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!!!

DAY 60 -- IT'S FINALLY HERE

So, today is the magical Day 60!! I was so excited to get up and take my measurements this morning. I am happy to report that I am down a total of 6" overall. My weight has not decreased at all but my clothes are looser and I'm very happy with shedding 6". ;-) That brings me to an approximate total 8" loss since Day 1. I say "approximate" because it's hard to measure in the exact same spot every time. I always make sure that I round up when measuring. So in order words, I would never go with the lower number but instead would go with the higher number thus realizing that I may have lost more. For instance, I was very surprised that I lost 1/2" more on my right thigh than on my left. This could have been from the way I measured. This time I am going to be more precise when measuring and document it for the 90 Day mark. My biggest overall losses so far have been arms (2" lost on each arm) and chest, waist and hips (1" lost from each). I am happy with the progress and looking forward to losing more in this last phase. There are 30 days left in this round!!!

Thought for the Day (and every day) is BRING IT!!!!!!!

Becca

Day 59

When I got home from work yesterday I literally had to make myself hit the play button. Once I did though, it was on! I did Plyometrics so needless to say I did A LOT of jumping! When those 30 second breaks rolled around, I was SO happy! I gave it everything I had and definitely did BRING IT!

This at 5:15 this morning I was up for my Shoulders and Arms workout. I was tough too, mostly because of the number of exercises and reps. So now my entire body is sore--but it's a really good kind of sore. The kind that reminds me how much hard work you've been doing! I probably burned around 800 calories last night and probably 400 or so this morning.

I am pumped that tomorrow is Day 60 and I get to take pictures and see my results thus far. One thing is for sure, I'm considerably stronger than I was before and my stomach has gotten a lot flatter. I can also see my abs getting more defined. If I keep working hard like this, I'll be sporting a bikini this summer at the beach and feelin' real good about it. ;-))

Day 58

My weekend was good! I took my rest day this week and didn't even bother with X Stretch on Saturday. I really needed a day off! Yesterday I hit it hard!! I started Phase III and killed it on Chest and Back. I still can't do pull-ups but attempting them is so much easier now than it was when I first started. I started to just use the 30-lb. band but I really don't feel like I get as good a workout with the band as I do with the pull-up bar. As for push-ups, I aced them! I exceeded my numbers on all but the diamond push ups. Those are crazy and bother my lower back so I modify them. I was very happy with my progress yesterday. Now, I'm just waiting for Wednesday so I can take pictures and weigh in.

Back to eating taco soup for lunch. I'm adding in more complex carbs because I was losing my appetite. It seemed to help over the weekend so guess I'll keep that up. I'm mostly adding in sweet potatos and things of that sort.

Ok, so that's it for now. Today is Plyo! Can't wait. I just keep focusing on how hot I'm going to look for summer!!!!! ;-))