Posts by immabee

Insiyah: yeah, cava is sparking wine. Sounds like a lovely weekend! Don't worry, it will warm up eventually :)

My weekend was fun, but not an eating success. Saturday I thought I was keeping it together pretty well, but logged almost 2200 calories. OK, I thought, we'll call it a maintenance day and move on. Sunday I was dutifully writing down all my foods, then some friends stopped by to take a look at the progress on our bar downstairs and we ended up drunk and ordering Chinese. No idea how much I ate, still have to try and log it. The good news though, the bar is looking awesome :) 

So, now back to it! Low calories (1440), get those steps, drink that water, eat those vegetables!! Next week I'll increase my calories to 1620 - a more sustainable number for the long haul to 148 lbs.

*Jen (158.9)

Original Post by roxysparkles:

*triple snap in a z-formation*

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Just did 3 trips around the building. The outside track is almost a mile, I did the inside track - let's say 0.8, so about 2 and a half miles or so? Mostly walking, a little jogging. Only 1800 more steps to get to 10k, I'll get that easily just in normal life.

Still determined!

*Jen (158.4)

Insiyah: We got our walk in and I made 12,467 steps for the day :) I hope you find a Pilates or other class that is both challenging and fits your schedule! I've thought about fitting in just 10-15 minutes of push ups, squats & lunges a couple times a week. We found two 25 lb dumbbells at the old house that I need to bring over!

I hit my calorie target exactly yesterday, and my favorite other targets too (fiber, protein, water). 

*Jen (160.8)

I wear Pearl Izumi Iso Shifts and just wear my regular running shoe size - 10 (or whatever that converts to).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Sorry we missed it. Oh yeah, hauling pavers is a great old fashioned workout! Glad you had a super birthday weekend!

Yoga today.

*Jen (161)

Insiyah: Pull out that equipment! 

Agh. The excitement of my last post continued for about two days. Today I'm just sucking it in and pretending I'm sexy ;)

*Jen (dunno, around 160 probably)

Soraya: it was pretty nice this weekend, but now it's snowing again! Predicting 6½ inches today and overnight. It won't last though, and at least it's helping the lawn green up. But still, I'm ready for Spring already! I hope you hit the gym hard this weekend! Watch those portions, that usually works for you. Water and vegetables! That ought to be my mantra too.

Insiyah: John has a supplier there that he wanted to meet with, so we made it a long weekend. We stayed at the DuPont Mansion B&B, ate at Bucks nearby and toured Buffalo Trace distillery. We also ate at White Castle, a first for both of us since we don't have it around here. Oh and we went to Bardstown to the place where John stayed at his last visit, Old Talbott Tavern. He knew the place was haunted so he set up night vision video while he slept. He doesn't have good software so he was just watching and stopped to listen when he saw himself sit up. There's a super creepy deep voice-like sound on there. I think he should send the whole thing to someone with good editing software who can watch and listen to the whole thing. He hasn't touched it since he found that voice - too scared. He said there were bumps and noises all night, then at the crack of dawn he fled. When he was packing up the car some dude was talking to him about locking the front door. John said he wasn't dressed for the cool weather, and when he asked at the hotel they said they don't have any kind of night security. John was talking to him about like being a traveling salesman and not getting home much to his family. We're not entirely sure he was real. Anyway, we had Old Kentucky Hot Brown's there, delicious. And wandered around a bit. He bought a lot of bourbon too :)

That happens to me too: more often than not if John suggests something terrible I'm like "OK!!". Good luck, hon. Things will settle back into a routine and you can make better choices. Sorry your husband was being so inflexible.

I quit logging again and haven't worked out for 2 weeks either. I'm blaming the weather. I need it to be sunny to remind me that bikini season is almost upon us. That's always a good motivator, and a pending vacation. Need to plan one of those!

*Jen (probably 160ish, don't exactly know)

Original Post by lysistrata:

Redditors are livestreaming from the police scanner, for whoever is interested.

Thank you lys

If you don't mind being a little obsessive, you could cook 1/4 cup and measure how many grams that is after it's cooked and/or how many cups.