200+ "Us vs. The Turkey"

Laceylala

I was going to rant...but I am not going to.

KendalBeee

It would be really great motivation to go through p90x with you ladies, but its too much money for now, especially since I just bought the wii fit and the gold gym's game. I plan to do those on nights when I don't feel like going to the gym.

I'm not going to give out candy this year. I know I will end up eating a lot of it, plus its money I don't need to spend.

KendalBeee

:bigsmile: I kicked my own @$$ tonight.

-45 min on the bike
-at least 30 minutes doing lower body weight machines (using higher amounts of weight on every machine than I think I have ever done)
-then 45 minutes on the elliptical

Feels so good.

Laceylala

Go Kendal!

I did the first day of week one of HIIT and 200 Squat Challenge and the upper body machines tonight. Every time I sit or stand up I feel all tired so I am hoping I can sleep well tonight. Ive not been sleeping good lately.
Tomorrow i will do card and the leg machines and take it slower.

Amy I cant blame you for not doing Halloween. We invited a new family from Gracies school over for dinner and trick or treating with us. Now I have to cook dinner and make sure our house is clean. I know it will be fun but I keep thinking what was I thinking doing that on a Sunday?!!

Kristina I saw a post about splitting a banana in half and putting pb in the middle and freezing it. I'm betting if you added a few mini choco chips in there it would be a great post work out treat at night. I might try it.

anvy0530

This morning was a good run morning. Me & Gabe finished school up a bit earlier than usual so we decided to do our run before lunch. It was our first fartlek run. It was really fun! We warmed up by jogging for a mile and then did 2 miles of fartleks and cooled down with another mile. Gabe liked the fartleks because I let him pick the distances we were sprinting. He'd say something like: "sprint to the bench - GO!" and we'd take off. It was tough but made the time go by really fast. We did our 4 miles in 50 minutes (it normally takes about 60) and I was feeling great! I can't keep up with my little gazelle but I liked seeing him have fun running. Normally, all he does is complain for the first mile or so. Now I have some pumpkin rice pudding in the oven making my kitchen smell like fall (even though it feels more like winter outside). So it's a good day.

Lacey: I, too, have problems sleeping (I always have) but I find that hard workout days generally have better sleeping than other days. I hope you slept well.

Kendal: Way to go at the gym!! I bet you slept well!

akasullengal

Kendal- nice work at the gym!!! How are you feeling the day after?

All this talk of peanut butter and chocolate is mouth-watering!!

Amy- it sounds like you had a great time with your son this morning running. What a nice experience! Pumpkin rice pudding sounds pretty fabulous as well.

Well, I had planned to go to the gym yesterday, but as the weather is supposed to be craptastic today, I hit the pavement as well and did 5 miles--- longest since the half. While my mind was totally into it, my body wasn't. I was feeling a bit off most of yesterday and my chest hurt a bit while running, which is out of the ordinary for me. Also, left outside side of my right foot is hurting. Started yesterday at the end of the run and is still hurting today. Not sure what's causing it. Thought the only thing I could think of were my shoes, but I've been wearing them for a while, so I don't know. Will keep off pounding my feet today and plan to hit the gym up after work to bike instead.

Went to pub trivia last night (another reason why I wanted to get the run in). Had a good time and unhealthy food, but ate relatively well otherwise, and hope to have a good eating day today.

Hope everyone has a good Tuesday!

KendalBeee

I'm surprisingly not sore today. Apparently I can push it a little harder than I did last night. I guess I have drastically underestimated how "athletic" I've become and what my body can do. I need to push myself more.

I'm up to 218.2 this morning. Don't your muscles retain water after a workout? I'm hoping thats what it is. I'll drink a ton of water today and hopefully be done with it. Tonight is zumba so I have extra calories to work with.

Laceylala

Kendal - I think your muscles do swell with water retention after a harder work out. I know I feel more bloated for lack of a better word when I do something like that.

Amy - I had to look up fartlek training on the internet but basically it is out door HIIT (high intensity interval training)..like I am doing at the gym on the elliptical. Last night I did four minutes regular and bumped up the resistance so high I had to really push myself to get the pedals moving..and repeat. Supposedly it is both good for fat burning and resiliance. All I know is I hurt today from it!

Kristina - take it easy on that foot! Biking is probably a good idea.

