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For pretty much all my life I've suffered from varying levels of depression and anxiety. Unfortunately there isn't much in the way of mental health resources for kids and teens in a rural NSW town. After I moved to Brisbane for university in 2007 I was finally able to actually work on making things better. I've found an amazing psychiatrist and meds that are helping immensely, and I'm currently seeing whether I qualify for a community assistance program to help get me back to university. (I have tried and failed to complete courses repeatedly over the years. Last semester I was advised to withdraw less than a week after classes started, when I began getting anxious about whether I would be able to finally do the courses.  I still only have a few first year science and logic/philosophy courses under my belt.)But all that is going to change! I want to get fit. I want to get thinner. I want to be able to lift things. I want to be able to lift my (super skinny) boyfriend. I want to be HAPPY. I'm starting out with logging my meals, Starting Strength and hopefully Couchto5k. Therefore,  I, Schmetterling, hereby Oath to achieve the Novice level exrx standard lifts for my goal weight (56kg) for Squat, Deadlift, and Bench Press before my birthday on the 18th of July 2013. (48kg squat, 60kg deadlift, 38kg bench press) This is me now (super rough measurements using a ribbon and a ruler):   Age: 23 Height: 169cm Gender: Female Weight: 75.5kg (166.5lbs) Bust: 97cm Under Bust: 87cm Waist: 99cm Hips: 108cm Thigh: 67cm Calf: 40cm Bicep: 32cm Forearm: 25cm Wrist: 17cm Hat: Large To help me stay motivated and to track my progress, I (re)joined Fitocracy! I am using MyFitnesspal to log my food.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 14:31 |
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My totals for Sunday on MyFitnesspal came to: Breakfast: Cereal with milk Lunch: Spaghetti with bolognese sauce Dinner: Vegetable stir fry with a can of salmon mixed in (will not repeat this) and half an avocado Dessert: a small serving of brandy custard, a Valentines cookie Snacks: an apple Drinks: lots of strawberries and cream flavoured tea Calories: 1418 Carbs: 220 Fat: 32 Protein: 49 Monday: Breakfast: Cereal with milk Lunch: Salad made from Coles 4-leaf mix, feta cheese, sliced nectarine, and cherry tomatoes. (Will not include tomatoes next time) Dinner: Oven-baked battered fish and stir-fried vegetables Dessert: a large serving of Brandy custard Snacks: a banana! Drinks: lots of water and cordial. I tried tea with almond milk and it wasn't bad. Weird, but not bad. Calories: 1377 Carbs: 172 Fat: 45 Protein: 50 Monday evening I went downstairs and cleaned the spiderwebs and mudwasp nests off my housemates' fathers' set of weights and then lifted them up and down a bunch. Squats: 5kg x 5 8kg x 5 10kg x 5 (x3) Bench Press, Barbell: 5kg x 5 8kg x 5 10kg x 5 13kg x 5 (x3) Deadlift: 5kg x 5 8kg x 5 10kg x 5 13kg x 5 18kg x 5 My boyfriend is the best coach/cheerleader/data entry assistant/chair mover/drinks getter  . I weighed the bar and it is about 5kg, so I'm going to use that measurement for now. I did plan to go to the gym nearby to see if my membership is still active (got one last year through Centrelink somehow, used it a bit, trailed off before Christmas and never went back) but it is raining buckets and gently caress going outside in that if I don't have to. Today (as it is 1am, it counts as today) I will try to make myself go, rain or not. I can use my pretty butterfly umbrella! I also bought some protein powder on ebay to try to get that part of my diet up - if I replace brandy custard with protein-based sweet drinks, I will be swole in no time! 
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 15:23 |
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Good luck! It seems like you have an awesome mindset going into it. Looking forward to following your progress  .
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 16:05 |
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Its 2:30am and I'm just going to bed now. Went out to the kitchen and got angry/anxious about it being a mess, but instead of following my gut and deciding there's obviously no point in trying if they can leave everything a mess why can't I eat all these valentines cookies rargh srgj arh, instead I chose to just have two cookies and a banana. Not great, but not terrible either.
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 16:41 |
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Good on you! And I really hope to eventually see a video of you actually lifting your bf :P
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 17:12 |
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Your starting weight is really similar to where mine was. You're gonna kill it.
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 17:56 |
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Good luck, seems like you've got the right mindset. I'm also following you on Fitocracy, go for it girl!
