200+ Summer Meltdown!

I really like my new do!!! Biking is just so fun and doesn't seem like exercise... We only made 8 miles in our hour this morning vs 10 to 11 last year. This was our first big ride. I told my friend to put her whip away until June. Thurs check-in 2477 burned and 2431 consumed. No real exercise except shopping at Walmart. Have a great day and I'll try to catch up/comment to everyone this weekend. You ladies are my stress relief and keep me grounded. Thanks for just being who you are!!! TGIF!!!

Weighed in at 215.8 this morning. Same as last week.

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Short hair. Curly today, which makes it a bit more laid back. When its straight its pretty sassy.

Oh man, TGIF like crazy for me today. I will be so happy to have the insanity that has been my work week behind me!

Lacey, I think choosing to not weigh in while doing P90X is an awesome idea. You'll be building a bunch of muscle! And I completely agree with Amy that the calories their nutrition program says you should eat are ridiculous. I'm pretty similar to Amy on what I'm burning per workout... usually somewhere between 350-450 for strength days and somewhere between 450-600 depending on the workout. So I'm usually eating somewhere between 1700-2200 calories a day for my 1.5 lb/week deficit, depending on what else my day consists of. And I have had steady loss the whole time I've been doing P90X, but I've also noticed some serious muscle definition all over my body. (I swear I have abs under there somewhere now!) I really don't think 3000-3200 calories a day is realistic if you're not a dude trying to build serious muscle mass.

Amy, I have total Kinect envy! Do you love it? We really need to get one - I think it would super fun. I'm sorry you had such a crap day with traffic and such - ick.

Kendall, I agree with Victoria that I have been significantly less sick since I started getting skinnier. This cold that I have right now is the first time I've been sick since December, which is pretty bad@ss.

Victoria, we want pics of the hair! I am super finicky about who I let touch my hair, so once I find a stylist, that's pretty much it for me. The girl that I go to now is basically a genius with my hair and also super easy to talk to... I think that is so important, to have a connection with that person so its not awkward, especially when you're getting highlights and such so you're with them for FOREVER. Anyway, I want to see how it turned out!

Katie, I completely agree with you on it working best when you workout as often as possible so you don't slack off. I'm so terrified that if I take 2 days off it will turn into a week, then a month, and then crap, I'm out of shape and super chubby again. No good. Plus you're right that you get to that point where you crave it, and that is such an awesome feeling. Like this morning was my stretch day for P90X, and I love that dvd, but I was a little bummed because I wanted to get all sweaty and have my butt kicked. So today after work I'm gonna run.

Karen, DUDE! You worked at Disney World?!?! Holy crap! Guess where Chris and I went on our first vacation together? Guess where he proposed to me? Guess where we went on our honeymoon? Yup. All WDW. (he proposed after we saw Cirque du Soleil and were taking a walk on the water in Downtown Disney... there's a bench down there that we now refer to as "our bench" since that's where he asked me) We are actually planning a trip down there in January, and I'm very strongly considering registering for the 1/2 marathon or marathon if we can make our vacation days coincide with it. Anyway... short story long, I freaking love that place. It is so much fun. Where did you work? I bet you have totally been in the tunnels under MK. That's awesome.

My parents called me on Tuesday of this week and asked if they could stay at our place this weekend so that they can go to a Memorial Service for my mom's aunt on Saturday, so Chris and I cleaned the house like crazy people last night after I got done doing Kenpo. My least favorite cleaning activity? Scrubbing the tub. I loathe it. I don't know why, I just do.

For dinner last night I made myself a grilled cheese sandwich with onions, tomatoes, and avocado. Hardly needed any cheese to be delicious. nom nom nom.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to get back on here today, otherwise have an awesome weekend ladies!

Crap I forgot to weigh in! 193.6... 1.5 down from last week, my exact deficit amount.

Kerry- love the new cut! I have really thick hair so anytime I try to go short, it just gets more poofy. Long hair works best for me I think.

Its freaking freezing in here today. We sit under an air vent that we lovingly refer to as the jet liner cause its so freaking loud. I have my jacket on (with the hood on my head) and a blanket over my legs and feet (I wore a skort today). ITS COLD.

Tonight is my high school reunion. They had to cancel the fancy $40 dinner/party for tomorrow night due to not enough ticket sales so instead we are doing an informal thing at a bar in Winston Salem. I have NO CLUE what to wear. Part of me wants to wear my black and red dress, but that would probably be WAY over kill. Any dress at all might be too formal. I could wear a skirt but I don't normally wear skirts to bars either (drinking, booty dancing and wearing a skirt is just asking for trouble lol). Jeans and a cute top? I could, but I still want to be super cute and get noticed without it appearing that I'm trying to hard. GAH.

Its been nutty here the past couple of days.

Victoria - glad you like you hair! I got mine done yesterday too....it only took her 2.5 hours this time..usually its over 3+..so for that I was thankful. I get bored sitting there.

My knees hurt, my body feels swollen and my head wants to pop from sinus/tom pressure. I think I am going to start P90X tomorrow instead of Sunday. I'd like Friday nights to be my off day. Also, I noticed that my recovery week will be when I'm in AZ, that is convenient..looks like I don't need the weights, so I could probably bring the dvds with me and keep up the program.

Thats all I got right now....

