Taking it to the Max-- June 2013 thru...
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LadyLep
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Swimmers ear. I am in so much pain!!! I'm on Advil and prescription drops. CDawg has it too just not as bad.
Still was able to get in 2 mini low impact workouts yesterday: TTM: warm up and slide and glide tabata & Intensity: HiiT low. Total was less than 30 min.
I don't if I will be able to so anything today.
Still was able to get in 2 mini low impact workouts yesterday: TTM: warm up and slide and glide tabata & Intensity: HiiT low. Total was less than 30 min.
I don't if I will be able to so anything today.
Katie, that is awesome news and a huge relief about the successful surgeries. What a weight off of your family's collective shoulders.
Ladylep, sorry about your swimmer's ear! Hopefully that will clear up for you and your son by tomorrow.
Hi Renee and Melissa!
Today I did ART lower body. It was a good workout, as usual. I am still loving these ART workouts a ton, which is amazing, as it's been two months and usually I would be bored by now.
Take care,
Eva
Ladylep, sorry about your swimmer's ear! Hopefully that will clear up for you and your son by tomorrow.
Hi Renee and Melissa!
Today I did ART lower body. It was a good workout, as usual. I am still loving these ART workouts a ton, which is amazing, as it's been two months and usually I would be bored by now.
Take care,
Eva
LadyLep
Cathlete
I ended up having My friend take me to the ER at 1:45 am I was in so much pain! Apparently my ear canal was close up the antibiotic-steroid drops couldn't get in there. So they put a wick/sponge in it to soak up the fluid and help the medicine go in. Then they gave me Percocet. Then all pain went away and I just has pressure in my ear. I just woke up at 10:45 in pain. So now I'm on Ultram. But it's not as strong so I may get a prescription for Percocet.
So no work out for me yesterday or today.
So no work out for me yesterday or today.
katied
Cathlete
hi girls-- this may be the last check in from me for a while, as we are headed to the north shore soon. I really need a vacation! it has been a pretty intense 2013, that is for sure. anyway, today I got up at 5am to work out before taking alec to his orientation at the u of m. I did AOLIH plus water salutations from shiva rea. we walked a ton on campus, then came home and was having lunch with this kids when we noticed a large, long haired german shepherd in our yard. went outside and read his collar and called the number but no answer. then thought maybe he was a dog from farther south in our neighborhood, as I know an old Victorian house that has two shepherds. so, imala and I put both bugsy and henri's leashes on him (he was huge!!) and walked him all the way to the house, when my phone rang. it turns out a man was installing a fountain at a house close by me deeper in the woods near the creek, and the dog disappeared. so, we walked him back towards my place. the guy met us and he was so, so happy and grateful! nice to have a happy ending! anyway, I did some core yoga after all that and now still have to walk bugsy! tomorrow I will do my new jivamukti yoga dvd and sunday tabatacise before we are off.
jameson continues to improve! they removed one of his tubes from his chest today. he still has a breathing tube and two other tubes to help him drain fluids from the surgery, but they are assessing that today and tomorrow. he is such a tough little guy! hoping I may be able to hold him when we get back into town.
rik's stepdad is recovering nicely and is going home this evening
thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers!
ladylep-- I sure do hope you feel better soon!!! how awful!
eva-- you really have me wanting to try the ART workouts! will have to see what I do after my latest HiiT/tabata/yoga run
renee-- hope your neck is feeling better! miss you on here!
hello to Melissa as well! at least I can "see" you on fb, too
alright, better walk bugsy and henri. bugsy was super jealous when I took off with the german shepherd!
peace,
katie
it has been a pretty intense 2013, that is for sure. anyway, today I got up at 5am to work out before taking alec to his orientation at the u of m. I did AOLIH plus water salutations from shiva rea. we walked a ton on campus, then came home and was having lunch with this kids when we noticed a large, long haired german shepherd in our yard. went outside and read his collar and called the number but no answer. then thought maybe he was a dog from farther south in our neighborhood, as I know an old Victorian house that has two shepherds. so, imala and I put both bugsy and henri's leashes on him (he was huge!!) and walked him all the way to the house, when my phone rang. it turns out a man was installing a fountain at a house close by me deeper in the woods near the creek, and the dog disappeared. so, we walked him back towards my place. the guy met us and he was so, so happy and grateful! nice to have a happy ending! anyway, I did some core yoga after all that and now still have to walk bugsy! tomorrow I will do my new jivamukti yoga dvd and sunday tabatacise before we are off.jameson continues to improve! they removed one of his tubes from his chest today. he still has a breathing tube and two other tubes to help him drain fluids from the surgery, but they are assessing that today and tomorrow. he is such a tough little guy! hoping I may be able to hold him when we get back into town.
rik's stepdad is recovering nicely and is going home this evening
thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers!
ladylep-- I sure do hope you feel better soon!!! how awful!
eva-- you really have me wanting to try the ART workouts! will have to see what I do after my latest HiiT/tabata/yoga run
renee-- hope your neck is feeling better! miss you on here!
hello to Melissa as well! at least I can "see" you on fb, too
alright, better walk bugsy and henri. bugsy was super jealous when I took off with the german shepherd!
peace,
katie
ReneePruitt
Cathlete
Katie have a great vacation!!
