Great job Kitty, you are right,your body and clothes will tell you
your progress, no scales in my house, I let my body tell me when
extra work is needed or when everything is right on track, keep up
the great work!!
--- In bodyforlifeatlanta2@yahoogroups.com, kitty whitty


<kitwhit@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all. I'm just finishing week 5 today too. This is
> my first challenge and I have to say that I have
> worked very hard but I learn (and incorporate)
> something every day. I think the first challenge must
> be a "starter" challenge. This was the first week I
> was able to go to the gym and do my weight workouts
> without having the book with me! I didn't really
> learn what HIIT was until week 2 and it was week 3
> before I started thinking I was kind of doing it.
> Only last week did it finally dawn on me that eating 6
> times a day means 6 small meals, not 3 meals and 3
> snacks - 43 years of "3 squares a day" is a hard
> concept to leave behind. I have eaten clean and have
> missed only 2 cardio workouts, but I also have added a
> 20 minute moderate (non-HIIT) cardio on weight
> mornings so I'm not sweating that. Nonetheless I know
> for a fact that I am getting strong and fit because I
> can feel it. I can see it in my heart rate monitor on
> the treadmill. I sometimes go for hours once I am
> home without thinking about my bra when I used to have
> the stupid binding cutting thing off my body as soon
> as I walked in the door at night. I'm to the point
> where I don't really care about my weight because I
> see the results everywhere else. I have pigged out
> exactly once on free day and it made me feel like crap
> for 3 days and so now I make wiser choices on that
> day.
>
> Lizette apart from the numbers on the scale how do you
> feel? Because in the end that is what matters.
>
> Hope everyone is working hard and enjoying!
>
> Kitty
>
> --- L Wanzer <kokoro820000@...> wrote:
>
> > Hello, all. This is my third BFL attempt, and I
> > really want to make it through all twelve weeks this
> > time. The first time, I made it to Week 5, fell off
> > track big time, started over, made it to Week 4 ,
> > plateau'd and gave up. The second time, I powered
> > through Week 5 but then once again hit a plateau.
> > Got discouraged, angry and baffled at the lack of
> > progress and quit. After that, I remember posting
> > here about how do people handle plateaus and I got
> > varied but interesting responses. So, after several
> > months off the plan and reaching my heaviest weight
> > ever IN LIFE, I am back on and in Week 3. So far,
> > so good, though I'm not seeing any observable
> > difference, except for some muscle tone in the legs.
> > I have a bodyfat scale that shows that my fat
> > percentage is declining slowly but steadily--about
> > one percent per week--but the weight number isn't
> > going down very much. I'm dreading the plateau that
> > I know is coming, but I'm armed with a bit of
> > knowledge now about how to get
> > through them. When you hit one, though, it is sure
> > a discouraging time. You are working so ####### the
> > exercise and meal plans and nothing seems to be
> > happening!!! But I'm not there yet.
> > --Lizette
> >
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