01gt4.6

Your computer should have windows movie maker (unless you have a Mac). Open it up and load the videos into WMM. Try not to go over 10 minutes each, then save to your computer. Then upload that to YouTube.

cjohnson728

I tried...for some reason they won't load in WMM; it's blank every time I try. I'm just going to go get a huge flash drive and copy them and forget about uploading. Thanks, though.

Hope everyone's doing well today. I'm in recovery mode, surprise, surprise, and trying not to eat my way through frustration. Need to get busy on all the chores that have been piling up; I'll probably try almeeker's trick of doing them with ankle and wrist weights .

MAIN80

Happy weekend everyone!

Cassie, you can try to use a site like yousendit.com to upload the file there and then send an email to the people you want to have the video and they can download it from there. You can also use dropbox but they would have to install it. However if the people you want to see the video live nearby then the flash drive option is probably the simplest.

Friday

1- Maintain a 1250 weekly average. 1205
2- Drink 3 L of water a day. Yes, No,Yes, Yes, Yes
3- Exercise 5 times during the week. Yes, No, No, Yes, No
4- Organize photos. No, No,One folder down, another one, more photos sorted out
5- Start and finish the report. Started, still at started, Did not even open the file, Again nothing, not looking good
6- Keep a clean Inbox. Sort of, decent, Yes, It's ok, it's still ok

01gt4.6

my carb cravings got the best of me tonight. I baked cookies and devoured them.

cjohnson728

Sorry, Mike. Some days are like that. Hope you got it out of your system.

taubele

Mike: I hope you did ok on the walk and didn't hurt your PITA more! SI nerve pain, from what I understand, is the worst. My sister has it after a car accident, along with a pain down the FRONT of her hip from a different nerve, it's awful to see her in pain when it suddenly hits her Hope your chiroproactor has magic hands! And man... sned some of those cookies over here next time!

Main80: Haha, can't get rid of the gun poster completely It is funny to learn what other people consider sentimental. I never thought to be with a person more sentimental than I am, but he puts GREAT meaning on many small things. I find it endearing for the most part; hopefully he won't turn into a packrat though!

Friday and Saturday Report Card

Food, Exercise, Lifestyle Goals:
1) Achieve a 7,000 calorie deficit through a combination of eating and exercise M: -1,501 T: -359 W: -910 Th: -856 F: -409 Sat: -1,205 (Week Total: -5,240)
2) Do not skip exercise two days in a row M: 45 minutes HIIT T: Day off W: roughly 45 mins lifting/machines (no cardio) Th: Day off F: Day off Sat: Walked 3 miles
3) At least 120 oz. of water daily M: yes T: no W: yes Th: yes F: yes Sat: no
4) Weekly carb average of 50% or less M: 41% T: 46% W: 47% Th: 54% F: 38% Sat: 44% (Week Average: 45%)
5) Weekly protein average of 30% or more M: 32% T: 21% W: 20% Th: 25% F: 27% Sat: 25% (Week Average: 25%)
6) Do not eat out more than twice for lunch and twice for dinner M: Lunch out T: Lunch AND dinner out W: No eating out Th: No eating out F: Lunch and Dinner out Sat: Dinner out (Total 3 Lunches, 3 Dinners)

Other Life Stuff
1) Research Memorial Day deals - buying our first washer/dryer this Memorial Day weekend!! M: N/A until the deals are out!! T: Narrowed down to likely candidates W: No further progress Th: No further progress F: Made all accounts ready Sat: Purchased!!! (And we found a $50 Sears gift card hiding in my wallet to make it even cheaper!)
2) Make an effort on my appearance every day M: No T: yes, and got compliments all day W: yes, though brief Th: yes F: No Sat: yes
3) Journal or talk about my anxiety. Don't self-sabotage. M: Long convo with best friend, BF T: More talking with BF W: Journaled/talked Th: No anxiety F: Journaled Sat: No anxiety
4) Read articles every day. Come up with summer research plan. M: No, but I did finish all edits to Book #2, so I kept my head in the science game all day. T: No W: Yes Th: yes F: yes Sat: No

Sorry I disappeared! Friday night and Saturday were CRAZY. I went from a dinner with my advisors/grad students to a bar. I managed to avoid ALL appetizers but I had three light beers and 2 slices pizza Friday night. My cars were STILL low though because of food choices earlier in the day, I was pretty surprised to see them only at 38%. I'll take it, though! Saturday I was out doing errands from 10:00am until 7:30 pm - the greater part of that was spent at the mall hitting some memorial day sales, as well as grocery shopping, drug store shopping, etc. Even though we did pick up dinner on the way home, I had packed a lunch for me and BF and we had a little picnic on a bench in a little park near the mall, that was very nice. And the dinner that we picked up was from this little japanese place we like; I had shrimp and mushrooms in a light teriyaki sauce over steamed white rice and a bed of steamed veggies. I wish they had brown rice there, but the steamed white is FAR better than fried rice!

