LeighaMason

What a difference 2 days of rest makes! WOW. My last workout was Tuesday so I had 2 days to overcome the soreness and my workout seemed much easier today. My pulse stayed in the 160's instead of the 180's like it had been. Here is what I was suppose to do today: Today you're going to do as many rounds as you can do for 30 minutes: 15,12,10,7,5 reps of push ups and sit ups, with a 2 minute run/walk with a purpose between each round. I am not sure what this meant so I interpreted it to mean run 2 min, stop do 15 push ups & 15 sit ups, run 2 min., do 12 sit ups & 12 push ups run, etc.... rinse, repeat. So here is a recap of what I did: I rode my bike to the park .99 mi. 6.52 min Ran a total of 22 min. 1.76 mi. 98 push ups 98 sit ups Rode my bike home .99 mi. (Who the hell decided to buy the house on the top of the hill?) For a total of 50:47 min., 3.73 mi. Havent lost a pound! :mad: But my upper arms are getting definition. Now if something would happen to these pads of fat on the insides of my knees!

Your mourning the loss of your previous life. I did it to. It goes away. BTW your doing great!

I use the active.com website. It has lots of information about nutrition, sports, and all around fitness. It links to my facebook page and I get a small article a couple of times a day plus I got a free cross training 9 week plan that I am using from the activetraining.com part.

I pretty much have a glass of wine every night, and I also have a frozen custard from Andy's every Sunday evening. Those are the only 2 deviations from my planned eating. I log my wine at 193 calories and the frozen custard is not a published number but it has to be at least 500 calories. So that is 1850 calories a week I could cut, but I am so stubborn that I don't want to. So I am going to do my 9 week cross training program and see if that gets me anywhere, if not I am going to have to decide if I am going to give this up long enough to lose the 8 or just accept 138 as good enough. Well see... I am not ready to raise the white flag yet!

Karen-- Will you just accept that you are a 5 small meal person and be at peace with it? I think some of us are not built to be able to eat the 3 meals a day, I know that I cant. I eat a breakfast at 8, a snack at 10:30, lunch at 12, snack at 3, dinner at 6 and if I am going to run the next day another snack at 8. It has never hindered my progress. Now the wine is a different story....... Plus VS! WTG! I love VS! Denise-- I wish I didn't have to exercise, my new plan is so intense that I have been going to bed a 8 pm on the day I do it. But the good news is my husband has started doing it with me so we spend some time together outside of work. We have to be careful because its easy to fall into a "working relationship" where we only talk about work. Christie--"we'll have to go all gangsta cheerleader on you"--I am officially stealing this phrase. It makes me laugh... Stacie-- I have been taking the Prilosec and I feel so much better, I don't know what the difference is but maybe you could ask your Dr? Crystl-- Is your band back to normal now that you are at a normal altitude? AJ & Lovin --Welcome we are glad your here. My name is Leigha, I have been banded 9 mo and I have lost 57 pounds with 8 left to go. I don't want to quit drinking wine and so I whine and try and burn off those 8 pounds with exercise, well see how that goes.:biggrin: In real life I have a small car dealership that my husband Rob and I run together and then I have some rent houses, sell insurance on the side, and I am a "car buying consultant" so basically I do anything I can to keep from having to have a real job. :thumbup: UPDATE: My friend stopped by to visit today, he hasn't gotten his test results back but he sure did look better, and I could tell he felt better, too. I think they will be positive. Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

Congratulations! (BTW, I think your Dr is sandbagging, you might as well claim the real goal.)

I rate the pain right after surgery a 3 but by the next day it was a 1, I had surgery on Tuesday and went to work on Thursday.

Let me say from a parents prospective, all that matters is for you to do what makes you happy. If my son decides that he wants to be a backhoe operator because he loves it and is the best one he can be, that is wonderful to me. I don't care if he is a Dr., lawyer or ditch digger as long as he is happy. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Because of your injury yours have changed. You will have to relearn what yours are but just because they are different that doesn't mean they are less valuable. I think you are in a growth stage and when its over you will really like who you grew into.

I eat my steak rare and I have never had a problem with it. The longer you cook it the more of the fats are released and the dryer and tougher it will be.

Approved is approved now get your butt on the pre-op diet! :thumbup: Congratulations again! Relax everything is going to be fine, just follow your Dr's instructions for the preop diet to a T. Good luck.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ap1qXRkd4RRydEFfa2pPb19reVlTa25Qb1hlYUktcFE&hl=en&authkey=CLuLqfUE#gid=0 Here you go!

The only time I can think of that I need to gain weight is when I go scuba diving. When I scuba dive I have to use these little weights that slip into my pockets to make me sink, a pound in each front pocket and 2 pounds in each back pocket. Plus the ones that slip into the ankle straps that keep my ankles from from floating up, I think they hold at least a 3 pounds each. I rent them at the scuba shop.

