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Otis fad diet thread — yoga, fasting, and kevzilla walking on🚶‍♂️ (1 Viewer)

kevzilla said:
It hasn't been a good week. My brother was hospitalized (sepsis, not Covid) on Tuesday, and I got to see him in the ICU today, though he was not responsive while I was there. He has improved, however, and they're going to try to extubate him tomorrow.

The scale says I gained 0.4 pounds this week, like I care. Despite that, I am a little guilty about not walking today, and I will probably make it up tomorrow. Take care of each other.
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Sorry to hear about your brother.  Hang in there.  Hope he improves greatly in a very short amount of time. 

 
kevzilla said:
It hasn't been a good week. My brother was hospitalized (sepsis, not Covid) on Tuesday, and I got to see him in the ICU today, though he was not responsive while I was there. He has improved, however, and they're going to try to extubate him tomorrow.

The scale says I gained 0.4 pounds this week, like I care. Despite that, I am a little guilty about not walking today, and I will probably make it up tomorrow. Take care of each other.
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Oh man hang in there, Kev.  Sepsis is no joke. Praying he bounces back quickly.

 
Bad weekend of drinking.  Eating was actually not horrible.  Got in some great exercise sessions and still going strong with the push-ups.  Today I’m actually going to do a yoga session with my 5 year old daughter and then finish up with a weight workout.  No drinking for me until Friday.

 
Did a bunch of cleaning yesterday, put away all the Christmas decorations I'd been meaning to get to before i got covid, played with my kid all day. No real urge to drink but probably would have had a glass or two if I'd had it in the house.

Thought about whether that means i have alcoholic tendencies. I can definitely over indulge. But then i realize I've had 11 cans of Truly in the house since summer and no matter how much i would like a drink there just no ####### way.  I can't bring myself to throw them out because maybe someday we have guests who like Zima and La Croix and want to see how they taste together, but at this point it's like the bottle of guest vodka we always had in college that doubled as lighter fluid or paint thinner. 

 
Day 2 of Move wasn't too bad but I'm still getting back into yoga shape so i definitely felt it.  30 days of this will make a difference.  Also had a good treadmill session. Feel like yoga is the best way to get some of my strength back without overdoing it, so I'm going to hold off on pushups and weights for a little bit until i feel like this is easy

 
Today's Adriene (Day 8 - Rest) was the type I absolutely despise.  Lots of breathing (including alternate-nostril breathing, which makes my nose run) and almost no movement, and of course the lack of movement equated to tons of chatter.  At some point when I realized we wouldn't be doing much, I just muted her.  Unlike in the past with such practices, I finished the whole damn thing anyway, but I didn't have to like it.

I also did almost two hours of walking today with my septuagenarian mom, who because she is a freaking badass has joined me on the 475-mile challenge.  She's actually ahead of me on miles through these first three days.  :bag:   

Very good week for me on eating and drinking.  One "bad day" of eating on Thursday, which I'd planned for, and so far have only used two of my three weekly days of wine-drinking.  Might or might not use that third one tonight.

 
134g protein 

39g fiber

3195mg sodium

37 calories over goal.  I can live with that.  Ten days down, 97 days until Easter.  

 
krista4 said:
Very good week for me on eating and drinking.  One "bad day" of eating on Thursday, which I'd planned for, and so far have only used two of my three weekly days of wine-drinking.  Might or might not use that third one tonight.
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When does the week reset?

 
Saturday was going well until I decided to join the group for dinner at a Mexican place. I ended up with 1900 calories but did hike an hour and added 30 minutes of yoga so net calories were still under the daily goal. 
 

Sunday I was back at it. Only 1500 calories and 60 minutes on the Peloton. 
 

 
Man, it's so much harder to lose weight then it used to be. Only lost 5 lbs week one when I didn't cheat once, stayed under 1600 calories, barely ate sugar and exercised 5 days. I would've expected more as the first week is all water weight.

 
I didn't update over the weekend.  Kept up my daily yoga.  Saturday did a 'Hot26' session.  It was a Bikram yoga routine that is all the rage now days and is common in hot yoga studios.  I didn't like it at all.  No 'flow'.  Move here, do this, etc.  However I probably will do it again because Sunday I was sore in different ways.  Sunday I did a yin session, felt good to get everything stretched out. 

Food over the weekend wasn't too good, but I also didn't eat out at all.  Still no booze for the year, so calorie intake couldn't have been too bad, right?  

Did a full practice 40-min down dog session today.  Typical flow, standing poses are getting better.  Crow today wasn't great, not sure why except that it was near the end of the session and I was almost spent.  

Keep up the good work!

 
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Official weigh-in today -9.6 lb since 1/1. I will embrace being a member of the Never Been Fatter club  

I only try for 1 lb./week so this makes me VERY happy.  This also gives me motivation to keep at it for another week.

Keep going everyone!

