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  • ramalem
    ramalem Posts: 1,066 Member
    Love it! I don't know why the don't have a NHL team here, Seattle would eat it up.
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    Have a good trip, Meg!

    We and the kids loved the movie. It was fun.

    I feel like I haven't exercised in ages but yep, sconce counts and I was in the gym on Saturday. I'm going to go tomorrow before driving to meet a college friend for lunch.

    Going to go watch the season finale of Game of Thrones now. We're a few days behind.
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    3A complete! Whoooo! I almost avoided the second BWM, but forged ahead. It might have been a little half-*kitten* but my quads were burning so I guess it was good enough.I had to decrease weight on the bench press for whatever reason--just couldn't get those 20lb weights up like last week. Barbell row, 60 lbs; one-leg dead lift, 20lb dumbbells; 60 lbs on the wood chop. I was pretty happy with those numbers.

    Happy Wednesday! It's going to be in the 80s and humid today. The return of summer! I've put on that cherry dress I showed you guys and am hoping I don't accidentally flash anyone since I'm wearing it braless. I think it'll need a little professional tailoring, ultimately, as my ribcage width seems smaller than it was when I bought it.
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    <peeks head in>

    I am alive... just wanted to say Hi :) LOL My weight room is buried in crap :( we have been remodeling so guess where everything got piled *sigh*

    I started back again.. dumbbells it is lol Just wanted to say I missed you guys and I still peek in :)
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    That's a pretty good NSV Jen! I loved that dress - it was very cute on you. Good job on those weights! 60lb barbell row?? I think I'm only at 40 in stage 7 (although that is for 15 reps - of which I can get in 12 before dying LOL) The other numbers seem comparable to what I was doing in 5. You are one strong lady! Enjoy your lunch!

    I think I might be the only person on the planet not watching Game of THrones or Sons of Anarchy. I hear so much about them but I find it very difficult trying to jump in somewhere in the middle so I don't watch. Breaking Bad is another one that was supposed to be really good.

    I think you can call me the queen of self sabatoge! Yesterday I was within .8lbs of my lowest - so what did I have for dinner last night? An entire bag of moose munch!! I couldn't even stop at 3/4 like I did last time :grumble: Had I had the sensible dinner I had planned the scale wouldn't have gone up 1.2 lbs! I blame it being on hubby being out of town - no-one to give me 'the look' LOL We have a catered lunch coming in for a meeting today and them I'm having dinner with my mom tonight. 3 steps forward - 18 steps back LOL It's actually more like 2-3/4 steps back - just think of how much weight I could lose if I didn't like food so much! I could get to my goal weight in no time if I just stayed away from restaurants and snack food :smile: Oh well - life goes on.

    Have a great day ladies! And safe travels to you Meg :flowerforyou:
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    Look what the cat dragged in :laugh: We're here every day - you need to come back and join us :smile:
    <peeks head in>

    I am alive... just wanted to say Hi :) LOL My weight room is buried in crap :( we have been remodeling so guess where everything got piled *sigh*

    I started back again.. dumbbells it is lol Just wanted to say I missed you guys and I still peek in :)
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Look what the cat dragged in :laugh: We're here every day - you need to come back and join us :smile:
    <peeks head in>

    I am alive... just wanted to say Hi :) LOL My weight room is buried in crap :( we have been remodeling so guess where everything got piled *sigh*

    I started back again.. dumbbells it is lol Just wanted to say I missed you guys and I still peek in :)

    hush woman :P lol

    It would be wrong of me to slink back in since I am not doing it ATM... but I will again... once the crap gets out of my weight room $@#$@$#% :sad:

    But I still lurk..................................................... :heart:
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    We've dwindled down to only a few and we've all done some sort of modifications to our programs - but we still check in every day to see what's what! Doesn't matter what program you're doing - you're always welcome!

    I, for one, am not leaving these lovely ladies just because I'm done the program - they're going to suffer right along with me in whatever I choose to do next :laugh: And I with them - right ladies? :drinker:
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    good enough.... FINE..... lol

    doing my Chalean Extreme for now... will see how it goes.. it is weights and I use the methodology of progressively upping the weights... so it works lol

    I could still do the push-ups... YES!
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    I've heard alot about that program - are you finding it effective? I was a 30 Day Shred-der before I started lifting and I loved the results it gave me. Lifting is giving me good results too but those seem to be offset by eating entire bags of moose munch :laugh: I wonder why?? :ohwell:
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Will have to let you know... let me do the first 30 days and I will let you know my opinion.. you know I will be honest LOL I love Chalene Johnson tho ... My day one was yesterday.. today is rest day... I will be doing it the rest of the week... :)

    I have P90X as well (from a long time ago) and 90 minutes was just TOO DAMN LONG!
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    Heeeey, welcome back! It's always funny to hear people have lurked with us. I assume it's the few of us alone, but hooray, it's not. You're always welcome, clambert, regardless of your program :) You can suffer with Blue, too!

