MENA diet/exercise thread

[Nasturtium 500]

I worked on my legs/butt yesterday and felt fine. Then I ran 3 miles at lunch time and felt fine.

Then I just tried to get up from my desk. HOLY ####

I've done stuff like that before One more pound down! awesome!

Well, I think I'm dropping some weight. Also, I have really gotten sick of this and I feel hot (temperature-wise, not aesthetically). This blows. Found some old pictures and made one my computer background so I am staring at it and reminding myself about once being thin.

Good that you're losing! But why are you hot?

Extra padding. I have noticed a huge difference in my temperature. I feel really hot all the time.. whereas when thinner I generally felt OK. I also felt colder in the winter when thinner.. and now I felt not too bad.

aesthetically................i know that's gotta be a word somewhere.......... i'm too tired to remember the meaning though I hope ur ok

Yeah. i have been having some really funky health issues this month. I am not sure if exercise is exacerbating it or not. I really cannot tell.

[Nasturtium 500]

OK so my latest obsession is kettlebells.

I have noticed a distinct difference since I started them and I have not been doing them for long they totally tighten up your ###.

My trainer has been doing it with me and I bought a 15lb kettlebell for home. Ill take breaks and just do a set of 20 kettlebell squats.

Lovin it!

First I had to look up what that was. I've seen those! So are you just using them for squats?

[nunyab 0]

I worked on my legs/butt yesterday and felt fine. Then I ran 3 miles at lunch time and felt fine.

Then I just tried to get up from my desk. HOLY ####

I've done stuff like that before One more pound down! awesome!

Well, I think I'm dropping some weight. Also, I have really gotten sick of this and I feel hot (temperature-wise, not aesthetically). This blows. Found some old pictures and made one my computer background so I am staring at it and reminding myself about once being thin.

Good that you're losing! But why are you hot?

aesthetically................i know that's gotta be a word somewhere.......... i'm too tired to remember the meaning though I hope ur ok

I'm hot 'cuz I'm fly, you ain't 'cuz you not. This is why...

U don't know how true that probably is

Oh hush! The purpose of this whole thread is to make us all more aesthetically pleasing, and hot (or fly, if you will).

this is why this is why this is why i am hot.... lol I like that song.

So I ran yesterday and did again today whoooo hoooo gotta keep it going I am going to be AAaaaaallll that when he gets here!!! Insha'allah lol

[Nasturtium 500]

Started a new abs workout. OMG. The pain. Finally! I can tell something is happening. I think I outgrew my other abs workout as I could never feel a thing with it, no matter how long I took off from it. I love it!

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Started a new abs workout. OMG. The pain. Finally! I can tell something is happening. I think I outgrew my other abs workout as I could never feel a thing with it, no matter how long I took off from it. I love it!

What abs workout are you doing? I need something for my core. I dislike core strengthing very much but I think my neglect for this region is one reason my back went out on me. Is the abs workout something I can do?

I need to get a core workout program going.

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Besides still eatting healthy I did go on my walk with Abby this morning after taking some more Ibuprofren. I was in considerable pain but I hoped whatever I'd done to my back might work its way out on a walk. Plus I didn't want to break my committment to my cousin about walking in the morning when she only gets 1 hour out of 24 to herself after the new baby was born.

She told me her neck was kinked which seemed to coincide with the same day my back pain started.. During our walk my right hip/leg seemed to do this rotating thing due to my lower back pain. It feels better to stand, walk, or lay flat on my back, then sit or bend. After the walk I soaked in the bathtub. I felt better during the day until later when Mom decided to rearrange house furniture and I had to help her. Thus came the bending and lifting and reinjury. My back is still complaining but not as much as yesterday.

[Nasturtium 500]

What abs workout are you doing? I need something for my core. I dislike core strengthing very much but I think my neglect for this region is one reason my back went out on me. Is the abs workout something I can do?

I need to get a core workout program going.

Well, while I was working really hard at work, I saw this fitness today magazine and read it. There is an article on ab workouts and a set of exercises. I decided to try it. I believe it is this month's magazine.

[chaishai 1]

OK so my latest obsession is kettlebells.

I have noticed a distinct difference since I started them and I have not been doing them for long they totally tighten up your ###.

My trainer has been doing it with me and I bought a 15lb kettlebell for home. Ill take breaks and just do a set of 20 kettlebell squats.

Lovin it!

First I had to look up what that was. I've seen those! So are you just using them for squats?

different squats and it gets some of your core. i have also used them for chest and triceps and shoulder. when I use them with my trainer we do other stuff in addition to the kettlebelling

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

What abs workout are you doing? I need something for my core. I dislike core strengthing very much but I think my neglect for this region is one reason my back went out on me. Is the abs workout something I can do?

I need to get a core workout program going.

Well, while I was working really hard at work, I saw this fitness today magazine and read it. There is an article on ab workouts and a set of exercises. I decided to try it. I believe it is this month's magazine.

Thx for the tip!

[Nasturtium 500]

different squats and it gets some of your core. i have also used them for chest and triceps and shoulder. when I use them with my trainer we do other stuff in addition to the kettlebelling

I have to be really careful with what i lift and it sucks. I really injured both shoulders and now if I lift things too high, I can't get dressed for 2 weeks

Thx for the tip!

YW

[Jenn! 918]

I have to be social and eat lunch with coworkers today, so I'll miss my workout.

I think it will be a nice weekend though, so I plan to get up early tomorrow to go jogging around the pond near our house. So relaxing!

ETA: Anyone know a good, healthy salad at The Cheesecake Factory?

Edited June 6, 2008 by Jenn!

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

I went on my morning walk today.

Jenn- the Herb Crusted Salmon Salad looks healthy enough.

Cheesecake Factory Menu

[amal 4]

I worked on my legs/butt yesterday and felt fine. Then I ran 3 miles at lunch time and felt fine.

Then I just tried to get up from my desk. HOLY ####

I've done stuff like that before One more pound down! awesome!

Well, I think I'm dropping some weight. Also, I have really gotten sick of this and I feel hot (temperature-wise, not aesthetically). This blows. Found some old pictures and made one my computer background so I am staring at it and reminding myself about once being thin.

Good that you're losing! But why are you hot?

Extra padding. I have noticed a huge difference in my temperature. I feel really hot all the time.. whereas when thinner I generally felt OK. I also felt colder in the winter when thinner.. and now I felt not too bad.

aesthetically................i know that's gotta be a word somewhere.......... i'm too tired to remember the meaning though I hope ur ok

Yeah. i have been having some really funky health issues this month. I am not sure if exercise is exacerbating it or not. I really cannot tell.

You were exacerbating?!?! I hope it was in private EXACERBATOR!! .. (i'm such a dork)

Edited June 6, 2008 by amal

[amal 4]

g-girl..that last one made me snort my co-workers laughed at me tooooo funny!

"put it in reverse and hit him again"

[chaishai 1]

I have to be social and eat lunch with coworkers today, so I'll miss my workout.

I think it will be a nice weekend though, so I plan to get up early tomorrow to go jogging around the pond near our house. So relaxing!

ETA: Anyone know a good, healthy salad at The Cheesecake Factory?

the word healthy + cheesecake = oxymoron

[Jenn! 918]

I got the pear and endive salad and it was excellent! Allegedly it has no more than 590 calories (they have some "weight management" choices on the menu.)

I really did want a piece of cheesecake, but I resisted. Go me!

Edited June 6, 2008 by Jenn!