A Bit of Weight Loss

Hey, I finally weighed myself and I'm down 2 lbs! Now my ticker (way down at the bottom) is actually accurate. I hadn't fixed it in a while and since I had gained a little weight, I just left it at a nice round number--yeah, I know I'm a cheat.

Anyway, since re-starting Body for Life (the eating plan, anyway) I've lost 2 lbs. That's not much considering I started 2 1/2 weeks ago or so (April 28th, to be precise). But please take into account that one week of that was the dreaded Time of the Month (which I personally only have every 3 months, thanks to my special pill--thank you special pill!)

So, I'm going to take it as a good thing and keep up the good work. Planning my week's eating ahead has been very helpful, even though I don't follow it rigidly. For instance, tonight instead of whatever I had planned (chicken breast & veggies, I think) I had a veggie pizza on whole wheat. Still healthy stuff. However, I realized later that I didn't have any protein with it--so perhaps not precisely a BFL meal.

A Bit of Weight Loss

Hey, I finally weighed myself and I'm down 2 lbs! Now my ticker (way down at the bottom) is actually accurate. I hadn't fixed it in a while and since I had gained a little weight, I just left it at a nice round number--yeah, I know I'm a cheat.

Anyway, since re-starting Body for Life (the eating plan, anyway) I've lost 2 lbs. That's not much considering I started 2 1/2 weeks ago or so (April 28th, to be precise). But please take into account that one week of that was the dreaded Time of the Month (which I personally only have every 3 months, thanks to my special pill--thank you special pill!)

So, I'm going to take it as a good thing and keep up the good work. Planning my week's eating ahead has been very helpful, even though I don't follow it rigidly. For instance, tonight instead of whatever I had planned (chicken breast & veggies, I think) I had a veggie pizza on whole wheat. Still healthy stuff. However, I realized later that I didn't have any protein with it--so perhaps not precisely a BFL meal.

A Bit of Weight Loss

Hey, I finally weighed myself and I'm down 2 lbs! Now my ticker (way down at the bottom) is actually accurate. I hadn't fixed it in a while and since I had gained a little weight, I just left it at a nice round number--yeah, I know I'm a cheat.

Anyway, since re-starting Body for Life (the eating plan, anyway) I've lost 2 lbs. That's not much considering I started 2 1/2 weeks ago or so (April 28th, to be precise). But please take into account that one week of that was the dreaded Time of the Month (which I personally only have every 3 months, thanks to my special pill--thank you special pill!)

So, I'm going to take it as a good thing and keep up the good work. Planning my week's eating ahead has been very helpful, even though I don't follow it rigidly. For instance, tonight instead of whatever I had planned (chicken breast & veggies, I think) I had a veggie pizza on whole wheat. Still healthy stuff. However, I realized later that I didn't have any protein with it--so perhaps not precisely a BFL meal.

This Week's Meal Plan

Here is this week's somewhat-BFL-like meal plan. It doesn't really differ much from last week's meal plan. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn't try to get creative. Maybe next week I'll branch out a bit.

This Week's Meal Plan

Here is this week's somewhat-BFL-like meal plan. It doesn't really differ much from last week's meal plan. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn't try to get creative. Maybe next week I'll branch out a bit.

This Week's Meal Plan

Here is this week's somewhat-BFL-like meal plan. It doesn't really differ much from last week's meal plan. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn't try to get creative. Maybe next week I'll branch out a bit.

First Day Back on Body for Life

Today I started Body for Life again. As I mentioned in a previous post, this time I'm not doing the workout plan (though I am working out, of course) but I'm focusing on the eating plan. (I got this idea from fellow blogger friend Betsy). So far so good. Of course it's only been one day.

Here's what I ate today:

7 am: Coffee w/ raw sugar and skim milk (nope, not ready to give up my coffee--rarely have more than half the cup I pour every morning, though)
8 am: Kashi Go Lean Crunch w/ blueberries & skim milk
11 am: Special K protein bar
2 pm: Tuna salad (OK, not much of a salad--just tuna, mustard, dill relish), apple w/ Tbsp. peanut butter
5 pm: Cottage cheese, carrots
7 pm: Protein pancakes (recipe from Eating for Life) with raspberries, strawberries, & sugar-free syrup
9 pm: Dannon Light & Fit yogurt

This was all pretty close to plan, though maybe I could have done a better tuna salad. Also, I drank water but not as much as I should. I'll do better on that tomorrow.

