<p>i’m a little late to the party, but it’s time for me to join all of you! i have been going to the gym 3x a week for the last month, and now it’s time to add in some attention to my diet. one thing at a time!</p>
<p>i am hoping to be down 10 pounds by the end of the semester…</p>
<p>bring it on!</p>
<p>Flashmob sounds like fun MOWC.</p>
<p>Calf muscle is feeling better…not perfect but better.
Guess I’ll have to lay off running for a little while so it will heal faster.</p>
<p>So yesterday I walked 6 miles (17 min/mile) and did some stretches,squats, overhead arm swings,push-ups,wall sit.</p>
<p>Wbow, would you prefer the virtual light-up mohawk or glow in the dark tentacle hat as your reward when you meet your goal?</p>
<p>Wbow also needs a Garmin and a NuuMuu- and some power stretch fleece!</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>LOL. And a shopping spree at TJMaxx :)</p>
<p>MOfWC, how do those Ruu Muus run - small or big? What size do you find comfy? I reeeeaaaly want to get this one: [Nuu-Muu</a> — Breeze Ruu-Muu](<a href=“http://shop.nuu-muu.com/collections/ruu-muu-pocket/products/breeze-1]Nuu-Muu”>http://shop.nuu-muu.com/collections/ruu-muu-pocket/products/breeze-1)</p>
<p>Nice fleece cap with ear muffs, sewhappy!</p>
<p>I’ve got so many power stretch fleece beanies now that I can’t wear them all. Black one from Marmot. Blue one and gray one from EMS sales. Even my daughter is getting one: powder blue, $4.95 sale from EMS when I needed something to get to free shipping.</p>
<p>Gotta grab the snowshoes out of the trunk of the car in case I need them to get TO the car Saturday morning! My tallest Sorel winter boots are going to be no match for the snow we are getting.</p>
<p>Good luck with the snow, northeasterners! I’m going up to “the mountain” this weekend for a church women’s retreat. The biggest debate among some of us who are going is how many bottles of wine to bring. Gotta love the Episcopalians! I should be able to get a Sat am run in and actually have a woman faster than me to run with.</p>
<p>Bunsen- I get the Small (aka Sassy). It is not any too big. I could never fit in the smaller one. I am generally a size 2, but the Sassy is not loose. It is SO comfortable. the new spring prints are out in the Nuus and will be out in the Ruus later this month.</p>
<p>Walked 3.5 miles at MOA today. Did stop and buy some jewelry for D2’s 25th bday. ;)</p>
<p>I don’t consider my calories too low at 1100-1200 daily. That amount seems to work for me to lose weight and I do allow myself a cushion on the weekends for my empty calorie red wine. 
If I am exercising a lot I add more calories. I do take a multivitamin.</p>
<p>We are also getting some winter weather this weekend. Supposed to be a snow/ice mix. We can easily handle a foot of snow but when you add the ice that’s when it gets crazy!</p>
<p>MOfWC, thanks! The S(assy) will do then, since I like mine to be a little snug. I had no idea the Muus were (almost) locally made! That makes them even cooler and completely justifies the charge on the credit card :D</p>
<p>Two miles of walking this morning, two more to go (with H) tonight. About 80 degrees here today and cloudy. Saw an osprey sitting on a nest. The red wing blackbirds are raising a ruckus. My arms are sore from yesterday’s weights. I’ll need to repeat that routine! </p>
<p>MofWC, your weekend sounds like a good time!
NMinn, I hear you on banking calories for the wine! It’s such a nice reward :-)</p>
<p>Good luck to you who are about to see the snow. We used to have to rake our roof in western Mass. We’ve lived in many snow states, and hired people to plow us out almost everywhere. Unfortunately, reliability was always an issue. H and I (in our younger days) most often adopted the hourly trade off shoveling/scraping the snow in hopes of keeping ahead of the worst of it. What a workout.</p>
<p>Yuck, another ice/wintry mix forecast for the valley; not excited at that prospect. D is headed off with friends to ski this weekend. Hope they don’t have the ice that way! </p>
<p>Last time we had any significant snow H and S were out of town, so I was the snow shoveler. What a workout is right. Next snow is his turn! NM, hope your D and her H make it there safely and I’m sure she’ll love the jewelry! </p>
<p>Made it to the gym, 40 minutes on the elliptical but at a higher resistance, “climbing Kiliminjaro” today. Woo hoo. I need to eat something but I’m not sure what. I really don’t feel like eating, which is a new feeling for me.</p>
<p>BC:</p>
<p>You and I are going to get hammered by the snow, it looks like. The Boston TV map now has Lawrence as the “epicenter” for snowfall, with a predicted 36 inches between now and Saturday afternoon. Yikes. I might have to break out the extra-flotation extensions for the snow shoes!</p>
<p>I’ve got food (doing my grandmothers fried chicken in lard) and a ton of salad fixins. Rotating all the NiMH batteries through the charger. Maybe I’ll even download a movie to the new tablet in case things get really crazy.</p>
<p>I had to eat my DH’s spare Bistro MD meal tonight because i got home too late to cook for myself. Quite tasty. But I needed to heat up a leftover slice of pizza to fill me up, had not eaten since breakfast.</p>
<p>DH is now down 19 pounds. He is getting very smug about it. :}</p>
