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OMG!!!!! NOW I am really really really really really jealous BG....22 mile trail to ride!!!!! FREAKIN SHIT....that is going to be awesome...I wouldnt worry about snacking too much... ride that every day and you should be FINE!!! When do you leave???? Can I come too????

omg, BG that is BEAUTIFUL!!! I am soooooooooooooo freakin jealous....we live nowhere near anything that looks like that. WOW....truly cool. It says there is wireless in the day area for use...do you have a laptop???LOL..don't want you to get lonely for us....

GO BG!!!!! That is so great!! Glad you got your ride in and I agree, it does make you feel a ton better!!!! Sweat out all the pissiness....thats what I was doing the other night when I was mad at DH for sitting on porch watching me mow the lawn I got it done like in a half an hour I was walking so fast pushing that mower!!!!! It usually takes and hour, so I felt a whole lot better when it was all said and done!!!! AND I didn't even yell!!! Also, I used to snack all the time when I camped too, but this year is different. I haven't snacked. I drank lots of Crystal Light...Keep postive... you can do it....I wanna see a loss when you get back from vaca...and I MEAN IT!!!! LOL...

Jachut, my oldest just moved out of the basement so I have a "new" place to set up a home gym. I just love it because now that summer is here, I would not just be able to leave the house for the amount of time I would need to do all the exercise that I do. Anyways, that is an impressive home gym you have there. I am hoping to add a stair stepper or something similar for my a$$ muscles and maybe an elliptical for cardio this winter. We get very bad winters here in Idaho, not as bad as some places, but pretty dang cold. I am thinking I might have to use the university gym this winter and swim....I just hate the thought of not riding out in the fresh air!!!! Also, wisgrl....awesome weight loss....that is so great. Curves must of been working for you then....can I ask why you decided to get a bowflex????

ok, this is what the exercise phy. told me to do. IF you can do more than 12 reps without it being hard at all, up the weight a little and lower the reps. So for example....if you do 12 reps of something with 20 pounds of weight and at the end of the 11 and 12 reps, you can hardly at all do it, then stay there for awhile, but if you do 11 and 12 reps with out any difficulty up the weight to say 25 pounds and LOWER your reps to say 8....does that make sense???? I have been strength training for awhile now, I did not always do all of those. I started out on May 30th and did: bench press - 5lbs-----3sets/12 reps lat pull down - 35 lbs---3/15 seated squats- 3/15---(these are just sitting down in a chair and standing up for 15 times in a row fast. These really work your quads...I hated every minute of these..LOL) Lunges 2/12 (each side) sit ups 3/12 So I haven't always done all those exercises. I have worked my way up. This was before I had my bowflex too. I just had a regular workout bench with weights. It did have a tower so I could do pull downs. THe EP said to start with these basic ones and then add on. I did these for a month and then when I went back to see him he gave me the new exercises to add on. I love it and I switch in which order I do them every time so I am not always starting with the leg press. I always do my stomach last though. HTH....

I don't have an fill in me, but couscous is my all time favorite!!!!!! It is soooooo goood. I don't know if I had a fill what it would do, but it seems like it would be fine. BUT that is all individual as you know...good luck. Try it, you might be surprised!!

Way to go tann!!! Keep it up...one day less of eight weeks to go people....we can do it...lets drop those pounds!!!

DOn't be intimidated by it. You need to do some of the basic moves. Like start with four exercises and then work your way up. I started doing bench presses, Lat pulldowns, something for your quads, which for me was squats and lunges..not on the machine and sit ups. Then after you have those mastered and can do 3 sets of 12 with no problem, move up and add some other exercises. I now do these exercise every other day for my strength training: Chest press Lat pulldown Chest fly rowing Leg press(which would be squats and lunges if you don't have a machine that does leg press) leg extensions leg curls calf raises bicep curls tricep extensions ab. crunches Oblique crunches Reverse crunches(bringing butt off ground instead of shoulders) I do 3 sets of each of these with various weight amounts. I started low and have been working my way up I am leg pressing 240 now. When I get all these exercises down good and pat I will change it up and find others. My exercise physiologist gave me this list to do. The important thing to do it JUST DO IT!!! It takes me right around an hour to do all those. HTH...

hoosier, YES YES YES Do it!!!! It will be great and fun and you will be so happy that you signed up. What great motivation too!!!! DO IT!!! For me, if not for you!! LOL...just kidding.

