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Morning all
Ilene I am not a big fan of shoulders but I try really hard to do them and get them finished. I think because it is my weakest bodypart – I get annoyed at them. It’s been raining here heaps lately – really annoying but good for the grass. Which reminds me I heard a great quote about marriage yesterday – “The grass is NOT greener on the other side, it’s greener where you water it” I thought that that was fairly apt.
With regards to fibre the ‘standard’ is set at about 30gms per day but the BodyRX’s get more from memory. I don’t stick to that religiously I use my bowels movements as an indicator (sorry guys). But I eat oatmeal everyday now which helps. As for the oil, it depends…… Udo’s is a blend oil that has various Omega 3’s, 6’s and 9’s and GLA etc. Salmon and olive oil are healthy fats but they only provide certain types of fats. Like Flaxseed only really provides one of the omegas…. I can’t remember which at the moment. Evening Primrose is full of GLA etc… Udo’s really is the best but if you are using salmon etc you can either do the research and only take the EFA’s that you are missing, or you can continue to take Udo’s but in a smaller quantity. It’s up to you really. HTH ;) Raventoy :( I am so sorry about your father. I know that he is far away and I know exactly how you feel with regards to not being able to do anything. Sometimes I wish that I could be down in Melbourne by my father’s side with his cancer everyday but that isn’t going to help anyone in the long run. I trust that my sister and my Dad’s friend are helping him and the best thing that I can do is be strong for him up here. It can be so hard some days though… I am thinking of you. Mel Yes my leisurely schedule huh? :lol: Years of school? NONE I only have 4 months left and then I am finished. I fast-tracked my course to do it in 18 months, which is part of the reason why I am under so much pressure and stress. But I will be happy when I have finished it all! Karen Nice pics. Jim is on food reform?? :o – my goodness what have I missed out on? What happened to his cereal fetish? :lol: Audrey Are you doing the Physique transformation thingy? Jayne (my best friend – jaylizbet) did it a while ago. :s: As for me well I had a lovely clean day on maintenance yesterday. When I bought a cup of coffee in the morning I eyed off the chocolate cake but then reminded myself that I need to find a happy medium and eating the cake wouldn’t help that. I didn’t get to train for soccer yesterday due to the weather and the fact that we had a 2 hour meeting at the time but I did get my lunchtime walk in. At least my weights were done. With the change in weather here my skin is starting to dry out a lot so I am extra careful to take my Udo’s and water. Besides that everything else is fine and dandy. :D :D :cb: JC |
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Hello to everyone :D
Raventoy I'm so very sorry to hear about your father. I hope you find out some more news soon. :grouphug: Audrey Are you doing the PT thingy with the conditioning and fatburning phases? Like Jacque said, I tried that earlier and I didn't do so well, I hope you do a lot better. :) Just a word of warning, during the fatburning stage your fat % drops to 10% (that's what i had problems with :lol: ). You'd think with having a friend like JC her study skills and dedication to fitness would rub off on me, unfortunately no such luck. :( so instead I have to report that while my eats have been clean after my holidays (had 2.5 weeks off) I have yet to workout. I'm going to start back with the workouts on Friday night though (I was going to start tomorrow night but I have to have a tooth pulled so that put the end to that. :tape: ). I hope you all have a great day/night. :D Jayne |
Good morning, ladies! I’m listening to it rain — again. We’ve had about three days of sun in May, so I hope June is a little better. I need to plant my herbs, but can’t get a good day to do it. Well, the house really needs to be cleaned, so that’s “Plan B” for today. It must be cat-shedding season or something ... :D
