Jena's Journal.

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:19 pm

Boss Man wrote:Try lying in the foetus position. So called because it mimics how a foetus rests in the womb.

You won't elongate your spine fully, because you're in a partially tucked-up position.

It's said to be a good curative option, certainly for minor back ailaments and possiblyore serious ones too.


Problem, Boss, I don't think feotus position will work because curling up makes me feel like I can't breathe. Besides, I can't sleep if my legs are touching. Even when I slept on my side, I had my top leg bent and out infront of the other, knee shin and foot against the mattress.

I think that I'm going to try to sleep on my side tonight, if I can, more than likely I won't be able to and so I'l give up and lie on my tummy.

In any case
Today's totals

Calorie - 1570
Exercise - 323
Net Calories - 1247
Fat - 35
Carbs - 135
Fibre - 14
Sugars - 72
Protein - 115
Sodium - 3184

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:29 am

I've decided that I'm going to judge my weightloss based on what my weight was at my heaviest. I was heaviest at 250.4, so as of yesterday, I have lost 6.1 pounds. c: I would definitely be pleased to see this be a higher number, but when I think about it, July 22nd (when I weighed 250.4) was only a bit less than four weeks ago. One and a half pounds a week average is not bad. Not bad at all. I just gotta keep pushing along and I'll get to watch my weightloss number go up and the number on the scale and on the tags of my clothing go down. I can't wait for the day that I can go shopping with my friend Jenna (ironic, no?) and we can shop in the same stores in the big city of Chicago and I won't feel like I have to choose long sleeved shirts, loose button downs, and shoes. I won't have to order my jeans online because there is only one store that I know carries jeans that fit me right, I'll be able to wear clothes that I like and that make me feel good. That is one of the things that I get the most excited about: being able to actually express myself in my clothing instead of just trying to find clothes that fit and camouflage the parts that I hate about myself.

On another note, I managed to sleep most of the night on my side, I woke up a few times and a couple of those times woke up on my stomach and so I rolled back to my side. However, the new sleeping postion still did not help at all with waking up with aches, today, my hamstrings are so tight and sore that I can't even touch my toes without my knees bending a little. This is not what I'm used to. I'm normally very flexible; I can touch my toes with my legs straight, lie my torso against the floor when doing a split stretch, lie my chest against my knees when stretching down one leg, and I can do splits. But today, I couldn't even reach my toes. I really don't like this soreness and I try to stretch it out and ease myself deeper into the stretches and it's not working. Anyone have any advice?

One more thing, and it weirds me out just a little. (Probably because I've never been able to do this before.) But even when my arms are relaxed, I can see the bulge of my biceps. More so in my left arm than in my right, but still, it's visible. I don't know how I feel about it. I hope that I can see it because I'm losing fat in my arms, not because my biceps are really getting that much bigger.

In non-weightloss related news, I got my passport photo done yesterday, $10.79 for two little 2x2" photos. And they were horrible looking. I'm a little annoyed. Oh well, if it lets me get on a plane to Europe, then it can be as crappy as it wants. Lol.

Well, this was a long post without much of a reason, but hey, it's my journal, I can't write long pointless posts if I so choose. Lol.

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby musculArgirl2 » Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:58 pm

MissJenaKay wrote:I've decided that I'm going to judge my weightloss based on what my weight was at my heaviest. I was heaviest at 250.4, so as of yesterday, I have lost 6.1 pounds. c: I would definitely be pleased to see this be a higher number, but when I think about it, July 22nd (when I weighed 250.4) was only a bit less than four weeks ago. One and a half pounds a week average is not bad. Not bad at all. I just gotta keep pushing along and I'll get to watch my weightloss number go up and the number on the scale and on the tags of my clothing go down. I can't wait for the day that I can go shopping with my friend Jenna (ironic, no?) and we can shop in the same stores in the big city of Chicago and I won't feel like I have to choose long sleeved shirts, loose button downs, and shoes. I won't have to order my jeans online because there is only one store that I know carries jeans that fit me right, I'll be able to wear clothes that I like and that make me feel good. That is one of the things that I get the most excited about: being able to actually express myself in my clothing instead of just trying to find clothes that fit and camouflage the parts that I hate about myself.


That day will come for all of us if we stick with it! :D

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby Boss Man » Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:32 pm

Perhaps consider doing 5-10 minutes of light Cardio after weights, to see if you can relieve to some extent the DOMS you encourage, which I'm 99.9% sure is what you're experiencing.

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:02 pm

musculArgirl2 wrote:That day will come for all of us if we stick with it! :D


Can't wait for that day.