 
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Down 10.2 since 1/1.  I suspect things will slow down now, but hope not :)  

I'm now at the weight I was that last time I started a diet :bag:  

 
Thomas light multi grain English muffin

Two individually wrapped Kraft singles

Two large eggs, fried

Two tbsp salsa

Serve open faced

23g protein

10g fiber

360 calories

1272mg sodium :bag:

It doesn't have to be iwks but that's what i had and it was glorious. Serving them open faced is such a game changer for me, it feels like I'm eating two sandwiches. 

 
Poke_4_Life said:
That has to be from the Kraft singles, right?  Surely there's a decent cheese w/ less sodium out there.  (Also will be sodium in the salsa and the muffin.)
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Good question

Iwks 440mg

Tostitos medium Salsa 520mg 

Thomas light multi grain English muffin 170mg

I can improve on both.  I just added the salsa for a little flavor and some semblance of vegetables. Yikes.  Will switch it up as i keep trying to improve this.  

 
Poke_4_Life said:
That has to be from the Kraft singles, right?  Surely there's a decent cheese w/ less sodium out there.  (Also will be sodium in the salsa and the muffin.)
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I mostly eat Swiss cheese which has pretty much no sodium.  However, that's not a taste for everyone.  

 
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Haven't gotten out of my rut yet, unfortunately. After running those 4 miles on Thursday, my knee hurt enough to keep me from working out on Friday. Walked a total of 18 miles over the weekend, but by the end of each day my knee would be bugging me, along with some new pain in my achilles and an inkling of some oncoming shin splints. I had been trying to increase my running mileage very slowly but it sure seems like I overdid it last month. My new plan is to give my legs as much rest as possible this week and try again next Monday, doing only ~20 miles/week instead of the ~25 I'd worked up to. Fingers crossed that I can finally get back into a routine at that point.

Diet has certainly improved over the holiday lows, but I still had too much booze this weekend. Happy to see the success that you all are finding in the new year, and Kev, I wish your brother a speedy recovery. 🙏

 
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krista4 said:
bostonfred said:
Poke_4_Life said:
Mine looked more like this, which they call intermediate phase.  
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I think I can do that.  Zero chance i ever do the one Krista linked
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Gonna try this today and see how far down I get the feet.

The picture for today's Adriene practice is of her in tree pose, which I love, so I'm excited for this one.
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I didn't take a good mental photo of the pose and tried to do something much harder.  :lmao:   I got into the pose that was in the link you posted, but I thought I was supposed to have my knees way off the ground and kept trying to reach them higher, thinking "how the hell did he do this?"  I came back in here to report on my failure and then took another look at the picture.  OK, I did that after all.  Now I need to try pushing my feet down to the ground and not pull my knees up instead.  I'm dumb.

I liked the Adriene practice today - short (22 min) but with lots of good movements.  And because it was packed with a lot, there was little chatter until the last few minutes.  Realized I have a surprising amount of trouble with "fire hydrant" pose, though.  Don't feel like my leg goes as high or level as it should.  Not sure why that one is difficult for me.

 
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Day 3 of Move felt a lot better.  I think I'm getting my strength back from being sick at the same time I'm getting back into yoga shape because the side planks and downward dogs didn't bother me much at all, and i got a lot deeper in the warrior poses which kicked my butt in a good way.  

71g protein, 38g fiber, but sodium still not good.  I'm going to keep reporting on it but focus more on calories fiber and protein until I'm seeing more in the way of results and can focus on fine tuning. Protein is a little low but fiber was good and I'm finding it easier to stay under calories without running which is the key for long term success for me.  I want my run days to feel like i get to have "extra" calories and my "normal" days to feel normal.  

 
Down 4 since last week. Getting back in a really good eating pattern. Actually easy for me. Mixing it up. Mango shrimp taco lettuce wraps for dinner last night. Big baked potato with salsa tonight. I’m not going to the gym right now so need to be accountable for more Peleton workouts at home. One day at a time. 

 
krista4 said:
I think you'll like this series when you're feeling better.  I'm enjoying it more than the other 30-day programs so far.  Today was called "Flow," and the first half was really good, with a nice flow that went faster than she normally does.  Then we went to a seat and she babbled incessantly for a while before we got into the next section, which dragged me down.  Once it got going again, I liked it.
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wife has the rona.  everything is chaos, in the house, at the moment.  i'll jump in later this week

 
gianmarco said:
Based on this thread, I did yoga with the other half for the first time ever yesterday. Went with Adrienne, Day 1. 

Still don't understand how something that looks so easy is such a #####, but yoga 1, me 0. But seriously, I can see where it will help and plan on doing 30 days with her, but I don't think I'd ever get into it myself. 
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i felt this way.  give it a shot.  i love it and miss it(sprained my ankle terribly 3 months ago, and started a new job at the same time).  of any type of exercise, yoga makes the biggest difference in how my body feels.  i'm 53 and feel muscles and tendons tightening, daily :lmao: .  it's nuts how much flexibility i've lost in 3 months.

 
Poke_4_Life said:
I didn't update over the weekend.  Kept up my daily yoga.  Saturday did a 'Hot26' session.  It was a Bikram yoga routine that is all the rage now days and is common in hot yoga studios.  I didn't like it at all.  No 'flow'.  Move here, do this, etc.  However I probably will do it again because Sunday I was sore in different ways.  Sunday I did a yin session, felt good to get everything stretched out. 

