I am not a huge milk in cereal person so that is a good trade for me as well. I also try and get a fruit in plus at leats 3 glasses of water before breakfast. What cereal are you eating? Does it have lotts of fiber to fill you up?
Awesome idea!!!
Hi! I haven't posted the past couple of day. Have absolutely no excuse, I just forgot to yesterday. (thanks for the pm DizneyDawn!)
You do not need an excuse...just wanted to make sure you knew I had thought about ya!!
I am down 1 pound!!!
Whooo HOOO!!!
Tell us all about it when you get back tonight!!!I called and confirmed my appointment tonight with the trainer at the gym I'm joining. Wish me luck! I am so nervous about this, I'm dreaming about it!
) motivational factors and help keep you on track. So we both said we wanted to lose 50 lbs by August 24th -the day school starts back, sister is a teacher. He mapped it out and showed us the weight we'll need to lose monthly to achieve it and it's an avg of 2 lbs a week so nothing crazy. He didn't have a lot good to say about Biggest Loser! 
Of course, I'll need to set another goal once that goal is met.
So live and learn. Must have fruit and cheese or a light sandwich or something with protein and carbs about an hour before I go in. Won't make that mistake twice!
The gym kicked my butt and I liked it!
I just sang that to Katy Perry's I kissed a girl and I liked it, for anyone that's curious....
I love that song! lol I would so see that being said to that song.
Just sayin'.
It wasn't nearly as bad/terrifying/embarassing as I was worried it would be. Everyone, trainer wise, was super nice and I wasn't the only 'big' girl working out so that made me feel better. My sister is doing this with me (for now, we'll see how long we can keep it up because she lives on a different side of town than I do) and we were there 2 hrs, but an hr of it was talking to the trainer and signing up for membership.
The 9 $ wasn't quite the whole fees.. big shock but we still managed to join for 12.50/month and use the gym any day of the week and my sister can use the other location close to her house, so really..... still a fabulous deal!
We sat down and learned a lot... well I say learned... I knew a lot of it to start with but it's always good to hear it again - calories in, calories out, muscle weighs more than fat but also burns more calories to maintain muscle v. fat, pound for pound. You burn carbs and protein first before you burn off your fat stores, etc. They definitely knew what they're talking about.
The head trainer wanted us to set a finite goal. He said that goals are HUGE (us skinny islanders know this all to well, thanks to Dawn!
We are supposed to do 10 min warm up on a cardio machine, then 30 mins of weight/resistance training, then finish with 20-40 mins of cardio. We're not supposed to do weights two days in a row, always a day in between to rest. They recommended 2-3 days of cardio w/ resistance training in the mix and 2 days of just cardio. They have a great little kids area so I can bring my boys with me!
I'm super excited!!!! Realistically though, the challenge is going to be staying motivated! Another reason I'm so glad I have this support thread!!
Tonight's work out was good. It wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be, seeing as how I really haven't worked out in a few years, and before then like 10 years. I guess being 30 lbs below my heaviest (which was where I was when I tried Curves 2 years ago) made a big, no pun intended, difference!
I was doing great, did fine on the cardio for 10 mins at a moderate pace, love the weight machines, then boom I got super dizzy. They immediately had me sit down and brought me a gatorade. They said my sugar bottomed out... I was fine within a minute or so after sitting down and drinking some of the gatorate with sugar in it. I hadn't eaten since 3:30 and the work out started at 6:30. They said I had to eat before I worked out, but I didn't realize they meant an hour before. Me eating at 3:30pm was an extra 'meal' for the workout!
We are going back tomorrow afternoon, with the kids this time (DH kept them tonight) to do 30 mins of cardio! The stationary bike is my friend for now! Til I get a little endurance under me, then I'll tackle the ellipticals and tread mills!
Hope everyone had a fabulous day!! I did well on my points today too! Oh if only every day was as easy as today was! If it was..... wouldn't be the size I am, right?
Good luck tomorrow with your goals, whatever they may be!!
I so could not tell my kids to train me... I think they would try to kill me. My DD 6 will stand next the elliptical when I'm doing it and tell me that I can do it longer and I'm doing good... She is like my tame coach, while my oldest DD would probably be exactly like Jillian Michaels. Especially since we watch BL all the time and she LOVEs her.
now I am away from the office job and the weight has slowly started to come off) 
so I'll be able to be busier than I have been. Also hoping to make it to the gym today after work. Mary
I don't really know how many steps it is, my gym's ellipticals have these little touch screen tvs, and you can change your course background on them, I just switch it over to 5k, its 3.1 miles I think, maybe 3.2. I used to only take me around 30 minutes to do, last night it took 40 since I haven't worked out on it in a while and I didn't want to push myself too hard and make myself sick to my stomach (very easy for me to do!) and I was also doing a program that made you come to a complete stop and change directions a bunch of times-it was a new program, I don't think I will try it again, I prefer the course where it does random hills, the starting and stopping annoyed me.
So if I go for 45 minutes I should be able to do it??? What was your RPM (Rotation per Minute??)? Does it show that to you? My home elliptical is just really basic. If I want no resistance I could even operate it without batteries.
I prefer plain water too. I'd never fooled with gatorade before, but I got a nasty case of food poisioning in October and it was all I could deal with for a few days so now I like the original fruit punch one, I can't justify the calories though, I'd rather have a small coke for the calories (I am a coke-aholic, and I can honestly say that I would rather stay my size 12-14 self and be happy and get the simple joy I do from coke, than give it completely up, I've tried it and its not worth it to me.That being said, I have cut back to no more than one a day coming from a 3-4 cokes a day (that was also during a time when I worked out 4 hours a day, ate 5 guys twice a day and was a size 6, then I got an office job, and it all caught up
The g2 ( i think that is the name) was tasty and only 25 calories in a 12 oz. bottle. It was good enough to make me want more, at least in the orange flavor, I haven't tried the fruit punch that we got also.
I'm not sure that is PG rated...
You sound like you are doing great! Even without the gym yesterday.Well I didn't get to the gym yesterday but I am proud to say my eating was good.I had an egg on lo-cal honey wheat bread w/lo-cal cheese for lunch I had a salad w/lo-cal dressing and dinner was lean cuisine meal. I also had a banana for a snack. I drink water all day so I'm good there. Finally back to work today
I'm with you on the cereal. Mondays and Wednesdays I eat cereal for dinner because I have a running class and I need to eat light. I eat some form of Cheerios and mix in a little healthier cereal. Then when I get home I have chocolate milk
I did well yesterday. Tuesdays I have a hard time because I take a night class and the teacher provides snacks after our test every week. Last night I took a See's lollipop with me. It helped with the sweet tooth and I didn't feel deprived.
Hope everyone has a great day!
