Cathe Fans Part 5

Morning Ladies,

It was an early start for me as I had to wake the eldest up to finish homework as she was too tired after swim practice. Hubby slept in so it was breakfast duty, dishwasher loading and getting those girls out the door on time. Hubby suprised me and is actually off and wanted to take me to Paneras for breakfast but that was a No-no, so instead I did a 45 min Metabolic Conditioning workout in lieu of my 2 hour planned routine which included lots of planks, push-up to side planks, mountain climbers and those other fun things that I have not done in a month.:noway: Overall the heartrate went up and it was a short and sweaty routine.:bigsmile: We are thinking of heading to New Orleans for the weekend but I think I'm burnt out on roadtrips at this time.:blushing: plus I forgot to make an appt to board Mr. C.


Thelma- Glad to see the ideas were helpful. I love salad dressings but usually stick to ranch, caesar or Pear gorgonzola...yum! Adding guacamole or sliced avocado with salt and pepper is tasty with a nice grilled steak. I love to make a turkey chili and add it on my salads and then I may used a bit of sour cream or french onion dip as the dressing. Chicken breasts in salads tend to be boring for me so I usually can go for extended periods eating salads if I use red meat or ground beef or turkey. Congrats on the 3 lbs.:flowerforyou:


Tami- Push-ups in between those lines...yowsza!: :noway: Sounds like F.I.T class which I'm dreading next week as my interval training has been non-existent since Thanksgiving.:ohwell: I had planned on jumping back in this monday with Muscle Mania & Zumba but I forgot the holiday so I will have to create my own MM routine at home.

Laurel- Good Morning :flowerforyou:

Ok off to check and see if my date is still sleeping.:laugh:


Have a great weekend!
Michelle

TGIF Ladies! :drinker: This a.m. was STS Total Body. Headed to Spinning right after work . . .

Thelma: WooHoo!!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Congratulations on the 3 lbs down. You’ve been putting in the work and it’s paying off. Nice job. I bet that feels great. Sounds like your workout went well and the energy/strength level is up . . . always positive things! So happy for you :flowerforyou: I bet your trainer is very pleased with your new found enthusiasm and hard work. Glad that we are here to encourage you! As far as your intimidation on STS I think that is absolutely normal entering into a new program and not knowing what to expect, “can I handle it?, will it be all too tough for me?” etc. But I know if you stick with weights you are comfortable with, modify where needed, I have no doubt you will be able to do STS! Keep telling that “other Thelma” you got this girl, let’s go! :drinker: :bigsmile:
I’ll message you on MFP and get your e-mail address. Then I can just attach some recipes for you to print out and try. I meant to say yesterday on the bread . . just like these ladies both touched on. Don’t be afraid of bread ~ whole grain bread is fine or you can change things up with WW Pita’s. Make a tuna or chicken chopped up inside. How fantastic that your hubby is the cook at home. Sweet :happy: Calorie Burn from the Wed night Spin class is always my best class for tougher/higher calorie burn. It’s all in the instructor I have found over the years! Tonight’s class is only 45 min and not as challenging. But a good end of the day workout!

Michelle: Nice job getting in your workout even if it wasn’t the one you had planned! I hope your day with hubby is a good one. I bet you two will find something fun to do in lieu of New Orleans weekend . . . I’m sure you are a little burnt out on road trips at this point. Is this a special occasion weekend or just because it’s a long weekend for DH?

Laurel: What a great combo to do Hard Strikes & Rockout Knockout . . . :bigsmile: I would love to try that one of these days. You are a machine my friend! Fantastic job again this week. :drinker: I’m feeling back into the swing of it completely ~ feels great. Hope you enjoy your nice long weekend with DH.

Have a great weekend ladies! :flowerforyou:

Tami

Hi Ladies,
I'm going to make it quick because I'm running late and we have to leave at one. I just finished the Ride and walked 30 minutes on the treadmill so I burned 1000 calories!! YAAY! :drinker: So far I've only consumed 230 calories of my 1200 allowed today and I want you to know that I had a PB&J sandwich for breakfast! It was soooo good to eat bread. :bigsmile: I used whole wheat light! YUMMY!
It's snowing here in MA. It looks beautiful! Everything is white!

