I love to bounce!!!! Day 4

I love this cardio program. I know I sound like an idiot but I love love love love it! I get so excited that I have it as much as I do in the program.

Day 4  I started with cardio and then took a break to talk to you guys about why I do this part of the program not in the apartment.

I don’t say this stuff to deter you from getting the program. I say it as a warning that in cardio, your feet will leave the ground. You will love it but people downstairs will know it’s exercise time. Upper body and full body have a little loudness to it, but not enough that you would really bother someone else. Cardio… tons of bouncing. BUT I LOVE IT!!!. You need the belt for cardio only. And honestly, you don’t really need it. It just adds a little fun to the workout… and makes it more resistance on your body… but mostly I think it’s there to let you bounce around and have fun 🙂

Abs was next. I hate you Tony. Not really but I do when I’m doing abs. The weakest muscles in my body. Even if my muscles didn’t separate with my pregnancy with the boys, this would still be a hard workout. But I never took care of my muscle separation so this is basically torture. Anyone else have this problem? Anyways, it’s an ab workout that actually gets everything. And it’s only 10 minutes. But lets be honest here, 30 seconds is enough to make me pout. The main focus is that its a program that is going to help you, not matter how much you dislike that 10 minutes. It could be longer Laura! Stop complaining.
 Best part of situps

 Not best part of situps

Then I did Yoga (soft serve) which actually hurt more this time than the day before. I’m thinking its because I had stretched those muscles a little bit more than I normally would with the yoga the previous day. Sounds bad, but it’s a good thing because that means I USED them. You know what makes me happy? I actually finished it. I felt the burn and I grrrrrr’d my way though it. That makes it enjoyable. And again, it’s not a hard workout. It works everything in 10 minutes without making you feel uncomfortable about the pretzel you’re stuck in. He makes it avaialable for people of all stretchy and unstretchy levels. He comments on how he used to be Mr. Stiff guy and now he’s more flexible. Guess. what, I’m gonna keep working at it and get flexible too. Thank you for the note of encouragement Tony.

As for food today… don’t ask. I didn’t take my shakeology that morning because I left the house not even thinking about it and ended up eating sweets from Burger King and having a soda. That’s kind of a hint hint that I was no where near staying in my calorie range. Ughhhhhh

Daily Challenge July 10- Take it as a learning experience

You learn every day right? It’s impossible to know everything unless you’re God and I’m just not that perfect. I think maybe I know .0000012% of every lesson people should learn out there. So don’t judge me unless you know .00000121%.

That being said… I don’t know jack sometimes. I decided it was a good idea to take an inexperienced dog out for a run around a duck pond this morning with two kids who just woke up.

I did what I was supposed to do.

I woke up at 7:15. Got the dog out for a potty break. Took my stuff to the gym to get in my 30 min of 10 minute trainer. Came back to the apartment. Ran back to the gym because I forgot my phone. Came back to the apartment again. Ran back to the gym to get my bag that I had sat down to get a drink on my way back out the gym the second time. Came back to the apartment AGAIN. Woke up Josh, told the kids to get their shoes on, put the dog on the leash, AND WE WERE OFF!

The kids were saying they wanted to go around the pond 3 times but my mommy intuition should have told me they didn’t really mean it when they both groaned at the beginning of the run. And when your dog isn’t very good at not sniffing everything when  you walk with her, she may not be ready for a run.

So you would think I wouldn’t be suprised when my dog almost pulls me into the lake while she chases a group of ducks. And you would think I wouldn’t be suprised when my kids aren’t behind me when I turn back to tell them they’re doing a great job. Instead, they’re pretty much still on the other side of the pond. I would have noticed if I didn’t have a dog trying to run between my legs for most of the run. They said they were upset because I said jog and then started running. Me thinks they were having an off morning because normally they’re outrunning me.

So I learned today.

What did I learn?

1. Sleepy kids will find any excuse to not run.
2. Sasha does not have an athletic drive unless you count her constant wagging tail.
3. I had a pretty friggin hilarious morning if I really think about it so brush it off my shoulder instead of being upset.

I ended up dropping the kids and dog off back at the apartment and headed out for another lap around the lake myself.

Tomorrow will be better.

So I didn’t learn a life lesson, I just learned for today. But it was learning, not failure.

Your challenge for the the day, FOR THE WHOLE DAY NOT JUST YOUR WORKOUT AND EATING TIMES, is to take it as a learning experience. If you would see it on a big screen and laugh about it when someone else does it, then you should laugh about it. If it just didn’t go your way, you now know better for next time. DO NOT GIVE UP because it sucked once. Let it be your drive to work out the kinks and be awesome at it. You’re not failing, YOU’RE WINNING!

