Day 6 - Cardio

Nailed It!!!!

That's it. Just nailed it. 

I'm still modifying, but I'm modifying the modified moves to be somewhere between the actual move and the modified move. 

Feeling so good today after today's workout. Sweaty but feeling a rejuvenated tiredness. 

T25: Days 4-6

Well the first week is almost done and today is STATurday. 

I have mixed feelings about this. Well about my stats. 

My weight went up. Not a lot, but it went up. I followed the damn diet. Grumble. Anyways here are my beginning stats and today's stats. 

I didn't take a picture today. I'll take one tomorrow when I'm in workout garb. I'm not even looking at exercise clothes today. It's a rest day  

So it's awesome that I lost inches, but the weight loss along with inches lost would have been nice. I know I'm being a bit whiny. I shouldn't be. 

Anyways I'm going to enjoy lunch with the hubs now. Just wanted to write a little note about the stats. 

Total Body Circuit - Day 3

Copied from my T25 log today - 

Dying. Roses are red. Violets are blue. I hurt everywhere. Boo hoo. 

Yep that pretty much sums up the first total body circuit that stupid happy Shaun T put me thru. Ok, really I can't blame him. I'm the one that choose to do this. He designed it so I'd be mean to him. I'm sure tomorrow's ab circuit will be amazingly easy compared to today.

I definitely didn't come anywhere near "nailing it" today. Struggled with it isn't even a good adjective. Some parts were just fine. Then we dido the stupid planking section. Hate planks with a renewed vigor that I didn't know existed inside me until today. Yea, it was that hard. 

I have a hard time with plank. It hurts my lower back and knees, so I modify. This is not an issue. It becomes an issue when you start doing oblique push-ups. What's an oblique push-up, you ask. Well it's a terrible, terrible push-up that has your foot somewhere near your shoulder as you perform said push-up. That may be an exaggeration, but yea your leg is definitely not beyond your behind where it belongs. This is a hard maneuver for me, because in order for me to even rootely stay in a somewhat plank position, read my back kind of balancing a glass of water, then my legs shouldn't move. Problems of long-legged girls. I can't fit my bent leg underneath my chest while doing plank. My arms are to short. One could argue that my shins are to long, as well. I don't know of a good modifier for this, so I just did push-ups. Those sucked as well, but at least I know I can grunt through them. 

The other complaint? Squats. Hate squats. My butt hates squats. My quads hate squats. My knees are tired of squats. It's a shame that I like my butt more when I do squats. 

With all of this angst, you'd think that I had a terrible workout, but I didn't. It was hard and kicked my derrière, but it was a good one and looking forward to being able to "nail it."  

I am looking forward to STATurday though. It'll be interesting to see if there've been any changes. 

T25 days 1 & 2

Well we started T25 yesterday and so far I really like the program. The workouts really work you and I can get one in while Rae sleeps. 

Hubs and I are also following a modified meal plan. We're big on family dinners but don't like serving a bunch of different stuff. So we're doing healthy family dinners but sticking to the meal plan for snacks, lunch and breakfast. I have to say that I don't think I've ever eaten so much food at breakfast. I'm following the 1600-calorie plan and holy crap. So much food. 400 calories is a lot that early but I have noticed my hunger is a lot less throughout the day. Funny how that works. It's almost lunchtime now and I'm only a little hungry. The protein shake for my morning snack was so stinking good. I could definitely have that for breakfast some mornings. I just need to have my coffee too. I forsee a coffee infused shake as breakfast tomorrow. 

Well it's time to start making lunch. 

Ta Ta  for now!

Week 2

So as I sit here at my computer waiting for Rae to settle down so I can go to back to sleep, I figured I'd share a little update with you guys.

First - I really hate that I had to mess with her burgeoning schedule today, and that her super long stretch at night started at 7pm yesterday because our eye appointments ran so stinking long and she didn't get a proper afternoon nap. GRUMBLE.

The next order of business is:
Cardio kickboxing is hard. Even if its just 10 minutes.

So week 2 started yesterday, and I do love that these workouts are a shy less than 20 minutes, because it makes it so easy to fit into the baby's schedule, but damnit if a lot isn't crammed into them. I would almost say the pace of the current interval is almost too fast for me to keep up. Actually I would say that, but that's on me not them.

My knees are aching a lot, I blame the weather. We had nice warm days and then BAM! Lets throw in a couple of snow storms. My poor knees can't handle that. My shoulders are achey because not only am I working them, but oh yea - I have a girl that doesn't always like to give up that last tiny little burp, but god forbid you put her down with that tiny little burp still in her. I usually cheat. I put her down, let her get nice and uncomfy as the burp works its way to the top, and then I'll pick her back up and burp her. That annoying little burp usually appears in the first 30 seconds or so. It may sound terrible, but hey - who's got time to burp a stubborn girl for 45 minutes. Not me. I have other children. I also need sleep, food and coffee. Sorry kiddo. You're number 3 - you're just gonna have to deal with the fact that I'm pretty good at determining which cries of yours are real and which ones aren't.

Ok so, she went to sleep finally. I should too. See ya'll later.

Reflections

So day 1 is done and I gotta say it was harder than I thought it would be. I didn't over do it by any means but yea I didn't think it's be as hard as it was. The hubs reminded me that childbirth is not as easy as it looks and that my body went thru some stuff. I think as a mom I forget just what having a baby does to you because you're so consumed with the kids. You simply overlook just what being pregnant has done to you.

I have never worked out this close to being pregnant. Hell I was never in such good shape when getting pregnant and while I didn't think I'd be able to handle the 'advanced' moves, I didn't think the intermediate was out if reach. But it kind of was. It was just a touch too hard. So I stuck with the easy moves and in feeling it today. 

The good feeling of worked muscles. My hips especially are telling me that they were worked. No pain. No stiffness. Just a slight soreness that reminds you that even tho it was 18 minutes - it was 18 minutes well spent. 

I can't wait for today! Oh and I did take a starting picture but I'm not going to share it yet. Not till I have a comparison pic. So 30 days people. 30 days. 

Rebooting

So a year ago I was on my way to goal weight. I felt amazing and thought I looked pretty darn amazing too. Started P90 and was getting into even better shape. I had goals and I was well on my way towards them. 

Then the curveball. You're pregnant. With your first girl. You have tremendous hip pain and heartburn and really the only thing that doesn't hurt is sitting on your ass in a recliner with your lower back supported. 

All told, I gained 40 pounds with baby girl. 40 pounds totally worth it, because baby girl is pretty much adorably perfect and I wouldn't trade her for the world (yes, I'm a bit smitten). Before thanksgiving I had dropped 20 of those 40 pounds and I was feeling pretty good. I could get into my jeans, not comfortably but they did button! I wasn't happy with the baby pooch but hey it's been 6 weeks and damnit I earned it and now I'm going to get rid of it. 

Then thanksgiving struck. Dammit thanksgiving and your 6 pounds. I have to admit though - they were a delicious 6 pounds. So here I am at 238 pounds. And totally motivated tinged my ads back in gear and working towards the body I want. 

We have a cruise in April. Belated 10 year anniversary cruise and I will be sporting a cute new bikini. So bring on boot camp. I'm ready.