Juli, I know you have a sense of humor so I wasn't too worried about the joke, but ya never know...ya know??? So, are there goals for a week?? Like 40 miles a week, at one time? Then move on to working up to 50 miles at a time? THat is sooo cool!!! And I bet it was the "look at that hot chick"!!!!! You are hot, we are all hot!!!.....and sweaty!!! LOL.....rock on girls, and guys!!

Juli, sorry about the light on your ass comment....I actually am getting one myself....and I will proudly sing, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine", the whole time I am biking!!! BG, that sounds like such a great time. Two weeks camping....I am so jealous and a great trail to ride on too!!! What more could you ask for, other than an ass light!!!!! Juli, so what did the people were staring part mean? Like they were staring like....WOW, what a hot biker chick that is? or staring like....WOW, that person it riding fast? or what? I often wonder what people think of me riding down the road. I have got some hoots and hollers, not sure if they are bad or good ones though!!!!!!

Big Monkey, I so totally agree with you!!!! I know I read so many posts about people eating all this junk food because that is all that will go down. Get an unfill then!!! So you can eat healthy! I also think that the poster you said that people are kidding themselves about how much they eat and how much they exercise and not losing weight is right on too!!! A person can only walk a mile a day at a leisurely stroll for so long before 1) you have to pick up your pace to walk faster 2) you have to start adding on the length of your walk. I think far too many people think that they can just stay doing the same cardio at the same pace forever and this is simply not true. Change up the workouts and add time and some resistance. I totally am sold on the exercise being the key to this whole thing. I KNOW I would not have lost like this if I were eating candy and onion rings and ice cream instead of healthy food and exercising.

I know that some do not need to be filled, but I guess I was just looking for some explanation as to why I feel so much restriction and other people don't!! Luvox is actually an OCD medication and now is used for other things. It works on the seratonin in the brain...maybe that has something to do with it all....thanks for the reply wasa

Wasa, I am really interested in this now. I have no fill and feel restriction. Always have!! I have been on Luvox for 11 years!!!! For OCD, so I wonder, I really wonder if that is why I have the full feeling with no fill??? What do you think?

Juli, ok, you talked me into it....I am changing it...Certified Biker Bitch!!!! BG, crap that sounds crappy to have to change times of work like that!!!I would ride in the heat of the day too!!! Much safer than when it is dark outside!! You could get a head light and flashing ass light. Juli has a flashing ass light!!!! Hoosier!!! Way to go!! A new bike! You will definitely love it way more and be more comfortable on it too, which equals more time on the bike. Juli, 30 miles at a time???? Damn, my ass is so sore after 20, I don't know what I would do after 30, YOU GO GIRL!!!!! This is the best support group for exercise ever!!! And I think we should approach Oprah about doing that show BabyGrl.....You call her up and ask her, me and Juli will show up!!!! K...ride safe all!!!

Well said Jachut, but then again, everything you say I pretty much always agree with!!!!

welcome gracie...glad to have you join in the fun

GO LOSING!! GO LOSING!!! You rock!!! Keep it up, you know how much better you feel afer you work out, and look what an inspiration you are to a lot of people on here. You keep on keeping on!!!

I couldn't remember what kind you said you had. That is okay baby, they all peddle the same and your ass can get just as tired on any ole bike!!!!! OHHHHH, you are going to be riding next summer too girl!!!! We are in this for the long haul!!!!!! You, me and all the other bikers are gonna have a long vaca riding our bikes somewhere nice....like ....HAWAII........instead of LBT cruise....it will be LBT BikerHawaii.........LOL...Hang in there....What do you do for work that you change hours in the summer time? Can you get in riding time after work????