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 19:56 |
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The weather is still rainy and miserable, but I am still sunny! (I love this smilie) Today I did Week 1 Day 1 of the Couchto5k plan. Yay me! After not going to bed until after 2:30am, I slept until around 1pm, and then lay in bed half dozing, half texting my mum about stuff. I made a decision to get up, and get going, and so I went and started boiling water for making eggs. Ate cereal (with almond milk!), ate an egg, played with silly cat (she gets overstimulated by pats and starts trying to nip at people's toes) and got dressed to go jogging! My excellent boyfriend is going to do most of this stuff alongside me, and I seriously don't think I'd be able to do it without him. In that vein I made him get ready too, and we set off into the drizzling rain. The app I got confused me for a bit, so I didn't manage to make it work properly until we had already walked for five minutes, but after that it was excellent. A robot lady tells me when to jog and when to walk, and said 'Well Done!" at the end. Thank you robot lady. Unfortunately I had to stop twice for a break, where I sat down for a minute and caught my breath. However, I am very proud of myself that I carried on and kept going! My suburb is very hilly (I mean, it has 'Hill' in the name, how could it not be) so I think it was a bit harder for me than if I did it on a flat surface, or a treadmill. The last stretch saw us jogging up a large hill and by the time I got to the top I simply had to stop and crouch down, almost crying and feeling like I was going to throw up. The bestest boyfriend gave me hugs and encouragement though, so I got up, and after a bit of a cooldown walk I felt better. I also went to the gym nearby and reactivated my membership. It is going to cost me 26.15 per fortnight, but I think it is worth it. Plus, because we went in on a Tuesday and my boyfriend is still an active member, we managed to sign me up under their 'Tuesday Referral Special'. So I paid no joining fees, and he gets a free month, saving us a total of $72.43! Now I am home and eating a banana with natural yoghurt and cinnamon and a pinch of brown sugar and it is fantastic. I also bought myself some bottles of soda water to go with my diet cordial, so I am drinking homemade raspberry soda! One of my housemates has said he will cook tonight because I have cooked for the past week, so I even get the evening to myself to do laundry, use the foam roller on my poor thighs, and get my plastic mans ready to Oath before the deadline for this month. Today is a good day.
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 08:46 |
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Your attitude is seriously awesome and infectious -- keep it up! (that smiley really is the cutest)
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 09:24 |
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Can somebody tell me if this is a good deal? $70 for a body fat scale, kitchen scale, micro fibre towel, set of measuring cups and spoons, measuring tape, calipers ( ), pedometer, and batteries, all shipped express from within Australia.Should I shell out for this, with the goal of making it easier to track how much I actually eat, and how much I weigh? At the moment I have an old dial-based scale in the bathroom, and a couple of dial-based kitchen scales, both of which are kind of awkward to keep out on the bench due to being rather bulky (and they both only measure down to 20gram increments anyway).
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 12:35 |
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Schmetterling posted:Can somebody tell me if this is a good deal? $70 for a body fat scale, kitchen scale, micro fibre towel, set of measuring cups and spoons, measuring tape, calipers ( Nah, you can get the 2 scales for roughly $30 and the measuring cups/spoons for probably $10 if you don't care what they look like and really the rest is fluff. A measuring tape might be good but I'm convinced that $2 is overpaying and as for the pedometer, is that what you really want or is it a bonus for you?
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 23:34 |
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Day two of Starting Strength! I think I may have sprained my thighs doing the squats two days ago, as since then it has hurt to walk, especially down stairs.  To attempt to alleviate this I did a bunch of walking today! Got up and had cereal with almond milk and half a boiled egg at 12pm (getting up earlier, slowly) and after straightening my hair (by myself, for the second time ever!  ) I got ready to go to uni to check out Market Day. Walked halfway, then got the bus for the last bit cos my thighs hurt like mad. Market Day was a bit meh due to me getting there after most of the free stuff was gone, although I did get the chance to attempt to pat a lorikeet  which bit me. I'm not sure why my friend brought her lorikeet, but it was sure attracting people to the club stall by never ever shutting up (it kept trying to bite people, so I'm not sure why people kept trying to pat it).The lorikeet excitement was followed by me fiddling around with my plastic mans for a while at home until I decided it was time to LIFT THE THINGS.  Awesome boyfriend came too, and we walked 20 minutes to the gym. Ten minutes on the treadmill, with about three of those spent running at 8-9km/hr. We tried to figure out how to use the cage where the grownup barbells live, but when we asked a swole gym bro how much the bar weighed he said it is 20kg on its own, which is a little more than I can handle right now. Back to the other side of the (small) room to the fixed weight barbells for SQUATS. Following the Starting Strength plan, next came dumbbell military presses whilst boyfriend tried out the assisted pull-up machine. My left arm got all wobbly when I tried to do more than three reps with 8kg dumbbells.  