Eva, lady Lep, Melissa
Hi how are u guys ?
My neck still hurts so all I have been doing is jogging every other day but today I added leaner legs. Man that I hate hate low ends with bar bell and I did the first round which seemed endless just to have her to say another set! Well I skipped that set! My back hurts on that! Anyway I finished the other stuff!
Tomorrow I think I may start STS! My neck isn't as bad as it was but it still hurts but not enough to keep me from trying STS at least. I will listen to my body !! If its to much ill stop.
Eva, lady Lep, Melissa
Hi how are u guys ?
My neck still hurts so all I have been doing is jogging every other day but today I added leaner legs. Man that I hate hate low ends with bar bell and I did the first round which seemed endless just to have her to say another set! Well I skipped that set! My back hurts on that! Anyway I finished the other stuff!
Tomorrow I think I may start STS! My neck isn't as bad as it was but it still hurts but not enough to keep me from trying STS at least. I will listen to my body !! If its to much ill stop.
Hello Everyone,
I hope you guys are having a good weekend.
Ladylep, I hope you're on the mend and that your swimmer's ear is all cleared up.
Katie, have a safe and wonderful vacation! You certainly deserve to have one after the stressful year you have. I hope it is relaxing and restorative.
Renee, I'm sorry your neck is still hurting. Good luck with your STS workouts tomorrow. I look forward to hearing about it. Meso 1 is a push up party for sure...so just be careful about your neck. Cathe does a lot of pushups over the four weeks for chest and back.
Melissa, I hope you're doing well!
Saturday I got in a good ART workout that was heavier weights/upper and lower body. It was basically her version of a circuit workout. Each move was done for 1 minute. It definitely was a calorie burner. I really liked it, and worked upper, lower and got some cardio in. Then I did the Tracy Anderson beginner DVD that just came out, first section. I'm always contemplating a TA rotation, and may do one at some point. She's kind of wacky, but her workouts seem to bring amazing results.
Today I did a toning workout called Strong Strides. Renee, you might be interested in this one, as the premise is it focuses on workouts that will improve your performance as a runner. It has three workouts on one DVD. I've only done the first one, which was good. My quads were burning during that section. I then added on Pure Spice, which is a dance workout. Great day for me. I burned 650 calories today and yesterday during my workouts. I had been slacking on the long weekend workouts, but I'm going to try to get back in the saddle.
I've also been slacking on the eating a wee bit. Nothing crazy, but I've been eating more carbs than usual. I love fresh summer pastas and have been eating a wee bit too much, but you only live once. Tonight I'm making a tomato tart, so I had to burn a few more calories to make room for all that butter in the dough.
Take care,
Eva
I hope you guys are having a good weekend.
Ladylep, I hope you're on the mend and that your swimmer's ear is all cleared up.
Katie, have a safe and wonderful vacation! You certainly deserve to have one after the stressful year you have. I hope it is relaxing and restorative.
Renee, I'm sorry your neck is still hurting. Good luck with your STS workouts tomorrow. I look forward to hearing about it. Meso 1 is a push up party for sure...so just be careful about your neck. Cathe does a lot of pushups over the four weeks for chest and back.
Melissa, I hope you're doing well!
Saturday I got in a good ART workout that was heavier weights/upper and lower body. It was basically her version of a circuit workout. Each move was done for 1 minute. It definitely was a calorie burner. I really liked it, and worked upper, lower and got some cardio in. Then I did the Tracy Anderson beginner DVD that just came out, first section. I'm always contemplating a TA rotation, and may do one at some point. She's kind of wacky, but her workouts seem to bring amazing results.
Today I did a toning workout called Strong Strides. Renee, you might be interested in this one, as the premise is it focuses on workouts that will improve your performance as a runner. It has three workouts on one DVD. I've only done the first one, which was good. My quads were burning during that section. I then added on Pure Spice, which is a dance workout. Great day for me. I burned 650 calories today and yesterday during my workouts. I had been slacking on the long weekend workouts, but I'm going to try to get back in the saddle.
I've also been slacking on the eating a wee bit. Nothing crazy, but I've been eating more carbs than usual. I love fresh summer pastas and have been eating a wee bit too much, but you only live once.
Tonight I'm making a tomato tart, so I had to burn a few more calories to make room for all that butter in the dough. Take care,
Eva
ReneePruitt
Cathlete
Eva!! I saw that one a while ago but was afraid to get it because I didn't see reviews on it! I can not remember where I saw it, collage maybe? I may look into that sounds promising!
I didn't get to STS!! I had to paint ! I thought I'd get it all done but it took half the day, I am in my bedroom and I think having to move more furniture and work around stuff made it difficult! I did only two walls and I have two more to go! Ill post pics.
Anyway tomorrow I will do STS when I get home after work!
I also think my neck hurts cause if painting!!!! I just realized its my right side it's more isolated so I can tell what muscle it is! It's the on that is towards the back of neck but comes to side to shoulder, and my elbow and its sore to the touch ! So it has to be reaching hard that caused the pain! I think but started after I painted my family room!! Grr I hope I get all painting done so I can rest that side!
Eva you did have a good day on calories! Way to torch those fat cells!!
