Ahh!! Ladies!! I'm engaged!! My boyfriend proposed to me last night! just had to let you all know!!

Awesome news! Congrats!

My weekend was actually pretty decent. My gift exchange dinner with girlfriends got canceled for Friday because of the snow and ice. So Eric and I had a nice mellow evening in. I had just a few drinks and some wings for dinner, watched a movie and went to bed early. Saturday relaxed in the morning, ran some errands, and ran 3 miles on the treadmill. I haven't been on that thing in months. Like probably 6 months or more. It wasn't terrible and I am geared up to put some mileage on it this winter. I'm doing a 50 miles in December challenge and I'm only at like 7 miles, so I have some work to do! Saturday night we had a party and I actually didn't overindulge like I usually would. Filled my plate with about 1/2 protein and had 2 little cheesecake bites for dessert and a few glasses of wine. Came home, had one more glass and went to bed early AGAIN! Yesterday I grocery shopped for the first time alone in a long time. Then did about 2 hours of food prep: appetizers for family party last night and lunch today and made a chicken brocoli chowder we'll eat tonight and Tuesday. Wednesday is my Christmas party, and Thursday we have a friend's birthday dinner out. Another party Saturday. I've got to squeeze in some workouts this week and do as well as I can with food. I have a Christmas lunch today too!

Workout goals for the week:
M - may try to walk or run on the mill or maybe lift a little tonight. I never work out after dinner, but I think I want to try to get Eric and I into that habbit at least once a week.
T - class
W - lift or run in the a.m.
R - lift or run during nap time (day off)
F - rest
S - run
Su - lift

As far as food and drink goes, I'm just going to do my best considering all my events. Have a great week ladies!

Morning ladies - crazy busy at work today but just wanted to check in.

CONGATS Shander! So excited for you

Weekend was not as bad as it could be, but wasn't great either. Drank everyday, but in moderation. My eating was pretty bad, but I've already meal planned for this week tons of healthy stuff. I have been keeping up with my workouts too, which makes me feel good!

My goals for the week:

3 lifts, 2 cardio sessions
WATER
Minimal (or no) weeknight drinking

Last time I checked in, was page 7 or something. I skimmed over page 17 and do not feel caught up at all! I did see Beeps belly though! Looking good. I am such and apple but due to lack of working out, my booty is YUCKY! My eating is so-so, but I am still sitting 4 pounds up from last Feb/March. I can't remember when the downward spiral began!

I love working it and I miss it so. Every time I workout, I get mad because I have become so weak!

My goals. ( I can start on a Tues right?).
1. 5 workouts - 1 upper, 1 lower, 1 core, 2 cardio.
2. Eat less carbs.

Simple start right? Keep me in check, ladies!

kclynch - welcome back....I'll TOTALLY hold you accountable!! But, then you'd have to post regularly, right?? So, DO THAT!

I like your plan.

Better - 9 hours of sleep sounds AWESOME! We have a neighbour who starts her car every morning at 5:20 a.m. She runs it until she leaves at 5:45 or 5:50 am. So, long story short - we wake up everyday at 5:20 am....which means I'm losing 30 minutes of PRECIOUS sleep. Having said that, I am in bed by 10 pm everynight - that's my "good habit" that I started building a few weeks ago and i'm going strong with it.

At least that means I'm getting about 7.5 hours. I'll take it!

Better - I really love sleep, too. When that chick does NOT start her car (i.e. on Saturdays and Sundays), I sleep through until around 7 or 7:15....and, since I'm still going to bed at 10 (even on Fridays and Saturdays!), I'm getting 9 hours each of those nights....trying to catch up on weekly sleep-deficit.

The "good news" is that her house has been UP FOR SALE! Mind you, it's been up for sale for 7 or 8 months, but there's always hope that SOME buyer will snag that bad boy and the NEW OWNER will park car in double garage, like ordinary sub-urbanites (instead of packing all boxes/storage in garage and therefore parking noisy cars outside and running them for HALF AN HOUR before taking off!!!)

I used to loathe January at the gym when I belonged to them. (Gold's Gym for a while in Lexington and then the Y when I moved back to Louisville). Since I was a borderline gym rat, I hated when all the newbies came, took the parking spots, equipment and were generally unaware of anyone else. HATED IT! Luckily by Valentines Day, half had fallen off the wagon and by spring break, things were back to normal. Another reason I now love working out at home. I miss some things, but not enough to deal with all that. Plus when I was going to the Y downtown, I had to pay to park at a meter and walk a couple blocks to the gym. Hated that too. I do miss being able to spend 90 minutes of uninterupted time doing whatever I felt like doing though......

Beeps, I can't believe your neighbor runs her car for half an hour. Really? You can warm a car up in less than 10 minutes......

Here, the always say not run your car for fear that someone will steal it. Or do they sit in the car for 30 min?

I always hated Jan at the gym. If I went back to the gym, it would just be for the classes. I have always wanted to take body pump. Right now, all my DVDs feel brand new since I haven't been working out!

I am sore from yesterday's workout. I can feel it in my glutes and my shoulders - and it wasn't a shoulder workout. I had hoped to workout this am, but it took me longer then expected to write sub plans. I have a training this morning. This afternoon we have a staff Christmas party and they are feeding us panda Express. Hoping they get the steamed veggies so I can have that instead of rice.

When I was skimming through, did someone mention Wed weigh-ins? I think that is a great idea except TOM came last night so I will be officially weighing in next Wed. No need to depress myself.:laugh:

Tonight, I will get some cardio as I have to return a million Christmas gifts! Lol.

kclynch - nobody is up stealing cars in our neighbourhood at 5:30 am....in any event, most "automatic car-starters" have you clicking your button from inside your warm little house, leaving car locked, but started, and then when you're ready to go, you unlock your vehicle and drive away.

Anyway, I think I'm going to have to adjust my bedtime to 9:30 pm ~ in an effort to try and get 8 hours of sleep. Not fun, but I also can't "out-maneuver" the car-starters next door....this has been going on for 2 months and I'm losing precious sleep everyday. I can't wait for them to move, but as a realist, that's not gonna happen for at least 6- more months!

I TOTALLY hate Jan/Feb at the gym....mind you, my lunch-time work-outs aren't really impacted, so that's good. But, my Saturday cardio becomes a "zoo"....thank goodness I'm a "regular" - there ARE some privileges to THAT.

Better - i like grazing on appetizers, too! Mind you, our Xmas parties have been NON-existent this year! We've been conflicted out of EVERYTHING with kidlet hockey, volleyball and basketball. My waistline THANKS me!

Beeps - I am in the process of doing that as well. I need to get my schedule under control in a big way. I am kicking it old school and bought a day planner for 2014. It has a whole thing about goal setting and planning. It shows the calendar by a whole month as well as 1 week per two page spread with a block for each day. There is also space for lists, phone #'s goals & actions, etc. I am also posting a family calendar in our kitchen with everyone's activities on it & I am starting to delegate a lot more to my husband these days which helps. He works closer to home, way less hours & less stress than he used to so he does a lot of the house cleaning which is awesome & helps with pick-ups & sometimes dinner.

We are going away to a bed & breakfast in Camden, ME after Christmas so I am going to use some of that time to plan out the year. Part of this process will be finding more time to exercise.