Cerina's Day 5&6...

Yes, I skipped the days that I skipped my workout...I want the full 90 days in to really test this product out! On the scale today I was 191.2lbs....thats a 3.4lb loss from when I started this program last Tuesday and I had only worked out 4 times!!! It certainly wasn't my diet because I did not eat well at all...cupcakes, cookies, candies and pasta! BAD BAD BAD! But right now I'm enjoying a delicious protein smoothie for my breakfast, I'm going to get back on track diet wise...wouldn't it be cool if I lost 10lbs total by my Girls Shopping weekend next weekend!! I think I'll make that my goal! 10lbs in 2.5 weeks is completely reasonable, considering when I'm there, I probably won't bring my video, but I will go out for a jog. Its about time for me to start working on my Couch to 5k, as soon as these cold symptoms go away....I now think I have fluid in my ear, which leads to an ear infection, that would suck!

So I went shopping yesterday. It was supposed to be window shopping but I really DID need some sweaters and at least one pair of nice pants because I actually have a job that requires me to look nice and most of my sweaters, that fit right now that is, were bought of the clearance rack at Reny's or Old Navy. Though they've worn fairly well, they are now pilly or shrunk beyond the point of comfort, leaving me to have a violent breakdown every time I have to look for something nice to wear. So I hit the Gap and found a great sweater style on clearance, v-neck, longer cut, with cute little buttons on the cuff, so I bought 4 of them, white, black, grey and a nice pretty pink. Of course I also have been in need of a nice brown sweater and found a cardigan that doesn't pull at the buttons, which most cardigans do, giving me that "stuffed my shirt with a pillow" look that I'm not very fond of. I also found a pair of trouser jeans that fit me great, in a size 14 none-the-less...I have been at that awkward "14's are a tad too tight in the gut, but 16's look sloppy" size. I'm glad to be out of it, and even more looking forward to the "12's look hot" size! LOL Its been 6 years since I've fit into 10's, though if I reach my goal of 145, that is completely possible, but I dare not dream.

Anywho, I'm pretty happy with my shopping results. I've decided to only buy basics from now on and only worry about cute trendy articles of clothing when I have someplace even remotely trendy to go to, it doesn't happen often. Plus I'm older now, being 30, and a mom, so simple and classy is my new motto!

In all honesty, I just finished both workouts...I did them back to back because yesterday, i went to Freeport instead of working out but I wanted to stay caught up. The cardio one is getting harder, because I think I'm working it harder, thats good, I'm sufficiently sweaty and smelly after working out for just over 50 minutes...but I probably won't be able to walk tomorrow...

Well miss tasha-renee...I'll be in touch, you think 30% is bad, whats the percentage that means MORBIDLY OBESE..yup, thats where I am! XO

Day 8

Yay its day 8!!! I worked my butt off for 2 hours at the gym this morning! I know I am supposed to be documenting the p90x program so please forgive me.
I did 40 minutes on the elipcical today at speeds even Richard Petty could not keep up with. I could not believe how badly it made me huff and puff! 400 calories baby!! BURN BABY BURN!
I additionally ran for 20 minutes doing the program Cerina told me about from couch to 5k. Walking for a minute running for 40 seconds. It is frikin hard!!!!
I did P90x abs tonight and still can't believe how great this workout is. Such a killer ab workout.
I love it!! I finally got a tape measurer and will measure tonight!!
Yeah can't wait to see my results--NOT!!!
Until next time.....

Day 6 HOORAY!!!

Giddy Frikin up I feel alive again. "It's alive....It's alive!!"
I actually awoke this morning and did not complain for being up at the butt crack of dawn watching Barney soon followed by my son's agitating temper tantrum.
Seriously WTF? A year of terrible two's? I so need a nanny!!
Anyways, I went to the gym this morning and did 30 minutes of eliptical and 2 miles on the treadmill one minute walking 40 seconds running for 20 minutes.
I understand this is not P90X, however, it is better than not excercising at all.
Jackson is giving me a run for my money at night, taking up to an hour and a half to fall asleep and I am drained by nine and quite honestly don't want to "Bring Anything".
I had every intention to do the workout but just did not.
Come on Natasha GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!