I didn't get to STS!! I had to paint ! I thought I'd get it all done but it took half the day, I am in my bedroom and I think having to move more furniture and work around stuff made it difficult! I did only two walls and I have two more to go! Ill post pics.
Anyway tomorrow I will do STS when I get home after work!
I also think my neck hurts cause if painting!!!! I just realized its my right side it's more isolated so I can tell what muscle it is! It's the on that is towards the back of neck but comes to side to shoulder, and my elbow and its sore to the touch ! So it has to be reaching hard that caused the pain! I think but started after I painted my family room!! Grr I hope I get all painting done so I can rest that side!
Eva you did have a good day on calories! Way to torch those fat cells!!
Greetings,
I hope you are all doing well.
Renee, did you start STS this week? The Strong Strides DVD is not exciting per se, and it does not have the polish or production values, or professional workout-looking folks that you find in Cathe's videos. These are just regular ladies doing their workout, more like you would see at a regular gym, but the moves are effective and challenging. So, it depends on what you're looking for. I listened to my own music while I did the workout and think I always would. It's more of a "getting it done" kind of workout.
Monday I did TA Perfect Design disc 1. I'm about to start adding more TA into my workouts with ART to see what kind of results I get from that rotation. I ordered the Hipcentric workouts and hope to get them tomorrow. Yesterday was a rest day for me. Today I plan to do some kind of ART workout, not sure if I'll do upper or lower.
Take care,
Eva
I hope you are all doing well.
Renee, did you start STS this week? The Strong Strides DVD is not exciting per se, and it does not have the polish or production values, or professional workout-looking folks that you find in Cathe's videos. These are just regular ladies doing their workout, more like you would see at a regular gym
, but the moves are effective and challenging. So, it depends on what you're looking for. I listened to my own music while I did the workout and think I always would. It's more of a "getting it done" kind of workout.Monday I did TA Perfect Design disc 1. I'm about to start adding more TA into my workouts with ART to see what kind of results I get from that rotation. I ordered the Hipcentric workouts and hope to get them tomorrow. Yesterday was a rest day for me. Today I plan to do some kind of ART workout, not sure if I'll do upper or lower.
Take care,
Eva
LadyLep
Cathlete
Hi All!
Sorry I went MIA, I was in so much pain that I was prescribed oxycodone and was on it through the weekend, stopped Sunday at noon. Hubby got it Friday and so we all (us plus CDawg, but all boys came) went to an ENT here at home and CDawg is healing up fine and doesn't need anything but needs to stay out of the water for a week. Hubby and I got all our meds changed, new ear drops for both and new antibiotic (I was on Amoxocillin since Friday) for me, both Cipro types. And no water for Hubby and I for 2 weeks! That's pretty much the rest of the summer and we were hoping to go to the beach (Ocean City, NJ) in a week and a half, not so sure now, glad we didn't book anything yet!!
First day of school today!! Started around 9ish and finished around 1:30ish, with lunch and they all had some breaks whether it was tending to Little K or going out side to play with neighborhood boys. I'll try to attach their "first day pics".
Workout and food. Well, food hasn't been great but I've been tracking pretty well since we got back, Monday, yeah a whole 3 days, gotta start somewhere! I've been working out, but not too heavily this week as I feel a cold possibly coming on behind my eyes and nose. So Monday I did Gym Styles legs, premix timesaver for 33 min. Yesterday I did AOLIH, but the premix of just floor for 22 min. And today I did XTrain Bis and Tris premix 4-9 with core 1 for 45 min.
My goals this week are:
-track food, stay within 5 points of my daily allowance (I get 49 weekly allowance, for anyone who doesn't know the program)
-get 7-8 hours sleep daily (got it Monday night with a nap earlier in the day) but not last night, last min school prep
-workout M-F with at least 2 wt days and at least 2 cardio days, so tomorrow will be cardio and Friday I hope to get in XTrain CBS
Sorry I went MIA, I was in so much pain that I was prescribed oxycodone and was on it through the weekend, stopped Sunday at noon. Hubby got it Friday and so we all (us plus CDawg, but all boys came) went to an ENT here at home and CDawg is healing up fine and doesn't need anything but needs to stay out of the water for a week. Hubby and I got all our meds changed, new ear drops for both and new antibiotic (I was on Amoxocillin since Friday) for me, both Cipro types. And no water for Hubby and I for 2 weeks! That's pretty much the rest of the summer and we were hoping to go to the beach (Ocean City, NJ) in a week and a half, not so sure now, glad we didn't book anything yet!!
First day of school today!! Started around 9ish and finished around 1:30ish, with lunch and they all had some breaks whether it was tending to Little K or going out side to play with neighborhood boys. I'll try to attach their "first day pics".
Workout and food. Well, food hasn't been great but I've been tracking pretty well since we got back, Monday, yeah a whole 3 days, gotta start somewhere! I've been working out, but not too heavily this week as I feel a cold possibly coming on behind my eyes and nose. So Monday I did Gym Styles legs, premix timesaver for 33 min. Yesterday I did AOLIH, but the premix of just floor for 22 min. And today I did XTrain Bis and Tris premix 4-9 with core 1 for 45 min.
