I thought that I would be more sore today. Don't get me wrong, I hurt, but not all over. I guess Tony's workouts really do target a specific area. My shoulders and Back hurt. And my tummy hurts. But the pain isn't so bad that I can't get up and get on with my day. I did some stretching first thing this morning so I wouldn't stiffen up and took a hot shower. As promised I had some egg whites for breakfast and some fruit and cottage cheese for a snack. Finally I used up the last of my tuna that I made yesterday and had another sandwich. But my blood sugar dipped about two and I mowed a cupcake...it was good. This is a drastically better diet for me even with the Lucky Charms and cupcakes so I hope I can stick to it. It wasn't that I ate so much more, I just didn't make good food choices.
When the kids got home we popped Pylometrics in the player and got started. My daughter Larrissa did the warm up with me before she got tired and went elsewhere. Pylometrics is mostly jumping around in all kinds of creative ways. My triple D breasts were a big pain in the butt. With a lot of the moves instead of doing to the arm motions I was holding onto my boobs. I wore a very supportive brand new sports bra that I bought especially for the occasion, but this is some seriously hard core jumping. Some of these, like the high knee jumps, I couldn't do. I know I looked ridiculous. I do not have good balance...my fat tosses me around. So I was much slower and did not look pretty like the demonstrators. But I kept going. I did not in any way keep up with Tony but I did keep going except when I was sucking down water. I'm glad I'm doing this in the privacy of my home because I don't think I would do this in front of people.
I think this workout mostly worked my thighs and butt. Cool. Tony had me get down low and squat for a lot of the jumps. My thighs were burning hard. It worked my abs too, maybe I was doing it wrong but I really felt my sore tummy muscles. I think a lot of these are going to help my flexibility and balance too. My son loved it. He spent at least twenty minutes jumping around with me. I have a twenty dollar walmart special workout mat that I don't think is going to cut it. Because it doesn't really cling to the floor it kept getting kicked up and in the way. Maybe I'll invest in a better mat soon.
I wouldn't have finished the race in the top ten, but I was still trying at the end of the video so I have to give myself some credit at least. Sticking with it and giving it my best is the hardest part for me so I just keep telling myself that it's only 90 days and I'll feel better. Maybe after 90 days I'll be used to the abuse and I'll just keep going. Time will tell. As for right now, I'm starving. I know it's because I'm burning a lot of calories and my body thinks it needs to feed itself. So I'm going to have some carrots and hold out to eat until dinner is ready.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
1 Day Down, 89 to go
Well I'm not going to be a first thing in the morning P90X'r. I started my day off with Lucky Charms. I know I know. Tomorrow I'm going to have an egg white omelet. I did have a nice snack of avocado and a healthy lunch of tuna on rye and a cucumber. Go me. Tonight I'm going to cook up a nice lean chicken breast dinner with some snap green beans. So I am planning on cleaning up my eating habits. I just needed the lucky charms to make me feel good this morning. I love my lucky charms.
I did my first workout at 3:00 in the afternoon and I'm thinking that's probably going to be pretty standard for me. I'm not an early riser so it's not likely that I'm going to get a workout in before work and I wanted to do it at a time when other people were home to kind of motivate me. I was pleasantly surprised how supportive my family was because I'm sure I looked absolutely ridiculous. But my kids did some of the exercises with me and didn't laugh at me. My 9 year old son was very impressed with Tony Horton and is excited about doing some pushups and pull ups so he can get a nice set of shoulders. Nothing like what's on the video, I don't want him to injure himself.
The first workout is shoulders and back. It's a long workout. I'm more of a twenty minute girl so it was hard for me to keep going and push all the way through to the end. It's mostly a combination of pull ups, push ups, and working with weights. I used the resistance band to do a modified pull up that I was actually capable of doing. It was hard. Really hard. These are not muscles I work in my everyday life. I was slow and didn't get in very many reps. But I did do some every single time that Tony did so I will get better. The push ups were also a great trial to me. I can get through about 2 and a half and spent the rest of the time just struggling. Now at first I spent my time with my nose buried in the carpet trying to get up off the ground. I promised myself I wasn't going to cheat and do proper pushups, from my knee's. But about half way through the workout Tony mentioned that I shouldn't go farther down than I can push myself up so the second half was spent with trembling arms going to the half way mark before trying to go back up. It was not a fun time for me. Again, I did some push ups every time that Tony did. It's not a big accomplishment but it's what I've got going for me so I'm going to focus on that.
After the absolutely brutal shoulders and back workout, I had to do the much shorter 20 minute ab ripper x workout. This was a little more familiar to me, as I've done ab workouts before. It was still very intense and I'm going to be feeling it, but it was definitely more inside my comfort zone. Still, I did not keep up with any of the demonstrators in the video. Again I promised myself I wasn't going to cheat so I didn't roll around and rock to make my situps easier. Some of the exercises I could do, others I could try to do. But I'm quite proud of myself that I kept on swimming to the very end. I was pushing myself just as hard at the end of the workout as at the beginning.
