Day 65 - Taking Wednesday Night Off Is Becoming A Habit

It's just so easy to take the night off when I have the whole day off from work tomorrow to do whatever I want, which means two workouts.  I hope that doesn't affect the results... 
Work was draining today anyway...  I started the day with lots of energy (maybe overdid it on the coffee.... it doesn't take more than a cup) and ended with pretty much falling asleep on the drive home 11 hours later.  Corporate decided to make this upcoming Friday a huge sale day so when I wasn't running around working with clients face to face while encouraging them to swing in Friday for the sale, I was calling clients on the phone to tell them all about the sale.  I pretty much lost my voice toward the end of the day and didn't even take a lunch, now that I think about it....  I should sleep well tonight :o)
I have an appointment with a Realtor to look at a house tomorrow morning, but after that I will do Plyo and Back & Biceps.
'Night!

Day 64 - Chest, Shoulders, Tri's & Ab Ripper

Work was crazy, this workout was crazy, and now it's time for bed  <3

Day 63 - Rest

....I have got to start eating healthy again....  I met a good friend for Mexican food tonight and man was it good.....!  Ever since day 60 my food choices have not been so good, though.  I am going to get back on track starting tomorrow.
I promise :o)

Day 62 - Kenpo X

Oooo Kenpo, how I love you.
I'm toying with the idea of going to the beach after Kenpo and bike...
I've been feeling nauseous off and on all day... A dose of Vitamin D may help, says Christine :o)
Let's hope so.
I think I'm nauseous because tomorrow is Monday.... ;o)

 3:52 pm Update - 

Kenpo X
Max HR: 173
Avg HR: 135
Calories Burned: 474

Day 61 - Legs and Back & Ab Ripper X

What a surprisingly great day at work...  I needed it. 

I added a playlist over to the right of my blogger page... exciting, no?  Feel free to listen while browsing through my accounts of self-inflicted pain.

I picked up some whey protein shake mix the other day;  Now all I need is a small blender so I can make smoothies.  What I really want is a blender bottle (with the blender ball) but I'm not sure where to find them other than online...
Oh well.... A fork works for now  :o)
My goal is to drink a whey protein shake before each workout involving muscles and some sort of "food" protein (like eggs or cottage cheese) to see if I can build quicker.

I'm still not feeling 100% after being sick the other day....  Looking forward to doing nothing other than curling up on the couch for the next day and a half!!

(I had been doing mason twist with 5 lb weights..... I tried it with 12's today and think I may continue with the 12's to FEEL THE BURN!  teehee)

Day 60 - Pictures and Stats

Measurements - 5/19/10
Waist  25½
Hips  37¾
Thighs  20¾
Arm  9½  (10½ while flexed)

Weight: 128

BMI:  19.4

I don't see too much of a difference;  the biggest improvement is definitely my booty... 

I guess I look more "compact" than I did at day one... definitely a little thinner which surprises me, actually.  I thought for sure my legs were going to look like Pam the blam's after all those weighted lunges...
However, I'm extremely happy with the results so far.

60 days - DONE.

I am celebrating with brownies :-)

(After all, I deserve *something* after bearing my body for all to see!)

Day 59 - Best Dream Ever

Last night I had a dream that I could do pull ups.  :-)  Thank you, Theraflu... for such an awesome dream.

I am going to drink some more coffee and attempt to do Plyometrics because my cold is still in the beginning stages... I'm hoping it doesn't get any worse but I'm going to fit Plyo in now in case it does.

1:21 Update -

Plyometrics:Max HR: 180
Avg HR: 151
Calories Burned: 577


Shoulders and Arms & Ab Ripper X
Max HR: 159
Avg HR: 121
Calories Burned: 407

.... All this while being sick.  I'm pretty damn proud of myself...

I'm actually feeling a little better.  I hope I don't get any sicker because tomorrow is Yoga; and we all know how much I LOVE Yoga (sarcasm).

Day 58 - No Plyo, Just Me and My Theraflu

I managed to avoid getting sick this entire year; until now.  I was feeling extremely tired the past couple days, and this morning I woke up with a sore throat and body chills.  I am sipping on some Theraflu waiting for Modern Family (in the Snuggie of course) hoping to feel better tomorrow.  No work tomorrow so it will be a good day to veg out.