My goals this week are:
-track food, stay within 5 points of my daily allowance (I get 49 weekly allowance, for anyone who doesn't know the program)
-get 7-8 hours sleep daily (got it Monday night with a nap earlier in the day) but not last night, last min school prep
-workout M-F with at least 2 wt days and at least 2 cardio days, so tomorrow will be cardio and Friday I hope to get in XTrain CBS
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ReneePruitt
Cathlete
I did sts disk 1 today yesterday was rest cause my back neck hurts still!!
It isn't every time I move just Sheraton ways I move it is hard to explain but I am thinking of going to the chiropractor soon!
Tomorrow is suppose to be a jog or step moves not sure what I want to do yet.
Lady Lep oh my your pics really made me smile!! You have a Lovely family! I need to come up with goals I guess! I can't seem to stay on track with food I need to stay at 1000 to1200 but I always slip up to 1500 cause I eat to much in evening!
Eva, I need ur opinion do u think the jogging and sts will help me lose weight? Did I already ask u that?
Katie hope you are getting the hang of the school mode again ! I am still adding yoga in my workouts.
Melissa hope u are okay!!
It isn't every time I move just Sheraton ways I move it is hard to explain but I am thinking of going to the chiropractor soon!
Tomorrow is suppose to be a jog or step moves not sure what I want to do yet.
Lady Lep oh my your pics really made me smile!! You have a Lovely family! I need to come up with goals I guess! I can't seem to stay on track with food I need to stay at 1000 to1200 but I always slip up to 1500 cause I eat to much in evening!
Eva, I need ur opinion do u think the jogging and sts will help me lose weight? Did I already ask u that?
Katie hope you are getting the hang of the school mode again ! I am still adding yoga in my workouts.
Melissa hope u are okay!!
Hello Everyone!
Ladylep, I'm glad to hear you're getting back on your feet. Sounds like your vacation took some of you out of commission for several days, which stinks! I did not know swimmer's ear was contagious per se, or could be cleared up with antibiotics. But, it's awesome that you're all on the mend...just in time to start school! Thanks for the lovely photos of your boys. They are all very handsome, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. They radiate energy and enthusiasm, which is wonderful to see. Their texts for school look very interesting, and they look genuinely excited to start the school year. Your goals for the week for eating and exercising sound reasonable, and you certainly are dedicated. I admire that you restart and recommit to fitness and healthy eating every week. So many people give up if they have a bad day or two, but you set goals and soldier on. That is very inspiring to me.
Renee, congratulations on starting STS!! I think that first workout has a million pushups right out of the gate, if I remember correctly. If you're still having pain/discomfort in your neck, I hope you'll get that sorted out before you really get going on STS. Nothing like an injury to sideline your plans, and STS is pretty intense. I don't think doing it in a compromised state is going to serve you well in the long run...I honestly cannot say that doing STS and running is going to help you lose weight. I wish I could promise that to you, for sure, but I cannot. I think I've said this before, but for me, I had to change up my workouts completely to get different results. Lifting and cardio, Cathe-style was giving me good results for several years, but I reached a point where I just plateaued. I did STS when I was trying to break that plateau, my theory being that if I could add some muscle, I could increase my metabolism, since muscle burns more calories at rest than fat, and that was going to help me break through. Now, STS did help me get toned, for sure. I put on some muscle, but I did not lose any weight, and I did not get smaller. I just got more muscle. Our bodies adapt very quickly, which is why we need to cross-train and change it up. My body was used to these same general types of workouts, so even though I was increasing intensity, I was not changing anything mechanically. I needed to find totally different ways to move my body, so I started things like ART and Tonique, and Dream Body. I am still not as lean as I want to be, but I am getting leaner. My waist line is still shrinking, my legs are getting more defined, and my rear is shrinking. My arms are still not shrinking, though, but we'll see. I only started getting these changes when I started doing completely different types of exercise.
You can read the success stories from others who have done STS and there are a ton of ladies who lost weight, shrank down to new clothing sizes, and definitely came out of the program smaller and more defined. I hope that happens for you!! However, that was not my experience. All I know with 100% accuracy is what my experience has been. So, I cannot say what yours will be, I hope you are able to lose weight and get your weight down to where you want it to be. You may also not be eating enough. 1200 calories is not enough to sustain high activity and weight lifting. Your body may be in starvation mode. Now, I'm not a nutritionist, but even MFP will have you eat back your exercise calories, so you might want to just follow those guidelines and see what happens. There seems to be a strong consensus that an active woman needs to eat at least 1500 calories a day, and a lot of women that workout out a lot eat more and still lose weight. That depends on the person, though, and I'm still trying to find my perfect balance calorie-wise.
My last thought is that you might want to think more about inches than weight, though, since muscle weighs more. It is definitely possible to weigh the same and to be smaller. My weight does not change, but I do (SLOWLY) lose inches, and I've moved from weighing myself to measuring myself. The tape measure is absolute and does not lie. I measured myself today, and my waist line is down two inches since June, but my weight is the same.
Ladylep, I'm glad to hear you're getting back on your feet. Sounds like your vacation took some of you out of commission for several days, which stinks! I did not know swimmer's ear was contagious per se, or could be cleared up with antibiotics. But, it's awesome that you're all on the mend...just in time to start school! Thanks for the lovely photos of your boys. They are all very handsome, bright-eyed and bushy tailed.
