down 4 lbs? day 43-46

8-9 (day43)...completed sweat 1/2.
8-10(day 44)...completed sculpt 3/4.
8-11(day 45)...missed.
8-21(day 46)...completed sculpt 3/4.

i found an extra cardio exercise that gets my heart pumping: jillian michaels cardio kickbox! it kicks your butt. it is so fun! the best thing it lasts 25 mins. it feels more like an hour and a half long workout.

good news!!
i think i lost 4 lbs between the time i got on walmart's evil scale back in late july and now since i changed some of my eating habits with cereal. i tried 3 different scales today. this is what they read...

scale 1: 195! (including clothes, shoes, etc.)
scale 2: 205. (huh? this is absolutely wrong. i'd never fit my clothes if it were true.)
scale 3: it was busted. lol it read 152 and then 200. it was crazy!

i feel smaller so im gonna officially say i lost some weight! i wanna go ahead and buy a decent scale instead of guessing on walmart's rinky dink merchandise.

3, 2, 1

wednesday, aug 6 (day 40) ... completed sculpt + barbie workout.

thursday, aug 7 (day 41) ... took the day off.

friday, aug 8 (day 42) ... will do sweat + abs + a lil extra cardio. i might add sculpt here too.

i always forget to add new journals lately. i usually am training for work so i never get around to working out on time and then i forget to write it down when i do workout. ay ya ya. i gotta get it together lol

it's about time i move on to the 3/4 series. im definitely not burning as much with 1/2 anymore on sweat and sculpt. that's a good sign, right? :) i think so!

u know i'm bad. 4-in-1

saturday, aug 2 (day 36) ... sculpt completed.

sunday, aug 3 (day 37)... missed. i went to a family dinner and got back late.

monday, aug 4 (day 38) ... slept late, sorta missed. i walked a mile but it was at 3:00 am which was actually (tuesday, aug 5).

tuesday, aug 5 (day 39) ... completed sweat + abs. i was going to include sculpt for missing it a few days before but i couldn't find my resistance bands. tomorrow i will do some barbie cardio and sculpt even though wednesdays are supposed to be my day off. no day off this week! :)

anyways, i've been training for work so i definitely need to learn to juggle my time a little better. i do need to go back to walmart and get on a scale. i wonder if it'll read this time. lol!!

lost count lol

so ... if july 27 was day 30 and today is aug 1,

july 28 - 31...completed sweat + 1 mile walk
july 29 - 32...completed sculpt + 1 mile walk
july 30 - 33...completed sweat + 1 mile walk
july 31 - 34...completed sculpt + 1.5 mile walk w/ walk away the pounds
aug 1 - day 35! im going to workout later today.

watching what i eat status .... not too bad. i did buy the groceries i said. i have definitely been eating less. i did have one treat: catfish balls for dinner on thursday.

29, 30

day 29: sculpt. completed.

day 30: ... completed. so i tried cardio 3/4. i lasted about 15 mins into it before i got too tired to go any further. shortly before trying 3/4, i walked a mile with leslie sansone's fat burning walk. my weight has not changed as a i hoped by day 30. i think i only managed to drop 1 freakin' pound. i think my eating needs to change and i need to add more cardio. i will only add 30 mins more cardio to power90's cardio. so this week i'm going back to what i've tried before when losing weight.

i'm going to eat:

oatmeal
cereal (apple cinnamon cheerios, reese's puffs, frosted flakes, lucky charms)
hot pockets
boudain and funyuns
canned juices (since they are portioned it's easy for me not to drink a whole 2 liter)
nachos
fruits (apples, grapes, oranges, bananas)

that's about all. i'm going to avoid any potatoes and once in a while have fried shrimp.

let's see how this week goes!!

26 + 2 days

27: sculpt. completed!

28: cardio + abs. completed!

i'm not getting as much of a sweat from either of these workouts. i'm going to try levels 3/4 on the 30th day to see how i perform. if i can keep up, i'll stick to them for the remainder of the 62 days!

t minus 62! or should i say P minus 62!

26

today is the resting day. i've been naughty and ate some fried foods. wait...i do that anyways. lol

t minus 64

wow. im almost 1/3 of the way done with the program. counting down seems like it goes faster than counting up. 64 days to go! cardio and abs were good today.

walmart's evil scale

i went by walmart yesterday to check my weight. i got on the scale. it read 198! there is no way i only lost 1 lb after all this time. i feel like i should have lost more. i think that scale is busted. last summer i got on scales at walmart. after a few weeks of exercising upwards of 45 mins daily, the scale read the same weight or even more. that's a downright misleading reading! crappy scales!!

my legs feel like they've gotten a bit muscular.

5^(squared)

day 25 was good. sculpt the mess out of me!

24 update

i said i was going to post day 1 pictures but never got around to it. i have some comparison pictures of day 1 to day 24. i know it's earlier than the 30 day marker...ok i'm impatient for results! :) lol i do see a little change.

i did not sweat as much for cardio this time around.

