Time for us Moms! Group

Cori - thank you. If I do something, I try to do it the right way. Gets me in trouble sometimes since I am more of an all or nothing girl, but it also helps when I have my mind focused on my willpower is strong.

Heather - thinking of you and hope you are doing well tonight.

Chas - this one tasted a billion times better than the Master Cleanse. I also like that the Shakeology has so many vitamins and minerals in it, that I knew taking it 3 times a day I was getting all of my calcium and other vitamins that I needed. No salt water flush on this (oh my goodness, it's so hard to gag down) or senna tea to get things moving or hot lemonade. Let me know if you want to try it, I can sell you the packets for it if you don't want to buy an entire bag of it or you can order it and if you don't like it, return it for a full refund.

Challenge - hmmmm, take your weight and multiply it by 20. This is the amount of calories to shoot for burning during exercise for the week. So, for me that would be 3170 calories which would mean I need to realistically work out 5 or 6 days a week to hit it. Every week when we weigh-in, we will post our new number to burn and also post our amount that we burned the week prior. We can pick Sunday as a new start of the week. Hopefully this will get the weight dropping off and keep us motivated. How does it sound?

Love the format! I think it will be perfect, Cori!

Happy to be eating again this morning. Lost a total of 4 lbs in 3 days, so I am thrilled. I posted some new pictures that I took this morning on my profile. I never thought I would be in a bikini. This weekend we'll take pics of each other (which always turn out better) but these will have to suffice for now.

Chas - I'll message you. It's not a problem for me. Welcome to the challenge!

Kaitlyn - you know, at first I thought about setting a goal that I knew would work for me calorie wise and then, like Cori said, I realized that that goal might be really easy for some people to hit or really difficult. Cori is right, the more you weigh the higher the calories you burn. I'm trying to focus on an hour every day for 5 or 6 days a week. That's what will get results. Have you tried your new DVD yet? How do you like it? Yay for getting the money! Too bad it has to go towards bills though.

Cori - awesome about your calorie burn. I know that I have not hit mine yet this week since it has been our week off of P90X. But, come Sunday, it's on! Hmm, this weekend. Hubby mentioned that his co-worker's daughter is turning 1 and having a party tomorrow, so I guess we are going to that after church. There is a Kitchen Club meeting among our friends on Sunday with a soup theme and we were planning on going to that. The boys need to go see my MIL since it's been a few weeks (sigh....LOL), so we will probably go jump on the trampoline over there since it is the only place where my allergies don't get all fired up. It's supposed to warm up the next few days too. Maybe swimming before they close the pool down. Depends though since Othello woke up with a fever this morning, we may do nothing if he doesn't get better soon.

It's my last Slim 6 tonight! Yay! I am not leading the class every night after this, just on Sundays and Thursdays so I will have more time with the boys at night and so as not to interfere with my husband's class he does Monday, Wednesday, Friday with the staff at his school site. It has been a long 6 weeks for sure! Have a great weekend, everyone!

Lisa

Lisa - When we were looking for our house (just bought 3 years ago) I was all excited, but it's really just exhausting :laugh: Good luck on your search! Quiet and peaceful was exactly what we went for, we ended up in a new development away from everything with tons of trails. You're gonna end up on one of those muscle magazines, lol. I've been slacking on the strength training - but you've motivated me to get back to it. I actually enjoy it, just been enjoying the calorie burn from cardio.

Kaitlyn - Gotta love little ones and their phases! I'm surprised I didn't lose weight when mine went through that up and down phase, since of course they both wanted to be picked up at once. Nice job staying within your calorie range! The new DVD sounds cool, hope you get some time to use it. Sorry about the IUD - sounds like a huge hassle! I've never used one, heard too many horror stories of them falling out :laugh:

Waiting for dinner and then we're off for a bike ride. Yesterday was my rest day so I'm hoping my legs don't give up me (always seems to be worse after I've had a day off). Looked around for a used elliptical this weekend, didn't find one but did try some out. I forgot how much work they are. I used to be able to crank out an hour, and 2 minutes in I was sweating lol. Summer has decided to return, can't wait for the fall weather to get back so I don't have to wait until too late to work out. I was adventurous yesterday and tried spaghetti squash (I'm a very picky eater) - and surprise, surprise, I really liked it! Will definitely be adding that the rotation,

Hope all you mommas have a great week!

Cori - LOL I won't be on the cover, I just want to be fit. I love lifting. Something about it that makes me feel so strong. I burned a good 400 calories today doing Shoulders and Arms too. Yeah, the housing is a bit tiresome, but it has motivated me to push on. I'm just getting tired of paying rent. I think there is such a vast difference in the quality between the home machines and the $5000 Precor at the gym. I had a hard time doing 20 minutes on my elliptical when I used to knock out 75 on the one at the gym.

Mmmmm, spaghetti squash is one thing I have been eating since high school (of course back then my mom made it with a bunch of butter in it). I love it so much and my boys do too. I definitely need to buy some soon.

Summer arrived for sure. It was about 100 degrees yesterday here. Went to the pool for a little bit yesterday afternoon and around noon took the kids again. I, unfortunately, don't get to do much swimming. I just sit in the 2 ft deep pool with Gabriel and play around with him in there, but the twins are getting much more comfortable in the big pool. They are really swimming now and it is so cool to watch! I think we are supposed to be warm until Friday and then maybe start cooling down again. We need it to, for sure. About died yesterday doing Insanity Plyo Cardio Circuit with the windows open, our fan on, and it was only 6 a.m.

Have a good day ladies. Come out, come out, wherever you are!!!

Kaitlyn - I had the Paragard after the twins and I just couldn't handle it. My TOM was so much heavier and more painful. I like the Mirena, but I could see why you would say no after having it fall out! Oh my! That does literally stink about your students. One more month until you hear, right? Praying that you get in. I am working so hard right now on being able to stay home all the time and not have to go to work. Even though I work part-time, it adds a lot of stress to my day when I have to go in and I just feel like we miss out on a lot of things that I would like to do as a family.

I have been having kind of a hard time lately. I've been hungry and craving stuff I haven't for a while. I ran out of my Shakeology early because of the cleanse and yesterday I realized that the 4 days without it really made a difference in how I feel. I found a packet last night and felt so much better and decided to just start the day off with my husband's flavor this morning. I feel so much better already!

Have a great day!

Lisa