But there will be time to do shoulders at the gym — thanks, Ilene for the workout. It sounds like none of us get too excited by shoulders. Yesterday was arms and on Monday, I did yoga and a chest workout (not back to back — after yoga, I am totally zonked — feel like Gumby). It was a different yoga instructor and the class was more gentle and relaxed — I didn't break a sweat in this one, but again it was great for balance and flexibility (my downfalls). Mel, we didn’t spend any time looking for our auras! I think that yoga today is much different from back in our misbegotten youths, when EVERYTHING had to be a search for truth, beauty, peace, love, and inner harmony. :dizzy: Raven -- I am so very sorry to hear about your father’s tragedy. Please let us know how he — and you — are doing. Karen -- love those pictures! MrJim is such a cutie! Mel -- after a lot of sad experience, I’ve concluded that I react to sugar the way you do — any bit sets me off into a downward spiral that often ends in a binge. This finally dawned on me after I had a sample of homemade granola at the local bakery and then had to fight off food cravings for the rest of the day. Since I absolutely hate having to fight myself (and since sometimes I give in and hate that even more), I try to stay totally sugar-free, which isn’t all that hard to do. Fortunately I don’t have a problem with artificial sweeteners (I think you do?) so I can use Splenda in cooking or get a sweet fix from SF Popsicles or SF Jell-O. Audrey -- I adore salmon too and find it to be very satisfying — perhaps because it has some fat in it? I love to cook it on the grill with some mustard. Ilene -- I want to go to the gym with you! You would be my kind of INSANE workout partner! We would barely crawl out of there … with big goofy smiles on our faces … :lol: JC -- way to go on passing up on the chocolate cake. I think that finding that “happy medium” is ultimately what we all want to do with eating. Unfortunately, I’m not there yet. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to eat one cookie — and stop. So, for now, it’s no cookies for me. Do any of you fellow moms find that the end of the school year is *very stressful*? I can’t wait for summer vacation — then I can be at the gym early and not worry about homework and prying DS out of bed and shoving him out the door for school. Meg |
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Sorry I have not posted for a while... I started a new job on Friday and have been settling in over there as well as coming home exhausted from brain overload! I am enjoying the new role and best of all..... have stayed 100% on plan. I was a bit concerned about that, but I am well into Week 5 and it just seems so routine now, like I never ate/worked out any other way???? Do any of you feel like that? Well.... from last week..... JC !!! A VTR????? I have the model before Honda released the VTR.... a Spada! And hubby rides a Hornet 250 (that is the bike in my Avatar... the first one we bought and 'shared'). And.... I am looking at the Ducati 620 ie for my upgrade. I am going to Elizabeth Street tomorrow with hubby and a friend at lunch to perve at the bikes. I am only 5'2" so I have quite a limited range of potential upgrades... where hubby is 6'2" so he can have whatever he wants :( Also.... I know where most of the places are that you listed, we live in Blackburn, which is right beside Nunawading and I know where Yarraville is... not too bad for a maple leaf after 2 years here!! ha ha ha I know it is sad I have not made it to Sydney yet, my holiday time was spent when we headed to Canada for Christmas so hopefully I will get up there when my friends from Canada come over. I MUST have the photo from the bridge and one with the Opera House in the background, I just would not be a complete foreigner!!! :lol: Hi to everyone else!! We have such a great range of people here on 3FC, I just love it. Just wanted to let you guys know I am still sticking to BFL, loving it, enjoying the journey even though I am not posting as much as before. I 'lurk' every morning at work while I get settled into my new chair, drink my tea, and attempt to get some sense of organisation into my day. Have a great day everyone! Nola |
Thank you all so very much for your prayers and support. This is going to be a rough ride for me - Dad is not doing too well. There are complications and new things coming to light, and somewhere inside me, even through the very strong hope, there is a small feeling that things are not going to turn out the way I want them. I've been through losing my mom - she fought hepatitis for many many years. So if nothing else, I have some idea of what I'm up against. One day at a time. I just wanted to tell you all how much it meant that you cared to respond.