Well I made a collossal mistake last month at work - sent a transmission down into Columbia and it is the wrong one! It is going to cost us minimum $5000 to correct the mistake and I feel like puking. I caught it last night before I left work and so barely slept all night thinking about it. My boss of course is all cool with it but that is how he always is and sometimes I wish he would just yell or something you know? And it is embarrassing and I am sure the other two managers are like WTF is she doing? She shouldn't have so much responsibility! SO yeah...great day. Ugh. Barf.

akasullengal

Stationary bike was a success at the gym. 14.17m in an hour. Whew! Foot is continuing to feel better as the day has gone on. I definitely want to take at least another day off before running on it again, so I'm thinking about hopping on the trusty elliptical tomorrow, which I rarely use anymore. Nice change of pace. I guess cause I tend to run or want to do something that isn't a running motion on my crosstraining days, the elliptical has fallen to the wayside. I need to work on some of the interval training on it, cause that always has me "glowing" like a pig.

Hope everyone's day has gone well. About to eat some dinner and then kick back with my trusty DVR for the evening. *mwah*

KendalBeee

:bigsmile: There was an incredibly freaking HOT guy in zumba class tonight and he can DANCE. OMG his hips can SWAY!! It was a beautiful thing. I have a boyfriend and its highly possible the new guy isn't straight, but I watched him more than the instructor. He was standing diagonally beside/behind her anyway. He stayed around after class for a minute and I heard him tell some feisty old lady that he just moved here this week and I heard him say he's certified....I couldn't hear the next part but I'm guessing he's a certified zumba instructor cause OMG! Ladies...I was letting out little sigh/grunts under my breath at the way his hips were moving. hahaha

I burned 886 cals in class tonight too. More than I have in a long time. Possibly I was working harder cause of him? They should pay that boy to show up every week. That class would be PAAAAACKED.

anvy0530

Kendal: Your Zumba class sounds yummy. It's always nice to have eye candy around! Nice calorie burn too.

Kristina: Hope your foot feels better. I miss my DVR more than I miss having English speaking neighbors.

Lacey: My legs are sooooo sore from yesterday. I haven't been this sore since I began running in February! I'm sorry about the work mistake. I can't say that you'd like a boss who isn't so easy going though. My last boss was a nightmare from hell. He would yell and scream when things went wrong and he nearly fired someone for being in his line of sight during one of his episodes. It sucked - I'd take laid back over crazy-psycho any day.

I have to do 5 miles on the treadmill today and I am soooo not feeling it! It will be uber-slow but I'll get it done! Have a great day!

pinbotchick

I actually managed to log cals yesterday. I'm thinking of getting up for a half hour of ex before work this morning. Today should be an easy day with only 5 clients.

Amy - good luck on the treadmill.
Kendal - live your dancing pics. Eye candy is meant to drooled over!!!
Kristina - hope the foots better.

Have a happy hump day.

pinbotchick

Oops - didn't mean to leave you out Lacey- (((((big hug)))) I'd feel bad too with the work error. Maybe something good will come of it.

akasullengal

Kendal- my first thought was that any man who's hips can move that well in a Zumba class probably bats for the other team. Either way, it's still eye candy, and whatever gets you to shake your hips more, who the heck cares?? Glad you had a good time and nice burn!!

Amy- I hope the treadmill went well this morning! I know running on it is usually not very fun. I don't think I've ever logged 5 miles at a time on it, but I better get used to it with winter coming. I won't be able to brave the outside weather all of the time.

Lacey- I'm sorry to hear about work. We all make errors, and it sounds like your boss took it well, which is always nice. But I understand... I would feel really bad about it as well. At least you caught it right away!

Victoria- hope you got a workout in this morning. Hope your day goes smoothly!

Well, I'm sitting at a coffee shop (mmm Zingerman's...) waiting for the office to open. I had a brain fart this morning. I'm over at the other clinic today and I remember the nursing manager say she had a breakfast meeting this morning with front and back staff, and it didn't sink in that that meant that the other clinic would be closed until they got back from the meeting. *facepalm* So, I'm having a pretty slow morning, and I get to the clinic, to find it locked. Well, it's an excuse to get a yummy vanilla nonfat latte. I needed one!! Good thing the shop has wi-fi!

My foot is still hurting this morning. Usually when I have aches and pains, it's worse in the morning. Yesterday, as the day went on, it felt better, so I'm hoping it will follow the same pattern today. Limping at the moment a bit, bit I'm still hoping to get some lower impact (maybe elliptical) in this evening. But I'm planning on no running until the weekend at least, which SUCKS. Who would have ever thought I would miss running??