Have a great Saturday!
Thelma

Hi Ladies, my weekend was pretty good. I was excited about burning 1000 (one thousand!) calories on Saturday between spinning and little walking on the treadmill. I totally planned ahead for our day out. When we got to my brother-in-law's his wife had fresh pineapple so I had 1 cup of that. I had gone prepared with an apple and 11 roasted almonds just in case. We then went to TGIF's for dinner and I was happy to see their menu items in MFP so I had an 8oz stake with two sides of steamed broccoli and I still had a lot of calories to spare so I had a piece of cake.

Sunday on the other hand turned out to be deadly food wise. I knew Salvadoran (I'm from El Salvador) could be high in calories but I had no idea how high. It only got bad because I took too big of a serving. My hubby was so good! He weighed all the meat so I could enter a recipe in MFP so we'd have an idea how much I could eat. As a result of yesterday's meals I had a really "fat" day today. I tried not to feel guilty about "sinning with food" on Sunday but it was hard not to feel guilty.

Today was a good food day. Hubby made me turkey burgers with baked sweet potatoes. I always thought he used olive oil for the potatoes but he just sprays the cookie sheet with Pam. He also grilled zucchini for me. I actually found chipotle chili power on Saturday and bought it. I remembered the turkey muffin recipe called for something chipotle! LOL
Sunday afternoon was all about getting food ready for the week. This is pretty much how all my Sunday afternoons are spent.

I have worked out every day since Jan 2nd which is amazing. I hadn't done that in years. I am finding the Thelma I was a very long time ago!
Yesterday I looked at my Exercise summary for last week and it it turned out that I totally exceeded the goals MFP calculated for me and that felt great!
Weekly Exercise Minutes Total / Goal: 442 / 270
Weekly Calories Burned Total / Goal: 3,497 / 1,410

Tami, I've never taken a Zumba class. I do have the program which I don't like because they keep stopping to show you the moves. If I could find a class where there is a lot of sexy Latin dancing I would have a lot of fun. The infomercials look like a lot of fun to me.

You are a machine Tami! :flowerforyou: Do you ever rest? :bigsmile: Same question goes to Laurel.
Did you play in all 3 games? How awesome that your team beat the #1 team! Congratulations!!
I can't wait to check out the new recipes you're going to send me Tami! Thanks so much!

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Enjoyed a nice weekend here. We didn't do anything special....unless you call cleaning out the garage in preparation for the next move 'special'. :laugh: But I am glad we got it done! I enjoyed a day's rest on Saturday and back to STS on Sunday! Today was Shoulders, Biceps and Triceps. I followed it with an oldie--Cardio Kicks. It was a nice change from some of the longer/more intense cardio I have been doing lately.

Thelma, sounds like you really have taken things up a notch!! 1000 calories burned in a workout is amazing!! I am so happy to hear you are enjoying the rediscovery of you!! Don't fret one second about the food on Sunday. Your body probably enjoyed a few extra calories. As long as you don't do it to often, there is no harm in enjoying yourself once in awhile. So don't feel guilt!! Just enjoy it and move on.

Tami, sounds like a good weekend. Great stuff on the Volleyball!! That must have been fun. You are really killing the workouts right now!! Have you given any thought to 'what's next' after STS? It is hard to believe we are almost half way through the last Meso!! :noway:

Michelle, yuck on the 'no water'! But it sure sounds like you used the time well!! I love the vision of you running sprints with Mr. C!! Glad you stayed upright! :happy: Hope you are feeling better and your blood pressure is back to normal. Take care of yourself!

See you all tomorrow!

Laurel

Hi Ladies,
I'm so upset tonight because I didn't have a chance to workout today. I was at work at 6:30 this AM because I had to leave at 2PM to go see my ophthalmologist at 3. He is always triple booked because he specializes in dry eyes and autoimmune diseases of the eye. He finally saw me at 5PM when the snow storm had finally started. I left the clinic at about 5:15 and got home at 7PM when it normally would've taken me 35 minutes to get home.