Day Five--am I still alive

HOLY HELL I FEEL LIKE A@S!!!
Perhaps I will start oinking soon only to reveal what I fear most....H1N1!!
Dear God NO!!!!! Please. Is this some sort of punishment for not excercising yesterday? I swear I did not have one lick of candy. An anomoly for me for as we all know I am addicted to sugar more so than a crack addict is addicted to crack!
I really hope I start to feel better because this is more tortureous than excercising.
Have not really eaten at all today my wieght is already down to 139.7!!

Day 4 and 5

I have just been released from jail and did not excercise on day 4 or 5!!
I have no excuse at all because I let life get in the way on day 4. This crazy psychotic person, to whom I feel obligated to address as my step mother, pissed me off so badly that I chose to leave my home and not excercise. I know that it was the wrong thing to do but such is life.
I however, ATE SO GREAT and did not drown my sorrows in a glass of wine....

Cerina's Day #7 - Sort of...

Well I just finished my sculpting video...I so like that better than the cardio one! Not that the cardio is hard, actually its rather boring and monotonous...and I enjoy lifting weights. So the past 2 days resulted in no workouts for me, I've got sick and tired...really, I was sick, so I was tired and achy. But I did think about doing them...its the thought that counts right! LOL I'm still not 100%, my throat is pretty swollen and I've still got that weird internal achy-ness, but I had enough energy to motivate and do the workout. So I guess technically I'm only on Day 4, because that is how many workouts I've done... I just bought a nice calendar for me and my husband to coincide our schedules on, and I'm also using it to mark of my days of progress on this 90 day challenge...always a useful tool for me. Also, today is the day I will start tracking EVERYTHING I eat! I should have started last week, I probably would have progressed more as well as been more motivated. I haven't weighed myself today, I'll wait till tomorrow because it will actually be a week since we started this mission....lets hope we can get back on board with ferver! I know Tash wasn't feeling good at all the other day when I talked to her...so maybe I'll give her a call now!

TTFN!

Uh oh....falling off already!

So its Day #5, are we still with it? I am still with it....actually I weighed myself this morning and I'm down 3lbs!!! What??!! I haven't been very good about my eating, so it must be that the workouts are kicking my metabolism into gear! Granted I'm quite overweight and have a long weigh (ha ha, that was totally an accident but I'm leaving it) to go, but I'm excited about this loss, even if in 3 more days, the end of our first week, it hasn't changed, 3lbs is GOOD! At this rate, by the end of 90 days I would be down about 40lbs! Thats awesome! It motivates me!

So I promise you'll hear from me tomorrow...I'm headed to do my workout!

Cerina's Day #3 and a half

So part of this challenge we've given each other is to hold each other accountable so that although we can come up with a million excuses why we can't do the workout or eat better, they all sound plausible to me, I know that they won't work with Natasha and I will be letting her down by not holding up my end of the bargain! So yesterday, when I made a semi-conscious decision not to do my workout, I didn't call Tash to have her pep-talk me back into it, I tried to avoid owning up to my decision, until this morning, when I got on our blog and see that she DID her workout and is eating healthy and that immediately got me off the couch and I just did yesterdays workout this morning. I also plan on doing todays workout later this evening...try to give close to 12 hours between them if I can, then I'll be back on track. But I will remember the guilt I felt by skipping one workout early into the challenge and remember how fast it is just to do it and have it done and how much better I'll feel afterwards! So there, I owned up to my slacker-ness even though I had contemplated fibbing. This wouldn't work it we weren't honest with each other. Hell I could be eating bon bons all day in my housecoat and making up all these healthy meals and snacks I ate, and lied about all the wonderful physical activity....oh wait someone already did that....ever hear Kimkim LOL! Anyways, honesty, 100% is our policy so I'm sorry I disappointed you Tash, I promise to be better!

So the boy and I went to a family dinner last night, and my husband said it would be seafood, which I eat so I thought I would be able to eat rather healthfully, but unfortunately it was chicken and steak, both of which I do not eat. So I instead filled up on mashed potatoes, squash, applesauce and baby carrots. I also ashamingly had a couple wheat rolls and a piece of birthday cake. IT was all very good but soo not diet friendly. On the positive side, I made a yummy italian vegetable soup with a little bit of low-carb elbow pasta in it! Soup is good, and I can make healthy soups really easily! So that will be my lunch today. My breakfasts are always good, scrambled eggs with spinach, mushrooms & goat cheese yesterday, something similar today I'm sure. I WILL get on track with the diet, I WILL! I'm throwing out the rest of the cupcakes today!

