Lindsay Brin's 60 Day Slim Down and workout videos

Hope you caught those abs on film!!

Busy day today tying up things at work before the long weekend. Just wanted to wish you a happy TURKEY DAY!!!

Maintained through the holiday. Stuck with a decent plan over the past week. Just been so friggin' busy haven't been able to get on here. Work is always nuts during the holiday season, my uncle's in the hospital, and all the regular Christmas time maddness...makes logging on more difficult!

I think I'm still recovering from Black Friday shopping. We left at 915pm Thursday and got home at 845a Saturday. Then I turned around and drove 2 hours to look at a new (to me) car with no sleep. Yes, I'm still recovering. LoL.

Hope you and those killer abs are still rocking it! I did Butt Bible (hehehe) and my buns are hollaring! :laugh:

I hope you are feeling better. Seems like just as we get over these things we get hit with them again!! Pain the butt!

I was told we need to get a Christmas tree ASAP from my children. We do a real tree though, so I've got to distract them from this thought process for another week ATLEAST!! LoL.

It's been a good eating week for me though I've been sucking at drinking water lately. So I'm sitting her typing with my huge jug filled so I can start making up for that slacking. Scales staying them same and I'm good with that since Thanksgiving was only a week ago. And I did enjoy a piece (or two) of pumpkin roll. :happy:

With it being the beginning of December, and my finally about finishing up shopping, I'm hoping things will slow down a bit so I can get back into the habit of actually COOKING food. :laugh: It's been a lot of micro meals and quesdillas since I just got a quesidilla maker. Boy are those things convenient. LoL.

DH told me last night that because of coaching he's going to have to start getting up at 5 to get his workout in at the gym. I'm hoping he does because it'll make getting up in the cold, dark mornings alot better (even though he'll leave for the gym) I'll get to have a little company as I prepare for the morning workout!

So I stopped at a Dollar General today to pick up a few stocking stuffers. Sitting on the shelf for $20 was Supreme 90. I picked it up, looked it over, and then realized...I NEED TO PUT THIS BACK! :laugh: It looks awesome though! If it was Christmas and I wasn't being honest that I have ENOUGH DVDs...it would have ended up on my shelf at home!!

We went grocery shopping yesterday for a few odds and ends, restocked some of the 'good stuff'...but forgot to pick up my list for more of my soup. I am already craving another week filled with nothing but soup. With light flurries outside, it just seems right to eat soup all the time! LoL.

DH and I are finishing up night workouts for the remainder of this week (thru weekend) and on Monday we are both going back to morning workouts. Night workouts have been easier to keep me on track since when he goes to the gym and the kids are in bed..what else do I have to do?! But I prefer the AMs for sure. Done and out of the way!!

I'm sure you'll be back out of the 130s after this cold. Glad you are taking the weekend off. It's great to be motivated but a few more days of rest will give you the boost to start fresh Monday!!

It was nice that we got a little 'bump' :laugh:

I hit up JM today. My Insanity DVDs aren't working well lately, a couple of them so until I get them either cleaned or copy someone else's - I've decided to utilize my Jillian Michaels DVDs and create a 'program' out of them. It was kind of fun putting it together and it felt great to get up at 5am to get a workout in. I had to laugh though because today was supposed to be day 1 of both DH & my early morning workouts. I was the only one that got up. :laugh: He'll get it in later, no doubt but it made me laugh that as soon as his alarm went off, he hit 'off'. He's never been an early riser, but unlike me, he'll find time later to get it in.

I'm also sticking with calorie cycling instead of counting exercise calories. It's pretty much the same process but I just like the rigidness of the calorie allotments for the day with having been off the wall for the past few days (week..month, whatever!). So I'm just putting in what my workout was in the exercise calorie but adding my 'extra allotment' for calorie cycling as the 'burned calories'. Lot of mumbo jumbo but I need concrete plans to get me through Christmas. I was up way too much this morning, and though I'm sure alot of it has to do with PMS and water weight...it still shouldn't be up THAT much! Back on track before I lose the track!

