Workout Wednesday 10/7

[travelbug]

How is everyone doing? Were your goals met for exercise, food, tracking? Etc

What are you doing great at?
What do you need improvement on?

Anything else you want to add

[bk1]

Food going good. Sticking to our meal plan and limiting sweets. I haven't worked out this week. I'm trying to get started in a routine. At least we have been busy everyday so I'm being more physically active even though I haven't worked out.

[Deleted]

I've been doing much better with food, with the exception of last night's pizza delivery. I've been sticking to a meal plan and bring breakfast, lunch, and snacks to work with me to avoid eating bad food. I haven't weighed myself since April at the doctors office. I think I want to start tracking my weight so I'm going to weigh in on Friday. I'm scared!

My H has been working out about 3 days a week at the gym. I really need to start going with him.

[HoneySpider]

I got back on track with food this week after being a slacker. Made it to the gym yesterday, hoping to go tomorrow & Friday but not sure if I'll make it tomorrow. This week ended up being really busy for some reason!

I need to come up with some new lunch ideas. I know we do meal plans all the time on here but I am lazy when it comes to lunch, IDK why but I just never feel like putting much effort into it. I tend to do sandwiches a lot, yesterday I had oatmeal which was random for me. What do you guys eat for lunch? I need to be inspired. We sometimes have leftovers from dinner but lately we haven't been making many meals with leftovers for whatever reason.

[katiek]

Food has been hit or miss. Some days I eat barely anything, others I can't stop eating. So I definitely need to improve that. So I decided to make cinnamon rolls for dessert, lol. What a good start!

I've been doing Pilates 3 times a week, and going for a walk every day that weather permits. I love Pilates, it's so relaxing.

HoneySpider, my favourite easy lunches are egg muffins, beans and cheese, and sandwiches. The beans are especially great because you can make a big vat of them and they last forever.

[travelbug]

Everyone sounds like they are doing great, nice work ladies

H and I got gym memberships on Friday. The gym is literally 2 block away from our place. Really nice with sharing a vehicle. Since we are now paying money for it. I'm determined to use it at least 4 times week. They offer lots of free classes which I'll take advantage of in the next few weeks after getting slightly back in shape.

Food is the same I need improvement. I'm going to try and eat more fruits and veggies as snacks.

I've definitely been doing a much better job at drinking water since I got a new cold drink tumbler from Starbucks.

I took my before photos on Sunday before day 1 at the gym. I didn't weigh myself yet, I'll do that right now actually.

My goal is to lose about 15-20 pounds and tone the rest. I started to feel very self conscious in the past month about my clothes fitting. So I have a good plan to get me started!

Question:
What does your typical gym routine look like? I've been testing out various equipment and was just curious what others do.

HS, lunches I do now are sandwiches, cheese and crackers, tornado wraps, Mac n cheese. I need to actually improve my lunches at home when I'm not working, I am thinking of doing cottage cheese and apples, apples and peanut butter, hummus with veggies, hard boiled eggs. More of a snacky lunch than a meal.

[HoneySpider]

travelbug what are tornado wraps?

[wanderingenough]

Like katiek, food has been hit or miss for me. I made it to the gym tonight and hope to go again tomorrow and once this weekend.

travelbug - Talk to the front desk folks at your gym. A lot of places will give you a free session with an employee where they walk through the machines with you and help you come up with a plan in terms of reps/weights. Sometimes you just have to ask If you have any free weight questions, I can help you and I think rockinrobyn knows a good bit as well!

[melsamoony]

Workouts haven't happened this week :-(

Eating has gone well. I did have pizza this week but I have kept snacking to minimal and healthy options so I am happy overall.

Need to get back on the workout wagon but I have been too tired.

[travelbug]

Oct 7, 2015 18:08:47 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

travelbug what are tornado wraps?

It's a wrap with rice in it and some sort of dip or sauce. Example: tortilla, rice, cheese, spinach/romaine, tomato, cucumber, ranch. We had them at my school and they were my fave living in the dorms!

[travelbug]

wanderingenough Thanks so much. That's a great idea!

[ewall]

I'm running a 5k on Saturday.

I've hit 10k+ steps six out of seven days so far in October.

[rockinrobyn]

Oct 7, 2015 17:50:26 GMT -5 travelbug said:

My goal is to lose about 15-20 pounds and tone the rest. I started to feel very self conscious in the past month about my clothes fitting. So I have a good plan to get me started!

I would take measurements too. Arms, Bust, waist, hips, and quads. Because muscle weighs more you might not see a change in the scale number and it may go up which will be discouraging. However, if you are able to see your measurements go down or see more definition in your arms it will be more motivating. 

If you need any advice on programming or have any questions. Let me know!