Day 81 - Getting Control . . .

Yesterday I woke up with a migraine and was pretty sick for most of the day. By the time I got to feeling better, I had to spend the whole day doing homework before going to late night fireworks. So I skipped yesterday and went ahead and did Fire 45 EZ. I didn't get to do Yuri's Abs today, lack of time, but I'll do them tomorrow when I do stretch 40. The plan is going to be two days of stretching (plus abs) and then a rest day. Afterwards, I think I'm going to start up Insanity on Saturday.

I'm starting to track my food again. I need to get a handle on my weight and I'm sure its what I'm eating. Hopefully starting a new program and really cracking down on what I eat is going to do the trick. My weight is ridiculously hard to get a hold of and stay down. Damn my genes. Oh well, cheers to a life of hard work.

Day 80 - Rock Climbing

Today was my last time doing Fire 55 EZ! Hard to believe but I'm finally done with that one. I'm ready to move on! It feels like a lot of the Turbo Fire classes are becoming too easy and I'm spacing too much while doing them. I want something new to get my head in the game more and push myself harder. Something more challenging now that I'm more fit (hello Insanity next month!) I'm actually looking forward to Stretch 40 tomorrow, haven't had that at all this month and I miss it.

Today was a late workout since this afternoon I went out with some friends and went rock climbing! It was a lot of fun, and a good workout. I triumphed over my fear of falling and managed to make it all the way up to the top of the rock wall. We were bouldering so there was no harness, which was pretty intimidating. I actually fell off once, thank god the mats they have on the ground are really good! I hope to go again sometime.

Day 79 - Beginning of the End . . . of Turbo Fire

Today was my first day of my last week of Month 3 for Turbo Fire! I'm super excited. I'm proud of myself for having made it this far. This will be the first workout program I've ever completed. I'm going to send in my before and after pictures and get my free Turbo Fire tank top and I'll take a picture and put it on here, and of course send it to my mom so she can get a good laugh :)

Today was a pretty easy day, but my elbow started acting up today, damn that Tendonitis. I'm going to have to rest it tomorrow, but today I not only had to do Fire 45 EZ and Yuri's Abs, but then tons of homework to irritate it more. Blah. I must say though, that Fire 45 is a pretty light workout for me now! I do like it, I especially like the lack of fire drills! haha It seemed to go by really quickly.

I also made more green smoothie today, I'm growing quite fond of it! I found my pitcher attatchment for my Magic Bullet and it works wonders. One pitcher worth makes about two glasses of green drink and I dont' have to keep adding to it like I do with the regular "party mugs."

Day 77 - Smoothies!

Today I did Fire 55 EZ and Yuri's Abs. I was pretty worn out at the end, but I got it done. Today was a big smoothie day. I've been smoothie-ing everything! I found out I could make spinach smoothies which are surprisingly pretty tasty! I have been using some of the smoothie recipes from Eating for Energy. I've got my dates soaking and I'm looking forward to "Monkey Mudslide" later!

Day 75 & 76 - Sore Abs

I forgot to post yesterday, Tuesdays are really difficult for me since I have three classes spread throughout the day, its hard to find time to workout, much less post, and it just slipped my mind. Yesterday I didn't have time for fire 55 EZ, so instead I did Fire 30 and Yuri's Abs. Today my abs are still sore and I have decided to take the day off from doing the ab workout! I'll start that back up tomorrow. Knee-tuck Push-ups on the stability ball is no joke! Today I did HIIT 25 in the morning and it feels good to get a morning workout for the first time in what seems forever.

I discovered I can make green drinks in my Magic Bullet! No more salads for me, I'm going to throw those greens into a blender and drink them! I never much liked salads, I prefer them in a smoothie strangely enough haha.

Day 74 - Recovering from being sick . . .

I unfortunately had to take almost a week off because first my knees were hurting - I called my mother who yelled at me to not "blow out" my knees and that they shouldn't be hurting when I'm 22 years old. So I took two days off for my knees and then I fell sick . . . I don't know if it was the traveling, but something got me good and I'm still not completely over it.

I did HIIT 25 and Yuri's Abs today and during HIIT 25, I was having a hard time breathing, not only because I was out of breath, but because of the mucus I kept spitting up . . . not a pretty sight. I did it the best I could and I hope I can do better next time. Because my handles suck so bad with my bands, I skipped doing Tone 30 and just did Yuri's Abs week 3, which is surprisingly really really hard! I had a hard time getting through the push up and knees in on the ball. Phew, just barely made it!

I bought a cute periwinkle ball to do my workouts on, which I took a picture of. Not sure where I'm going to keep it, but it is nice to have around to do workouts with.

I did weigh myself this morning at 149, which was really upsetting for me because after all that hard work I've actually gone up in weight three pounds due to stupid reasons. Its my fault, but still bummed, I'm going to work harder and hopefully get to where I want to be!

Day 73 - Back from Missouri

Its been a while since I posted . . . I wasn't able to while I was at home, but I did manage to keep doing turbo fire, with the exception of one day due to excessive traveling, so I'm proud with what I did. I wasn't able to control my eating nearly as well as I would have hoped while at the family reunion though, and this morning I did weigh myself and I gained 2 lbs, but I'm still content with that. Not excited to gain two pounds, but I know that I did much better than I have in the past. I haven't been able to keep up with Yuri's Abs while away, but I'm starting it back up and I'm going to see if I can skip some rest days and catch back up. May the force be with me!