Folding and putting away clothes are the two things I absolutely hate doing. I don't mind ilving out of a laundry basket. Jeff does the laundry and shoots daggers at me when I set the nicely folded clothes on my hope chest in our room..I'd rather scrub toilets.

Kerry - LOVE the hair and the pic! Super cute!

I will attempt a photo and upload to the site...not so good at it. Plus I'm sitting in my office with my light off because it hurts my eyes right now lol.

I'm in heaven right now. Enjoying my deck in shorts and a tank with this 70 degree weather. I bought $150 worth of flowers for the yard. Guess what I'll be doing this weekend... Planting!!! I love flowers. One of my clients owns a nursery - not good for my pocket book. I'll try to have someone get my pic this weekend.

Kendal - go with the jeans and cute top. Enjoy yourself.

Karen - I laughed at your small town story. 250 people in my town.... 11000 in the county. And my business has liscense for 100,000 which covers 11 counties. Did I mention the closest Wallmart is an hour away? I love not having any neighbors.

Amy - biking and jogging - alternate the days. Throw on P90X cardio DVD if it rains. Enjoy your "week off."

I totally forget to weigh myself this morning. Might have to do with getting up early for my bike ride. Tommorrow I'm getting up early to run. Sighs. I should remember sometime this weekend.

hey folks, just checking in for the day, hope everyone is well, just made my lunch and breakfast for tomorrow for work, i find i eat better if i bring food with me+ its cheaper
hope everyone has a nice weekedn

sophjakesmom - Congrats on staying in ONEderland!

Karen - I'm totally with you on NOT logging weight gains. However, after my last weight stall I'm considering starting so I can more closely track my body's pattern.

Kerry - Very cute hair! This week I haven't been as diligent with my workouts, even though I've been working out at leas every other day. My workout last night should not have been as difficult as it was, but I got through it. Tomorrow is another day.

Kendal - I'm sure you found something cute to wear and hope you had fun!

Lacey - I really like that keychain, wish they had a red one. I also really like your hair! I've been walking around the house saying it's time to chop my hair off again, maybe I just need to do it.

Kristina - Great job working out, sorry about the weather.

Check-in for Friday... 2624 cal burned / 1625 cal consumed / 999 cal deficit - Did strength training and burned 394 on stationary bike and treadmill for total of 60 min. Weigh-in is 244.4 today. I realized just a little bit ago that I've already hit my weight loss goal for this challenge, so I've added another goal of 240 lbs by my 32nd birthday, June 10th. I guess I'm confused about the weigh-in, is it Friday or just sometime between Friday and Monday?

Edit: Why do I keep typing 444.4 lbs instead of 244.4 lbs today? GAAAAA

2nd Edit: I wanted to ask the ladies here a question about lean body weight. I've figured my current lean body weight at approx 140 lbs. My understanding is that if I lose the weight in a healthy way and include strength training in my workouts that I SHOULDN'T lose lean body weight. Is this correct?

The "reunion" was pretty pathetic. I got there at about 10 (an hour after it started) and there were about 8-10 people there. I sat with a guy I vaguely knew named Eric. He wasn't a big social guy back in high school either. I left about after no more than an hour and a half and when I was leaving, I told him to find me on facebook. He said he wasn't on facebook but he told me he didn't remember my last name anyway, so I told him. I woke up this morning with this message:

"I took your advice and found you on here and wanted to say thank you again, I really enjoyed talking with you. I didn't get a chance to tell you but you looked extremely gorgeous tonight. It was good seeing you. Take care, maybe I will see you around sometime. "

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He said "extremely gorgeous" :bigsmile:

When I left, more people were showing up but I didn't know who they were. So even though it was a waste of time to go, maybe it wasn't such a waste of time lol.

My name is Pam. I need to join a group and you guys seem to have a wonderful one! This is the first time I have ever posted so I don't know what I need to do to join.

I have found that I will exercise with someone (other than my husband) holding me accountable. I have a couple friends who go to the gym with me and it seems to get me there even when they can't go. I just eat too much. It sounds so simple. I eat too much sugar and carbs. :frown:

I am addicted to the scale too. I get on the scale every time I am in the bathroom. It can make me crazy but I believe that over all it keeps me from falling too far off the wagon.

Welcome Pam!!! I to find I do better when I exercise with a friend. 6 days a week, I exercise for 30 min with mom. In nice weather, I bike 3 mornings a week with a friend. Now, I've got a Saturday running partner.

Speaking of my run. Geesh. After 6 miles, I petered out. It was hot and I just couldn't keep it together so we walked the last mile home. Not sure if it was TOM, the sun and heat or what. I felt like a turtle - our pace was slow. 15 min each of the first 2 miles. Then we sped up to 13:30 pace. For the next 3. Moms dog joined us in the 5th mile and between poop breaks and a short swim to cool off, I lost track of our pace. It could gave been the stop and go with the dog. Enough - I'm brining it next weekend. We are planning to start an hour earlier which my help the heat. I'm off to order new cushions for my patio chairs and to plant / water flowers.

Yes he's cute :bigsmile: and we've switched from facebook email to texting. He has since called me "eye candy" and when I told him I'd be going on a cooking binge to cook and freeze stuff for the next month, he asked if I needed help cooking :bigsmile: *insert squealing like a preteen girl at a Justin Beiber concert* lol