I managed to do a bunch of dumbbell rows despite phone trouble making the gif of how to do them take forever to load (me, ask for help from a real person? Never!). The assisted pull-up machine made me sad, because I could only lift myself if I was counterbalanced with at least 64kg. Finally, I went and did a bunch of Supermans and sit ups and stretches whilst boyfriend went back onto the treadmill. He is not interested in lifting things at the moment, but I hope to convince him to join me eventually. And that is the story of my day at the gym, by Jesse, age 23. (Then we went and got dinner at Grill'd and their chicken, pomegranate and goats cheese salad turns out to be delicious, whilst also being more than a hundred less calories than the Bird and Brie burger!) I weighed myself at the gym and ended up as 76.4kg. Some weights: Squats: 10kg x 5 12.5kg x 5 15kg x 5 17.5kg x 5 (x3) Dumbbell Military Press: (weight is total combined weight of both dumbbells; should I be logging it this way?) 12kg x 5 (x3) 14kg x 5 (x3) 16kg x 3 (x2) Dumbbell Row, One-Arm, Bent-Over: 6kg x 5 7kg x 5 9kg x 5 10kg x 5 (x3) (a couple were a little wobbly at the end) Assisted Pull-ups: (weight is how much I was counterbalanced by) 64kg x 5 (so I lifted 12.4kg) 68kg x 5 (so I lifted 8.4kg) Supermans: 5 sec x 10 Sit Ups (on ball): x 10 Sit Ups (on floor, arms by sides): x 5 loco88 posted:Nah, you can get the 2 scales for roughly $30 and the measuring cups/spoons for probably $10 if you don't care what they look like and really the rest is fluff. A measuring tape might be good but I'm convinced that $2 is overpaying and as for the pedometer, is that what you really want or is it a bonus for you? I put in an offer on ebay today for a bathroom scale and kitchen scale for ten dollars each; if he doesn't take the offer, they are only $18 each anyway, with free postage from Sydney! Thanks for letting me know what sort of prices I should really be looking for.Also, I got my protein powder! It came with a shaker and scoop, which was nice of them to include. I had a go at making a chocolate shake: 2 scoops protein powder 1 scoop cocoa 1/4 scoop Natvia (excellent bf got this for me last night, to use in my cups of tea) 200mL milk It was ok, but I didn't shake it well enough so the cocoa was a bit lumpy. (Am I treating this log too much like some sort of diary thing? I can shut up about my day and just post stats if people are annoyed by my simple whimsy)(yes I have been described as typing with simple whimsy, what of it)
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 13:09 |
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For dumbbells I understand the convention to be only reporting the weight of one. As to your typing whimsy, it's your log! Be as detailed as you want, writing with whatever emotion or style fits you!
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 15:29 |
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Mood when I woke up:  +  Mood now:  Woke up after midday, when I had planned to get up before 10am to get the slow cooker going and have an early dinner ready. Guess that's what happens when I go to sleep after 3am and then have nightmares. Didn't get out of bed til after 3pm due to apathy and depression. Everything seemed really pointless. Why bother going for a run? Why go to the gym? Eventually got up, got myself to take the oath photo of my plastic mans:  And got the slow cooker piled full of random ingredients. This is my mum's slow cooker, and I've used it maybe once before. I can't even remember why we have it at our house. Anyway, one of my housemates (who is moving out slowly!) bought several kilos of chicken legs due to the price, without thinking about how we would actually cook them. Some got used for baked chicken with peaches (yum) but we were still left with a pile of them in the freezer. So I decided a couple of days ago to get the slow cooker going. As I had decided to do this, I wasn't going to let the fact that we would need to eat after 8:30pm (I turned it on just before 5) stop me from doing it. Jesse's Nectarine and Mushroom Curry Chicken (serves 4, at least at my house) 8 chicken legs (skinned by fabulous bf) 4tbsp curry powder 1tbsp mint flakes 1tbsp cinnamon 1tsp pepper 1 tin 'Very Special' tomato soup with basil and stuff 1 tin refried beans (these are more... solid... than I expected when I opened the can. Kinda like peanut butter, but beans.) 1 bag of mushrooms (like, 300g? I guess) 4 nectarines (seeds removed, skin left on, cut into chunks) Instructions: Get bf to cut skin off chicken legs. Put chicken in bottom of slow cooker. Top with chunks of mushroom and nectarine until you get sick of cutting up nectarines. Mix powdered things together in a bowl, then sprinkle over the chicken. Open a tin of refriend beans and marvel at how solid and kinda gross it looks. Put great big globs of the beans in the cooker; marvel at how good it smells despite its looks. Pour over a tin of tomato soup because you're out of tinned tomatoes. Turn it on at high, then go upload your oath pics to imgur. After a visit from bf's mum, she gave us a lift to the gym where I completed Week 1, Day 2 of the Couchto5k plan! Felt a little ill at times, and almost stopped, but kept going due to knowing that there was 'just four more running bits... just three more... just two to go... nearly finished... hooray!'. Getting it finished without stopping made my mood much better. The gym was very crowded, and I'm not sure how I would have managed to do any weights as the whole place stayed packed for the 40 minutes we were there. I'll need to make a mental note to try not to go there between 5pm-8pm on weekdays. Boyfriend and I picked up a very nice (yet cheap!) bottle of rose to go with the chicken. I think I need to look up what alcohol is lowest in calories, because I really want to buy some more spiced rum.One of my housemates insists on having a giant chunk of carbs with every meal (he also has requested we steam broccoli as a 'palate cleanser' but gently caress that) so I made protein mashed potatoes. Protein Mashed Potatoes (serves 4, again) 6 or 7 small potatoes, peeled and cut into tiny bits 3tbsp margarine 1tsp mint flakes 2 scoops protein powder Boil potato bits until soft, then drain it, chuck all other ingredients in, and mash it. Tastes a little different from normal potatoes, but using it as ballast with the chicken covered that up fine. I need to figure out if I am going to be strict with myself in regards to staying near the 1200 calorie mark. My main goal is mood improvement, and if beating myself up over a cookie is making me sad, why do it? As it is I've been hanging around 1400 cal each day since I started this. Basic workout stats: Running: total 8 min (9km/hr) Walking: total 22 min (6km/hr)
