SAHM 3/28-4/3

Shoppie - I do abs (ahem) twice a week, at core class - here are some things we do:
planks - regular and side

bicycles

scissors - put your hands under your tailbone, lift your legs, and do a cross scissor - in otherwords, cross and uncross your
ankles - do this while lifting your legs up and down (does that make sense?!?! I can't find a video for it) Regular scissor kicks are good too

sitting in crunch position - take a 6 or 8 lb ball and 'twist' side to side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hULmPHODbi0&feature=related

I know we do more than these, but it's late and my brain is on auto pilot! anyway, hope these help a little!

bump for later. Have an great day!!

You ladies are busy! I have been having a hard time getting motivated to workout but I have stayed right around maintenance cals every day. I have been much more diligent to log my food since I found out about the baby.

Stacey- I am SOOOOO jealous of 80 degree weather. We are expecting 9-17 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow...certainly won't help w/ the workout motivation.

Gotta get moving again!!

arrrggghhhh I SO WANT CHOCOLATE AND ALL SWEETS IN A BINGE FORM!!

oldest dd has been up and down, tantruming, crying since 5pm. 4 hours later..... thank g-d dh was able to positively interact with her. and now at 9pm he is going to new house to put together 2 beds. he is wonderman.

the other two have been fine--just kids. oh wait--i forgot the 20min scream fest over the shiny penny (penny!!) with brother.

as for cals, i am 240 over bc i didn't exercise. thought about it, espec as a stress reliever. but instead lay in my tempurpedic bed paralyzed from the emotions swirling around me. i am also an intense person and my circuits were overloaded.

ahhhh....thank you all for letting me post here. i will now go snuggle son and NOT eat. a glass of water would be wise.:flowerforyou:

Melissa-My sympathies on the snow. It's snowing here right now and we're in the 6-12 range. :sad:

Stacey-Yesterday I felt like eating all day, and sweet things too. Sometimes I try to have a cup of tea with splenda, but some days I just need the chocolate. :laugh:

Shoppie-When I first met my DH he called me his yank, so I started calling him my limey. :laugh:

As for me today, my goal is to cut out snacking so much! Yesterday was awful! And as I mentioned above, it's snowing here so I'll be out shoveling for exercise. I may do some strength training on the Wii later too. Though DS was up at 4am again today so I may just go to bed right after they do tonight. :yawn:

Drcarrier- Congratulations on the weight loss!! I love that restaurant, and now I know why!! Good grief! The things I normally ate there were loaded with sodium. A quick look had me thinking about the chili with a baked potato and sour cream. I've never had either though. I have had the sieraa chicken and that was good, but it has quite a bit of sodium. Also, it depends on how many calories you're thinking about splurging. I'm on 1200 a day so I don't have many to sacrifice unless I do a good workout. :laugh:

drcarrier - The sierra chicken is really good, mostly because of the tomato/basil topping, sooooo delicious! Last time we went I got that with the steamed veggies (it also comes with rice) and ate half the chicken, half the rice, and all the veggies and it was reasonable. The dinner portion is a little larger than the lunch portion (we went for lunch) but only 100 cals more - it's 410 for the chicken, 200 for the rice, and 90 for the veggies and that's if you eat the whole thing. TONS of sodium, but that's like most restaurants The 7 oz Flo's Fillet is 450 cals and pretty good as well if you prefer beef.

My brother wants to take me to Cracker Barrel next week because he loves it and I've never been. I'm really bummed they don't have nutrition facts :P He's 18, though, so it's pretty cute he wants to take us to lunch.

Wildcat-Cracker Barrel is king of comfort food, think fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes etc. They also serve breakfast all day so maybe ordering an omelet of something would be safest.

KC-You are a busy woman! Since you aren't home it makes it harder just to munch on things all day. As for the weather..it's been cruddy here too. Luckily today it's sunny and 52 ,due to hit 68 on Sunday.

drcarrier-Happy for you losing your extra 'trinket from vacation'. Enjoy your dinner out with your friend.

Today was a low ebb exercise day for me. I have a sore thigh probably from too many squats yesterday so it pulls and hurts when I walk too fast. I did minimal cardio and did upper body lifting. Hoping to do Zumba tomorrow and take Sunday off. Monday I start that crazy 6 am exercise class..ugh! Really hoping it gets me off this darn stall!!

Sorry ladies, I’ve been MIA this past week. I have had a lot going on and my motivation and everything has not been there. I had a friend of mine get childish over my daughter’s birthday party and blew up on facebook about the situation, and called me some names, and basically played high school drama, and I’m too old for it and I don’t need it or want it, so after a friendship of 21 years, I called it quits. But, I’m thinking and hoping that is has come back and I’m ready to start kicking butt again!

Clcole-Thank you (from your post on the week of SAHM 3/21-3/27) and I’m trying to hang in there, but its tough, especially lately.

Stacey-Thank you (from your post on the week of SAHM 3/21-3/27).

Welcome Sden, lamWillow, Sherri, CTK, Karla, Danielle,

Shoppie-As you can tell, I walked away, especially since this person continued high school crap on facebook about me.

Katie-It’s ok. It’s probably because he looks younger than he is. He is doing really well with the sippy cup now, went and bought the ones with the silicone top (like the bottle nipples) and within a day, he was drinking them like a pro, now to get rid of that bedtime bottle. We got his hair trimmed last week too (It was driving me nuts!) He looks so much better and everyone, even family said he looks like his age now….so that might help.

Welcome back, Melissa! Congrats on the pregnancy!! Here’s to a happy and healthy one!

Awelch-Welcome!! Where at in Indiana are you from? I too am a Hoosier, and its so nice to see another one here in the group!

I’m a GLEEK!!!

Now that I think I have caught up with everything, whew! That was a lot!! Hoping to stay on track. Well, I weighed in this morning, and I am happy to announce, I hit the 160s today, weighing in at 168.8 lbs!!! Wooo hoo!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Not sure how it happened, considering that’s 1.2 lbs from last week, and this week I’ve been junking out on junk food, drinking tons of regular soda this week, and hardly any exercise, but I’m not calling the scale a lair and I will take it! This should get me back on track!! Now, to start logging food and exercises again. Well, I’m off for now, catch you all later!!