**** Challengers Monday Morning *****

gidget1978

gidget1978

Cathlete
Good Morning!

Just getting up started! Going to workout shortly before I go to work!
Im going to try and go the whole week with no sweets...think I can do it? Im not to sure about myself..LOL But we will see what happens.

Roxie** I think what you are planning looks fine. If you have the time you could do a longer cardio or add a small one in on your weight training day.Thats if you are trying to lose weight. I certainly wouldn't ditch the weight training altogether but I would focus on cardio or upping the intensity of the ones I do do.

Alright, I have to get this workout started or I will never get to work on time!

Lori:)
 
Good Morning Challengers :)

I'm going to post my workout. Then go read saturday's and Sunday's thread to catch up on personals. Yesterday was my rest day. It was so beautiful outside. We took advantage of the weather and did some things outside. I was so tempted to run. But I thought I best stick with my *plan* and rest my legs :)

Today is 5 mile tempo run. GIANT sets for biceps and I'll work my abs on the machines at the gym :)

I am needing a refill and I'll be back with personals either now or post workout :)

BTW 3 days and I'm in the South--or at least headed in the right direction :)
 
Morning Lori, Kath and all who follow.

Todays workout was slow and heavy legs, powerhour legs and stretch max with the band. I have a sore shoulder and neck so I used dumbells instead of the weighted bar. I wasn't too sure how to hold the dumbells. Using the dumbells really changed the workout and I was fried afterwards. Not sure if I really cooked the legs but I cooked the arms! LOL

Any suggestions how to hold dumbells for leg workouts. I preferred the dumbells as there was no where near as much pain in my neck and shoulders.

Lori - Congradts on the weight loss!! I am in awe of your body fat! WOW!

Kath - lucky you getting closer to that holiday. What are giant sets?

Amelia - O.k. I am going to challenge you to the all week without a cheat! (But can I start tommorrow?) LOL. I'll also challenge you to the not going on the scales. I will honestly tell you right now I NEVER GO THEM UNLESS I HAVE TO. Another LOL. My scales are broken anyway. Ha Ha!

Roxie - Come on join the challenge, i'm in refocus mode too, smashed the diet, so now we all get back into it this week.

Jean - You too, girlfriend join the not cheating this week challenge and I bet you, those scales will move a bit in the right direction!!

Andrea - Do you play in a band?

Actually, lets all join the weekly challenge!! What do you say? One in all in! Great idea Amelia!

Have a great day, girls!

Andrea.
 
Hey girls!

Lori-come on, you can do it! No sweets for a week should be easy for you!!!!

Kath-enjoy your run and bicep workout today! What do you mean when you say 'Giant' set, is that alot of reps or something or maybe heavy sets?

Andrea-YOUR ON! Lets do this!!! My DH reheated some pizzahut pizza last night and i could of care less,lol! Which is a first for me;-). Im trying to remain focused on this challenge(like I was on my last challenge,even though it was 11 weeks longer,lol)

hey to everybody that follows!

Today my workout is GS leg(will try the floor this time too) and abbs from PUB! Imay do them twice!
 
God Morning,

The scale was neither cruel or kind to me this morning. My wt stayed at 123lbs. I'm in on the no cheat week.

Brkfst-boiled egg, grapefruit and whole wheat toast.
Am snack-protein bar and banana out of yogurt
Lunch-grilled chicken and fettucine made lowfat and salad
Pm snack-strawberries and carrots with cheese and crackers
Supper-roast mashed potatoes and corn

tonites workout is MM. have a good day everyone.
 
Hey Girls,

Back to report my workout. I did PUB/MM/ME/4DS chest and Imax 3. Good workout and I didn't stummble to many times with the step. When its that early in the morning for some reason my feet don't want to come off the floor and I end up banging into my step.