    Blue, thanks for the kudos! Your night sounds like my week--until today, few veggies and lots of crap :) tasty crap, though, so that's something! Lunch was good--I was starving from the lift and 530 breakfast (effing cats started a brawl at 450 and took it to the bed) so I ate most of an enormous greek salad.

    I found 30 day shred brutal. I also find that after I do a video a few times, I begin to loathe it--turns out I'm better in the gym. I can't tell you how many times I did the old Cindy Crawford workout ca. 1993---hate that cindy Crawford still, hahahah.
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Heeeey, welcome back! It's always funny to hear people have lurked with us. I assume it's the few of us alone, but hooray, it's not. You're always welcome, clambert, regardless of your program :) You can suffer with Blue, too!

    Blue, thanks for the kudos! Your night sounds like my week--until today, few veggies and lots of crap :) tasty crap, though, so that's something! Lunch was good--I was starving from the lift and 530 breakfast (effing cats started a brawl at 450 and took it to the bed) so I ate most of an enormous greek salad.

    I found 30 day shred brutal. I also find that after I do a video a few times, I begin to loathe it--turns out I'm better in the gym. I can't tell you how many times I did the old Cindy Crawford workout ca. 1993---hate that cindy Crawford still, hahahah.


    that Ho still looks the same today... have you seen that???????
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    Hey, good for her :) She's got very good genes, I think! Plus god only knows how many lunges and sumo squats she had to do to get there. lol.
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    LOL I call shenanigans and surgery :P
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    hahahhaa.
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    I wonder how many (if any) of them never resorted to surgery? I'd do it in a hearbeat if I had their $$. I'd have them suck that fat right out of my tummy!! I doubt I'd do anything else tho - they all look so phoney.

    This morning was day 3 out of 4 this week I didn't drag my body out of bed to work out. I think it might be time for TOM to visit - hence the weird food choices the last couple of days. BUT on two of those days I did some pushups and squats - does that redeem me? LOL I only have three workouts to being done! What the heck is wrong with me? This is the first time in the entire program I didn't do 3 a week. I've been 'Miss consistent' throughout - very weird! :grumble: I'm not working tomorrow so there is NO EXCUSE! You have permission to kick my *kitten* if I don't do it. :laugh:

    Have a great day!!
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    I didn't get to do my workout this morning :( Strange things are afoot at the Circle K (please tell me I am not the only one that knows this reference).....

    I woke up like normal at 4:30am to get my coffee and chill before workout at 5. Got my DVD in and did the warmup - all is well. First exercise.. sumo squat with bicep curl... should be nothing for me using 15# dumbbells... I got to 3 squats and all I saw was white, got a HUGE pounding headache that debilatated me and dropped me to the floor where I proceeded to throw up.

    Normally, I am alone in the AM and first thought in my head was "thank god I wasn't squatting the bar with 90# on it" ... I was lucky my husband came down the stairs and found me curled up on the floor writhing in pain.

    It was the strangest thing and never happened before... apparently my migraine just wanted to kick in right at that moment. I am now slowly recovering and still hoping to get my workout in tonight :(
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    OMG Clam that's horrible! Has that happened to you before with headaches? That you get that kind of violent reaction? I'd get thee to a doctor right away! That's scary! My first thought is annuyrism (sp??)

    I hope you feel better soon! :flowerforyou:
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    OMG Clam that's horrible! Has that happened to you before with headaches? That you get that kind of violent reaction? I'd get thee to a doctor right away! That's scary! My first thought is annuyrism (sp??)

    I hope you feel better soon! :flowerforyou:

    I called the nurse this morning.... I have had massive migraines before.. 2 months ago it put me down for a week :\ Thyroid doesn't help with this since some cause of it is the depletion of all my vitamins :(

    I suck.... they are going to refill my migraine meds and gave me a list of stuff to try at home to "control" outbreaks and if I am still waking up with headaches then I have to go in and be evaluated... this blows...
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    You know.. even as much as I do eat... I may not be eating enough for these workouts. I rarely hit 1700-1800 and I probably should... so in addition to the adjustments at home I am going to reach 1800 calories for a week and see if that helps as well...
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    Ugh, I'm so sorry, Clambert! That's awful. I hope the meds get them under control. My mom got migraines for decades--brutal stuff. she started getting them after having me. You're welcome, mom!

    Sherrie, sometimes when I'm close to finishing something it's like I enter a self-sabotage mode--I'm so close, why work so hard? And then fall off the wagon. So I hear you. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

    The DH and I are planning on getting a walk in later today. So far I've cleaned up the kitchen, made the bed, started the laundry (and cleaned the agitator--have you ever looked in one of those things? I accidentally pulled ours apart today and the piece that sits inside of it was CAKED with 1/4" of grossness. Ew--it probably hasn't been cleaned since it arrived here in the 80s), done my Spanish lesson, and prepped a couple of pounds of berries picked yesterday at my friend's. Not too shabby for four hours. I'd like to get some quilt pieces cut today but I'd need to get off the couch to do so...
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Didn't work out this morning.. couldn't lol Headache is down to a very dull throb so that is good... I figured it out that I must have hunched my shoulders while doing curls which tightened the muscle up. Shoulders and neck were rock hard last night. I laid on a heating pad off and on last night, had my 20yo rub my shoulders and then later my 14yo lol Took a muscle relaxer because I gave up and passed out on the couch...

