I feel better today too. I even peeked at the scale this morning and was back down to my weight 1.5 weeks ago. Maybe I can get a 0.5 pound loss this week. Maybe. I did another round of circuits last night which I am really enjoying. I'm doing 1 minute of some strength moves: chest press, squat, tricep extensions, rows, lunges, etc. I do 3 minutes of that, then run for 3 minutes, then do 4 minutes of strength, then run another 3 minutes, then do 4 minutes of strength and finish with 3 minutes of abs. I have been adding a quick fast run on the end too. Last night I did a 9:10 mile after. This is really fitting into what I want to do. BUT! I actually am missing lifting heavy a bit. I'm missing the soreness that always seemed to bring. So maybe next week when social obligations slow I will try to get back to lifting 3x a week and doing whatever other cardio I want. Running is my go to, but training starts in 6 weeks, so maybe I ought to lay off. I'm afraid I am going to get burnt out on running......

Woah! We are way into the new thread...will hopefully catch up this afternoon!

I also wanted to add to keep eating healthy and not eat too much over the weekend.

Tonight going to the gym to get some major circuit work in. Then tomorrow doing 30 day shred and back to the gym on thursday and friday! Saturday i can't wait to do Zumba. It has been a couple of weeks and that class always gets me interested!

get off the ole' bum and exercise!! I've been a bit lazy lately!! I'll do three days of yoga and three of cardio..

The costume sounds fun Abi. I'm 32 and still love dress up.

Amy, Ooooo....Lumineers. Great band. You're very into music too right? I think you mentioned Bonnaroo at some point. My husband and I probably average a show a month. WE are going to see Grace Potter in January and Alt J in February I think.

Rogie, you put in a new transmission?! Impressive indeed. That most def deserves a cocktail.

Pratimaram, sounds like you are getting great workouts in.

Welcome new peeps and/or returning peeps. Sounds like everyone has great goals.

WEll my work party last night (#1 of 4 this week) was LAME! No bar; the refreshments were cookies, coffee and a hot chocolate bar. Our office just moved and I'm pretty sure a ton of money was dropped on moving expenses and lost hours so I guess we went cheap this year. It was so boring we left 45 minutes early. Typically we close down the party. So we went to dinner after, split a bottle of wine and ate reasonably well. I feel pretty good today. TOnight we have a happy hour/holiday social after work and party 3 of 4 actually got canceled so I can work out THursday. Friday I have off but have my girls Christmas dinner that night. I'm interested to see what the scale says tomorrow. It hopefully will be insentive for me not to eat and drink too much tonight.

Well I just wanted to check in and say hi. I'm dragging @ss today. Since my baby has been regularly waking around 3am, I do too. So even though she actually slept all night last night, I woke at 3 and didn't get back to bed till around 5:30. The baby got up around 6:15 and I have the best husband; he took her downstairs and watched cartoons with her so I could sleep a little longer. Have a great day chicks!

Had another great day yesterday. Went over my cals because at about 8:30 I was actually really hungry, but had no cals left, so I just had a piece of string cheese. Which i guess is better than eating cookies or something. Had a great workout as well. We are having pasta for dinner tonight, which will put me over my carbs, but I have been under the past few days, so it should even out. I can't remember if I mentioned it before but I set my macros to follow LP's guidelines and I am really trying to stick with it this time. (Didn't do so great on my last attempt).

Beeps- I cannot drink caffeine after like 4 or I can never get to sleep at night, captain and diet used to be my drink of choice and I had to give that up

Had another good day yesterday. Got in my 55 minutes of TurboFire. I really enjoying this program right now, which is what I really needed, I was totally in a workout rut lately. Went over in my carbs tho because of some pasta and a candy cane (which was delicious btw). I have today all planned out for food, but I cant decide if I want to do my workout tonight or tomorrow morning, I still get a rest day this week. And then Sunday is a core workout and stretching.

Asjervan- for me that menu is easy, some people may say boring, but I do much better with consistency. And I really don't get sick of foods often, which really annoys my husband because he can't eat the same thing 2 days in a row and I can eat the same things everyday!