Work shouldn't be bad today-- just long. Plus, after a full day, I need to swing by the other clinic and pick up stuff for tomorrow morning. Representing the clinic at a health fair at a breakfast for the homeless in town.. starts at 7am tomorrow. UGH. Too early for Kristina.

I'm blabbering... hope everyone has a good Wednesday!

akasullengal

bump!

Had chinese for lunch. Yummy, but not good for me. Will need to be good for dinner and pound the water the rest of the day. Meh.

KendalBeee

yuummmm...chinese......

anvy0530

We had potstickers for dinner. Hate the sodium but sometimes you just want it! I wish we had REAL Chinese food here, but we don't.

Laceylala

Well I shipped a transmission to Columbia and it is the wrong one...so its going to cost about $1000-$3000 to get it back and if we have to build another one, another $5000-$10000. So it was an extremely costly mistake to make. That part I can live with..the issue is that I am gaining more responsibility at work only to do something like that you know? Oh well. Moving on. Minimize damage and cost to fix.

Well I had a donut this morning at G's school for Donuts with Dad. Jeff couldn't make it. So off the vegan till dinner. Then at lunch I got a portobello sand on flatbread with salad...minimal damage there except WHY oh why do restaurants always have to put an olive oil aioli on portobello sandwiches? The thing was amazingly tasty but dripping with oil.
Tonight I will have soup and it will be all good cal wise I am sure. And a small glass of the bottle of wine my boss gave me that I thought was about $50 but is actually about $175!!! Holy ****balls..it is good though. No wonder. I am trying to make it last.
Thanks for the kind words though everyone!

I didn't work out yesterday but cals were fairly okay. Tonight it is HIIT and squats challenge day two. I am looking forward to it actually. Might try HIIT on that cybex thing.

Amy and Kristina and Kendal - chinese types foods are one I can live without. Thai however....I'd die to go to Thailand just to eat street food!


Work is crazy. As usual. I can't believe I have to leave in a little over a week again. I am SO behind. Lordy!

makeitallsue

Just dropping by to say Hello. I haven't had a good month...hate to wish time away...but really wanting to start November..it has to be better!

Laceylala

hi Deb! Sometimes life gets in the way of working out and such...and sometimes it is just easier and better to not put that extra pressure on yourself when the days are hard. I'm not sure what has been going on but hang in there girl! We are here when you can drop in.


I did HIIT training tonight. The first ten minutes I wanted to quit. Muscles stiff and all. The first three sets of squats were okay and then ugh. I powered thru and then did another 28 minutes of card for over an hour work out total. The crap thing is that I lost hrm function for 11 minutes on the cybex thing grrrrrrr. Oh well. Consistency is more important anyways.

KendalBeee

Another good night at the gym. (makes for a long day though) 45 min on the elliptical, a round on all the arm weight machines, and finished with 20 minutes on the bike.

However TOM showed up so I'm not sure how weigh in will be this week. Don't think I will hit 215, but oh well. I'm trying. If not this week, then maybe next week.

anvy0530

Kendal: Good job at the gym. Don't sweat the TOM. If your weight doesn't go down this week, it's sure to go down next week after TOM is gone. You're doing great!

Lacey: Wow! $175 bottle of wine - that's awesome!!! What kind of wine is it? (I love wine- which makes linging in Germany's wine country soooo diet-busting) I, too, had a hard time with my workout yesterday. The first mile I ran, my legs felt like they were made of cement - but I got through the whole thing without quitting. And Thai food is divine! Travis keeps going out for Thai in Alexandria & D.C. and telling me all about it which makes me drool. So I found a recipe for pumpkin coconut curry that I'm gonna try this weekend to hopefully satiate my craving for Thai.

Deb: Hey there! I, too, am looking forward to October being over - November is right around the corner! I'm actually looking forward to December but that's just because I'm tired of being a single parent - gotta give props to all those who do the single parent thing full-time. It sucks!

Well, hope everyone has a good day. It's almost the weekend!!!

pinbotchick

It's here!!! It's here!!! P90X came yesterday. I'll be doing the fit test Sat and starting Mon. I'll even do before pics and take measurements. I'll be doing the "lean" program. Not sure if I'll follow the diet portion but will look into upping protein and reducing fat. Their program limits fruits to one a day and I just can't give fruits up. I'll be studying the materials this weekend.

anvy0530

I have P90X envy. Hopefully I'll get mine soon.