They radiate energy and enthusiasm, which is wonderful to see. Their texts for school look very interesting, and they look genuinely excited to start the school year. Your goals for the week for eating and exercising sound reasonable, and you certainly are dedicated. I admire that you restart and recommit to fitness and healthy eating every week. So many people give up if they have a bad day or two, but you set goals and soldier on. That is very inspiring to me.Renee, congratulations on starting STS!! I think that first workout has a million pushups right out of the gate, if I remember correctly. If you're still having pain/discomfort in your neck, I hope you'll get that sorted out before you really get going on STS. Nothing like an injury to sideline your plans, and STS is pretty intense. I don't think doing it in a compromised state is going to serve you well in the long run...I honestly cannot say that doing STS and running is going to help you lose weight. I wish I could promise that to you, for sure, but I cannot. I think I've said this before, but for me, I had to change up my workouts completely to get different results. Lifting and cardio, Cathe-style was giving me good results for several years, but I reached a point where I just plateaued. I did STS when I was trying to break that plateau, my theory being that if I could add some muscle, I could increase my metabolism, since muscle burns more calories at rest than fat, and that was going to help me break through. Now, STS did help me get toned, for sure. I put on some muscle, but I did not lose any weight, and I did not get smaller. I just got more muscle. Our bodies adapt very quickly, which is why we need to cross-train and change it up. My body was used to these same general types of workouts, so even though I was increasing intensity, I was not changing anything mechanically. I needed to find totally different ways to move my body, so I started things like ART and Tonique, and Dream Body. I am still not as lean as I want to be, but I am getting leaner. My waist line is still shrinking, my legs are getting more defined, and my rear is shrinking. My arms are still not shrinking, though, but we'll see. I only started getting these changes when I started doing completely different types of exercise.
You can read the success stories from others who have done STS and there are a ton of ladies who lost weight, shrank down to new clothing sizes, and definitely came out of the program smaller and more defined. I hope that happens for you!! However, that was not my experience. All I know with 100% accuracy is what my experience has been. So, I cannot say what yours will be, I hope you are able to lose weight and get your weight down to where you want it to be. You may also not be eating enough. 1200 calories is not enough to sustain high activity and weight lifting. Your body may be in starvation mode. Now, I'm not a nutritionist, but even MFP will have you eat back your exercise calories, so you might want to just follow those guidelines and see what happens. There seems to be a strong consensus that an active woman needs to eat at least 1500 calories a day, and a lot of women that workout out a lot eat more and still lose weight. That depends on the person, though, and I'm still trying to find my perfect balance calorie-wise.
My last thought is that you might want to think more about inches than weight, though, since muscle weighs more. It is definitely possible to weigh the same and to be smaller. My weight does not change, but I do (SLOWLY) lose inches, and I've moved from weighing myself to measuring myself. The tape measure is absolute and does not lie.
I measured myself today, and my waist line is down two inches since June, but my weight is the same.Hello,
Checking in with an ART lower body workout and a walk this evening. Another awesome ART workout. Those have such a fun factor for me these days. My legs are looking their most defined right now...and I'm very happy about that.
Katie, I hope you are having an awesome vacation! You're probably back within the next few days.
Renee, I hope your neck is feeling better, or if it isn't, that you're taking it easy and giving it time to heal/rest up.
Hi Ladylep! Have you been able to stick with your food and workout plan this week?
I'm really craving something sweet tonight and I'm out of dark chocolate. I made some coconut milk/peach vegan ice cream last week and I have not eaten it all. Maybe I'll crack that open tonight.
Take care,
Eva
Checking in with an ART lower body workout and a walk this evening. Another awesome ART workout. Those have such a fun factor for me these days. My legs are looking their most defined right now...and I'm very happy about that.
Katie, I hope you are having an awesome vacation! You're probably back within the next few days.
Renee, I hope your neck is feeling better, or if it isn't, that you're taking it easy and giving it time to heal/rest up.
Hi Ladylep! Have you been able to stick with your food and workout plan this week?
I'm really craving something sweet tonight and I'm out of dark chocolate. I made some coconut milk/peach vegan ice cream last week and I have not eaten it all. Maybe I'll crack that open tonight.
Take care,
Eva
ReneePruitt
Cathlete
Eva two inches is freaking awesome!! I am happy for you!
I didn't get to disk two yet it was suppose to be today but my neck is hurting still! I had a doctor apt, it was chiropractor at 10 and dentist at 12 then had to pick up a few things for our Greek salad I made, I am trying to finish my painting in the bedroom now. We have the trim left on two walls to paint. Anyway u just sit down it's now after 9 so I didn't get in my workout! I hope it's okay To skip a day. I'll do disk two tomorrow and a jog then Sunday ill do disk 3, I guess that will work take Monday as rest day.
I didn't get to disk two yet it was suppose to be today but my neck is hurting still! I had a doctor apt, it was chiropractor at 10 and dentist at 12 then had to pick up a few things for our Greek salad I made, I am trying to finish my painting in the bedroom now. We have the trim left on two walls to paint. Anyway u just sit down it's now after 9 so I didn't get in my workout! I hope it's okay To skip a day. I'll do disk two tomorrow and a jog then Sunday ill do disk 3, I guess that will work take Monday as rest day.
