Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 14 (9/20/2010)
Hello Everyone!
This was the first week where I planned a whole bunch of cardio and a bunch of it didn’t happen. Monday I did my workout at my gym (Mike was away at San Diego pride this last weekend). I thought about doing cardio Monday, but then thought no- Rhonda and I would be going down to a friend’s farm on Tuesday and I really thought we’d be picking vegetables. Picking actually burns more calories than you’d think! We went berry picking on Saturday and that burned about 645 calories in 2 hours. So I thought I would wait and do cardio on Tuesday at the farm.
Well, we didn’t pick anything. He just showed us around the farm, which was great, but not a workout. When I got home, though, I was so tired (it had been 90 degrees all day, very hot for me) I almost fell asleep 2x before I finally decided to just give it up and go to sleep.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 11, Part 2 (6/14/2010)
So I met with Manuel today and I have lost another 2 pounds. That makes a total of 19.6 pounds down. Since things seem to be slowing down a bit he’s reduced my calories to 1600 from 1800. He told me that if I need to eat a few more calories to do it, since I’m still losing at 1800. But to try to make it protein, like another ounce of chicken or whatever.
I told all this to Mike and he’s going to talk to Manuel about whether he should increase my exercise. I hope not! I’m still getting exhausted with what he’s got me doing right now and to try and do it on fewer calories has me a bit worried. I’m sure I would get used to it, but I kinda want a week or so to get used to dealing with just 1600 calories before I try to add in more exercise.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 13 (8/08/2010)
Hi everyone!
This has been a weird week in that I have not had around the foods I prefer to eat, the things that have made the eating plan easy- things like turkey breast or chicken breast. I just ran out and haven’t made the time to get to the store (we buy turkey from Costco because we buy so much of it- that’s a totally different shopping excursion) and I haven’t made the time to cook the chicken breasts. Also, Rhonda and I went wine tasting (something we love to do, but it’s a huge calorie punch). I didn’t want to feel like I couldn’t make the wine tasting work, so we went. We were going to be in the Lodi area to shoot some pictures of a friend’s farm and how can you not go wine tasting when you’re that close to amazing Zinfandel wineries? How, I ask you?
And on top of that I found some fairly deeply ingrained mental structures that run my choices. Rhonda and I went to the mission neighborhood to grab some quick dinner before her boxing class and my choir rehearsal. I was going to get tacos and she wanted a burrito. She ordered her burrito and then saw a sign for 2 for 1 on the burritos that day and she said I should order one so my dinner would be free. I noticed later that I felt very flustered, didn’t want to hold up the line, and suddenly felt very poor. So I ordered a burrito- much more food than I had wanted to order and yet I felt the need to order it. And over the course of the rehearsal I ate the whole thing. I don’t know if I actually felt hungry or if I thought I felt hungry because it was there.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 12 (7/20/2010)
Sorry that I haven’t posted in a while!
I’ve been keeping up with the nutrition and the workouts and am still going at it. No change there! I am at a total of 33 pounds lost now. Yay!
I have been reduced to 1600 calories a day and am still on the average of 400 calories/day of exercise. I’ve started trying some different types of exercise, like swimming. I always really enjoyed swimming, but hated getting the inevitable sunburn. Lucky for me, though, the gym I belong to has a large indoor lap pool! That’s a nice bonus. I have been using it, too.
I have to be careful about the swimming, though, because it’s such a huge calorie burner. I learned that for some people 1 hour of swimming can burn up to 1200 calories. If I am going to do an hour I have to add calories to that day and take away calories from another so I don’t get myself back into the same issue I was having when I started this whole thing- burning so many calories that I start going into starvation mode. I have to work hard to keep the balance I need to actually lose weight.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 11, Part 1 (5/13/2010)
Things are moving fast!
This is the end of the semester and things are moving so fast. A lot of work to finish fast.
