Hey there, you two! It seems like it's been weeks! Before I forget, Summer, I just love your quotes! I really look forward to them, and they're always just the right message at just the right time....so motivating, so affecting, so profound. Thank you for taking the time to change them -- it's a real gift to us!
I'm so happy that this week is over. I live and work in Maryland, and have so far gone to recruit at schools in Pennsylvania, Virginia, DC, and Maryland. None of them was so earth-shatteringly far, but each of them was at least an hour and a half drive each way....and each session was a grueling 8-12 back-to-back interviews. I'm just about to stop complaining....hold on....the clincher this week has been that Lorraine's ex's daughter, whom she raised (so her daughter, and I guess my stepdaughter, although we don't really look at it like that...I suppose I'd be more like a cool aunt or something,) has been staying with us with *insert drum roll here* her first serious boy. Yup, bringing him home to daddy, as it were......very big deal. It all went well, but it definitely put a HUGE kabosh on the ole exercise routine! I shouldn't have let it sidetrack me, but I seriously don't know how it could have been avoided. I was up early, early -- and then at night we kept going out! I ate pretty uch on plan (no small feat) but fell off the exercise wagon BIGTIME! Here's my report, sad as it is:
Monday: 40 minutes cardio
Tuesday: Off (Went to an Orioles baseball game and had a great time)
Wednesday: Nothing (Guests came)
Thursday: 40 minutes leisurely walking (does talking help the cardio??
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Friday: Nothing (Company left tonight)
I'm just putting this week behind me. AND, to top it off, I'm period-girl now, so I'm a big, moody, gastronasty slug.
It will be sheer will that gets me moving tomorrow...we have a "relax and simply be" day planned for Sunday
, but tomorrow we are going to paint our home's office and also do some gardening, and I am going to jump (or crawl) back in the saddle beginning tomorrow.
That said, here's the plan for this weekend:
Saturday: 20 minutes moderate cardio first thing in the morning; full body weights workout in afternoon followed by 15 minutes moderate cardio for cool down.
Sunday: 20 minutes HIIT cardio first thing in the morning; 40 minutes LSD (long, slow distance) cardio in afternoon.
I'm so proud of both of you -- you're both doing just great!
Gen, your running course sounds great...and I'll bet you DO look funny to the casual observer! It's so great you do that. You know that face you make when you're thinking, "Whoa, that's impressive!" and you pull the sides of your mouth down? That's what I'm doing at you right now.
I do agree about your macronutrient percentages: that 40/40/20 is a good guideline, although some recommend upping the lean protein just a tad. That's what I've now implemented - for the most part - and I believe that coupled with daily exercise you can see some accelerated fat loss. Sounds like a plan to me!
Summer, you sweetheart, you have just got so much on your plate right now that I am truly in awe of your positive energy and beautiful spirit. You're wonderful!!!
As far as that scale is concerned, don't you pay it any mind, just stay on track and keep doing what you're doing, and you'll see a drop soon, I'm sure of it. Just do as much as you can without pushing yourself too much, and concentrate on taking good care of yourself during this stressful time. If you feel up to it, you might add a long sweaty cathartic cardio session or two, just to release some endorphins and give yourself a little emotional tiramisu, as it were! (You might already know this, but "tiramisu'" in Italian means "pull me up" literally or "pick me up" figuratively.....tirare: the verb "to pull"; mi: me; su': up.) Just a thought; it might meet a couple of your needs at once: stress relief, fat loss trigger, and mood enhancement! Yee ha!
There's a wonderful, warm, active, positive woman here that I was thinking of inviting to join us.....is there room for a fourth? Or are we three peas in a pod? I love us! I feel so very lucky to have found you two; I think you're both so special and so terrific, I can't believe that I found two such cool friends at one time! Thank you, Gen for finding us and making this possible!
from the bottom of my heart, girlfriend!
Big hugs to you both. (Hey on that note, Christina -- Lorraine's daughter -- said that I feel so much smaller in her arms now when she hugs me. That made my month!
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hello again
. and of course sarah and i are here if you need to get things out. i could also give you my e-mail if you like.
so I stay away. I do talk to my doctor, the occasional therapist and a close circle of friends and family. It is a small circle because it is amazing the stigma anything mental can have still.
It sounds impressive but I would like more details please. I swear I will Google the **** out of it when I have time. You have obviously researched this and much about diet and exercise (such as the tipping point on when you could lose valuable muscle tissue) and I admire that. As for my partners there are still a lot of resumes that were sent in to fill such positions so now it is interview, refer and demand. We have some prospects and I am not too worried to be honest...it is just the rebuilding rapport with another is not my favorite thing to do but it will be done! I reread your onew post and said start with small goals - the more I thought 
about it - the more I realize I have larger nebulous goals but not the smaller baby steps in which to take. Sometimes I think I can Air Jordan from starting point to the goal...that makes alot of sense! Thank you!
Keep up the contract with yourself this week. Do it for you - not Sarah and not me. Don't beat yourself up about last week it is gone and done...that's one thing I learned.
je ne sais pas. sounds very odd though. you going to try that?? you gotta let us know what it is!
. i've taken two ibuprofen and some glucosamine-chondrotin for the ol' aching joints. we did 5min warm up walk, 1min jog, 2min walk. we go as a group so i think we looked pretty funny going down the street 
. a lot of people were staring at us. i think next week is 2min jog. 1min walk. there's an optional group run sundays at 8:30am!
and made a list of carbs i can take out (as you can see i have ALOT of time on my hands). my percentages for the last month are 25prot/44carb/30fat. i don't know what it should be...so many opinions on this... but something like 40/40/20 may be better. i'm going to work on that. i just don't want to cut out my veggies. 
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Way to go! Yoga should help out with the tense muscles and won't hurt your joints!
Great Workout!!
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then. Sounds like you are right on track. Keep your body guessing, try varying your calories throughout the week. 
for 2 hours with my 2 brothers (16 and 18) and DH so I had a nice time.
I am also starting to wear a pedometer so I can be more aware of myself during the day and am going to read the info Sarah gave us about HIIT and look into some food tracking software. I just want to relearn healthy behaviors because my brain is filled 
That is a wonderful affirmation on all the hard work you are doing. 
and that sounds like one **** of a workout too! 
: chips and stuff.
because it's our end of year show and bbq 
because i hear they hand them out with their salad meals. although i'm not sure if we have them here yet or not? i haven't been in a long long time. and since i saw "super size me" i don't know when i ever will go back. it was so so so gross. 