Yes, my German friend, come on in!

It could be your eating skills, try this test. Cut up a 2 oz piece of white fish (that is not over cooked) into pencil eraser sized pieces, put one at a time in your mouth, put down your fork, chew to bits, swallow, wait 15 seconds after swallowing for your next bite. Add 1/2 a cup of sautéed squash and zucchini and 1/4 cup of mashed potatoes. Make sure you stop before you are full! If this works it might be the way you eat instead of what you eat. I can eat anything if I eat it like this. Oh and also, make sure when you try this you are not stressed. When people are rushing around I cant eat much.

Husband reality check #2: Me: I am considering another fill, but since I have been doing so well and can eat almost anything I cant decide. Rob: You don't need a fill, your eating is fine, if you stopped drinking wine completely, you would lose those last pounds.:tt2: Boy do I hate it when they are so right.

Hey girls! I finished my first week of the 9 week cross training program that I am doing. I am happy about that because that gives me 2 days without having to workout so I will hopefully have some soreness go away. I was riding to work with my husband this morning and I told him I was tempted to get another fill to help me with the 8 pounds, but since my band is semi-loose I can eat almost everything and I rarely get stuck I was undecided. He pointed out that band tightness wasn't my problem, that if I wanted to lose the last 8 I should stop drinking wine completely:cursing:. God I hate it when he is so right. Its not the band its me. So decision time, 138 with wine or 130 without? We will see. :tt2:

The only good thing I can say about today is that I am thrilled to have 2 days off before I have to do this again on Friday! Here is what I was suppose to do: As many rounds as you can do for 30 minutes: 6 minute run/walk with purpose 50 jump ropes 10 push ups 10 sit ups Here is what I did: Rode my bike to park (1.1 mile and 8.26 min) 2-6 min runs and 2-run/walks (2 min run, 2 min walk, 2 min run) for a total of 20 min running and 4 min walking for 1.82 miles. 200 jump ropes 50 push ups 50 "crunch" sit ups Rode bike home for another 1.1 mile I was not thinking properly last night and I didn't eat any carbs with my meal, so the result is zero energy this morning even though I got up early to eat a yogurt before I went. I did not have the energy for the runs. But even though I am having to modify these things I am still feeling the workouts are really going to give me improvements. I forgot to mention that I took my measurements Tuesday morning so that I would have a baseline to compare them to when I finished the program. I had not measured since May 25th and I had "only" lost 4 pounds but by losing that 4 pounds I had taken an inch off of each thigh, 3/4 inch off my hips and an inch from my waist. So that might be my favorite 4 pounds ever! See y'all Friday!

Ardent Feminist, no. Anti-BS, yes.

"trips their attraction switches" "todays age of pressuring women to act like men" This might be the biggest bunch of BS I have ever heard, and I am a car salesman and I have heard a lot of BS in my time. FYI--You cant "attact women" because you act like an egotistical, chauvinistic, pseudo-intellectual and that is not attractive at any weight.

I bet! I get tighter when I am just stressed not even sick, so I can imagine what you are going through. Just be careful and eat as slow as you can. I hope you feel better soon.

I am in love with the Thomas Bagel Thins, 110 calories each, I cut it in half and have half for breakfast (it has to be toasted or it gets stuck) with a fried egg for a 145 calorie breakfast that keeps me full until lunch and then in the afternoon I have the other half, with a tbsp of peanut butter spread on it for a 149 calorie snack. (This tastes like candy and makes you feel like you just had a treat!)

I have found that if I don't have a set schedule that I talk myself out of working out, as in, "Oh I will do it tomorrow" but if I have to work out the day after tomorrow then I have to do it today because I can't work out 2 days in a row. I would love for someone to be doing it with me so we could compare notes. Here is the link: Active Summer Beginner Cross-Training Plan | Beginner Fitness BTW: After you create an account and put the workout in your cart and go to checkout it asks for credit card info just leave that blank and submit and it will give you the workout. It will also start the day you get it but you can go to your daily log screen and move it to start a different day.

Good morning everyone! Christie-- Glad Steve is back to doing his job. Denise-- I can't decide whether its good to change the ticker or bad. Principal Shad-- Maybe we should share that name with your students. Donna-- Were glad your here. I am with you on the small goals. I get overwhelmed on long term stuff. Have you joined the Labor Day challenge thread? I have a new use for my french fry cutter. I used it on zucchini and squash and then sautéed it in olive oil for a few seconds (don't overcook) with mushrooms and onions. Its really good and band friendly for me. (That is Rob's plate not mine!)

I had doubts at first too but once I started getting fills I started losing 2 pounds a week and I have never regretted it since.

I enjoyed reading your blog, thanks for sharing it.