Day 87

Hi All! Despite all of the struggles over the last few days, I made it to Day 87 and stayed on track with my workouts. I'm in "recovery week" so tonight I'll be doing Kenpo X, which is a walk in the park compared to the other workouts.

I'm trying to eat healthy but I'm struggling a little in that area. I need to lower my carb intake. I know been above where I should be for the last 2 days so I need to get back to my 40/20/20 breakdown. Today I've done pretty good. I had a nutrigrain waffle for breakfast and hibachi chicken with brown rice for lunch. Now it's time to load up on water. I have been slacking some in that area over the last 3-4 days and I can really tell a difference (and not in a good way).

In the meantime, we'll just keep pushing play and conquer these last few days!

Have a blessed day!

Day 81

Whooop...there it is!!! It's Day 81 and time for YOGA X!!! I'm in a great mood today and full of energy. Plan to go straight home and knock out my workout. Then will spend the rest of the evening with my little man.

Can't believe I only have 8 days left!!! "Makes me sad" as Tony Horton would say!!

DAY 80

WHOOO HOOOOOOO!!! Welcome to Day 80! Today I will be doing my last session of Back & Biceps in this round. Yesterday I did plyometrics and afterwards I was so full of energy that I cut the grass, cleaned house and cooked dinner. Tonight Zachary has t-ball practice so we won't be home until 7:15...at which point I'll be pushing play!

I'm on the final countdown now...so exciting!!!! I can't wait to finish up, do a mix for two weeks and start over!! ;-))

DAY 76

Happy Friday!!! So it's Day 76, Kenpo X day! Last night I did Legs & Back and ARX. I had a great workout and really pushed myself. I increased reps on all pull-up exercises and some of the back and lunge exercises. I still hate those sneaky lunges. They are KILLER!!!

Other good news: I went to the dr. yesterday and my cholesterol dropped from 210 to 177! My doctor was VERY impressed! I have to at least credit part of that to P90X.

So I have 14 days left. That's two weeks to really BRING IT!!! I can't wait to take my measurements again on Day 90!

Until next time....

HELLLLOOOOO Day 72

Wow!! Crazy! "I can't believe it's almost over...makes me sad" as Tony Horton says in the Ab Ripper X video. lol Well, this round may be almost over but that just means that I'm a day closer to starting the next round.

Yesterday I completed Chest & Back and really rocked it! I went up on all of my exercises and on the weight I used. I can tell a huge increase in my strength. I was knocking out push-ups yesterday like never before. It felt great. I did well on pull-ups and chin-ups too but I'm still using the chair for assistance. I am still looking to my goal of being able to do unassisted pull-ups. I'm thinking it will be sometime during round 2.

Yesterday was a great day and I managed to pretty much stay on target with my health plan. I had Fat/Carbs/Protein = 32%/27%/41%. Fat % was a little high but everything I ate yesterday was healthy. I'm going to work hard this week to keep the fat grams and carbs down and protein up. So for today, I have already had 26 fat grams, 112 grams of carbs and 38.3 grams of protein. So I'll have an apple for my afternoon snack and talapia and a salad for dinner. That should put me where I need to be. I'll probably throw a protein shake in there somewhere too.

Until tomorrow...KPP!! 18 days to go until ROUND 1 will be COMPLETE!

Day 68!!

Well, here we are on Day 68! Last night after t-ball and dinner, I set up for yoga. I admit I wasn't really in the mood and after about 40 minutes, I fast-forwarded through to the balance postures. That's the first time I've "cheated" but IMHO all of the Chatarunga moves are overkill. I think we could skip 10 of those and still be doing enough. This is kind of funny but because I can repeat pretty much everything Tony is going to say on every tape, it may be time for me to start muting my tv during workouts. I find that now I'm starting to talk back to him..lol

So tonight I'll be doing Legs and Back with Ab Ripper X. I prepared a graph of my progress yesterday on ARX and I was pretty impressed.

