WOW Carrie, Those are GREAT numbers!!! CONGRATS!!!!

Carps==sorry! Actually my steel oats concoption tastes like my grandmothers rice pudding. My granny was an old Swiss gal who didn't put a lot of spices into her meals. Her rice pudding was not very creamy, as others were, but it was the taste I grew up with so I like it. She cooked rice in the over in a dozen eggs with sugar and cinnamon. The rice started out raw so she baked it for about 3 hours (the rice cooked in the oven) but the dry heat took all the moisture out of the eggs. The result was kinda crumbly rice pudding. My steel oats baked thing reminds me of that. Kinda crumbly when I'm done but has that sugar/ciinnamon/egg flavor. I've tried to figure out how to make it more "custardy" but without whole eggs and with the protein powder in there, I'm not sure that is possible. Sorry this is no help! I'm surprised you can't get steel cut oats in NZ (not that I've ever been there or know what they have there but it's my own assumptions!)

I also read somewhere of cooking oatmeal, adding splenda and cinnamon and dropping like cookies on a cookie sheet and baking in the oven. Sorta like oatmeal cookies. You'd have to add a protein to that or again, mix in some egg white.

Sorry if this is no help!!!
Susan

Actually I was at the end of challenge one when I took this trip - so after a week off - I getting ready to start Challenge 2. I had a great upper body work out this morning. I really pushed myself hard this morning. I added some more weight to my reps and was definitely hitting those 9's and some 10's Getting the last set of reps out was shakey but I didn't it and I feel great. I am drinking my first liter of water this morning.

In Britain I saw them as Scotch oats, steel-milled oats, Irish oats, rough cut oats, porridge oats...I'm sure they have them in any whole foods store. I get them locally for .42 cents per pound. But my daily breakfast is quick oats, microwaved with vanilla extract, sweetener, salt, and water. When it's done, I stir in 2/3 cup of cottage cheese. I haven't tried Susanje's recipe but I'm going to.

I just started C2, and I'm bringing Boca or Morningstar products along for one of my meals (with a carb.) The only real difference in my exercise is that I'm lifting six days a week. I also started an outdoor walking program again because I lost 58 pounds walking and doing WW, and find that I really miss the daily walks.

Y'all have been chatty since yesterday evening!

Hmm, weights. A week or so ago (right before leaving for Miami) I switched my exercises so now I'm doing:

Chest/Tris:

Superset: Incline DB Press/Cable Crossovers

Superset: Cable Crossovers (I reset the cable to a lower angle for these sets)/pushups (as many as I can do).

One-Arm Tricep Pressdowns with reverse grip (knuckles facing back) 3 sets of 15 reps

Superset: DB tricep extensions/Skullcrushers

Legs:

Superset: Leg Curls/Leg Extensions

Superset: Back Squat/Smith Lunges (fortunately the squat cage and the Smith are right next to each other in the gym!)

Superset: DB straightleg deadlifts/Alternate DB lunges

Superset: Lying Leg Press Squats/Calf press (I change my foot position so I hit different parts of the leg). BTW, my high weight on lying leg presses is 450 pounds...

Back/Bis:

Superset - Low cable rows/Lat Pulldowns (reverse grip)

Pullups on gravitron (well, it's not really a gravitron but something like it) as many as I can do (that ain't much right now)

Superset - Incline DB Curls/Cable hammer curls w/ rope

Preacher Curl 21's - 3 sets

Shoulders/Abs/Calves:

Superset: Arnold Press/Front DB Raises

Superset: Incline lateral raises/Reverse incline lateral raises (Sitting face down on the incline bench).

Rotator cuff - 2 sets of 20 reps

Rotary Calf - 2 sets of 20@ 90#; 3 sets of 15@125#

Seated Calf - 2 sets of 15@ 90#

Standing Calf Machine - 2 sets of 20@240#; 3 sets of 15@340#

Abs: Bench knee up with 5# DB; ball crunches; ball oblique crunches; bicycle crunches; etc.

My high weight for lying DB bench press is 35# DB in each hand - but I've had to drop a bit for incline DB press as you're working against gravity a bit more - today I did 10 reps with 27.5# in each hand.

More later - got work to do (yet another meeting being planned!)

MrsJim- what is a rotary calf machine? and a gravitron? is that an assisted pull-up machine?

Carps- I bench press 95 lbs on my max set, more than that, I get stuck under the bar and have to have someone rescue me. Very embarassing. I prefer using dumbells, but can't do more than 30 each hand. Don't understand that. Squats- am up to 160 final set, and leg press, did 550 yesterday for the first time. But I have to wrap both knees to do quads.

Off to do bi's, tri's, and abs this afternoon.

mel

Mel - yep - it's an assisted pull-up machine...

As for the calf machine - I did a search and found one similar to the one in my gym. http://www.lifefitness.com/product_d...hs_superhcalf#

You load the plates, and push with the balls of your feet. Love it!