200+ Fryin' the Fat

My bike ride was canceled due to rain... I did manage to sign up for a 10K on July 4th at a town about 10 miles from me. Now I need to get some work done.

Good Morning! And thanks to everyone for the for welcoming all of us "newbies". And for the Happy Birthday wishes.
I am horrible at names so it may take me awhile to post indvidual replies, but I'll work on it.

I have started adding extra walking into my week. My hubby and I are working out and lifting weights 3x a week. So, I decided to start walking on the "off" days. Last night I walked for 25 minutes without a rest. Huge difference from when I started at the end of May.

Hope you all have a great day!

haha! My bff has a kind of philosophy that guitar players are the best because they are so .....skilled.....with their hands (ie, in the bedroom lol) She was happy for me when I told her Mr. Reunion plays the guitar.

hahah ridiculous

Lacey, Chris is also terrible about not picking up sticks/rocks/etc and just mowing over them. So that might be why our mower is in trouble.We haven't broken a window yet, however. :laugh: I also have times after working out that I can't regulate my body temperature. Its annoying. Its usually after I run. That sucks that yoga messes with your foot so much. I love that workout.

Laura, thanks for the input on the mower. We're hoping its right around $100.

Sina, welcome! I lost 15 pounds 2 challenges ago, so its totally doable. You just have to bust your butt.

Pam, you'll totally be able to do P90X after shredding. It'll be really hard at first, but then it will get better. But it will always kick your butt. I'm on my last week and I still thought I might die when I was working out this morning.

Jenn, your puppies are SO STINKIN' CUTE!

Lauren, I love fiber one bars for chocolate cravings. I also really love Clif mini bars - 100 cals and the chocolate chip one totally fools my head into thinking I've had a chocolate chip cookie. Yum!

manda, I think one of the best things you can do for your kids is be a good example of how to live a healthy life. They'll catch on soon enough!

Ashley, we do have a couple people juggling school, and if not school, then work and kids and just general life madness.

Kendal, yay for Mr. Reunion pics! Awesome!

Karen, can't wait to see the pics, and I think good for you with the house. You'll find the perfect one, it just might take some time.

Hailie, I don't know how you handle 12 hours in the pool. I would be a dried up, pruney mess. ick!

wiggle, Allie, and Briana, welcome! Tell us more about you and jump right in!

Amy, that blows that the hubbs is going to be gone longer, but omg - Italy! Awesome! That will be amazing. You best take tons of pics and share.

Katie, I never thought I'd like doing work out videos, but now that I have a dedicated space for it in my basement, its kinda like my own personal gym. Plus I always get really self conscious at the gym (you know, the "do I look stupid? am i doing this right? am i the chubbiest person here?" kind of stuff), so its nice to do in the privacy of my home. It must be so hard to not be at home at the same time as your wife. I hated when Chris and I's schedules didn't line up.

Pam, I think drummers are awesome! If I could be any musician, that would be it. I can play the piano, but I can't rock out on it. My husband (Chris) never stops singing, so I can relate to the tapping... lol.

Tammy, way to go on the walking! That's awesome!

As for me, this morning was core synergistics. It totally kicked my butt more than it did last month, but that was because I could do all the moves all the way through, and I didn't have to go to my knees once during any of the push-ups (in your face prison-cell pushups!). When I came upstairs from working out Chris looked at me and said "Holy crap did you get in a fight downstairs? What's the other guy look like?" Yeah... but kicked. Lacey, I was feelin' your pain this morning!

I really need to get a run in tonight. I didn't run at all last week because my work schedule got so ridiculous... its hard to add a second workout in after work when you are working from 7 am until 7 pm for 3 days in a row.

