I'm happy to say everything this week is going great. I was hesitant to post about my eating, because it seems like once I do, I start to slip. I'm feeling good though, so I'm going to anyway. I haven't had any binges and my eating has been right on. I've omitted starchy carbs from the last 1/2 of the day and since reading Jennifer's post, I've stopped eating after 6pm. Well, my last meal of the day is at 6pm. She's so right about feeling lean the next morning. I swear I actually have nice abs in the morning! LOL

Todays workout:

Treadmill-
20min- 15%incline, 3.8mph
20min- 2%incline, 7.0mph
Jump Rope-
500jumps

Pull Ups-
10 overhand
10 underhand
5 L arm over, R arm under
5 R arm over, L arm under

Abs-
Hanging leg raises- 10, 15
Hanging knee crunches- 10x2
Hanging side knee crunches- 2x5/side
Ball crunches- 25


On August 8th, I'll be driving down to TN and staying with a friend. We're hoping Jon's flight gets in sometime within that next week. I'll be there until Labor Day weekend and then we'll be coming back to IA, then back to TN again until around Sept 20th. Jon & I leave for Chicago on the 23rd and our flight leaves for St. Lucia that next morning. August & September are going to be so busy, but I look forward to every minute of it.

Good news on the VS clothing, I've finally received it, and I love it all! The brown dress only came in size Medium and it is a little big especially in the chest area (damnit) but with a nice padded strapless bra, it works. The sandals are cool but are going to give me blisters I can tell. I ordered 2 tanks also and absolutely LOVE THEM. They both have sequins, I can't quite describe them, but one is going to look so good going out for dinner or something, very sexy. I can thank the ever so wonderful Donna for the tanks, since she gave me a VS giftcard for my bday. SHE ROCKS!!!

I've got a question for the BFL'ers out there. Think about when you first started BFL. Have you noticed that since then, you find yourself being so much more strict with dieting and with your workouts? I don't know if it's just me or if other people have noticed this too. I used to eat out of the EFL book daily and just worry about eating 6x/day. Now, it's like I want to eat for a competition or something but the problem is I can't handle that type of diet. Helloooooo Melissa you're not competing, don't expect to be able to eat like that. I try to then when I can't I get discouraged & of course that leads to a binge. I remember being able to eat SF jello and not worry about it being a processed food. I remember eating a banana without worrying about the amount of sugar in it. It's a piece of fruit! WTF? I don't know, sometimes I think I just need to cool it and cut myself some slack. Only problem is, when I do that, I think it means I can eat trail mix & pb all day long.