Absolutely No Excuse

For my inability to stick with working out. I don't know what is up with me but I know that I need to lose weight and I know that I have to get active, STAY active, and eat right to do so but I can't find my motivation. Had I kept this up when I first started in January I'd have almost 2 months under my belt right now. Summer is steadily creeping up and before I know it, It will be here and I will still be in the same, sad, sorry state of fatness that I'm presently in. I know I better get to moving soon!!! I know as soon as the weather breaks (yes, we still have snow) I will hit the track and start walking and/or running. I also know that I have just about every workout tape known to man as well as a weight bench, treadmill (albet in storage since it wasn't being used and just taking up space), dumbbells, barbells,exercise bands, fitness ball, and the like so I have ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE not to work out. I think I'm going to take some photos and post them up where I'll be sure to see them and I know that will motivate me! Today I have plans to do something, If my mind doesn't succeed in talking me out of it, I will get my workout on!

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I'm Getting Excited.

I'm feeling a bit refreshed. Admittedly, I haven't been doing much of anything as of late. my workouts are sporadic at best and I haven't really been watching my eating but today it was so beautiful out, I decided to walk the kid to school this morning. I'll most likely be walking to pick the kid up as well.

I hope this is a sign that Spring is on the way. It's a whopping 60 degrees here today...  60! lol I know that's probably freezing to you all who've been spoiled by beautiful weather all year round but 'round these parts, we take what we can get.

 I'm seriously thinking of getting ChaLean Extreme as I am tired of p90X already and I've only done it once. I think the fact that I know every joke, comment, laugh etc is what really gets to me. It gets old you know? Anyway I did Shaun T's Rockin' Body (Disco Grooves) and I absolutely love it. Yes, you are working out and depending upon how hard you work it (and I try to go pretty hard) you can work up a nice sweat too. It's also really fun, I find myself just grinning from ear to ear at Shaun and some of the old skool moves.

 While I'm not actively altering my diet too much, which I know is a big no no because diet and eating right is about 85-90% of weightloss, I will be attempting to keep track of what I'm eating daily for at least 7 weekdays. (I do what I wants on the weekends) haha!

I also plan to re-measure, and re-do all the stats and come summer we'll see where I am.

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Hmmmm... I need to get busy!

As you know, I officially started p90X on the 9th, and while I rocked day 1(if I do say so myself) yesterday wasn't so hot. I already decided that I would need to work my way up to Pylo so I substituted with Hip Hop Abs. Now Pylo isn't extremely difficult and I have done it previously but the problem is that it tends to take a toll on my knees. When I did it before I did it using my trampoline and it did make it more bearable for me so that is always an option when I decide to work it into my routine.

Anyhoo, what I really wanted to talk about was yesterday. I had company and you all know that when company comes, it can throw your entire routine out of wack. I'm normally a morning person, have been that way all of my life, so I low that If I don't get my workout in early then it won't get done. Well yesterday, I watched the morning hours just tick by and I still hadn't gotten anything done. My mind started working and making up all kinds of excuses and reasons for me to not work out. I'll just work out on the weekend. I said I would only work out 3 days a week so missing this one day is no big deal. I'll do double tomorrow and yada yada yada. I really had it in my heart that I wouldn't work out but deep down I know that I needed to. Hell It was only day 2 for me and I didn't want to quit tat early so I dug deep within myself and somehow mustered up the energy and determination to pop in my HHA( yeah, I know hard work lol) and get my behind up and moving. Once I got started it really was fun and I also realized that working out in the evening isn't as bad as I thought. Granted, it will take a lot for me to get moving once I'm home and settled in but an occasional evening workout is totally feasible if my mind decided to co-operate.

Eating is a whole 'nother story so I'll save that for another day.

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Reflections

It's amazing how much difference a few weeks hiatus can make....and I don't mean that in a good way. I did my 30 day shred yesterday and not only was I more winded than usual but I had to take breaks and modify a few things. I was working out consistently for either 2 or 3 weeks up until the 13 or 14 of December. From then until yesterday I did nothing. (well I did workout one day in between) Anyway Before the break I was still huffing and puffing but I could at least get through the workout but dang. Yesterday I was disappointed in myself.

On another note, I logged my meals yesterday(steal have a few more things to enter) and My eating is about a C on a scale of A to F. I figured that as long as I stay within my alotted calories and ate semi clean, I'm good but that is proving not to be true as well. I also tried to stay within my alotted fat, protein and carb range. I have to go over my entires to see what's going on with that. I know I will have a cheat meal or a cheat day and if it's going to make a huge differnce in my eating for day, I'm screwed already . lol

Anyway, I'm going to try to do better today, I know part of the problem is that I didn't eat all of my allotted calories yesterday so i have to work on that.

