I need to get better at keeping up with this thread, it moves far too fast for me!

Yesterday I did stage 3, workout B and didn't find it too bad. The YTWL were really hard even though I only used 5lbs dumbbells! and i only fell over once doing the single leg squats so overall I think it went ok! My hamstrings are still sore from Monday's workout though! I think I really need to get in on the foam rolling action.

Hi jdgro, i don't think I have welcomed you yet. if not, welcome to the group. Ask as many questions as you can think of. I often find that people ask questions that had never even occurred to me and because of it I discover that i could be doing something better. And congrats on the deadlift. Its my favourite lift by far!

I can't remember who brought up exercising on an empty stomach but from all my reading of the forums here I think the consensus is that it doesn't matter when you eat. I personally can't workout on an empty stomach and its annoying because it means I can't run first thing in the morning, first I have to have a small breakfast and then wait for it to digest a little before going. Thats one of the reasons I love lifting, I can do it immediately after eating without wanting to throw up! :happy:

dna, i don't know how I would react if anyone said anything like that to me! My sister in law is doing slimming world and she said that the girl who runs the group has no idea about the science of weight loss, she tells them not to exercise because for some reason people seem to lose less weight when they start exercising! I asked her how she can listen to that without flipping out and shouting at her but she just finds it hilarious! I don't post anything about weight loss on facebook, I am not interested in having people pass judgement (or in being one of those people who post everyday to say they are going to the gym, nobody cares!)

Beeps, don't let a bad week get to you. If you need time then take it and get back to it when you can. Missing a week or even two is not going to undo all your hard work.

jpore, I am trying to work out my diet too. I think I eat far too much because I haven't made any progress since November (no weight loss and minimal inches lost). I currently weight 145lbs, I aim for 1540 net calories and I have been eating back all of my exercise calories but starting this week I am only logging 75% of the calories to see if that helps. I aim for 100grams of protein a day and normally I suck at it but have gone well over that every day this week!

In stage one my shoulder hurt when I went up in weights for the shoulder press. I dropped the weights back down and while it was still twingy it didn't hurt. Its fine again now because I didn't have to use it during stage 2. is it only for certain exercises that it hurts? Can you modify them in some way?

good to know that stage 2 won't be so shoulder heavy. it's not terrible, it just felt like the weights were making it worse and that if i pushed it something might go terrible wrong. am going to give it a go again next week.

Sam, do you eat more on lift days or just straight 1910 everyday. Is your body still changing?

Runz....pass the boozey truffles!!! :drinker:
Sam..how was Zumba?

Just came back from bicycle riding...and I went up this incline - whew! My quads need a bit more work lol!!!

World Cup Opening match - my fav team, Brazil, won!!!
Vai, Brasil! Vai!! Aiayaiayai!!! :drinker:

I've had this page open since 7am this morning.... it's 1.30pm and now I'm only just finishing the post lol

Looking forward to my last week in phase 1. I have been excited about moving into stage 2 for weeks now. I hope the other stages move a little faster?

My daughter is finally out of school for summer! Now I need to find a way to stay on track with lifting at the gym with work and kids home 4 day of the week (they are going to camp the 3 days I work). Thinking I need to wake my booty up at 6:15 to get to the gym and back here by 7:30 to get them ready for the day. I know that's not too early for most people, but I am not a morning person. Going to have to force myself to do it. However, the good thing is I will have kept a summer routine so when school starts I will have been in a bit of a routine.

Also with summer, means I am cracking down on getting my kids to help around the house! They are only 6 and 5--but I personally think they can be helping around the house so much more. Doing a little chore chart today and posting it up, mostly so I can stay consistent!

Stage 1 is the longest and can seem to drag on a bit.

Not a huge morning person here either, but I have to wake up early due to necessity. Unfortunately that also means my brain now sometimes wakes up early on days when I can sleep in :grumble: But it is peaceful in the mornings, and it's only for the Summer, you can do it

My kids are 7 & 10 - they have to pull their own weight around the house. I'm fairly easy with bedrooms, but beds must be made. They do dishes, vacuum, feed the cat, weed the garden, clean the pool and put the rubbish out. They also get their own breakfasts and have been since they could tip milk into a bowl of cereal

Soooooooooo, what I WANT YOU TO TELL ME is that a one-week FUNK is NOT gonna undo ALL this precious progress I have made! (I did lift once this week and I do believe I can lift on Saturday.)

A one week funk is not gonna undo all the precious progress you've made
No, seriously, that's what we have rest weeks for. Next week is a new week

I can try for the little food/eaty stats:

Weight: 39/40kg about 89 lbs (I'm 4'9)
Cal/day: I try to eat a minimum 1600 a day, to maintain. Sometimes under, sometimes over, it all evens out in the end.
Protein: min 1g/lb body weight.... that's pretty easy for little old me lol :drinker:

Yay! I get tonight off as girl child is majorly grounded, so no youth group for her I might bake... what should I make to take to lunch with the IL's tomorrow?