Day 57 - Owwie

Apparently not doing Chest and Back for a month makes it feel like the first time again...  My arms are puffy again which I love and I KNOW I will be hurting tomorrow.
I did so many more reps of everything this time around than I left off with doing in week 3; and my push ups were real this time around since I started doing "real" ones on week 5.  Exciting, right?!
Ab Ripper is much easier now, too, I'm noticing...
SO excited to do Plyometrics tomorrow night.
I know... I'm crazy.  :-p  But really, this workout is a great stress release each day and I am to the point where I look forward to it each night.

Day 56 - Rest!!!

12 hour workdays are draining, you know... Glad to be home :-)

Chest and Back & Ab Ripper tomorrow... Bring it!!

Day 55 - Loving This Weather

 I need to invest in some longer shorts :-/  An hour of biking can be conducive to inner thigh rashes...

67 Minutes Bike
Max: 176
Avg: 146
Calories Burned: 563

It is HOT out!  And I'm loving every second of it.  I'm going to try running for the first time in months... It should be interesting to see if there is any difference after this P90X journey.  (I hate running!)


12:30 pm Update -

10 Minute Run
Max HR:  181
Avg HR:  158
Calories Burned: 93

That was really tough.  I shouldn't have gone running when it is so hot out, but if I don't do it now I'm definitely not going to want to after I shower and cuddle up in my Snuggie on the couch  (which is going to happen right after Yoga)

While running I felt as if I were not even moving...  I will never again ride my bike *then* go running afterward, haha - the harder I pushed the shorter my legs felt.

It feels good to push this hard; and actually want to push this hard.  I've definitely been having my "off" days...  This has been a good weekend.  Hopefully I can keep pushing as hard in week 9.

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.

Day 47 - Legs & Back and Ab Ripper X

Am I on week 7?  Really??  I went to mark my pull ups on my sheet and apparently yes, I'm on week 7 which blows my mind.  This will be over before I know it...  I may do another 90 day round once I finish the first 90 days depending on my results... For now I'm focusing on today... and today was a decent workout.  My abs were sore during ab ripper which was unusual, but I welcome any kind of soreness because it means the workouts are effective.

I videotaped some of today's workout... I'd work on the video to post to YouTube right now but I'm actually going out tonight... crazy, right?  I need it... the whole "work, come home, work out, go to bed, wake up do it all over again" thing is getting old ...So the video will have to wait until tomorrow.

I'm so glad the weekend is here.  Later, kids.

Day 46 - Yoga

Yoga was tough tonight.  I skipped some of the poses just to get through it quickly because it was getting late... My mom did Yoga with me and did a great job for never doing yoga before; much better than I did the first time.
It felt good to stretch after a long day of work but my balance seemed less controlled than normal. 

Back to Psych Week on the Discover Health channel and then sleepies.

Day 44 (again) and 45 - Plyometrics and Back & Biceps

Plyometrics (round 2)
Max HR: 183
Avg HR: 148
Calories Burned: 559

That's better.

I still have to do Back and Biceps but my brother has a band over that he's recording and well, seeing that the pull up bar is in his doorway... um... yeah. Unless I were to take my assistant manager's advice about my brother's single 20 year old friends, that will just have to wait.
It's reeeeally hot out, but I'm going to ride my bike around for a little bit while I wait for the band to leave.

I would like to pay homage to my little Honeywell fan... Without you, fan, I surely would not make it past the first round of  'Circle Run'...
As I jump and bounce like a jackrabbit on crack, your little blades spin and spin and never stop. I am, and forever will be, your biggest, um... fan.

:-p


5:29 pm Update -

I just finished Back and Biceps and I am very proud to say that I have moved up to 12 lb weights.  I did the entire workout with 12's... I have weak little arms so 12 is a huge improvement.
I was unable to do any of my "low bar" pull ups because that band is STILL here 5 hours later, but I'm okay with that because I don't think I could do any anyway... I really pushed with the weights and can hardly hold my arms up over the keyboard to type, heh.  I'm going to feel this in the morning... But that's a good thing, right?

Day 44 - You Know... It's Just Cruel to Make A Man With a Prosthetic Leg Do "Hot Foot"...

I am beat.

Plyometrics
Max HR: 176
Avg HR: 142
Calories Burned: 423

Back and Biceps tomorrow... I may do Plyo again because 423 calories is pathetic. I did find myself yawning throughout a lot of the workout... I did my best.

I have yet to buy the recovery drink, but I have been using this Magnesium Plus "Ionic Fizz" powder that my manager swears by for muscle relief... It does seem to help my back pain so I've been taking it on a regular basis the past few days. I almost couldn't swallow it the first time because it was so bitter, but now I'm addicted and I love the way it relaxes me after a long day at work. Get yours today ;-)