Yea this week has pretty much just been a mess. I did already get in my 3 Chalean workouts for the week since we leave to visit friends in Missouri tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be great, so I hope to get in a few runs while we are there.

Better- I have 5 weeks until our next vacation too. We should start some sort of challenge together. I am at 148 right now and I would really love to be at 140 by the time we leave. I am thinking about stopping breastfeeding soon so I'm ok with dropping calories. My supply has really gone down and I am just kind of over pumping.

Beeps- I should set a time for myself I shouldn't eat past either. I am thinking I will say no eating after the baby goes to bed which is usually around 8. That's when I tend to do my snacking. (and drinking wine)

Morning ladies. I got back in the gym yesterday for the first time in about a month and it felt amazing. I had to drop my weights a little bit since I haven't been lifting for awhile, but it still felt so good to get back in and do something more than walking! My week has been pretty good so far with eating. Went over a little bit with some brownie bites last night (just can't say no) but I was almost on point with my macros yesterday which almost never happens.

Kc- I blew through those books in less than two weeks, I couldn't stop! I was also irritated at the ending, but kinda figured we were due for something like that

Beeps- Way to keep up with the no eating before bedtime!

Ashley- Sounds like a good balance. Where are you going for Memorial Day?

Chloe- Nice job getting those workouts in. I should have been more diligent before leaving town this weekend too.

Have a great hump day all!

I'd be up for continuing the star challenge. And I would like to do some no booze during the week or a max number of drinks per week challenge. I think not letting myself have anything but water or tea after dinner would help with that as well.

OK, let's keep up the star challenge. Beeps, do you just post a jpg of the spreadsheet on Photobucket? What do you resize it to? I always screw that part up. So May Challenge starts next week! Let me know your calorie goals. I'm sticking with 10,000. And great job on your no eating after dinner!!

Chloe, booze is a part of my sister challenge as it happens to be my biggest downfall. If you want, we can PM each other or something to keep each other accountable throught the week or at the end of the week. We'll figure it out.

Great job Ris! Glad your baby is feeling better and you're getting some sleep. It's hard to do normal life when you're a zombie.

Amy, that's awesome! I've never run a race small enough to place, but it is really motivating. And 31 is a great time!

That's all I see on this page, but Jen, I forgot to thank you for your feedback on the Bizzy program. I'm still considering it, but may just try for 2 days. I'm not really sure. I need to add some strength training back in for sure. I might just shoot for a couple days of total body stuff and keep up with my running and circuits class. I know I like that and it seems to work for me. The minute I set myself up with a program I dread, I fail.

Well....the week started out crap. I have felt bloated and ick all week. I was under cals (but not with great foods) Monday, nearly fasted Tuesday, and had a low day yesterday, drank tons of tea and water and still felt bad until this morning.... and my weigh in today...... 1 pound loss from 2 weeks ago! I needed that. I'm back to weekly weigh ins. If I lose 1/2 pound a week, That will put me at 129. I think I'm going to set that as my new goal. I can lose this weight, I just need to put forth some effort. So that's that.

OK, gotta get to work. Have a great day and weekend! I'm off tomorrow and headed to the track!

Morning ladies!

Better have so much fun at the track! I would love to do that someday as well.

I would totally be up for the star challenge in May, I think I'll need to up my cals after the first week, so put me down for 13,650 and I'll try and eat below next week.

Thanks Beeps. I can pdf the Excel sheet, save down to a jpeg and resize on Photobucket under 500 pixels. Shouldn't be a big deal. I'm sort of techy.

Derby is super fun. Festivities have been going on for several weeks already. Some of the bars are open till 8am on Saturday/Sunday and there is a ton going on. I saw several people waiting for the bus in their track get ups this morning and all the bars have their tents up already. It's just exciting here now. And I work and live sort of in the middle of party mecca. I got my weekend off to an early start with 2 beers at lunch. :drinker: Streets are already closing for the parade. I see not a lot of work getting done this afternoon in my future..... Guess I won't be running after work after all..... Oh well. When in Rome...or Lousiville on Derby weekend.....

Hi Everyone
My name is Steph, not new here just haven't been involved in groups or discussions. I am, however, looking to shake things up a bit in my world of fitness and food! Primarily in my motivations and accountability.
As a busy mom of four I often "grab and go" with food. Little bits here and there, thus, my first goal is:
1) Eat real meals and log everything accurately.
I have slipped on my water intake, even though I love the stuff, so going back to a newbie goal!
2) Drink the water!
3) 11,200 are my cals for the week
I have three fitness areas; strength, running for the cal burn, and the BOOM! factor of being able to do an Insanity or such
4) Strength train 3 times a week. I am living in Germany right now and primarily without my weights so I am doing bodyweight stuff and band work. I am working on pistol squats and pull ups and upping my push up reps.
5) Run 12 miles a week
6) Do a longer and more intense video once a week. Insanity, Fitness Blender 1000, etc.
If you do a star challenge for May I would love to be part of it!

Beeps--your arm's look super buff in that picture! I like the top too!

steph--good to see you! Ang great goals!

Ashley--thanks for doing the star challenge! My calories for the week are 14,210. And congrats on the loss!

That's all I can see/remember. Yesterday was a good day on calories, but still no workout. Wiley was exhausted when he got home so we pretty much just fed him and put him to bed, and as soon as the baby was asleep I just ate and went to bed. So it's not like I skipped the workout to watch TV or something, and I needed the rest. Hopefully once I've caught up on sleep it'll be easier.

hahahaha at the ebibs photo!

My arms/shoulders are TOTALLY summer-top ready....yahoooooo!!!!