Fresh Start.

While I did create a whole new blog using a different email, google makes things confusing as hell and I can't sign into it. So, looks like I'm doing it on this blog.

Two days ago I started my own 30 day challenge and I must say I am failing a lot. Except on somethings like no pop or sugary snacks and going to the gym.

Maybe I'll post what I made up another day. I'm too lazy to grab my paper from upstairs ahah. I do a lot of classes at my local gym. Especially zumba, except lately it's been getting less fun because it' starting to hurt. I also am starting to add at least a 30 minute run each time I go to the gym and gradually work my way up.

I have been reading a fitness magazine called Oxygen, and I must say it was a really good buy! Some really awesome inexpensive at home workouts! I will be trying each one as I go along. It also comes with a free two week meal plan that is easy to repeat every week or mix up the two different week food so you don't get board, unless you're like me and like to repeat things. I don't think anyone can go wrong buying a booklet that is about 12$ compared to the 50$ gym membership a month,.

Today I did zumba at the gym and did my weigh in, I now weight 160! I am down 10 lbs! Not from twos but from before doing the 30day thing and starting to eat clean and cutting out pop. This has motivated me to keep going, even if I only do a class, or only do a 30 minute run. Some movement is better than none! And I must admit I feel a little more energized the more I continue this journey!

Now, this week is a busy week for me, so I am going to try my best and keep going even at home!

Good Luck to every!
AND don't be shy to share your stories and following me to watch my progress! I will post before and after photos soon!

It's sad to say ..

I have given up on working out ... for now. With the string of long recent events it has brought out the worst of my depression causing me to sleep a lot! PLUS it is really REALLY cold in my house ... so when you're in a house that feels like -100 you don't want to move !

I'm also moving back to my parents for a bit where there isn't much room and I have to take on a second job. Life is just a big old mess at the moment!

So for now this blog will be MIA on progress, but I'll probably still post grate sites I find, recipes, and anything.
I think I might just actually close out this account and start over with my new email because I've made a big mess out of this one.

But we will see.

I hope everyone else can keep motivated ! 

Day 9 ! BLAAAHH

9 Days. I feel like I have been at this longer! But if you read my blogs you would know today I'm having a "Fuck it" kind of day. I am very stressed out over money right now, but who isn't, other than the rich that have no clue what it's like to be stressed for real. I have literally handed out many like over 100 resumes! I have great qualifications and I'm a great person, but there's always someone better than me I guess. 


Today I tried pushing myself hard, but I'm just in a huge "Fuck it" mood and just did a 30 minute or so BodyRock workout. And then made up my own little circuit of movements. I won't be working out tomorrow as it's girls night, so this is all going to shit anyway, BUT I am bringing my Wii along which means I actually will be getting my workouts in while play just dance and zumba . Ah well.

I hope everyone is doing better than I am at this!
Off to get ready for work and stuff!
KEEP MOTIVATED 

Day 8?

Yesterday my boyfriend was home so working out was like blah. Maybe it's just me, but I like to workout and be alone. I don't like that feeling of being watched, makes me feel like they're laughing at me. It's why I don't like the gym.

Anyway, I did the normal workout, Jillian and Body Rock. Although I'm hitting that part, even after only 8 days where I'm giving up and don't give a shit about this anymore. I'm just in the plain "Fuck It" mood. I don't feel I'm going to get any where doing this, except a sore body in which my body is currently in pain from starting this. I think reason I feel the "Fuck it" is because I have no idea what I'm doing which makes me feel like an idiot. Plus I can't do half of the shit I try to do, which makes me feel more like an idiot.

Maybe today is just a bad day, because today is day 9 and I don't want to do fuck all. I did about 5 minutes of the Jillian Michaels workout and said fuck it ( I sure have a lot to swear about today don't i? ). Maybe it's because I went to bed at 7AM because someone likes to snore so I'm a bit on the grumpy side. I still have to go to work, whenever I get there ( I work alone, cleaning, whatever time I need to go in at after 6, so I'm not going to be purposely late because I work by myself), and I still need to shower ... Overall, it's just not a good day ...

Well, off I go to do Day 9. Maybe.

Unlike me for the day, Try and keep MOTIVATED !  

Day 7 !? I thought I was doing this longer!

Alright so it's Day 7! I thought it was day 8, but then I remembered I did miss a day. Either way I feel pretty great! I'm really excited to see the results since I can feel them happening! (I use so many exclamation points, but it shows my excitement! Haha).

Today I got through 20 minutes of Jillian Michaels - Yoga Melt Down, with only a few minor breaks during an exercise. I still cannot do the sun Salutations. I just don't feel I'm to the point yet. I'm still on level 1, so I am hoping that by the end of the month or a little into March I can start to try Level 1 AND 2 together. 


With my Yoga Melt down I also start the 30 Day Challenge with BodyRock Tv. 8 exercises, 50 seconds each, as many as you can do! So no need to feel like you have to do 50 sit ups in 50 seconds. I only got through a few! I'm hoping to try some more of their exercises the more I get into this!

My cheat food!
I don't care much for junk food to begin with other than pop and the odd time I like cookies, and I'm not one for fast food that much, there is one place I can always enjoy and never feel guilty about! SUBWAY! It's definitely my favorite lazy day, I don't want to cook, and don't want to slave over a stove kind of day. I don't go all out. I always get an over roasted chicken breast on flat bread. And I usually just get lettuce and mayo. If I have a 12 inch I eat lettuce and mayo on one side and then add pickles and cucumbers on the other. Mainly just to pick it off and eat it when I get home anyway haha . 

