August
Cathlete
Sorry to be brief (with my own stuff at least)....I did some Christi floor cardio and tried not to do any of the jumping. What's with my darn knees?!
I need an elliptical.
MICHELE I love thinking about Johnny watching you sleep for a bit and then
sort of giggling to himself, deciding to lick your eyelids!
I absolutely love it when I'm sleeping and I sense something, and I open my eyes and there is Mooch near my face, with his face looking like he himself just woke up and he's waiting for me to open my arm for him to curl up in. Ohh, my Moochi Pie...
JENNIFER Thanks for telling us your bday! It has gone into my memo.
>Hey, some of us Catheites are getting together for lunch at the end of September.
Oooh, cool! How did this come about? Are you also posting in another group? Oh, I just read Robin's post and now I think you may have suggested it on the open forums. Cool!
>If anyone is need of a knight in shining armour?
Shining, dull, rusty....I'm available!
ROBIN
>did I miss a BIRTHDAY!!!!
HOW?! How could you miss my birthday by a day?! (For those of you who don't know, I missed Robin's by a day, too.)
Hope you had a good nap and didn't do too much housework!
JEN Thanks for popping by. But sorry to hear that you're still feeling low. I hope that doctor can find something concrete for you that will be something like, oh you need to take more Vit C or something like that.
LISA Don't trust Robin LOL. KB is Kettlebell Way. Sorry, it's got nothing to do with Cathe. Michele, Dana and I have been doing this workout this month. It's really fun.
>Has anyone tried Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle?
Michele used to keep her never-read edition in the backseat of her car. I think Dana also has this?
I have it, too. I think it's a very good read and I'm glad that I bought it and I'll bet that I'll read it again in the near future,...however, I believe that any eating routine that you actually FOLLOW will work. There's nothing particularly shocking or new in this book (although if you haven't don't much research about foods, there certainly are many eye-opening things), but it does teach you a lot about nutrition, and it gives you good suggestions on what to try when something you try doesn't seem to be working.
It suggests concrete eating and workout plans for what you want to achieve. I think they're good and logical. I think they will work....if you follow them.
I followed the plan for many months and was really into it -- writing out all the things I was eating and doing the measurements and weigh-ins and stuff. I don't have weight to lose, but I'd like to exchange some fat for muscle. Frankly, if I would just cut out even half the sugar I currently consume, even without the book, I'd lean out.
Nevertheless, when I was doing BFFM, I stopped eating most sugar, which for me is HUGE. I mean, HUGE. I wasn't eating anything processed, and was eating mostly home-cooked things, and I'm not much of a cook. I did lean out (though the scale didn't really reflect that, I definitely was the leanest I've ever been, except for the time after I ate raw chicken and couldn't keep anything down for a month LOL).
At any rate, I made a big change in my eating and choosing of foods, and I can thank the book for inspiring me to do that and stick with it (while I was really doing it, achem). That change is still with me now, especially when it comes to vegetable consumption and choosing starchy carbs. So your DH is spot on about making a "life shift" instead of doing a diet. I think that's very wise! I hate that diet word.
Oh, one last thing -- the first chapter of BFFM. It's all about positive thinking. This book is worth buying even just for that, personally speaking. It's such an obvious part of growth towards loving life, yet is so often forgotten, and I got a lot out of reading that, not just in the eating or exercise kind of way.
Did that help? Or hinder? LOL.
Hope you're having a fantastic weekend-getaway!
Okay, gotta get outta here!
Laters!
