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New years resolutions anyone?

Mine are to be younger, smarter and skinnier =)) seriously though I was extremely fit most of my life and got back into very good shape after both kids. Over the past few years I have been through a series of shoulder surgerys that has left my right shoulder worse than ever, so I have put on 15-20 lbs all in my middle. Not good because although my 85 year old mother is very healthy, my 70 year old father has been through a summer of battling diabetes, heart failure and cancer. Soooooo my husband and I will start running 2 miles about 3 days a week and gradually work up to 5 miles. It's fustrating to me that I incorporate as much upper body work as I would like but oh well. Anyways I thought if any of you on the forum would like to join in we could have a little get fit & healthy in 2011 support on here. I know alot about diet and exercize that I could help with. I will be probably be starting spring quarter back to college to study to be a medical lab tech, "smarter part :D " but I think I can get a good start before that.

rodeoratdogs Fri, 01/07/2011 - 10:26

Oh I bet it would be good with the Hawaiian marinade. I've been reading muscle and fitness hers for years they always have great workout routines, real logical weight loss advice, great recipes and it's just motivational to look at the pictures :D. We actually got that recipe out of his magazine but my magazine had a great looking sweet potato stew I'm going to try next.

Krickette Fri, 01/07/2011 - 10:32

I am trying to get down to a healthy weight, which was not easy during the holidays haha. But I'm down 5 lbs since I got back to school! With SR design I'm too busy to overeat, and I've been going walking with a friend who's training for the police.

Rusti Fri, 01/07/2011 - 11:10

[quote="Krickette"]I am trying to get down to a healthy weight, which was not easy during the holidays haha. But I'm down 5 lbs since I got back to school! With SR design I'm too busy to overeat, and I've been going walking with a friend who's training for the police.[/quote]

Congrats, keep it up!

Today was the end of week 1 for me and hubby. Saturday's weights were me - 162; him - 240. Today's weights were me - 154.5 (down 7.5 lbs) and him - 232 (down 8 lbs). I'm so proud of us! Measurements and pics in 7 more days!

Third Peppermint Fri, 01/07/2011 - 11:11

I've been having good luck if I keep he carbs down. Actually, almost too good luck. I'm not as hungry throughout the day and happily end on way too few calories (think sub 1100). And then exercise on top of that (up to 90 pound hexbar lifts yay!) it makes me concerned. However, if I eat really carb-y food I can easily reach 1500+ AND be low on protein. Ugh.

Anyway, I'm excited for my weigh in tomorrow. So far I've been making some progress! I'm already under 135 despite all of the bourbon and some chinese food.

rodeoratdogs Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:35

Wow great work you guys! Rusti, I can't believe you lost 7 lbs already omg! I know I'm doing good but I don't want to do measurements until next week I don't have a scale so I'll just do measurements. I'm making sweet potato stew and then I'm going to do my work out ;-) .

Krickette Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:57

I just made a huge pot of chili... but I used the deer dad got this year which was about the leanest deer ive ever eaten. So...hopefully it wont be awful for me

Krickette Fri, 01/07/2011 - 19:55

yeah, and dont cover it in too much cheese haha! A bunch of my health conscious friends would always get chili at wendy's. I'd just laugh as I ate my baconator and enjoyed it.

rodeoratdogs Fri, 01/07/2011 - 20:18

Yeah exactly decent meat is the key, venison sounds super healthy, there is actually a chicken chile recipe that sounds great in my magazine too, and the sweet potato stew was awesome. I'll put both of them down here.

Beef stew w/sweet potato
2 TB olive oil
1 lb beef stew meat
2 large onions diced
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1tsp cumin
1/2 tsp chile flakes
1 can tomatos diced
1 can tomato puree
2 cups beef broth
1 large sweet potato chopped
salt & pepper to taste

In a large soup pot heat olive oil at medium heat, add meat and oinions and brown meat on all sides. Remove beef and onions and set aside. Add garlic, cumin and chile flakes and cook for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Add tomatoes and tomato puree and meat/onions back in. Add broth and bring to a boil then let simmer for 20 minutes. Add sweet potato and cook for another 20 minutes or until potatos are tender. Salt and pepper to taste.

I'm going to make this next it sounds good, I love cilantro.
Chicken and black bean Chile
4-6 oz boneless skinless chicken breast
2 tsp cumin, divided
salt and pepper to taste
2 Tb olive oil
2 yellow oinions diced
2 red bell peppers diced
4 garlic cloves chopped
1 Tb chile powder
1/2 tsp chili flakes
2 28oz tomato puree
1 can black beans
1-2 cups water
1 bunch cilanto chopped
3 oz light sour cream

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. place chicken breast on baking sheet and season with 1/2 cumin salt and pepper and bake for 20 minutes or until cooked through. Let cool and cut into pieces.