Ok, 'nuff gooey stuff. Ilene - I'll have to hit the links and see how much free weight stuff I can find. Sometimes it's kind of frustrating that I see all these awesome workouts, but they're all for cables, etc. OTOH, this morning I was downstairs working out in nothing but an old t-shirt, underwear, and tennies. :D Tradeoffs. JC - I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad fighting cancer. I talked to my daughter for a long time about the distance thing with my Dad, and like you, I know that were I there, it would do no real good, and I would be utterly miserable being in AK again. I suppose alot of it comes from the fact that I recognize how much he's done for me in my life, and I feel helpless at not being able to do anything for him. Walking away from a piece of chocolate cake .. you are a goddess. :D Jaylizbet - Ack, tooth pulled? *ow* That would be enough of a reason for me to hide under the bed for a couple weeks, too. I'm such a weenie! I hope it goes smoothly and painlessly for you! Meg - We've been having altogether too darn much rain, too! But amazingly enough, we've had about two days of sunshine now. And I'm stuck inside at work. Bah. :) One of these days sun and weekend will happen at the same time. I'm a mom, but my kids are home schoolers, so end of school means very little to me other than the fact that I don't have to contend with the buses and traffic on my way to work. That's good enough for me! Kanola - Hi! Sounds like the new job is working out well? What do you do? I started a new one about a month ago, too - it does seem to mess with the schedules, etc. I'm doing a modified BFL, and I'm just starting week three. I've had a bit of trouble fitting in all the workouts, but it's starting to fall into place a little better. As for me today... LB started out rough this morning, but I found my motivation around the third set of squats and powered my way through the rest of it. It appears I'll need to bump the weights up on most of the routine. I seem to be moving faster, and that is a good thing. Finally lunges are beginning to feel less awkward. When I first started doing them, I could barely do them without weights, and now I'm holding my balance and slowly upping the max. Food is decent, not perfect. Last night was tough on the emotional eating carb cravings. I made it through with a skinny cow, and called it good. Hope everyone has a splendid day! |
Hi all,
FOA - Raven, your dad is in my prayers. I know it is hard to not be there, but he knows your love and your prayers are with him. That is what counts the most. I peeked in yesterday and read a little bit but I was so exhausted I couldn't even read more than a few lines without dozing off. I actually fell asleep driving on the way home from work yesterday. At 6PM, i had gone over 36 hours with no sleep so when i got home, I crashed. I JUST SAID NO to brownies and fried chicken at my dad's party and was so proud. I also found time to get my shoulder and leg workout in while in Tennessee. However, I am behind this week on working out because i didn't work out from Sun - Tues. I am surprised to hear that so many hate the shoulder workouts. I like them. My most hated training spot is my biceps and back. I feel like nothing I do is affecting them. They both look different and I continue to do them, but I don't like it. |
Hi Ladies,
Raven, my heart goes out to you and your family. It is NEVER easy parenting your parent -- from any distance, particularly when there has been a tragedy such as this. My prayers are with you, your brother, his girlfriend, and father! DH and I had our romantic pre-children weekend in Door County. It was wonderful. We brought our bikes and biked everywhere -- one particularly beautiful ride thorugh a forest and then out to the peninsula. It is amazing to me that we are becoming outdoor people who just want to move and such. Besides riding all over the place, we went paddle boating for a while. We tried our hand at tandem biking, but decided we prefer biking separately but together (I guess we are just too much the individuals to tandem). Now, in the past, we would have just hung out at the cafes and gone shopping etc. But that is not enough now -- we want to be out and about and moving! What a wonderful feeling. It makes me truly believe that this is the life change we have been needing and it is for real this time. Scale finally budged a pound after a 2 week hiatus due to those muscles forming. Loving the muscles, but needed a movement on the scale! Peace, Paula |
Raven & JC - let me add my prayers for your parents. Hope all turns out well for both of you and your families!
Another GORGEOUS day here in the Bay Area...of course I am stuck in my office all day...and in a meeting in the next 15 minutes... JC - Well...Jim WAS eating healthy...but he has the week off. Doesn't matter what's at home or in the fridge - during the day I can safely assume he'll be living on Taco Bell or McD's. BTW for the first time EVER, I tasted a Big Mac this past weekend (funny that I have never had one even though I WORKED at a McDonald's TWICE). Well all I can say is...what is the big deal? It tasted YUKKY IMO! Ew! I took one bite and handed the rest back to Jim...ewww...must have been the sauce or something. :p Actually it's Jim's 40th b-day today - he's planning on taking his beach cruiser (bike) to Half Moon Bay and riding along the ocean path. I must admit I'm jealous! Meg - I have the SAME problem with sugar - which is why I limit it to the weekend (free day or rather free 1/2 day). We generally go out for frozen Carbolite yogurt, or (because the yogurt shop is all the way across town) lately we've been opting for those Skinny Cow ice-cream sandwiches which of course have sugar...speaking of which the Chronicle's food section reviewed those low-fat ice cream sandwiches in today's paper. Check it out: Quote:
Anyway my meeting starts in a few minutes so gotta jam! |
Nola -- Congrats on being 100% even with a new job... that IS a challenge!!