I drank 8 big glasses of water, my daughter was kind enough to refill for me. I sweated most of it right back out and felt disgusting and light headed until I jumped in the shower. I'm not really one for doing things that make me sweat so this is new territory for me. I'm sure I will hurt everywhere tomorrow but right now I just feel some burn in my shoulders and my back. I'll push play tomorrow at 3:00 for Pylometrics.
Go me.
I did my first workout at 3:00 in the afternoon and I'm thinking that's probably going to be pretty standard for me. I'm not an early riser so it's not likely that I'm going to get a workout in before work and I wanted to do it at a time when other people were home to kind of motivate me. I was pleasantly surprised how supportive my family was because I'm sure I looked absolutely ridiculous. But my kids did some of the exercises with me and didn't laugh at me. My 9 year old son was very impressed with Tony Horton and is excited about doing some pushups and pull ups so he can get a nice set of shoulders. Nothing like what's on the video, I don't want him to injure himself.
The first workout is shoulders and back. It's a long workout. I'm more of a twenty minute girl so it was hard for me to keep going and push all the way through to the end. It's mostly a combination of pull ups, push ups, and working with weights. I used the resistance band to do a modified pull up that I was actually capable of doing. It was hard. Really hard. These are not muscles I work in my everyday life. I was slow and didn't get in very many reps. But I did do some every single time that Tony did so I will get better. The push ups were also a great trial to me. I can get through about 2 and a half and spent the rest of the time just struggling. Now at first I spent my time with my nose buried in the carpet trying to get up off the ground. I promised myself I wasn't going to cheat and do proper pushups, from my knee's. But about half way through the workout Tony mentioned that I shouldn't go farther down than I can push myself up so the second half was spent with trembling arms going to the half way mark before trying to go back up. It was not a fun time for me. Again, I did some push ups every time that Tony did. It's not a big accomplishment but it's what I've got going for me so I'm going to focus on that.
After the absolutely brutal shoulders and back workout, I had to do the much shorter 20 minute ab ripper x workout. This was a little more familiar to me, as I've done ab workouts before. It was still very intense and I'm going to be feeling it, but it was definitely more inside my comfort zone. Still, I did not keep up with any of the demonstrators in the video. Again I promised myself I wasn't going to cheat so I didn't roll around and rock to make my situps easier. Some of the exercises I could do, others I could try to do. But I'm quite proud of myself that I kept on swimming to the very end. I was pushing myself just as hard at the end of the workout as at the beginning.
I drank 8 big glasses of water, my daughter was kind enough to refill for me. I sweated most of it right back out and felt disgusting and light headed until I jumped in the shower. I'm not really one for doing things that make me sweat so this is new territory for me. I'm sure I will hurt everywhere tomorrow but right now I just feel some burn in my shoulders and my back. I'll push play tomorrow at 3:00 for Pylometrics.
Go me.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Brutally Honest Fat Girl
I'll admit it, I used to be one of those girls that we all hate. The skinny one who lived on Pizza and fried foods, who never exercised, and was always slender. You girls counting your calories and doing your situps comforted yourselves knowing that my unhealthy lifestyle would catch up with me. And of course it did, my metabolism crashed and now I'm struggling with my weight like the rest of the world.
I packed on the pounds but didn't worry too much about it, I was getting older. Than I looked in the mirror and had the most disgusting fat rolls. Jeans no longer looked sexy, they showed off my fat butt and thunder thighs. I can't wear sleeveless tops anymore. No one wants to see my floppy arms. I am deeply ashamed of the way I look. I'm being honest here, I'm not fat because I'm big boned. I'm fat because I've been unhealthy and lazy. I woke up and realized I was going to have to go up another size and
absolutely refused to buy bigger jeans.So I tried going to the gym and getting on the step machine. I tried some at home Pilates video's. But I saw no results. I'll admit I was half assed about it. Thinking I'm just starting out, I'll build up my endurance...lousy excuses. So my weight loss failed and I quit. I tried diet pills for about two days, I really didn't like the lightheaded jittery way they made me feel. I'm definitely not interested in starving myself. But I continued to gain weight. I noticed in the mirror that I have developed this really low roll of fat just above my unmentionables...it looks really gross no matter what I wear.
I want to be pretty again.
So I need something drastic that has drastic results. I'm committing to P90X. It's only 90 days of my life. I can do this.
I found some cool blogs, but none written by women so I thought what the hell...I'll write one. I'm hoping it will hold me accountable,
that I will continue because the world is watching. Please keep my butt in line.So I did my fitness test to see where I'm at and I'm pathetic. I'm 5'2 and weigh 175 pounds. I managed to squeak through the test half and half. I did the situps and the wall jump and the jumping jacks. Pull up, I maybe got 1/4. I did the three pushups, but totally cheated on the last one. The diet is definitely going to be a problem for me, it's all turkey burgers and egg whites. But here I go. I'm posting my before pictures. I'm hoping the humiliation will motivate me. Go me.
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