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Hi all,

Was totally MIA yesterday. Busy workday and then a late curling game last night. We lost. :ohwell:

Beeps - love that necklace! I l love your shoulders more!!!

Princess - wonderful picture of you and your grandmother! 94 years young...look at her!

hey everyone!

princess - beautiful pic... wow, your Grandma look fantastic!!

Got in a great morning hill walk while the sidewalks are bare, little icy in spots but at least the slush is gone. My dogs were happy with me; I have been on my treadmill while waiting for the weather to decide what it was going to do so haven't had them on a walk for a few days. It's sexy shoulder day after work... I am channeling Beeps for this one!

enjoy your day everyone!

Posted this on my profile but wanted to share here too!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving friends! I will catch up with you by the weekend! I appreciate each and every one of you! Friends, family and the life I have. I am blessed in so many ways! Take care and enjoy the Holiday's. What would you do today if you knew you were not going to be here tomorrow? Love better? Laugh louder, be kinder, forgive someone or just lay there and wait for the end to come? Life is for living not waiting for the end to come! So lets live it to best of our abilities each and every day! Make each day count! xoxo

Off to lift at lunch!

Happy Monday Cool Kids,

Hope all my American friends enjoyed their Thanksgiving weekend.

We got lots of snow here on Saturday. I was watching my granddaughter and had our morning planned, which included a walk uptown and then to the local food drive for our food bank. Well, the snow made that walk a workout!! I worked up a major sweat pushing the 40lb toddler on unplowed streets and sidewalks! It was such a nice day though, it felt good to be outside.
My day with my granddaughter was so much fun, but exhausting. I needed a nap afterward. lol.
Was a little worried about the shovelling I would have to do when I got home, as it continued to snow heavily the entire morning. Thankfully, some good samaratin ploughed my driveway while I was out. :bigsmile:
I have NO idea who did it, but I thanked the Good Lord for sending someone my way. I have a HUGE driveway and really need to learn to use the snowblower. I can shovel, but that would be an all afternoon job for sure.

Went for a run yesterday - roads were now cleared of the snow, so it made running a little easier. Some messy spots, but not too bad. It's always better to run outside than on the dreadmill.

Think I'm going to give Zumba a try tonight. There are limited classes this month, but am going to try and take advantage of a few.

Have a great day all,

Hi all. Checking in. Sorry to break to you all that the weather is very mild (tho very overcast) here in Northern Alabama. keep chugging along.

LOL Beeps. hey, I grew up in NJ and just moved from there like 2 and a half years ago. lol I also went to school in Indiana. Always got those Chicago/Great lakes cold winds coming down. Neh! I will take this nice warm winter. LOL I just have to deal with the hot and humid summer. lol I will be in NJ for Christmas tho.

Hey Kids!!

Hope all that celebrated Thanksgiving had an awesome one!

We've had pretty temperate weather thus far but the forecast are calling for some cooler days ahead of us. Today, is -10 but the windchill made it feel like -25!! ugh. I suppose we are due for winter, double ughh.

WTG Beeps for getting it done!

jmclean - you are the only one that can kick your *kitten* so you better get some flexibility work in too! lol. You have to be stronger than yor excuses and you have to want it bad enough, that's it. Also, ignore the scale... make this about getting healthy and then you won't put so much pressure on yourself.

December goals - continue with carb cycling and then in January eat at MFP macros and compare stats. This 5/2 cycle is pretty easy to adhere to because I get a high carb intake every couple days but I just don't know if there is any real benefit to it for me at this stage. Been doing IF for a while now but with my focus shifting from cardio/endurance to heavy/hypertrophy, I'm finding that I am just way too hungry some morning so I am going to eat when I am hungry. I am also going to make sure I am still running for a minimum 4 days/wk; an incline interval, a speed interval and 2 easy pace 3mile minimum. And lastly, I am going to start weighing myself semi monthly; first day of period when water retention is over and then again mid cycle. It's not about weight for me anymore.