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 12:13 |
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What's up fellow anxious/depressed buddy? Definitely following you! I love your attitude and hopefully I can steal some of your positive energy and apply to my own anxious self. Also, you seem to have the nicest bf
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 18:14 |
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Schmetterling posted:Felt a little ill at times, and almost stopped, but kept going due to knowing that there was 'just four more running bits... just three more... just two to go... nearly finished... hooray!'. Getting it finished without stopping made my mood much better. It's incredible how the brain tries it's damndest to make yourself stop excercising, especially if it's not really used to it yet, and getting over that urge to quit is quite possibly on the most difficult obstacles you'll end up fighting in the gym. Especially in the early phases when sore muscles can really put a damper to one's mood after a triumphant workout. I remember waddling around like a duck for two days after my first serious session of squats but the adrenaline flush I got after directly afterwards was still worth it. So in short: Great work, keep it up!
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 18:38 |
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Yay, you started a log! Depression sucks but you can kick its butt.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 19:37 |
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Another not-so-good-morning.  I think I need to fix my sleep so I can get up earlier. Maybe that will make me feel more like I have a chance of doing anything productive.I did do stuff however! Made some important calls and helped my bf cheer up after had had a bad meeting with his Centrelink contact. I still haven't found out whether I qualify for that community program thing, as the guy in charge of my case went on holiday. He should be back sometime next week, so here's hoping! It's a really interesting program - they basically tailor it to each person, so there isn't any sort of standard metric of goals they have to make sure you achieve or anything. You get assigned a person working there and they help you work towards the things you want to do. Super anxious about going on public transport? They'll go for rides on buses and trains with you. Need someone to help you communicate with Centrelink? They'll come to meetings with you. Want to meet people so you can socialise? They run some different interest groups, and they have contacts with other groups as well. I really want to qualify so I can have a neutral party to discuss my university stuff with, and someone to help me talk to the uni to get any sort of accomodations set up and working. I've tried all this before of course, but then I was working alone. I think I need some help to make it all work like it's supposed to.Went to the gym with lovely bf and rode a bike then lifted some things. He seems to like helping me out, being my trainer and encouragement. He fetches the dumbbells for me, and helps me lift the barbells back onto the rack.  I got the MyFitnesspal app going so we could record what I did, and that worked nicely. I tried out some dips today and they are very hard. I barely managed 5 dips with the machine carrying 68kg of my weight. I definitely need to keep doing them so my noodle arms can get strong!How important are shoes when lifting? Particularly squats? I read on here that you need flat soles to lift in, and I've been having trouble keeping my balance whilst pressing onto my heels when wearing my normal shoes. Today the scales at the gym went a little mental when I tried them. They fluctuated between 74.2kg and 73.5 for a little bit, then turned themselves off. Also, I got some great news in that my younger brother is now doing a 12 week fitness thing at a different gym near his house! Turns out he's been going there every morning at 6:30am before work, and going to some evening sessions with a personal trainer. Now he's signed up for this thing and friended me on MyFitnessPal and Fitocracy. This is awesome. Some numbers: Cycling (on machine): 10min 3.2km Squats: (Decided to stop at 17.5kg due to my legs wobbling like mad when I tried to lift myself back up) 10kg x 5 (x2) 15kg x 5 (x3) 17.5kg x 5 (x3) Dumbbell Bench Press: 5kg x 5 6kg x 5 (x2) 7kg x 3 (x3) Deadlift: 15kg x 5 (x2) 17.5kg x 5 20kg x 5 22.5kg x 5 25kg x 5 Assisted Dips: (weight is how much I was counterbalanced by) 68kg x 5 64kg x 2 68kg x 2 Supermans: 10 sec x 3 3 sec x 2 Sit Ups (on floor, arms by sides): x 5
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 12:13 |
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Flat shoes help a lot, lifting weights means your feet need to have a flat base to stand on. Get some cheap ones with flat soles and you're set.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 19:06 |
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Definitely get some flat-soled shoes. I recently started using an old pair of vans I had lying around and there was definite improvement. Your boyfriend sounds awesome!
