Rowdy - Netflix has exercise videos! You can just Google "best workout videos on Netflix" and a bunch of other people's lists come up. I don't know if you are looking for yoga, pilates, weightlifting, cardio, etc. so I can't recommend any, but they have a great assortment!

FETCHLIZZIE: welcome back. Yes, there is a lot of good advice here. I have had many struggles along the way and always find something positive here.

CAMASWA: good job on making good choices. I think that is what it is all about - keeping it under control. Please share your weigh in and body fat results. I am right there with you on this issue.

RACHELS77: AWESOME JOB ON LOSING 75.5 POUNDS! I am sure you are very proud of yourself as well you should be :cp:

GALADREAL: great job on your loss this week. I hear ya on building the up chest muscles. I just wonder if my boobs are a lost cause due to my ages and nursing 4 kids!

Good news for me today........I have been feeling light headed and lethargic so I called my doc about my blood pressure readings. They have been low for the past couple of days (104/54 which is really low for me) so my doc told me to stop taking my BP pill and diuretic. I just need to continue monitoring my BP to make sure it stays in check. This makes me very happy to be of the BP meds! Another reason to eat healthy and exercise:cool:

sots mom... I am so sorry to hear about your sister. My dad was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and the first several days it was like FOOD... I need comfort food. I ate an entire bag of bliss chocolates, had pizza and bruschetta. Yea, I felt sick to my stomach and I still nibble on snacks, but I am much better at it now that it's been a week. Hopefully you will snap out of it too. We need to be strong for ouR loved ones and for me at least I can't be my strongest when I'm down and out because of the stupid stuff I shove in my mouth.

If you need to vent I am here, just hit me up in a pm or vent out in the open. Either way, know you have support from me if you need it. I thank God for my husband and his strength to help me help my dad through this. We can stay strong for them, we have to. Again, I'm so sorry for you and your family. {{{{HUGS}}}}

I told my husband last night that when my dad starts loosing his hair mine is going again too, this time razored down, and he told me his was getting shaved again too. My husband rocks!!

So, any of you lovley ladies know of any good jobs in Northwest Arkansas? My job is driving me to eat. If I get one more duty that has been farmed out becuase the person who is supposed to do it is too stupid I am going to scream and throw a printer at her. Seriously I can't get me own work done and it is stressing me the **** out. All I want right now is to go over to the union, eat a big calzone and cry on my husband...maybe not in that order. I am so frustrated I want to scream.

I have decided that as soon as we get back from vacation next month I am looking for something else. I cannot stay here becuase the stress is killing me, litterally, my blood pressure has been nuts for the last 2 weeks.

OMG! I cannot imagine 145 pounds either. That is what I weighed before having my first child 26 years ago.......... make that 27 years ago!

Congrat's on the 1.5 pound loss:cp:

Faery chic, I KNOW, 145 sounds insane. So to add to this,I then asked my trainer about those Tanitia scales. She said to use them as a baseline for progress only, that they are not a true measure of bodyfat. She said the only true measure is the underwater method, and even calipers are better than impedance. She said that even eyeballing she would put me well below the 30% range. I'm going to stop obsessing so much. I told myself I would give this my best till the end of May and then reassess. I'm doing fine.

CO chick, how did you end up after a full week of MetaQuick? If you posted that, I somehow missed it.

I agree with your trainer on body fat. Someone posted a website last week to check body fat. So I went to it and there was an 7% difference from what the centers Tanitia showed - website was lower! WI today - week 2 of plateau. Counselor looked at diary and I ate on program 3 days out of 10 - yikes! So want the last 10 gone. I have been slacking on exercise last few weeks since exercise classes ended. Hopefully I'll kick it off again with 4-5 mile run in the morning. Hope everyone has a wonderful, fun weekend.

I'm so frustrated right now. Last week I only lost 1.5 lbs.....this week I only lost 0.5 lb. And I'm sticking to the program like glue....no cheating at all. It would be different if I could tell a big difference in my body and know that I've at least lost some inches, but I can't tell a big difference and my husband doesn't notice a difference at all. Any suggestions to break this not-losing streak? I know this program works, but it's hard to be motivated with the results I've had lately, you know?

Selway- Thank you, I had unsuccessfully searched Netflix before. This is fantastic, Netflix has all kinds of excercise streaming videos! Wow, this really helps. The CRUNCH ones alone have all kinds of videos.

I ended up doing 6 days of it. I lost 2.5lbs total, but at the tail end was right before my TOM, and I always put one some water weight. My conclusion...I would metaquick again, but probably not for a full week. Maybe a few days at a time, just to shake things up a little.

COchick, well 2.5 is 2.5! Good job! I just never had the discipline to stick with it more than two days. I do like to use the shakes occasionally for breakfast and/or lunch to help me refocus when I have been eating off plan too much. It helps stop the madness. Also, they tend to wreak havoc on my lower GI.

Kmc, your loss has been good overall for only having started in April. Just stick with it. I have had plenty of weeks with less than a pound loss. I know it is disappointing, but if you really are following the plan it will start coming off again. Maybe punch up your exercise a bit?

Ok. Birthday is over.....
 

Been celebrating my birthday since Wednesday! (it's today) well I guess yesterday since its 2 am! Started w party at work. Chocolate cake Wednesday ...then out to dinner at new Thai restaurant w DH...the owner wanted us to try out his homemade coffee almond cake. Wow
Friday nite out w my crazy girlfriends!!! And many buckets of beer and appetizers -and the hostess bought out chocolate ice cream sundaes for us -- we did jump on the stage and dance so lots of activity. Then boating all day today (my girlfriends called me skinny miney) :hat::beach: then dinner out and the owner bought out chocolate cake! And sung happy bday! I have not weighed since Wednesday am and was 164.0. Did ok food wise. Ate salads and small portions and did split all those desserts but WOW!!! Will def be chugging water all day tomorrow and eating salads and protein shakes!

More later. Really need some sleep!!!

Happy Birthday Bigdog! :celebrate:

So I was up a pound at weigh in yesterday. Very frustrating since I was 99% on plan (had a couple of tablespoons of salsa). Counselor said there could be a few reasons I was up: 1) extra stress this week at work 2) lack of sleep (I don't sleep well) 3) too much exercise. She suggested I may want to switch back to the meta balance plan due to the exercise. I have been taking a boot camp class and she said they don't suggest anything more than walking for exercise. I haven't decieded yet about the metabalance plan - I think I will wait and see how next weigh in goes.

off topic...
 

thanks! Faerychic...i think my girlfriends wanted to get away from DH's or boyfriends to take me out to party because they were rocking way harder than i was! hahaha Chilled today and am still drinking water, water, water, HNS, HNS, HNS......had salad for lunch and salad for dinner...planning on a few more bottles of water! and one more HNS....should be back to normal at least by Tuesday! :-) very fun week...

hey, i have an off topic question for you gals. we talk about everything on here, right? ok, has anyone ever gotten a boob job because of their weight loss or just because you want an enhancement? just throwing this out to get some feedback :-)