Michelle, sounds like you had a great, active weekend with your family and Mr C! How many children do you have? I hope you weren't without water too long.
I hope you're feeling better. Why does your BP drop like that?
Thank you for those wonderful words of encouragement Michelle! I never thought I'd be able to find the Thelma I was so many years ago. I was like you girls working out all the time, making good food choices.
My husband uses PAM on everything and he's big on egg whites too!

Hi Laurel! I bet you're relieved to have gotten the garage cleaning task out of the way! Great workouts!
I was scheduled to do XT Biceps and Triceps + XT Core. Tomorrow will be another day! On Saturday I knew that the "Ride" spinning workout was going to make burn 700+ calories and decided to go for 1000 by walking on the treadmill after the spinning workout. It felt great! I'm really enjoying rediscovering myself. I was able to wear a smaller size pair of pants today. That was another great feeling! I do have to allow myself a bad food day from time to time. That was the first time I ate something bad since January 2nd!

Tami! You're really killing those workouts! You attacked those shoulders twice today! I would never make it through one of those intense BC classes!

Thanks for being proud of me! I was a very good girl on Saturday for sure. Planning ahead is very important during a weight loss journey. Lucky for me I like to plan ahead.
I know I shouldn't worry so much about eating bad one day but I'm still pretty horrified about how many calories my beloved Salvadoran food has. YIKES!
I didn't train my DH to cook. When we first met I was doing the cooking but he loves taking care of me so he cooks, washes dishes and cleans up the kitchen after he's done cooking.. I needless to say let him do it! :bigsmile: . I think he took over 95% of the cooking since 2010 when I was diagnosed with Lupus. I was really sick and very tired, achy and stiff so he had to do everything. He really is great. He's also handy, when he starts a project he finishes it! The only thing I don't let him do is laundry. He's a keeper!

Good to know about the dried chili flakes or similar stuff. I've never used chili paste before. Sounds like it would be very hot!

I really felt proud of myself for having exceeded the goals MFP setup for me. I'm going to be 50 next month so even more reason to continue with this healthy path. I want to hit 50 feeling really good about myself and hopefully at least 10 lbs lighter!

I'm so glad to hear that you do take rest days Tami! Every day when I read about your workouts I wonder if you're some kind of super human! I do understand what you mean about feeling great when you workout. You play 6 Volleyball games a week! WOW! You really are amazing!

See you tomorrow!!!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today was lower body, so I did Butts and Guts. I followed it with the Ultra Cardio premix from Drill Max. That is a workout that I just don't do often enough anymore. It is SO good! And it flew by today.

Thelma, sounds like a tough day yesterday! Hope you aren't buried in a mound of snow right now!! Sounds like it was quite a storm. Don't worry about the workout. Your body probably enjoyed the break. The good thing about workouts I they will always be there the next day! Yep, your husband definitely sounds like a keeper!! My DH is a keeper too.....but the kitchen is a room he doesn't spend much time in. :ohwell: Congratulations on busting your MFP goals!! I have no doubt with how hard you are working and your exceptionally positive attitude that your 50th birthday will be a special one!!

Tami, sounds like a brutal Bootcamp! Yowza on the shoulders. I am amazed you got through the STS workout!! About life post-STS, right now I am toying with doing a 30 day rotation focusing on the XTrain workouts. I haven't really thought through a rotation yet, but I am leaning that way right now.

JennBunny, welcome!!

Until tomorrow....

Laurel

Happy Wednesday Ladies ~ Insane-X was another good one (as always, so I sound like a broken record:blushing: ). She is training a girl that is new to the gym to take over her class when she can’t be there and so she did a little bit of it. I felt for her from those times she had me go up front! It was all good and a great mixture of upper & lower. Thank goodness not too shoulder intensive! :laugh: Today’s cardio day will be Spinning after work. I needed a few extra zzzz’s this a.m.