Beeps! A few bad weeks won't undo everything! I took an entire month off when we moved last year. Picked back up where I left off.
My problem is that my motivation to eat at a deficit is gone. I'm simply tired of eating less. I can maintain perfectly if I don't track cals- I tried it for a few weeks. But I still don't like what I see in the mirror fat-loss wise. So I'm not ready for maintenance.

Cals: I'm 30, 5'5". And my intake varies a lot. Lately I've been eating around 2100, I think. And I think I am seeing minuscule losses. But how much one can eat varies greatly based on activity levels.
Protein: 120+

Beeps! A few bad weeks won't undo everything! I took an entire month off when we moved last year. Picked back up where I left off.
My problem is that my motivation to eat at a deficit is gone. I'm simply tired of eating less. I can maintain perfectly if I don't track cals- I tried it for a few weeks. But I still don't like what I see in the mirror fat-loss wise. So I'm not ready for maintenance.

Cals: I'm 30, 5'5". And my intake varies a lot. Lately I've been eating around 2100, I think. And I think I am seeing minuscule losses. But how much one can eat varies greatly based on activity levels.
Protein: 120+

relate on the motivation to eat at a deficit when not exercising. it's like weight training/cardio and deficit eating are intertwined. when one goes, it all goes. been frustrated this week due to injuries and being unable to exercise, going over cals and not caring.

for myself, since i have a sedentary lifestyle when i don't exercise, i need to find a way to deal more flexibly with injuries and adapt better to forced changes in my approach -

Sunshine, I totally agree. I have a really bad habit of taking the "all or nothing" mindset. It's way too often that once I fall off the wagon on one thing like exercise, then other things start falling off as well, such as diet or overall activity. It's hard, but I think we just have to sit back and acknowledge that these little things do add up nicely together for a healthy lifestyle, but just because you have an off week, doesn't mean you should throw the whole pot out. We want to be healthy and fit for life, not just a week or two. When I think of the longterm, it helps me see those off weeks as just tiny blips on the radar. No reason to throw away a lifetime of health because you had 7 days of meh.

I've been here this week. it's been a stressful week. no workout but I've been under calories. haven't hit my protein goal but I've been "regular":huh:

keep up the good work. I'll try to get back in the groove next week sometime. send me some good vibes.:smooched:

Ohhh I am so totally following your Pinterest board runz!! Looking at those Flourless peanut butter brownie cookies and mentally trying to work out how to make them completely safe for my family... they might just be on the agenda for next week

Didn't bake last night, went to bed early instead :yawn: The girl's training this morning was 10x better than last Thursday morning - we made her write a letter of apology to her coach with a promise to try harder to keep her grumpiness under control. Such a tough Mum I am apparently

Re bulking & cutting, it's just something I'm having a little go at - but more so in that during winter I'm just going to lift hard and eat food and see what happens. When August/September hits then I'm going create a small deficit (may go back to counting for a little bit) for about a month and see what my body looks like in time for swimming weather :happy:

I got my lifting in and done! Whew!!

And, I lost 1 lb this week! So, that means my calorie-deficit is working....I lost 1 lb last week and I lost 1 lb this week.

WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Well done Beeps!!

Okay, I need to go get ready. We did a quick changeover this morning - I pulled into the driveway, got swimming gear out, hand the husband the keys and he and the boy were straight off to an early AFL game (8am - blergh! lol).
And then we are off to the IL's place about an hour away. They've been in Europe for 7 weeks, so I suppose we should go see them now they're back :laugh:

Oh and I got my haircut a little shorter again yesterday. After my lifting exploits this week, and a new 'do' I feel freaking fantastic!

Marieann, I was busting at the seems for a long time. I went whole weeks just committed to skirts and dresses. I didn't start seeing a downward trend until the second half of Stage 3.

I enjoyed a fast food lunch with DS today :blushing: I'm over on calories and I definitely won't get that point this week. Oh, well :ohwell:

DNA, I need a haircut too! And I'm wondering if I should do something about the grey? That recipe does look awesome! I haven't tried it yet.

I fixed my Bulgarian Split Squat last night. My rear foot is now flat :glasses:

When y'all do Reverse Lunge with Forward Reach, do you hold dumbbells or a weight plate?

DNA, did you use the peanut butter brownie cookie recipe?

Chocolate free?!! Does somebody get migraines or something? Please, tell us there's a really. good. reason :frown:

DNA, did you use the peanut butter brownie cookie recipe?

Chocolate free?!! Does somebody get migraines or something? Please, tell us there's a really. good. reason :frown:

No, didn't have all the stuff for the peanut ones, so grabbed a quick one out of one of my books.

My daughter is highly intolerant of amines - cocoa in particular - so things like chocolate, grapes, citrus fruits, tomatoes and a few other things are out. Some things she can have in small doses, but that doesn't apply to chocolate unfortunately :frown: My brother is actually anaphylactic with grapes, so I don't take too many chances.

Sam, do you eat more on lift days or just straight 1910 everyday. Is your body still changing?

I eat back my exercise calories if I'm hungry. If I'm hungry I eat period. I'm not entering any kind of competitions. I live to be happy and over thinking my diet would seriously make me unhappy. By body isn't really changing any more at this point, but I'm still getting stronger. I'm maintaining which is the entire goal.