What else... ... ... we are going to a beer/barbeque festival in Old Town (the old part of Lansing that has been completely revived and is now full of awesome shops, restaurants, and art galleries) on Friday night with some friends, so that should be fun. Otherwise, we watched the first episode of Falling Skies last night on DVR... anyone else? I love Noah Wyle. I feel like he's a totally underused actor. I'm not sure what I think of the show yet. We'll see. We've also been watching Alias, because we got the whole series for Christmas. I have never seen it. Jennifer Garner is so awesome.

Ok, that's it for me for now. Have an awesome day ladies!

Kerry, one of the hardest things for me on Shred are the jumping jacks followed by the "jump rope." Those explosive-type cardio moves kill me, which is why I know I'm not even close to being ready for P90X. But someday!! Also, I never saw Alias when it was airing, but I watched all the episodes through Netflix and loved it. I saw Falling Skies too and think it has promise...right now during my treadmill time I've been re-watching Ally McBeal from the beginning via Netflix. It's been so long since I saw it on TV that it's all new to me!

Jenn, your puppies are really stinkin' cute! I love their True Blood names too.

Pam- I have bad knees as well and was doing P90X till I hurt my foot. The point is you modify the moves and do what your body can do. For the jumping jacks, I would move my arms correctly, but I would jump in place and not move my feet in and out. Eventually I got to a point where I could move my feet too. The marketing for P90X makes it seem so tough that I think they lose a lot of their sales because people are so intimidated by it. No, my body can't do all the things the people in the video can do, but I push myself and do my best and patiently wait on the video to move to the next exercise cause those crazy people can go forever. lol. I still got great results with it and can't wait to get back to it in a couple weeks.

Pam- I have bad knees as well and was doing P90X till I hurt my foot. The point is you modify the moves and do what your body can do. For the jumping jacks, I would move my arms correctly, but I would jump in place and not move my feet in and out. Eventually I got to a point where I could move my feet too. The marketing for P90X makes it seem so tough that I think they lose a lot of their sales because people are so intimidated by it. No, my body can't do all the things the people in the video can do, but I push myself and do my best and patiently wait on the video to move to the next exercise cause those crazy people can go forever. lol. I still got great results with it and can't wait to get back to it in a couple weeks.

I second this..it is ALL about modification. I don't do the plyo work out because its too tough on my knees. I don't do yoga because it hurts my feet. I So sound like a whiner right now, but it is what it is. When jumpking jacks or jump rope comes up in the warm ups, I run in place instead.

Musicians are the best! My boyfriend is a drummer. The downside is that he taps on EVERYTHING, but he's cute and wonderful so I can forgive him for that annoying habit. Usually. :laugh:

This is cracking me up. My BF is a drummer and a bassist (and guitar, but he's not as good on that than the other two. Shhh, don't tell him I said that.) and he is CONSTANTLY tapping on stuff. And air drums. Air drums always. But hot damn, if he isn't the sexiest thing on the planet behind a set of drums.

Kendal and Lacey, that makes sense about just doing a modification. I'm always beating myself up in my head when I'm having a hard time doing things like a million jumps, but in reality I should just be happy I'm doing it at all! Just 2 weeks ago I couldn't do the things I can do now, so who cares if I need to make a modification here or there, right?

Karen, I added you on Goodreads! I always like checking out what kind of things people are reading so that I know what to read next.

Nava, sometimes the tapping on things and foot stomping can drive me right crazy, but you're right, seeing your man behind some drums is a nice perk. Tim, my BF, actually just bought a drum set last month -- he hadn't had one in years (but kept in practice with tapping, lol) because his ex wife wouldn't allow a drum set in *her* house, then when he got divorced he was in an apartment for awhile, and then when we first moved in together we were in an apartment too. We just bought a house together in April though (woohoo, we love it!), so he could FINALLY own a drum set. He definitely looks great behind them! I hadn't seen him play drums since I first met him way back when I was 16.....that's a whole other story though.

Lacey: OMG - Harry & Rachel would be a fabulous couple!!! I love both the Rachel Morgan witch series and the Dresden files. Awesomeness.

Nava: My hubbs says really weird stuff like your BF when he's not quite awake. It amuses me to no end.