Heat large soup pot to medium heat. Add olive oil and onions and bell peppers and cook 5-10 minutes or until onions are golden brown. Add garlic. chile powder and remaining cumin and chile flakes and cook 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, beans, diced chicken and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil.

Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. If the chile is to thick at water. Season with salt and pepper and garnish with cilantro and sour cream.

Krickette Fri, 01/07/2011 - 21:46

our chili was delicious, i made two versions, a normal and a wimpy. My roomie hates spicy food (she's a bad louisianian). I just didnt add jalapenos to the second batch, and put in extra sugar to cut the heat, as well as more oregano and basil to hide the sweet taste. those two recipes sound really good! Have you joined sparkpeople.com? they have some awesome healthy recipes!!
Also, just got an app on my droid with nutrition facts for restraunts and such! So yay for eating out a little better.

Rusti Fri, 01/07/2011 - 22:02

Gah, I completely forget about deer chilli! We have plenty of ground deer meat out in the freezer...guess next week I'll run to the store and pick up the fixin's.

Tonight (for our SUPER LATE dinner...ugh I'm starving) we're having baked chicken breast marinated in lemon pepper, baked potatoes (I stopped on the way home and got fat free cheese, light butter and light sour cream), and maybe some broccoli. Probably, with how hungry I am lol.

rodeoratdogs Fri, 01/07/2011 - 22:25

[quote="Krickette"]our chili was delicious, i made two versions, a normal and a wimpy. My roomie hates spicy food (she's a bad louisianian). I just didnt add jalapenos to the second batch, and put in extra sugar to cut the heat, as well as more oregano and basil to hide the sweet taste. those two recipes sound really good! Have you joined sparkpeople.com? they have some awesome healthy recipes!!
Also, just got an app on my droid with nutrition facts for restraunts and such! So yay for eating out a little better.[/quote]

Oh I'd make a good louisianian then, I love spicy food :D

Danni Sat, 01/08/2011 - 04:48

Ok if this was supposed to be a weight loss thread, it's making me hungry!!!! :lol:

I've never made a good chili, now I want to give it a go!

rodeoratdogs Sat, 01/08/2011 - 15:33

[quote="Danni"]Ok if this was supposed to be a weight loss thread, it's making me hungry!!!! :lol:

I've never made a good chili, now I want to give it a go![/quote]

LOL body builders eat like horses, that's why this thread is so appropriate for a horse forum ;) .

Rusti Sat, 01/08/2011 - 22:17

Ok, today was day 8 of our P90X (so day 1 of week 2). We've been so well behaved on our diets that we decided to treat ourselves tonight and went out for a steak and baked potato. I really figured I wouldn't be able to finish even half of my meal, after going 7 straight days of several small meals a day, but it was just so good that I ate every bit of it lol. I only went 400 calories over my daily limit, hubby managed to stay under his limit. I thought I'd feel guilty, but when I think about how good that steak was, it was worth it lol.

rodeoratdogs Sun, 01/09/2011 - 09:39

[quote="Rusti"]Ok, today was day 8 of our P90X (so day 1 of week 2). We've been so well behaved on our diets that we decided to treat ourselves tonight and went out for a steak and baked potato. I really figured I wouldn't be able to finish even half of my meal, after going 7 straight days of several small meals a day, but it was just so good that I ate every bit of it lol. I only went 400 calories over my daily limit, hubby managed to stay under his limit. I thought I'd feel guilty, but when I think about how good that steak was, it was worth it lol.[/quote]

I still think your caloric intake is a bit low at 1200. They had a article in my Muscle & fitness hers about how many calories you should have for weight loss and it was 12 calories for every pound of body weight, so for 130 lb woman it was 1560.

Rusti Sun, 01/09/2011 - 13:52

I thought it was kinda low too at first, but even when I was on Jenny Craig I was only allowed 1200 once I got below 170 lbs (no exercise besides working full time at the dry cleaners). I figure if I start running out of energy or feeling crummy I will up it. But so far I feel great!

rodeoratdogs Sun, 01/09/2011 - 15:06

If your up your lean protein esspecially, it would be safer and ensure you don't start burning your own muscle as fuel with the type and amount of exercize your doing.

Rusti Mon, 01/10/2011 - 16:26

What else should I add besides chicken and my protein shake? I take a scoop a day...I can up it to 1.5 or 2, but it says only take 2 if you're a serious bodybuilder, and I don't want to bulk up right now, but I definitely don't want to lose any muscle. What about eggs? I planned on boiling some today and having one with breakfast. Should I eat the yolk or no?