Boss Man wrote:Perhaps consider doing 5-10 minutes of light Cardio after weights, to see if you can relieve to some extent the DOMS you encourage, which I'm 99.9% sure is what you're experiencing.


I don't do weights Boss. . . . I don't have any weights here at home. Also... DOMS?? I'm a fitness newb, please don't abbreviations. Lol.

Today's Totals

Calories - 1675
Exercise - 323
Net Calories - 1352
Fat - 30
Carbs - 138
Fibre - 6
Sugar - 75
Protein - 86
Sodium - 1107

In other news, I burned my finger on the grill today and I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. I hate doctors. :c

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby Boss Man » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:35 pm

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. Something that can occur within 24-48 hours of doing weights.

It subisdes within a day or two and is not serious.

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:14 pm

Terribly day today, my eating wasn't awfull, lower in protein than I llike and higher in sugar but right now, I don't care,

Totals
Calories: 1153
Exercise: 323
Net Calories: 830
Fat: 23
Carbs: 159
Fibre: 5
Sugar: 90
Protein: 89
Sodium: 1813

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:54 pm

Didn't manage to update yesterday because I went out with a couple friends at midnight. I also was taken to dinner by my parents, who will never take us anywhere that serves anything even remotely healthy. :c Have had a shitty weekend, so I don't really care about how I ate. I didn't do terribly, but I could have done better on Saturday, Today I just was depressed all day... Bleh Have had about 8 huge arguments in the past two days. Have cried three times, lost two friends because of these arguments, have had the worst self-esteem in a while, haven't enjoyed anything. Gave up on a bunch of things I attempted to start drawing because I just hated how it was turning out. It's just been terrible lately. I really really hope that it's just PMS or something.

Yesterday's Totals (didn't exercise, my day off for the week)
Calories - 1957 (I blame having a milkshake while I was out)
Fat - 53
Carbs - 153
Fibre - 4
Sugar - 58
Protein - 70
Sodium - 606 (Really???)


Today
Calories - 1672
Exercise - 332
Net Calories - 1340
Fat - 28
Carbs - 128
Fibre - 7
Sugar - 58
Protein - 76
Sodium - 865 (really low again... hm c:)

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:42 pm

So I've come to the conclusion that I'm addicted to sugar snap peas. Haha. I made salads with them in it and while I was cooking the turkey sausages that I was making to go with them for my family and I, I ate all the sugar snap peas off everyone's salads. Haha. SO I had to put more on them. xD

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby Boss Man » Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:37 pm

I am proud of you for talking about the issues you've had in the past few days, but also for not letting them put you off logging your eating.

You managed to stick to a worthwhile process that CAN help you to lose weight and you have that little bit of strength to talk about your issues and not let what happened to you, stop you keeping your log.

That's why I'm proud of you, because these things tell me, that little by little your slow steady weight loss is improving your moods, making you someone that fluctuates less erratically in an emotional sense and someone that is getting a little stronger in some regards.

Yes you had arguments and tears, but you haven't recently come here and shown the same up in the air mood swings you had even 5-6 weeks ago, you're more calm, rational and not one thing then another like you were.

It's great to see, but just the fact you logged today despite the arguments and tears, is a little show of improved character and I want you to recognise that bit of progress within yourself, because it's a small step to an all round healthier you.

Over the past 2-3 weeks, you've bene logging and talking about the exercise and your feelings on things and you REALLY are doing a great job of being consistent with such things and these are things I have always believed you could do; be consistent towards yourself and have plans of attack regards the weight, that are sustainable, healthy and productive.

So WELL DONE for touching base today sweetheart, because it means something positive to me and I hope it means something positive to you too.

You've made me really happy to read this, because in the past such a mix of argument and tears, could have messed with your emotions and seriously train wrecked your eating and exercise and put you back pratically at square one.

Keep pushing and keep believing in yourself, because this IS a little but very positive step towards a better person and all this improved consistency with food, exercise and especially the documenting, is just what you needed and it's slowly starting to get you somewhere.

GOOD JOB Jena and like I said I'm really proud of you.

YOU ROCK!!!!

:) :) :)

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:44 pm

Thanks, Boss. I will let you know that I still feel like my emotions are just as erratic as ever, I've just een vocalising it less because I've had a person tell me that I need to stop complaining. Even though that is one of the only ways other than cutting myself that makes it easier for me to handle a situation. I plan on keeping at this, because I don't see how messing up my eating would make me feel any better, the only person I'm hurting when I eat wrong is me, it doesn't bring me any revenge or anything like that so I really don't want to mess it up. I'm trying to figure out how I'mm going to do my eating and working out at school. I'll update with ideas and asking for suggestions tomorrow probably.

