I am moving my post here where it belongs rather than the Landmark Scale Victories topic. oops.
Eleven months after my first overnight backpacking trip I returned to Yosemite. I barely made it on the first trip and I had a little help. This time I hiked for 5 much harder days. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to finish the later days of the hike. Going up the steep hills was slow, but I always made it to the top. Even after climbing the hills, I was still able to maintain a reasonable pace on the flats. It feels good to know that I can maintain that level of exertion day after day and keep going. Watch out Energizer Bunny!
You bet. Hike around with 40lbs on your back up around 8-10,000 feet of elevation. When you get home it is amazing how good your wind is. Congratulations on the victory.
Excellent way to enjoy the day. To fit it all in backpacks, it usually means getting some specialized stuff and then making the tough choices and leaving some of it home. My pack weighed in around 45lbs. I guess I have some more trimming to do. I was able to cut 25 lbs or so off my total load last year by losing weight.
Over the holiday weekend I did a 3 day 8 mile backpack trip carrying a 40lb pack. The new fit me is a backpacker so I am playing hard at just being the new slimmer, fitter me.
Way to go Terry. I just got a set of clothing for my upcoming backpack trip. I ordered large for everything and it all fits. Someday it will fit loose.
I saw this on the Ask the Dietitian® web site. It determines how many calories you should eat to lose the weight you want to lose. The difference about this one is that it asks specific questions about your activity level. Hopefully that would allow it to be more accurate for individuals. Check it out, how does it compare to the one at fat2fit.com?
I had a NSV hiking up my training hill yesterday. I usually do it with a 28 pound pack on but I just got new hiking shoes so I am breaking them in without the pack. As I got 3/4ths of the way up the hill I passed 3 guys standing there huffing and puffing. As I went past one of them said that I made it look easy. Without the pack on it almost seemed easy.
Way to go Terry. I was just looking at that Nordic Track home Gym Rusty has. More muscle means more calories burned. I just bought a home gym and I hope it will help me add muscle. Better for weight loss and better for that backpacker I have become.
I like to weigh my self daily. I feel it helps my keep me in the right mindset. Start the day off thinking about what I want and how I will get there. Then I go out and face the day and resist the temptations to eat junk. I don't put all the weights on Traineo though.
Check out the fat2fit group here on Traineo. Muscle burns more calories. Maybe you would benefit by some muscle building. The fat2fit group has a calculator that will help you determine how many calories you should be eating to lose the weight you want to lose. Check them out at fat2fitradio.com to hear their podcasts and see the calorie calculator.
All right, another NSV. After learning about fat2fit I decided that I would become the fit person I wanted to be. That person is a backpacker. I have been doing a lot of hiking and I have my second overnight trip planned for this summer. Going up hills has been difficult for me, so I have made an effort to do a lot of hill climbing. A local park has some steep hills, including one that is about a 30% grade. Some parts are so steep that it is difficult to keep your footing. Today I was following a group of teenagers or young adults. I was hoping that maybe I would catch up a little on the way up. About 2/3rds of the way up they pulled over to a flat resting spot. As I went by a guy that couldn't have been over 20 asked me "how do I do it"? I said, "just keep going". He asked If I had stopped to rest on the way up. I said "no, just go slow". I kept going all the way to the top without stopping. Oh, I also wear a 20lb backpack.
I thought we needed a place to share our special scale victories not just non-scale victories. Those weight goals that have special meaning. I had been about 225 for years and years. I have been up as high as at least 236. I haven't been under 200 for close to 20 years. Well today I am 199.6.
My sister got married Saturday. At the wedding my nephew's wife told me how much thinner I looked. I keep waiting for my belly to shrink but it seems I am losing more on the back side. As long as I am losing somewhere.
I had my first real "you look like you have lost some weight" moment. Someone that I don't see very often. I am down to 201.2 now. If I could just lose some of my belly.
If you are losing 2.5 pounds a week maybe you could slow that down a bit. Adding 500 calories a day would bring the weight loss down to 1.5 pounds a week. The key is finding a level you can live with over the long haul.
Your BMR is the number of calories you need to eat to keep from going into starvation mode. You want to add to that number enough to compensate for your activity level. Without knowing your age and height etc I can't run the numbers. I am guessing you should be eating more than the 2055 of your BMR. Plug your numbers into the calculator on the BMR page. Then look further down the page where it shows how many calories to eat for a Moderately Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk) person.
I seem to recall a web site or two being mentioned as a good place to figure how many calories are in home cooked meals. Does anyone suggestions for the best site to use? Thanks
My first non scale victory. I have an old pair of sweat pants that stay up with a string tied in the waist. It has been tied in a knot for years. Lately I have been thinking that something was wrong because they felt like they were ready to fall off. Yesterday I realized that the pants had not stretched out, I had gotten smaller. Whoo Hoo
I second that hiking idea. Up hills and down. Rain or shine. It isn't exercise, it's just fun outdoors. I started out doing geocaching. Using a GPSr to find hidden containers outdoors. Kind of a treasure hunt. Then I wanted to find one that was really hard to get to. The next thing I knew I was hiking 8-10 miles on all day hikes and having lots of fun taking photos. Then I went on an overnight backpack trip in Yosemite. Now I am trying to lose the weight of my backpack so I can carry my pack more easily. Find a fun activity. Line dancing, hiking, swiming etc. Anything you enjoy doing is the way to go. You get exercise without even trying.
Well I think most fad and gimmick diets really do work, at least for a while. If most people gain the weight back then how useful is it? There really is only ONE way to lose weight. No matter all the frill and dressing, you have to eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter what you eat. You could eat nothing but chocolate all day and lose weight as long as you don't eat more calories than you burn. You can eat all meat, or all pasta, or all veggies. The best way to do it is to eat a balanced diet that keeps you healthy and is not caloric ally dense. Then you can feel full without eating as many calories. The reason fad diets are so popular is they are easy. It is easier to just eat meat than it is to figure out how many calories you are eating all the time.
Lots of fad diets will cause you to lose weight short term. Keeping it off long term is what everyone wants. I recommend the fat2fit.com podcasts. Check out their website. They also have a group here on traineo. I just went to my health plan's, health education department for a body fat analysis. They recommended pretty much exactly what fat2fit says. No fads, no gimmicks. Eat well, eat less and exercise more.
Congratulations on the victory.
