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.

I am reading trying to keep up with all of yall's lives. We aren't intolerant of anything (hence the reason I am on here) LOL so I don't need the gluten free recipes. But the recipes sound yummy.

Cowgirl, Last week my goals were 1/3 this week 1/3. DOGGONE Stress!

Sam, you are AWESOME. I love how you changed your body with eating. I WAS getting there. Hopefully by the middle of next week. I'll get back to it.

To whomever was tired of Stage 1, I hear ya. It was tiring and seemed forever but it helped set the stage of getting the correct form. The stages go FAST after that.

I've missed you guys!
Runz: Holy crap look at your legs in that picture! That's what I'm going for absolutely!
Sunshine: You ABSOLUTELY have to set boundaries. I'm doing that now with my ex and while it hurts to know that my boundaries may hurt him I need to make sure that I'm okay first and you need to do the same! Good luck with it!
Sam & Bepee: You guys have me wanting to try zumba!
Beeps: Congrats on that one pound down! Consistent loss is a beautiful thing
You guys are KILLING me with all these desserts

Height: 5'2
Weight: 136! (lost 4.6 pounds since May 11!)
Calories: 1528 on lifting and non lifting days unless I want Talenti

Finished my first week of stage 7 and I'm really proud of myself for getting it done. I think my Mon, Wed, Sat schedule is best for me. Saturday morning it's really easy for me to roll out of bed and just get the workout done instead of trying to do it Friday night when I just want to laze around and watch tv and surf the internet. I also met all of my goals for the week so I'm 3/3 baby! I'm trying to win this challenge again so that really motivated me to get my act together! My hyper competitiveness comes in handy! This challenge has actually done a lot to help me set goals in other areas of my life. I know that we're just tracking exercise here but since I don't have anywhere else to keep myself accountable for my other goals I'm going to do that here too.
1) Practice Spanish at least 4 days a week
2) Take drawing lessons online at least 3 days a week
3) Read the entire newspaper on Sundays
4) Read two quality books a week
I've done so much to improve my body that I thought it only made sense to make some goals meant to improve my mind. I'll officially start this challenge tomorrow.

I just pushed all my cupcakes and truffles onto the neighbors :laugh:

Tonight, I make more for Father's Day :sick:

:drinker:

I think I tore my meniscus a bit in Stage 3- learning how to do those stupid snatchy things.

Running and walking doesn't hurt at all and I'm still lifting. I don't think my lunges or squats are quite as deep. I fold up my legs a lot when I'm just sitting around but it hurts now, especially to stretch back out. Help.

I get a 1/3 this week. My lifting goal is the only one I met. My protein and calorie goals- not so much.

jdgro, it's on the outer part of the knee and it's not the ITB. Been there, done that. I did go ahead and try foam rolling but it does nothing. The pain is very minor. I think it'll be fine to heal on it's own.

Your thighs are just retaining water. My do that, too. It's all good! :flowerforyou:

I got up and made cupcakes first thing this morning for Father's Day. Banana Pudding Cupcakes. Totally old fashioned and made from scraps. Last night, I made Oven Fried Chicken, potatoes, buttermilk biscuits and country gravy.

For the rest of the day, I'm living and paper crafting in my pajamas. No lifting. No housework. No nothing. I might not even brush my teeth before dinner.