I'm pretty sore and everything is tight, proof that these workouts are really workouts, but I knew that anyways! I'm using 5lb dumbbells for the sculpting part and I think I need to get 8lbs for the biceps because those were pretty easy, and maybe some of the rows, though Mr. Horton has different names for them.

Well thats my post for day 3.5...I know that if at the end of this first week I haven't lost anything, its because of my diet, not the workouts.....maybe once my body starts adjusting and being less sore, I'll start my couch to 5k, I've always wanted to be a runner (or even jogger, I'm okay with that!) I just have a picture in my head of these healthy, motivated, skinny women who are always runners! Thats me, ON THE INSIDE, and soon to be on the OUTSIDE! I'll be posting more later! TTFN!

Natasha Day Three

Phew what a workout! Arms and shoulders with 12 minute ab ripper to boot! Yikes 349 crunches!! Needless to say I am sucked dry of anything that remotely resembles energy. My arms feel like jello and my abs are squeeling with excitement!
Very good workout today!
I ate very clean and healthy today and I am so proud of myself.
Although I need to start drinking more water. I used to gulp the stuff down like it was going out of style and now barely get in my daily dose!
Must tackle one vice at a time!!
Off to dreamland!!!

Natasha's Day Two Yippeeeeeee I am alive!

I must admit I was so pumped this morning to do my work out. Well that was at 545 AM when I was forced to jump out of bed because my son was up. If you notice the key word being WAS! I dropped Jackson off at daycare and came rushing home to do my workout and then something happened. MY BED...it was so nice and warm and I was so nice and sleepy.
Ok ok ok I finally did my second workout of this craze called P90X. I am still definatley feeling yesterdays workout but today was SO FRIKIN FUN!!!
I loved it!! The Godfather had me dripping with sweat and panting like a cougar. It was definitely challenging but really fun - yoga moves, kickboxing jabs and plyometrics.
He finishes with this move called the Dreya Roll it is really hard I could only do 12 of them today so lets hope I roll my way to a much higher number soon!
My diet started off great this afternoon until I went to the grocery store on "e". Damn myself for not having a healthy snack before hand!! Let this be a lesson to all!!!
It is not as though I ate tubs of lard and chocolate but I did not measure my portions and had a bit of this and a nibble of that. So shame on me for not being more disciplined.
Day three is peeking around the corner so I must get to bed!!

Cerina's Day #2 - I can't believe it!

I just got home at a little after 9:30. I had to work and then pick up my kid, put him to bed, get dressed and do my workout at almost 10pm...AND I DID IT! I feel so proud of myself...the workout was good, but my will to get it done is what really is cool!

Today was a good day for me and bad day for my diet....I made cupcakes... Baking delicious sweet yummies is one of my favorite things to do as is eating them...probably a major cause of my current physical crisis. I really, honestly, truly thought that I would be able to bake and frost without nibbling...even licking my fingers. Tonight was one large step towards having that much self-control but it happened about 7 hours too late (and close to 3 cupcakes and 1 cup of frosting too late unfortunately). I vow to be better tomorrow...and not eat even one! I did start off well with an egg white scramble with mushrooms....then I had more soup at lunch....thats pretty much the end of anything even remotely healthy entered my mouth. Again...better tomorrow.

Todays video was Sculpt 1-2, a good workout...my muscles are still shaking. Does anyone here hate push-ups...I do, I do. I hate them with every inch of flabby arm I have! They are hard! HARD! and I don't think I will ever be able to do a regular, well formed push-up EVER! But I love lifting weights...so aside from the push-ups, the rest of the video is really fun. My only complaint is there is not enough stretching, nor does each stretch last long enough. Believe it or not, I spent a few brief months as a personal trainer, and stretching is VERY important...so if you are doing these videos...make sure to take some additional time at the end of each one and stretch it all out!

Thanks Tash for being my conscience to get this workout done...I think this relationship is going to work very well! I'm tired now...until tomorrow!