Yoga- soft served!

Yes, I know, I’m behind on these. I will be doing 2 a day to try and keep up. Day 3 of 10 minute trainer was Yoga. Can I tell you how happy I am about this yoga? Day 3 I was only supposed to do this program instead of 30 min. So it was 10 min of stretching and relaxing. Me? Relax with yoga when I’m the stiffest person I know? Yep! It’s like 30 seconds of holding things instead of “Now turn into a pretzel and hold until you pass out.” I never did good in hour long yoga classes and I’ve had some of the best yoga instructors I’ve ever known of. I just don’t do well with it. But this yoga program still has to cover the same amout of body in half the time so I was moving again before I thought my leg was going to rip out of socket. I love it. I’m all loose and happy and relaxed afterwards. Of course Tony instructs while a dancer/gymnast does the exact moves. But while he’s instructing he talks about how he used to be stiff and forget to breathe and you realize he’s just as human as the rest of us. If I really wanted to I could turn up the temp in the house and do hot yoga, but ummmm, I moved out of Texas because of the heat, I’m not going to make something hot for no reason other than to burn off a few extra calories. I can sit in a sauna for 10 min, relaxing, and sweat out toxins while not bending like a pretzel.

As for food, I really sucked that whole week. I was doing good the first few days but then we were bringing home ice cream and I was eating the kids leftovers. It was a bad week on food. So I’m going to remind you all that as for food- this day was my downfall… and I still managed to lose weight that week.

I like to do yoga at my house instead of at the gym because I have bay windows and they let in light and bird noises and I know my kids aren’t running around an unsupervised apartment ripping things apart. So HERE HERE for a change of scenery.

I am a warrior! And yes I know I have saggy elbows. That’s what happens when you lose 100 lbs and it takes up to a year for your skin to go back to normal.

And proof to how NOT flexible I am. And most of my non-flexibility is in my lower back and inner thighs. But I WILL get there. MMhmmm I will.

Daily Challenge July 9th- Random workout, random recipe

Yesterday I was sick. I had G.I. (Joe, GO JOE!) problems and I’m not afraid to say that because G.I. problems (and injuries) are the only thing I won’t workout through. I’ve worked out through a cold, I’ve worked out through throat infections, but if my stomach is bubbly, I refuse to workout. Why? Because I’m a baby about my tummy. Seriously, I’m 29 and feel like calling my mom and going “Ughhhhhh mama” over the phone. That AND your immune system is mostly in your intestines. So when anything in that area says “Woman, sit down and put your feet up!” I obey.

Did you know that about your intestines? I didn’t know that’s where most of my immune system was until about 7 months ago. I dunno. I find it interesting that the part of you that deals with #2 is also the part that deals with no achoo. IMMA NERD! So yes, that is why I stress that the prebiotics and probiotics in Shakeology that no other meal replacement offers is worth the extra.

Onto the challenge!

Since I’m feeling better, I’ll throw these in with my 10 minute trainer.

I’m in a cardio instead of muscular mood today so pick as many of these as you want.

1. See how fast you can do a mile. Push until your legs want to give out and your lungs feel like they’re on fire. I dare ya!
2. See how many burpees you can do in a row.
3. Side shuffle around your house until people wonder if you’re losing it.
4. Find a basketbal court and do suicides (Run touch inside line of key, run back to start, touch top of key, run back to start, touch 3 pt line, start, halfway, start, ect.) We do this with the rackeball court in my gym also. Or just find a place and put lines down yourself to touch.
5. Play 52 pickup with some cards. Only pick up one card at a time.
6. Take my dog for a walk. She’s wanting to go out constantly.
7. Put on some spandex and ride your bike like a professional racer.
8. Swim like you’re trying to escape a country.
9. Play freeze tag with your kids.
10. The OCD in me needs a 10 so lets add in climb a tree.

And while you’re doing it, take a picture of yourself so you can remember you took the challenge 🙂

 

As for a random recipe, I chose fish tacos because I’ve had a craving for fish lately. My mom would probably pass out if she heard me say that because I refused to eat fish as a kid. Now I eat it once a week. So here’s the recipe on sparkrecipes.com

At my grocery store I found flax and fiber cold tortillas that taste and have the texture of the floppy corn tortillas. I’m addicted to them. I ran out so I don’t have the bag but next time I grab them I’ll give you guys the name.