Thelma: I understand that feeling of missing your planned workout . . . :ohwell: try not to beat yourself up too much! Easier for me to give that advice than take it for myself sometimes but truly, you have been doing so great and the workouts will be there, (as Laurel also said). :bigsmile: Glad you made it home safely, sounds like the roads must have been a disaster ~ Yikes! That is never fun. Congrats on wearing the smaller pants today! :bigsmile: That is a great feeling forsure and rounding that corner to your 50th will be a celebration of getting your “Thelma back”, how exciting! :drinker: I think it is fantastic that your DH loves cooking & taking care of you! That’s awesome. I’m sure your exercise & eating are a positive thing for having Lupus? I don’t know a lot about it but a lady I work with has it. I know for her, the medication and consistency of a healthy lifestyle help. Hopefully that is true for you as well.

Laurel: Great combo today! Don’t you just love those two?!? Eventhough I don’t do either very often anymore. The other day when I did DrillMax it was lots of fun. I’m doing Legs tomorrow, I’m not sure why I had Cardio wrote down for today?!? I must not have changed it on my calendar when we changed up the rotation for Meso 3 :huh: I was surprised that my shoulders weren’t dying last night doing anything we did quite honestly after Monday. Sounds like we might be leaning in the same direction as far as a new rotation goes …. involving XT workouts! As I get my thoughts around what it will be I will let you know what I’m thinking.

Hi JennBunny! Great job with your workout yesterday ~ nice work! :drinker:

Michelle: Great combo of workouts today! :happy: Hopefully you were feeling back to normal today with the BP and all. I bet you cannot believe where the time has gone with your eldest turning the big 13! How exciting for her. Enjoy your family Birthday party.

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Hi Ladies! Today was cardio, so I did another oldie. Seems like a theme this week for me! Anyhow, I did the 90 minute all cardio premix combining Step, Jump and Pump and Step Blast. So much fun! When I chose that for cardio, I made myself promise myself that I would follow it with some kind of stretching/yoga.....something I have been neglecting for months. So I followed it with Kari Anderson's Angles, Lines and Curves II. It felt fantastic!! Makes me wonder why I don't do it more often. :ohwell:

Michelle, Happy Birthday to your DD!!! My niece is turning 13 in a couple of weeks, and it is such a big and important birthday for them at that age! I hope your daughter has a very special day. My niece sounds similar to your daughter in still retaining that little girl naïveté. I love that about her, but I also understand the concern. My 10yo niece, on the other hand, is quite the opposite!! Anyhow, I love your clean up goal! Mine is similar. Sadly, we are no closer to deciding where to live!! We still have four months to decide! I'm not panicking.....yet. :laugh: Hope you start feeling better soon!

Thelma, great job with the workouts despite being tired. :drinker: I really enjoy that All Out Low Impact HiiT workout. Not too hard on the body but still a good cardio workout. I am so happy to hear your lupus is manageable! I hope it continues that way. I really wasn't aware it is a younger person's illness. It seems as I go into menopause that I am hearing menopause causes everything! So it is good to know that some things are bettered with menopause. Glad to hear you didn't get too much snow. We woke up to a couple of inches this morning--just enough to make everything pretty!

Tami, glad you enjoyed your class! Does this mean you won't have to demonstrate again in the future because there is now a permanent sub for the class? Are you relieved about that? Just curious. I really did enjoy yesterday's workout. Like you, they are workouts I just don't do that often anymore. But I think I was falling into a bit of a workout rut and have tried to shake it up this week. And it has been fun!! I am sure I will fall back into my rut soon enough, though! :blushing: Regarding the XT workouts, I am kind of thinking about focusing on the upper body a lot for four weeks since I enjoy those upper body workouts. So I am thinking about doing something like disk 1 on Sunday, disk 2 on Tuesday, and all upper Burn Sets on Friday. Then I would do maybe Cardio Leg Blast on Monday, another non-XT leg workout on Wednesday, and cardio on Thursday. So it would look almost exactly like our current week I guess!! I am just wondering if it is too much repetition for four weeks. Maybe three weeks instead? Obviously I am still thinking it through but thought I would toss that out there.

DH and I are headed to the mountains for the weekend. He is going to ski and I am going to read! :laugh: I will take some workout stuff with me though. I am not sure how that will feel at 9000 feet! Anyhow, I will try to check-in tomorrow before leaving, but, if not, enjoy the weekend!

