"3-It's a magic number." Schoolhouse Rock

Yup. 3. Today, it's MY magic number. 3 pounds gone. Not a huge number, but huge for me. I'm happy. I worked my tail off this week and it's good to see some results. One week down, 9 to go.

I'm a little bit nervous about this week. One week of hard work is relatively easy, as in I can do anything for 1 week. I have to keep this up and I think it might be more difficult this week. My husband has been awesome in encouraging me so I'm going to really count on his help this week. One day at a time is all I can do. I'm not looking back.

Week one is history

Well, I made it through week one of P90X. I'm sore, I'm tired, but I couldn't be happier. I've had a great week. I've worked by body hard and I've eaten as well as possible. If I don't blow it today (and believe me, there's a huge chance I will), I'll have made it one solid week without putting anything (did you read that?ANYTHING) unhealthy in my body. I don't think I've ever done that before.

I need to remind myself that this is a marathon and not a sprint. This is only week 1 out of 10 and I think that if I continue to push myself at this pace, I might burnout. I was very hungry yesterday, so I think I might not be eating enough. I ate when I was hungry but I'm not counting calories, so I may be low. I plan to add that in next week. I was just too much to do this week.

My first weigh in (unofficial) is tomorrow. DH told me not to get my hopes up. Too late. I have to be honest and admit if I don't see some movement on the scale, I'll be very disappointed. I've worked out 6 days this week (two days double workouts) and eaten as well as I know how. If that doesn't work, I don't know what will.

Stay tuned.....

Yoga green bean style

92 minutes of yoga is not what makes me look forward to the day. That's a long time to do something you don't like. Let me rephrase that. It's not that I don't like yoga. I actually think it's beautiful to watch- watch being the operative word here. I stink at yoga. All those moves that look so graceful on other people, look dumb on me. I am not the picture of graceful. I have a memory from when I was on the high school tennis team playing doubles with my sister She lovingly (that's how I look at it anyway) referred to me as "a jumping green bean" when I jumped for an overhead shot. That description does not conjure up images of grace. Green beans aren't graceful. I am not graceful and I'm okay with that (usually).

So I woke up at 4:30 AM and planted my green bean self in front of the TV this morning and attempted to do the P90X version of yoga. Gracefully. For 92 minutes. It wasn't graceful. It wasn't even close. But I did it (well, most of it anyway). And it was hard- really hard. Forget green beans, I was looking and feeling like spaghetti when I was done. Legs were shaking, and I was pouring sweat. But that's okay. I reminded myself that this is about the journey. I'm doing it and that's what matters. It may not be pretty and it may be really hard, but at the end of the day I attempted something and did it and I'm more than okay with that.

Shoulders and Arms and Ab Ripper, Oh My!

I made it through my workout this morning. The shoulders and arms DVD wasn't that bad. I had a hard time figuring out the right weight, though. I started off using my lightest tension band which wasn't hard enough but when I switched over to dumbells, it was much harder. I didn't use the workout sheet they recommend to keep track of my reps. My goal for today was to just get through the DVD.

The ab ripper was hard. Ouch! He moves non-stop from one workout to the next. It didn't help that my abs are sore from Sundays workout. It's over though, and off to yoga tomorrow which I'm not especially good at.

Yesterday was another perfect eating day. I drank tons of water too and even threw in a 2 mile run to help burn off some calories. Oh, and I had my oldest daughter hide my scale. I told her she needed to give it back on Friday so I can weigh myself early Saturday morning. I'm not going to do an extra workout today so I just need to eat well and drink my water.

I know these are baby steps and I've been here before- but 3 good days down- 4 to go. Yeah!

Cardio X

This 45 minute workout was 3 parts- yoga, cardio and core. I honestly didn't think it was THAT hard. Don't get me wrong, it was hard, but not to the point where I had to stop or couldn't do the moves. My maximum heart rate was 151 and my average was 117. Workout- done. Now all I have to do is eat well today and drink my water.
I ate great yesterday. I didn't track my calories, but there wasn't anything unhealthy that went into my body. Although I'm tempted to weigh myself every day, I'm not going to weigh myself until Saturday.

So far, so good.

Biggest Loser and P90X

Yesterday I weighed in for the official start of The Biggest Loser C-Ville. My weight=158.6. My goal is to lose between 10 and 15 pounds in the next 10 weeks. How am I going to do that, you ask? Why, P90X, of course. My hubby actually suggested I try it. I'm coming off of the 30 day challenge from EA Active. It was okay. At first I was sore, but my body quickly adapted to it and I didn't find it much of a challenge towards the end. P90X is going to be a challenge. If I survive the next 90 days I should see a significant difference in my body. I'm also making a commitment to eating better. This is a 10 week challenge, so I think I can do it this time.
I plan on posting at least a few times a week. I'm hoping it will keep me accountable. The first weigh in is in two weeks so I'm going to work really hard so I can see the scale go down. I'm actually really excited for this and hope it's what I need to get those pounds off.

As a side note- I'm picking up running again, albeit very slowly. I have Morton's Neuroma in my right foot (along with plantar fasciitis) but hopefully the treatment I'm doing is going to help. So far, so good. I ran 3 miles on Wednesday and 2.25 yesterday. It's a good start and I'm encouraged.