<p>NMinn, huge congrats! OMG, does that mean that your dress needs to be altered? As far as the last 3 lbs go, I was going to say what MOfWC said 
I think you will get there! 3 lbs is what I call the “standard deviation”.</p>
<p>Guys: NOOO!!! Not the MCHammer pants (and no girlfriend jeans, please!).</p>
<p>No girlfriend jeans for me. I’ve done too many squats for that. My “quads” are like too big, dude! I don’t believe that you can actually have any muscle and wear girlfriend jeans.</p>
<p>I am sportin’ some MC Hammer jeans. Doing some painting so I’m rockin’ a pair of (formerly) black Columbia jeans – 80s vintage. Aside from the fact that they are falling off of me, they have the trademark big butt, big legs, tapered ankle cut of the 80s. Same thing with the pair of pleated Dockers khakis I dug out of a dusty old box.</p>
<p>I have huge calf muscles and it takes a bit of effort to get the only pair of tight jeans that fit, over the calves. The calves and thighs are probably big due to tennis and running at much higher weight levels. They look out of proportion to the rest of me and I wouldn’t mind losing some weight there- it will probably happen slowly.</p>
<p>NM: Congrats on your accomplishment!!
MOWC: Good luck in Charlottesville</p>
<p>BC and IDad: I like wearing old pants that used to fit, but are now hanging loosely on me. Fashionista D informed me that they weren’t flattering and made me look big. OK–they were gone in a nanosecond. I’m back to wearing the new ones that fit.</p>
<p>Oral antibiotics haven’t fixed staph infection–gotta do IV antibiotics. At least I can administer meds at home. Plus, infectious disease guy said if I wanted to go out and walk, it was fine. Definitely won’t be doing power walks, but at least I’ll burn a few calories and it will get me to focus on something beside my ankle–which is fine, except for the infection.</p>
<p>Ran 5.25 miles and it felt better than the last few days - tennis interferes with running. Also did some light weights and did one set of 16 on the Abs Dolly+. I do like the device quite a bit - nothing sore (at least right now) so I guess my muscles have adapted. I should see if there’s a booklet or video for doing other exercises with it. There’s a handle on the top and I haven’t figured out what that is used for other than tying a rope to it to haul heavy things around</p>
<p>Darn, Bromfeld, you must be sick of this. I’m trying to remember – are the plates and screws from a recent injury that got infected during recovery from surgery? Or was this an old injury that has reared its ugly head? Either way, no fun.</p>
<p>At least you’ve got the OK to do a little walking.</p>
<p>Bromfield, keeping fingers crossed that this infection is history asap!</p>
<p>31/2 hour hike at 7000 ft elevation, wild flowers and stunning views galore. Perfect weather. Life is good.</p>
<p>In the future, if I am trying to give myself a kick in the rear to go running, my new mantra will be:
Wwmowc do?
What would would MOWC do? And, of course, no matter what, the answer is: she would JUST DO IT!</p>
<p>HaHa. Even when I shouldn’t!</p>
<p>In the car. In between yelling about his driving, I’m doing some of my glute exercises in the passenger seat. Fun times. My driving shift bothered the butt.</p>
<p>“What would would MOWC do? And, of course, no matter what, the answer is: she would JUST DO IT!”</p>
<p>yup, that was my thinking in the past 2 days. One run was done on a really empty tank in between coming home from work very late and going to the airport even much later (I had my refueling done at 11:30 pm that night). The second run was done at 9 in the evening after digesting the happy hour food and beverages. Oh yeah, did we ever mentioned that running’s stooopid? Lol.</p>
<p>Well, the bear got me on my Friday workout. The iPod nazi core stuff was really good. Did all the exercises, mostly for the full 45 seconds, all three sets. Kicked the half turkish getup to side plank up to a 20 pound DB. </p>
<p>Then, I moved on to the weight lifting and it was a struggle from the start. I hit the wall during the second set. Started to feel it in my lower back on the curl/press. Felt a twinge in my left quad on the rear-foot elevated split squat (not enough recovery from Airdyne yesterday, I think). So I wrapped up the set with the chin ups and called it a day at two sets. I was just going to hurt myself pushing on to the third set. So 58 minutes will have to do.</p>
<p>All in all, another terrific week of workouts. Three core/strength workouts. A 5K walk/jog. And a hard Airdyne interveral session. I’m going to give serious consideration to two days off this weekend. We’ll see.</p>
<p>No workout for me today; I’m still sore from yesterday’s running and lifting. I did walk over 11,000 steps today…</p>
<p>I put on some jeans today that I inherited from a nephew. They used to be really tight and short so I wear them as capris. They are still short, but I couldn’t believe how loose they were. My main exercise was filling up holes with water and then timing how long it took for them to drain. I swear I sweated off ten pounds! I did get to the gym eventually, but only did weights. No aerobics. Bad week for exercise - two days of continuing ed in the city.</p>
<p>No. Way. In. Hell. I’m not running HERE!!! MOfWC, I feel your agony. It is 90 degrees. I’m moving my big run to Sunday.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have followed this diet: </p>
<p>[Atkins</a>? - Official Site - is a powerful life-time approach to successful weight loss and weight management.](<a href=“http://www.atkins.com/Homepage.aspx]Atkins”>http://www.atkins.com/Homepage.aspx)</p>
<p>It made turned my life around. From a depressed overweight person to a young looking energetic healthy one.</p>
<p>The new Atkins diet book, with sections written by Jeff Volek, Stephen Phinney, and Eric Westman, is a really solid diet and nutrition book:</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great. (9781439190272): Eric C. Westman, Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/New-Atkins-You-Ultimate-Shedding/dp/1439190275]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/New-Atkins-You-Ultimate-Shedding/dp/1439190275)</p>
<p>I particularly like that they outline four distinct phases with four level of carb consumption. You can start whereever is appropriate and they provide instructions for finding a level of carb consumption that will work you for. I seem to do really well at about 100 grams per day (80 net grams) which would fall into their “maintenance” level.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.atkins.com/Program/ProgramOverview.aspx[/url]”>http://www.atkins.com/Program/ProgramOverview.aspx</a></p>
<p>It was never necessary for me to even get to the super-low carb “induction” phase. I started losing weight at 100 grams per day, probably because my prior carb consumption had been off the charts with sugar drinks, candy, Doritos, Honey Nut Cheerios, pretzels, and so forth.</p>
<p>Rare appearance in the gym on a Saturday for me. Dreadmill for 40 minutes, bike for 30 minutes and then weights and pushups. H went with me and as usual finished early. Have a wedding to attend this evening so wanted to workout so I can have an extra cocktail! :)</p>
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<p>You counted?</p>
<p>Good 6.3 humid but flat miles in Roanoke this morning. Now back in the car.<br>
Unfortunately, the stupid pace bunny runs all day and night! I gained on him but he pulled away again! Still 6.3 miles behind and he’s running and I’m sitting on my butt!</p>