Fit N' Fun-Sized - WEEK 5!

Good afternoon my fit and fun ladies. I hope all are doing well with their workouts and staying w/in their allotted calories. My workout for today is complete......Yippee.....Yippee. Since I had a little more energy compared to yesterday I headed to the gym and was able to rock it out. I burned 300 calories on the stairmaster and 320 calories on the elliptical machine.

I feel a bit sore today but it's b/c I know I've been pushing myself when doing the Jillian and Biggest Loser dvds and today I even increased the resistance on the elliptical. I hope all this hard work will equate to at least a 1 lb loss on the scale tomorrow. I will keep you all posted.

Have a great day ladies.

Breezy, You're right "No More Trouble Zones" is NO JOKE!!! I'm huffing and puffing all through it and can't wait to we get to the cool down portion of the dvd. I did this dvd on Monday and plan to close out the week w/it tomorrow. While it's a great workout my problem is that I have a bummed right knee so the squats and lunges can be a bit much at times. If I'm having one of those days I will usually jog in place or do jumping jacks while holding 5 lb weights....anything to keep the heart rate up.

Breezy, You're right "No More Trouble Zones" is NO JOKE!!! I'm huffing and puffing all through it and can't wait to we get to the cool down portion of the dvd. I did this dvd on Monday and plan to close out the week w/it tomorrow. While it's a great workout my problem is that I have a bummed right knee so the squats and lunges can be a bit much at times. If I'm having one of those days I will usually jog in place or do jumping jacks while holding 5 lb weights....anything to keep the heart rate up.

I think I may steal that idea next time, both of my knees have issues form years of dance and cheerleading, the lunges kill me!!

:flowerforyou: You've probably heard this before, but it bears repeating

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"The best exercise is the one you'll do" so if modifying or changing a routine or exercising in short spurts or whatever is working then it's the best exercise.

I'm glad to see us staying focused on our goals and working hard. :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Today is our 21st wedding anniversary and the one year anniversary of our weight loss journey.:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Barbie, congratulations on 21 years of marriage that is amazing! Here's to 21 more years of marital bliss.

Ditto! That is awsome.

JAM

Today is our 21st wedding anniversary and the one year anniversary of our weight loss journey.:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Two wonderful reasons to celebrate, Barbie! Enjoy your day!!! :flowerforyou:

I hope everyone will well. We're enjoying morning freezog - freezing fog. But, I'm staying within calories and keeping active.

Last night I finally bought some new jeans. I love them! And... according to the Mr. "they make your hiney look great!" LOL! :happy:

Keep up the great work, ladies!!! :drinker:

Jzbaby, No More Trouble Zones is NO JOKE! I completed it on Monday and had every intention on doing it again today but this morning I really couldn't take Jillian kicking my tail so I opted for something a little less strenuous.

I know what you mean!! I was a little scared to do it cause i know how Jillian is! I usually try to stay away from her workouts, but i felt up to the challenge lol...At first I was using 5 lbs. weights & i was about to give up after 1 minute. But i thought it looked like they were using 3 lb. weights, so i switched to those & then it was at least do-able. I think im gonna do it again tomorrow..as long as im not really sore! I've been trying to drink more water too. Ive been drinking 7 or 8/day. Im 143.2 right now, so im hoping by sunday weigh-in I can finally see 142.something...been stuck at 143 for toooo long!

I promised myself I'd be off the pc and cleaning the house by 9AM. I'm already late on that promise. There is just something about cleaning the house. Any excuse not to is a good one. So this will be a short post.

Gratz to everyone loosing and have success in their daily goals.

To all of you sweating - be glad that you can. I have two torn shoulders from working at illfitting computer work stations for too many years. According to Jillian's exercise profile all I should do is power walking. I do yoga, swim, ski and some strenght stuff, but a lot of it I just can't do.

Barbie - I'm glad your cat is doing well.