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 20:13 |
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Today I slept most of the time. Eventually I got up and put some washing on, and made a nice salad for dinner. My housemate is at work tonight but his dad came over to watch football, so bf and I still didn't get the place to ourselves. Bf has gone to work and I am here alone in my room, unable to go work on my painting due to aforementioned football watching in the loungeroom. I bought some cheap wine yesterday, and I barely ate today, so I can afford to drink alone I guess. Yay for statying under my calorie budget. Maybe tomorrow I'll go buy shoes and do the running I was supposed to do today.
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Guess who went and did Week 1 Day 3 of the Couchto5k plan?    Hint: IT'S ME   Very very very bad morning, followed by me getting up, getting dressed, and going to the gym to do my run! Most excellent bf came too, and he walked beside me despite his legs hurting a lot from last time. Came home and had a hot shower, followed by a chocolatey protein shake and a sit down. I've spent the past hour straightening my hair because tonight is the birthday dinner for my bf's sister. Now I need to find out if any shops are open in the city on a Sunday arvo to see if I can take bf shopping. His birthday present from his parents is money to buy new shoes, so I will take the chance to get myself some cheap flat-soled ones too.Gym story for today: When heading to the gym, bf wanted to go see the restaurant that had a bus crash into it yesterday afternoon. Today the bus has been removed, and the entire storefront is boarded up whilst workers try to fix the bent verandah. One of my friends put pics of it on fb yesterday, and bf's bus had to change streets to go around it last night whilst firefighters tried to figure out how to remove it.  Also, in the gym there was a young boy lifting weights whilst his very muscled and very tattooed dad walked on the treadmill and kept an eye on him.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2013 05:55 |
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Today is the start of a very wet week for Queensland, as the forecast says it will rain until next week at least. The rainy day called for some homemade sunshine, so today I wore my sparkly holographic leggings, short floral skirt, and green knee-length coat!  Who cares if I looked ridiculous, I was sparkly! I took my butterfly umbrella and went shoe shopping to help bf get some nice running shoes, and then he bought me bright purple shoes to lift weights in. I stopped at Smiggle and bought purple shoelaces with orange owls on them, and now I have the BESTEST shoes EVER. We didn't get to the gym until after 7:30pm, but at least there weren't many people there. Just a few buff dudes in tiny shorts. Walking (treadmill): - 0:05:30 || 0.6 km - 6km/hr Barbell Squat: - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - WOOOOOOOOOO Standing Military Press: - 10 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - I have little baby muscles when I flex now. :3 One-Arm Dumbbell Row: - 8 kg x 5 reps - 9 kg x 5 reps - 10 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 3 reps - 10 kg x 5 reps - 10 kg x 5 reps - The dumbbells go up in 2.5kg increments past 10kg, so I'll have to take it a bit slower from now on. Superman: - 10 sec - 10 sec - 10 sec - 10 sec Sit-Up: - 10 reps - 10 reps - Bf held my feet down, and I managed to do twenty  I tried moving my hands to my chest but could only do three like that.Stretching: - 0:05:00 fito2sa I am the best at lifting things! Tomorrow's a running day, but I'll do a bunch of squats to practice getting my form better. The shoes are a MASSIVE help, but I still wobble a bit at the end of a set. Any idea what I can do to make my ankles better at not wobbling everywhere? Yesterday was my bf's sister's birthday dinner, so I kinda ate whatever.  And today I had KFC but still came in under budget! 
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| # ? Feb 25, 2013 13:43 |
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Those shoes are quite excellent. Congrats on hitting 22.5 kg on your squats!
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| # ? Feb 25, 2013 21:26 |
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Schmetterling posted:Today is the start of a very wet week for Queensland, as the forecast says it will rain until next week at least. The rainy day called for some homemade sunshine, So much colorful goodness! Your positive attitude really is infectious.
