Morning ladies.

Well, I got my HIIT in last night and unfortunately, I think that might have to hold me over exercise wise for a day or two. I have been trying to fend off a cold since last week and managed to stay pretty healthy for the 5K and the rest of the weekend, but started feeling pretty awful by last night. The girls had me up most of the night last night and this morning I feel like I've been hit by a bus. Between DOMS and this cold--which has my head and neck throbbing--I just don't have it in me this morning. Not to mention hubby let me sleep too late and now I don't have time to get my workout in before he leaves. However, if I manage to somehow feel better by the time he gets home, I'll do it then, but I think my 3 mile run is going to be scratched off my list today.

It's odd how bummed I am about it! I used to live for excuses not to workout!

Okay, well, I'm off to take some advil or Theraflu if we have it. Hope everyone has a great day! Be sure to drink your water and take your vitamins--it is cold and flu season after all!

I'll be back later to check in and do personals and such.

Good Morning Ladies

Simply a drive by posting for me this morning. Yesterday, I pretty much chilled out and relaxed and streamed movies on Netflix all night. It was nice to just be able to sit down and not do anything. Today is also the last day of school and then the boys will be out for ten days for fall break. I finally get my house straightened out and now I'll have all four boys to deal with over the next few weeks. Grrrrrrrrreat! My arm is still not in operable order, however, I still think I can manage a session with Maya today...and it's well over due. It's been so long, I wonder what she is gonna have to say when I log on. Should be worth a good chuckle at the very least.

Sandye ~ Big hugs coming your way and I do hope you feel better soon.

Good Morning Ladies! Seems like there is a bit of the colds going around! Hope all who got the sniffles get better soon! On a god note My scale said 166.2lbs...can you believe it! 4lbs since the beginning of the month! I am defiantly aiming high this month to get closer to the 50's yiepppe!! Its been along time since the 50's!

Good Morning ladies!

I hope you feel better Sandye!
Everyone have a great day!

Velveteen-I cracked up at your "even if I have to chop off an arm to get there" comment! I SO know that feeling. I have wondered in the past how much my hair weighs and how much weight I could drop if I had it short and other silly things like that. It's like you want a certain number to show up so badly and it just won't cooperate! Of course you know it will come soon enough, but patience is an unpleasant lesson to learn in weight loss sometimes (for me anyway), isn't it? Keep on trucking and you'll get there before you know it.

Sandye-Oooh, bummer on the cold. Get some rest if you can and feel better soon. Your body will appreciate the break so it can put it's energy toward healing you up! BTW, here's the link for the 5K program I'm doing now. I would highly recommend starting with the pre-train schedule first to get used to doing 5 days first before (if) you begin. Hope the link works!
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_4/142.shtml

jen7-Feels good to get the scale moving for you, huh? Great job! Just keep making those good choices and you'll see the 50's in no time!

Delphi-Man, that stinks about your arm still being out of comission. Don't strain it or anything while your working out, but good luck on meeting back up with Maya...if only you could explain why you were away, she'd understand. LOL Good to have you back, anyway!

Scale was down another bit today and I got my exercise/water/vitamin in so far. Today was my first day of speed intervals in my new running program and man, I see why HIIT works so well to get people fit and all. I actually did mine a little wrong (according to the program), because I did a warm-up walk, a short warm-up run and then started the intervals, then did the same for cool down (short run and walk). I was supposed to do a 1 mile warm-up run, the intervals, and a 1 mile cool down run. No big deal, I guess. I know now for next time. Oh my gosh, I wanted to walk so bad between the speed portions, but I kept running at a slower pace, like I was supposed to. This program is going to kick my butt a little bit on Wednesdays (that's when I have speed intervals, hill training, etc.). So, it should definitely improve my speed. Sundays are the "long" days when I'll be doing 5-6 miles most weeks which should help with endurance. My longest so far has been about 4 miles, so I'm looking forward to pushing myself to these new distances. We'll see how I feel about it when I'm done. I should keep my eye out for a 5K about the time I'm done with this program and see how my time is. It'll be a challenge finding a good 5K race around Christmas time in northern Wisconsin, but we'll see. Anyway, if my time is noticeably improved, I'll probably jump into the 10K program. Enough about me.. Hope everyone is having a productive, good day!

Just a quick hi from me too, just came in from my run and I'm frozen, we have playgroup today and I'm setting up so we have to leave early too. But I need to go thaw out my body in the shower before anything else. Sandye hope you feel better, my tonsils are starting to get swollen too, not a good sign.

But that nasty old scale agreed with all my hard work this morning and down 0.8lbs to 160.8, almost there, yeha!

Morning everyone! I am so happy I weighed in yesterday and lost 1lb. WOO-HOO!!
Yesterday was a very light eating day since the dinner I planned was very high in calories.
B- wheat toast;mixed berries
S- apple
L salad with lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes with balsamic dressing
S- string cheese and orange
D- Bubba burger with cheese and ketchup and salad on the side (those burgers are so high in cals but sooo good)
S- baked apple

Hey Ladies,

Aww Sandye, feel better! If it's anything that I'm just getting over, then you'll just have to rest aaaannnnddd Drink your water! I had to, my Grandma told me the same thing.

