So I'm getting married in October, and I've already been working on living healthier, but despite thinking about it all the time, I'm not getting far. I've read things here there and everywhere, have enough of a concept of nutrition to ah heck myself.
I'm at the point where I need to develop a routine that I can follow for at least 6 months. Getting married in October, I'm already trying to get healthy and I figure thats a good deadline. It's also plenty of time to realise my goals. I think.
I think I'm going to need to develop meal plans for the week. I'm busy and don't always have time to cook each night so I like to make a large pork roast or chicken breast dish on sundays to last me through the week for lunches and dinners. I tried tracking myself on fitday, but don't have internet access throughout the day anymore and when I tried it seemed very time consuming and I eventually abandoned it.
We need to eat out less, and I unfortunately get a health helping of extra calories through the form of fat burn inhibiting alcohol on the weekends. I like to cook at home, but it seems like it's a chore to search out recipes that don't want to add lots of fat or sugar to vegetables and meat. I know that peanuts are good for a snack and have the unsalted roasted in my drawer. I like my tuna and after trying to eat it straight for awhile I now have gone back to using a tablesoon of miracle whip and some pickle relish like I was raised. I'm worried about eating it too often though. It's easier to get the routine down during the week, weekends are harder to stay healthy. I usually do oatmeal for breakfast(I've tried steel cut and haven't given up on them, but they seem harder to get cooked and flavor well, so for now the little flavored instant packets of rolled oats usually win out), I've been keeping bags of apples and/or oranges at the desk to snack on, though I think I need to work these out and veggies in as snacks. My lunch and dinner I usually do a chicken breast or pork loin/chop serving, some veg, and maybe a salad or something else. I'm worried that either the prep and fretting over the nutrition components keep me from having something ready to go, or I get to strict and don't eat enough and wind up getting something bad and easy. I've mostly stopped buying anything too unhealthy at the grocery and fast food, but sometimes it happens as a stress reliever(foster puppy got parvo yesterday, I ate taco bell)
I'm 5'11" and 210 lbs. I run 3 miles regularly around the house when it's warm enough, otherwise I can do it on the track at the gym. Generally when I get to the gym, my poor routine is to either run 3 miles and then go play with weights. Lately I've been running one mile, doing some sprinting during it(fake HIIT FTW) and then going over to the weight/machine area. Over there I usually just do bicep curls(3 sets of 10, 35#) and then get on their leg sled because I've never done squats. I usually vary the weight on this machine, but can do 260 lbs for 3 sets of 10, but I'm sure I couldn't squat the bar. I'll go back and forth between these two. I run, go do 10 curls, go do 10 on the sled, 10 curls, 10 on the sled, curls, sled, run some more. Sometimes the extra running goes in between the curls/sled. I know these aren't the best and they definetly aren't comprehensive. My schools gym is fairly comprehensive, but most of the exercises/plans mention 100 things I don't know how to do, so I stick with these two, that I know can make me sore and won't kill me. Although when I load up the leg sled it does leave red scratch marks on my shoulders. The squat racks, bench presses, smith machines etc are located in one area and I've been pretty much staying otu of there. Upstairs is the track, bike/treadmills, dumbells, leg press, leg sled, curl machines, assisted pull up thinga-ma-jig etc. I don't know how little I bench, because I like to work out alone.
Got a personal trainer once, but he was overbooked and had to let us go, and it's hard to find one with availability that fits into my work and school schedule. My fiancee and I both had a joint session with him, and it was nice learining the exercises(psuedo squat with exercise ball against between me and the wall and two dumbells, other good leg works) but I forgot most of them after the session. We got a good workout that day but I'd rather learn fewer specific exercises with a routine that I can follow for a month on my own, then meet back with him/her.
I've read stuff here, tried the fitday, looked at the bodybuilding sites/forums. I have a bag of ON rocky road at home, but won't let myself touch it until I learn to eat right/exercise right.
Big post, probably mostly rambling, I'm going to keep the thread going though. I figure I have the rest of the month to actually hammer the right thinking into my head, then I'm going to mardi gras and I'll probably start up after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to be scarfing bad food in the meantime, but just a timetable to get 90% of the details hammered out, and I know I'm going to enjoy some excesses beverages and foods while in the Big Easy. Fiancee wants to do a similar thing, but my limited nutritional knolwedge seems to just aggravate her, and she's a veggie so her diet will be even more complicated and she's starting to look at weight watchers etc plans. I'd rather we work it out on our own but I don't have it all down yet.
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