stay away from soda! argh!!! i did drink guava juice today though. *slaps self i love juice but its soooo bad!

LOL! I am sipping on soda right now. I decided for sure no soda at home anymore. Maybe one at work. i know it should be NONE.

well is it at least diet???

diet has no calories and I heard that if u drink 2 cans full of water PER 1 can of soda that it washes out the bad stuff... interesting way to think about it aye?

LOL! Ummm no. I do have that option though. I selected the soda next to the diet one. Think that counts?

I know it doesn't.

I need tio figure out something else to eat though. I meant to make hummus and bring it with my home made pitas, but a friend came over and borrowed my wheelbarrow and talked/took seeds-- got behind.

Maybe, just maybe, in the next couple of mornings I am going to score an heirloom Okra from Africa. Someone at work offered me the seeds. Heard it is really a good flavor and not so slimy.



Well, 2 glasses of H2O per 1 can soda does help to rehydrate you, but it doesn't really negate the full effect of the soda.. for me I get sick when I have aspartame or the like so I end up feeling rotten if I drink diet.

non slimy okra would be a good thing...

Well, as you know the smaller you pick it the less slimy it is-- and supposedly this one is way less slimy in the small pod stage. I love ti for texture, flaor, and appearance-- i love the way the cross sections look in soups, etc.

OK - yesterday I did 55 mins of circuit training with a focus on glutes and 20 mins on the treadmill - but i did the treadmill hard so i actually burned 250 calories vs the normal 200 i would burn for 20 mins. Food wise was OK except I did have dessert and a caramel machiato from starbucks during the day.

today is going to be difficult i hope i manage to squeeze in a workout. thurs and fri i will workout for sure. today i REALLY want to get one in.




thats what i do - i dont cut out any food groups like carbs etc i just try, as much as possible to eat lots of fruits and veggies and lean proteins and nothing processed.



but think if you had three waters instead of that one soda how much bad stuff you can flush out!! i feel like diet soda is the devil. i actually would rather have regular than diet - i read they proved the diet soda makes you more hungry. i feel like it is just drinking chemicals ugh.

Ok, I like the idea of recording our workouts here.

Yesterday, I did 20 minutes on the treadmill followed by my upper body weight routine. I've also amped up my ab workout - I'm gonna do that every day I can.

Today I only have 45 minutes, so I think I'm gonna do 35 minutes on the treadmill and then my ab work.

I can't work out on Thursday - I wonder if I should do 2 workouts on Friday.

Yesterday I got up to go to the bathroom approximately 9 times here at work. The bathroom is approx 90 feet from my desk. That's 810 feet. Also, I walked to the front door to get the shuttle to get to the back pkg lot where my car is. That is about a 900 foot walk and since I did it coming into work that's 1800 feet. Not counting all of the other steps I took I'd say in total I at LEAST walked 2610 feet or 1.7 miles.

I also had a huge cardio workout whose name cannot be mentioned


I *am* going to ease into the idea of dieting so that come Tuesday I'll be in full swing. This weekend I plan on walking with the hubster on the beach for at least 2 miles a day. I will also replace my bagel with peanut butter in the morning with one slice of whole wheat toast with blueberry jam on top.

They gave us a little pedometer here at work during Fitness month. They said we should get 10,000 steps a day. I tried it out for a day, not including my workout, just to see how many steps I take on average. It was less than 4,000.

life really rocks when one wears a long skirt with an elastic waistband.

Does anyone know if that Myth, pouring regular coca cola on a car eats off the paint? (I don't know what kind of cheap paint tht is) I heard it does the same thing to your teeth eats up the enamel?

elastic or tie waistbands are the devil! that's when the weight creeps on because you don't notice like you would if it were a button/zipper style!

I ran 3 miles in 30 minutes today without stopping! I don't know if you remember, but this has been a goal for me for quite a while now, and I finally did it!

CONGRATS! that is my goal too - havent hit it yet



hey bridget - i think that the whole wheat toast with the peanut butter (natural or reduced fat preferably) would be better than the blueberry jam. otherwise you arent getting any protein and you will feel hungry later.

Thanks! I thought I'd never get there. I always seemed to crap out after 2.5 miles, but I really pushed today.

You'll get there too!

I can do it physically. I know I can. I do mixed intensive cardio for an hour. I do an hour of interval circuit training followed directly by an hour of high impact kickboxing without stopping.
My issue is - my HEAD. The idea of just being on the treadmill and running, running, running is so boring and depressing to me - I want to do it, because you burn a crapload of calories and so I can say I did it - but I just cannot wrap my head around it. HELP!

I think I'm a weirdo, but I do arithmetic in my head - it helps me pass the time. If I'm running for 30 minutes, after the first minute I'm 1/30 of the way there, then after 2 minutes 1/15, and so on and so forth. As time goes on I do it more often - calculate the fraction remaining or completed every 30 seconds or 15 seconds. This may not work for anyone else but me though.

I know what you mean about it being a psychological thing though. I really don't feel significantly more "tired" after 2 miles than after 1. So theoretically, I could run forever! yeah right!

great job!

my goal is to get to the bathroom without getting winded (hahaha i'm not that bad really lol) but it would be great to walk around a retail shop for a coupla hours without sweating..i hate walmart for that reason (plus a gazillion more)

YAY for Jenn Congrats - you are doing so well...