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Soon to Be Back On My Grind

As I probably mentioned, I had an appointment with a Mac Genius and he confirmed what I already knew. My hard drive crashed and I lost everything, EVERYTHING! I'm most upset about losing my photos which I tend to delete from my camera once uploaded.
I did have a few on another drive so that's good. I have truly learned my lesson. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Before I left, I was going to by an external drive to back up my system but figured it could wait until I got back from my trip. Little did I know my mac would would be dropped at the airport. Anyway, I was able to get the majority of my programs back and I also made sure to back them up this time. Now I'm ready to fully concentrate on getting back in shape

Goals.
To lose 60 lbs of body fat (which would put me at about 155)
To Gain Muscle
Be Rid of Back Fat forever
Get reacwuainted with my collabones(clavicles as my mom likes to say)
See some semblance of abs (doesn't have to be a six pack, hell I'll take a 2 pack)
have a defined waistline



Short term goals
Work out at least 3 days a week
Log my meals
Stay off the scale (lol yes, I'm a scale whore)
Drink at least 64 oz of water a day
eat at least 2 servings of veggies per day)

I'm still figuring out things so I'll post as they come to mind.

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New Year, New Me

SO I have embarked on this weightloss challenge in '09. The plan was to start on the 1st but I will be starting tomorrow, the 5th. I just got back into town and because my Mac is giving me the blues right now, I didn't have access to a comp or my workout things. Anyway, I plan to take my stats and start p90x then.
I also have an appointment with a Mac "genius" to find out what is going on with my comp. I'm pretty sure that I will need a new hard drive. (fell off the table before it went through the scanner at the airport and yes I fully intend to file a claim with TSA). But anyway, I know that I'm basically screwed since the comp is out of warranty. My main concern is all of my photos which,unfortunately, I never got around to backing up. I fully intended to purchase an external hard drive and move some things to it but figured it could wait until I got back. Little did I know !!!The one saving grace is thati can replace the hard drive myself so thats a few dollars saved.


Back to working out, I intend to WOWY as well if my pc (which I am trying to get used to again) will hold up.

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It's Been a Few Days

Although it has been a few days since I posted, I am proud to say that it hasn't been a few days since I've worked out.  I worked out everyday this week except for Friday well... because I just didn't feel like it.  I've heard that it takes a least 2 weeks for things to become a habit and I have been working out for at least that long and I still get that "I don't want to work out today" feeling.   Case in point, yesterday I was going to do p90x leg day.  I got up,  popped in the video, started doing the initial stretching exercises, logged into WOWY and then my body just refused to co-operate.  I just kept thinking about how I didn't want to do squats, lunges and all the other exercises. I also kept thinking that  the workout lasted 60 minutes and I ended up just turning the video off, canceling my workout on WOWY and doing nothing.  I guess it be's like that sometimes but I literally find that I have to give myself a pep talk to work out because every day its the same thing..I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT!!!!   Now,  I know I need to lose weight and I desire to lose weight but I'm just waiting for my head and body to fall in line with each other.  I'm just waiting for it to become habit where I just get up and don't even think about what I'm doing.

On another note, I have Shaun T's Rockin Body and it is so much fun.  I find myself grinning from ear to ear when I do it especially his Disco workout!   My child came in and saw me and said he was going to video tape me and put it on Youtube.  lol  That's an automatic ass whooping if he does and I find out about it because I am not trying to become the next You Tube Sensation.  One more bit of news I'd like to share.  After days of stepping on the scale and watching it fluctuate between 219 and 220 lbs.  I stepped on today and it read 216.  Not much but hey, I'll take it.  I just need to see some semblance of evidence that the work I've been doing is not in vain.    I did 30 minutes on the Wii fit and to make up for yesterday's missed activity and the Hula Hooping is no joke.  My heart rate got up to 173 bpm trying to beat the high score and I could definitely feel it in my abs.  lol I also did Rockin' Body Disco Groove too

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No I didn't fall off. Well at least I don't consider it falling off

Yes, I'm still on my workout grind. But because I had guests and the kiddies out of school for the holiday, I was hard pressed to find some time to get in a workout. That's right.... from last week Wednesday to Sunday I did nada but I was back in the swing of things yesterday and today. I did my first lower body workout yesterday and you can best believe I am feeling it today. I remember at one point I could do this entire workout and not get winded or tired...Now I had to take breaks. Just think, If I had kept it up when I first started working out, I'd be slim and trim and fit as a fiddle by now. Makes me angry when I think about it but what can I do but keep the momentum going. Normally, I'll wait to the new Year to start working out again and make my New Year's resolution that I'd undoubtedly break within a month or two. This time, by the time New Years rolls around, I'll already have a month and a half in. I have a good 50 lbs that I'd like to lose (maybe more) so I have t get with it and stick with it!

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