HAVE A GOOD DAY EVERYBODY!

Daily Challenge July 7- no equipment required

Woke up this morning and weighed in. 235. I have lost 3 lbs this week with 10 minute trainer. If I had eaten better instead if crap on the fourth of July and on our mini vacation it would have probably been 4. But oh well. Weight gone is weight gone!!

We went to Seaside, Oregon yesterday. So fun!!!!

I can’t wait to go again and actually get higher than my knees in the water. I had done my 30 min of 10 min trainer program ( challenge packs only 14.95 for the first month right now), a half mile jog, and 10 min of hustle practice in the morning. I burned about 650 Cal doing all that. But I bet you my pinky toe I burned more calories running from freezing cold waves and walking up and down the boardwalk for a few hours than I did in the gym that morning.

So your challenge today is to burn more outside than inside without equipment. That’s right, just you, your body, and the sunshine. Doesn’t mean you can’t do an inside workout though. Just burn more outside. And while you’re out there, grab some watermelon and enjoy it on the grass with your shoes off.

10 min trainer day 2- Ughhh pushups!!!! But great workout

When I grow up I want to be like Gretchen. She can do pushups off her knees. I’m still on my knees even after losing as much weight as I have. Someday the fat patch above my elbow will be all muscle. But I will say this… I can do more on my knees than I used to be able to and I can do at least 3 regular pushups. Progress is progress. Hopefully I can get up to 5 by the end of the month like I could when I did P90X.

Today was

• Total Body
• Lower body (Which still hurt from Day 1)
• and Cardio (my favorite so far but the one I have to leave my apartment to do)

Total body is the pushups. There’s not that many because you only do 30 seconds to a minute of each, but they’re first thing out of the gate. The rest of it is more like his P90X style of curls, twists, kickbacks, and all the other stuff you look like a badass doing. Why do you look like a badass? Because you look like you know what you’re doing. My favorite move out of all of them is the band crunch. Yes, there are burpees in this one and I still like the band crunch better. For anyone who has issues doing full situps without a partner, this is a great option for joo. This has some MAJOR core work. I would advise doing this one first today, then the cardio to give your core a step down, then the lower body to build it back up again.

Cardio is the most fun of all the workouts. Why? Because there’s a ton of bouncing. You use the cardio belt with this one. It comes with the program, so don’t worry, you don’t have to buy it. It’s made up of mostly agility moves. There’s mud runs, heismans, kixboxing, ect. I sweat like crazy after this one.

Lower body should be the easiest for me. Most of my muscle is in my legs. But here’s where us big peoples have the advantage: More up top means more to balance and lift with your legs. So when you go into squats, the come back up gives you a better workout. YOUR LEGS WILL BURN! It’s a warning but still a lovely promise. You want great legs, you have to work them hard.

Sadly I don’t have pics for you today 😦 I had to leave the phone at home and the kids were having so much fun in the racketball court that I just did all three of my workouts in the gym yoga room.

I do this same workout again on Day 5 so I’ll make sure to add in video or pictures on that one.

As for foods- I started out my day with shakeology and frozen strawberries. I have a ton of strawberries to go through. Church had some muffins so I had a small apple one.

I had my fruits and stuff for snacks.

Lunch, we went to a place here called fresh grill. They make their buns gluten free and you get to choose from which kind of burger you get. I chose a mushroom burger which is actually made of mushrooms, a bean paste, and a little cheese. I added bacon (it was a moment of weekness that I’m not sad about), cajun sauce wich was super low cal (like 20 cal per tablespoon and I used maybe 3 tablespoons),  and the veggies on top. I made sure the guy knew I didn’t want cheese or mayo.

More freggie snacks.

For dinner we had chicken in rice and enchilada sauce with a side of green beans and potatoes.

At the end of the day my calories were around 1500 (1590… that rounds down right?) But I had a good workout so hush you!

Thank you for following along with me!

Day one of the giggles- Ten min trainer (D1)

Who needs to lose weight again? This girl!

It was the 30th instead of the 1st of the month but I’m a firm believer in not puting things off till the first of the month or Sunday or noon. When you can do it, DO IT! It actually irritates me when people say “Well it’s Thursday so I can eat bad until Sunday and then start my diet on Sunday.” Break the rules. Start on a Thursday. I don’t care if it’s Tuesday, do it.

I’ve had 10 minute trainer for a few weeks now. Unfortunately, I did have to wait until things slowed down with the move. Or at least I thought I did. When I stepped on the scale, after unpacking it, and saw 239 lbs, I wanted to cry.

