Gosh, I hope that stage comes soon! Right now I'd like to run over the ellipitical machine with my car!

Good for you on that exercising!!!!! Do you know why your legs are acting funny? Hope all is well.....

Jan. 9
*20 mins. Kathy Smith's Fat Burning Breakthrough (Step)
*10 mins. Billy Blank's Tae Bo (Basic)
*30 mins. Sexy Arms Workout (Weights)
*15 mins. Lethal Buns
*10 mins. Gay Gasper's Awesome Abs

Total ~ 85 mins.

Jan. 10
*20 mins. Tamilee Webb (Step)
*20 mins. Billy Blank's Tae Bo (Basic)
*20 mins. WATP 1 Mile
*30 mins. Pick Your Spot Pilates
*10 mins. Abs of Steel

Total ~ 100 mins.

Jan. 11
*20 mins. Caribbean Workout (Hi/Lo Aerobics)
*20 mins. Tamilee Webb (Step)
*20 mins. WATP 1 Mile
*20 mins. Sexy Arms (Weights)

Total ~ 80 mins. (Went out and shovelled for 15-20 mins. & I could feel it LOL, especially in my back and shoulders!)


I'd posted on exercise boards regarding the burning & this was the response I rec'd. Sure makes me feel better about it, I was starting to get a little pee'd off LOL. I rec'd 2 other replies as well which were similar, but this one also explained about muscle fiber differences.
"The burn you feel is definitely from lactic acid and you mostly likely are not completely depleted of glucose/glycogen even if you are following a low carb diet. Your body can create glucose from fat and protein if it is needed. But the real issue regaring your problem is your muscle fiber type. You probably have a large percentage of type 2 muscle fibers in your legs. This simply means your legs are well suited to short duration activities, such as weight training, and poorly suited for long duration activities, such as cardio. If you enjoy step aerobics, you can try using a very low step and taking short 10-15 seconds breaks as needed to allow your body to flush out and recycle the lactic acid. Also, consider strength training with short sets (60 seconds) and plenty of rest in between sets."

Until I get more strength in my legs, I'm going to gear down to low impact step workouts.

Well that is VERY interesting!!! Who would have thought? And don't you just love that you can find that out on these boards? I love this place!

Well, hopefully if you follow that advice you'll start feeling better. Keep me posted....

Hey! You know I'm everywhere, just invaded your gym logs too. Found it when I was about to start one. Hey one quick question. I have such a big issue about exercise. If you like and if you have any insite I can tell ya. Ok here's the question. Have you found doing more exercise during the week helps you loose more or it makes no difference to you?
Ok I volunteered my story:
Back last year I had a Y membership. I lifted weights, I did hours of cardio a week. I basically did it all. At that time I was in and out of induction due to my binges(of course) and my body was getting flabby, I stalled. I was getting so discouraged because of it so I ended up giving up and went into carb overload. Then I started low-cal then SB. On those two I still exercised and it was working but I would mess it up with carb overloading. I'm addicted to carbs. When I started induction again I decided not to include exercise because of the fear I had with getting flabby. Now I'm just including it slowly. Now Is not working because I'm still stalled. As you know . Anyhow any answers? What is your experience?

Jan. 22
*50 mins. Kathy Smith's Fat Burning Breakthrough (mostly step)
*10 mins. Abs of Steel
*20 mins. Caribbean Workout (Hi/Lo Aerobics)
*10 mins. Lethal Buns
*10 mins. Gay Gasper's Awesome Abs

Total ~ 100

I did it - yipeeeeee . I actually got through K.S.'s entire workout. I had to pause the tape once around 13 mins. to catch my breath and again around 19 to catch my breath & use the inhalor, but I kept going and I did it .

I've been thinking & I'm going to adjust my Valentine's Day goals. My goals were to be at 1.5 hrs/day by Jan. 14 & 2 hrs/day by Feb. 14. It's just too much. I'm already having trouble getting in the 1.5 hrs consistantly & I'm NOT getting up any earlier than 4am during the week. It's just not a pace I can keep up with. When I started my exercise program the 1st time, 2+ years ago, I was still with my ex., so I could do part of my workout in the morning & then leave him with the kids to go for a jog at night. Can't do that now & finding 1.5 - 2 straight hours for nothing but exercise everyday is too difficult. I've lost a total of 14" (all over) since I started again back in Nov., so I think I'm doing pretty good and maybe doing 1 hr/day is enough. More is great, but I'm not going to feel let down anymore if I can't go beyond the 1 hr.

Hey Canucks, I have just changed my V-day goal too. Mine was to be down to 143. Have changed that to 148. I really cant see myself losing a whole 8lbs in the next 2 and a half weeks!! I cant believe how much exercise u r doing, that is fantastic!!! I wish i could do exercise like that. I tried doing a exercise dvd but the kids just get in my way and annoy the crap out of me so now I just do abs and legs on the gym ball at night when they are in bed. Cant wait till i can move to the coast where there are gyms. Used to go to the gym everyday before we moved into the middle of nowhere.

Anyway I have dribbled enough in ur journal catchya later