JAM

Choco-i would have done the same thing--$15 for one class is crazy! Let me know how the dance class went it sounds like fun! I am feeling my workout from yesterday! My arms & legs are soooreee. :ohwell: I am going to do a workout today, but its going to be a light one. I dont think im feeling up to anything to crazy today. I drank 7 cups of water--not 8, but wayy better then ive done in previous weeks. This is day 4 of my water challenge--day 2 for the May Day challenge (drink 8 cups of water at least 5 days before friday). Trying to make it an everyday thing. :drinker: Usually i go wayy over my calories on weekends and dont workout, but i am giving it a serious effort to change that. Just because its the weekend doesnt mean i get to completely forget about my diet!! I have about 730 cals left for today (if i dont workout) so we'll see how it goes...Hope u all have a good weekend :flowerforyou:

My cousin and I along w/three girlfriends took an exotic dance class and had A BLAST!!! I think we are going to go back and take the lapdance class that the studio is offering for Valentines's Day.

After exotic dance class we all went to a gourment burger joint called Flip Burger Boutique. If anyone ever watched the Top Chef reality show the owner of Flip was a finalist on that show. The food was EXCELLENT since we had a late start and talked so much afterwards that meal will have to account for a.m. snack, p.m. snack and dinner since we are just returning to the house. I tried to account for the calories the best way I knew how since the restaurants nutritional information is not posted. Based on what I ate (Turkery burger w/avacado, alfafa sprouts & tomato, hand cut fries and a nutella milkshake) I estimated that I consumed about 1300 calories on that meal. Since I ate a light breakfast (boiled egg and turkey sausage w/1 slice of whole wheat bread) and burned calories from the kickboxing I DID NOT go over my calories....YiPPEE, YIPPEE!!!!

Despite the rainy and dreary weather in Georgia I had a WONDERFUL DAY W/FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

Jandie – Congratulations on the 1.8 pound loss. That’s fantastic.

Chocolickkyss – I’m glad you had a great time eating out with your cousin and friends and still managed to stay within your calories.

I'm hoping to go swimming today and ice skating tomorrow. The ice skating is going to hurt. lol But, if I'm driving a bunch of kids from the high school winter activities club and be there for 2 hours anyway, then I am going to skate too. I just hope they rent double runners in my shoe size.

Of couse, I will do my free step on my Wii while I watch football today with my hubby.

JAM

Barbie: Thank for the compliments and continued support. I must admit all these little activities have been a stress reliever.

Jam: Have fun ice skating. I've only done it once in life and I was a small child when that occurred. I would probably break my neck trying to do something like that now......LOL

Everyone else, hope your weekend is going according to plan and if not you're at least rolling with the punches and not allowing it to get you off track.

Hello all! It's amazing how one day you feel like you can take on the world and you get up w/o a problem and rock out the exercise routine and the very next day you don't want to get out of bed at all, never mind trying to workout. Well that's how I felt this morning. I did not feel like moving from my bed and I could have cared less about working out. It's a holiday and I felt like having a lazy day. HOWEVER, I did not allow that negative attitude to win out and I got my lazy tail out the bed and was at the gym by 8 a.m. and rocked it out for a little over an hour. I then spent 10 minutes in the sauna but it was not as enjoyable as usual b/c there was a woman in there talking on her cell phone.....REALLY, I mean the space is small enough and who really wants to hear your damn conversation. I played my Ipod a little louder than normal in order to drown out her damn voice and attempt to lose myself in the words of my favorite artist, Ms. Mary J. Blige. My day did however improve when I purchased my favorite banana/strawberry protein shake b/c it was DELICIOUS!! I spent another 1 1/5 walking around the grocery store so i'm sure I burnt a few more calories doing that (but I won't claim them)

All in all it has been a productive morning and I'm so glad I made myself go to the gym. Since it's a nice day here in GA a friend and I will probably walk around the park a little later.


Hope everyone is having a great day.

I finished my PM workout. I did Leslie Sansones Walk 2 mile video and used 3 lb. weights the whole time. I didn't think the weights would make too much of a difference, but they the difference between me not breaking a sweat and sweating pretty good by the end. :happy:

I have given the majority if not all my clothes to a women's shelter. I felt they were in better need of them then me. Proceed w/caution when it comes to keeping them b/c you don't want to get relaxed and if you start gaining it's easy to switch back to the clothes in your closet w/out giving it a second thought.