Thanks to all for all of the kind words. One upside of spending 5 weeks trying not to lose weight or to exercise too hard is that now that I'm eating at a deficit and doing more interval training I'm back to losing weight again. The scale was down almost 3 pounds today, and I'm guessing that some of it could just be dehydration since I've only been so-so on the water (though no booze last night at least). So I'm only going to log a little bit of it and not get too excited yet, but it's definitely nice to see. We’re hosting a holiday party tomorrow, so my plan is to go for a quick hard run tomorrow morning and then do a 10 miler on Sunday with a friend. I'm not going to even attempt to log my food tomorrow, but even if I overindulge it will just be fuel for the long run on Sunday, so I should be okay overall as long as I get back to tracking everything on Sunday.

I have a lot to catch up on, sorry to those I missed:

Abigail--dancing in the Nutcracker sounds like such a fun way to lose weight! And P90X for the New Year is definitely a good goal to start with.

Amy--I hope you had a fun time at all of your social events this week! And nice work on the strength workouts. I think you get more bang for your buck with strength anyways, and you'll probably get a better burn when you go back to cardio than if you had been doing the same routine every day.

Rogie--A new bikini is always good for inspiration! Sounds like you have a great plan for getting through Christmas.

bd--It's amazing what happens when you just get off the couch :-)

prati--great goals! I always use the "extras" when I prepare food for lunches for later in the week, which saves $$ for us too since the alternative is to eat out.

Ashley--sounds like you had a fun post-office party at least! And I think that no movement on the scale is probably a win when you have so much going on right now. It'll make it that much easier to get the scale to start moving again when things calm down.

Chloe--excellent job getting back on track! That's amazing how much weight came off, goes to show you that water weight is definitely a real thing!

Beeps--I hear you on those rum and diets, they're the perfect drink except when it comes time to go to sleep….

Kelly--It's Friday! Hopefully you can fit in some "nothing time" along with the workouts this weekend.

Good morning ladies! I didn't have too terrible of a weekend. Did good Friday, but ended up having some wine and a handful of M&Ms, but I felt ok about it because I got in my workout and resisted all the holiday goodies all week long last week. Saturday and Sunday I did not workout. Did good Saturday with eating, but ended up drinking too much and had to tacos in a drunken state :ohwell: Sunday could have been way worse than it was considering I was so hungover. I didn't eat too bad at my friends all day just watching football while the hubby went to the Bears v Packers game.

I am going to have a good week this week. I don't really have anything going on in the evenings this week. I just need to finish getting ready for Christmas. Turbofire tonight and I have my menu pretty much planned for the whole week.

My attempt to do a 10-miler on Sunday was a fail. I usually take the metro to meet my friend, run 6 with her, then run home for another 4. Yesterday the metro was really delayed, so I had to drive instead. I guess I could have just added on another 4, but I was hurting from the party on Saturday.... Overall my weekend was pretty good. I drank way too much, but I got in two runs and didn't eat too badly. This morning the scale is still showing me down a pound from where I was a few weeks ago, so we'll see what it looks like tomorrow after the effects of the booze are gone.

Merry week before Christmas ladies! Great job on keeping it moderated this weekend.

I did ok. Not as strict as the weekend before, but yesterday my husband and I were busy captaining the failboat trying to get a Christmas tree, which turned into a half a day ordeal because our favorite u-cut tree farm closed and then I found out my husband threw out our tree stand last year because it was "old". It's quite hard to get a christmas tree stand this close to Christmas. :grumble: So, we had some fast food while we were on the run, after I treated myself to a coffee with a million calories in it. Oh well, I'm over it. We spent the morning helping my dad cut down a tree that had sustained beaver damage and was threatening to fall in the parking lot of his office, so I got to throw wood and branches around, it was a great (but weird) workout.

KC, I spent a long time shopping today too, and I'm also not done! I can't wait until shopping is done, hopefully tomorrow.

Going to zumba tonight, and lifting weights in the morning. So glad to have the week off from work, no excuses to not workout. The trick will be staying away from cookies and booze. I've gotten pretty good at ignoring the wine in the house, hopefully I can keep it up and choose water instead of wine.