Jenn I do that type of stuff too. And actually I want to talk to you maybe in a weekly thread or via PM about the actuarial stuff. I am in a related field and I am thinking about looking into studying for the exams and wondering what is involved.

Wow that's awesome Jenn! I have that same goal but I was going to ease into it in 9 weeks with the Couch to the 5K running program. But first I want to lose some poundage because I feel it's hard on my joints to start a running program at this weight.

Today we got our Mexican food in and then we discussed how stuffed we were and how much we needed to lose weight and how we're going to seriously crack down on this McDougall diet. The maximum weight loss version states you can lose up to 15lbs in one month if you are strict to the diet and so we both agreed for 30 days to stick to it and try it out.

Today I'm taking a break from cardio and the gym. Last night I couldn't sleep because my muscles were so sore from working out. It was miserable. My Cousin text msg me @ 4:30am saying she'd been up all night with the baby and couldn't sleep and wasn't going to make it so we're going to try again on Thursday. Thursday I also go to the gym with Erin and this time I'm doing upper body.

Congrats Jenn! I do math too.

Sarah-- Soda does eat the enamel off your teeth as do all acids. Juice is worse than soda, and tea is the worst of all.

Olivia, you should soak in a nice hot bath w/ dead sea salts or epsom salts. It will help your achy muscles and you'll sleep much better.

Julianna, nice to see you ... wondered where you'd been today. And yes, sodas will eat the paint off your car, the acid off your battery, the finish off your floors. Stands to reason it's not so great for your teeth either.

Jenn, congrats on your accomplishment!

I hope you feel better soon! I got a new job and I'm working 11pm-7am, so i'm sleeping when i used to be on a lot. Now i need to get cleaning before i go to work. Bleh.

I guess that's why my teeth are so weak - all the tea drinking back home in Poland - tea was my primary thirst quencher back in the "old county" I love tea!!!!!!!!!!!




Hey Julianna - hope you are at least enjoying your new job. Any prospects on your hours coming back to normal???

Thx will do! Now Mom and I are going to sit down and plan our menu for the 30 days!

I get paid more and do half the work and have a lot less worries here! i don't mind the hours, it means higher wages than during the day and I am a night owl anyway.

Ok, the ice cream yesterday, although awesome , was totally evil. I am craving another recees Sonic blast and just might go out and get one for lunch. dang things are 640 calories for a regular sized one! but ohh sooo gooooood *drool*

Hubster "cooked" last night and it tasted amazingly like he cooked it in the deli at our arab market . I know that if I ask him to cook supper, we get take-out coz he's "too tired" to cook after a day of looking at offices.. I love him

It was really good so I'm not complaining AND he got some garlic dipping sauce that was TO DIE FOR..OMG ....*sigh* it was fantastic!

I don't think I went over my calorie allowance yesterday but we shall see what the scale tells me on Tuesday (no work on Monday!) I might weigh tomorrow just to see...

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! WE CAN DO IT!

just say no to sonic for lunch!!!! just say no!!!!!
yum to your dinner last nite tho!

I said no to Sonic for lunch today. mmm banquet meal o fmac and cheese is equally as satisfying......right?

"we miss you amal."

mmmmmmmmmm smoothies............

i ate a whole wheat turkey, broccoli, cheese lean pocket.

yum!! amazingly good.

I went for an hour walk with my Cousin, Abby, this morning. This eveing I will go to Gold's Gym with my friend, Erin, again and this time do an upper body workout with her.

*sighs* Wish i had someone to encourage me!! i have to loose at least 22 pounds God; thinking about it makes me more lazy and procrastinate even more!!

*Nudges* You can do it!! I bet you can lose that 22lbs before I lose my 30lbs by the end of this summer!

ah thank you Olivia!! u know what motivates me sometimes and u might find this weird/or funny lol.... i look at hot chicks like those models of victoria secrets they get me feeling like i wanna puke and totally depletes my apetite.

You sound like my cousin, Abby! But the good news is you don't have to starve yourself to be healthy!

yes true... i dont wanna be skinny -cant do it even if i tried lol- and im blessed with a husband who hates skinny i just wanna trim down some fat and be more toned i hate muscles as well.....insha Allah ill get this done! i have at least 2 months before i see my hubby that shud be more than enuff to lose my 22

stay outta brazil then, that's where most of them are from.

So I went to the gym and did 30 mins of cardio on the elypticals and then did weight training on my upper body. Now my lower body is sore and my upper body feels like jelly and will be sore soon.

Can anyone recommend good core training exercises? I hate doing core but it's a must.

whats core training?

That's where you focus on the middle region or the core of the body like the abdomen.

oh i know one! it makes u have a waiste .... u stand with ur legs far apart and u put a stick on ur shoulder and u hold it one hand at each end
and u start twisting going from one side to the other with ur legs fixed and only the upper part is moving! it does hurt after awhile but VERY effective. but i dont know if i described it very well lol let me know

Ok! I'll try the twist!