20-Somethings - Quick Weekly Chat - January 24 - January 31

Hello ladies :)

My weekend was kind of awesome (see blog for long story).

How was everyone else's?

I'm super excited to run later...who am I? ;)

Good Morning!

My birthday is Saturday...eeek

Stella- Glad you had a fabulous time in AC

I hope my birthday festivities go well and I have a good time

On plan dinner at PF changs tonight and then bowling where I will not drink, I will not drink, I will not drink

Good morning!

It hurts to move. Snowboarded sat and sun, and now I ache all over. But totally worth it, I had a blast. Soccer game this evening will be interesting...

Stella - Glad you had such a good weekend!

Haley - What are you planning for your birthday?

Jess - I swear all of the fresh powder will be gone by the time I get to go again. Sometimes I wish I lived up in the mountains 24/7.

My weekend was really uneventful, aside from working out + losing + staying OP. My room needs organizing, maybe I'll try to get around to that this week lol.

Haley - Happy early Birthday!! Doing anything fun??

Jazz - I wanna go snowboarding! We live in Colorado & have gone a total of 2 times. :/

Just got done with a Boudoir shoot! Now, I'm kicking it with baby girl today & I'll get my workout in sometime this afternoon. And I got some banana creme pie yogurt that I'm too excited about - it's just yogurt. But yum!!

Haley - my birthday party is Saturday, so we're twins. Good luck with tonight :)

Jess - I'm with you on the not being able to move part, but its awesome. Glad you had fun snowboarding :)

Mary - sounds awesome :)

Madison - You do boudoir shots? Ooh.

Madison- I loved my BD shoot! :) Do you blog your photography? If so- share the link!

That's actually what I want to do for my goal...well, a pin up girl shoot, but similar...

My birthday party is 80's workout theme... just so I can wear spandex...obviously

getting salmon tonight at dinner so I will be on plan and still have yummy food

however its going to be a late night but I still want to attempt to be at the gym by 7 tomorrow... keep your fingers crossed for me

happy Monday all!

Had a WONDERFUL date night on Saturday! Went to The Melting Pot and The Lion King. Both were awesome!!! Creme Broulee Fondue = "O" in a bowl! COMPLETELY off plan but so totally worth it!! (Pics in the photo thread) I reduced my calories for Friday and yesterday, so everything should work out.

I have been staying between 147 and 148 for a few weeks now and that is getting annoying. But oh well.

haley and stella- Happy Birthdays!!!!!! I love theme parties!

Madison - I love boudoir lol. I've been considering getting a certificate in photography once I finish my web + graphic design degree. I'm just a freelancer though... I would loooove to shoot weddings + portraits. I second Linds, lets see some shots!

Stella - Me too! I've always loved pinups and thought it would be a great gift to myself to get a styled shot done. There's a photography team I found a while ago that does styled shots in Wildwood, NJ - in the old vintage-y section where the Wildwood sign is. They're really cute, I'll find the link for you if you want it.

Haley - Sounds excellent haha spandex :D

Mary - Ooh. Really? Which part of Wildwood would be considered "vintagey?" Near the Ferris wheel or on the OTHER end of the boardwalk?

Haley - You can so totally do it. I'm working out tomorrow morning as well (after work tonight b/c my bed was too comfy this morning).

Today is kind of dragging and I do not appreciate it.

I don't have the blog anymore - I wasn't keeping up with it at all, but I do have my website: Madison Ave Photography (madisonavephotographyco.com)

I haven't even looked at the pics from today, but there is one boudoir session up. Today's was much more...naked. lol It was fun, but so awkward...where do I look!?! lol

I'll post some of today's in the coming days. Enjoy!

I'm right with you girls on the "hurts to move" thing. I really pushed it at the gym today and was sweating more than I have in a long time. My face was BRIGHT red.....and I looked really really attractive ;)

Stella and Haley ~ Happy birthday!!!! Hope you both have great birthday celebrations :)

Jenn ~ I've heard really good things about The Melting Pot.....sounds delicious!

stella and haley-happy early birthday! I hope you both have a great birthday party!

