The Last 10

Yes, I'll take the order too Hoosiermamma. Sooo my dresses came in yesterday, officially 2 weeks late from when they were supposed to. And they were excellently made, but a HORRIBLE COLOR!!!! I ordered dark purple, and the thing I got was this weird middle purple that looked pinkish (I don't think there's ever been a purple I didn't like- UNTIL NOW!) Anddd the liner was a magenta, WTF!? So needless to say they didn't even come close to matching my dark purple flowers, (I would have been happier with an entirely different color, or a lavender, but the color they gave me absolutely CLASHED with my flowers). So anyway, my mom and I went shopping yesterday in Green Bay with my maid of honor, and we got beautiful royal purple dresses at Dress Barn, along with cute Black shoes at Payless (equaling the same price we payed for the dresses from e-bay, it came out to around $50 for each bridesmaid for dress+shoes!!), so problem solved, I'm just hoping that the man from e-bay from China will refund me the money for the dresses!!

And my weight was up .5 today... discouraging, but I had to eat food court food in the mall yesterday. I got the chicken and veggie kabob's at the Chinese restaurant without any sauce on them... hoping for a healthy choice, but I have no doubt they were loaded with Sodium.... o well. Have a GREAT MOTHERS DAY everyone!!!!

I'm in. I've got about 5 lbs until my goal, but I might move the goal down another 5 lbs depending upon how things look and feel. (I would really like to have some well-defined muscles even when I am NOT striking a pose!)

On Sunday, I'm starting a 6 week kettlebell class that meets once a week. So, that will definitely be a good sweat workout. Besides this, I started back up with the Couch 2 5K program. I had to put it on hold a few weeks ago because I must've strained a groin muscle. Things feel better now, so I'll be able to get in some running and that will help up my cardio every week.

I think I also need to look into scaling back on the carbs. Gymrat, how few carbs did you eat? Do you know what your ratios were? Ideally, I am for 40/30/30, but I've been going over on carbs a lot recently.

50/30/20...Increasing your protein makes you burn more calories during digestion and it suppresses your appetite leading to faster weight loss. Never go lower than 30-to-40% for complex carbs because that'll make you crave for more carbs (it's the bad carbs that make you gain weight) and because that may lead to fatigue, irritably, and muscle loss all which will make it harder for you to lose weight and easier for you to gain weight. If you do a lot of high intensity fat loss workouts because more carbs will give you more energy to workout longer & harder at a higher intensity which will make you burn more fat when you exercise so if your weight loss plan includes a lot of high intensity fat loss workouts, you may want to increase your carbs to 50-to-60% while keeping your protein at 30% and lowering your fat to 10% for a carb, protein, fat ratio of 60/30/10 but. Never go over 60% for complex carbs because that may cause you to store extra fat and/or excess water but you need to see what ratio of carbs, proteins and fats works best for you so even though your friend lost a lot of weight on a carb, protein, and fat ratio of 50/30/20 - You may need a carb, protein, fat ratio of 35/45/20 to see weight loss results but before you start changing up the amounts of proteins, carbs and fats you eat. Make sure you're eating the right amount of calories to lose weight and..That you're eating the right foods and.that you're exercising all before you mess with the amounts of carbs proteins and fats you eat so..a good starting point for you or anyone else trying to lose weight would be to start off eating all of your proteins, carbs and fats at a 50%/30%/20% ratio and then just go from there to see what works best, play with the numbers. I'm a true beleiver that not just "any" cardio will work, especially when you have the few pounds to go, interval training is a fantastic way to go, there are so many variations, that's it's hard to not find something you can enjoy.