Getting Stronger
It's fun (and interesting) to see how quickly I'm able to increase the weights I'm using with this new 7 rep workout routine. I guess I must actually be getting stronger, huh? Whoda thunk it! 
The bad news is that the scale has stalled AND m'dang hubby lost five freakin' pounds and now weighs less than me again. I swear...the man goes and plays soccer for 2 hours and comes home 3 pounds lighter. It's disgusting! On well, more motivation for me I guess.
So anyway, I'm liking the new workout schedule/routine. The cardio only every other day and then making sure I'm getting in two upper body workouts and two lower body workouts during the week. My muscles "feel" bigger so maybe that means they actually ARE bigger and that's accounting for the scale stall. In all honesty, I had a few days (birthday, picnic, take out) where I didn't eat perfectly. It used to be that one or two days off program eating*wise wouldn't make much of a difference, but it looks like that's changed. Not sure what to make of it....whether it's just harder the closer that you get to goal, or if it's the weight training, or.....what.
And, can I just take a moment and talk about the many, many benefits of the buddy system? I swear, almost every day this week I haven't wanted to go to the gym. Heck, haven't wanted to get up in the morning and walk to the gym. But, then I think about not wanting to whimp out and let my gym buddy down and I get up and crawl my way there. Once I'm there...I totally don't feel like doing the jog portion of my cardio workout, but again...I suck it up and make it happen. Before you know it the 40 minutes is gone and I can move on to weights. Can you tell I'm liking the weights more than the cardio?
Say...speaking of the cardio and the walk to jog program specifically.... I find I'm really having trouble moving up to the next level. I'm currently walking 4, jogging 3 minutes and doing a total of 5 intervals. I think this is week 2 or 3 and I canNOT imagine moving on to walking 4, jogging 4. Not sure what to do about that and it's freaking me out. 
Anyway, I'm must move on and get a bunch of work and then laundry done today, so I bid you farewell.