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Also recently engaged and need to get myself in gear before i get to where I want to be to try on dresses!

I hear ya! It's rough. It's our first week back and there have been donuts every morning! :o I try to drink a hot green tea after lunch for something that fills me up. I also just try to not look at the yummy table. :)

Is it a health/injury reason as to why you cannot do squats?

Awesome, thanks!!!

Wow, congrats!

I'm doing NROL4W now! Bumping this for motivation when...great job! :)

Thank you for your input..I appreciate it! :smile:

So, after not feeling well for some time now...I went to the doctor and I have mono :(. They said no contact sport/vigorous exercise...and I just about had a breakdown when I thought about not lifting. I'm not sure if anyone has had it before and whether they exercised while they had it. I went yesterday, and I'm going to…

I once saw a girl running in jeans and Ugg boots. I don't even want to fathom how gross her feet were afterwards... :sick:

I've been sick since last Thursday, so I've missed 2 sessions...it's amazing how antsy I feel not going! But, I figured it would've been more detrimental and dangerous for me (i'm pretty weak and groggy) to lift feeling so poorly. Hoping to get back in the swing of things tomorrow! Keep up the good work ladies!

I'm definitely feeling a lot more sore during this stage! I bet it's because of the intensive leg exercises. I'm considering taking 2 rest days in between....any one else considering that too?

Bump, looks delish!

Bump! Great work ladies!

p.s Does anyone else find the front squat/should press awkward??? I tried it this morning and I don't think I got enough momentum from my squat going down because it took more energy that I think it should've to get the bar over my head (i'm just using the barbell to start). Hoping that it becomes easier..but I did like…

Starting Stage 2 tomorrow. Dumb question....but in the book I think it said do each workout 4x each, 2 sets of 10 each time (or something like that...book is at home, I'm at work now!). So, this is different than stage 1 where every couple of sets the number of reps/weights changed, correct? Does anyone have a spreadsheet…

Thanks!!

Are you ladies doing any HIIT cardio on your non-lifting days? I have to admit..I TRY to be consistent with going on the off days, but sometimes I just dismiss it altogether. Haha. And this is coming from a former cardio junkie!

These look fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks everyone! I think I will give my body another day and see how it feels. Who'd ever thought that I'd be getting anxiety about missing lifting?! :)

Question about the Step Ups...I finished workout 8A last night and it was 3 sets of 10. How do you make sure that you're working out each leg the same amount? When it was just 2 sets of 15, it was easy to just focus on one leg per set. Last night I kinda split up the 10 reps into 5 per leg. Sorry this is a goofy question…

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Lil Wayne Pandora station hahaha. The only time I listen to that is at the gym!

Yum! Thanks for sharing! :)

This stresses me out as well! I went back and forth when I first started reading/looking into it. I used the calculator that aligned with the book (basically, the formulas from the book--but it did all the math for me). I'm eating 1,600 non-lifting days and 1,900 lifting days. That's the "fat loss" modification that the…

Bump! :) I sometimes feel a bit self-conscious doing these..when the body builder meatheads are standing just a couple feet away. AH!

I have it afterwards.... I do have a question though. Is it okay to use the whey protein on NON lifting days?

:smile: Thanks! Helpful reference!

HI! I saw that you had a spreadsheet about the order of the sets/reps for the workouts? When you have a minute, would you please be able to e-mail it to me? I"m confused! Thank you so much. <email removed by allabtlm>

It'd be great to have new friends doing this too...add me if you'd like! :)

I don't think i could survive on 800 cals...