I recently got out of the Navy, and you would think I would be in the best shape of my life. Yeah so would I. I was at one point. Sometime durring the course of my bootcamp experience I fractured my back, therefore causeing extreem discomfort with any extreem movement. This makes it hard to exercize. Now who would have thought that I would need to exercize to stay in shape. GO FIGURE! so I am working on eating right, I don’t drink Soda, I don’t eat candy, I stay away from red meat. I just don’t think thats enough. I need to do more. I am able to lift up to about 30 lbs but not for long. I have started working with two 5lbs weights, to tone my arms. I really want to tone my back. I know there is a way to do that, I am just not sure what it is. I also want to tone my legs and glutes, but it has to be done without running, bacause anything high impact is to painful. anyways, I will up date on my progress ever so often.
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For your legs and glutes, you can walk up hills. This is Pamela Anderson’s only form of exercise. So it must work.
I am so sorry to hear about your back. I also slightly fractured mine a long long time ago, and it gets better so so slowly… there are good days and bad. I wish I knew a way for you to tone your back without strain and injury. All I can think of is to take a long bar or stick, put it behind your neck and drape your arms over it, and then do long, slow controlled twists. It is designed for your obliques, but you can use the motion to concentrate the activity in your lats and back. Just dont bend your back backwards to try to contract your back muscles. Can easily cause injury.
You can maximize your calorie use if you exercise about two hours after you eat.
I am happy to hear youve given up soda, thats hard to do.
Just dont buy any drinks at all. Only water. That might cut quite a few cals out of your day.
Another thing to try to cut is fried food and food sauteed in butter or pork fat.
Or you can cut your transfats to zero. Or you can cut all you saturated fats to zero.
Happy Whatever.
thank you a lot, I appreciate all of your advice. I am going to try the bar thing, and I love to walk, but I live in louisiana and there are no hills here, LOL. I never buy soda. I haven’t drank soda in about 6 months, I do like the crystal lite packets, they add a twist to the water. I still prefer the water over all. I have been cooking for myself lately. I made my parents super last evening and myself something totally different. I think it works better that way. do you know of any other forms of exercize that will be benificial to me, but not to much of a pain in the back(pardon the pun)? if so I appreciate it, thanks again..
well, my big problem now is that I need to exercise, but the impact on my feet because of my weight is pretty intense. So what I did is start out eating much less food (hard to do) and taking my 30 pound son in a backpack on walks. I would walk with him for at least 3 miles (for me) but no more than 5 miles (for him). I know how far certain grocery stores are from my house, and I pick a route depending on how its going for each of us on that day, and we would go every day and pick out dinner.
Once I lost enough weight, I started to jog in place. This was super hard on my feet. But I accidentally found that if I lean my back up against a wall as I jog, it takes a lot of the weight off of my feet. So I do that. I also have a futon without a frame that I sleep on, and its up against the wall. When my feet begin to hurt, I move over to the futon for the cushioning for a few minutes and then switch back to the floor.
When I weighed a super super lot, I started out with yoga. This was so theraputic for my back. I havent done it in a while for a few reasons. For one, I didnt burn enough calories at a time. For another, being so type A, it was just too mellow for me. I want an intense workout. But if you like it, it can be a very safe activity that burns a lot of calories. With yoga, its stretch at your own risk, so you have to keep your motions very controlled and you have to instinctively know your balance point past which you put your back at risk. But really I enjoyed the yoga. It just didnt have that Bam! factor that I like so much. Still, with the yoga, I lost about 10 pounds in combination with eating less.
So yoga, leaning against a wall as you jog in place (if your back is easily irritated still, you might want to save that for the ‘good days’, as the forward lean at the abdomen will put a little extra demand on your low-back muscles), what else is a lo-risk activity for your back, hmmmm…. let me see… swimming is good so I hear, but I would rather chew off my own arm than walk into a public place in a bathing suit… then theres aerobic kickboxing, and this is good because it is no-impact. just kick. front kicks, back kicks, oh god! I just thought of something so super sa-weet for your back, its just perfect! Okay, if you can find a gym that has one of these things, they make a machine that you sit on and it has hand pedals and resistance controls. Its designed for parapalegics, its just like an exercise bike, but for your arms instead of your legs. It is aerobic exercise, and you dont even have to move your back at all. Or your legs. You just sit there and pedal with your arms. Very cool. We had one at a 24 hour fitness that I used to belong to. So maybe you could call around about that. I wish I knew what theyre called!
I’m so thrilled to hear that youre cooking better for yourself. One of my favorite low calorie meals thats really satisfying is to cook tomato soup with some marinara sauce, some meatless meatballs, and some pasta. the meatballs will have about 100-200 cals, the soup 100-200 cals, the marinara about 100, and then its up to you how much pasta to put in. You can eat an entire serving bowl full of the stuff and it tastes very very non-diety. If you leave the cooked pasta in the soup for 10 min or so, they absorb a lot fo the liquid and it doesnt even taste like soup, it tastes like a pasta dish, but its got maybe a quarter of the pasta in it that youd (I’d) normally eat at a meal.
Another way to cut cals is to serve a dinner that consists of veggie, meat, and baked potato. You can serve this to others several nights a week and because you choose what to put on your own veggies and potato, everybodys happy.
And Ben and Jerry’s makes a new line of ice cream thats super low calorie. It’s not their light line of ice cream that boasts 200 calories per half cup, they have a new kind now that has I think 120 cals per half cup. So you can really actually eat the whole frigging container if you so choose. Its a little bit grainy tasting, but its still good. One of the flavors is chocolate mint cookie. Mmmmm…
I really hope that at least one of the exercises is safe for you. Its very frustrating to have a serious back injury. You feel like you cant do anything. And then when you feel good, you do something to it, and its back to the couch with an icepack, groaning and moaning. If its a nasty injury, probably the best thing is that weird arm-machine because it involves practically no back movement at all, and is zero impact.
Good luck to ye
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