. She is fantastic, what can I say. I plan to go every Friday.

- 44 mins on the recumbent bike at the gym, all while looking at that Virginia national park on video and listening to music by Tchaikovsky. Serene. Did not work up sweat or got my heart rate up, but did increase resistance to work my lega.

- 22 mins a recumbent elliptical. Could have continued but the gym closed.

Now I am hungry.

Sounds like you have reflux.

48 minutes on the recumbent bike today, varying resistance levels.

This bike allows you to have an account and log in every time. So it told me today about a milestone: apparently I had covered 25 miles on it, and then after it announced the milestone, I biked some more. I like that it keeps track and cheers me up! Earlier it was announcing funny milestones: that I covered the equivalent of climbing the Eiffel tower, walking the whole length of Manhattan, and something else that I did not register. Fun!

33 minutes in the treadmill. Not fast but with significant incline.
18 minutes on the elliptical. tried to do a preprogrammed workout "climbing" but it was wa-a-ay too hard. So I did an easy "quickstart" workout.

I wanted Ihops Wonkas purple something or other cheesecake pancakes today. But I ate hotel oatmeal instead. That was more of a taste thing vs dieting. Maybe I'm just growing out of wanting all this colorful foo foo sugar stuff.

I decided to go for a walk today

I rowed in the little gym in my apartment complex this evening. And a funny story happened.

So this little gym which is really tiny has the elliptical on the left, the treadmill on the right, and the rowing machine in the middle. I got settled on the rowing machine, adjusting the straps and selecting an opera to listen to on YouTube. I had earbuds inside my ears. I chose the workout 5000 meters. Soon after I started rowing, a man walked into the gym and placed a ThinkPad PC on top of the screen of the elliptical to my left. I wondered what he would do. Would he watch a movie? I rowed, listened to my opera, and from time to time looked at his screen. He launched Skype. He started talking. It was annoying, even though I could still hear the words in the opera. Then I saw a white page on his screen covered with mathematical formulae. I wondered if he was tutoring someone in math over Skype. He walked on the elliptical quite slowly. I could not make out what language he was speaking. I thought that maybe it was Turkish. Of course it was hard to make out the language since I heard the opera sung in Russian in my ears much louder than he talked.

I finished my 5000 meters. 37 minutes 20 seconds minus water breaks every 500 meters. So, still over 30 minutes cardio total. And I gave it my best, using the technique that a coach at Orangetheory fitness had taught me: to extend the arms in front of me as much as I can during the forward movement; this way, I cover more meters.

I planned to then go onto the treadmill but wanted to pause the opera and speak to him, asking if he was tutoring over Skype. It turned out that he was not: it was just his work. I am unclear how it was just his work if that sheet with math formulae was in front of him on the screen for so long while he talked. He did not do anything to any of the math notation.

He told me that he assumed that his talking did not bother me since I had earbuds inside my ears. I did not tell him the truth that initially it was annoying–I said that I had opera on and that everything was OK. I asked him which language he was speaking. He told me it was Spanish. I was utterly astounded because it was the first time in my life that I did not recognize Spanish. He then said that it was Spanish from Spain. I said "ah, OK", meaning that it probably did not sound like Spanish from Mexico that I hear a lot around me, but in reality I still could not believe that I did not recognize the sounds and cadence of Spanish. I then went to the treadmill and listened to him speak without hearing the opera. I confirmed to myself that it was Spanish and that it sounded different from Mexican Spanish.

Then I put the opera back on and tried walking with a 5 percent incline, but I was very tired so I decided to call it a day. 30 minutes of rowing, getting sweaty, was not so bad.

Yesterday I slept almost all day so I did not do any exercise.

Tomorrow is my restorative yoga and if I have time, I will do recumbent bike prior to class at the gym.

I finally feel human again! Not bumping around, etc. I need to continue to get in better shape so it does not take me so long to recover. But at least now there is a definite recovery to well not exactly greatness, but to some ability! Before, being worn out from too much activity would just lead to a gradual long term slowdown.

That is good news, Unaluna! Keep it up!

I paid $20 for the yearly premium version of the Lose It! App. The free version just wasn't enough for me and $20 was a half off special. I also started using my Garmin smartwatch again and I started intermittent fasting. Which I actually did last night. I'm doing 4PM-4AM based on my general lifestyle habits. Meds and sleep mainly. Idk. The Lose It App is worth looking into. I know its been mentioned other places on this site.

I'm still drinking soda though.

Can you dilute soda with water to practice harm reduction?