    This morning, I can move my neck and shoulders and continuing to stretch them back out. They have unraveled but are extremely tender. I am going to try my workout tonight after I have had all day to stretch and see what happens. I will quit if anything starts back up again...

    Lesson for the year: make sure you don't tighten your shoulders when lifting LOL
  • Blueberry09
    Blueberry09 Posts: 821 Member
    I'm glad you're feeling better today Clam! Do you warm up at all before? I don't (other than some cardio that doesn't include arms) and I get that tightness every once in awhile. I guess it wouldn't hurt to do some arm windmills or something to get those muscles warm too.

    Did you get up off the couch Jen? You had such a busy morning! So industrious!

    I did get my butt out of bed and worked out this morning. I figured out why I kept putting it off - 4 reps of 15-20 really sucks!! So I did 2 and jumped back on the treadmill to get a bit more cardio in. I will finish the last two workouts of stage 7- I promise to do at least 3 reps. Then starting July 2 I'm still not sure what I will do. I think I'm leaning towards repeating the program doing 3 sets of 8 and leaving out the duplicate stages. I'll do 6 workouts of each instead of 4 and add an AMRAP of each at the end. By then I will have finished both books and will be able to plan my next attack :smile:

    Anyone have any big plans this weekend? Enjoy :drinker:
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Yeah the CLX has a 5 minute warmup period (pretty good one too) so it was just me being retarded and not paying attention to how I was standing ... :grumble:

    You will figure out what you want to do.... by then my barbell should be uncovered so you can always start again with me :bigsmile:
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    Finished stage 3 today! I forgot to do the prone cobras, but whatever. I even did the HIIT at the end. I felt pretty pleased with myself. To make it an interesting experience, a parade of incoming first years I'd just chatted with half an hour before did a gym tour while I was doing my YTWLs. So now they've seen me in two forms, eh?

    I'm glad you overcame your lack of motivation, Sherrie! And Clambert, I do hope your neck's better by now, as well as your noggin. I get an hourlong massage every month. Best $80 in the world. I grind and clench my teeth which does a number on my jaw and shoulder muscles. The massages help keep it in check. Still some days I end up taking advil just for the tight muscles. I hate that--A tight shoulder will reach up my neck, into my temple, and then cause a headache. Blech.
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    So I have been struggling with the goddamn scale lately. I meant to tell you yesterday so you could tell me to just leave it alone. I don't know if it's all the salty food I've had in the last week (take out to corn on cob) but the damn scale the last several mornings keeps registering around 129. sometimes a tad higher, sometimes a tad lower, but i haven't seen 127.5 again since the first week I saw it! I have bumped my calories the last few weeks as stage 3 made me ravenous, but it's at my TDEE per the enormous spreadsheet via skbarton and just a little above my MFP maintain--and many days, I exercise! So it's not real fat gain, I know that intellectually. My numbers haven't moved--waist measurement etc were all about the same this morning and I encourage my hip measurement to grow, as long as it's my booty getting rounder. Damn you, scale. Maybe all my hunger during 3 was because I was adding some muscle? But wouldn't it be nice if, if so, it took fat away? :P

    Thanks for letting me gripe! I guess I'll be doing a lot of walking this week as I kill time for stage 4. Maybe start stripping that painted wallpaper--that's a bicep workout, let me tell you. :)
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Jen.. back away from the scale .... unless you are a numbers freak like me and do charts with trend lines LOL which I do so i record it every day (just not on here - app called Libra). Just go by how you feel and how the inches are :) and screw you and your 129 LOL :bigsmile:


    I am doing much better - got my burn circuit 2 in this morning and decided to warm up LONGER using my old turbo jam 20 min video (did half as a warmup) and it seemed to work. I still have a dull throb but I honestly believe it is because my shoulders are like rocks and tender. Will take my anti-inflammatory this weekend and it should help. In addition, I researched other things so I am changing quite a few things about our sleeping habits :) so that I can actually sleep :angry:

    Hubby is supposed to dig out my weight room some time in the next couple of weeks and move it into his cave (he calls it the bat cave LOL) so I will my barbell soon!!! :drinker:
  • sleepyjen
    sleepyjen Posts: 679 Member
    Thanks, Clambert. I need that :) What's your actual name, anyway?
  • clambert1273
    clambert1273 Posts: 840 Member
    Christina :) you can guess the last name LOL

    remember - you are weight training... you could weigh 140 and be rock hard and it wouldn't matter :)
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