Day 40 - Can You Believe It?!

Wow... Just about 6 weeks into this and almost halfway through! It's gone by fast so far... Definitely doesn't feel like I've been doing it for 40 days.

I am doing Kenpo later today but first I wanted to share some interesting experiences I've had online the past couple of days. It's not often that I get a chance to sit around a play online, by the way. My work schedule has me by the you-know-whats and doesn't leave much free time. So, after waking up today around (you ready for this?!) NOON, I decided to hop online and look at some before and after P90X videos. I saw one of the suggestions on the side titled something like "Watch me shrink, week 5"... I clicked out of curiosity, and it was a girl standing in a bikini talking about how she was starving herself to lose weight for summer. Really, now. Then I saw over to the right side "Watch me shrink: Before" So I clicked to see how this girl had progressed with her onset of anorexia in the 5 weeks, and it was a completely different girl! I found many girls on YouTube doing this same kind of food restriction to get thin before summer, most of which are doing zero exercise (one girl even responded to a comment suggesting she exercise to tighten up her flabby waist she complained about by saying "Ha, exercise?! I'm too lazy.") That irritates me.

I work for a company who promotes weight loss without exercise. Upon starting working for this particular company, I thought that was a little um... yeah... Anyway, now I encourage the clients to workout. There are so many benefits to it (both physical and mental!) Why wouldn't you?? Because like the YouTube girl said, laziness? That is a terrible excuse.

People constantly comment on my thinness, and how I must have good genes, or starve myself, and they need to stfu, because it's neither. I work hard at it... And they can too. Anyone can.

Another thing (while I'm on this topic) no healthy person should complain how "fat" they think they are if they are doing nothing to work on it; such as eating fast food all the time, or brushing off any sort of physical activity... They have no right to whine and complain. It's not going to disappear on it's own. I give people who make a little effort a ton of credit.

Ha. Okay enough of that. Maybe I am just bitter that I slept half the day away.  Anyway, I feel better now... ha.


The other thing I wanted to share was a website that I'm falling in love with, www.myfitnesspal.com.
It's great; you track what you eat and it automatically breaks down the foods into the amount of protein, fat, sodium, etc... It's wonderful. What makes this site different than other calorie counting sites is that it saves all your days in a diary format, and it has every single food you can think of; even my employer's supplements we carry.  I'm trying to increase my protein, so it's interesting to see the difference in the amount of protein compared to how I used to eat (I sure do love my carbs)

Time for some laundry and Kenpo.

 4:18 pm Update:

Kenpo X
Max HR: 186
Avg HR: 142
Calories Burned: 615 (!!!!!)

I have migrated to a new workout spot... Thanks to my brother's technological expertise, I was able to hook my netbook up to the living room tv.  (So much more room!!)  I also had a workout partner today, my mom is going to start P90X Phase 1 on Tuesday but wanted to try Kenpo to see if she could hang.  She did great!!

I'm working on a quick video on Kenpo X as requested by one of my YouTube peeps... I burned a ton more calories than usual during today's Kenpo; maybe because I knew the camera was on....?  ;-p hehe  j/k.