Speaking of tomorrow, I'm getting a haircut and I'm thinking that I might do something new, we'll see. C:

Today's totals
Calories - 983 (holy crap low)
Exercise -284
Net calories - 699
Fat - 33
Carbs - 80
Fibre - 6
Sugar - 39
Protein - 84
Sodium - 3621 (really high for having evidently eaten so little...)

I don't really know what happened today. I ate on time, I ate well, I just snacked on sugar snap peas instead of having a breakfast replacement shake at one of my snack times (since I used up all the powder for the breakfast shakes) I didn't realise that it would create so much of a deficit. O_o. I hope I won't end up paying for this later.

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby musculArgirl2 » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:53 am

MissJenaKay wrote:I just snacked on sugar snap peas


You seem to love those sugar snap peas. I honestly don't think i've ever tried them. If there like peas i probably won't like them. :D

MissJenaKay wrote:I'm trying to figure out how I'mm going to do my eating and working out at school.


School will be hard to adjust too. But you can figure out a way to make it work. :D

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:05 pm

musculArgirl2 wrote:You seem to love those sugar snap peas. I honestly don't think i've ever tried them. If there like peas i probably won't like them. :D


I LOVE them, and to me they don't taste like pease, more like fresh green beans, but sweeter and juicy. You eat the whole pod and everything, they're amazing. c: I vote you try them sometime.

musculArgirl2 wrote:School will be hard to adjust too. But you can figure out a way to make it work. :D


I will, plus, there I have a gym to go to.

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby Boss Man » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:23 pm

One day of not eating eounhg won't be really detrimental to your weight loss, it's probably a bit better than eating way too much anyway.

Your university has good eating options and a Gym, so I'm sure you will make things work for you.

Much as though someone telling you to stop complaining about things, might sound a little harsh, in fiarnes it's kind of a salient response, because vocalising frustrations is okay, but if it gets to the point where berating yourself for something or other, becomes an almost daily act, it just ends up being defeatist, because it doesn't facilitate progress, unless it promotes relisation about shortcomings, that you can then use to overcome them

You know things like I don't do X, I should do Y, help to address problems that can be overcome, but if it turns into I hate X; I wish Y wouldn't frickin' happen; Z, sucks, then it becomes frequent ranting that can't serve a purpose, because it isn't very likely to help you address shortcomings.

Let's face it however many times people complain to others about waiting in a queue, or being kept on hold for long periods on the phone, it won't do much to affect your abiltiy to be first in queue, or get faster phone reponses.

So I can understand sometimes why you want to explode, and criticise many things about you and the world around you, but letting it simmer should focus the mind more and hopefully promote more positivity within yourself, because you'll realise not everything you loathe about life and the world, remains loathsome, because it depends on whether it's a national issue, or something occuring within your own personal circumstances, because if it's the latter, the problem is most often temporary, as opposed to things you put up with like many others and have little control over, I.E. healthcare standards, transport infrastructures etc.

Whatever you feel sometimes that's negative, you'll get more understanding with time, about what is destructive or constructive and learn to keep more of the destructive feelings down, by rationalising them, or putting them into a better context.

I hate waiting for buses that are late, especially if it's cold or raining, but I rationalise it, by knowing I don't live somewhere where there's 1-2 buses a day, or maybe even a week and I still feel a bit knarked sometimes when they're late, but I try to be mindful of what I just mentioned.

Don't feel bad at all for feeling what you feel sometimes. Just learn to understand it more and reassess how major or minor those feelings are.

Right now you're doing pretty great all things considered and you're making slow but steady progress, so chin up and keep believing okay :).

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Re: Jena's Journal.

Postby MissJenaKay » Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:00 pm

Okay, today was a horrible day for eating and exercise, however, I did go shopping and I got a haircut Proof It's so short! Lol. But I like it, I hope I don't end up regretting it though since I was trying to grow my hair out. xD We see how well that turned out. I also went shopping, I got two new tops and two new necklaces. c: My grandmother also took me to lunch, however, breakfast and lunch were the only things I ate today. :x I woke up too late to exercise before my grandmother got here so... I didn't exercise, I under ate, but I feel wonderful. c: I think it's okay. Lol.

Annnnyyywayyyy.

TOTALS

Calories - 810
Fat - 45
Carbs - 65
Fibre - 6
Sugar - 4
Protein - 39
Sodium - 1610

Sooooo, I need to get back on this. :x I will though, tomorrow will be productive, I promise! I read your response boss, I'll reply to it tomorrow though because I'm too giddy right now and I can't sit here and concentrate long enough to respond. Lol.

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