3 dayz

friday, july 18 (day 22) : cardio great.

saturday, july 19 (day 23): sculpt burned me up!

sunday, july 20 (day 24): workout coming soon. i gotta eat lunch and watch a movie. i'm gonna try to do cardio with the cross hops.

twenty one

t minus 69! nearly 1/3 of the way complete.

sculpt. great workout as usual.

t minus 70

20th day! this journey i've been traveling is a long one. it's quick yet long. it's enjoyable yet sparks my curiousity if i actually enjoy it. my answer to that is i love it! i don't see any big results yet. as i mentioned a few days, i think my thighs are somewhat smaller and my gut seems to have lost some of its roll. i could be imagining such things. i think i'm feeling guilty about how i eat. i stay away from most sweets. my downfalls are juices. i still cannot stand water!

my my my....what am i going to do?! :)

(cardio + abs day)

feel1n9 the burn

sculpt me out! yaooooo my chest muscles are feeling so tight. i like that new resistance band.

9 x 2 = 18

cardio + abs! sweat, sweat, sweat. i changed the post's time but i didn't start until 1:30 am (on monday). i need to start going to sleep early. i went to bed last night at 5 am! i need to get out of that habit again. well, i gotta go now. it's already 3 am and i haven't taken my bath since i worked out. ciao! i'm about to hit the sack.

hmmm....my thighs look like they might be getting smaller. i got my fingers *crossed* that my eyes are telling me the truth!

day oneseven

t minus 73. wow, day 30 is just around the corner. it doesn't seem so close. i got a new resistance band today. i decided to move up to a medium resistance band. man, it felt so good to ache a little when using it! :)

sweet sixteen

nah it ain't my birthday. lol cardio + abs was good this time around. i decided to workout to my own music which made the workout seem...longer. i wonder why...i'll just have to experiment with different music and see what works.

14-15

14: wednesday. day off. nothing eventful.

15: my resistance band broke during the workout. i think i will switch to dumbbells to avoid a future situation like that again. i resorted to using a filled downy bottles (103 fl oz is roughly 6.4 lbs). it was ok. i felt a small burn but nothing like the resistance band or real dumbbells can do.

tuesday the 13th

tuesday the 13th doesn't even sound scary. lol! so it's really not the 13th day of july. it's the 13th day of my workouts. i'm feelin' fine. cardio = great. abs = just fine. tomorrow is my two week anniversary. t minus 14 ...ugh...i can't think straight right now...

90
-14
----
76

16 days from the 30 day marker! woohoo.

12

7-7-3. how's that for improvement on continuous reps? very good. i paused the tape after the last three push ups to catch my breath. i didn't sweat too much this time around on sculpt.

well, that's about all. i might get a new resistance band soon. the one i have is becoming too light.

|| - eleven

almost 2 weeks are up. i remember when i was counting down to the first week. this second week has definitely gone by faster. two more days then i rest again.

monday = sculpt
tuesday = cardio + abs
wednesday = REST! :)

the good news is i can usually sustain each workout. cardio felt so good today. i like wiping sweat from my forehead.

can i have your at10tion (attention)?

there was another interruption merely seconds before i began my workout. why does this continue to happen? i feel like i've grown an obsession with the workout. lol i can't miss one minutes without feeling off. the good news is that i did complete the workout shortly after my company left.

day 10 is down. 90-10 = 80. tomorrow begins day 79. this process seems a little fast. my weight seems the same especially around my belly. i think i need to go back to eating 2 bowls of cereal and a nice dinner. that's what worked for me once, that's what should work again. i got somewhat out of control with the recent holiday. :)

Proof: 4th = 9!

How can 4 equal 9? July 4th is the 9th day of p90 for me! Wow! I am now a mathematical genius. Please credit all theory/proof to deputybuck.

Man, I tore up on some bbq today. I started the grill at 9:30 am because the weather looked like it was going to rain. Indeed, it did rain. It rained for about 10 minutes every 3 hours or so throughout the day. I made grilled hamburgers (yummy with mccormick seasoning), boudain, sausages and a special sauce! All of it was great. Yum! I might just become a grill master. (Plus I got a good deal on the grill at Walmart. It was an unbelievable $9.92!)

So, the workout was definitely great too. Sweat, sweat, sweat! Ab ripper 100 is becoming a bit too easy. I think I'll switch to the 3-4 series within the 30 day marker. But only time can tell.

Man, I'm hungry now. I gotta go put something in this growling belly before it eats itself!

