karenzephyr

Im a member of Planet Fitness- 10 per month but I think it's really just machines,not classes. I'd love to try Zumba- Rae- is there a place that has it during the day?

Hi! I'm Karen- I live in West Philly and work in Fishtown, so I am a Philly gal through and through! I've been In Philly since 1993- Graduated with my BFA from UArts in 1996, began teaching stained glass in 1997 at local art centers and UArts, founded a Philly based non-profit Art Collective in 1999, opened my own…

try making lots of low cal sides to go with your pasta! fill up on sides and eat the pasta slow...

Im super confused by this post. My understanding is that under 1200 calories and your body goes into survival mode and starts hoarding fat/ burning muscle and gaining weight. Why would you want to trigger that in your body? Isn't it smarter to stay at 1200 and lose weight slower or am I not understanding something here?

We saw Contagion tonight. Scary in a non-violent sort of- I'm gonna go count my soup cans- and never take public transportation ever again sort of way.

Just looked at our diary from yest- You did a great job all day long with the exception of the sugar cookie- and even that only put you a few calories over. Don't beat yourself up...tomorrow- eat 1/2 the cookie.

sounds delish!

calorie free wine- I need that!!!

I enjoy an anti-inflamatory/ pain reduction medication like ibuprofin when I'm in muscle pain.

Bambi Tantum!

yum

I'm not sure how to find out who is on my team- Team 14 give a holler!

I'm with the people who say it's a 2 way street. If you want the support you have to put the time in supporting as well. If the support is important to you- don't drop out. You essentially left your friends high and dry first. If you are not giving it is unreasonable to expect to receive. I think a month not logging on is…

It also depends on your activity level- mine is second from highest- trying to lose 2 lbs per week- and I can eat 1450.

I read a little back and saw that you are having a hard time reaching him. I sent him a message and got an immediate response. If there is anything I can do to help let me know.

Hi Vixens- I messaged Gary yest to see if he had and open groups- mentioned that I had heard of him from the Victorious Vixens. He asked me to ask you to message him again as he did not seem to have you listed. Good luck!

I'll check in tomorrow morning- unfortunately, I was going to skip this week because I am SERIOUSLY PMS-ing, and don't really want to look at the numbers, but what the heck. I know I'll get my period in 1-2 more days and then I'll be much lighter- in body and mind :-) Going to do my exercises as soon as my son goes to…

Hi There! I'm Karen and relatively new to this site! I got a sneak peek at one of the August challenges and am thrilled to try my hand and body at September challenge! Excited!!!!

My son will be 7 in March and my daughter turned 3 in August!

I didn't do the rows yet today- but it is 12am- so I guess I'll do them first thing in the morn. I DID, however, spend at least 3 hours today lifting heavy boxes over my head in my stock room, rearranging cases and cases of juice, and carrying $110.47 worth of groceries 2 blocks all in one trip- and that included heavy…

Thanks! When I saw Alceid naked on True Blood- I was pretty sure it would count :-) Shopping today- already pretty good w reading labels- My 6 year old son and I always read cereal labels together- the deal is I'll buy any cereal w out high fructose corn syrup and below 6g of sugar. I'll do the fitness challenge every day-…

nuts. peanut butter, rice...

Alrighty! I did the exercise challenge- do we do this every day? Also- does watching True Blood count as 'me' time? lol. I'll weigh in tomorrow morning! Thanks for hooking me up with KRKMFP- she seems great!

So- I misunderstood your question about burning calories- I'm the goof that wrote over 10,000 burned on average per week. Wouldn't that be wild! ACTUALLY- the average is 1031.5- but I've only been at it for 1.5 weeks so that might not be a good representation.

I'm 1.5 weeks into this. I know how important it is to exercise, but sometimes I just don't have time, or motivation. I am also 40 but a single mom w 2 little kids(3 + 6). I'm might be completely wrong here, but I feel that if I stick to the calories alotted to me- then I'm still improving. If I get a chance to actually…

I'm looking forward to having some clothes that are weirdly too big :-) Good work, btw. If you have any sewing skills at all- a bathing suit might not be a hard thing to tailor yourself. Or- throw a tank on overtop- just to be on the safe side.

I figure if on my cheat days I stay between my caloric intake goal 1450 and what they list as my caloric intake to just maintain-2450 then I'm golden.

How close should it be? exact?