I keep forgetting I need to add more recipes to the lists I started on my Fitness Tools Available to Download page. Does anyone have more to send me?

First Day Back on Body for Life

Today I started Body for Life again. As I mentioned in a previous post, this time I'm not doing the workout plan (though I am working out, of course) but I'm focusing on the eating plan. (I got this idea from fellow blogger friend Betsy). So far so good. Of course it's only been one day.

Here's what I ate today:

7 am: Coffee w/ raw sugar and skim milk (nope, not ready to give up my coffee--rarely have more than half the cup I pour every morning, though)
8 am: Kashi Go Lean Crunch w/ blueberries & skim milk
11 am: Special K protein bar
2 pm: Tuna salad (OK, not much of a salad--just tuna, mustard, dill relish), apple w/ Tbsp. peanut butter
5 pm: Cottage cheese, carrots
7 pm: Protein pancakes (recipe from Eating for Life) with raspberries, strawberries, & sugar-free syrup
9 pm: Dannon Light & Fit yogurt

This was all pretty close to plan, though maybe I could have done a better tuna salad. Also, I drank water but not as much as I should. I'll do better on that tomorrow.

I keep forgetting I need to add more recipes to the lists I started on my Fitness Tools Available to Download page. Does anyone have more to send me?

First Day Back on Body for Life

Today I started Body for Life again. As I mentioned in a previous post, this time I'm not doing the workout plan (though I am working out, of course) but I'm focusing on the eating plan. (I got this idea from fellow blogger friend Betsy). So far so good. Of course it's only been one day.

Here's what I ate today:

7 am: Coffee w/ raw sugar and skim milk (nope, not ready to give up my coffee--rarely have more than half the cup I pour every morning, though)
8 am: Kashi Go Lean Crunch w/ blueberries & skim milk
11 am: Special K protein bar
2 pm: Tuna salad (OK, not much of a salad--just tuna, mustard, dill relish), apple w/ Tbsp. peanut butter
5 pm: Cottage cheese, carrots
7 pm: Protein pancakes (recipe from Eating for Life) with raspberries, strawberries, & sugar-free syrup
9 pm: Dannon Light & Fit yogurt

This was all pretty close to plan, though maybe I could have done a better tuna salad. Also, I drank water but not as much as I should. I'll do better on that tomorrow.

I keep forgetting I need to add more recipes to the lists I started on my Fitness Tools Available to Download page. Does anyone have more to send me?

This Week's Meal Plan

This week I am experimenting with creating a Body for Life meal plan for the whole week in advance, much like my fellow blogger friend Betsy. I confess I even copied a lot of Betsy's style, though I can't get it quite as tidy as hers. :) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

Let's see if I can upload it here. Click on it to see it larger.

I admit it is a bit repetitive, but in spite of my need for variety in workouts, I don't need much variety in eating, at least not within one week. So we'll see how this goes.

This Week's Meal Plan

This week I am experimenting with creating a Body for Life meal plan for the whole week in advance, much like my fellow blogger friend Betsy. I confess I even copied a lot of Betsy's style, though I can't get it quite as tidy as hers. :) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

Let's see if I can upload it here. Click on it to see it larger.

I admit it is a bit repetitive, but in spite of my need for variety in workouts, I don't need much variety in eating, at least not within one week. So we'll see how this goes.

This Week's Meal Plan

This week I am experimenting with creating a Body for Life meal plan for the whole week in advance, much like my fellow blogger friend Betsy. I confess I even copied a lot of Betsy's style, though I can't get it quite as tidy as hers. :) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

Let's see if I can upload it here. Click on it to see it larger.

I admit it is a bit repetitive, but in spite of my need for variety in workouts, I don't need much variety in eating, at least not within one week. So we'll see how this goes.

Restarting Body for Life?