Well, things are moving right along for our trip to Naples. We've got plane tickets and I got a dog sitter. We always have the same old German lady watch our dog for us when we go out of town but we usually get one of our English-speaking neighbors to make the arrangements as she doesn't speak any English at all. Well, I couldn't get a hold of either of my English speaking neighbors and I wanted to make sure I could get the dog-sitter taken care of as July is rapidly approaching and I really don't have a Plan B for a dog sitter. So, I called the old German lady myself. I looked up a few key phrases on Google Translate and I have a bare-bones knowledge of German (I took a couple of years of it in college but my knowledge of German has been supplanted by my more frequent use of Spanish and Vietnamese so now my head is a horrible tangle of several languages and mostly nothing useful when I need it). Anyways - she TOTALLY understood me and I was mostly able to understand her. So - YAY- I booked my dog sitter in a foreign-freaking-language. When I got off the phone, Gabe said "I didn't know you speak German, " and I said, "I don't." Then I danced around my kitchen like a fairy.

Kendal-I'm a salsa nut myself when it comes to quesadillas...esp b/c it's so low in calories! And as I make mine homemade...not so bad on the sodium either! )

I'll have to check my Goodreads out...to see my new friend!!

Nava-yeah, guilty of the bathroom thing too! So, no not TMI!! I'm at least good & make myself stop after one chapter (b/c I cheat & use the Kindle or get online using the Iphone when at work!) Hope the mouth gets better! Icky! I'm afraid I've got one of those "perfect" mouths. Braces lasted minimal amt of time. No cavities (one...ever). And wisdom teeth out in my early 20's. That's it. I'm not much help. :-(

Amy-yay for German dog sitting planning (did that make sense?)

I love the Kim Harrison books! I guess I'll have to read the Dresden books to get the other half of that comment! LOL! I can do it! Really, I'll find time. Somewhere. Maybe after VBS (which I still need to learn the moves for...I'll SO get exercise that week!!)

OK, work time...again! :-P

Holey Moley. I don't know if I am going to be able to keep up with this thread. So, I'll start with: 1) you guys rock.
2) I did Day 3 of 30Day Shred. 3) I didn't get on the scale today. (so far.)

i will try to pay closer attention and learn everyone's names. (Baby's cryin'. GTG...)

Wow what a great a busy community!! haha! i will need to set aside some time later on to read thru and answer somethings,, right now i really gotta get a work out in.. i ate like crap today and just said "i don't care. i'll get back on it tomorrow." but i dont want to do that! too many days like that and you know what'll happen.... so anyways, off to exercise! lol! catch up with you all lovely ladies later!

curious.. we're weighing in from friday to mondays right? do you all check in every day? how often do you think we should weigh in? sometimes i get frustrated checking the scale every day

Aaah there have been 50 posts since I last read yesterday! Wow!

Okay, there's no way I can catch up to everyone so I'll just say welcome to all the new people . Also, that sucks that your husband's TDY has been extended, Amy, but so cool that you're going to Naples. Wish I lived in Europe!

Work has been absolutely freaking crazy. I have a quality system audit due on June 30th so I should be focusing 100% of my energy on that right now. Except one of my coworkers is on vacation until the 30th and apparently somehow I've ended up covering all his duties. So I've been putting in a fair bit of overtime and trying not to get burnt out. Thank goodness next week is a 4-day week up here in Canada.

Calories-wise I've been doing okay, but my food choices haven't been the greatest. Very sugary stuff and higher on the carbs and sodium than I'd like. I'm getting a decent amount of fruits & veg (I think) but I'm trying to up my protein and lower my carbs.

I'm also looking for a family doctor as I don't currently have one, I'm horrendously overdue for a physical, and my hubby and I are thinking about trying for kids in a year or so.

I pretty much nearly killed myself working out today. My husband had to help me up off the floor after I finished my cool down :P. Tired.