RobynMWilson Member

Lots of protein and healthy fats! And I sleep like a baby on cardio days!!

How bout eating more healthy snacks? And who recommended a 1200-cal diet to you?

STOP DIETING and start lifting heavy weights! You don't need to lose weight, just body fat! So get out of the diet mentality and start lifting. Aim for maintaining your weight and find a well-structured program that will help you shed body fat. You will lose a size or two, as well!

Add me! I log everyday and cyberstalk people! lol

Squeeze your butt and focus on holding everything in your core tight when you're doing them. And speed is your friend!

Read your ingredients. The third or fourth ingredient in the GNC GET LEAN shakes is HYDROGENATED OIL (coffee creamer). HYDROGENATED OIL AND GET LEAN? Really?

You probably had the old chocolate Shakeology, which has been completely re-vamped and is much better. But read your ingredient list. A lot of shakes have oil in them, artificial flavoring, refined sugar (or glucose or fructose or aspartame or Splenda or evaporated cane juice), some of the cheaper shakes have hydrogenated…

Since I work out at home alone and tend to have cats hanging around, I cannot afford complete failure so I stop when my form suffers or I can barely push out that last rep. Then I don't drop weights, hurt my knees or my cats lol

I did ChaLEAN Extreme and then P90X and back to ChaLEAN Extreme. Although I love my ab and back results from P90X, I tend to get better hip and leg results from ChaLEAN Extreme.

I don't like the gym, either. I've been working out at home since 1996 and now I get gym results at home. It's so much more convenient to just slap on my workout clothes, go in my bedroom, and push play on my DVD player!

Amen! The RIGHT shoes...cross trainers for Insanity. this is why I don't recommend the program very much and why I haven't done it myself and I'm a Beachbody Coach. I could be selling away but if I can come up with a safer alternative for my customers, I do. It's a great program but not for anyone who has joint issues,…

That's very nice your employer does that. Do they pay your medical insurance there? It's been proven that when the employer proactively helps its employees get healthy and encourages a healthy lifestyle, they lose less money when employees call out sick or go out on disability, etc...

Mine has Weight Watchers coming in every week and they tell us about Weight Watchers meetings while plying us with donuts and cupcakes at the monthly safety meetings. I'm a school bus driver so hardly a very health-conscious industry!

AGREED! ^^

Wrap dresses look HORRIBLE on me!

How people will treat you differently. I wasn't prepared for how people treat me. To this day. I work with a lot of morbidly obese and overweight people and I'm the outcast because they don't know I was once obese. Also, extra skin. If only I knew in the 80s (when I lost my weight) what I know now! sigh... lol

40 years old right here! Sending FR now :)

I'm positive most of the time, unless I have PMS...and I log daily! Sending FR now :)

It eventually does get easy and just becomes a way of life! The trick is to make small changes you can live with, one at a time. You didn't develop unhealthy habits overnight, so don't turn into Ms Healthy overnight. It'll be a shock to your system!

I'm 40 and I so relate! A lot of ppl my age can't keep up and look at me like i'm nuts b/c I work out lol Just sent you a FR! Anyone else on here, feel free to add me :)

Great job girl!!

Feel free to add me! I'm 40 and fitter than I was in my teens and 20s :)

Hate it. S dash, dash, dash will mean for me this week clearing the TOP of my bus at 4:30am in the dark on Thurs morning and driving 40 kids at a time. It also means me shoveling since I'm the only capable shoveler in the family. I have to dig out a 15-ton vehicle. I despise the stuff so much I've made it a forbidden word…

^^ So true! Which is why I refuse to watch it.

It's a myth...I've always eaten a late dinner. I'm eating dinner right now. And I've kept off my 70lbs for a LONG time!

Congrats on the new job! I would change your activity level on MFP to "moderately active" and still log your workouts as usual. Because you're adjusting your activity level, don't log your work as a workout. Ie: I'm a school bus driver, which really falls under "lightly active" b/c it takes some cal burn to drive a 15 ton…

Def if you eat healthy fats, you won't be feeling so deprived. I'm hungry a lot too but having healthy fats in my diet certainly helps. And make sure you're eating enough!

I look more like my father and when I was heavy, I was not an apple shape like my mom now is. She has toothpick legs, carries all her weight in her mid-section and big 'uns. I'm flat chested, and when I was heavy my weight was more evenly distributed to everywhere besides my boobs lol. I think I'm gonna end up more taking…

LOOOVE TF! Great results girl! Good luck with Insanity!! :)

Hahahaha!! I have days I don't eat enough and lately I lost a couple of lbs I shouldn't have lost. There are some days I go over, too. The weekends are tough b/c I'm not awake as many hours as during the week so this weekend i"m making a conscious effort to get as close to my cal goal as possible. I did better today than I…