I think I'm actually going to try Body for Life again. I know I fizzled out at 6 weeks last time. This time I'm going to try just the meal plan (which even when I quit seemed like such a darn good idea). I was inspired by a post by fellow fitness blogger Betsy, who is winding up her first week of the BFL meal plan but is not following the workout plan (but like me she works out on her own already). I have to admit I got pretty bored with the BFL workouts, just because I love a huge variety of workouts. I also had my issues with injuries and so forth (which are ongoing, of course). So now I'm going to focus on the eating part, and be a little more careful with it. I'll be starting on Monday because that's always the day I start stuff. I promise not to go nuts over the weekend, though.

I've enjoyed some decent workouts this week and stuck to my plan except for yesterday. I spent so much time traveling to visit with a friend that my planned workout didn't happen. Tomorrow I'll be doing Cathe's Low Impact Circuit, which is one of my all-time favorite DVDs and no sissy workout for being low impact.

Stay tuned--I've got some more Spider-Man yoga pose pics to post--perhaps tonight.

Restarting Body for Life?

I think I'm actually going to try Body for Life again. I know I fizzled out at 6 weeks last time. This time I'm going to try just the meal plan (which even when I quit seemed like such a darn good idea). I was inspired by a post by fellow fitness blogger Betsy, who is winding up her first week of the BFL meal plan but is not following the workout plan (but like me she works out on her own already). I have to admit I got pretty bored with the BFL workouts, just because I love a huge variety of workouts. I also had my issues with injuries and so forth (which are ongoing, of course). So now I'm going to focus on the eating part, and be a little more careful with it. I'll be starting on Monday because that's always the day I start stuff. I promise not to go nuts over the weekend, though.

I've enjoyed some decent workouts this week and stuck to my plan except for yesterday. I spent so much time traveling to visit with a friend that my planned workout didn't happen. Tomorrow I'll be doing Cathe's Low Impact Circuit, which is one of my all-time favorite DVDs and no sissy workout for being low impact.

Stay tuned--I've got some more Spider-Man yoga pose pics to post--perhaps tonight.

Restarting Body for Life?

I think I'm actually going to try Body for Life again. I know I fizzled out at 6 weeks last time. This time I'm going to try just the meal plan (which even when I quit seemed like such a darn good idea). I was inspired by a post by fellow fitness blogger Betsy, who is winding up her first week of the BFL meal plan but is not following the workout plan (but like me she works out on her own already). I have to admit I got pretty bored with the BFL workouts, just because I love a huge variety of workouts. I also had my issues with injuries and so forth (which are ongoing, of course). So now I'm going to focus on the eating part, and be a little more careful with it. I'll be starting on Monday because that's always the day I start stuff. I promise not to go nuts over the weekend, though.

I've enjoyed some decent workouts this week and stuck to my plan except for yesterday. I spent so much time traveling to visit with a friend that my planned workout didn't happen. Tomorrow I'll be doing Cathe's Low Impact Circuit, which is one of my all-time favorite DVDs and no sissy workout for being low impact.

Stay tuned--I've got some more Spider-Man yoga pose pics to post--perhaps tonight.

Good News & Bad News

Good news: I think my kids are mostly healthy again. Whew.

Bad news: I have gained weight every week since starting Body for Life (except the very first week). And it's not like it's "muscle weight" or anything because the inches aren't going down or anything.

So, I'm considering stopping BFL. Don't call me a quitter. OK, call me a quitter, but I'll just stick out my tongue and go pbbbbbt! Then I'll hold up my palm and say "Talk to the hand" or make some other similar juvenile response. I still like the idea of the BFL plan. I just think I need to first just focus on losing some more weight. I may go back to good old Weight Watchers, since it has certainly worked for me before--at least when I followed it properly.

Tomorrow I hope to post a couple new rotations. I've been playing around with some fat loss rotation ideas. I've mostly finished those. I may also post a Jari Love-focused rotation to go along with the Jari weight worksheets I still haven't put together. I'm such a procrastinator....

Good News & Bad News

Good news: I think my kids are mostly healthy again. Whew.

Bad news: I have gained weight every week since starting Body for Life (except the very first week). And it's not like it's "muscle weight" or anything because the inches aren't going down or anything.