Never heard of the Melting pot but it sounds good.

did nothing but work, homework and working out. Im SO excited my school has a gym i can use for free. I had to give up my last gym membership as i am poor, and this was the highlight of my day.
Plz keeps fingers crossed that i didn't just completely bomb my psychology test today. i freak over tests no matter how hard i study! =/

I was all psyched to work out at like 1pm. Now I'm like I want sleepies.

Hello, 5 hour energy...how are you ? :)

Stella - They do a shot by the ferris wheel, a shot by the Wildwood sign (near the convention center), some in a retro dinner, and I think some more. I found it on the Style Me Pretty blog, here's the website Starlet Sessions (http://www.starletsessions.com/). I'm also a photographer in the NJ area with a shore house if you ever need me ;)

Jen - Mmmmm melting pot! So yummy!

Madison - Awesome! Love the engagement sessions! They're always my favorite lol.

Mickey - Hooray for free gym!

k guys i think i got whiplash while snowboarding, if thats even possible. UGH.

happy bday to stella and haley!

madison - cool pictures!!

mary - what i would give to snowboard on powder. but in socal, even fresh snow is pretty slushy

So 5 hour energy...kind of ridiculous...I just ran 6 miles in 69 minutes, 30 seconds...I hardly walked, I just had to stop to stretch because my quad started to freeze up, but daaaaaaaaamn.

Dude, if I took a 5hour energy thingy, I would be a mess. Super doses of caffeine give me the jitters & make me feel panicky.

Did great with calories today. Exercised. Drank 4L of water. I wanna see 177.2 tomorrow...it's doable :)

There's no caffeine in 5 hour energy...its like 8333% of your recommended dose of Vitamin B.

Ohhh lol! Shows what I know!

Jess - Don't be too jealous, I rarely get to either lol. We got one day of powder when I was up for a week in the Poconos.

Madison - Great job being on plan!

Stella - Great job, girl!

Stella ~ I'm totally picturing you like a cartoon character running on a treadmill with the legs going out of control!!! LOL

MORE SNOW?!?!?! So, the storm coming in tomorrow into Thursday was just supposed to be about 2 inches total. As of this morning, we're getting between 12-15" now? I have no idea where we're supposed to put another foot of snow on top of the 3 feet we already have!!! This is going to be crazy!!! This will most likely be our 5th snow day in less than 2 weeks!

Madison - Okay, I was wrong. It has as much caffeine as 1 cup of coffee, the rest is Vitamin B.

Chele - I wasn't even that fast. I averaged a 12 minute mile until the last one where I bumped it up to 10...and that's really just because the treadmill was yelling at me to cool down...We're supposed to get a "wintery mix." Ugh.

So I woke up this morning all crackly. Like I really just wanted someone to crack my back. I did 30 minutes on this weird stair master/elliptical hybrid and I'm planning on doing my Kettleball cardio work out later. Hopefully it won't kick my butt as hard as it did last time I did it.

How's everyone doing?

stella- love me some 5 hour. I feel like I might need one today.

Being at work sucks! I'm burnt out right now. COME ONNNN WEEKEND!

Oh and I've been really hungry today which is annoying me. I feed myself healthy foods, but it is more calories than I want to eat, but if I don't I will be ravenous and eat bad stuff. RAWR! Please go away hunger!

happy Tuesday girls!!

Not much to report here. Did Denise Austin Hot Body Yoga this morning. There are 2 30 minute practices on 1 DVD. The first is a beginners practice, the second is a sculpting one that uses handweights through the majority of it. I did both practices. It was a good workout.

I definitley want to get some professional photos done. I was also thinking of a 40's pin up girl theme. Maybe this summer...

jenn- I did a boudoir shoot for my hubby's wedding day gift...it was a lot of fun! :) You should TOTALLY do it!

Soreness level is a little better today. I can move my neck more, so that's good. Probably need to take the day off from working out though, which sucks!!! I might try to do a little low impact exercise like the elliptical or something later, we'll see!!

Jess - Swimming really helped me when I was suffering from my first kettleball work out. One of my co-workers (triathlete) said the 0 gravity really does wonders for you, and he was totally right...