KendalBeee

The scale was nice to me this morning. Not sure how tomorrow will be since I probably won't have time to work out tonight. Maybe I'll go home and Wii a little.

Tonight is the Torrid hiring event. I got up super early and got all fancied up so I can go after work. I didn't have time to curl my hair this morning, so I brought my curling iron with me so I can do a little something with my hair before I go. I even changed out my purse so that it matches my outfit. If they don't hire me, they are freaking CRAZY. (I'm wearing Torrid clothes today too! I mean com'on!!) The key to a successful presentation/interview for me is envisioning myself succeeding and having confidence and really letting them see my personality and I've been doing just that. Wish me luck!!! AAHH!!

KendalBeee

I know we probably should post about products here, but I found this free bumper sticker and who doesn't love free stuff??

http://www.lifesadog.com/bumpersticker.php

Its ADORABLE!!

Laceylala

Amy - it is a Malbec wine and it is seriously divine! I am starting to like some reds but not many...and God knows I've tried quite a few since working here. This is fantastic!
When we go to Canada in a week we're hoping to be able to hit up a few of the 30+ wineries around the lake heading from Toronto towards Niagra. We will see if we have enough time...LOL. If not, we picked a hotel in the city because it had a martini bar, lol, so we are set either way. Plus all the fantastic restaurants there too.
I do love some German Gewurstramiener though. YUM!

Kendal - good luck! I am sure you will get hired!

Victoria - woo hoo! Good luck with the program, it seems like many people have good luck with it! I wish my gym would do a P90X sort of program..

Well I am sore today as I knew I would be. I should go to the gym tonight, but I've got to make a fruit platter, cornbread muffins and I think some meringue ghosts for G's school harvest part tomorrow and those things for me take time. Not to mention stopping at a grocery store on the way home.

pinbotchick

Amy - I wish your copy would come too!!! I'd love to have you doing it with me.

Lacey - the wine and trip sound wonderful. Do you have a website on the vegan til dinner plan?

Kendal - good luck tonight!!!

Kristina - you're doing great with the workouts. Tell me more about your foot pain - top, bottom, side, when better, when worse, rate highest and lowest pain last 3 days, any tenderness to palpation (where), etc.

Laceylala

Victoria - I did a search on the internet and right off can't find a blog per se about the Vegan till Dinner plan but I am reading the book Food Matters by Mark Bittman - this is the book that proposes that eating this way will both do loads of good for the envirnonment and your heatlh. I'm not all the way through it but what he says makes complete sense to me. You can get the book for about $11..and I am sure there is an audiobook on audible.com too.

Now I have to decide if I want to eat my soup which is vegan or part of a free Chipotle burrito work is buying us that is NOT vegan in any way...sigh...I am having homemade tomato soup for dinner so it would still fit in, but still...


EDIT: They had vegetarian burritos yeay! So I had half a one with a ton of guac chips and salsa. YUM!

akasullengal

Hey ladies! We've been posting up a storm today!

Deb- it's nice to see you check in, and hope to see you around the thread more, come November

Victoria- jealous of your new dvd goodies. you'll definitely need to keep us in the loop with how things are going with it. In terms of my foot, it continues to feel better, but still not fabulous. It's my right foot, the side of it (top to side). It doesn't hurt when I'm just sitting down... only when I'm walking on it or putting pressure especially on that area. Hurts worst in the morning-- no surprise, when I'm the stiffest and gets better throughout the day. So, I'm continuing to do low impact stuff for a few more days and see if it continues to improve. But, I'm missing running!!

Kendal- good luck on the job interview!!!!!! Will be thinking about you-- I'm sure you'll look hella cute, as always.

Lacey-- yum. I love me some wine.

Eating has not been fab today. Pissed at myself for it. Too much candy and crap mid-day, so I need to keep it together and eat something small for dinner. Brought my gym clothes and plan to bike it up today at the gym. At least I've been moving this week, despite the not stellar eating. That seems to be my downfall, which is holding me back on the weight loss. I was really hoping to loss a nice bit of weight before Thanksgiving. Don't know if that will happen.

Again, we're not doing weekly threads for the challenges, so there will be no new thread tonight, but still try and weigh in over the next few days and report back! Sounds like several of us have at least had good working out weeks!