So, I'm considering stopping BFL. Don't call me a quitter. OK, call me a quitter, but I'll just stick out my tongue and go pbbbbbt! Then I'll hold up my palm and say "Talk to the hand" or make some other similar juvenile response. I still like the idea of the BFL plan. I just think I need to first just focus on losing some more weight. I may go back to good old Weight Watchers, since it has certainly worked for me before--at least when I followed it properly.

Tomorrow I hope to post a couple new rotations. I've been playing around with some fat loss rotation ideas. I've mostly finished those. I may also post a Jari Love-focused rotation to go along with the Jari weight worksheets I still haven't put together. I'm such a procrastinator....

Good News & Bad News

Good news: I think my kids are mostly healthy again. Whew.

Bad news: I have gained weight every week since starting Body for Life (except the very first week). And it's not like it's "muscle weight" or anything because the inches aren't going down or anything.

So, I'm considering stopping BFL. Don't call me a quitter. OK, call me a quitter, but I'll just stick out my tongue and go pbbbbbt! Then I'll hold up my palm and say "Talk to the hand" or make some other similar juvenile response. I still like the idea of the BFL plan. I just think I need to first just focus on losing some more weight. I may go back to good old Weight Watchers, since it has certainly worked for me before--at least when I followed it properly.

Tomorrow I hope to post a couple new rotations. I've been playing around with some fat loss rotation ideas. I've mostly finished those. I may also post a Jari Love-focused rotation to go along with the Jari weight worksheets I still haven't put together. I'm such a procrastinator....

Day 22 of Body for Life!

I have really neglected my blog lately, but I'm back. I've been plugging along at Body for Life, some days I do better than others. I really like the workout program. For those of you not familiar, I'll describe it here.

Week 1:
Mon. Upper Body (pyramid style)
Tues. Cardio--high intensity interval training
Wed. Lower Body (also pyramids) & Abs
Thurs. HIIT cardio
Fri. Upper Body
Sat. HIIT cardio
Sun. Rest

Week 2:
Mon. Lower Body & Abs
Tues. Cardio--high intensity interval training
Wed. Upper Body
Thurs. HIIT cardio
Fri. Lower Body & Abs
Sat. HIIT cardio
Sun. Rest

Then those plans alternate every week. I love it. It really works well for me--well, I don't know if it works in the "getting buff" sense yet--I'm only 3 weeks in. I just mean I like the flow of it and it gives my muscles some rest. My only worry is my wonky knee problem. I can't do as good a lower body workout as I'd like. In fact, when I have physical therapy sessions I tend to make that my lower body work for the day. One day recently I tried a regular BFL lower body workout with weights and...ouch...I was terribly sore for days. I think I overdid that one. So I have to ease back into that kind of thing.

In other news, I hope to put together some Jari Love weight worksheets for download. I'll let you know when they're ready.

Day 22 of Body for Life!

I have really neglected my blog lately, but I'm back. I've been plugging along at Body for Life, some days I do better than others. I really like the workout program. For those of you not familiar, I'll describe it here.

Week 1:
Mon. Upper Body (pyramid style)
Tues. Cardio--high intensity interval training
Wed. Lower Body (also pyramids) & Abs
Thurs. HIIT cardio
Fri. Upper Body
Sat. HIIT cardio
Sun. Rest

Week 2:
Mon. Lower Body & Abs
Tues. Cardio--high intensity interval training
Wed. Upper Body
Thurs. HIIT cardio
Fri. Lower Body & Abs
Sat. HIIT cardio
Sun. Rest

Then those plans alternate every week. I love it. It really works well for me--well, I don't know if it works in the "getting buff" sense yet--I'm only 3 weeks in. I just mean I like the flow of it and it gives my muscles some rest. My only worry is my wonky knee problem. I can't do as good a lower body workout as I'd like. In fact, when I have physical therapy sessions I tend to make that my lower body work for the day. One day recently I tried a regular BFL lower body workout with weights and...ouch...I was terribly sore for days. I think I overdid that one. So I have to ease back into that kind of thing.

In other news, I hope to put together some Jari Love weight worksheets for download. I'll let you know when they're ready.