Day 53 & 54 - Stretch X and Core Synergistics

I'm a bad girl.  I know.  I said no more skipping workouts and here I am three days later skipping workouts again :(
I have a good excuse though... I had one of those migraine-type headaches again last night... It hit me while I was at work around 4:00 in the afternoon and didn't go away until I went to sleep despite all the Motrin and rubbing out my knots in my shoulders.  I've been getting those headaches often for the past month or so and I'm not sure why, but I wish they'd stop.  Maybe I should see a doctor... Who knows.  Or I should get a massage... but saving money for a down payment on a house is a priority right now...  OD'ing on Motrin will have to continue for now unless I have any massage volunteers  ;-)

So, today will be both Stretch X AND Core Syn again, which is okay, because I probably need a good stretch after work today anyway, and I remember Core Synergistics not seeming as hard the 2nd time during the first recovery week.

I am going to have to make some changes with the diet... I was SO hungry at work yesterday that I ate two extra protein supplements and extra cheese...  And after calculating my protein, I realized I am doing much more than I thought I was - between 120 and 130 grams, which is ideal for my weight, apparently.

Yesterday's food:
8:00 - Hard Boiled egg
8:00 - 6 Strawberries
9:00 - Protein bar
11:00 - 4 Strawberries
1:00 - Chicken sandwich on 45 calorie bread
2:00 - 1/2 cup cucumbers with ACV
2:00 - cheese stick
3:00 - Protein bar
3:00 - Melba toast
4:00 - Salad (2 cups)
5:00 - cheese stick

Yeah, by 5:30 I was crazy hungry so when I got home at 8:00 pm I had an egg on a bagel... a large bagel...:(  Aaaand.... I may or may not have had some cheez-its too..... :(

Ugh.

It's just not enough food.

I need to pick up some Casein protein to take at night (as recommended by my favorite client... you know who you are) when GNC has their next Gold card sale next month...  After doing a little research online the best choice seems to be Optimum Nutrition 100% Casein... I need some whey too... In the meantime I am going to keep cutting down on the salt and carbs and upping the protein so I can lean out (finally seeing my triceps under that layer of water weight after 3 days of the diet was more exciting than you'll ever know) but I will definitely incorporate more food into what I was allowing myself to eat.

Time for some stretching!

 9:02 pm Update -

Tomorrow is Stretch X or Rest; I am definitely not going to skip out on a workout tomorrow....I am planning on waking up early and riding my bike with the sunrise.  Besides, I can't skip, I have 60 day pics coming up, heh... which I'll really post this time since there is a little improvement.
Today's workouts went okay.  I had my HR monitor on during Core Synergistics, but apparently it wasn't working throughout half of the workout so I didn't' have an accurate calorie count to post.  Stretch X felt like a waste of time. :-/  I'm sure it wasn't. :-)

Ha.  I just received a text message that just read "Hell"
Then I got an "oops". Haha.
<3 you, girl.

You know...  I want to thank everyone for the support during this P90x torture.... I don't get many comments on my blogs but to those who actually read these and offer me support when I see you, it helps more than you know.  It's been becoming increasingly more difficult to stick with this as the days go on.... but the encouraging words make a difference!  So, thank you.

Day 52 - Core Synergistics & Kenpo X

What a morning...

Core Synergistics
Max HR: 178
Avg HR: 147
Calories Burned: 552

Kenpo
Max HR: 182
Avg HR: 151
Calories Burned: 452

9:15 pm Update -

Foods
9:00 - HB egg
9:00 - slice of 45 calorie toast with light margerine
11:30 - large salad with HB egg
11:30 - Egg sandwich on 2 slices of 45 calorie bread
12:00 - apple
1:00 - 6 large strawberries
1:00 - 2 oz of mozzarella cheese
3:00 - Fudge Graham protein bar
5:30 - Rotisserie chicken from Publix and 1 cup of cooked broccoli
8:00 - QWL vanilla pudding

Total Calories for the day: 1,237 (!!!)
Total Protein - 90 grams!

