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| My Inside Self Shining Through Can't wait for it to Happen Again! |
1. Work Out Accountability
2. Guaranteed Healthy Dinner
3. Time to Socialize
You see Jaren comes over right after work and we either get started on the treadmill and follow it up with weight training or, now that I have P90X, we take advantage of my living room and BRING IT! Well she does most of the "bringing it" while I mostly clamber along hoping not to fall and give myself a concussion. It works out great for me though because there is that part of me that loves a bit of competition so I push myself a little harder so that she doesn't show me up too much!
Naturally we started with Core Synergistics. We are about ten minutes into the 55 minute workout and here I am thinking I will never survive 90 days when Jaren matter-of- factly informs me that this is a workout I won't actually be expected to do until around the fifth week of the program... I'm pretty sure in between gasping for my breath and trying not to fall over I rolled my eyes in her direction. I'm not sure how but I was able to finish completing about 85% of the workout. Honestly that was totally enough to make me proud of myself!
On Wednesday in place of my workout I attended my sister-in-law's birthday party quite loopy on Benadryl thanks to the beginning symptoms of a sinus infection. Thursday however I decided to battle through it and take on Yoga X alone. There I am alone in my apartment, spare my puppy Gidget, who like Kiwi, Jaren's cat, feels it necessary to act as personal trainer, putting in the DVD thinking, "Hey you can handle 55 minutes of yoga..." when the countdown clock pops up showing 1 hour and 30 minutes. "WHAT? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!" is what runs through my head but I trudge through and finish the whole workout. Well thats not true... I wasn't able to do the Crane and well my Plow was pretty pathetic but I have time to improve! Then on Friday I get lucky and Jaren comes over and we tackle the Legs & Back routine! What made the night even better was the fact that while we were making it happen in the living room our amazing men were cooking up a skinnytaste.com recipe in the kitchen! It is amazing and I will include the link below!
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| My Husband & Gidget |
Then disaster hits on Saturday. The sinus infection I had been trying to fight off with Zyrtec D with now success won and I opted for Urgent Care. So not only could I barely walk from the abuse I had done to my legs the night before (honestly I looked like an old woman hobbling around) I could barely breath and I swear some little creature hit me in the face with a frying pan while I was sleeping. I hope Gidget eats him soon! So needless to say do to illness and an inability to stand up straight I had to pass on Kenpo X - FAIL!
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| I promise she does more than sleep! |
Then of course today I get up to take Gidget out at about 7am and it turns out my ferocious puppy didn't eat the little creature with the cast-iron frying pan when he crept into our bed last night and my face is suffering for it. Naturally that's not all because when I stood up a sharp pain shot through my right calf and hasn't resided all day. I fear I pushed a bit too hard during the calf raises and now my leg is paying for it. I'm about to take advantage of yet another hot bath and heating pad hoping to ease the pain enough to put my weight on it comfortably tomorrow! Part of me wonders if I am just being a big baby but then I know I'm not. At least tomorrow is Chest & Back so I'll be able to do most if not all of the workout without causing further damage!
So I'm making it - even if barely! I'm still working on my eating habits and if you are doing the same I honestly recommend Skinnytaste.com and then check out Jaren's blog! She has great suggestions for eating better and is my example to share with you! Well time to let you go!
If you have any questions, comments, or just want to share your story send me a shout out at:
texas_ginger23@yahoo.com
I'm seeing a lot of my friends on Facebook really stepping out of their comfort zones and finding the courage to share their journey! I'm so proud of all of you because we know that its not easy to put it all out there, but the more we open ourselves up the more we can change!
Here are some links for the Chicken Divan and a couple explaining why I lost at Yoga X!
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