8 the great (july 3)

it was another superbusy day for me. errands to run left and right. i didn't start my workout until 10:30 pm! and my eating? i barely ate one thing today. i had a few sun chips, half a block of ramen noodles, and a few sips of juice while on the go. :( one moment i felt really weak.

i started this week with sculpt. i only took one pause and that was to do 7-7-7 push ups. other than that, i was able to complete the whole workout continuously. my stamina is definitely improving. i got a scale during a late night walmart rendezvous. guess what it read? 199! dang. reality is hitting me hard. this time last year it read the same. something's not right with walmart's scales...i dunno.

ciao

s e v e n

today is my off day. i am resting. the one thing on my mind is what dvd will i do tomorrow: sculpt or cardio? i think i will start with sculpt. cardio was the last thing i did before today.

on the 6th day

wow, tomorrow makes a week of p90. tomorrow is also a resting day. but today! today was something.

i went to bed around 3:30 am. i was already headed for bed at 3 am but i got a text message. i was "getting my sleep on" for about five hours when i hear a weed eater next to my window. i'm a light sleeper so i immediately woke up. for the next two hours, the combination of a hair dryer (i don't know why any hair dryer was being used. only myself and two men were home) and the weed eater kept me semi-awake. to top everything off, i had to run errands before i started my workout. let's just say i woke up at 12:54 pm. i usually wake up around 11 am to eat breakfast. my workouts usually start at 2 pm. that didn't happen today. my workout did not start until 7 pm! i had 16 minutes left to complete my workout before i was interrupted by someone at the doorbell. yup...my heart rate slowed and i had to jog around for a minute to get it back up.

what an interesting day. the best part about all of it is that i completed the workout regardless of the many obstacles!

yesterday, i went to a restaurant with an aunt and i got a small ice cream. i forgot i was supposed to watch what i ate. oh well. a small treat once in a while doesn't hurt. but i did get a big azz potato for dinner because it was getting old and i had a small cup of gumbo. :p

5ive

yadda yadda. t minus 86.

sculpt was mostly a breeze again. 7-7-7 pushups are challenging. i pause the tape to finish them on my own pace. well, there's one more day before a rest. i don't even feel like a need a rest. the workouts go pretty quickly.

on a side note, i bought some clothes today. my waist is smaller (not results from p90) from a few months ago. so i wear a juniors 17. in high school, i could fit a 13. any smaller size would not pass my hips. i weighed roughly 145-155 back then. my stomach was not flat but it didn't hang out LOL. if there's any target size i would like to achieve soon, i'd like to see myself at a 13 then get smaller.

4 is a roar.

day 4. t minus 86. it's almost a week!

i can't believe i started this journey.
one late night i was flipping through some tv channels and i spotted an infomercial. of course, it was a p90x clip. it looked so exciting. i never watch tv. i think it had been at least two months since i've watched any cable longer than a few seconds. i was tired that night so i tried very hard to place the program's name into some temporary brain storage until the next day. i woke up the next morning and immediately researched p90x. well, that's how the story begins.

cardio + abs
so, i really did sweat a lot this time around. i think this workout really pumps me up. i've never felt sweatier since my spinning class nearly 1 1/2 years ago. i missed that class. it was an hour and a half long but p90's cardio gets me sweating at the same level much faster. :)

natural hair
these workouts definitely keep me from straightening my hair. i might kiss the chi goodbye (just kidding--i love it somedays). i do need to learn a hairstyle that'll look good for going around town during the day.

sculpt this!

day 3 is here. t minus 87. yaoooo. this was my first day doing sculpt 1-2. it went fine. it was too easy. i broke a small sweat. my muscles don't feel as tight as p90x achieved. i love the hurting feeling. lol

day 2

official p90 day! (i actually started working out on june 26 w/ p90x).

1. the warm-ups wear me out!
2. cardio was great. a few pauses here and there but i kept up for the most part.
3. i sailed straight through ab ripper 100. now that's my kinda ab workout. i usually
dread any ab workouts because my neck would hurt terribly. i know why that occurred. i had bad form and i wasn't breathing properly.

in the end, i'm loving the workout. i can't wait until tomorrow when i start the sculpting. my arms have always seemed like the body part with the most stamina (as long as i wasn't trying to hold my own weight lol!). my day 1 pics will be uploaded soon. here's to progress...and day 89! ciao!

day 1

So, yesterday was my first day doing p90x. I thought it was going to be really hard. I expected to lose my breath, and curl up into a ball of laziness. Did that happen? I think not! The most challenging aspect of the first workout (chest and back) was the beginning warm-up. Oh boy! The constant jumping and changing moves nearly wore me out. That was the biggest hurdle of all the hurdles, with three more notable exceptions. My two weaknesses were the pushups, particularly the miliary pushup, the wide arm pushup, and the near impossible dive pushup. I could only do one dive pushup--incorrectly at that! lol Well, I tried. In the long run, I think I'll have to start with p90 which should help me ease into p90x. Ab Ripper X squashed me flat in the first minute. :) Well, I can't wait to start on p90. I need to get some pics of myself too. In the meantime,

ciao!