Okay, so today is a high maintenence day...

Happy Tuesday!

I was on plan for dinner...missed my workout this morning...it is sooo hard to get out of bed in the morning when its so cold out and someone keeps saying five more minutes

Jazzy- I hope you feel better

Stella- Maintenance is good

I'm on the ball to get rid of the rest of this weight and get to my goal... I'm happy but I'm not finished and I'm afraid to stop now....because I do what we call "I can eat anything I want" its not good haha

Ha, by high maintenance I meant that everyone and their mother is calling/emailing me at work wanting their hand held through something.

Good job staying on plan :) And yeah, stupid cold weather...

all i want to do is eat! FML! That is NOT how you lose weight!

This may sound kind of ED-ish...but it works...

When I have days like that, where I just want to eat and eat and eat, I go get a pre-packaged bag of baby spinach and just down it in one sitting. Its like 7 calories per cup of spinach, its amazing for you, and it is so totally filling.

Is it binging? Sort of...does it put my weight loss efforts back? Nope...

stella- interesting idea. too bad that sounds NO GOOD! hahaha. I want bad stuff! ;) Sorry about your crazy day! what do you do?

I actually got the idea from my tri-athlete coworker. He dropped 60 lbs in a year and is really supportive. Also tells me to get my lazy butt to the gym when I don't want to. He doesn't actually think I'm lazy, but he knows that will make me move.

My favorite lazy dinner is actually egg whites, spinach and laughing cow cheese (with lots of red pepper). Got the idea from him, and its filled with protein. So good.

I work in clinical trials for an NIH-sponsored grant right outside of DC. I have a few studies that are "mine" and I'm responsible for the electronic data system for those trials, as well as answering any questions from the doctors/nurses around the country who participate in the trials (data system related, or how to actually go about following the way the trials are written). I'm kind of sort of customer service for clinical trials. But I've also been here for 4.5 years (I'm the most senior in our group) so a lot of the times I get bombarded from people outside and inside and its like AAAAAAH DON'T ASK ME LOOK IT UP.

stella- that lazy dinner sounds really good! People and their handholding needs get really old, really fast.

k definitely have to go to the gym tomorrow. must must must must!!!!

Wooo! Finally got passed 175!!! :carrot:

We got hit with snow this morning instead of tonight so I had to get right up and shovel.

I haven't been weighing myself because I spend a lot of my nights sleeping at the boyfriends.... kind of nice to not be obsessed with my scale... eating is going strong...

but if someone does not get me a red velvet cupcake for my birthday I will have no friends left...seriously lol

if not I'm making/buying yummy ones for valentines day and the boyfriend can live with it because they are amazing

Mary-Yay!

I cant seem to wake up in the morning these days which is messing up my afternoons because I have to go to the gym then... lame

Mary- yay!!

Stella- can you please cook me your lazy dinner? Sounds delish.

Haley - you can do it!!

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Really scale?? Really???? I took two days off exercising because I was sore from snowboarding, an I didn't eat perfect and I'm up FIVE POUNDS????? &;&$(@!?$&&$$%#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jazz- sounds like your scale is a bas*ard!

Haley- glad to hear you are doing well!

I am debating on whether or not to buy an athletic one piece suit, swim cap, and goggles to use at the gym....I sam back in jr. high, but haven't done so at for fitness since then...do you think it's money well spent!? If I use it- of course it is..I guess that is the main question. No way for me to know the answer to that lol!

Linds - I got my bathing suit/goggles on sale. I don't use a cap, I just put leave-in conditioner in my hair and braid it, mostly b/c the caps freak me out. I spent probably $40 on the whole thing, and I use my stuff a few times a month, so I consider it worth it, especially if its right at your gym.

So my stomach got into a fight with a quesadilla last night. Not pretty, at all. And despite that, I was 167 after the gym. Considering that my gym pants were falling off me as I ran and my legs HURT - I'm just going to say that I'm retaining lots of water, and stop eating salty stuff for a few days...or until tomorrow when I'm going out to dinner...uh

Yeah. I'll be perfect starting Sunday...