LadyLep
Cathlete
Hi all!
I just didn't get a workout in on Thursday and I was so unmotivated yesterday that I only did TTM step tabata and the nplayed Candy Land with Little K.. Eating has been ok, tracking, still having some sweets. I will be going raw again tomorrow. But I forgot that before I planned the meals last night and I'll not be able to keep myself from the flat iron steak on Tuesday! I may try to switch it. But hopefully I'll just have it with a salad. We went out for ice cream last night to celebrate the first week of school, but I still tracked it! Caramel and coffee chip with hot fudge sauce!! I found another whole food menu planning site that ill share with you from my imac if i remember that does meat sunday, left over meat for a casserole on tiesday, left over bones for soup on tuesday, in season produce on wednesday, seafood thursday, pizza Friday and easy on Saturday. I'm going to try that this week. But now I feel like I want to switch it around. This is what I have on tap:
Sun- whole roasted chicken with veggies and salad
Monday- marinated and grilled flat iron steak with sweet potatoes/another veg and salad
Tuesday- chicken noodle soup and salad
Wednesday-veg. Zucchini boats and salad
Thursday- shrimp scampi with angel hair, veg and salad
Friday- homemade pizza: cheese, veg. and ground beef
Saturday- meal in the freezer,probably sloppy joes with rolls
Salads are basic green salads or cucumber/tomato/red onion.
I'm still up at 176.. 26 BMI.
Renee- I'm sorry your neck still hurts!
Eva- I really need to check out those ART for the fun factor you talk about! But it's really not in the budget for videos for me but maybe Christmas! So what does your week look like for workout type and time? Are you still working out an hour or more a day? I wish I had the time and motivation! Congrats on losing inches!! I should take my measurements again to see where I am.
Today is filled with work. After breakfast, I will be starting on putting clean sheets on 3 beds (2 were done yesterday) and cleaning the house and Hubby will start on weeding the front, it looks like a farm! It's awful, so bad that my in laws have offed to come over help weed and we have mulch coming in the early afternoon. They older boys are on a 30 min rotating schedule of who they will be with me, Hubby, or Little K duty. That's not going to go over very well.. We work until we dinner, but at lunch time will be our big meal that my in laws will probably pay for take out, which is great I just hope it's not pizza, I'm sick of Papa Johns, I'd rather have Chinese but there is the fattening factor for a high yum factor!
So I doubt I'll get to a workout today, I know cleaning and weeding (when I finish I will go to weeding) but it isn't the same. Now my choice: to eat pancakes or waffles (Saturday tradition, that I often opt out of) or eat it because I'm tired of peanut butter on whole wheat toast/light whole wheat English muffin with a banana, what I had for breakfast 4x out of the last 5!
Gotta get moving! Have a great Saturday! Attached is a photo from ice cream! Little K's first ice cream out! I should have made him raw milk ice cream but I just haven't gotten to it.
I just didn't get a workout in on Thursday and I was so unmotivated yesterday that I only did TTM step tabata and the nplayed Candy Land with Little K.
. Eating has been ok, tracking, still having some sweets. I will be going raw again tomorrow. But I forgot that before I planned the meals last night and I'll not be able to keep myself from the flat iron steak on Tuesday! I may try to switch it. But hopefully I'll just have it with a salad. We went out for ice cream last night to celebrate the first week of school, but I still tracked it! Caramel and coffee chip with hot fudge sauce!! I found another whole food menu planning site that ill share with you from my imac if i remember that does meat sunday, left over meat for a casserole on tiesday, left over bones for soup on tuesday, in season produce on wednesday, seafood thursday, pizza Friday and easy on Saturday. I'm going to try that this week. But now I feel like I want to switch it around. This is what I have on tap:Sun- whole roasted chicken with veggies and salad
Monday- marinated and grilled flat iron steak with sweet potatoes/another veg and salad
Tuesday- chicken noodle soup and salad
Wednesday-veg. Zucchini boats and salad
Thursday- shrimp scampi with angel hair, veg and salad
Friday- homemade pizza: cheese, veg. and ground beef
Saturday- meal in the freezer,probably sloppy joes with rolls
Salads are basic green salads or cucumber/tomato/red onion.
I'm still up at 176.
. 26 BMI. Renee- I'm sorry your neck still hurts!
Eva- I really need to check out those ART for the fun factor you talk about! But it's really not in the budget for videos for me but maybe Christmas! So what does your week look like for workout type and time? Are you still working out an hour or more a day? I wish I had the time and motivation! Congrats on losing inches!! I should take my measurements again to see where I am.
Today is filled with work. After breakfast, I will be starting on putting clean sheets on 3 beds (2 were done yesterday) and cleaning the house and Hubby will start on weeding the front, it looks like a farm! It's awful, so bad that my in laws have offed to come over help weed and we have mulch coming in the early afternoon. They older boys are on a 30 min rotating schedule of who they will be with me, Hubby, or Little K duty. That's not going to go over very well.
. We work until we dinner, but at lunch time will be our big meal that my in laws will probably pay for take out, which is great I just hope it's not pizza, I'm sick of Papa Johns, I'd rather have Chinese but there is the fattening factor for a high yum factor!So I doubt I'll get to a workout today, I know cleaning and weeding (when I finish I will go to weeding) but it isn't the same. Now my choice: to eat pancakes or waffles (Saturday tradition, that I often opt out of) or eat it because I'm tired of peanut butter on whole wheat toast/light whole wheat English muffin with a banana, what I had for breakfast 4x out of the last 5!
