New Plan

Okay, after a good break, I'm feeling up to starting my exercises again. My knee hasn't been giving me problems anymore. So, my new plan is to go slower. I'm going to start a 60 day program. It goes in levels just like Jillian did, but this one starts out even slower. I'm hoping that this will get me ready for the 30 day shred. I might even restart my 5k training plan while I'm doing this so that I am working out a little more. We'll see. I'm just really surprised that my knee started going crazy. I've never had any problems with my knees, even when I was doing my 5k training and after I ran my 5k. The first time I tried 5k training I got shin splints, but I did a different 5k training and I was fine. Here's to hoping that my knees hold up on me long enough for me to loose some weight!

Daytime Post

I exercised last night. I have to say that I'm pretty happy that I don't need to take that many break anymore. I still can't get through the whole set of pushups and jumprope. The jumprope causes the backs of my legs to get really tights and I have to stop before I get a charlie horse. Although, the third and final cardio of the night I was able to get through all four cardio exercises, no breaks, even including jumprope! I weighed myself and found that I had gained some weight. I did weigh myself after our weekly ritual of getting ice cream which was stupid. Oh well, next time I go to publix, I will weigh myself again but I just have to be more careful about when I'm eating. I need to go back to drinking water most of the day, and absolutely no soda but diet. That was something I was becoming relaxed with because my mom doesn't always have diet. If I'm over there and want a soda, I usually reach for a regular. I also measured myself, and I think my waist and hips both went up an inch! My arms stayed the same, and my thighs went down a half an inch. I guess I was disappointed, but after the first ten days are up, I'll redo my weight and measurements. I thought that I would do it every week, but it might just be better to do it every ten days. It kills me to wait though! I did retake my pictures, and I didn't see any change, but again it's early. I think that my back has more definition but I have a lot of back fat so, it's not pretty!

Day 5

I didn't give up, I promise!!!! I did exercise through day 3. I had a really hard time of it though. I was in a lot of pain and didn't have a lot of movement, and my form was way off. Obviously, that led to more pain that I hadn't had before, and not very good pain! My knee was killing me. I've never had knee problems, so I did take off on Day 4. I felt really guilty about it too, but I ended up sitting in a hot bath to help with the pain in my knee. I'm so glad I did that because I felt so much better today. Today, my legs weren't hurting, my knee still felt a little off and was popping a lot but I did exercise. I paid really close attention to my form and tried to match the form of the girls as closely as possible. If I felt any strain on my knee, I immediately stopped and retried using better form. I've come to realize that the majority of my form problems come from not sticking my butt out. I'm so bad about putting a lot of pressure on my knees during squats, and I found that I had close to none once I through my butt out there. I think I was getting away with it for the first couple of days because I was using my thighs which is probably why they were trying to kill me. When I couldn't use my thighs on Day 3 my knees were automatically the next in line to take the most amount of strain. In other ways, I found that it was easier to keep with it. The only exercise that I'm not really seeing an improvement on is push ups. I don't have a lot of upper body strength and I have a lot of upper body lol. It'll come in time I suppose. Now for my motivational picture of the day:

Day 2

Finished up Day 2 work out. Of course, I am still on level 1. I could have sworn that this program is suppose to be done 30 days straight, but I just can't see how it give your muscles a break to rebuild themselves. I'll have to do more of a look up on that. Anyway, I did get through it. My muscles weren't sore today, but I definitely felt that they were weak during the workout. Hopefully it will get easier and as it gets easier it kinda gives your muscles somewhat of a break since it feels normal? I don't know... it's late and my brain is already asleep. I did notice that the workout seemed to go faster. Maybe because I knew what was coming, or because I wanted it to be done so I would pump myself up Circuit one, DONE! Two more to go!!! Circuit two, Done! More than half way there!!! Circuit three strength training done, two exercises left. OMG!!! Cardio finally DONE!!!! Only Abs to go... So, yeah. That's that of day two.

Not the exact picture I wanted, but basically says the same thing! Two days down, 28 days to go!!!

Day 1

It's late, and my bed time but I worked out late, so I decided to stay up late and write my post. I took my Day 1 pictures, and can I say... I really hope to see some improvement on Day 30!!!! I'll probably take an update picture every week, but in the end if I post it will be Day 1 to Day 30. Today, I started on Level 1 for apparently reasons. It's suppose to be Level 1 for 10 days, Level 2 for 10 days, and Level 3 for 10 days. So, obviously I am on Level 1. I don't have any weights. You are suppose to use three pound weights. I'm going to look for some cheap ones at the thrift store, and see if a friend has any. Otherwise, it'll have to wait for a little while. Sure, I could go to Walmart and buy them for 3 bucks a piece, but I'm trying not to go out and spend a ton of money. I have to say though... the workout was plenty hard without the weights. I just pretended I was holding weights and my muscles are in shock still. My arms are quivering just typing this out. My legs wanted to quit while I was walking up the stairs to take a shower, and coming back down stairs to blog???? My legs hated me and I felt like I was literally going to fall. So, there you have it. I'm extremely out of shape and probably wouldn't have been able to handle the workout with weights anyway. As it is, I did take a few breaks during this workout. Jillian says not to take longer than 5 seconds, and every time I tried to jump right back in. Sometime it felt like I was trying to punch with noodles but I did keep going. It is only Day 1 after all. If I could do this workout perfect on Day 1 then I need to jump right to p90x! Anyway, I hope that I can make it through Day 30. One day down, 29 to go!!!! I want to share a picture:

One of my biggest motivators, that pushed me to start this program was that I went out for my husbands birthday. My husband and a friend's fiance where being hit on by this girl. My friend's fiance leaned over and told me how hot that girl was. He wasn't wrong, she was pretty, she had a nice body. But... I know that no one there was secretly ogling me... and I will be honest... I want to be ogled. When I was a teen, I was oblivious to it. My boyfriend at the time would get so jealous. It was the big boobs that caught guys attention. Two kids later, my boobs might as well be called pancakes... big, flabby, flat pancakes that don't catch any eyes anymore. And, a belly full of fat. Some people would say that's stupid, but I don't care. Yes, I believe the above picture is true, but I want some forms of flattery too!

Here I Am

Starting again. I just bought Jillian Michael's 30 day Shred. I have been really interested in starting p90x but while browsing blogs for before and after pictures, so have recommended starting with this program before moving on to p90x. I'll gladly try it because the start up for p90x isn't cheap, even if you buy it off of craigslist and what not. I have measured myself at a whopping: 217 lbs 41 inch waist 51.5 inch hips I will be taking picture shortly after I publish this post. I won't be publishing those pictures for now. Maybe at the end if my pictures would make good motivation for others. I haven't decided if I'm going to start tonight. The plan last night was to buy it and start it that night, but I had a family emergency that kept me out of the house until very early hours of the morning. I planned on starting it today but there are many eyes that could watch me and I'm still embarrassed about being seen exercising. I've tried to hype myself up the last couple of months by looking at inspirational pictures. One of my favorites is "Why are you doing this will soon be how did you do that?" Obviously, someone didn't think of that just for me, but I feel it really speaks to me, although I still can't get over my fear of someone making fun of me.

Day Four

Yesterday was day four of my 28 day whole body action plan. I started the detox portion. I feel that I did better eating overall, but I didn't follow the plan well. I was super hungry, and some of the smoothies are nasty. I need to make sure that I don't go hungry because I have to nurse a baby.

I weighed myself at a whopping 224. Yikes!