NEW YEARS RESOLUTION WEIGHT LOSS THREAD

[ROBOSSRS]

Who posted the recipe for chicken chili a while back? I thought I saved it to a folder on my desk top , but the folder is empty ?

[ROBOSSRS]

Or was it turkey?

[SSMOKINHOT]

Originally Posted by sugar'n'spice

Wow ! Huge cheers for you Donna !!!
You are so amazing and so disciplined !!!!


Also, wow soon,,soon...for you to come home !!!! YAY !

Thanks Joanne! I just hope I can maintain that discipline when I get home. It is easy to focus on me while I am here because it is 12 hours work, then the rest of the time it for me to do whatever I want to do with the gym being priority #1. When I get home, that "free" time won't belong to only me anymore and it is so easy for fitness to be put on a shelf. I will just need to find the balance between me time and family/friend time. Hopefully though, I will be where I want to be or pretty darned close so I will mostly have to maintain which will be easier than losing fat/gaining muscle.

Originally Posted by Sanddemon

Looking good soldier.

:flag2:


Here is a great recipe for fall!! Can't wait to get home to make these!


Pumpkin Protein Bars
Ingredients:
½ C Xylitol Brown Sugar Blend (Ideal)
1- 4 oz. jar baby food applesauce
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 ½ tsp. ground ginger
½ tsp. ground clove
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla extract
4 large egg whites
1- 15 oz. can of raw pumpkin
2 C oat flour
2 scoops vanilla whey protein
½ cup almond milk
½ C chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350.
Spray a 9 X 13 Pyrex dish with non-stick spray.
Combine first 11 ingredients and mix well.
Add the final 3 ingredients (4, if adding walnuts), and mix until incorporated.
Spread batter into the Pyrex dish and back for 30 min.
Makes 24 squares.
Nutrition (without walnuts): 1 square = 47 calories, .7 g fat, 8 g carbs, 3.7 g protein
Nutrition (with walnuts): 1 square = 63 calories, 2.3 g fat, 8 g carbs, 4 g protein

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by SSMOKINHOT

Here is a great recipe for fall!! Can't wait to get home to make these!


Pumpkin Protein Bars
Ingredients:
½ C Xylitol Brown Sugar Blend (Ideal)
1- 4 oz. jar baby food applesauce
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 ½ tsp. ground ginger
½ tsp. ground clove
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla extract
4 large egg whites
1- 15 oz. can of raw pumpkin
2 C oat flour
2 scoops vanilla whey protein
½ cup almond milk
½ C chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350.
Spray a 9 X 13 Pyrex dish with non-stick spray.
Combine first 11 ingredients and mix well.
Add the final 3 ingredients (4, if adding walnuts), and mix until incorporated.
Spread batter into the Pyrex dish and back for 30 min.
Makes 24 squares.
Nutrition (without walnuts): 1 square = 47 calories, .7 g fat, 8 g carbs, 3.7 g protein
Nutrition (with walnuts): 1 square = 63 calories, 2.3 g fat, 8 g carbs, 4 g protein

Nice! new recipe I haven't tried yet!! Thanks my freind!!



Workouts today!

5 sets each w/ weight:

Chest, Butt and Core

Chest Press, Obl. Crunches, Peck Dec, Butt Machine, Knee Raises, Heal Press, Serratus Push (higher reps, low weight, done for conditioning.)

Felt good, starting to feel not so sore in my lower body!

[hrpiii]

down to 220 lbs today.. whoo hoo!

moving in the right direction.

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by hrpiii

down to 220 lbs today.. whoo hoo!

moving in the right direction.

WooHooo! Awesome

Men lose weight so much quicker....Not fair!

[SSMOKINHOT]

So, saw a little blurb in Women's Health Magazine that said since women tend to be Quad dominant, we should "wake up" our glutes PRIOR to doing leg/glute exercises in order to have them participate in the movement more instead of the quads doing all the work. I thought this was pretty interesting and thought it might be worth trying! They suggested doing some glute bridges to warm up. ttp://www.acefitness.org/exerciselibrary/49/glute-bridge

[hrpiii]

Originally Posted by Bonnie

WooHooo! Awesome

Men lose weight so much quicker....Not fair!

I have no idea what you mean by that







whoo hooo... 219 lbs this morning.

best part, I had a small piece of cake mid day to feed that choc craving. Which means, I may have dropped calories too much. So, still trying to dial it in a little more, but still going in the right direction. Oh and Bonnie, it was an off-day, no workout, no treadmill.

[hrpiii]

Originally Posted by SSMOKINHOT

.. women tend to be Quad dominant, we should "wake up" our glutes PRIOR to doing leg/glute exercises

I'm not sure I buy that unless they are saying women tend to do more Quad exercises instead of a balance of Quad and Hamstring/Glute. Any exercise that allows you to get the joints moving, body temp up, circulation going, is a great warm-up to begin exercising.

[CFD]

Since we're talking glutes a couple of things that may help some. If you use an eliptical for cardio, going in reverse puts more emphesis on the glutes.

Also something that most may know, just like when working other muscles and especially abs, you can help target the glutes by engaging them at the end of the movement, squeeze those cheeks.

[SSMOKINHOT]

Originally Posted by hrpiii

I have no idea what you mean by that







whoo hooo... 219 lbs this morning.

best part, I had a small piece of cake mid day to feed that choc craving. Which means, I may have dropped calories too much. So, still trying to dial it in a little more, but still going in the right direction. Oh and Bonnie, it was an off-day, no workout, no treadmill.

...she is gonna

Originally Posted by hrpiii

I'm not sure I buy that unless they are saying women tend to do more Quad exercises instead of a balance of Quad and Hamstring/Glute. Any exercise that allows you to get the joints moving, body temp up, circulation going, is a great warm-up to begin exercising.

I think they are saying the quads do all the work and the glutes stay dormant, but if you wake the quads up first they might tend to be more actively engaged while doing exercises

Originally Posted by CFD

Since we're talking glutes a couple of things that may help some. If you use an eliptical for cardio, going in reverse puts more emphesis on the glutes.

Also something that most may know, just like when working other muscles and especially abs, you can help target the glutes by engaging them at the end of the movement, squeeze those cheeks.

LoL...squeeze da butt cheeks!!

I LOVE doing reverse mode on the elliptical and I crank up the resistance while going backwards too!

[dianeokie]

Originally Posted by SSMOKINHOT

...she is gonna




I think they are saying the quads do all the work and the glutes stay dormant, but if you wake the quads up first they might tend to be more actively engaged while doing exercises



LoL...squeeze da butt cheeks!!

I LOVE doing reverse mode on the elliptical and I crank up the resistance while going backwards too!

As they say in my body pump class......If you don't squeeze those cheeks, ain't nobody else gonna do it either.....

[SSMOKINHOT]

Originally Posted by dianeokie

As they say in my body pump class......If you don't squeeze those cheeks, ain't nobody else gonna do it either.....

Good point!!!

[thespymaster]

Becky,

The last time I was at your dealership a few months ago; I was weighing in at 251 as shown in the below photo:




Now, currently weighing 200 and the goal is to reach 175 lbs by end of October . I will take a current pic over the weekend, so you can see the difference.