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| # ? Feb 25, 2013 22:03 |
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Major bad brain stuffs and hating myself last night and today, but it turns out that it's because my uterus hates me and wants me to die for not having babies. Yay hormones. Did my running yesterday, had to stop with two run sets to go for a break as I felt really ill. I only sat down for a minute though, then I got up and finished it. Very pleased about that. Today I went to the gym late at night and lifted lots of things. Not eating much during the day made my calorie count low enough that the chocolates I bought and shared with bf on the walk home don't matter. What I did eat was good though - scrambled eggs with chopped up pre-cooked bits of chicken breast and seed mustard and herbs and worcestershire sauce and lots of nice things, along with a quarter bag of salad greens. Barbell Squat: - 5 reps - 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 25 kg x 5 reps - 25 kg x 5 reps - 25 kg x 5 reps - 27.5 kg x 5 reps - 27.5 kg x 5 reps - 27.5 kg x 5 reps (I'm lifting more and more! Plus I'm doing really well at improving my form. I hardly wobbled my knees at all today.) Barbell Bench Press: - 10 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps Barbell Deadlift: - 10 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps (I forgot this is meant to be a single group of five, so I didn't get as high as last time. Plus it was getting very late and I wanted to go home.) Walking: - 0:35:00 || 3 km (Walked to Coles, got there just as they were closing and managed to buy some bananas, walked for five minutes on a 5% incline at 6km/hr at the gym as a warm up, and then walked home after gym.) Standing Calf Raises: - 10 reps (Partly did these for my ankle pain, partly for the achievement) fito2sa
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| # ? Feb 27, 2013 15:02 |
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Saw your workout on Fitocracy and thought it looked awesome! Keep up the great work, and congratulations on pushing through tough times!
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| # ? Feb 27, 2013 15:16 |
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Today I ate 2800 calories in chocolate, on top of my normal breakfast and dinner, and didn't go for my run. I did do my painting though, which is good as it's due in about ten hours. I've posted it and hopefully someone likes it, despite me only really spending a few hours on them all this evening. I wrote a short paragraph of flavourtext for the converted Cupid miniature I did. (Because Valentine's Day)  His clothes are red. Bright, too bright for a hunter, you'd think. But it's the wings. The sharp blinding blurring slashing cutting slicing wings that let him drift softly and silently and be right behind you. With those wings he doesn't need to hide. He can move faster than any man, with those wings. If he's so fast, and those wings so deadly, why carry a bow? you ask. Because he likes it. He likes the watching waiting aiming shooting stabbing burst of red that sprays across the snow when he hits the heart from half a mile away. And he always hits the heart. Always. He has a knack for it, does Cupid. We thought we were gods, with our labs and our tools. Until we woke them.
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| # ? Feb 28, 2013 17:51 |
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I'm really looking forward to following your log. It's so heartening to see your squats going up all the time - I hope mine start increasing that rapidly too! I'm only as far as 25kg, where I've been a while, and my legs wobble like mad. Good luck!
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| # ? Feb 28, 2013 19:11 |
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Thank you to everyone who has posted in here. It is seriously helpful to know that someone else is going to read these, and that other people care when I am happy.jacksbrat posted:I'm really looking forward to following your log. It's so heartening to see your squats going up all the time - I hope mine start increasing that rapidly too! I'm only as far as 25kg, where I've been a while, and my legs wobble like mad. Good luck! For the wobbles I found that getting new shoes helped a TON. My old joggers are built up to 'support' the heel I guess, and that made me tip sliiiiightly forwards everytime I tried to squat. Now I can actually balance, and press down on my heels without waving my knees around! FreshFeesh posted:Saw your workout on Fitocracy and thought it looked awesome! Keep up the great work, and congratulations on pushing through tough times! Voodoo Doll posted:So much colorful goodness! Your positive attitude really is infectious. Portals posted:Those shoes are quite excellent. Congrats on hitting 22.5 kg on your squats! It's been hard to stay positive recently, as I had a case of the sadbrains, and then my bf did too, so neither of us could really help the other and so then we both felt even worse. I didn't run on Thursday and then I didn't lift on Friday, but today bf convinced me to go to the gym with him 'just for a walk'. That walk turned into me doing most of my scheduled lifting, and he even tried out a little bit of benching. I think I've hurt my ankles a bit - the right one especially hurts, whenever I put weight on my leg, or bend my ankle at all to walk. I might have to give the Couchto5k thing a rest for a week or so, to see if I can get my ankle better. I had to run to catch the bus to my parents for dinner tonight, and even those few metres made me limp. I will still do the lifting though. If I can find some good stretches I will try to do them before I do any more squats as well. I think the cause is me running 'heavy' if that makes sense; a lot of force goes through each ankle whenever I take a step, especially on the treadmill where I have the everpresent fear of falling off/getting caught in it so I tend not to use the whole length of the machine. Today I tried out a 'crossfit' machine for my warm up, and it is weird. Very weird. I don't think I'll use it again. I might do cycling instead. Today's lifting: Barbell Squat: - 15 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 20 kg x 5 reps - 22.5 kg x 5 reps - 25 kg x 5 reps - 27.5 kg x 5 reps - It is now too dangerous for me to use the pre-weighted barbells outside the cage, as I cannot lift them up over my head from the stand even with my boyfriend's help. I guess next session I get to learn how to use the cage. Seated Barbell Military Press: - 10 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 3 reps - 15 kg x 3 reps - 15 kg x 3 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - The first few sets here were done standing, then I tried sitting down when I had trouble with the 15kg bar. My poor left arm is all noodly and cannot lift things. One-Arm Dumbbell Row: - 8 kg x 5 reps - 9 kg x 5 reps - 10 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 3 reps - 10 kg x 5 reps - 10 kg x 5 reps - The 2.5kg jump is still too much. The 10kg feels easy for the first bit at least. It only gets hard at the end. Elliptical Trainer: - 0:05:00 || Broke a Sweat - I guess this is what I should log this as? The gym has a couple of 'crossfit' machines, with two sets of foot pads that move, and arm bits, and customisable dumbbells built into the side, and even a little fan that you can rotate to point wherever you like. The movement was too weird to keep doing for long though. fito2sa
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Schmetterling posted:- It is now too dangerous for me to use the pre-weighted barbells outside the cage, as I cannot lift them up over my head from the stand even with my boyfriend's help. I guess next session I get to learn how to use the cage. Ooh, I'm just at that stage too. Good luck with the cage!
