T.H.E. (Trying Hard Everyday) TEAM ~ Week 19 ~ WELCOME!!

Ok guys with school getting out next week, I can start taking the morning classes at the gym. Here's my proposed workout schedule, what do you all think?

Mon - 8:30 Step Class + Abs
9:30 Trainer (strength training)
Tues - OFF
Wed - 8:30 Step Class + Abs
9:30 strength training 30 mins
Thurs - 9:00 Water aerobics
Fri - 9:00 strength training 30 mins
9:45 Step Class + Abs
Sat - OFF
Sun - 8:30 BodyWorks + Abs (strength training, some cardio depending on instructor)
9:45 yoga

Now any of the step classes, if that ends up being too much that week, I can replace with elliptical on my own. I just like the class and LOVE how many cals it burns... So this way, I'm doing strength training 4x/week, and cardio of some kind 5x/wk. And stretching once a week... And of course probably once a week I'll miss a class because we have one appt or another or I'll have to flip days or something... not everything is offered every day which is why I wanted to schedule it so I could attend the step classes if I wanted to go that day...

What do ya'll think?

adopt4...I say that's an awesome exercise plan. Even if you miss a day occasionally, I still think it's a great plan.

For some reason, I'm tired and very hungry today. Already over in calories, but I won't worry about it. Still under maintenance, and maybe this is my week for doing just that. Maybe I need the break...listen to my body...and then start back up in a few days.

I, too, was a once a day eater, and I was underweight for many years. But as I got older, I put on a few pounds here and there...and for awhile I was a good weight. Unlike you, I ate supper, and then I ate after supper. It finally caught up with me. I ended up being less active (due to illness), and my bad eating habits put an extra 25 pounds on me within a few years.

I still can't cope with breakfast, unless I wait at least 2 hours after I get up. But I'm doing better for eating lunch, and my evening snacks are much healtheir choices.

(I never thought I'd eat a granola bar, as long as I lived, but I like them now.)

Hey gang ~ sorry i didn't post over the weekend or post weigh in on Friday. I was super bummed - no loss this week either That's like five weeks now and I stayed good on food/cals all week AND exercised 4 days and worked in the yard and cleaned hard core on my off days so ppfffhhh! Who knows?!?!

Loving the posts on raising kids - I had a philosophy a lot like Prayerfulmom's - I never bothered about their rooms - their own private space - unless stuff was spilling out into the hall or I could smell it from downstairs. They both have had lots of different colors of hair and various other ways of expressing themselves and I never chose to pick fights over that sort of thing - BUT they've had to do their own laundry since 9th grade and they've always had to help with yard and house chores, wash cars, clean the garage etc. and I'm grateful they both grew up to like their space orderly and they can both cook well enough to keep themselves nourished:happy:

Lorann - Welcome to you - very glad to have you on T.H.E. Team. You're in for a great expereince with this group - lots of knowledge, support, encouragement, and comfort.

I think I'll pull the bike out of the back of the barn and start fixing it up - you're all giving my bike fever!

Have a great week everyone - do one thing everyday that makes you HAPPY:drinker:

lulu

Good morning everyone!! :flowerforyou:

Thank you all for the welcome ... glad to be here. So I checked out that Leslie Sansone Walk at Home, that looks like something I can do well at least the first mile. I will keep you posted on how it goes. (oh and I found some exercises I can do while I'm at work, gonna try those as well)

Off to work now Have a great day!!

Hi Team! The weekend was so busy! Nope I didn't go traveling. Saturday I went to Gettysburg with the dog to watch the bf's softball tourney and then headed to coaching in the evening. We ended up finally making it to dinner on Saturday around 9pm!
Sunday I got up early, made blueberry muffins, went to coach again, went for a bike ride then straight to a friends farm to ride horses then to my parents then walked the dogs to ritas! Geez, just typing that makes me tired! My legs are pretty sore today. You would think I would have been exhausted, which I was but for some reason I couldn't sleep and woke up 3 times last night!
I hope everyone had a good weekend! I am going to try and get caught up on reading the posts I missed!
J. :happy:

Sooooo I've been sticking to not eating my exercise cals. Sometimes I may go over but then I go under the next day. But heres my thing. Today I feel like I could eat EVERYTHING I see!!! Last night I did an hour of kickboxing and then walked the dog for 45 mins (roughly burned about 1000 cals though I do not have an HRM). Is there a point with exercise that I should be eating more???
I am trying to figure out if this lead to me being so hungry today or I am just having an off day.
Thanks Team!
J. :flowerforyou:

Girlfriend you need to eat some of those exercise points. Your probably already set up for a 1000 calorie deficit. You should play around with them. Maybe eat half.
There are days I can't possibly eat my exercise calories. But on the most part I try. If not the third day I am ravenous. Be careful not to go into starvation mode.