<p>Workout at home–followed New Rules on Utube. Worked out early and spent the day at a trade show. I figure I got in at least 2 miles of walking while I was there. Weatherman says my area of MA is going to get anywhere from 28-32 inches. Going to go out at 7:30 tomorrow morning and beat the snow for a long training walk. My husband made chicken stock last week, so I’m going to take time to make a chicken vegetable soup while I’m snowed in. My numbers for today:</p>
<p>Total calories: 1047
Fat: 54g
Carbs: 88.8
Fiber: 21.3g
Protein: 57.2</p>
<p>Hi all. Happy bday, rm, and cheers to the 5lb partiers. I get two, technically speaking, but I’ve been at this since jan 15ish. McH is down 11 and he’s NOT hauling his butt up hills in snowshoes every morning, which is totally not fair ;)</p>
<p>We got hit with the icy wintry mix today, but nowhere near what the east coast is supposed to get. Stay safe guys.</p>
<p>When I don’t have to personally shovel the snow or worry about my roof caving in, I kind of like a big storm now and then. I think it was 2003 during the big storm in New York (I was at a trade show) I got stuck for a few days because my flight(s) were grounded repeatedly. It was beautiful actually, and kind of special to see the city kind of grind to a halt and get “quiet”. I was running around Central Park lie a schoolgirl ;)</p>
<p>Miami, I am trying to figure out how someone with the handle “Miami” has any snow to shovel, and where on earth you can find someone for $25 (here, plough-wise we pay by the season…flat fee)</p>
<p>At any rate, today I clocked 1361 cal, 39 fat, 216 carb, 72 protein
(High on the carbs b/c of quinoa pasta but was In the mood for bilk and I’m doing gluten free, so it was worth it.</p>
<p>Great job, KMC. H and I just took another trek with sabadog so I think I’ve had my exercise for the day. Today was also a high carb day for me as well. </p>
<p>Total calories: 1055
Fat: 40 g
Carbs: 142 g
Fiber: 21 g
Protein: 45 g
Sugars: 11 g</p>
<p>2 mile run - didn’t feel good.</p>
<p>1563 calories, 36% carbs.</p>
<p>It was a hectic day. I went into Boston with my daughter to get my son. We were supposed to get a bite to eat but couldn’t even get on the road to Whole Foods. Traffic just sat for about 15 minutes for 1/3rd of a mile. We went and got my son and I was really hungry and he had this Nature’s Path Toaster Pasty in a plastic container - so I helped myself (hey, it’s all natural!). It took 2 hours to get to NH and we did some grocery shopping - had some chips on the way home. It was not going to be a low-carb day. It was not going to be a low calorie day. Oh well. Weakness happens.</p>
<p>36 inches? I’m going to be clearing snow this weekend. At least I don’t have to worry about running into Boston. I hope that it’s not wet and heavy but I think that the nature of this storm (cold air + warm moisture) usually results in heavy and wet.</p>
<p>Picked up a pair of long underwear at EMS - heavyweight in the clearance racks. They only had L and XL left so I got L. EMS sizing is different - I find that the shirts are true to size - their M is a little smaller and cut tighter than Nike stuff. The pants are moderately smaller in the medium-weight. The lightweight stuff fits (a little slimmer than Nike). I assumed that the heavyweight would be tighter due to additional bulk and I didn’t have a choice anyways.</p>
<p>Thinking about all of you who will be affected by this storm…
Nice work, Bromy. It never occurred to me to do New Rules with Youtube. I am going to have to remember that for when I am traveling.</p>
<p>I was back in the gym today with the usual rowing, Pilates, squats (165 lbs), deadlifts (175), plyo jumps. Tuesday is the last day for this particular regimen, then I am off traveling for a few days, and apparently, will be starting some different lifts when I get back. I would imagine some more upper body, since that has been mainly rows and push ups until now.</p>
<p>Protein shake (which by the way, I found through one of idad’s podcasts, is Isopure Whey Zero Carb protein, unflavored, which I really like because it has no artificial sweetners or flavors and I don’t want to add carbs via my shake, I make mine with either unsweetened coconut or almond milk or a mixture of the two), one serving of raspberries, filet mignon and creamed spinach.</p>
<p>Cals 1283
Fat 81 g
Carbs 29 g
Fiber 10 g
Protein 104 g
Sugars 12 g</p>
<p>Well, I finally got back on track with a full workout today. Slow as molasses, doing the exercises in between sniffles, but I got the full workout done. Surprisingly good workout, actually. Front squats and single leg squats were both good. Just a lot of huffin’ and puffin after each set.</p>
<p>Downloading two high def Coen Brothers movies to the new Kindle in case we lose power. Man, those things are big. Nearly 9 gigabytes each. I’m kind of amazed I’ve even figured out how to turn the thing on. If we have power, I can stream them on the TV instead. Or, I can plug the Kindle into the TV.</p>
<p>Should be enough shoveling over the next 48 hours to count as exercise. With 36 inches expected, it will be smart to do it several times rather than wait for the entire three feet to pile up. </p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll be able to get out Saturday afternoon for snow shoeing, so probably Sunday will the ticket on that. Maybe over to the Audubon Center.</p>