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Slept until 5pm, no use beating myself up over it though. No exercise today, but I made a fantastic mushroom tuna pasta bake thingy with 30g of protein per serve! Gigantic serves too. Spiral pasta, white pasta sauce, tuna, soooo many mushrooms, and six eggs! Although, bf ate 3 serves, and I am a bit worried whether he'll regret that later. I guess he gets to benefit from a skinny boys constitution though, eh? Managed to help bf clean the kitchen (ie I read the the new catalogues whilst he emptied the dishwasher) and did all the washing up stuff on my own. Tomorrow I need to choose what miniatures I shall paint for this month and probably get them based/basecoated, and go lift things! Tis 1am and I have wine and am reading e/n, so bed might be a while yet though.
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Guess who just had an ultrasound on her ankle due to suspected tendinitis? Now I get to wait for an xray as well. The public health care system in Aus definitely has its moments. EDIT: It's posterior tibial tendonititis! Now what do I do? I can't really walk to the gym if I'm supposed to limit my use of the foot as much as possible.
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Ankles suck. We should all have wheels instead. Or maybe some sort of pogo-stick arrangement. None of this 'bending' crap, or 'tendons' nonsense. In other news, today I cooked some rather nice baked chicken breasts with lime, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Accompanying this was three cobs of sweet corn, each rubbed with a different ingredient before they were wrapped in foil - cinnamon, lime juice and pepper and chillis, and avocado. I got chilli oil on my fingers and keep accidentally touching things. I washed my hands really well but it still hurts. I also cooked cous cous for the first time ever! It's pretty great. I think I'd like to try it with some nuts and sultanas in it maybe. Still tracking my food, even if I can't walk anywhere. Doing ok in keeping it lowish, despite some self-pity chocolate after the dr told me it was tendonitis. Eating lots of tuna to make my protein higher. My contact person from the community organisation thing visited today. She seems nice. She's going to come back next week with forms to let her talk to Centrelink on my behalf, and she plans to have a quick look at the uni website and stuff to see what sort of support they offer that she can help me get so I can hopefully go back there next semester. It'd be nice to be back at uni. Even nicer if I can keep up this health thing and lose weight too! Mental health goings-on: My getting probated for posting a meme in the nail polish thread, combined with people being mean to me for asking what to do about my toxxes if my ankle keeps me from going to the gym for a while, did NOT happen on a good day. Luckily I had a dentist appointment to get ready for, as otherwise I would have retreated under the house or something to just hit my head against a wall repeatedly. Instead, all I did was want to kill myself, and cry all over my clothes as I got ready. Plus, it cemented the idea that I am just stupid and useless into my head even further. Right now everything seems fine, and I can see how I was in the wrong for not following the letter of the law, and I know shouldn't assume that people will be nice to me on here despite this being my only sort of social interaction at all at the moment. But the next time things go bad in my head I know I'll use this against myself. Even people who've never met me don't want to know me, and think I'm stupid, an idiot, useless.