JC -- thanks for the info on fiber and UDO's Meg -- I too would love to workout regularly with you... we'd have noodle legs and arms daily... WOOHOO!!.... On sugar, I avoid it like the plague lately, even the smell of sugar or chocolate can send me off the deep end.... Food has been good and so has the w/o's... Later all... |
Hello LWL. :)
I'm a bit displaced today. We're having our bathroom completely gutted and renovated, and today was demolition day. The cats & I are hanging out at my dad's office so we're not enduring the noise and dust while the workers demolish. A bit chaotic around here to say the least. No workout this morning.. too much to do to get ready. The cats will be back home tonight, and after today won't be going on "field trips" as the noise factor shouldn't be too bad for the rest of the job. We're spending the night at my parents' house. Not sure how many nights we'll be there. :o I work from the second bedroom, and we were given a key to the mgmt office bathroom, so I'll be able to be back in during the day. Not too sure about the rest.:?: My plan is to get today's chest/tricep workout tomorrow, after I feed cats and let the worker's in, and I'll just be behind a day for the rest of the week. I did lying pullovers yesterday as part of my back routine, and my triceps are feeling a bit of it. So not a bad idea to have a day off before going full speed on them. :) Ilene, thanks for sharing the shoulder links. :) JC and Jayne, yes, I'm doing the physique transformation thingie. I'm working with a PTS cause I was eating so low prior to PT that I started to gain in week 3. I'm trying to get smaller for my wedding, not bigger, so I wanted a coach. She's going to cut the sugar to less than 10% of carbs (I'm now at 10-15%, down from 20% of carbs) and the fat to 8% from 15%. I don't always hit 15%, but 8 will be a challenge. I'm under orders this week to make sure to hit the fat #, not go under, so I've gotten to be good friends with the PB jar. :D A teaspoon in a chocolate MRP is incredible. Tikanique, it must have been quite scary to wake up while driving. Glad that you made it home. Nola, congrats on the new job. And yes, I know what you mean about plans becoming routine. We dont even think it very weird that we start our day entering in the day's food into the PFA to tweak it, any more. If you had told me that 3 months ago, I'd think you were crazy. <g>. Mrs. Jim.. happy birthday to your other half. :) Interesting read on the skinny cows/klondikes. Hope everyone is having a great day :) |
OMG, I just had such an incredible leg workout my face is twitching and I have no idea how I drove home. Is that safe :o ? The last time I worked that hard I had an epidural. Stagger to kitchen...need FOOD!