I was starving before the 5:30 meal...  I need to try shifting more foods toward the end of the day I think.

Oh yeah, and there's this:

Day 51 - ......Will Happen Tomorrow

I am off from work tomorrow which gives me an entire day to do both Core Syn and Kenpo.

Food Diary
8:00 - HB egg
10:00 - Apple
11:15 - QWL Fudge Graham Protein Bar
1:00 - Cucumber
2:00 - 1/4 Turkey Sub
4:00 - Salad with ACV
4:30 - 1/4 Turkey Sub
5:30 - HB egg
5:30 - Apple
8:00 - Publix Sushi, Cream Cheese Roll (bad!)
8:30 - QWL Mocha Pudding Protein supplement

My total calories for the day...?  1,642
86 grams of protein... not bad.

I felt good today... I was worried about eating less starches than I'm used to because hypoglycemia will set in if I don't have carbs, but the only time I was hungry was before lunch at 4:00, and before getting home from work at 8:00.

Day 50 - Yoga X...? Or Chest, Shoulders & Triceps...?

Um.  So apparently, today is the beginning of recovery week.  I was warming up and all set to start Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps when I looked down at my worksheet and there is no week 8... Ha.  So yeah, this is actually day 1 of my 2nd recovery week which I didn't realize until just now.  However, (and no, this is not an excuse to skip yoga ;-)  I am going to re-do chest, shoulders and tri's because last week when I attempted to do it I had a migraine and literally did up to the plange push ups (which is the 4th exercise in the workout) before quitting and I never did that workout again last week.
Yoga will have to wait.

I had a big fat plate of pasta for dinner so I'll have to burn it off with tomorrow's Core Syn :)

9:04 pm Update -

I just finished Chest, Shoulders and Tri's and I just want to say; I LOVE the way this workout makes my arms feel.  They feel puffy and numb... and call me crazy, but I love it :)  Lying Tricep extensions has got to be the most effective tricep workout I've ever done... Even though I can only really do 5 good ones before my arm gives out, they really work *just* my triceps, and do a damn good job of it.

10:21 pm Update -

You know, after doing some thinking about how I've been pushing hard for 50 days and my thighs STILL touch, I decided to follow a very strict diet for the next week or two.  I work at Quick Weight Loss, there is no reason I can't follow the QWL diet for at least a week to see what happens.  I don't need to lose weight; no no... I just need to focus on eating more balanced.  Carbs have made up about 75% of my pie chart of daily foods the past few months and that's no good.  I have 1/2 of a turkey sub I didn't finish today that's on white bread, but after that, I'm going to be on track with the foods I choose to eat.

I am currently weighing in between 131 and 135 (5 to 9 lbs up from when I started P90X and 12 to 16 lbs up from when I gave up on the Vegetarian thing months prior) and I'm really happy with that.  I'm not looking to lose "weight" per se, because when I weight 119 as a veggie I looked sickly.... I just seriously need to cut the junk food out of my diet so my thighs are no longer conjoined.  "Cricket legs" is what my ex used to call his.  No more cricket legs for this chick :-)

Oh, and a couple people have asked why I didn't put up the "30 day" pictures that I took; I avoided giving an answer... Well, the reason is because my thighs still touch and because of that I am disappointed.

I will be keeping a food journal and will try to post it daily.... Again, as self motivation. 

My daily Cheez-Its will be waiting for me at the end of the tunnel :-)

Day 48 - Kenpo X

Kenpo X
Max HR: 169
Avg HR: 128
Calories Burned: 351

My heart rate was *much* lower than normal during today's entire hour of Kenpo... which has me confused because I was working just as hard and sweating just as much as usual.  Every time I looked down and saw how low it was I would push even harder.  Weird.

Tomorrow is my rest day... maybe I'll try Kenpo again depending on how I feel.


Here is the video from yesterday's Legs and Back workout.