Third Peppermint Mon, 01/10/2011 - 16:44

Do you like seafood? Fish and shrimp is pretty good for you I think. I'd say to eat the yolk, but that's because it's my favorite part of the egg. :D I am also lucky in the fact that my cholesterol is magical (super low HDL and super duper high HDL no matter what.) A lot of veggies have decent protein, like broccoli or brussels sprouts. I'm sure more people will pop in with good recommendations, too.

Any suggestions for my issue with getting enough calories AND enough protein? I can hit 90 grams of protein by eating low carb, but then I end the day on around 1100 calories. On the opposite side, I can easily reach 1500 calories if I eat all willy-nilly, but then I'm only at like... 40-60 grams of protein. My trainer told me to get like... 140 grams I think?

Rusti Mon, 01/10/2011 - 17:15

Good deal, I do love seafood, I eat tuna ~4 times a week. As far as veggies, broccoli and lettuce are the only ones I'll eat lol. Well I take that back, I love avocado...bought 3 today. Definitely gonna add a whole boiled egg to breakfast as well.

Ok I have a funny question. My farrier and I were discussing me being on P90X and he seems to think that women who work out this hard will stop ovulating, and we plan on trying for a baby this spring after we finish P90X and get back from our trip to Mexico. Is this a bunch of nonsense like I think it is? (This is the same guy who told me that if I got any Panacur on me it would make my birth control stop working lol.)

Third Peppermint Mon, 01/10/2011 - 17:30

That hooey. You have to be like anorexic skinny or take a ton of testosterone to have reproductive issues. Us ladies have been doing hard work for as long as there have been ladies and I think there are more than enough people to show how fruitful we can be. ;) You'll have babies left and right unless you stress your body out so much that it goes in panic mode. If you're not regularly puking after exercise or having other weird side effects you're golden.

Also, can I live through you? Everyone is having babies around me and I have to wait a bit longer. Ugh.

rodeoratdogs Mon, 01/10/2011 - 19:47

Rusti,
With the type of workout your doing P90X, it is very intense and if you don't want to put one muscle just don't make your weights to heavy, but you are asking your body to do a lot and you at least want to give it the fuel to do what your asking so you don't start burning up your own muscle. So yeah eggs are great one yoke a day is fine and you can have up to 5 whites, and another scoop of protein powder won't hurt you at all. Fish and Chicken breasts are great also, Eggs and protein powder are just easy. You won't hinder your fat loss with this I promise, in fact if your calorie intake is to low it will hinder your weight loss for 2 reasons, your body will go into starvation mode and slow it's matabolism and if you loose muscle you will burn less fat. Enough of the right fuel & intense workouts will supercharge your matabolism and you will be able to tell the difference, you will begin to crave what you need and it's ok to give your body that when you matabolism is high, the right fuel and workouts will keep it high that's what you want, you will start burning fat like crazy.
If you can pick up a copy of Muscle and Fitness hers, Oxygen or Shape, they have a lot of good advice, workouts, recipes and more.

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Krickette Tue, 01/11/2011 - 12:20

[quote="rodeoratdogs"]Oh also I did try the Chicken Chile recipe today, it was not spicey enough for me, but my daughter Esther loved it![/quote]

Add some extra diced jalopenos! They speed your metabolism! ;)

nerd Tue, 01/11/2011 - 15:11

If you eat tuna 4x/week, you might want to watch out for mercury poisoning, especially if you are considering having a child. Mercury bioaccumulates up the food chain, which tuna are very high on. "Chunk light" tuna tends to be lower in mercury than "albacore", since it tends to come from younger/smaller fish. Still, even for "chunk light" you should probably limit yourself to having it every 3 days or more ([url=http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/merc… website[/url] has a table with some recommendations).

Another generic word of caution to y'all: beware of dioxins. Dioxins are carcinogenic, and can cause problems with reproductive and immune systems. They were in the news recently when tainted feed in Germany caused high levels in chickens, eggs, and now pigs as well. Your main dietary source of these is probably animal fat, as dioxins bioaccumulate and are stored in fatty tissue. Including your own. So as you burn all that fat, you will be exposing yourself to higher levels. I can't say that this is necessarily dangerous, but I would recommend against ingesting a bunch of animal fat at the same time. In other words, your sources of protein should be lean and low on the food chain if at all possible (plants, ideally). Unfortunately I don't think that organic food is necessarily going to have lower dioxin levels, but stuff like insisting on grass-fed beef would probably be a good idea. You can read more about dioxins [url=http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factshee…].

Krickette Tue, 01/11/2011 - 16:17

I always wonder about mercury in fish, I know that some people were worried about the mercury levels in the fish from our local lakes, but they're so high in selenium I didn't think it'd really be a problem....