I meet with Manuel tomorrow for a weigh in. Sometimes I feel really frustrated because I go back and forth between feeling like I’m losing weight and feeling like I’m not. Sometimes when I look in the mirror I can see I look different, thinner, smaller. But I can still wear my same old clothes and they aren’t looking over-sized or falling off yet. When will that happen? I’m not looking forward to wasting money on transitional clothes, but oh well.
I’m happy with the food I’m eating. I’m able to create combination’s of things and able to eat out at restaurants enough. There are still things I need to figure out how to deal with, like Indian food. How do I deal with restaurants that are cooking things that I have no idea what’s in it? I was surprised that the some of my favorite Indian recipes have cream in them. But I love those recipes and I will have to learn how to deal with it.
I’ll write more tomorrow after my meeting.
Author: Kelley Clements, 2010 Commit to Fit Winner
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements week 7 and 8 (4/20/2010)
Hello! sorry I haven’t posted in a couple weeks. Here’s what’s been going on since the last one.
I had another weigh-in with Manuel and have lost a total of 13.8 pounds, 12.8 of which have been pure fat. That’s a lot of fat. He showed me a visual representation of that and it looked pretty gross. I was happy about it but was also a little sad that I hadn’t lost more than that. I thought because of the way my clothes were fitting that I had lost more. I have to remember to not be so tied to numbers. The numbers aren’t necessarily something that I will agree with or understand why they aren’t what I wanted them to be. So if I can just let the numbers go I will be happier about it all.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 6 (4/04/2010)
Hello All! Thanks so much for reading! I appreciate everyone’s encouragement.
This week had more ups and downs. I started off just trying to eat what I was supposed to eat. But there were 2 things I couldn’t stop thinking about: 1. Cakes 2. Did I lose any weight?
I worked out with Mike 3 times and those went well, except for Thursday when I tried to do my cardio before I met with Mike. Trying that made the workout soooo much harder. Bad choice. When I was eating several thousand calories a fay that wasn’t an issue. I always had extra energy then.
When I met with Manuel I found out I had lost a total of 12 lbs. That was exciting!
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements Week 5 (03/26/2010)
This week has been really good! I’ve been pretty much spot on! I’ve gotten my calories right, and the breakdown of the carbs/proteins/fats right. Amazing. Last week I couldn’t get any of it right and this week all my numbers are right. I have to be okay with the times I don’t get it right.
The only issue this week is that I took on a new shift at my computer lab and when I looked at my calendar to make sure I didn’t have any conflicts I needed to reschedule I didn’t see a meeting with Manuel. So I had to cancel that meeting, go on the wait list, and hope that someone else canceled theirs. That didn’t happen. Everybody has, thus far, kept their appointments. I guess I won’t see Manuel till next week.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements, Week 4
Today is Monday and this last weekend was the first few days of the new eating plan. It was a total disaster!
I’m supposed to eat 1800 calories a day and I didn’t come close to that either day. I was out most of the weekend and didn’t expect to be. I didn’t bring enough food with me. I ended up so hungry all weekend and didn’t do the number of small meals I was supposed to do. I’ve been told that the balance between Calories In and Out is fairly delicate and that eating less than the 1800 calories per day could really screw up what we’re trying to do. I have been stressing all weekend long that I’m screwing this up! Two days in and I’m already screwing this up.
I didn’t do much better today. Most of my protein has been from cheese because I haven’t been able to cook the chicken that I usually cook to have over the week. So the cheese is bumping up the calories and I can’t get close to the number of proteins and carbs and such without going over the calorie limit today. So, again today, I’m doing it wrong.
Commit to Fit: Kelley Clements, Week 3
Hello! I have been working with Mike this week and loving it! He kicked my butt this week- Funny! I was thinking that the workouts weren’t as intense as my old workouts had been and, then, what do ya know? They got harder!
He upped the weights and started with a bunch of push-ups. Push-ups are very hard for me. This week I did them on the floor and on a bar, pull ups on the bar (even harder than push-ups), and planks on the bar. He’s shown me some yoga poses that are particularly challenging and I’m excited to see if I can do them at some point.