Natasha's Day #1

In my life I have had plenty of worries but saddlebags and love handles were never one of them. HOLY CRAP what happened? Am I missing something? When did my favorite pair of jeans become the devil? Never did I imagine how one pair of jeans could create such instantaneous profanity!
So I did the dirty deed. I had to put my money where my mouth was and put down my glass of wine and throw away my crumb cake. I needed to get out of my rut and get my A@* in gear! No more frikin excuses. I am a very determined girl and come hell or high water I refuse to have a cupcake as my nemesis!!! Well on second thought my whole entire wardrobe can quite easily fit into that category- no pun intended!
Time to take charge! I am going to fight the battle of the bulge one day at a time and with one highly energetic and super fit dude who, at birth, was given the name Tony Horton but I will refer to him as "The Godfather"....of fitness that is.
My friend quite eloquently informed me of a quote that she recently came across, a quote that is in your face painfully honest.
"If you don't pay attention to your ass then no one else will!" OMG seriously??? Could that have anymore truth!!
So without further ado I give you my day one of my 90 day journey with a program called P90X.
Truth be know I have at least 5 tape measurers in my house and I can't fine ONE!! I am sure the results would be something along the lines of:
Waist: WTF?
Hips: This can't be happening!
Thighs: Someone call 911.....NOW!
I do however have my weight....drum roll please....145 lbs. I know some of you are thinking that is not a lot at all but all of my life I have been about 120 lbs. So I have an extra 25 lbs of flubber that has been dispersed amidst my body like some weird science project that has gone bad! With the size of my love handles one would think I was drowning in love--ahem no such luck!
I got up this morning at 6 A.M. leaving no time for my mind to think of an excuse- and believe me I had a notepad full of them by my bedside table.
I stumbled straight into the living room and proceeded to do Core Synergistics. OK The Godfather ain't lying I feel it EVERYWHERE in my core as well as my legs and arms. These workouts are no joke. That infomercial was not lying. I am anxious for day two. I feel fantastic considering I have 89 more days left!
I will be the first to admit I HATE COUNTING CALORIES but if you are going to be a bear be a grizzly right? I ate so clean today!!! I am so frikin proud of myself!!! No sugar, who by the way is one of my bff's-along with sugar and the other sugar. I kept my calories right around 1500 today. I do not feel weak at all but will add or subtract if I see the need.
Overall I am jumping up an down inside because I am so proud of myself for following through and "Bringing It". I think these were The Godfather's first words as a child, actually to be quite honest I don't think he cried at birth he most likely bellowed "BRING IT"!!

Cerina's Day #1

So here we are....Day 1 of Power 90 for me. Yes, I took measurements....stood on the dreadfully hateful scale....took some really bad pictures (those will definitely have to be redone...the chair I had to balance the camera on didn't get my best angle)

Well, lets get right to it...here are the stats as they stand:

Weight: 194.2 (gulp, double gulp)

Chest: 44.5 inches
Waist: 41 inches (at least my boobs are still bigger than my stomach!)
Hip (or butt really): 45 inches
Thighs: both were right around 26 inches (aren't there models with smaller waists than that?? uggghhh)
Upper Arms: 13 inches

I did my cardio workout this morning after our little pep-talk. It went well, I do feel like it seems so easy, but at the same time there is always room to step up the pace, of which I wouldn't have been able to do today. The video really isn't bad, it goes by fast, about 35 minutes, but the girl in it annoys me for some reason. She reminds me of this local gal who thinks she something super special and it just grates on me to watch this unknown model....anyways, I just stare at the wall and focus on my form.

Does anyone else feel stupid throwing punches in the air at nothing...especially the hook and upper cuts....akward!

Lets talk food: I really had nothing in my house to eat but egg beaters which I added some sauteed swiss chard and cream cheese to....yummy! By the way, I'm trying to avoid carbs, thats what seems to work best for me, or let me say its the ONLY way I can eat and lose weight. I snacked on some almonds and cheese throughout the day...did okay on drinking my water...could stand for lots more..and for dinner I made a corn and crab bisque...of course corn isn't very low carb, but everything else was and it was damn tasty!

So thats my Day 1...tomorrow is Sculpting day and I'm sure to be sore, there's lots of lunges! I got some groceries too so my menu should be a lot more interesting.

I look forward to reading your post Tash! Talk to you tomorrow!