Week 1 DONE

I'm on cloud 9, feeling great, had a great week!! I told Mark last night, I dont care if I didn't lose anything, because I could NOT have done anything better. I hit my workouts HARD, and ate squeaky clean, drank all my water. Thats all I can do, and I am content with that. Yes, I was rewarded on the scale this morning, too which made it all the sweeter. I am so psyched for next week. Now I'm off to play for the weekend, I'm going to visit my parents and see my new baby nephew and chill till monday morning. Free day today, Hmmmm, what to do, what to do??

HITT'n it!!

Today ROCKED- A-gain!!!I am in a total fitness zone, and I feel great!Dana came and picked me up and we kicked some butt at the gym. First we did our HIIT which was fun, I'd never done a BFL workout with anyone before and it was so cool! Then we went and tried the hanging knee raises with the slings, which I had never done, I had always used the chair thingy. I almost thought it was a little easier in the slings. I am definetly doing it in the slings from now on. Then I showed Dana the pull up machine, and we did a few of those, then she got me going on push ups, and we both did 2 sets of 10, which I thought I couldn't do, especially since my arms and chest were still toasted from mondays workout. It felt great! We really gave it our all on our HIIT!

Todays eating was really good, I didn't eat what I had scheduled but I still ate great, even though I went to Applebees I got the tilapia with mango salsa and steamed veggies, and water. The kids french fries didn't even call my name. Right now I am making wild rice and shrimp over a big green salad. I can't wait it sounds so yummy! I got all my water in already so I will be over a gallon since I am still thirsty.

NEWSFLASH!! Mark is working out!! And is still eating good, too! Yeah, its been like 5 days and he is already looking better. BRAT! Hes doing an isometric workout he got from one of my magazines, and jump roping. He challenged me to his jumprope workout tonight. Of course I couldn't say no! LOL He's been doing 5 sets of 200 fast jumps. I think he thought it would kick my butt more than it did. I wasn't breathing as hard as he was. It was taking us about 1.5 minutes to do the 200, then about a 3 minute rest in between. 1,000 jumps total! I gotta say, after the second set of 200 I was wondering if I could do it all, but I DID!! The funniest part was seeing the kids. They were all over us, and wanting to jumprope with us, so we showed the big kids how its done. We all did some pushups too. Cade has some good form on those babies! He informed us that he did the most pushups in his class in P.E. 25!! I didn't know that! By the end Cade really started to get the hang of the jumproping thing. It was fun. The kids had so much fun. We need to do more stuff like that with them. It was cool.

UBWO again tomorrow, giddyup!!

See ya in 3 months!!!

This is quoting Mark at the end of the outburst he shot me last night. LOL It was about 8 pm. I had crashed on the bed surrounded by Fitness magazines, the house was a mess, I had been on the puter way too much, and he's trying to eat healthier (he thiks he's starving to death and the food is gross)and he's a huge GRUMP(caffeine/fast food withdrawls) so he says to me "GREAT! no more computer time for me, your gonna be asleep early every night, fine then, see you in 3 months!!!" After I woke up I was able to get up and make us a little something to eat, and spend some time together. He told me a couple weeks ago that I seemed "friskier" when I was a little "chunkier". Ohh, poor guy. Either he gets a horny fatty or a hottie who isn't interested(or is at least to tired from working out all the time) ROFL PPPPSSSSHHTTTT whatever!!! I am really going to make an effort not to "forget" my cutie pie!

So far my challenge is HOT!!!Eating great, no cravings. I have hit both workouts HARD and it feels unbelievable!! I've dropped 2 pounds of water weight already and I thought I'd post a couple goals. I'm keeping it pretty simple this time.

Starting weight 147 (using a new scale thats 5 lbs heavier than last challenge)
GOAL:125(thats 2 lbs per week for 11 weeks-totally doable!)

Goal:read my goals every morning and night(that sounds wierdlol)

GOAL: bench press 100 lbs
current:70 lbs

Really thats about it. Its the *KISS* challenge:
Keep It Simple, Stupid LOL

I've been so lucky I've talked to Dana, Steff, AND Dani Parker this week, talk about motivating! I'm totally loving this!!!

My HIIT was really tough today but it will get better, I know.

P.S. I heart Tracker!!!

Day 1

Last night was spent planning. schemeing, and looking thru some MM mags to get inspired(thanks Dani!! :) I was ill all evening since I had tried to gorge myself to death all day culminating with the chili cheese dip and chips (for whch I am still paying the price for today). I have consumed liter after liter of Diet Coke, barely a drop of water, and enough chocolate to fill 5 Christmas stockings over the last month. As I was planning my meals last night, the food I was scheduling sounded SO good to me! I'd kill for a piece of toasted ezekiel bread with EFL egg salad on it right now. (I'm going shopping as soon as I shower-YAY!)

I was up with the alarm this morning(6:15 since Mark will be home this morning)I could have gotten up later to go but I need to get my day going and get in the habit of getting up early. I DID IT!! Went to the gym and kicked my butt (or actually my arms and chest) and I figured I better type now, since my entire upper body will be worthless here in a few hours. LOL It feels great!! I mean, I am just on cloud 9. I'm gonna go ahead and dose up with ibuprofen now, I didn't hold anything back on the weights and its gonna be a little scary later...

A thought on pictures........

I am SO PROUD of everyone for putting up their pictures on the tracker!!! I mean it!!Including myself, I did NOT want to put them on there, its very humbling, I could have just put them on my blog where they could be a little more obscure, but you guys really made me feel like I could put them up now. We ARE in this together. And we will suceed together!! I have felt like I have let everyone down by not doing my best this last few months, and I thought I'd be really depressed about my pictures, but I wasn't. Wanna know why?? Bcause I already know what to do to change my body! I had the solution before I even knew how bad the problem was, so its OK!! Isn't that the abyss??? The HOPE??? I am not despairing about how bad I look/feel right now, because all I am looking at is the future, and what I have to do everyday to make it happen. And we know the results DO come!!

Lets go people!!!!!