Unfortunately, my eating out goal has gone right down the tubes. Some choices were good, some were not (pizza and beer), I did my best. Not going to hit my calorie deficit this week but I am aiming for over the 6,000 mark today; should be EASY. Sorry I didn't log on to report, I was so wiped last night that I came home and promptly snuggled up to BF watching the History Channel. We went to bed at 10:30.

While at the mall I decided to try on some clothes as I had NO IDEA what size I am right now. SO HAPPY to report that I am somewhere between a SIZE 12!!!!!!!!!!! and a Size 14 now (in Lee brand). Closer to the size 12; maybe 5 pounds would get me in them without any muffin top. As it is, they get on just fine, I just have a little pooch-over right on the love handles, but it's not bad. Hilariously, tried on some Levi brand and would need a size 16 to get into them Silly brands. Screw you Levi's, Lee jeans are where I'm at!! I bought 2 pairs of Lee jeans on clearance (woo $10 jeans) to grow into. Not stopping at Size 12, but it's a wonderful hallmark to hit, as size 12 officially sizes me out of "big girl" stores (which start at size 14).

I'll do the final check in tonight!!

~Terri

cjohnson728

Congrats, Terri, on your new sizes and on your productivity and good choices! I'm glad you checked in; I need some motivation today!

MAIN80, you're doing really well this week! Keep up the great work . I did checkout yousendit.com; good to have as a reference. It didn't work in this case bcs I think it's limited to 2 gig, but it could be useful in the future. I'm loading the last onto YouTube now...found a way to compress them through the camera software...50 minutes per video isn't great, but better than 3 hours.

Yesterday was good; I reined it back in, despite having a really bad day on many fronts. I stayed low cal (for once this week ) and got good exercise in.

This morning my husband and I went for a jog early...I am not a morning person and definitely not a morning exerciser. I'm glad I did it, but now I'm really, really hungry. I've got...hmm..about 100 cals left for lunch and it's just now 11. So my willpower is going to have to carry me through most of the afternoon.

I'm getting ready to start painting more trim and hopefully that will distract me!

01gt4.6

I think I know how I messed up my SI joint. I believe it started right before I joined the gym this time, then I made it worse. If so it was when I was doing Yoga. I'm thinking it was upward dog that did it (the extreme curving from your hips up your spine to your shoulders). I only did 30 mins. of the 1.5 hr. DVD. It just didn't feel right. Then I joined the gym and my 1st day back to my program was a day of chin-ups, squats, etc. Unfortunately it was the day that we were to do only 2-3 reps at a time... so that meant that I had to add weight to keep my reps down on chin-ups. So I brought my weight belt and chain and was hanging 70 pounds from me while going them. The belt (when weighed) slides down and rests on your hip bones. So the entire time that I'm hanging and pulling myself up I had 70 pounds pulling my hips down... and forward.

Cassie, I think I did get it out my system.

Terri, Thanks! I guess the plus side is that I'm not in constant pain.

Health & Fitness
1) eat clean for 6 days yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no
2) average 20% or less in carbs for the week (Will report at the end of the week. Cheat day can't be too bad to do this!)
3) drink a gallon of water a day yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
4) take daily:
vitamin yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
fish oil yesx2, yesx2, yesx2, yesx2, yesx2, yesx2
glucosamine yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
5) 2000 cals deficient for the week -589, -755, -345, -189, -64, +650 running total-1292
6) floss 7x yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no
7) Lifting workouts 3x yes, no, yes, no, no, no
8) cardio 3x no, yes, no, no, yes, no
9) log food every day yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Mern

Friday and Saturday Report

Calorie limit 1600 1477, 1553, 970 1692, 1627, 1291
Calorie deficit 800 per day 1062, 986, 1569, 847, 829, 1083
Carbs less fiber 25g 19.1, 25, 24, 19.8, 20.3, 20.7
Track grams & % of calories from protein: 111.9 or 31%, 142.3 or 37%, 72.4 or 31%, 136.2 or 35% protein. 115.9 or 28%, 106.6 or 35%
Track % of calories from saturated fat (10% target) 13%, 11%, 12%, 13%, 14%, 11%
Track mg. cholesterol (300mg. target) 334.6, 61.6, 275.5, 184.8, 271.9, 257.6

Artificial sweetener limit 1 packet per day 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 1
Sugar free candy limit 2 pieces per day 2, 0, 2, 0

Water 64 oz. YES YES YES YES YES YES
Exercise 30 minutes, 5 days--no lame excuses YES YES YES YES 15 minutes DAY OFF,
Be sure the day's custom foods in FitDay have sat fat & cholesterol listed. YES YES YES YES YES YES

01gt4.6

wow Mern! You are doing great. The 2 days that you went over 1600 cals, you just BARELY went over. You are going to be really deficient!! It looks like you are knocking out the exercises!