We actually had a nice weekend (weather wise) and it led into a decent morning so the two lazy dogs were appreciative when I took them out for a walk after my workout. They may have ripped my shoulder out of socket but I figured they needed a little 'burn' too.

2 weeks! I know! I picked up that Hallmark Christmas countdown ornament for the kids. And since we dont have a tree yet, I have it sitting in my kitchen. Every time a day goes down, I think...WOW! Am I even ready this for?! Shopping wise..yes, I'm done but all the hustle and bustle, cooking and baking, visiting and traveling...it's all coming so fast! Not to mention by the end of March I'll be the Mom of a 3 and 5 year old. Where does the time go?!

Glad you were able to get back into the swing of things, even if it was not 100%. Hopefully a couple more days and you'll be back in top shape! These bugs just linger around for what seems like eons. I praise you though..you've got such motivation and dedication that once it's gone, you are right back at it. That's awesome!!

Jennie, I'm going to make you hold out your hands so I can hit them with a ruler. smh 1.2 pounds, really??? *insert not pleased face*

Or maybe you didn't blow it at all! How do you feel? Is the number that important? I've stopped stressing myself out with #s - just body composition. I'm back to lifting. I think you were doing lifting programs too, right? And you know the saying about muscle weighing more than fat. :-) Look at yourself in the mirror, woman. You are AMAZING.

Thanks for the assistance with the 'online/tv' workouts. I'll check those out!! I love a good free workout. I sent an email for the Lindsay Brin thing, so I'll be excited to see what comes out of that.

I did peek at the scale, and breathed a breath of relief. The weight I'd put on was just, apparently, water weight because I'm back down to the 153. Thank goodness. I did eat well (aside from the 'cake cakes' my sons baked for me last night!) this week and drank a lot of water. Just got to stay on top of it.

I picked up some cute new Reebok workout capris and a top when I ordered my Mom's Christmas present. I'm excited to get those on and get a good burn on. I was too lazy this morning to get them out of the box so I just went with what I could easily find at 5am. LoL.

Thanks to dleevee for the info. too!

What a long weekend! i never say that but holy hannah. The dog is finally back to 100% but my oldest and I have a bug. I'm wondering if it wasn't the food we ate last night because we both got smacked with the same symptoms and had ate the same thing. Poor little man is home from school throwing up. Luckily Daddy could stay home and man the puke bucket!! Such a good guy I married!!

Is the trainer someone from on here? I talked to one of the trainers on here who I ran the leangains method by when I experimented with that. He suggested 10 X body weight as a simplified method for figuring out calorie deficit. He said anywhere between 10-12 calories per pound for weight loss (and of course, I went with the lowest range! lol). You are still seeing small losses though aren't you? I mean, it can't hurt to experiment a little. Just though I recalled seeing some loss the past few weigh ins.

We went to a holiday festival with the kids last night 1.5 hour away so we ate crap for dinner but I'm sucking down water and was good the rest of the weekend. Justification? Maybe, but that's kind of how my life goes. LoL. I can't avoid drive ins all together with all the running around we do. So adapt, adapt, adapt.

Sorry for lack of posting. Took a sick day yesterday and just didn't get on the computer. You know how that goes, I'm sure!!

Read your blog post, You are an awesome writer. You'll get it figured back out. We all stumble, but I have no doubt that you'll reach your goals. It does become harder when you can look in the mirror and see the progress, or feel it in your clothes. You can become comfortable with where you're at. But we'll keep pushing and make all of our goals by 30 (lucky for me, I have a little longer till I turn 30 since I do have a little further to go! LoL)

I got Lindsay's meal plan...did you see that? The email said 'meal plan and target weight' but it didn't mention target weight at all. At least not during the skimming I did. I was surprised it was 1200 with no variance with the working out. Food sounded good though. I'm going to read it more and see what I missed while skimming. I want to atleast finish out JM this week before considering a change. Plus, I haven't gotten the first workout burned to a DVD yet but DH says he can figure that out 'no problem!'