As for my health plan, I am doing a pretty good job of keeping fat grams to 20 per day. I went 2 over yesterday and 5 the day before. Today I'm on track...just need to stay there. Sometimes, like today at lunch, I have no idea how many fat grams are in something so I do a google search. The info. varies a lot but I always try to overestimate so I won't go over. I had hibachi chicken and brown rice for lunch today. I estimated it at 500 calories and 10 grams of fat. Hopefully that's close to right. ;-))

Have a great rest of the day and I'll be back on Day 69.

"How Do You Do It?"

I get asked this question by people all the time "How do you do it?" Yeh, so I'm a single mom, have a six year old son who is very involved in sports and I have made time for P90X every day for the last 66 days. My answer is always "I MAKE IT HAPPEN". It's what we all have to do if we want to succeed and reach our goals. Don't get me wrong, it's no cakewalk! There have been times that I've done my workout at 9 or 10 at night because that was the only time available during the day. Whatever it takes, just do it.

My entire life I have listened to my mother say "You have a body just like mine and that's just the way it is. You can't change it!" WRONG answer!! I can change it and I am. I have been in pretty good shape most of my life until the last 6 years when Zachary came in to my life. I know what my body is capable of and how I can look. I just have to make the effort and as I said above, MAKE IT HAPPEN!! It's a balancing act but after a while you can master it. ;-)

I started P90X on January 1 knowing that my ultimate goal was to lose 40 lbs. and get back in the sassy clothes that I've had stowed away in my closet for the last few years (size 6-10). Now I'm on my way and it feels great!

So here I am on Day 66, feeling great, full of energy and excited about accomplishing my goal of completing 90 days of P90X. I have 24 days left but guess what?!? It doesn't end there. No way, no how! I'll be taking 2 weeks off to focus on cardio and give my body a break from the every-day workouts but then I'll be back for Round 2! While I'm "breaking" I'm going to continue doing a plyo / upper body / yoga hybrid. Yeh, it's hard but I can't think of anything else that I can do in one hour and burn 800 calories! So, I'm in.

Tonight it's Back & Biceps and ARX for me. Until tomorrow.....

Day 65

Happy Monday!! I didn't really feel that way when I got out of bed this morning. Then I thought about the fact that I have done 65 straight days of P90X. WOW!!!!! I was so proud of myself and impressed, really impressed!!

This morning I was feeling a little light-headed, lazy and had a headache. I figured out what was going on. I was dehydrating! My body is so used to having tons of water every day that when it doesn't get that, it feels HORRIBLE!!! So since noon I have been loading up on water. I've had 3 bottles so far and I'm going for my fourth now. It's amazing that once your body gets used to something, it "requires" it. ;-)

Well, it's PLYO day! I love it but I hate it. ;-)) I'm looking forward to doing this routine tonight. Yeh, it's hard but I always feel so happy and energized when I'm done. I'm going to bring it as much as possible tonight. I've been loading up on protein this afternoon because I will definitely need it with the moves I'll be doing in a few short hours.

I'm also starting a new strategy today thanks to a blog I was introduced to by a fellow BeachBody buddy. Check out this website:

http://teamripped.com/my-nutritionsupplements/nutrition-all-in-one

Coach Wayne sets everything out in detail for you! I am going to change my daily calorie intake after reading this. I bet it will make a huge difference. I've been on a 1500 calorie diet but I'm moving to a 1200-1400 calorie diet starting today. I have not lost a lot of weight since starting P90X and I think this is why. I have lost 8 inches but I want those numbers to go down too (it's a girl thing, I know). ;-) Another thing I'm going to do is cut out the "cheat day". Read through these articles and you'll see why. It makes perfect sense to me!!

Tonight I'm going to BRING IT and tomorrow I'll post an another update.

Day 60 Pics

Day 30 as compared to Day 60!

Welcome to Day 61! Zachary took pictures for me last night and today I ran across some awesome software for side by side pics.

I'm very happy with the results and so excited to see what Day 90 looks like. At this rate, I'll be smoking hot by summer!!!

I am trying to really focus in on healthy eating and cut all of the junk out except on my 1-day a week "cheat day". Stay tuned for more!!!