Stella- I feel ya on the water retention. I saw 163.5 last week, and this morning 168. Not cool. I want 163 back!!!!

Yeah!

I guess the good thing is that we KNOW its water. My knees were sweating this morning - that is not normal and a sign that I'm holding some on.

I'd really like a big cookie right now. Stupid cold weather, makes me want baked goods.

Linds - I would love to swim everyday! I'm too worried about it ruining my hair... :/

Jazz - Push that water today!! You can get rid of that no problem!

I hit 176.4 today & I'm sooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!! I really wanna see 175 on Friday b/c A. it would be awesome & B. I would be at a 2lb loss per week for January. That was my goal from the beginning, so that would be fabulous! But yay for 176! The last time I saw that was as I was going up to the 200s, so it's nice to see it again.

Good luck today, girls!

Personals in a little bit... need... shower...and water.

Just tried my ZumbaFitness game for 20 minutes (on beginner - little bit of salsa, hip hop, calypso and belly dance) after doing 20 minutes of circuit training. AAHHHHHH!!!! But it was REALLY fun and I was able to keep up really well! If I get snowed in tonight (calling for 10 inches on top of the 2 we got this morning) then I'll do both of the beginner classes tomorrow (both 20 minutes). Even if you don't have the little belt it comes with it would be easy to keep up and get your heart pumping! I was out of breath by the middle of the second song!

We're supposed to get snow here tonight too. We're on the smaller range of snow (only supposed to get 6-10 inches), but that will be on top of the 3+ feet we already have on the ground. CRAZY!!!! I have no idea where we're going to be able to put it.

I had to come home right after work to babysit my nieces since my brother and sister-in-law were going to the Bruins game for my brother's birthday. So, I didn't get to the gym after school like normal, but I did read one of my latest magazines on the exercise bike for about 30 minutes. Not the best, but better than nothing!

i did 60 mins on the elliptical machine today. go me!!

i did 60 mins on the elliptical machine today. go me!!
Yay Jess.

Okay. I've had just about as much of this snow as I can handle...

:bday2you:Happy Birthday Stella:bday2you:

:balloons: :hb: :bday2:

I think I'm going to start 30DS and actually do it for 30 days....I've done it several times, but never for 30 days straight. I think it would be interesting to see what results I got if I did shred in the morning and cardio at the gym in the evening...I'll keep you posted. I'm trying to push myself to start tonight!

Thank you, Haley :)

Linds - be careful!

Happy birthday stella!!!!!! I can't try to top haley's decorations because I'm on the iPhone....

Linds - I wish I could try what you are trying, but I work way too early to be getting up and exercising before work. If I could get myself to go to bed at like 8 pm, maybe, but that just ain't happening!!


So Tom arrived today, and the scale is down 2.5 pounds from yesterday, thank goodness. I'd appreciate some more whoosh whoosh!!!!! All the way down to 159 would be nice. Ok scale fairy? You got that?? Lol

Happy Birthday Stella!!!!!

My only real news is that I get to start my new position at work next Tuesday. I don't know if any of you heard or remember but I was promoted in October/November and have been in limbo since while they found a replacement for me. They could not find a replacement, so they re-organized some current employees and VIOLA! New position here I come!! I'm so excited! I'm definitely ready for it!

Thanks all :)

Jenn - congrats on the new position.

Jess - Yeah, I wish my scale would do that...I think all of the snow is making me retain water (not kidding)

Stella ~ Happy birthday!!! It was really tough this morning writing your real name on FB instead of Stella ;) LOL

Linds ~ Good luck with the 30 day shred/cardio combo...keep us updated!!!

Jenn ~ Congratulations on the new position and good luck with your first day!!!

We are on snow day #5 in two weeks and I am SO SICK OF THE SNOW!!! The snow banks are taller than me and the snow is taller than our fence posts in the front yard. At this rate, I'm going to be teaching until July! But the roads weren't all that bad this afternoon even though they cancelled school, so I headed to the gym and now I am going to head towards CVS to buy new batteries for my scale which decided to konk out on me yesterday!

