Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! I was slammed with graduation parties, family get togethers and misc housework. I am troubled by the fact that I never really thought about getting on here until today. That does not make me feel too hot. Friday around lunchtime, we are leaving for vacation for a week. We are going to the Outer Banks in NC. I am excited but somewhat apprehensive about how that will go. I still feel very "out of control" with my calories. My goal for exercise is to take a long walk on the beach each morning as I listen to my audio books. So my big goal is to at least check in daily and also track my food. I really hope we have cell coverage in that area. I'm not sure yet! Anyways....

I also did sign up for another month's worth of exercise classes at my local YMCA. I signed up for spinning class and also something called body pump. Tomorrow is the first day and the class begins at 5:30am. I need to make sure I get back into my normal habit of being in bed and asleep by 10pm at the latest!

I will accept (belatedly) the push-up challenge. I've been getting back into my yoga practice the last couple months, and can really tell a difference in my upper body strength, so this'll be interesting.

This weekend was not good for me (or the team). I did really well on Friday, and then kind of lost control the rest of the weekend. However, the progress that was undone can be regained with a little extra effort, so I'm back on track today.

Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday and getting back on track after the holiday. Today has been a great day got 25 miles in on the bike and if I could have ignored the dryer buzzing I should have stayed and done some more. Push ups for today 8 real ones, and 22 girlie ones.

Because I have seriously increased my activity level I'm trying to up my calories a bit, and never would have thought it would be a challenge to eat more then 1200 calories, but adjusting myself to eat 1450 calories so I can keep fueling my workouts and continue losing healthy.

I just did the Jillian Michael's level one thirty day shred. (found on youtube) It was Tough for me, but doable. I did lots of crunches and very sad push ups. I did 20 knee style push ups. I will keep working on them. I will get stronger and better.

I love 30 Day Shred, I'm on level 2. You will get stronger on level 1 it took me until about Day 6 or so before I felt like I could keep up.

Still on track - have not counted for a couple of days but know that haven't blown it - exercise is a challenge as had snow & husband away so can't go to an evening exercise class try and do squats while cooking etc - lots of sunshine today so took the dog for a walk in snow

Have a long weekend this weekend (do not live in US) - weekend planning worked well last weekend so will try again and get back to counting today.

Hmmm - not as strong as I'd hoped: 6 real push-ups and 6 girls push-ups. FAHHHHHbulous form, though! :happy: Oh well, nowhere to go but up.