LOL..that is great!!! I never even thought about using one of those for exercise!!!!!! Keep it up Losing

losing, GREAT JOB WOMAN!!!! I am so not worthy of you!!! I don't know if I could get out of bed that early to exercise, but I don't have to now, so I might if I HAD too I guess. Still I wonder, I don't think I would really want to!!! Kudos to all of you who get up early to get in their exercise!!!!!!!!

Hey there girls, sorry if I am interupting your thread...I just wanted to say...HANG IN THERE!!!! Babygrl, I don't have a job outside the home, so I can exercise all I want. I have no outside stress to stress me out!!! I am currently going to school, which we are on summer break, so when August 27th comes around, I will have NO time to do anything either. I am worried about this, but might have to give up my 4.0 GPA so that I can get my exercise in. I feel badly for you having to get up so early and then not getting any help at home. You know, I do most of the yard work myself and keep up the house. NOW I do anyways, hasn't always been like that, I was too fat before to do it all. BUT, I don't do the weed eater, and it really pissed me off last night to be mowing the lawn and the freakin weeds are out of control and need whacked and DH is sitting on the porch watching me sweat my ass off mowing,( he wants to mow it, but 1) I want to do it for the exercise 2) If he mowed it, it would never get done. MY GOD, I am thinking, why can't he get up and weed eat. He knows I can't do it!!!! I can't start the damn thing. SO, the moral to this story is.....don't be so damn hard on yourself, you are doing great!!!!!

I think what the problem is is when people are adding themselves to the challenge, they are not using the LAST post with the names and numbers. Beach...are you saying you want to lose 65 pounds by labor day???I am not saying not to want to, I am just wondering if that is what you meant or is that your whole total left to lose is 65?

faith, I just want to tell you I whole heartedly agree. If a person marries the FIRST person that they think they fall in love with, that most likely would be disasterous. You have to get to know some different people. Someone you might think is the nicest person, might not really be so nice, after dating some others. My son, 19, is living with his gf. NOT that I am happy about it, BUT, I don't really want to see him sleeping around with a lot of girls either. I don't know, its hard and no one wins in my sons situation. If I would of married the father of my son when I was 17, I would now be WHO KNOWS WHERE!! I am glad that I didn't marry him. I waited and got married to another man, much older than me, and thought I would have a great life with him. NOT!!!! Divorced after 4 months.....Met current husband at 22. We have been married July 15th, for 14 years!!! Sure we had out ups and downs, but if I hadn't of had the other experiences with other men, I would not know how damn lucky I am to have the love of my life that I have now. I for one, am for trying out the merchandise before hand. And I don't necessarily mean by means of sex. Nume, You know I know how you feel and what I have been through. Faith has had similar circumstances also in the past. You need to make the best decision for you and what you need. Your hubby can't give you what you need and desire. He is not capable. I truly hope you can get some love and affection soon. We all, as humans, need love and touch.

losing, you ARE the woman!!!!!! What a great motivator you would be, like a life coach, to someone in person who wants to go exercise but doesn't feel like they can do it!!!!! I was 305.5 two weeks before pre op. I didn't do a dang thing for exercise until an hour or two after surgery, when I started to walk the halls. When I got home, I walked around the back yard. Then I walked a block or two then more and more. Each time going farther until I hit two miles. I walked and walked every day, sometimes two times a day. I just couldn't stop. Now I am riding a bike. When I first started that I thought I might die of sore butt muscles and tiredness. But you get used to having the oxygen pumping through your body and then your body craves it!!! It really does. I don't know how or why, but it does. I feel so bad when I don't exercise, physically. Then when I do it again, I feel soooooo great!!!! My one knee had me in bouts of pain whenever I tried to do something also. It would take weeks to get over the pain and then it never really would go away. That went away immediately after surgery, but I think it was the 10 pounds pre op that did it. I havent had a problem one since. I wish you luck on your band journey and exercise really, REALLY needs to become part of your daily things you do. It really does, even though most people want to NOT do it, it needs to be done.