Gotta get moving! Have a great Saturday! Attached is a photo from ice cream! Little K's first ice cream out! I should have made him raw milk ice cream but I just haven't gotten to it.
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katied
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hi girls! we are back! I will have to come on later and catch up with all the posts, but wanted to come on and say hello. we had a wonderful vacation but it went by way too fast! also, the weather up on the north shore was so fantastic-- around 70 for a high each day and cool in the evenings-- and we have come home to a major heat wave. from what I hear we will break records all week with highs in the upper 90s and real feel temps of 105+. so not my kind of weather! anyway, we had many hikes to waterfalls, campfires and walks along the rocky shoreline. had lunch almost every day in my favorite restaurant up there, where they know me as I always order a double house salad-- it is so yummy with organic greens. I lived off of them up there, but did have some vegan treats, too. got up last sunday and did tabatacise plus yoga before we left, then had a rest day Monday, then went running with HiiTs on tues, weds, thurs, plus 1/2 hour of yoga each day. yesterday I just did 45 mins of yoga before we left. my legs were super sore from pounding the pavement every day, so the yoga was a necessity. we got back last night and watched a little tv before bed. this morning I did 62 minutes of surf yoga soul/shiva rea. tomorrow I will be back to cathe, but not sure what. any word on the new workouts?
I will read all I missed soon. in the meantime, hello to eva, renee, ladylep-- and Melissa, if you are around!
hoping I successfully attach a picture of the kids on the shore outside our cabin.
peace,
katie
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. so not my kind of weather! anyway, we had many hikes to waterfalls, campfires and walks along the rocky shoreline. had lunch almost every day in my favorite restaurant up there, where they know me as I always order a double house salad-- it is so yummy with organic greens. I lived off of them up there, but did have some vegan treats, too. got up last sunday and did tabatacise plus yoga before we left, then had a rest day Monday, then went running with HiiTs on tues, weds, thurs, plus 1/2 hour of yoga each day. yesterday I just did 45 mins of yoga before we left. my legs were super sore from pounding the pavement every day, so the yoga was a necessity. we got back last night and watched a little tv before bed. this morning I did 62 minutes of surf yoga soul/shiva rea. tomorrow I will be back to cathe, but not sure what. any word on the new workouts?I will read all I missed soon. in the meantime, hello to eva, renee, ladylep-- and Melissa, if you are around!
hoping I successfully attach a picture of the kids on the shore outside our cabin.
peace,
katie
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ReneePruitt
Cathlete
I did disk 2 STS meso 1 I really like it! It does feel like strain in that no exercise is repeated to much! I love that. It seems to go by fast. I like the 60% 1 rep max! Since I am using the workout cards it comes up with the perfect weight for me to finish all reps! I think I have a tendency to lift 80% of my 1 rep max starting out and even on endurance by accident and that causes me to not do more consistent days of lifting cause I hurt or am injured! This is nice because I get fatigued but not totally whipped !!
I know I will left more as the program goes but so far so good. Perfect weight perfect reps!
I also did 30 minute run at 70% of intensity. I am on week three of fat burning jogging program yesterday I took a rest day cause I was painting! I am finished with that !! Well I still have trim in bath left, but bedroom wall and trim is done !! It looks good! But I have a lot to clean up now !!
Tomorrow I am doing disk 3 I guess that's legs. I hope I like that one to!
Love the family pic!!
I know I will left more as the program goes but so far so good. Perfect weight perfect reps!
I also did 30 minute run at 70% of intensity. I am on week three of fat burning jogging program yesterday I took a rest day cause I was painting! I am finished with that !! Well I still have trim in bath left, but bedroom wall and trim is done !! It looks good! But I have a lot to clean up now !!
Tomorrow I am doing disk 3 I guess that's legs. I hope I like that one to!
Love the family pic!!
LadyLep
Cathlete
Welcome back, Katie! Sounds like you had a great vacation!! You may have mentioned it but where did you go? The food, the exercise! Sounds like the perfect vacation! Tell me about surf yoga soul/shiva?
Renee- sounds like you got a great workout in too! I need to print out cards, I've never done that. Before they were out for Xtrain someone made spreadsheets and I have used those but they are just about all used up.
Hi Eva!
So----does everyone do some kind of yoga? I just don't see the point, I need cardio. Yesterday was busy, I cleaned everything but I forgot the powder room! Dumb. And didn't do the kitchen, Bruce mop is broken and I wasn't interested in doing it on my hands an knees. Outside looks way better. Kids "helped" through one rotation of each job, but that was about it. They did help more on the out side. My mil got "into" picking up behind the kids' dressers and CDawg help her, so that looks way better and downstairs did some toy organizing. Hopefully today I'll get a workout in and stay raw, but at dinner I'll have cooked acorn squash as we just picked our first on yesterday! I attached a pic!
Renee- sounds like you got a great workout in too! I need to print out cards, I've never done that. Before they were out for Xtrain someone made spreadsheets and I have used those but they are just about all used up.
