@tonya, wow a back injury's a big thing to overcome! That's impressive. And the keys- I'm totally jealous! I haven't been able to afford a real vacation yet in my adult life. Sounds like fun! I bet the stronger you get from TF the better your back gets!

@dream_big my running's totally gone to the back burner. I had started running in March of last year and up until a few weeks ago went at least a couple of times a week for most of an hour at a time- but it just got too cold and wet! Living in the Seattle area, I don't think I'll ever understand the "wet weather" runners. I tried it... really tried! I was so misterable being all wet though. I don't enjoy the running when it's in the 40's or below either. Picky, I know. haha! I stopped a few weeks ago and started the TF dvd I have/ other similar workouts. Also- a single mom and night shifts along with exercise? Good for you! That makes me tired just thinking of all that.

@vini WOW. That's a lot! I'm always impressed by people with more than one kid. Makes my head spin! haha. MFP's been so amazing. I've been on here almost 2 years now! Really amazing. I've made so many friends, some that I've acutally met up with in real life. It's made the biggest difference having this community of support on here.

I did my fire 45 dvd today, woop! This working out 6 days a week thing that I started a few weeks ago (when I got the fire 45 dvd- geez I wish the rest of the dvds would hurry up and arrive!) is SO DIFFERENT for me! The last two years the most I ever worked out in a week was 4 days a week. Maybe that'll help a lot with my weight loss? That'd be nice.... I'm also adjusting well to my calorie level- after so long maintaining last year on anywhere from 2200-2600 a day going down to 1800-1900 a day was quite a change!! I really really hope its my sweet spot. I should know in a few more weeks. I've already gone back down to 150 (after the holidays I was regularly seeing 154 on the scale, so an actual gain instead of my normal range of peaking here and there) so I think that's a good sign that this level of exercise and food intake will be the ticket. The real test will be if I can get out of the 150's. I'm SO CLOSE. I've been in them for so long, I'm ready to move on!

Anyways, it's my precious tv time. I wake up at the crack of dawn for work- by 5am every morning and start work at 730. I workout after work, so by the time I get done with that and make dinner for myself it's usually 7pm! I really enjoy a few hours of tv before bed haha

Good morning ladies! Today's plan will be one of my turbo jam dvds since my TF dvds STILL aren't here. Boo. I looked up the trackng number and the united states postal service is officially incompetent! LOL. The package started in NY, came across the country to Federal Way, Wa (like 45 minutes from where I live) and was distributed to California last week, and is en route back to WA to me. What a waste of resources! LOL. Oh well, it'll come some day. Anyways, it was so hard to get up today!! I really just wanted to keep sleeping. I don't get enough sleep during the weekdays. I know this.. but.. can't fix it! In order to get enough I'd have to start going to bed at like 9pm. That's too early. I go to bed at 10, then probably fall asleep by 1030 and end up with around 6.5 hrs of sleep a night. I was in the middle of a dream when my alarm went off today, so definitely not ready to get up! I make up for it on the weekends though- yet another advantage of singleness, I can sleep in super late weekends. No kiddos or family to wake me up! haha! I can tell today's going to be another boring clinic day, so that doesn't help my energy level. two of my doctors that are usually in clinic aren't here today so I've only got about a dozen patients all day with the nurse practitioners. Boring! When the regular MDs are here I get to do fun prodecures and spend more time with the patients, but the nurse practitioner's clinics are super boring to run. That means finding busy work.... and internetting a lot... argh. There are also two pretty, young medical students here shadowing one of our young, hot, single doctors. bleh. I hate the shameless flirting. LOL.

@ liz, my BFF is to me what your sister is to you! She's tall, gorgeous, naturally thin, more outgoing than me. I lvoe her to death but get jealous, especially because she gets more attention from men than I do when we're out. Hopefully I'll change that this year! LOL. It's gunna be tough but I'll get there. It's sad but true that looks are important in this world for first impressions/ attracting the opposite sex. Slow and steady weightloss is totally going to be better for you than quick weightloss! It'll be so much more exciting when you finally reach your goal knowing that you did it the right way this time!

