My friend ordered the 21DF extreme by mistake so I gave her my 21DF and she gave me her extreme. I like the challenge, but lower fix was really tough this morning! I do like how she does drop sets and adds in the resistance band though

Lost all the bloat weight from Chinese food, beer and pizza on the long weekend. Going to do Upper Fix today and 30 Day Shred. Was going to add Lower Fix but I'm going to be playing basketball later today so I think adding in the Lower Fix will be overkill

Satia, are you a daily weigher? If so, would you consider weighing in weekly at least while you adjust your diet?

Congrats on being >.< this close to finishing PiYo Core.

RD2/D3. Didn't get to work out because I couldn't get up early enough (I'm on travel and did not get to my hotel until midnight last night)... and I'm not getting home until 10 tonight - I'm really going to try to double up tomorrow, but I may have to do them b2b tomorrow night.

I also over ate today. I'll pick back up tomorrow. No use crying over it.

Morning Workout

21DF: R4/D4
Does anyone else find elbow planks significantly more difficult than full planks? I don't know why I am still struggling so much with planks. I just am. It was a good workout nonetheless.

PiYo Buns
About halfway through I was thinking, "I might get all the way through this one today." About 2/3 of the way through Holly started doing the Poopy Dance. For those of you who don't know (and why would you because mostly I blabber about exercise here), Holly is a rescue dog. We think she was used in a puppy mill. She was quite young when we first took her in and afraid of her own shadow. I mean that literally. So far as we can tell, she was kept in a crate (terrified of being crated and huge separation anxiety issues) and didn't get outside much (hence, her not knowing what a shadow is). We are still working on housebreaking her and building her confidence about getting into a crate. Both are progressing nicely. And this is why, when she does the Poopy Dance we stop everything we are doing and take her out.

All this by way of explaining why Holly stole my thunder because I made it through the entire workout (albeit with a lot of modification). Only, there was this break about 2/3 of the way through and, of course, she did nothing when she was outside except sniff around.

Carb Cycling Day 2
Today is going to be the hardest day of all. Only 50g of carbs. I am trying to suss out how to do carb cycling while still using the containers only. For now I'm using the containers and tracking to see if what I'm doing is accurate. I may have to tweak things along the way but so far my predictions have been pretty close.

Laptop Update
Ends up my darling husband, who repeatedly assured me that he would back-up my laptop on our personal cloud, never did figure out how to do it. Yes, we have a personal cloud (not hosted by google, microsoft, et. al.) and one would think it would be easy. I never tried to do it myself because he insists that he can do things and, while I am typically and fiercely independent, I understand how important to him it is to do things for me. So now I am facing the loss of everything on my laptop. But lesson learned: If you want something done

You'll rarely hear me complain about Rob because, overall, he's pretty awesome. He puts up with a lot of my weirdness (and, truly, y'all don't know how weird I can be). He loves me no matter what size I am, makes me laugh, and is deeply sympathetic and compassionate. I recently read a book in which the author says you can't expect to find a man who is both macho and nurturing. I told the author, when I met her, "You should meet my husband." He's a tattoo punk to the core with the heart of a puppy.

But dude really f***ed me over hard, and I'm somewhere between weeping and rage. Anyway, we send off my laptop today and I'll have it back in a week or so. Needless to say, when I have my laptop again, I'll be backing it up. No, I don' know how to do it but I can figure it out.

Did Pilates and some time on the bike. Today was the last day of the three day quick fix, excited to step on the scale tomorrow. Wish me luck! Haha. Also excited to have something different for breakfast lol.

Decided to go total bum status today since it was my first full day off in almost 2 months. It was drizzling rain and unseasonably cold so I felt tired all day and couldn't get warm. Made room in my food plan for a pizza dinner. Even though I didn't feel like it I dragged myself upstairs to do Pilates Fix. I'm glad I did because it helped my headache I've been getting from my neck & sinuses. Hoping to get a good night's sleep and be ready for cardio in the morning.

Round 2; Day 7. No weight loss this week!