I thoroughly enjoyed my rest day yesterday; I didn't even get out of my PJs all day!! I puttered around the house, wrapped Christmas presents and did a little baking after my week food prep. It was great.
I was up this morning and got my upper body workout in and jump rope intervals to finish it off. After work run planned as well.

Enjoy your Monday folks!

Thanks WhatABroad So true!

Hi all. Checking in. Beeps and Whatabroad, can you fill me in on the purpose of this carb cycle?

Currently I am cutting back on many carb calories. I will eat my Cheerios or oatmeal in the morning, but then i will rely on fruits and vegatables after that. I basically cut out breads and pastas for now until I reach my goal weight. When I go into my bulk phase, I will add some of those deleted carbs back in.

I run pretty much every morning except Sunday and do weights 4x a week (2x upper body, 2x lower body/abs). That is my routine for my fat cutting phase. Also hope to do my first 5K or 10K this spring.

Welcome jmclean.

Beeps, I heard about that storm sweeping across Alberta. Yikes. Hope it loses it's force as it makes its way east.

Great day yesterday, exercise wise. Eating wasn't too bad, well, except for the cookies.

Went to my first Zumba class - 45 minutes of shaking my boot-aye. It was so much fun. Afterward I stuck around for the Total Body Fit class, but I was the only one that showed. The instructor is also my personal friend, so she said we could do a short workout together, We ended up doing an hour and half of kick boxing, core work, weights and ab work. Had a great workout and lots of fun. Loved it!

Today is my day to lift, but have a late work meeting and then have to curl right after,. If my curling game is cancelled, I'm hitting the gym. :happy:

I have "watched" Zumba a couple of times and I can see myself tripping over my own feet! - don't know if that counts or not! Lol.

For the record- cookies are good! All depends on whether or not you eat them all! :bigsmile:

Hi cool kids! Came back from Thanksgiving weekend away with the in-laws and went straight into a work dinner last night.... Now it's time to get my eating back under control. We just bought tickets for winter vacation and I've got to not hate myself in a bathing suit, at the very least!

Stoshew - carb cycling is another method used for fat loss while maintaining or building lean muscle mass. It allows for 1 or 2 high carb days a week, usually on heavy training days, to ensure restoration of the glycogen levels. It is really quite beneficial in getting those last few pounds off without the need for restricting calories any further. As I said, at my stage, I don't really know if there is a big benefit right now as I still have high body fat. I just know that it has allowed me to stick to a lower carb intake alot easier.

Thanks WhataBroad! I did do a little research and I kind of already do some of this, except I don't have high calorie days.

What I actually do is cut out most of my breads and pastas that I used to eat. I read this article on bodybuilding.com website that introduces this carb cycling thing. Seems like the higher carb days is two fold (mental reward and to replace glycogen (sp) that was lost on the low carb or no carb days). I am kinda highly motivated right now, so i don't need the reward days. getting closer to my goal is reward enough.

But the way the guy introduced it on bb.com was that he started this thing like years ago before anyone knew the science behind it. Like, I knew I had to drop calories to loose body fat and I already had a low fat diet, and I wasn't about to cut protein, so what is left? Carbs! That is how I arrived to where I am now. I still eat a bowl of Cheerios in the morning or a bowl of oatmeal. I will have a bannana with that. Lunch or mid day I will have an orange then later on an apple. Some days I will have no more than 200 g of sweet potato cause of the Vit A and potassium. Other vegatables offcourse. Other than that, not much in the carb department. I wanted to focus my calories on protein. I do run every morning (exept Sunday). I lift 4x a week at night (2x upper & 2x lowerbody/abs). I have not done a recent tape measure (which I need to do) so not sure how much body fat I have left.

on 10/28/2013 I had 31% BF. That was when i was 228.1 lbs. Now I am just under 214. I am also 6'2". So I will be soon getting to the point where maybe the lowered carbs will mean much more.

Anyway, thanks again all!

Happy Wednesday! Rest day for me which I think is good today. My shoulder has been sore for the past couple of days, so I may go easy on the arms/shoulders tomorrow as well. Just keeping my calories in check for today- or at least trying to.