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vixarooni

Fi_1966 wrote: »

1 lb gain for me this week:j

Was expecting much, much worse after a week of alcohol fuelled partying on my friends hen week in sunny Spain!!!!!:eek:

Must have "laughed off " all the additional calories over the week. A great time was had by all but I have to say Benidorm at night is a scary place for a women of a certain age!!!!!!!:D

Oh to be young again..........it's gonna take me a month to recover!!!!!

Good luck everyone for this weeks weigh-in.
Fi x

ooh i liked benidorm!! Although i do feel a little bit of shame saying that ha. But it was a good first holiday for me back when i was 19. Sounds like you had fun

Today i went to the gym!!! cant believe i went solo after id been at work all day. Proper hard core. On the plus side i was the only girl in there Helllllllllllo! ha. I feel good now, but apparently my fat burning heart rate should be 123?? How low is that? I was on the cross trainer pushing out a 170. Could never get it that low.

grannynise

Beanie you're wasting away!

Sary - sure you weren't hallucinating? That Yorkshire air can be very stimulating.

Eric the great - hope the blurrgghhh is all gone away ready for the procedure on Friday.

Vix - are you sure you read the scale right? I try to get my heart rate around 135, and the healthy level goes down with age so I think at 170 you'd probably be about right. Where's Missy - she'll know for sure.

KPC - what BB said.

Night night all.

fredsnail

Here's this weeks chart:



Congrats to our SoTW Eric, and well done to all our losers and STSers this week and commiserations to the gainers.

Next week is a clean slate - what it becomes is up to you :j

Eric_Pisch

JeannieBeannie wrote: »

Well I must be lucky because my surgery runs a course called the 10% challenge. It's aim is for people to lose 10% of their body weight in 10 weeks. It is run by the NHS and it is free. It is part of the Change for Life programme. I have found it to be the best programme yet because I have learned a lot about different foods and excercise - I feel better educated now and knowledge is power. I am really chuffed it is free. Unlike weightwatchers, they do not sell slimming foods or books or indeed anything. it is great and I have met new friends. I recommend it. I have lost 8 pounds and it is week 8 tomorrow, which is good for me.

my OH did WW for years and I am convinced it is designed to keep you in a YOYO state permanently and to keep you in WW, most of their "healthy" foods are very high cal per 100g and high sugar ..

sounds like you have all you need to start your journey :j:j:j

bettyB_2

vixarooni wrote: »

Today i went to the gym!!! cant believe i went solo after id been at work all day. Proper hard core. On the plus side i was the only girl in there Helllllllllllo! ha. I feel good now, but apparently my fat burning heart rate should be 123?? How low is that? I was on the cross trainer pushing out a 170. Could never get it that low.

Hi Vix -well done on going to the gym - I have been meaning to go for a few days now but just can't find the time

As for fat burning heart rate, it does depend on your age/weight. At my gym the machines calculate 127 as my target for fat burning, since you're similar to me in age/weight yours is probably similar. I think anything higher, ie in the 135 - 170 band, turns your body into cardio training mode rather than fat burning mode.

I often do interval training so that I get up to a high heart rate and feel like i'm sweating etc, but then bring it back down to fat burining rate for a while so that I know i'm in fat burning mode some of the time.

Eric_Pisch

bettyB wrote: »

Hi Vix -well done on going to the gym - I have been meaning to go for a few days now but just can't find the time

As for fat burning heart rate, it does depend on your age/weight. At my gym the machines calculate 127 as my target for fat burning, since you're similar to me in age/weight yours is probably similar. I think anything higher, ie in the 135 - 170 band, turns your body into cardio training mode rather than fat burning mode.

I often do interval training so that I get up to a high heart rate and feel like i'm sweating etc, but then bring it back down to fat burining rate for a while so that I know i'm in fat burning mode some of the time.

the fat burning zone is a bit of a myth really, any exercise (in fact any movement and even just existing) consumes stored energy, additional the harder you work the more stored energy you will burn based on an equal training period. Regardless of this you still have to create a calorie deficit to loose weight, if you burn 1000 cals in a work out at 90% hr and then eat a 3k pizza your going to put on weight

so do not worry about fat zones and training zones they do not really exist, there are zones that reflect how the body is working, aerobic, anaerobic etc

http://www.runningforfitness.org/calc/hrzones.php

Eric_Pisch

gross out warning!!

I was taking a few supplements this morning, i dropped a garlic gel capsule on the floor, i bent down to pick it up as i swallowed its brother, only to have it go up the back of my nose !!! i didnt really notice it thou at the time.

about 15 mins later i was able to smell garlic and eventually was able to blow out the now empty gel case after many attempts

i have been smelling and tasting garlic for a couple of hours now, ewwwwww

i do not recommend this

Missy™

Vix in so-called the 'fat burn' zone, a high % of the energy you're using is fuelled by fat, whereas at higher HR levels a lesser % is fuelled by fat (the rest mostly by carbohydrate stored as muscle glycogen).

So, some people assume that you have to keep intensity levels low to burn fat, but this isn't true because at higher HR levels your total energy expenditure will also be higher, so the actual amount of fat burned will be greater overall.

The zones vary by person, theoretically your max heart rate is approx 226 minus age (for women) or 220 minus age (for men) and the zones are worked out from that, but it can vary by around 30bpm (I think) in individuals and also change depending on your fitness status, so that really is just a rough guide. You'd need to do a max HR test to be sure of your numbers .

I use the zones myself, but that's because I like to get a good mix of workout intensities every week. I'd never try to do every session in the same zone.

Hope that makes sense!

grannynise

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

gross out warning!!

I was taking a few supplements this morning, i dropped a garlic gel capsule on the floor, i bent down to pick it up as i swallowed its brother, only to have it go up the back of my nose !!! i didnt really notice it thou at the time.

about 15 mins later i was able to smell garlic and eventually was able to blow out the now empty gel case after many attempts

i have been smelling and tasting garlic for a couple of hours now, ewwwwww

i do not recommend this

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I laughed so much when I read this- coffee came out of my nose. Not nearly so exciting as an empty garilc capsule.

Do you remember 'That's life'? You could have worked this up into a novelty act for Esther.

Eric_Pisch

Missy™ wrote: »

Vix in so-called the 'fat burn' zone, a high % of the energy you're using is fuelled by fat, whereas at higher HR levels a lesser % is fuelled by fat (the rest mostly by carbohydrate stored as muscle glycogen).

So, some people assume that you have to keep intensity levels low to burn fat, but this isn't true because at higher HR levels your total energy expenditure will also be higher, so the actual amount of fat burned will be greater overall.

The zones vary by person, theoretically your max heart rate is approx 226 minus age (for women) or 220 minus age (for men) and the zones are worked out from that, but it can vary by around 30bpm (I think) in individuals and also change depending on your fitness status, so that really is just a rough guide. You'd need to do a max HR test to be sure of your numbers .

I use the zones myself, but that's because I like to get a good mix of workout intensities every week. I'd never try to do every session in the same zone.

Hope that makes sense!

yes thats what i wanted to say

leave it to the experts