Ok so I've been MIA for awhile. It's just been really hectic lately. I'm still doing my workouts so I'm proud of that. I've been hesitant to post because I still haven't taken the pictures with my birthday dress on. I keep forgetting to do it and since I promised I'd give a comparison with that dress on, I kinda wanted to wait until I took those pictures to do another post. Plans changed and I did a really cool interview about the P90X program so I wanted to share that. Here it is:
http://www.examiner.com/cardio-fitness-in-atlanta/is-p90x-for-you
I also wanted to talk a little bit about my progress between Day 30 and Day 60. Honestly, comparing the pictures, I didn't really see a big difference. I got soooo frustrated because the program is so hard! I have a goal and in order to reach it, something's gotta change. As I said in the beginning of the program, I haven't been following the diet plan. That MUST be my downfall... Who woulda thunk it?! So I'm going to change that up a bit and see what happens this last month.
My biggest guilty pleasure in the food department is CARBS!! Oh my goodness I could eat a plate of rice and be happy with it. It's definitely my comfort. I eat pasta more than a little bit. I told my friend that I tried to go on the whole wheat pasta, bread and brown rice thing, but she laughed and told me they are all still high in carbs. Dagonit! I thought I had something there.
I have to really limit the amount of pasta, bread and rice I consume period. I've been eating a lot of meats and vegetables lately. I do eat fruit oatmeal for breakfast at work every morning which is pretty high in carbs, and I've been going banana crazy lately and eating tons of grapes. I know these have a lot of sugar in them, but I see it as at least I'm not eating chocolate, cake and ice cream. Since I stopped eating so much carbs I've probably dropped another 3-5lbs so it's working!
I'm going to Miami in December and I wanna be hotter than the weather! I'm going to try REALLY hard to get the pics taken this week.
Crossing fingers for pics...
Suukot
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Half Way There!!
I know, I know. You probably thought I'd given up by now. There's no way she could still be going after all this complaining! Well I am. It's been a few weeks since the last post. So sue me! :)
I've just begun week 7 which means I'm officially half way through the program and it's still tough as all hell. I've definitely gotten better at some things. Yoga is first on that list even though I still dread it.
My friend taught me how to make the recovery drink and boy is that a Godsend. Sometimes I crave it throughout the day but I know I can't drink it without working out thus it gives me a reason to workout. We have a weird relationship. They talk about the recovery drink at the end of each workout and I used to just ignore it, but apparently it really works. It helps your muscles to recover so that you don't feel like such a big blob of soreness the next day. Basically it's just a mega portion of protein. I got a whey protein mix from Walmart for like $15 and it's vanilla flavored. You can really just put it in water and drink it, but I think that would be a task more than a treat. I create a shake. My ingredients are frozen fruit and soy milk. My favorite combos are kiwi and pinapple or just plain sweet black cherries (since the mix is vanilla it takes like cherry vanilla ice cream). Talk about a recovery!! You're supposed to have it between 15-60 minutes after your workout. I get it made and digested within 10. Yep no shower involved. I can't resist!
Anyways I'm almost to my second set of pics and I think I will show a sample. I definitely won't post the sports bra pics :-/ but I took a picture right before I started this program on my birthday (as shown above) and as you can see, I had on a rather fitted dress. I think I will put it back on and show the comparison. That'll be in 2 more weeks. So I've gotten down 15 lbs but I had a little gathering at my place Sunday and ate massive amounts of pizza, cupcakes, wine and watermelon (great combo). That set me back about 5 lbs. I would have never thought that one night could do that much damage! Since I never paid attention to it before I guess I would never know. That won't happen again... Maybe.
Well til day 60...
Yakan sumba
I've just begun week 7 which means I'm officially half way through the program and it's still tough as all hell. I've definitely gotten better at some things. Yoga is first on that list even though I still dread it.
My friend taught me how to make the recovery drink and boy is that a Godsend. Sometimes I crave it throughout the day but I know I can't drink it without working out thus it gives me a reason to workout. We have a weird relationship. They talk about the recovery drink at the end of each workout and I used to just ignore it, but apparently it really works. It helps your muscles to recover so that you don't feel like such a big blob of soreness the next day. Basically it's just a mega portion of protein. I got a whey protein mix from Walmart for like $15 and it's vanilla flavored. You can really just put it in water and drink it, but I think that would be a task more than a treat. I create a shake. My ingredients are frozen fruit and soy milk. My favorite combos are kiwi and pinapple or just plain sweet black cherries (since the mix is vanilla it takes like cherry vanilla ice cream). Talk about a recovery!! You're supposed to have it between 15-60 minutes after your workout. I get it made and digested within 10. Yep no shower involved. I can't resist!
Anyways I'm almost to my second set of pics and I think I will show a sample. I definitely won't post the sports bra pics :-/ but I took a picture right before I started this program on my birthday (as shown above) and as you can see, I had on a rather fitted dress. I think I will put it back on and show the comparison. That'll be in 2 more weeks. So I've gotten down 15 lbs but I had a little gathering at my place Sunday and ate massive amounts of pizza, cupcakes, wine and watermelon (great combo). That set me back about 5 lbs. I would have never thought that one night could do that much damage! Since I never paid attention to it before I guess I would never know. That won't happen again... Maybe.
Well til day 60...
Yakan sumba
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