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!

Day 67 - Chalene is trying to kill me . . .

I have reason to believe that Chalene is trying to kill me. Today after Sculpt 30, I did HIIT 25. Things weren't really going my way in Sculpt 30, the bands were not cooperating. I'm glad I'm almost done with this, but if I ever do something like P90X, I'm going to invest in halfway decent bands, because these hurt my hands, don't fit in my hands well, and are super awkward for some of the workouts.

Following this I did Yuri's Abs which is not easy either, and then HIIT 25. I haven't done HIIT 25 since one time I did it in month 1. It was worse than I remembered, probably because in Month 1, you only have to do HIIT 25, you don't do it after your other stuff. It took me a bit to recover from it, and I'm still not overly energetic haha. I just hope it pays off. It was super intense and I know I have to do it again next week! May the force be with me!

Day 66 - No longer sore

Today was Fire 45 and Stretch 10. It was nice to not be sore today when I woke up. I hadn't done fire 45 in a while, so that was a nice change of pace too, since its my favorite one. I did notice I got a little winded quicker during this workout, I don't know if it was because I didn't eat before working out or not or if it was because I really put a lot into the fire drills.

It was also my first time doing Week 2 of Yuri's Abs program. Its a lot harder than week 1, I actually started sweating during it! I'm hoping that after doing this for the next week or so, I start to feel/notice a difference in my abs.

I think that when I get back to san francisco, I may also try the Eat Clean Diet Stripped meal plan that my mom picked up, she says that you can lose 10 pounds in 28 days, and that's really all I have left to lose. It'd be great to hit my goal weight and then just have to maintain or slowly lose more, but I don't want to ever drop below 125 or so. I'm aiming at around 135 as my goal weight.

Day 65 - Cheat Day

Today I took the day off. It was a busy day and I was tired. I stayed up late doing homework and reading then I woke up fairly early to go to my online class and afterwards was forced into shopping with my mom and when I came back I was so exhausted that I took a nap and by the time I woke up, it was time for dinner and we were having friends over. Honestly, if I had been really determined, I could have gotten it done, but with as tired and busy as I was, I decided today would be my rest day instead. I also splurged with what I ate. My mom made a really nice Peach Stuffed French Toast breakfast, which is something she never does, and then I ate out for lunch (but got a low-calorie pita!), and since we had people over, my dad made steaks for dinner and since I haven't had steaks in so long, it was really wonderful and I had a bit more than my fair share. Tomorrow, though, I'm jumping back on the bandwagon and hanging on tight!