I have a question for you gals:

I went to my friends house the other evening to pick up a pair of pants she had a loan of plus I wanted to borrow her brown pair that she wore christmas time. Her kids have been really sick lately and she has spent alot of time at the hospital, so I guess her eating as been everywhere. Not that this kills her by no means b/c the scale can never be low enough for her. When she handed me the pants she told me that the brown ones were falling off of her now and that they probably wouldn't fit me either. Call this twisted, but I used this as a gauge to see if we were the same size. Why do I feel like I am competing with her? You know...this feels really good to get this off of my chest.I have felt like this for yrs and am only ever mentioning it. Prehaps I feel like she is trying to compete with me and since I have lost all the baby weight and more besides, she as never once mentioned that I am smaller then I was before. Nor as she asked me how I did it. She is the only friend that I have that I feel like I am competiting with. We have never talked about each others weight or anything like that...so its not out in the open and it may be all ME! I kind of think it irritates her though when someone she hangs out with is smaller then her, but then again, this could just be ME and she may not think twice about what someone weights or doesn't weigh. Do any of you guys have friends you feel like this with? I don't want to post this on the OD forum, it would open to many cans of worms! My weight usually stays the same while hers goes up and down with stress. Right now she may only weight 120 but in a couple of weeks she may be back up to 125.And she doesn't workout.
On the way home from picking up the pants I was wondering...will I fit into them? Will they be to big? Or will they be to small...which means, she is smaller then me? I hate feeling this way, any thoughts?

Lori:)
 
Lori, STOP comparing yourself to others! Do you feel good? Are you happy? Those are the things that really matter. Besides, think about how much healthier you are because you DO work out.

Everyone is different so those comparisons really don't make much sense anyway. For example, my mom and I are the same height. She weighs 115 soaking wet and I can't even crack 150. My dad's side was a bit chubbier, though so that's where it comes from. I gave up comparing a long time ago and have been much happier since :)

I was SOOOO sore this morning - thought about not WO, but decided I should do an easy cardio WO just to loosen up. So I did LIS and once I got into it I kinda wished I'd gone for something harder. Oh well, I'll know next time.

I'm up for trying the "no cheat" challenge if I can start today. Weekend wasn't a total disaster, just stumbles here and there food-wise. Speaking of stumbles - Lori - I do better on step if I do it a little later in the day too. Unfortunately early mornings are the time I have - so I stumble away :D

OK, it's time for me to get to work. I'll TTYL - have a great day!
 
Lori,I agree with Andrea...Although i don't understand why your friend hasn't mentioned anything about you losing weight,how you did it? That would cause me to believe that maybe she IS a little jealous?

My SIL,has NEVER said anything to me about my weightloss so far. I found out the other day(from my busy body MIL,and she brought it up;-)) that my SIL is jealous because she is stil in a big size. (the size i use to be) I told my MIL that I don't know why my SIL is jealous,she could do it too????

ok,my workout is done..i did everthing like I said i was and im wobbling now,LOL

Oh,i didn't do the floorwork,no freakin way i was going to be able tox( i almost lost my footing during those leg presses with the band? And i did pub/abbs twice,minus the pikes:+

hey to everybody,bbl
 
Andrea** I know, you are right!

Ameila** Thats why I think it sticks in my mind so much. Every other friend I have and anyone in passing over the past few monthes have said "wow, your smaller then you were before" She still hasn't said anything to this day. I just know how she talks about peoples weight b/c I stayed away from her for a little while b/c of it. I wouldn't be able to tell you how many times I have heard her say "so and so is sooo small, I wonder how they lost weight" She is always trying to come up with a new way to lose weight and since Ive lost weight she has only called my other friend to tell her that she is going back on WW's or that she is having trouble maintaining her weight. Not once as she called me....but when I was 130...she did! I think thats why I think about it and I am always comparing us. I think she would like nothing more then for me to gained 10 lbs....lol...some friend hey? hehe I do love my friends and she is a good one, I just find it weird that she wouldn't say anything about it.

Ive been picking all morning and now its almost 2. Im debating having lunch or maybe just have a snack??? Im not really hungry!

Lori:)
 
Afternoon Girls :) What a nice sunny semi-warm day we are having. My glaciers are now dirty snow LOL :)

I did my 5 mile tempo run. Today I felt like I had cement blocks on my feet. Go figure. At least I finished :) I also did biceps and abs. I think someone here asked what I mean by GIANT sets. I stole that from Cathe. She says it on PUB whne she is working shoulders. I work one body part a day and usually do a GIANT set combining diff DVDs. HTHs whoever asked :)

I'm inhaling my big ass salad now. YUMMY. I am being bad cause I haven't even started to pack things. Heck if I miss something that means I can buy it? :+

Lori: Do you feel like you are competing with her? I mean how do YOU feel?

