Day One.

I just did Day 1 of Body Revolution.

Basically, it's just disc 1 of phase 1, which is a 30 min workout with weights and a little cardio. My arms are already t-i-r-e-d but it was really really really fun! Each workout is its own disc, which I thought would be kind of annoying, but I kind of like it.

More to come!

Sunday check-in

Hey hey

This week my eating habits were ~pretty good~, and I actually feel like I'm back down to my pre-vacation food coma weight. My clothes are feeling better. I lifted weights on Monday. Also, this week Seth and I are moving into a new apartment, and we're been packing, loading, unloading, and unpacking at least once a day, twice on Friday, and twice yesterday. So, I'm going to go ahead and count that as working out. I'm not even going to talk about walking up and down stairs with heavy boxes.

I did get my new Jillian program in the mail! I opened the package and checked out the program and schedule and menu planning, and I am very excited. I was hoping to start tomorrow, but with both our apartments in crazy disarray, I don't know if I have the space to set it up and start.

We're moving for real on Thursday afternoon, and then the cable guy is coming on Friday, so that's it. I'm super duper excited! I love the chance to get a clean start in a fresh place, and to clean out and start over and make the place cute, you know?

Goals for the week: eat sensibly, buy a scale, plan my Jillian program, and not spend any money. :)

This happened.

I just ordered Jillian Michaels Body Revolution.

It looks like P90X, but by Jillian -- the workouts are only 30 mins instead of 90. Each phase has a bunch of workouts that include cardio, weights, and plyometrics (whatever that is), and each phase is hopefully different enough that I won't get bored!

It will probably take a week or two to get here, but when it does, I can keep you updated. By which I mean, hopefully keep myself accountable.

Yay!

Oops

So.
Let's try this again, shall we?

I haven't done a good job of updating because I keep waiting to update with something good, instead of just tracking my fat days.
I spent a few weeks (about 3) on the Women's Health diet, where I was eating super healthy and feeling awesome. I was exercising 3-4 times a week, and although I felt great, I didn't see much progress in terms of my body looking or feeling different. Then, I had sort of a busy week and my diet fell apart.
And then I spent two weeks in Louisiana.

Louisiana food is the best food on the planet. Period. I spent two weeks straight eating my favorite things with my favorite people, and I don't regret any second of it. However, I did not exercise much, and now my body is totally out of whack. Of course, this makes me all realize in retrospect just how well I had been doing before my trip without realizing it.

Since coming back from the trip, I'm working hard to eat healthfully again (lean proteins, fresh fruits and veggies, light versions of everything else). I also had a pretty bad cold this last week, probably due to travel, and had almost no appetite thanks to all the antihistamines I was taking. Now, I'm finally feeling better, and ready to eat normally. I even went jogging in my (very hilly) neighborhood yesterday because the weather was gorgeous.

So, my goal for this week is to work out at least 3 times, and to eat sensibly every day. That's it. I'm read to ease back into a healthy routine. My long term goal is to lose 10lbs in the next three months. Pretty simple.

I also realized two things about my exercise self. One, is that I had exercising, and I need lots of variety to keep doing it. Two, exercise is freaking hard, and NOT FUN. I keep waiting thinking I will be in the mood or excited about getting down to it. But no, the truth is that working out is WORK. It is not fun. It's just a job, like everything else in life. Everyone has to do what they need to do to get themselves where they need to be, and I'm really freaking tired of looking fat in everything I own.