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Oh Melll....I still have some Vicodin and Valium around from February...hmmmm... :lol:
Forgot to mention that I also had an awesome Chest/Back/Shoulders workout this morning!!! (one of the nice things about Jim being on vacation this week is I don't have to rush into the shower before 6:30...so I hit the tanning booth after my workout...mmm...) |
Good Afternoon Ladies,
It's a rather sparkling day here on Long Island and life is good. Raven, JC - You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Jayne, Good to see you back. I have been lurking, but haven’t had much to say. Workouts are good, food is on plan and clothes are looser. Probably due to all the extra walking I have to do since my car decided to die on me. Next week we’re donating it to a charity and then have the great fun of purchasing a new one. I can’t wait; it’s been long time since a vehicle of mine had that lovely “new car” smell. Reading an interesting book about Bruce Lee titled “The Art of Express the Body”. The author is a Lee devotee who takes great pains to detail Bruce’s workout and nutrition theories, and plans. Not bad so far. Bruce was definitely a renaissance man when it came to fitness-a martial artist who utilized weights to augment his strength. Ilene, Shoulders are my least favorite body part to work as they fatigue very easily. I literally have to tell myself to work through the pain. Paula, Congrats on the scale moving. Karen, Your Jim is quite a cutie. Thanks for the info on the new Klondike Bar. Tika, Way to go on saying no to the brownies and fried chicken. Hmm…that reminds me of Nancy Regan’s slogan of the go-go 80’s- Just Say No to Drugs. Meg, It’s been raining a lot here as well. Usually that precludes me from walking and relegates my cardio to the spinner. Instead, I decided to see myself as Joan Benoit Samuelson, 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in the first Olympic women’s marathon. Prior to the Olympics, Joan made a series of commercials for a sponsor-maybe one of the sneaker companies. The commercial showed Joan getting up at 5a.m. and running in pouring rain. She wore shorts, a t-shirt, sneakers and a yellow slicker to protect her from the elements. I clearly remember seeing Joan for the first time… short black hair, tiny body with well-developed legs and thinking… if she’s an athlete than I can definitely be one. And what an athlete she turned out to be-setting an Olympic record in 1984 that stood until the 2000 Olympics. What I am trying to say, is that the feeling-that it is possible to be an athlete-has come back in such a strong way since you inspired me to “kick it up a notch”. Thanks. Hi to anyone I missed. Well back to work. |
Oh you gals!!! :)
Thanks for all the sweet comments on Jim (yup I do think he is rather a hottie...but JC wins the LWL Hot Hubby Contest hands down! Something about a man in uniform...mmmm.... :lol: ) |
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Morning all!
Audrey Jayne and I were fiddling with her menus night and day to get the sugar and fat right when she was in fat-burning stage. It was a real pain in the a*$. :mad: Meg that’s my goal at the moment to find the happy medium. I think that I am onto something as well. I am trying to balance all that I have learnt and experienced into a day-to-day plan. I would LOVE to BFL day-to-day but the carbs are just too much and I pack on muscle sooo quickly. :dizzy: When I was doing CPB even Pam said that I had a great muscle base and didn’t need to build anymore. I am leaving crap food until the weekend and more when I have to socialise than anything. During the week I keep it clean and that works for me well at the moment. :D Nola My hubby was lucky to get the VTR and a really nice black one as well. He is 6’3 so it looks to small for him that’s why he wants the Ducati later on (also the power) I used to love driving passed the bike place on Elizabeth street! It looked so cool…. You live in Blackburn? One of my friends from school lives there and I think teaches at Blackburn primary or something. :cool: Raventoy Yes it sounds harder for you since you were close to your Dad. My parents divorced when I was 6 yrs old and my father was around but never had too much to do with me. If it was my mother on the other hand – geez I would be a wreck right now…. :( Karen I have NEVER had a BigMac. They just look awful to me – I like more salad normally and from when I was working there the patties were too thin as well. I am sure that he will get back on track eventually – I would KILL for my hubby to eat well most of the time. His favourite thing at the moment is sausages and eggs or bangers and mash….. :o :o As for the LWL Hot Hubby Contest – He would LOVE to hear that one! I should try and chase up a nice pic to post….. :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: As for me I feel GREAT at the moment. I went for a long run last night (about 5-6kms I think) and it was hilly and challenging. I felt really good at the end. I got home from work and was meant to do weights but I felt like running so I asked Ray where I should go and his response was so cool…. He said just start running and see where your feet take you…. SO I did exactly that and it was fantastic. When I got home about 35mins later he eagerly asked where I went and I told him. It was a nice moment. :cp: I decided to take the night off from study to relax :eek: (shock horror Jayne I know!) so I watched TV most of the night for once. It was boring but ok but then later on in the night there was a plastic surgery special about horror stories. It was so one sided and graphic – it was produced totally for shock value which annoys me. These women were finding a surgeon, having a single consultation and then going under the knife. No research, no second opinion nothing…. Geez….. Take care everyone. :wave: JC PS My Dad is ok but still very tired from the chemo. He fell over twice yesterday and hurt his knee but nothing too serious. |
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