What I've noticed about myself in the last 7 days of working out, is that craving for sugar foods isn't really there anymore. And if I do I have a little bit of pop. I've also realized that I now crave healthy snack foods, I don't have muxch taste for noodles as much as I used to love them, and I don't eat as many carbs as I use too. I do need to stock my fridge up on the green things to keep the feeling going!

QUICK TIP! 
I seen this on my facebook (VIA BodyRocTV) wall and thought it was need to share! :)

Having trouble sleeping? 

Here's a helpful tip…Eat a KIWI!
Researchers found that kiwi's have serotonin, a chemical that helps regulate your sleep cycle.

(source: Men's Health) 

FITNESS TEST!
 Like I said, I tried the 30 Day Body Rock Challenge for the first time, and boy was it hard! Here is how I did!
There are 8 exercises and you do each one for about 50seconds with a 10second break inbetween. And you only do as many as you can feel you can until you do it more and more!.

1. Squat Jumps15 Jumps - Hard !

2. Push Ups : MOD - On my knees
 10 - knee push ups 


3. Burpees! 
5 - No MOD - Pretty hard!

4. High Knees 
I did about 40 of these, I don't know if I'm doing it wrong? Because that seems like a lot! 

5. Switch Lunge
12 - MOD - stepping

6. Tuck Jump 
9 - No Mod - I wobbled a lot.

7. Tri-Cept Dips
9 - KNEES IN 


8. ABS! 
16 - hard ; back barely lifted ; knees on chair!

I'm going to try each day to do a few more! Here is the link for the video! :) 


FITNESS TEST _ BODY ROCK


ENJOY! :) 

 

Day 6 - Kill Me!

Here we are into Day 6, and I'm going to be honest, today I couldn't even make it half way through the yoga melt down today! Everything is hurting! Especially my legs and my core (?). I need to find something that helps with my arms, but maybe the other Jillian Michaels video does more of that. I mean the toga melt down you do use you hands a lot, but I'm not very strong yet to be standing on my hands for so long, my wrist are hurting a lot. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? But anyway I need to find something that strength trains my arms too since I'm working on my legs so much in the last week.

I defiantly notice today how strong my right side is. There is one particular exercise Jillian does where you are in a lunge almost? with one knee forward and the other one on the ground. You put your hands on the forward knee and push off it while raising the lowered leg just barely off the ground. The right side is so easy, but the left side, I can barely hold it for 5 seconds and she hols it for about 15-25 seconds.

Since it is day 6 only missing one day of doing this, I'm trying to set myself goal to working out 6 - 7 days a week.  I am noticing my legs are becoming tighter, and I can feel the difference in them. It feels awesome! With my core I can feel the difference becoming tighter and tighter. Although I can feel my tummy becoming more flabby, I'm assuming this is normal for it to feel like that before I actually start shredding off the access fat and building the muscle. I can feel the muscles becoming tighter in my core, which feels great! Definitely helps for that push of motivation that I will eventually tighten my tummy after all these years! And I do have quite a bit of years to shred off!

Because I did cheap on out my workout today, I am hopefully going to switch over from Jillian to Body Rock. They have this little circuit training challenge. It consists of 8 exercises, what seem pretty simple but for doing it for the first may be pretty hard. You keep track of your progress  with a sheet they provide online, or I'm just going to write it down myself in my book. You do as much as you can each exercise for 50seconds and the  more you do it the more you're able to do. So hopefully after some cleaning I will try this challenge out and do it daily along with the Jillian Michaels DVDs.

Oh! I also notice that my tummy feels quite tender, like all the fat part of my tummy is tender. I'm not sure if that is normal, but I will look into that and see.

Only a few more months until that nice beautiful sun weather comes along!  Let's see how in shape I can get!

I think I might start doing little food blogs on what I eat. I'm not on some crazy diet, I eat what I would normally but in smaller portions, I've cut out adding salt to my foods since most food I eat has a lot of salt. But, with my eggs I pour a small amount in the lid and then put it over my eggs. That way I can control how much actually goes on instead of just dumping an awful amount on there. 


What I have also noticed with my eating is I have always, always been a sugar addict! And since starting to work out I don't really crave the sugars as much, and when I do want some pop I only have one small , half a glass and barely drink it. I also don't really crave chocolate as much. I've always had bad eating habits with junk food, but it was more with cookies and chocolate, I've never really liked chips and dip and all that stuff. I mean, when we have those odd girly nights and there's chips and stuff, I'm guilty, I eat it. But chocolate is my junk food weakness. 


I have made this too long and I'm sure bored someone to death! So I'll see what more exercise I get done today and tomorrow and add it in!
My thoughts are never in order, always scrambled! HAHA

Happy Exercising :)  

Body Rock Tv!

What is Body Rock Tv? I just heard of it about a year ago through my fiance's sister. It's pretty sweet actually! And unlike Jillian Michael's site you don't have to pay for anything! UNLESS you want to order the things they use, but even then body rockers post ways to get it cheaper or make them yourself!

That's another cool thing about it, you can blog you progress and stories on their site if you don't want to make your own like I have. Chances are, more people will see it that way ahah.

You can find some sweet recipes, success stories, and some pretty hard work outs all in this site. And they even have a work out sheet for this month to help you know what to do, like what work outs to do each day.

Some months they ever have "30 Day Challenges". They have one going right now, so go on and try it !!

I think the only down fall to this for me is just the lay out of the site really.But that's just me it's a great site anyway!

Here's the link! (Don't worry it's a safe link! :)  ) 
 BODY ROCK TV!

You can also find them on youtube by searching body rock tv!

Hope someone reads this and does some of them , I will be eventually ! 


:)