Silo

Hey, I'm on MFP as jemhh if you want to add me. I will agree with Dradis' s advice not to go too fast since you are breastfeeding. Your supply can dip bug time. I think it's kellymom.com that suggests no fewer than 1800 calories for bfing moms. Last year I went from 202 to 150 without ever averaging less than 1750 (total not net + I'm not bfing) so I think that, if you are somewhat active, you could eat more than 1800. I breastfed my daughter for a long time (27 months) and did not find that it helped weight loss at all. It made me super hungry and thirsty though. If you deal with hunger better you may have more luck losing weight while bfing. Weightlifting and/or bodyweight training will definitely help too. You'll be burning calories and getting stronger and reshaping your body even if you don't see big losses on the scale.

I have the gym that doesn't allow tank tops and sleeveless tops at all. No bro tanks, no sports bras on their own, nada. The general uniform for guys is a t-shirt and basketball shorts. For women, capris (almost always black) and some sort of t-shirt. There are two women who wear capris with cut outs up the side and I have no problem with it but it always strikes me as funny that they show more skin doing that than I think most people would while wearing a tank.

Loling at 'spirit of the shirt'

I *might* be okay with baritone sax. I can't tell for sure because the other three saxes here are giving me a headache.

Yes. The fifes in fife and drum music are pretty much the only woodwinds I like. My family did this stuff when I was a kid so I like it but all of the other woodwinds are too reedy and whispery for me.

I cannot even attempt to watch the videos being linked. Just thinking about them is making me squirm. We watched the 30 for 30 that ESPN made about Bo Jackson and the parts about his hip about did me in.

Kenny G is king of curls. Just look at his hair. It's positively inspirational.

Ick. I loathe saxophone music.

Trying to decide if light jazz is better or worse than wistful cowboy, which seemed to be the theme the other morning at my gym.

That looks about right.

We accountants are just happy to be seen as people. We're like labrador retrievers. Happy for attention and eager to please.

BB bench press - 5x32.5, 5x45, 3x52.5, 5x62.5, 5x72.5, 8x72.5 Front squat - 5x37.5, 5x47.5, 5x57.5 Lat pulldown - 10x5, 10x5, 10x5 Hip thrust - 5x80, 5x100, 3x120, 5x140, 5x140, 5x140 RDL - 12x70, 12x70, 12x70

While clearing off the counter I found my daughter's church bulletin from Sunday. On it, she had drawn her version of the last supper complete with Jesus, disciples, and a Minecraft Creeper descending on the diners.

I've never seen that but am trying to picture it. Didn't they have to stand and lean over it since the seat would be on the other side?

Challenge is over, back to this log. TODAY Front squat - 5x32.5, 5x40, 3x47.5, 5x52.5, 5x60, 7x67.5 DB bench press - 12x25, 12x25, 12x25 DB row - 10x35, 10x35, 10x35 Glute bridge - 15x90, 15x90, 15x90 RDL - 6x90, 6x90, 6x90

My guess is that the photos are candid or action shots, which are not flattering 95% of the time.Now you may have only looked like that for a fraction of a second but cameras seem to have a knack for catching that fraction best.

My daughter (age 7) got up early to set up a few belated pranks on me today. My favorite: she rubbed the expiration date off the milk jug and wrote in a new one. I keep laughing about it because she is a serious rule follower and I'm sure she felt wild and crazy setting it up. She even made sure to write down the original date for me.

This is a great suggestion.

I'm sitting here wondering how on earth I would feel hurt if my husband came home and said "Guess what happened to me today? A woman at the gym squeezed my bicep, gave me a naked picture of herself, and invited us (or me? who were you teaching to squat?) to a swinger's party." Because my reaction would be to start laughing and then ask questions like have you ever seen this woman before? How old is she? What did you say? Is there an actual invitation? Can I see it? Do you think she printed this at home or at Kinko's? Can you imagine what the Kinko's people thought? Maybe she sent it out to a place like Vistaprint. Does Vistaprint do invitations? I know they do business cards. I wonder if she has a business card that has her name and then SWINGER under it like a job title...

Have to agree with Gainsdalf here. I would be way more upset that my husband didn't tell me about this than if he did. The assumption that his wife is going to go into oh-no-I'm-fat-and-ugly-and-my-husband-is-a-dirty-cheater mode is pretty gross.

I don't have a mirror in my home gym, though I would like one. When I am at the real gym, I avoid squatting in front of a mirror. I get distracted by parts of me that have nothing to do with the exercise ("gah, that is a really unflattering roll when I bend like that") to the point where my form falls apart. I've never heard that about having somebody touch the muscle you are focusing on. I wonder if it would work. I am afraid my husband would think it was a double entendre if I asked him to help me with that.

I do this too. Especially if I'm doing something with 2 dumbbells or a barbell. My left side wants to lag so I pretty much stare at it, willing it to move. Then old rightie will want to act weak so I have to give that side an "I'm watching you" glare as well.

Lol. My maiden name was Hershey. People still had problems with it. My 10th English teacher called me Miss Hersey until I exasperatedly told him it sound like two female pronouns. Her She.

I have given up giving our last name when waiting for seating at a restaurant. It's a somewhat common name but the person writing it down gets it wrong every time. It's like if our name was Leonard, we'd hear Beonard or Teonard or Veonard. Now I give them my husband's first name instead because it sounds more like a last name than mine does and because I don't like false familiarity (though apparently I don't mind subjecting my husband to it.)

It's weird because I can go months without having problems with workouts during my period and then suddenly it will happen out of the blue and it always hits me when I am benching. It's never an issue where I have debilitating cramps, it's just like, *bam* noodle arms.