@ Muireann- what a story! That's a huge accomplishment, losing as much as you have already! You sound super determined, I bet you'll reach that goal with the help of turbofire!

@Amber- 2 days in, good for you! You can do this! Stick to the program this time! That's gunna be the challenge for me too- not to stray. That's why I have so many friggin' workout dvds (about 30)- I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I'm hoping that since I enjoy TF so much I'll be able to stick to it!!

@tawnie- that's amazing your hubby's joining you! That'll be a great thing to do together. Apparently couples that workout together have a stronger bond, right? Only good things will come from it. I so understand how easy it is to put weight back on! I think if I hadn't continued logging last year to keep myself on track while I was maintaining I would have gained too. Re: the app... I don't know if the iphone app is the same as the android app, but nope- can't access the boards from there. I just open my browser and do it that way.

@ donna, don't forget to measure! I hear with TF that's more important than weighing because you'll see more changes in body composition than you will on the scale (although that will drop for you too. Just don't forget to measure! haha) Knee surgery! OMG. That must be so difficult when you enjoy exercising! So amazing to hear though that you're doing TF and not having issues with it!

@Amber, yea I'm attempting the SAME THING. LOL. I almost bought Chalean extreme yesterday but then I was like "what are you doing?! You haven't even GOTTEN turbofire in the mail yet!!" LOL. When I get my tax refund though, I'll probably purchase that one so that I can do the combo plan after TF.

Hello ladies! As predecited, super boring workday! LOL. I hate hate hate when I have to find busy work (administrative office work). I much prefer when clinic's nice and busy and I'm running around for the doctors all day! Unfortunately tomorrow will be the same because the head and neck surgeon I assist is out of town. Boo. Tomorrow's a rest day too for exercise, so it'll be a lower burn day! I'll probably eat a little lower also. After I got home I did indeed kill my workout! I did my 45 mins of TJ cardio party 3 and 15 total mins warmup and cooldown with Michelle Dozios Peak 10 cardio interval burn dvd (love that one by the way). I do really love Chalene and her workouts.... but... they don't have enough warmup for me! I like to stretch and really ease into activity, really warm up before starting the punches and stuff. So I do and additional 5 mins warmup with another dvd, and then after I like extra cooldown so if I'm not feeling the stretch 10 with TF (and TJ has almost no cooldown) I pop in another dvd for an extra 5-10 mins of cooldown. I wonder if I can attribute not being sore to this routine? I'm hardly ever sore. I've been doing cardo kickboxing workouts 6 days a week for 3 1/2 weeks and have yet to feel sore. I feel stronger for sure and have lost a couple of pounds (probably bloat) but no soreness. Anyays, after that I had a HUGE dinner. Ended my day just under 2000 cals, perfect!

(i'm probably going to forget everyone's names unless it's in the screenname! sorry!)

@donna, my body does that too... I adjust to an activity and stop seeing progress. I'm REALLY hoping this doesn't happen with TF! It looks like the workouts change just enough that maybe my body won't have a chance to adapt. Hopefully.

@Muireann- I CANT BELIEVE THE DVDS STILL ARENT HERE! The last update on the tracking thing says "left so and so, california sorting facility 1-25-13. Now, even driving that length doesn't take THIS long. I've wondered if I should email the seller, asking if this has happened to anyone else! He/she mailed it almost one week ago.

@butterfly, woohoo!! That's a big step having fun is so important instead of feeling like you're dying! I think all the running I did the last 9 months prepped me for this level of activity, because while it's still hard work I haven't felt like dying at any point and I think i'm doing more cardio kickboxing than I will be when I start the actual turbofire schedule!

@preshusgem- sounds like you've got plenty of dvd sets to do a hybrid! You don't need to buy another set I'll need a set though that focuses on strength work after I get through TF in order to do a hybrid. 8 weeks in, wow! You're almost half way done! That's amazing!!

Ooo that sounds neat tawnie! I'm a daily weigher also. I actually do a lot better mentally with my weight when I watch the daily fluctuations. That way instead of one week seeing one number, and the next seeing a different higher number I don't freak out, because I've seen the daily fluctuations and understand what's going on!