Bring IT! Part IIII: Team No Excuses in April

wahoooooo!!!!!!!!!
Another good workout day!
Didja bring it?

That's great!
You're the incredible shrinking woman!!!!!!!

mya-
You are wasting away, girl! :flowerforyou:
I'm pretty excited. At the gym today I only lost a pound in the past month, but...
For the past 4 days I have burned 940-1100 calories each day!
wahooooooo!!!!!!!
So I know next month will be better!
:bigsmile:

Hi ladies! SOrry I have been so MIA lately. I am just running around like CRAZY! It is the end of semester so all I am doing is projects, projects, projects! It is so hard when each class has a project and a lot of them are group projects and everyone has different schedules within the different groups. UGH! I have had no time for anything but school. So, one more week and then a week of finals. I cannot wait!

SO, I have to admit that exercise has tanked since I have no time. Because of this I have made sure to do extra well with eating and not stress eating! My hubby has been gone all week TDY (He is with the Air Force) and I hae just made two different meals to eat all week. Luckily I like things to stay the same so I made spaghetti and meatballs for my lunches and it is made with spaghetti squash instead of noodles and ground turkey for the meatballs and an all tomato sauce.

For dinner I made a spinach and mushroom lasagna with whole wheat noodles and low fat ricotta. It is very good if anyone wants the recipe I use. It is from eatingwell.com, but on the food network. LOL. I have been eating fresh strawberries and grapes with whole wheat toast for breakfast and then a salad with cucumbers usually as a snack or with dinner. For a snack...if I really need one, I have been having Sugar free jello with free cool whip.. so yummy to me.

I am so proud of you two ladies that I see have been keeping this thread going! Keep up the fabulous job and I will be back here as much as I can. I am getting to the end of my degree (I will be a teacher) and it is nothing but projects in the end. Very time consuming projects.

Have a great day everyone!

wahoooo!!!!
Good for you!
I was going to take today off working out.
But...
DH got home late, was just sitting here, thinking about grilling dinner, thinking about snacking, wishing for a glass of wine, checking & finding only 115 calories left after logging dinner...
so
I went &
burned 700 calories on the bike!
Got out of the kitchen. took a shower, dinner's almost ready!
:drinker:
Happy Friday night!
Bring it!

Sorry guys for not being around. Alot of changes, and I'm trying to really focus on school. I feel off the wagon for a little bit, and in doing so discovered that fitness and health is a huge part of who I am. I can't stay away from it. I'm going to start running since the weather here is beautiful. My body looked and felt the best when I ran anyways, so I want to get back to that. I now just use the elliptical machine, but I plan to use that and run on some days when I have time.
My weight has stayed the same and I think I'm comfortable with that. I also took time to reflect to make sure I wasn't getting obsessive about my fitness goals. I feel much stronger mentally coming back into this.
Anyways that georg and mya for keeping this up and running! Mya great job with the jogging by the way you look fab!

bbl =]

Hey guys! I'm back!

I've had some ups and downs lately. Well, only downs on the scale, but I get so FRUSTRATED. Lately, I've been getting increasingly cranky with my body. I weigh 126 pounds but I still have flabby thighs and a jellyroll. I'm very proud of the muscle I'm developing on my arms and legs, but it would look so much better without the hot dog bun! On the other hand, my chest and shoulders are bony as hell.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

I've been meaning to run more lately, but I've been super busy with school. I did spin twice this week and plan to do it tomorrow. I did a really badass interval session on the treadmill on Tuesday that made me feel really good (once my face returned to its pallor! Usually I do more cardio, but I agitated my left hamstring...probably in my Wednesday bodysculpting class (which is a masochist's fantasy land ). Doing spin the next day made it worse, so I decided to rest it. It feels a lot better today.

Today it took SO much willpower to go to the gym, but I b!tched myself into it. I ended up getting in some good work! I was REALLY liking how my arms looked while doing the fly machine, since the fat slid back out of sight.

As far as diet, I've been eating clean, but I'm paranoid about my big source of protein--the cafeteria grilled chicken. My caf is pretty healthy, but the grilled chicken still comes off the grill fresh with oil. I always wring that thing silly with napkins until I can't get anymore off, and would usually just log a teaspoon of oil. But I'm worried that it's more. What do y'all think?

I've been trying Tom Venuto's carb cycling. It never gets that low in carbs (30% at the most). However, I find myself having a hard time getting enough carbs in on my high-carb day. He encourages higher calories that day, but I'm still too "chicken." I don't like cheat meals. But baby steps! I've gotten my calories up in the last month, so progress.

So, not flying colors, but I have some stuff that I'm proud of!

ooooooooo
Good to see the gang back!
:bigsmile:
yeeeeehaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to see you back!

Good to see you back!

Thanks! It's great to be back. :flowerforyou: It's great to see you still here and keeping up with your goals as well!

aaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww meisje!

Congrats!