Ah. Lack of sleep and time to eat is not good for a gym day. I did work out though. 20 minutes of cardio, strength training and I began Jillian Michaels' 6 Week 6 Pack dvd! So far I really like it, but my body was so weak after the gym and I didn't realize how depleted I was on energy and only did 20 minutes. But hopefully it will go better tomorrow!

Ok, Jillian done..

Question: I noticed on myfitnesspal I always seem to go over on my protein allowance a bit everyday. Is this a big deal?? I figure as long as my calories/fat/carbs are within allowance who cares...

T.G.I.F.! Happy Friday!

novangle, I'm not sure. I hear calories in, calories out. But on the other side I hear too much of anything your body can't process. Still I think its better to go over than carbs or fat. If I go over on one I try to balance it out other days of the week.

music, you're probably just adjusting to being back in action.

Sanity, what's up lady?

Well yesterday was to be cardio day, but I spent it food shopping instead. We are to have rain all weekend and I don't want to be out in it. This weekend I'm experimenting with new recipes and a low-fat buttermilk dressing recipe I found. I'm tired at the moment though and its hot. I don't like hot. I turned on my air conditioner last night...ahh, relief. The temperature is low at the moment, but the humidity is over 90%. Tonight will be workout 3. My hamstrings and triceps are still sore and I'm more aware of my abs too. They say on Facebook that if its a mild soreness to still do the workout, but if you have trouble moving to take a rest day. I'm so tired, I'm contemplating a hookie day.

Well, I'm off to do who knows what. Have a great day everybody!

Not sure what I will do for a workout today, but I definitely will make myself do something. Can't wait for TOM to be over with. Bleh.

Umm...I'm a complete slug today. I stayed home from work today. I went out to get some air hoping that would spark some sort of energy. I just told my girlfriend that I literally want to take a nap, even though I slept really late today. She says to listen to my body, but I feel like I should be doing something. Goodness knows there's enough to do within my home.

Today I did Turbo Jam 3T followed by about 15 minutes of step aerobics.

I'm getting ready to do Jillian in a few minutes here. Nothing tomorrow, I have plans and then a concert tomorrow night....I'm ok with a break because I have worked out 5 days in a row and have been good with food.

See everyone Sunday night.

I decided to finally borrow my son's ipod and man does that make a difference! Eye Of The Tiger!! (so cliche I know but it worked)

Happy Saturday all Happy SpringI dunno Philly, hormonal, adult attention deficiency, weight-loss psychosis I've become addicted to reading 3FC, like too much time here - by 'here', I mean all the other threads... It's because I don't have any 'in person' people to discuss fitness with and I'm using 3FC as a substitute, which I think is OK, but I've gone overboard. Then there's my trying to find the perfect 'project' to reach my fitness goal; I keep searching for that golden slipper, when the slippers I have are just fine. (sometimes I exhaust myself )

Anyway, I've had; I'm 2 pounds away from losing 10% of my body weight, so something's going right. Got a new pair of sneakers - Asics gel ds - waiting for their maiden voyage this morning. It looks like a beautiful day. I'll bookmark this thread and see if I can keep focused.

Have a great day!

The scale says I'm down 3 pounds today and that's with TOM coming (it's late this month but slowly starting) I'm hoping it's actually more lost than 3p because I might have some water weight, you think?? It's a good possibility!

I can't wait to weigh myself again in a week or so!

Here's how it went:
Start weight - 153
Lost 1 pound -152
Shot up to 157 (I freaked out because that was highest # I have seen in 5 years but I appeared smaller than my start weight.)
Lost 2 -155
Lost 1 -154

Hopefully the numbers continue to go down from here. I really hope so I can adjust my ticker accordingly.

Hello Ladies!

Well, I am definitely on a mini-break. I have absolutely no urge, desire or want to do heart pumping exercise at the moment. I'm taking this weekend off and regroup my brain. I am still keeping with my healthier dietary plan so that will not suffer for the weekend. I got on the scale this morning and it did show a change. I won't adjust my ticker till it still says the same on Tuesday.

So, I'm experimenting with making new recipe's this weekend. I made a low-fat buttermilk ranch dressing (not as flavorful as I would've liked) and skinny buffalo chicken dip (this is yummy). I'm going to make hungry girl's exploding taquitos and a dijon herb pork chop recipe.

Sanity, I am the same way with reading on here. I do read for information as well as inspiration.

Novangel, I just think that you are so close to your goal that its just harder in general. I am happy the scale is moving for you now.

Bunneh, you are such a machine!

Novangel, I bet you see more than 3lbs once TOM is done.

I had great expectations for the day, but once I got out found that I have no energy, too. Put in about 2.5 miles; new sneakers feeling loose in the heel, even with heavier socks. Back to the store tomorrow....

It's funny how both energy and weight wax and wain. I think, though, that if we continue to focus on our health projects (I prefer project to 'journey', because to me project is more focused with a definite conclusion in site) the baseline energy will continue to expand while the baseline weight will continue to decrease. Yeah us....

Update: spent the rest of the day like a spud on the couch, napping on and off watching NCIS. Did review Ilaria's Abs & Pushups dvd; what I like about Ilaria is that she does the work-out with you and you can tell that she is working it - even though she's obviously a warrior princess! I also love her kind and calm demeanor. The dvd's 30 minutes and I can't imagine being able to complete it but that is one of my goals. Big party when I get through the whole thing. Another good thing about today is that I realized how much my food tastes have changed. Being lazy today, I ordered Lemon Chicken - which I used to really like - the crunch, etc. But tonight all I noticed was the grease! I took off the formally yummy crisp and ate some of the chicken, and the lettuce. Most of it got dumped. And my place smells like grease.

So, even though today was a tired lazy day it was a good day after all...

I actually enjoyed my lounge day. I felt guilty at first, but I felt like I needed to not focus on anything. I did make my coconut muffins and found a recipe for healthy blueberry muffins and made those too. My house smelled amazing. My sister came over so I sent her home with some of the goodies. I also got a huge thing of hummus from trader joe's with 4 flavors which I shared with her too. She loves hummus and its new to me and I knew I would waste it.

Funny about taste buds. I ate some potato chips and was done after a bit. The grease was like...yuck! I spent most of the day looking at the NCIS marathon. Now looking at Big Bang Theory...Love that show! I guess the exercise thing never really left us cause I was on oxygen magazine's website looking around.

Good morning all What a nice morning slept well, and ran into lots of friends this morning while out and about.

Philly, my 2 favorite shows are NCIS and Big Bang. That along with the Daily Show and Colbert are the reasons I keep cable.

I'm keeping it low-key today. I was tired yesterday, and having food 'urges' which usually means that something's brewing. So I'm resting again today. Tomorrow I have a Pilates class, and I want to be fresh for it. It's funny - the lazy part of me was initially drawn to pilates 'cause it's done lying down but it is work & I want to be fresh for it.

I was disappointed by yesterday's grease-fest. Not only was it nasty, but it was $$$. I'm really finding that take-out doesn't do it for me anymore. Which is just as well, my nutritional issues are basically due to lack of food planning on my part. So today I'm making lentil soup. I'm working from 'Everyday Happy Herbivore' by Lindsay Nixon. The recipies are really simple, and all I really needed to pick up was the broth and celery. So that's the plan...

Have a great day