Today, I'm feeling pretty good. I had a POP day yersterday and today I'm going to take some cold med's to get me through my classes and homework. I think I'm going to hold off on C25K for about 3 weeks, until I'm completely OP with my eating. I don't know if it was my POP day or if this cold's going away, but the scale reads about 215.5-ish. I don't have a digital read out scale. And finished the doggies walks, I upped the walks and now they're ALL (even the big guy) crashed out on the floor. Who'da thought that a few more blocks for the big guy would do it? Oh, and since he has a problem with squirrels, every time he sees one I begin to run until it's behind us. So, that might help be prepare for the C25K.

We Can Do It Ladies. <3

Hi ladies! Well TOM has not returned and the scale stayed below 249 today so I finally changed my tickers.....WOOHOO!!!!!!! I am officially closer to 200 than 300 lol. Man it has taken me like 3 weeks just to lose those last few pounds....so I am def jazzed. After the scale finally said 249 I was afraid to change my tickers but the scale was actually down to 248 and some change today so I accept it!
Anyways...as you can tell, I am excited!!!!

Sandye---Sorry to hear you are getting sick--just take it easy and relax, you deserve it! Youll be feeling better soon and can get in your running then. I know what you mean about missing exercise though..I can't go to the gym on Sundays as they dont have any childwatch, and I always feel like I should be there, lol.

Ms Perception--I am the same way about thinking up weird ideas to lose weight....chopping my hair and who really needs a pinky anyways?

Velveteen--sorry to hear about Aunt Flo returning and knicking the scale up. Trust me after that last episode of Aunt Flo staying for 3 weeks, I feel your pain! Hopefully yours will go away soon and you will see that big after TOM whoosh!

Everyone else--congrats on the drops girls! I noticed alot of them throughout the posts! Yay for us!

Hey Ladies .... finally checking in this week and have done really bad in my eating. Ever since Sunday I went to eat chinese buffet...... bad bad bad. But Monday did good until dinner, crockpot wasnt put on, so I picked up pizza, yesterday went out to eat Italian, had healthy breakfast and dinner, healthy breakfast and first lunch, but then was hungry so had a hamburger and doughnut. My problem is planning today, I didnt pack enough. I have long days and need to bring more snacks with me and I didn't, so better planning on my part. On the other side did great exercising; did a little over 60 minutes yesterday and today plan on 60; have done 30 so far. Gotta get to my homework!

I hope all you ladies are doing great!!! I PLAN on being better the rest of the week. My birthday is about 15 weeks away and want this weight off!!!!!

I am back. I strayed for a couple months because so much was going on and never came back. The really bad thing is I didn't keep up with what I was doing either. I do not have a WI number yet, but I intend to do it in the morning, I just wanted to get on here now, before I lost my nerve. I need to get back on track and I need to stop waiting. I threw all my hard work out the window, even worse since school started back up. The good news though is that I have found a work out buddy who already frequents the gym. I will be going with her 3 days a week starting friday, so at least I can say something positive. I'm going to attempt to drop 5 lbs this month.

Whew, just finished my exercise for today and I am about ready to pass out. But I'm glad I did it.

B- Cinnamon french toast and skim milk
S- String Cheese and good humor strawberry shortcake bar
L- Ham and Cheese on wheat bread sandwich
S- wheat crackers with peanut butter and sliced tomato with salt
D- Baked chicken, wheat pasta and mixed veggies
S cinnamon apple sauce

water- 9 glasses

Sandye: I hope you feel better soon. Take care of yourself

Jessica- Congratulations on your loss! Keep up the great work

Gekster~ Girl I was wondering where you went! So glad you're back hun!!! Now, let the past be the past--you're back and ready to start fresh--that's all that matters!! Congrats on finding a workout buddy! I soooo wish I had one!

Well, super fast fly by post before I head to bed--thanks for all the get well wishes girls! They must have done something because I somehow managed to find the strength to get all my workouts in today! Yes, even the 3 miles!! I have a feeling I'll be paying for it tomorrow with more DOMS and my cold still hanging around, but hubby brought home some more Theraflu so I think I'll be okay. If not, I'll just have to fake it right Delphi?

Okay ladies, hopefully I will have some time to do personals tomorrow! Hope everyone had a great day!! I'll catch you all in the morning!!

Sandye - I hope you're feeling better soon!

Jessicado - WAHOO!!! That's a great feeling! So happy for you!

Helpmelose - Planning definitely leads to better choices. Even 5 minutes makes a difference.

Butterfly - Your menu is making me hungry!!

Ok, long day ahead girls. My oldest SD is home sick, so I'll be running back and forth checking on her. Good thing I live close to my office. Hope everyone has a great OP day!