Thank you and Li4g's advice, I will try to eat at least half of them back on the bigger workout days. Now when I don't do kickboxing and just walk to dog plus burning about 300-400 should I still be eating them back?

Morning, ya'll! Suddenly I find myself barely able to stay within cals on workout days... hmmm... I went over by 40 yesterday, I'm not really concerned about that. Although I have my cals set at 1.5 pounds per week, if I see one pound or even half a pound per week I'm happy right now, just to see some downward movement. Stopped taking that med that might be why I plateaued (like lulu, stuck stuck stuck) so we'll see how that goes. I'm still suffering the ill effects of that pill (bad dreams) but that should go away in a few more days.

I am bummed I can't do step class today, but my son is still in school most of the week. So next week I get my new schedule, but for now, today I meet with the trainer and then I have to do cardio. Or maybe I'll skip cardio today... or take the Kickbox Cardio tonight (sounds like fun, but it would wear me out!).

I looked at my progress over the past several months, and I did lose about 6 -7 pounds in the last 2.5 mos. But it was all when my "problem" resolved itself, and nothing before or since. So I really don't understand THAT.

After all this time, I still can't believe with the internal struggle of eating. I still feel like I should starve myself to lose this weight. I already KNOW that doesn't work, BTDT got the tshirt. And obviously, when I started eating better stuff, I lost a lot of weight - 38 pounds since I started MFP on Jan 18. But this plateau has got me totally flustered and feeling like slipping back into old habits, either 'why bother no more weight is gonna come of' or 'stop eating, try the lemonade diet'. Now I KNOW, I KNOW, both answers are wrong and bad. But still, my thinking keeps going there because nothing I"m doing the "right" way has broken this plateau (which is why fingers crossed and praying and doing a rain dance that the med was the cause). I'm at my wits end. I also know, but still keep telling myself, that I have to wait a few weeks of still doing the right thing before I"ll know if the change in med helped at all. HELP me stay on track please!!!

Hey everyone!! Hope you're all having a good Monday.
I'm doing much better this morning, I can even take a few steps without my cane! Woohoo!!! I'm pretty excited about that!
Also, this big bluegrass festival is going on this week in Indiana, and I've attended every year since I was little. Didn't think I'd be able to make it this year, but I'm going!!! I'm so excited, it's not even funny! I'm meeting both of my sisters, and we're going together. Tony has to stay home, take care of the puppy and play the Opry, so I'm going by myself. Unless my knee is worse, I'm so there!

I have another PT appointment this Wednesday, so keep your fingers crossed that it goes well. Last week, my knee all the way down to my ankle was swollen so badly that I couldn't do anything!

It's weird..I posted something this morning, but I don't see it!
Anyway, hope you're all doing well, miss you all!
Getting back at it soon, hopefully, as I can now take some steps without my cane.
Plus, I'm planning to go to a bluegrass festival this weekend with my sisters, and that always lifts my spirits! Been a little down lately, but I'm hanging in there!

Lulu - YES YES YES You got it girl. Now if we can just remember it and stick to it. I think that's exactly right to make some small changes in your calories and see if that helps.

DWray, hurray for walking!

I talked to the trainer about my proposed summer schedule. He said start out 2 days of the step class per week, not 3, and see how it goes. Today I only did my trainer workout but I want to go to the other gym tonight and do the step class... we'll see if I'm still motivated by then. If not, I'll do water aerobics tonight for cardio because I just can't stand to think about the elliptical or the treadmill... He had me row on the machine today, go 800 meters in less than 5 mins... I did it in 4:44. I don't know if that's good or not, LOL. But it was something different. He worked my abs hard so I know I will be feeling that later.

Who was it, someone asked about exercises at home... do you want me to share what the trainer does with me? I did a few threads ago and then we kind of did the same thing or used circuit training machines... but I can share what he's done with me so far, especially the abs ones, since I have a huge belly and abdomen. You know that's the only area that I feel is huge anymore, which is kind of cool. I used to have a huge butt, huge this, huge that... and now, just my belly is huge although I have a lot of weight to lose still, I"m comfortable with where I"m at everywhere but there. Don't have any idea why my body dropped all that weight off my back and butt and I swear nothing's come off the front half, LOL. If you look at me from behind you'd think I weigh one weight and if you see me from the front you'd add about 80 pounds to that... so strange!

Though I didn't ask about your exercises, I'd be very interested in knowing(especially for the belly area!