Laurel

HI ladies!
Tonight was PT and we had a nice chest/back workout. Someone at work scheduled a meeting from 3-4 thinking it was going to be a 1/2 hour. That never happens! Needless to say she screwed up my cardio time and I was only able to do 12 minutes on the elliptical before my PT. I was happy to see that I'd burned 602 calories! I'm going to do GS Legs tomorrow.

I got really upset with my trainer tonight. :mad: I was telling her how good I had been on Saturday when we went out to eat and that I had enough cals left for cake. All she could focus on was the fact that I'd eaten cake! She kept lecturing me about not eating that kind of fats because then my body wouldn't burn too much fat or something like that. I was really p.o'd and wanted to walk out. :explode: She told me that she was afraid that if kept having "cheat days" like that I wasn't going to be committed by the time March rolled around.:huh: I said I am NOT going to deprive myself of the things I like to eat. I am managing my calories by planning my meals ahead. I am also working out like crazy. I don't see why I wouldn't be committed. I told her diets fail because people deprive themselves of everything considered bad. I am not going to do that. she couldn't even focus on the fact that I had burned 1000 on Saturday! I just wanted to say who the heck made you an expert just because you took some nutritional training?
Sorry for venting girls!! I LOST 5 LBS IN 3 WEEKS!!!! Why couldn't she see that? I brought her printouts from my progress reports in MFP too. How does that not spell commitment?

Hi Laurel, "oldies but goodies" week! I have the hardest time following Cathe's step workouts so good for you for doing them! I saw that she had a "slow" step workout. I think it's called "Low Impact Challenge Step Aerobics". She seems too be going slow so it would be good to learn the steps in "slow motion". I don't own any Kari Anderson DVD's. I'll have to check her out. Why do you like her workouts? Do you only like her Yoga DVD's?

Now where I'm seeing results it's easy to ignore the lazy "Thelma". I am also enjoying that All Out Low Impact HiiT workout. It has enough HIIT for my level right now. I am glad my Lupus is manageable. It was horrific to be so fatigued, stiff and achy. The 80 year old lady across the street would leave me behind in the dust! I lost over 10 lbs early on because I just wasn't hungry. I was lucky that the nurse I saw when I finally went to get checked tested me for lime disease and ran the tests that that tells them if lupus is in the picture. There isn't a specific lupus test but they have certain markers to check for. Even going to the bathroom was a a chore! I was happy when my doctor told me that menopause was in my favor with this disease. Even when I was so stiff I still worked out. Just little low impact, dancing workouts. I couldn't even lift my arms above my head!
Where do you live? It was 1 F this morning when I woke up at 5AM. BRRRR! We may be getting a little more snow over the weekend too.
I hope you and your HD have a wonderful time in the mountains!

Hi Tami! That spinning class sounds HARD! I've never taken a spinning class I just do Cathe's DVD's and the workouts that came with the bike. I don't think I would survive a gym class! :embarassed:
OMG! That STS Squat Rack Legs is a killer workout! Not that I've done but when Laurel mentioned it before I checked out the little video clip on Cathe's website! How long are those breaks between sets? You and Laurel make it sound like 5 minute breaks! Laurel said she was doing housework in between :laugh:

I hope you enjoyed your hair appointment!

I was really happy to have talked "Lazy Thelma" into the workout because as you know it paid off this morning when I got on the scale. I actually couldn't wait to get on that scale! The pants I had on today were really big on me and they were not like that a few weeks ago! the workout yesterday was good. I still can't believe how many calories I burned doing it.
I am not in one of the hard hit areas. Not this time. I don't even think we got 3 inches. Around my job there were 9 inches which is more south of Boston. There may be more snow over the weekend but not that much. It's been super cold though.

Now I get why you had to go to the front of you class! I bet you were nervous at first but I bet you were really good as the "demonstrator". I lucked out with this menopause thing. My period became irregular a while ago and then it just stopped.
over a year ago. I did have some hotflashes but not too bad. I was also lucky to work with a bunch of ladies going through menopause and they had an excellent remedy for hotflashes. The stuff works! I've met two women who were having terrible hotflashes and they took this remedy and couldn't believe how it relieved this terrible fires inside their bodies.
I can't wait to try the stuffed peppers!

Good night!
Thelma