I did the blog on it the other day. You know what I got? TONS OF SUPPORT. Where I thought I would be embarassed and people would look down on me, I found people actually felt a little closer to me for it. On my facebook I had responses saying that people would start that as day one with me.

So Friday we did the 6 mile hike (I’ll post on it later) and Saturday I started 10 minute trainer.

The basic program comes with

• 2 workout dvds that have 5 workouts total on it plus the trainer tips for all of them
• A bonus workout from Tony 1on1
• Measuring tape for your measurment chart
• Measurment chart
• Workout on the go cards
• 10min meals guide
• 2 day jump start (I did not do because I’m anemic and actually do better with Iron from meat instead of supplements)
• The rapid results guide book (great tips and instructions you need for the next two following items)
• A cardio belt which really helps with resistance
• Your resistance band
• and 30 days of Beachbody Club where they help you set up a diet plan with the recipes and grocery chart, tips from the trainers, a blog, chat forums, and 10% off any other beachbody purchases that month.

My Chart

My goal for this month is to lose at least 10 inches and 12 lbs.

My breakfast: Frozen Strawberries, cherries, and shakeology blended in water.

Food: (Does not include snacks like fruit or veggies or anything less than 100 calories.)

Lunch- My brussel sprout, zucchini, little cheese( less than 1/4 cup),  egg mixture from the other day on a tortilla with salsa. It was Colebear approved since he ate it also.

Dinner: It was our first dinner with Josh (my husband) since he had just gotten into Portland that morning. So we went out for pizza. I had a margarita slize (little sauce, all veggies) and a side greek salad with no dressing. Nothing I could do about the cheese since it’s pre-made slices 😦 but honestly it wasn’t a bad choice.

The workout-

Before I get into this, let me inform you that Tony is hilarious. He is not afraid to make fun of himself or his partner when something is goofy. Just when my legs were burning enough that I would want to punch him for coming up with the workout, you have to giggle at what he says. It’s like having an instructor that you love to be around. He’s the biggest part of why I chose 10 minute trainer.

Day one is Cardio, Lower Body, and Abs when you choose 30 min a day.

This is after Cardio. Sweaty!!!

After Lower Body I had serious elbow sweat ;p

Colebear helped me out with sidekicks on Lower Body

Abs, just like any of Tony’s other ab workouts, SUCKED! Not sucked in the way of not doing anything. Sucked as in by the end you’re wishing you had no abs to hurt that bad. It’s always a hardcore ab workout with him. But then again, the man is a beast without having to look like a beast.

All together I loved the workout. By the time the 30 min was over, it didn’t feel like 30 min and I had burned over 400 calories. There’s a timeline at the bottom of each workout. None of the actual exercises go over a minute and before you know it that timeline is halfway gone and then gone all together. So pretty much I felt like I walked into the gym for 15 minutes and walked out feeling like I had just done an hour of working out. The pain the next day was fully worth it.

What happens when you’re not watching

This is extremely embarrassing for me because I’ve been looked at like a motivator for over a year now. I was down to 202 in February.
I had let it get to my head that I had lost 103 lbs. I felt on top of the world.
So I started going back to bad habits. After all it was just one day here and thehIre. Then I stopped doing my workouts. I was too busy (watching TV and playing on Facebook). I had so many excuses: I was too stressed, wanted a change, too busy, on my period, just wanted sugars, yada yada ya.
I knew my clothes were getting tighter. I was afraid to pull out the scale. The beginning of April I was back up to 220.

I put the scale away again. Got back into exercise but then started the move to Oregon. I kept eating bad.
We dropped off the kids in Colorado at the beginning of this month. We ate pretty bad since then even though my husband encouraged me to eat better. Honestly, other than bananas and my shakes, I can count the number if fruits and veggies I ate this month on my fingers and one foot of toes. 
I know better. I’ve preached and preached on eating better and exercising. But its so easy to ignore the problem when you’ve set yourself up on a pedestal of awesomeness.
I unpacked the scale this morning.

Right now I just want to cry. I’ve gained back 35 lbs over the last 4 months.

But I’m not going to cry. I’m going to fix it.
Starting with 10 minute trainer, 30 min a day, and logging my calories again, today is day 1.
I know I love it when people make excuses for me. It keeps me saintly. But I’m begging that people don’t do that or let me do it. That’s 35 lbs of added pressure on a already damaged heart. Its not ok.
So who’s with me? Who’s making today day 1 again?