Hi Eva!
So----does everyone do some kind of yoga? I just don't see the point, I need cardio.
Yesterday was busy, I cleaned everything but I forgot the powder room! Dumb. And didn't do the kitchen, Bruce mop is broken and I wasn't interested in doing it on my hands an knees. Outside looks way better. Kids "helped" through one rotation of each job, but that was about it. They did help more on the out side. My mil got "into" picking up behind the kids' dressers and CDawg help her, so that looks way better and downstairs did some toy organizing. Hopefully today I'll get a workout in and stay raw, but at dinner I'll have cooked acorn squash as we just picked our first on yesterday! I attached a pic!Attachments
katied
Cathlete
hi girls! what a sweatfest I had this morning! it is so, so humid here-- highs around 100 and heat indexes of 110 today. I did athletic training and felt exhausted from the humidity. glad that is over with!! I then did 45 minutes of yoga from the shiva rea daily energy dvd. now it is back to school shopping-- nygel starts tomorrow (he is my online/homeschooled guy now-- the only one). imala starts high school a week from Tuesday and alec will start his adventure of PT high school, PT university of MN school of music student. I hope I am ready for another year!
ladylep-- I love the pictures of your sweet boys! they are adorable and like eva said, they seem so happy and excited for the school year! the squash looks yummy! I probably will avoid turning on the oven for the next week, though! think I may be living off of smoothies for a while! shiva rea is a great yoga instructor and her surf yoga soul is a nice intermediate to advanced yoga dvd. I wonder if you tried other types of yoga if you would enjoy it-- there really is usually something for everyone. ashtanga is very physical and has lots of vinyasa, or flow, so you do tend to sweat quite a bit and it develops a very strong core. anyway, just my thoughts-- I really need to practice it to keep my muscles supple and my flexibility up. I also like that it has given me great balance, so I try to keep up with it
eva-- congrats to you on losing inches! that is so fantastic! I love how creative you are with all of your workouts! it seems you are always on the cutting edge of what is going on. your ice cream sounds delicious
renee-- glad to hear you are enjoying sts! hoping your neck is all healed. what is the weather like in your neck of the woods?
oh, and ladylep, I know you asked where we went on vacation. we head to the north shore of Minnesota-- way up almost into Canada. we stay just outside a town called grand marais, which I love-- it is a town full of artists and quaint little shops and restaurants, as well as a co-op (which I really need). we typically go out on hikes every day to different waterfalls and interesting sights, and then go into town for lunch and then back to the cabin for quiet nights by the shore. I miss lake superior already! especially when it is so unbelievably hot here in the city.
hope everyone has a nice sunday! better get busy!
peace,
katie
). imala starts high school a week from Tuesday and alec will start his adventure of PT high school, PT university of MN school of music student. I hope I am ready for another year! ladylep-- I love the pictures of your sweet boys! they are adorable and like eva said, they seem so happy and excited for the school year! the squash looks yummy! I probably will avoid turning on the oven for the next week, though! think I may be living off of smoothies for a while! shiva rea is a great yoga instructor and her surf yoga soul is a nice intermediate to advanced yoga dvd. I wonder if you tried other types of yoga if you would enjoy it-- there really is usually something for everyone. ashtanga is very physical and has lots of vinyasa, or flow, so you do tend to sweat quite a bit and it develops a very strong core. anyway, just my thoughts-- I really need to practice it to keep my muscles supple and my flexibility up. I also like that it has given me great balance, so I try to keep up with it
eva-- congrats to you on losing inches! that is so fantastic! I love how creative you are with all of your workouts! it seems you are always on the cutting edge of what is going on. your ice cream sounds delicious
renee-- glad to hear you are enjoying sts! hoping your neck is all healed. what is the weather like in your neck of the woods?
oh, and ladylep, I know you asked where we went on vacation. we head to the north shore of Minnesota-- way up almost into Canada. we stay just outside a town called grand marais, which I love-- it is a town full of artists and quaint little shops and restaurants, as well as a co-op (which I really need). we typically go out on hikes every day to different waterfalls and interesting sights, and then go into town for lunch and then back to the cabin for quiet nights by the shore. I miss lake superior already! especially when it is so unbelievably hot here in the city
. hope everyone has a nice sunday! better get busy!
peace,
katie
katied
Cathlete
me again! well, the weather here seems to keep getting worse! it was so hot sleeping last night that I think I was up at least 5 times. today the high is supposed to be 100 but with the humidity, will feel way worse. days like these really have me wishing we had a/c. I did get up and workout, but it feels pretty awful as my body is already so hot from our bedroom that I feel like I am starting overheated. I did cardio supersets and 30 minutes of yoga and then jumped in a cold shower and had a smoothie. just got through nygel's lessons for the day and he is practicing cello now until lunch.
hope everyone else is having much better weather and a nice Monday!
today the high is supposed to be 100 but with the humidity, will feel way worse. days like these really have me wishing we had a/c. I did get up and workout, but it feels pretty awful as my body is already so hot from our bedroom that I feel like I am starting overheated. I did cardio supersets and 30 minutes of yoga and then jumped in a cold shower and had a smoothie. just got through nygel's lessons for the day and he is practicing cello now until lunch.hope everyone else is having much better weather and a nice Monday!