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yoga tonight, don't know how far i'll make it through, I scraped up my knee pretty bad over the weekend, and all the bending / kneeling might not be fun. Anyhow, pushing play.

I just had a salad for dinner with so much fresh spinach, I had to eat it out of a mixing bowl instead of a regular bowl. But that puts my total for the day at barely 800 cals. So yah, without eating too much fruit... this should be interesting.

just finishing up drinking my first juice...I feel like it was a lot of juice, at least 16 oz, but it's still pretty low in calories for a lunch... Those of you that are logging, how are you doing with getting enough calories in? I feel full, but I want to make sure I'm getting enough to eat!

Made my first juice this morning! Dandelion Greens Cucumber Apple Lemon Ginger I must say, it was really good! The dandelion greens are really bitter though, so they need the other stuff in their to cut the flavor. They are supposed to be amazing for you though!

Starting out my raw diet / juicing tomorrow morning. I'm curious how it will turn out. Gonna eat fruit for breakfast, and salad for dinner, but everything else will be juice. Salad will only be veggies - spinach, cucumber, tomato, avocado, etc.

Today was definitely a just push play day, but I did Kenpo, and I got in the abs workout I skipped yesterday...

Absolutely cook at home. A) I like cooking. B) Dreaming up new meals is how I get through the day! C) I can control calorie intake better D) It's less stress!! I go out to eat VERY occasionally. Try to make the best choices I can, but it's such a rare thing that I don't stress about it too much.

awesome!! Good luck! did legs/back today, gonna throw ab ripper in with kenpo tomorrow, unless I get the motivation to do it later tonight... which I may.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm planning on juicing 1/2 meals of the day...we'll see how it goes, I may indeed decide to do a few days just juicing at the end.

I'm halfway through right now. I do the program exactly as designed in the am, and then add some light cardio / cross training in the PM. I run abt 3/4 days per week, bike 2 days, swim at least once. I do this mainly because I want to keep in the habit of going for quick evening workouts when school starts, and because I…

edit: dunno why it double posted. Weird.

This is a really good topic to bring up. I think sometimes we might overemphasize the whole 'can't target' thing. The idea is, if you are doing crunches, that doesn't mean you're burning fat and replacing it with muscle in your core. It just means you're gaining muscle in your core. That having been said, when we gain…

I dunno... High heels have never bothered me, slim or large...

So I'm not going to do a full on juice fast, more like a 7 day raw food diet. (I've been craving / eating too many sweets recently, so figured I'd try it) I'm starting next monday, and will do it during a "rest week" for P90X. For those of you that purely juice, do you still count calories? How many calories per day do you…

I'm with you on shorter for school lizzy! Did 1.5 times the plyo today... Started off midday in the gym, but kinda ran out of time, so only did 3 out of 5 of the sections... Promised myself I'd start over from the beginning again tonight, and it turns out I really needed the extra calories after our lab dinner thingy. Man,…

I've been thinking about this... I'm considering insanity, or a P90X type hybrid program. I want to check out the one-on-one's, and the plus's... I'm open to other programs though. It could be fun to continue onto something with this group!

I only said that about the fight, because it's kinda one of those hotly contested topics on these forums... people get passionate about it. Here's the post that I was reading http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Azdak/view/hrms-cannot-count-calories-during-strength-training-17698. I've been looking for more actual studies to…

I haven't put a super amount of time researching it, and I don't mean to start a fight, but from what I've read the formula HRM's use to calculate calories is really not accurate unless you're doing consistent aerobic excercise. (ie something with relatively the same exertion level the whole time). It might be worth…

I rarely get to go to coffee shops nowadays, because I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, but when I do, I try to find the smallest, healthiest looking thing on the menu, and order it. Then I consider it my cheat meal for the month. LOL. Love bran muffins, banana breads, hummus plates, that type of thing. (Biscotti is…

hahah, wow, how different I am from most people... I could easily eat 3k calories in fruit a day. Have before, I'm sure. Whole bags of cherries, cartons of strawberries... love love love me some fruit. If it wasn't so expensive, I'd probably eat nothing else.

I'm 5'6", 153 lbs. Wear a dress size 4/6, or pants size 6/8. Only reason my dress size is that small is because I'm ridiculously hourglass shaped... 36/27/38

I think this here is the kicker. I've never been to a cookout/BBQ where it's rude to contribute food (with permission, of course). These things usually are somewhat potluckish anyway. But it definitely, IME, works best to do it like your bringing a dish to contribute. Whether it be a salad, or veggies, or turkey dogs/…

That's so awesome!!! Congrats!! I know that feeling, and it's truly one of the best in the world.

So I feel guilty for posting that I hadn't had many changes... weighed in the next day and took measurements. I was down another lb, consistently been down 1 lb / week. That's healthy, although not as much as I had hoped for the summer, it's healthy. Strange though, with the measurements. The most dramatic loss of inches…

Hey! I always run at night, after dark... I hate the heat, and I hate running indoors. Luckily, thanks to the fact that I'm spending the summer fenced in a national laboratory, it's pretty darn safe. I used to run at night outdoors in San Diego, and my roommates were pretty convinced I was going to die. Amy

http://www.p90xworkoutschedule.org/ but yah, it comes with the schedule. Also, you can find nifty excel spreadsheets online for tracking your exercise.

With kenpo X done, that makes one more week to check off! Still not really losing any weight or inches... oh well, good things come to those who wait. My goal is fairly aggressive- I'm planning on doing a sports acro type routine with my dance partner next year, so I really need to be as light as is healthy... My current…

Treat with caution. I bought these shoes, and I ran in them. Bad idea. After a few months of running 3+ miles a day in them, I developed gate related hip issues. After ditching them and buying good running shoes, my hip issues altogether disappeared. I think they are definitely comfy, and good for standing / walking, but…

A lot of people's weight loss slows when they start adding in weight training... that doesn't mean your fat loss is slowing though! I'd recommend taking measurements. :)

actually have sore biceps for the first time this whole program!!! Wooohooo for free weights. I may do legs +back in the gym tomorrow too, and throw some weight into that equation. Amy