~*~*~*NO SWEETS April 7*~*~*~

[font color=blueviolet]Good morning ladies! How was everyone's weekend? I was whipped yesterday from three nights of poor sleep. After church, DH and I made a quick run to the grocery store and then laid in bed watching westerns all afternoon. It was my rest day, so I didn't do anything. I looked back at the week and am just feel so good! I worked out every day w/ DOMS the next day when I did weights and I ate soooooo good! Except for the gillato, of course.
Do you guys get on Facebook? Well, I am now addicted. I have been on it for a while, but didn't really look around for my old friends, I just kinda used to keep in touch with family and close, close friends. I was surfing Saturday morning and found so many of my middle school and high school friends and I can't believe how much people have changed and that some people haven't at all! Our 10 year is coming up in August and I am dying to see how everyone else is doing.

Catherine, GREAT JOB!!! You can lift heavier, I know you can do it! :7 So, when you do GMs are you ever afraid that you are going to fall forward? I know that is a silly question, but my center of gravity isn't what it used to be before I had kids so when I look at that I see a face smooshed in the ground, lol

Lori, I agree about the TM vs. outside. What the heck is up with that? My hip flexors, hammies and lower abs were sore from my first 4 mile run outside - and I run faster and on hills on the TM so you would think we would be more conditioned for outside. That's okay, though, I love the burn! And I totally do spend money on the kids. Why do we hate shopping for ourselves? I mean, we have earned it, right? :p

Linda, I think I am getting that cold. It came from nowhere out of left field! Sniffles and a bit of a yucky throat. :-( I don't know about you guys, but this has been a really nasty season for us. We normally don't get sick very often, but it seems like we can't go more than 3 weeks w/o someone getting something. I think that it really hasn't gotten cold enough to kill all that yucky stuff here.

Mag, I previewed R&C and am doing the upper body portion today. It really is all about upper body, isn't it? The segments were shorter, but there are more of them so I really can't wait to dig in! How was your weekend? Do anything exciting?

Alicia, where are you at? You didn't go on another cruise did you? :p

Rose, how is the job going for you? Are you settling in okay?

Have an awesome day everyone, and I will talk to you later.

ETA: I put a "news" tab on the left column so that the thread would be easier to find for us. :)

Missy
 
Hey Girlies!:)

Im ready to start another week of snesible eating! I can even report what I will be eating today!

B-Eggo/Cottage cheese
L-1 egg, 1 white, english muffin with jam
S-Fruit/protein bar
D-Chili/ maybe some bread.

Todays workout was PUB/MM/ME/4DS chest and Imax 3. I only planned on doing PUB and 4DS but it wasn't nearly as long as I thought it was going to be so I added on. Got tired of doing pushups though...but I think I will have DOMS tomorrow!

Missy** Sounds like you had a good day yesterday! I went for another run outside and DS slept right through it. I was wondering if he was going to enjoy it this yr and nothing seems to have changed. He was out like a light 5 mins in. It took me a while last yr to get use to pushing a stroller and when I went Sat without a stroller, I felt weird...almost like I was naked or something!:7 Then when I took him yesterday everything felt fine again. Although those hills were hard with a stroller and the wind;(
On the clothes thing...it is soon going to be time to treat myself. Im in serious need of some new stuff! A friend of ours is in a unhappy marriage and she is finally getting the nerve to get out (personnally DH and I think that he is gay) Anyway...she is thinking about moving in with us and she has tons of clothes..YA-WHO! hehe! She use to live with DH when he was a boy and was their babysitter so she is kind of like his sister.

I have a question for you guys, hope you don't think I am a total nut job,
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:)
 
Morning Ladies,

Well, still no sweets for me! YAA! But I think I am eating a bit too much, so I check it out at Fitday. Seems I am doing okay, but guess I am feeling the pressure of that looming deadline! LOL!

You know I really want to Thank all of you! I never would have been able to clean up my eating this well and for this long without all of you here for support! So THANK YOU!

Anyway, here's this morning's workout done in four straight sets of 5 with a minute rests.

Chest
Incline Barbell Press
5/5/5/5 - 95# **This was brutal, but I persevered**

Back
Overhand Barbell Rows
5/5/5/5 - 90#

Shoulders
Barbell Military Press
5/5/5/5 - 62#

Biceps
EZ Barbell Curls
5/5/5/3 - 61# **there will be no increase here next week! LOL! I also cheated the weight up on more time and fought the negative**

Quads
Squats
5/5/5/5 - 105# **Took these to parallel**

Triceps
Close Grip Press
5/5/5/4 - 90# **could not get the last rep to save my life**

Then did some ab work.

Missy - Sounds like you had a great week! Great Job!

Catherine - Congratulations on the workout room! How awesome! I couldn't imagine having to lug my equipment all over the place!

Hello to everyone who comes later!

Linda

t-minus 26 day and counting......
 
Lori, can you believe that I pushed DS in that stroller until he was 2, and he is off the charts for weight? Talk about tears! That was a really upper body workout, too. :p The first time I ran w/o him, it felt so strange not having to push something, but I was happy.
As far as you and your friend... I do think that some people do tend to set of a vibe like that whether they mean to or not. Is she a jealous person? I knew quite a few girls like that in high school and haven't experienced it much outside of work or school. (though I do have friends who like to make me feel guilty about being smaller than them) Has she every said anything about her other friends? There is one girl in particular that I can think of where I did feel like I was constantly being sized in her presence. She was incredibly insecure about herself and got jealous easily. I don't know if this sounds like your friend, but this girl never really said anything, it was just a feeling that I got from her. Does that make any sense? Anyways, if she is someone that you are close to it may really help to talk to her about it if you feel close enough to her. She may not even realize that she is doing it. :) I will be back in a few minutes, DD needs help w/ something she is working on. I may be way off base w/ what I just said...

Missy
 
Lori - I don't have any great words of wisdom for you, but first of I'll just say - Don't worry who is smaller, it really doesn't matter. What matters is how you look and how you think you look! If you look the way you want too than don't worry if the next girl is smaller, because there will always be someone somewhere that is smaller. Now don't get me wrong I am not brimming with self confidence and think I am great, I compare myself to other women all the time. I am only sharing with you the mindset I am trying to achieve for myself. I am going to make me the best me I can be and let someone else worry about the rest. BTW, all my close friends are heavier than me and I think they all resent me to some small degree. But i work at it they don't. HTH!

Linda
 
Hey ladies!!! So far so good today with the eating. I will be doing 4DS upper body premix after work.

Missy, I do feel like I'm gonna tip over with GMs if I am not careful. I only bend so far over. I can not go low at all. I still feel it though.

Lori, I agree with Linda. We all struggle with this and compare ourselves to the next person. Why? Who knows. But I do know it's not good for us to do. I too am working on just being comfortable with who I am and how I look.

Linda, you are doing great!!

Waving hi to everyone else. Gotta get back to work!

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