I'm jealous of your snow!!!! You all are stuck inside because you're snowed in, I'm stuck inside an office while it's sunny and 75 degrees outside. Nobody wins!!

Anyone want to trade?

Thanks for the encouragement! You girls are the best!

I got home from work a little early so I did 30DS. I will do cardio a little later tonight....day one..complete! THe more I think about it, I think doing the 30ds/cardio combo will work for about 3 days a week...the other 1-2 days I go to the gym I'll do mainly cardio and abs. I'm going to try this for a month! PLEASE help me stay motivated! ;)

Jenn- yay for the new position!

Linds - you can totally do that!! We'll be here keeping you accountable!

Stella - Happy Birthday!!!!

Got up at noon today so my eating schedule is whacked. I need to start eating some more because I don't like to eat too much after 8pm. Gonna work out later too. :) AND!!! I had an hour to myself while baby girl stayed home with daddy & tried some clothes on at Target...totally got some size 12 jeggings on & they were cute!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so pumped!!

I slipped and fell on the ice... I hate Ohio even more now

I have a brief due tomorrow morning...its not done... I'm behind... but my body hurts so bad... stupid ice

Stella - Happy Birthday!!!

Linds - Good luck with 30DS! We'll keep you motivated!

Jenn - Congrats on starting your new position!

Madison - Yay!!! Congrats on the jeggings!

Haley - Sorry about the ice :C

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Snowed. In. Can't even leave because half of the roads in my town (including mine) haven't been plowed. I have noodle arms from shoveling today! Hope everyone else had a good day!

Ok made it to the gym for 50 mins of cardio and some abs. Atleast day one went well! :)

Haley- sorry to hear about your fall!

Madi- size 12 jeggings?! AWESOME! Lets see a pic! ;)

Haley ~ That sucks...hope you start feeling better!!!

Platform ~ Our roads are pretty good, surprisingly. But there is already talk about another HUGE storm next week. The snow seriously needs to stop!

Linds ~ Good job!!! :)

I could not sleep last night at all! I woke up around 2:30 and pretty much watched the clock until my alarm went off at 5am. My teenage students are going to be fun today ;)

I'm jealous of your snow!!!! You all are stuck inside because you're snowed in, I'm stuck inside an office while it's sunny and 75 degrees outside. Nobody wins!!

Anyone want to trade?

Yes. :)

Happy Friday everyone! Anyone doing anything exciting this weekend?

Tonight I'm going to a DJ Battle in Baltimore - Lady Gaga vs Madonna.

Tomorrow we're going out to dinner and drinking in DC.

I'm excited...if only it would stop snowing for 24 freakin hours.

Haley - are you ok? I have to admit, if I had seen you fall, I would have died laughing. Falling down is probably the funniest thing in the world to me. Even if it's me falling. My husband makes me watch America's Funniest Home Videos when I feel sad because, without fail, I will laugh hysterically at people falling down.

Jazz - Date night with my huzzy tonight :) Then just church this weekend. And more cleaning :/

Hit 175.6 today, girls!!!! I seriously couldn't do this without the accountability that you guys provide! I'm so motivated by you all! Thank you so much! I'm going to eat something terrible for me now. Have a great Friday!

Nothing big scheduled for the weekend besides my little cousins' birthday parties (their birthdays are about a week apart...so their parties are together) tomorrow afternoon. I am also planning on going to the gym both days and I have to buy new batteries for my scale tonight. That's about it ;)

jenn - very exciting about the new position at work!! good luck girl!

stella - how was the bday fun?? sorry about your snow, but i'm sure you still had a great time!! if i could send you san diego weather for your bday, i totally would!!!

madison - aww date night with huzzy, thats awesome, when i get married i better still go out for date night lol! and yay for jeggings! i really want to get some.....

haley - have you recovered from your fall?? that's no joke... :(

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So i'm pretty much planning to exhaust myself today. I'm training for a half maraton in april (and i'm doing a 10k next weekend!!) so i'm running 7 miles today! after that i have football practice for this "for-fun" tournament with people from work. oh and i'll probably go out dancing tonight. yay for calorie burn?