Day 2

I'm so proud of myself. Granted, I have a little cheerleader who has been asking me all day long if we were going to do "Jillian" this afternoon. Apparently when she said "we", she meant "me" and she just gets to watch. She did do some jumping jacks with me though. Kyle on the other hand was right there with me. He even tried to pull a Jillian and climbed on top of my back while I was trying to do push ups! That didn't last long.

I was sore today, but not too bad. I apparently did the modified versions of the workout. The only trouble I had during today's workout was on the 2nd set of side lunges with arm raises (whatever she call them). By the 2nd set I couldn't hold the weights anymore so I just put them down and continued without them. But I was surprised that I already am starting to have more endurance during the cardio.

While I am on this 30-day challenge, there's another 30 day challenge going on that I wanted to bring your attention to. Someone that I attended high school with has challenged himself to 30 Days on $30. I know that I personally couldn't do this, but he's trying to bring attention to the fact that many of the world's poorest do exactly that. Go check it out.

Let's hope these workouts pay off tomorrow on the scale! I was doing good until the weekend hit...

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Whew.

I just completed my very first shred. The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans has started a 30-day Shred Challenge which involves completing the Jillian Michaels 30-day Shred DVD every day for 30 days. I finished it at least 15 minutes ago because I have showered, changed, eaten a yogurt and have been sitting here for at least 5 minutes and I have to tell you my muscles are still shaking. I just kept telling myself "it's only 20 minutes." Actually it's a good routine because I don't think you are really doing anything longer than 30 seconds (except for the last abs set which is one exercise for 1 minute) so it is easy to push through the pain. Well, not easy, but you know. The challenge is to complete it every day, but being honest with myself I am aiming for 5 times per week. To go from couch potato to working out 20 minutes every day seems quite daunting.

I'm going to lie down now. I'm worried about how I'll feel tomorrow...

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Wednesday Weigh-in

Week 1 is done for the Shrinking Into Summer Challenge over at the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans. I am pleased to report that I am down 1.4# - hooray! Unfortunately the only reason I am down is that I was sick on Monday and failed to eat anything more than 6 crackers for over 24 hours. But it's a loss, so I'll take it!

I spent the weekend in Corpus with one of my college roommates and her mom scrapbooking. We had a great time and really didn't snack all that much, but we did have breakfast tacos, pizza, cinnamon rolls, kolaches and Mexican food. All of that adds up to not a great start on my challenge. But really I didn't feel like I went overboard on those things, just that I probably shouldn't have eaten that extra piece of pizza or those chips and queso. All in all, I feel like I did pretty well this week. And I had fun scrapbooking, so it was worth it!

The good news is that I put my jeans on yesterday and they were a little bit roomier. Hooray! I'm also hoping to win that 30-Day Shred DVD by Jillian Michaels which is being given away over at Shrinking Jeans, but you gotta enter by 3pm today. It sounds like a terribly painful workout, but there are those times when I long for that pain that I felt when I was working out at Isofitness which is now One 30 Fitness. That was pain, but it was good pain. If you live in the area, have the money and the drive to do it - it works. But the first few weeks you ache like you've been in several car accidents repeatedly. Ouch.

Here are my stats:
Starting Weight: 1_9.6
Today's Weight: 1_8.2
Loss of 1.4#
Goal Weight: 1_9.6 (that space is one integer less than the first space - ha!)

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