Food over the weekend wasn't too good, but I also didn't eat out at all.  Still no booze for the year, so calorie intake couldn't have been too bad, right?  

Did a full practice 40-min down dog session today.  Typical flow, standing poses are getting better.  Crow today wasn't great, not sure why except that it was near the end of the session and I was almost spent.  

Keep up the good work!
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my wife is a bikram bad ###.  it's her favorite by a mile.  she goes to a studio where it's over 100 degrees.  has done it for years.  she's a front row person.  the example person. :rolleyes:   i did it twice at her studio.  practically died both times.  it's so hard, especially in that heat.

 
that was a lot of hippling and a grip of emoticons.

skiing was awesome.  crushed the exercise and the food and the booze.  oddly, i didn't drink the last 2 days skiing and have only had 1 beer in the last 5 days.  my wife having the rona might be part of that.

yoga is my number one goal, once the rona has been eradicated.  glad we are all vaxxed.  

 
jobarules said:
Man, it's so much harder to lose weight then it used to be. Only lost 5 lbs week one when I didn't cheat once, stayed under 1600 calories, barely ate sugar and exercised 5 days. I would've expected more as the first week is all water weight.
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Only 5 pounds?!  Five pounds is impressive!   Congrats and good luck with this week and the weeks after.  

 
bostonfred said:
Serving them open faced is such a game changer for me, it feels like I'm eating two sandwiches. 
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:thumbup:   I've been on the open-faced bandwagon for years, though part of my reason is that I just don't like bread enough to waste calories/carbs/sugars on that.  

Yesterday I had open-faced tuna for lunch, then cooked up a huge vat of lentil soup for dinner.  Not paying attention to how few WW points were in that, I found myself at a huge points deficit around 7:30 and had an apple with some natural peanut butter to try to make up for a little of that.  Tonight I might throw a sausage in there (that's what he said) for extra points.

No wine since last Thursday.  I've found that not having wine so often makes me not want wine so often.  Imagine that.  Tomorrow it will all change, as we are planning to fire up a big "steakhouse dinner" at home, and red wine will be on the menu.

 
krista4 said:
No wine since last Thursday.  I've found that not having wine so often makes me not want wine so often.  Imagine that.
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This dovetails with something you said last week about having a reason to drink, and not just drinking because you can.  I'm pretty good with not drinking on the days I have designated for no drinking, but on the days where I can drink it's like a get out of jail free card or something and I'll have an extra drink, then a night cap, then another night cap, lol... just because it's ok to drink that day.  I need to work on moderation on the drinking days now.

 
Steeler said:
This dovetails with something you said last week about having a reason to drink, and not just drinking because you can.  I'm pretty good with not drinking on the days I have designated for no drinking, but on the days where I can drink it's like a get out of jail free card or something and I'll have an extra drink, then a night cap, then another night cap, lol... just because it's ok to drink that day.  I need to work on moderation on the drinking days now.
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This is definitely the hardest part for me, too.  

 
Steeler said:
This dovetails with something you said last week about having a reason to drink, and not just drinking because you can.  I'm pretty good with not drinking on the days I have designated for no drinking, but on the days where I can drink it's like a get out of jail free card or something and I'll have an extra drink, then a night cap, then another night cap, lol... just because it's ok to drink that day.  I need to work on moderation on the drinking days now.
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@kevzilla i'll let you take this one.....

and @Steeler moderation is a #####.  however the Buddhists (probably not them, but some knob said it) say, all things in moderation, including moderation. ;)  

 
krista4 said:
:thumbup:   I've been on the open-faced bandwagon for years, though part of my reason is that I just don't like bread enough to waste calories/carbs/sugars on that.  

Yesterday I had open-faced tuna for lunch, then cooked up a huge vat of lentil soup for dinner.  Not paying attention to how few WW points were in that, I found myself at a huge points deficit around 7:30 and had an apple with some natural peanut butter to try to make up for a little of that.  Tonight I might throw a sausage in there (that's what he said) for extra points.

No wine since last Thursday.  I've found that not having wine so often makes me not want wine so often.  Imagine that.  Tomorrow it will all change, as we are planning to fire up a big "steakhouse dinner" at home, and red wine will be on the menu.
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Lol at twhs

Agree about wine. Usually give up alcohol for lent and have gone longer than that the last couple years and it's not too bad once you get used to it again.  But i do look forward to it.  

 
Day 10 of Adriene's Move program, called "Uplift," was 30 minutes, 26 of which were really enjoyable for me.   Lots of interesting, mildly challenging movements and a constant pace that kept away the chatter until the last few minutes (which I muted).  There was a point where I thought she was going into full frog, and I was excited, but it just became a superman pose instead.

 
1700 calories and 60 minutes on the Peloton. 

I am rather proud of myself because I had to travel for work and brought food (Peruvian chicken, salad and black beans) to the hotel instead of eating out. I knew if I went out I would have had a beer or 2 because I have no will power. 

 
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