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Schmetterling posted:Mental health goings-on: My getting probated for posting a meme in the nail polish thread, combined with people being mean to me for asking what to do about my toxxes if my ankle keeps me from going to the gym for a while, did NOT happen on a good day. Luckily I had a dentist appointment to get ready for, as otherwise I would have retreated under the house or something to just hit my head against a wall repeatedly. Instead, all I did was want to kill myself, and cry all over my clothes as I got ready. Plus, it cemented the idea that I am just stupid and useless into my head even further. Right now everything seems fine, and I can see how I was in the wrong for not following the letter of the law, and I know shouldn't assume that people will be nice to me on here despite this being my only sort of social interaction at all at the moment. But the next time things go bad in my head I know I'll use this against myself. Even people who've never met me don't want to know me, and think I'm stupid, an idiot, useless. Hey now, everyone gets probated over stupid poo poo. Check my rap sheet, I've been probated twice for dumb stuff. Both times I felt pretty lovely for a day or so later, but you gotta remember that this is a comedy forum and sometimes the rules don't really make sense. Rufus got probated for the exact same thing in the same thread. I'm not sure on the whole ankle thing, I'm sure someone else can add their two cents on that. But try to cheer up. Go watch some cat videos on Youtube (I suggest Maru) or do your nails or listen to some angry music, whatever helps you cheer up. Edit: Total stalker mode, but looking at the responses to your post about your ankle, I don't think they were trying to be mean. They were saying in sort of a roundabout way that yes, you absolutely should rest your ankle and your physical health matters more than dumb internet titles. Try to work on upper body stuff in the meantime! Portals fucked around with this message at Mar 6, 2013 around 11:08 |
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Portals posted:Hey now, everyone gets probated over stupid poo poo. Check my rap sheet, I've been probated twice for dumb stuff. Both times I felt pretty lovely for a day or so later, but you gotta remember that this is a comedy forum and sometimes the rules don't really make sense. Rufus got probated for the exact same thing in the same thread. Thank you. You are a kind person.I've spent the last couple of days not doing much at all (and drinking too much cheap wine), and my dumb ankle hurts from even just standing in the kitchen assembling my first chilli in the slow cooker. However, my new scales have cheered me up. When they arrived I weighed in at 77kg, even after already doing a week of this stuff. This morning they said 74.8kg. MFP is definitely helping me with eating less, and eating better things. Knowing that milk is over 100 calories per cup, I've replaced it with almond milk in most things. Little things like that have kept me on an average diet of below maintenance (1500cal or so) even with random chocolate binges.I've decided that I'll have a protein shake, and then I'm going to go downstairs and get the spidery rusty old weights out and do some upper body stuff with my bf's help. Then he has to go to a consumer panel thing where they'll feed him softdrinks for a couple of hours, and get paid $45 for his trouble. And then we can try my first ever chilli! It has two cans of tomatoes, four cans of beans, a bag of frozen veg, a litre of stock, two chillis, and a kilo of mince.
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I lifted some things! Not many things, and not in many different ways, as I am going to be careful what I do and make sure to take it easy. Seated Barbell Military Press: - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - Trying to do things that don't hurt my ankle at all; hence the sitting. Barbell Bench Press: - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 5 reps - 17.5 kg x 4 reps - Just couldn't do the last one at 17.5kg. Lucky my bf was there to grab the bar! fito2sa I did the bench press on an old chaise lounge thing under the house, so my arms couldn't go below my body at all due to the width of the 'bench'.
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Sadbrains suck but you are doing SUCH a great job of getting out there and exercising/cooking healthy foods, especially when facing an injury. Take care of that ankle .
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MyPlate posted:Sadbrains suck but you are doing SUCH a great job of getting out there and exercising/cooking healthy foods, especially when facing an injury. Take care of that ankle Thanks! I'm trying to take it easy on my ankle, but it's hard. I want to go do things, but they all require me to walk. In the vein of taking it easy, I lifted only a little bit today.Seated Barbell Military Press: - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 12.5 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 2 reps - 15 kg x 2 reps - 15 kg x 4 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - 15 kg x 5 reps - I did it! I needed to have a few minutes rest between each set to make 15kg work; the sets of just 2 come from me trying too soon after the last attempt.Barbell Deadlift: - 15 kg x 5 reps - Just checking if doing this hurts my ankle. It does. Barbell Squat: - 15 kg x 5 reps - Checking this too - it does hurt it. fito2sa I guess I'll be doing just upper body stuff for a while. Luckily bf got a set of dumbbells for Christmas from his younger brother, so I can try using those for a bit. Oh, and the chilli turned out great!
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I cooked so much today! Slept until like 1pm due to staying up all night reading about that Norwegian goon-built boat, but got up and got things done. Mum came over today with an ankle brace and some mail for me, so now I finally have a kitchen scale that measures in single grams! I cooked some halvah (caramelised honey and tahini with crushed walnuts; I can't eat it for another two days as it has to set in the fridge) and a vegan chocolate cake (I started making a different dessert, but then discovered we had no eggs) and a chicken+potato+vegetable thing that tasted really good and was full of allllll the protein. Plus, I replaced half a cup of flour in the cake with protein powder, and used homemade apple sauce instead of oil. I also lifted some things to try out the dumbbell set. Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 7.5 kg x 5 reps - 7.5 kg x 5 reps - 9 kg x 5 reps - 9 kg x 5 reps - 9 kg x 5 reps - 7.5 kg x 10 reps One-Arm Dumbbell Row: - 9 kg x 5 reps - 10.5 kg x 5 reps fito2sa I also got two Malifaux avatars mostly assembled, and tomorrow I'll start the greenstuff work I think. I'm trying to decide which avatars to Oath; Pandora, Kirai, or Sonnia. I also have Collete's avatar in a box that needs to be assembled too...
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