I always tell my kids that it takes a confident person to give a compliment.

My MIL never says anything nice about me. I've learned that it isn't me who has the problem --it is she. I think she has her own self esteem issues and purposely (sp?) will NOT give me a compliment. Maybe in her mind she wants to create self doubt in myself--which I can admit in the past she did just that. I've gained much self confidence since then and she just doesn't bother me any more. . I don't give her ANY control on how I feel. Perhaps that is what you need to do with your friend.

DH's best friend's wife is much like your friend. She has never said a nice thing to me. That's just the way she is.She will look me up and down and kinda turn her nose up to me. BUt funny thing will be the next time we go out for drinks or something ,she may have a pair of jeans or a shirt on that I own and have worn in front of her. She must like my taste. I always tell then how great she looks and what great taste she has

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Hope that helps a bit. Think about how YOU feel.

Ok I need to lick--no wash my salad plate :p
I shall return some time--unless I pack like I'm suppose to be doing LOL :)
 
Kath** I think that I "feel" (lol:) ) that she is waiting for me to put the weight back on that I have lost. I have heard her comment on alot of poeples size and weight so I just assume that she talks about mine as well. Ive also heard her say, "you know, she isn't very small" while Im thinking.."geez, that person is pretty tiny". And maybe its b/c her and I are the same height and weight (sometimes)and she is never happy with herself so I think she thinks I need to lose weight as well. A couple of yrs ago she called me up and wanted to know if I wanted to go to WW's with her. This was before I got pregnant and I was about 128-130..and I thought, is she crazy? Im not going to ww's....but off she trot and signed up all on her own. So if she is asking me to go to ww's, is she asking for moral support or b/c she thinks I need to lose weight?
Also she was away to the Bahamas a little while and on the resort the food was really good. She was telling me all the weight that everyone had gained but then she said "I haven't even weighed myself" Then her DH spoke up and said "yes you did" Then she decided to tell me that she had gained 5 lbs...but before that she was going to pretend as if she didn't know.Why? I wouldn't think 2x's about telling my friends that the food was so good I put on 5 lbs! Most people gain weight when they are on vaca anyway, not a big deal, you fix the damage when you get home.
Anyway...thats what I think. I don't know why this came into my mind today but I am going to stop comparing myself to her and stop the feelings that I think she is comparing herself to me.

Lori:)
 
Lori: maybe she doesn't feel that way at all. Maybe she sees you as someone who is succesful at weight loss and would like to have you for support-- I'm just guessing here and really don't know the whole situation.

Did you borrow the pants? And I guess a question would be --did the pants fit? You mentioned you gauge yourself on that.

You are a beautiful succesful woman :) Embrace that :)
 
Made ya feel good huh? :)

I just finished trying shorts on from last year --I need to go shopping they are falling off me. I asked DD if I could wear one pair with a belt. Her comment "UM mom you look like you have no a$$ in them-- get a smaller pair " LOL Imagine that--- Me a$$-less :+ :D :)

maybe I should wait and buy them when Im on vacation--hmm
 
Lori, don't get too hung up on what she or anyone else thinks. I'm sure it is frustrating that you have worked so hard and gotten yourself so fit, and then friends, MIL's etc only make negative comments. You have to look at yourself in the mirror and be happy with what you see. You are a beautiful woman and no one should make you feel inferior.

My WO today was KPC. I got all good and sweaty! Love it! I think my bambinos are out frolicking in the sunshine, I better go chase them down.

Have a great afternoon all!
 
Lori, Andrea & Kath gave you some great advice... if your friend makes little comments like that about people then she doesn't sound like she is very happy with herself :-(. She sounds kinda negative.

""I always tell my kids that it takes a confident person to give a compliment""
Kath,That is SO TRUE.LOL at your story....

ok,just popping in for a bit:)
 
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