Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. :flowerforyou:

Still gloomy this morning but it is expected to clear by mid afternoon. We're heading out to the trailer where we are having Christmas in July with all our neighbours It's potluck - I'm bringing the salad so if all I have is salad and turkey, all is good. We'll see what kind of desserts there are first

I have half a season of Hawaii 5-0 left to watch on my pvr. At the trailer were watching DVDs of the original 5-0. It's awesome :bigsmile: That McGarrett is so smooth lol The acting can be really bad but it's highly entertaining. I also have a whole whack of Love It Or List It on the pvr. I tend to binge watch in the summertime when everything is on repeats.

We have great niece's birthday tomorrow. She's 7. I doubt it's at special request tho lol. We are going to a buffet. I usually fill up with salad first but this particular buffet also has a chocolate fountain :bigsmile: I plan to get my fruit in there I've been really good on keeping my sugars low - I guess this will be my treat day!

It's supposed to be nice again starting tomorrow - just in time to go back to work :sad:

I'm hoping it will be nice. It's sometimes hard to believe that it will change when you're in the middle of gloom!

Thru my entire lifting experience I would up my weights by 5lbs every odd numbered workout on things like squats and deads. Ones like you're referring to, not so much :laugh: That one I think I kept the top weight at 8 but upped the bottom. I felt I couldn't get proper form with too much weight over my head. There's another funky squat in that stage that I wasn't able to increase either, but I can't remember what it was.

How was your party Jen? Just getting ready to go to ours. I'll update tomorrow :drinker:

I have a rubber thing to improve hand strength, but yeah, it's soon going to be an issue; I remember reading somewhere about strength gains slowing, and I guess I'm there!

Party was good, Blue! We had two this weekend--one for my niece on Friday and another yesterday to see DH's long-distance family. Both were pleasant. My brother really went all out for my niece's "League of Their Own" theme--bags of cracker jack, peanuts, etc. It was cute.

Morning ladies! Quick check-in for me as I had a Dr. Appointment and got into work late today. Had a pretty good weekend. Hosted a Bachelorette Party for a dear friend whose wedding I'm in this upcoming weekend. It was a long night (stayed out until 2:30AM) and I was one tired lady yesterday. Somehow still managed to get out and do some yard work which felt good and was probably good for me. Had a belated birthday dinner with my family last night - pizza and chocolate cake it was glorious.

I'm thinking this week is going to be semi light on the exercise as hubby is out of town which gives me the chance to paint the trim in his office. He moved all his furniture to the middle of the room for me, which is good because it will force me to get it done this week. I caulked the entire second floor yesterday too, so I think I will be making my end of August deadline! Yay!
We are having some pretty hot weather here (high of 89 today) so I'm going to try and get a walk in later tonight when it cools down with the pup. I'm going to get two lifting sessions in which leaves one more to go next week and I'll be done with the program. Whoo hoo. Then I'll need to start developing some workouts I can do for the next few months.

Doctor appt. went well today. Baby is doing great and has a pretty fast heart beat. He/She is moving around like a crazy person these days which is pretty fun. She did say I was measuring big (aka my belly is bigger than it should be at this point) which is always fun to hear :grumble: So she said if it continues to grow at the rate it's growing she wants to do another ultrasound to make sure baby isn't measuring way ahead. My hubs told me last night that he was a 9.5 lb baby... awesome. I was just under 7 lbs so really hoping for somewhere in the middle. So anyway, good news there - just not so much for my self esteem.

Blue - good luck with the funeral today. They are never fun, but always good to catch up with people.

Good morning ladies :flowerforyou:

It was a nice funeral - fitting for the type of man he was. Unfortunately we didn't know as many people as we expected but we did get to catch up with a few friends. So that was nice. When we were younger it was the weddings that brought everyone together. Now we seem to go to more funerals than weddings

I echo Jen - that baby's getting big :bigsmile: I didn't think pregnant ladies could paint? Something about the fumes?

I'm interested in hearing if your shoes make a difference Jen. I've heard flat footed is best - not sure how I'd feel about working out in my barefeet tho. Luckily I'm at home and know who's been walking on that surface LOL I have high arches and like the feeling of support underneath them.

Gorgeous morning again this morning. It was already close to 70 at 5:30 and you could feel the humidity in the air. My run only lasted about 18 min - it was too hot! Walked an additional 20 min so got a pretty good burn in.

Awesome numbers on those lifts, Jen! Before giving my back a rest, my highest dead was only 67 lbs! Those rows just add much more fun into the mix, don't they?

Have a great day girls!

The crossfit people are doing walking lunges across the parking lot with barbells over their heads! And then dropping them on the ground LOL Looks effective :bigsmile:

I ran/walked this morning so I don't feel guilty for watching LOL

How long of a sabbatical Jen? That's exciting. My next sabbatical will be called retirement I always tease my hubby that he only has to make $100k more a year and I can retire LOL For some reason he hates it when I say that :laugh:

It was a snooze button kind of morning for me - not sure why I'm so tired. Maybe it's the heat and we're just not used to it. It actually hit 30C yesterday (not sure what that is in F - high 80s maybe?) - first time this year and I'm not sure we had many of those last year either! Not complaining tho - it can stay as long as it wants! With humidex today it should be close to 100F. Bring. It. ON!!! Unfortunately I'm stuck at work and don't get to enjoy much of it At least the evenings are nice for sitting outside.

Hi ladies - question for those of you who are ahead of me... I started Stage 3 Monday but didn't do the BWM's at the gym. Started doing them this afternoon and decided to ask y'all a question.

Lunge jumps.... OMG... the jump squats I think I can do but when I tried the lunge jumps my knees did not like me. Search of MFP for this just came up with this thread about 4 months ago when most of you started stage 3. I saw that at least one of you decided to not do that portion of the BWM. Do you feel you had a significant reduction in the effectiveness of the program by not doing them? Thanks for any input!

Susan

Good morning!

So today I hopped on the scale and it's still reading up at 129. Now I can't remember when I started eating 1800 instead of 1600 but it hasn't been long enough to have put on 3 lbs. I know it's not "real" weight, or at least I'm pretty sure. It's probably period weight, salt weight, beer weight, what have you. Right? I figure 1800 is probably about maintenance for me with my lifting schedule. But I'm wondering if I should start a cut when I finish stage 5, for that week. Maybe down to 1400? I'm not sure I could do it, though. I've come to really like 1800cals worth of food. What do you think?

I'm also thinking of getting some body fat calipers so I can focus on that instead, but I'm not sure how much change I'll see eating at 1800. I wonder if I'd need to bulk and then cut in order to add more muscle.

Would love to hear your thoughts. I was hoping that since my TOM started yesterday the scale would have dropped back down. I can hear you all now--"Get off the scale, Jen." lol.