Insanity Day 10

This is how I feel when getting ready for Insanity. Yikes! I had to actually untie the drawstring on my shorts the other night so I could get them on. Mind you, these are the shorts I wore for The Color Run! How is this even possible? I really must be a total heffer! Just goes back to the idea that you don't know how big you really are until you see yourself in a mirror when you aren't ready to see the real you. Scary situation!

I'm tired so let's just get to it. And don't you try to distract me either, I won't fall for it tonight. Speaking of tonight, I had no desire whatsoever to do this video of the polymetric cardio circuit. Screw this video. Not one of my favorites, can you tell? After practice we went to dinner (a weekly wednesday ritual for free pie wednesday at VI - and no I didn't eat the pie...yet)and as we sat in our booth waiting to be waited on I thought to myself "man, I still have to workout but since I'm eating now this means I have to wait and will be working out late." So I waited about an hour and half after I ate dinner to workout. I even pouted, stomped my feet and rolled my eyes at Shaun T. I know it is hard to believe me acting in such a childish manner but it's true! Just take a moment to force yourself to accept this.

And why do I always have to pee when I'm working out? Never fails, I am on a roll, feeling the burn and sweating like a child working in a sweat shop....then it hits me. Tonight I'm certain that it is something wrong with me, perhaps a weak bladder or something that bearing children did to me. At least when I'm doing Insanity I am at home and it's not so embarrassing. Unlike at Gravity Fit when I was doing tuck jumps across the trampolines and had to do the longest kegel of my life and then run to the bathroom barefoot so I didn't have pee running down my leg. So naturally, tonight I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the video and since I don't know how to pause on the PS2 I just let it run and catch back up.

Speaking of Gravity Fit, I'm so sad! I reminded Jumping Josephina that we needed to call to make our reservation since both of us forgot yesterday. Then I receive a text that she called and they advised her that this past Saturday was a launch class only and they will not be offering the class on Saturdays, only Tuesday Nights (from 9-10pm) and Thursday Mornings (from 7-8am). We are going to try to make the Tuesday night class but that is sooooooo late to be working out, even for me. Not to mention I have to drive across town and make sure that I have something to watch the kids since I'm an overprotective mother and have problems leaving them alone. I would love to be able to do Thursday mornings as well but I already struggle with my hours at work and this wouldn't help. Maybe when school is out and cheer is done I can do it since it will be easier for me to go into work later. Maybe if we keep calling for Saturdays they will see that the class will be full and they will add it. Hmmmmm.... I will just have to make sure that I either wake up at like 4am to do Insanity for that day or just use Gravity Fit in it's place because doing double workouts within a few hours of each other is too tough for me.

Hey, I told you not to distract me. I really did intend to keep this short. One last thing that I forgot to say the other night then I'm off to dreamland. When you see someone on the biggest loser that weighs the same as you but you think they are way bigger than you, chances are they are probably not. Yes, eye opener for me. What makes it worse that I never watch that show but it happened to be on and like any show, I have to see how it ends. Needless to say I don't want to watch it again because this time my son even told me to call to try to be a contestent. Little butthead! Ok, off to cry my eyes out over this.

Insanity Day 9 - oompa loompa doompa dee doo

OK I happen to like carrots so that wouldn't be such a bad thing, however, I would be more concerned with turning orange and looking like a little fat oompa loompa. Then I'd have to dye my hair green and wear those very unappealing white overalls. Not a good look. And just so you know, I am sparing everyone the picture of one tonight. Although, I did google for images and there are some very disturbing oompa loompas in the world.

Did I tell anyone that I weighed myself on Monday? 1 week into this challenge and I lost 1 pound. Yeah, probably because when I weighed in originally I had my hoodie on and this time I didn't. So in reality I didn't lose anything. Of course I didn't gain so that should be a good thing but it doesn't help me in trying to lose the most so I can bring home the big bucks at the end of this month. *sigh*

So I completed day 9 of Insanity tonight. It would have been very easy to forget and let the time slip by with the day I had. Anyway, I did it. I was almost happy when I saw it was Pure Cardio night. I actually like this video with the exception of a few moves. I am happy to report that I feel that I was able to complete more in the first half of the video this time around. However, I think I pushed too hard too early because for the last 10 minutes of the video I was seriously struggling......to breathe! And why when you have to lunge and raise the front arm....ugh, this is so uncomfortable. My fat just gets in the way of everything! Hopefully one day I can do so without having to reposition the fat. Anyway, I'm happy with the way tonights workout went, overall. YAY! GO ME!



In the meantime I am looking foward to Gravity Fit this weekend. Well, with the exception of Hell Pit! Hopefully there is still space left since I spaced reserving my spot today, even after I talked with Jumping Josephina about calling early. OY VEY!

Insanity Day 8

That is definitely what I felt like doing tonight instead of working out. After a busy day at work, a tense cheer practice and coming home to a sick kid...working out was not high on my to-do list. We ate dinner early and then I remembered that I still needed to workout. Since I ate I knew that I needed to wait at least an hour and a half before working out so I didn't upchuck my dinner. Speaking of, this eating less and what not is so hard to do. I think this may be a harder task to change my eating habits than trying to do more and more of the Insanity video. Willpower and just knowing when to stop are my biggest enemies. Even if I'm eating healthy, such as a salad or fruit or whatever else I may have that is healthy I just don't know when to stop.

I did test drive the Body by Vi today. I didn't care much for the chalky powdery taste but it wasn't too bad. I'm fairly certain that any shake I try will be like this. I mixed it with juice instead of water or milk. I do have another sample that I'm going to test drive again tomorrow. All thanks to Running Regina. I didn't really notice any difference in myself today but as with anything I'm sure it will take more than one try to notice anything. I really wish I had some samples of the shakeology to test drive. Last week I kept leaning towards shakeology but now I'm not leaning towards anything. At this rate I should just try slim fast. I will save money, it tastes great and as with any shake, if I replace 2 meals per day I'm going to lose weight.

Yeah yeah, back to the workout. Oh wait, before I forget - I received a text from the Workout Queen today telling me that she jumped into Insanity week 2 to complete it with me. She also said I should go back on Facebook so she can motivate me but I'll pass on that one. That reminds me, I do need to reply to her text from hours ago. Oops.. So anyway, tonight wasn't so bad. Yes, it was tough and yes I did struggle and yes I did sweat like I was sitting in a sauna in the middle of the Middle East for 5 hours but I feel that overall I did fairly well. I'm sure I wasn't able to complete as much as I think I did but it felt like it to me and I'm ok with that. Of course, nothing will be as bad as my workout after Gravity Fit. I really should've thought about this schedule and my day of rest better. Oh well, I loved gravity fit and will register again for this coming weekend. Hopefully there are still spots left. I am going to pay for the monthly membership instead of the drop in rate because in the end I will be saving money and since I really like the class I feel it will be worth it.

Do you see a trend here? I keep avoiding tonights workout. In the end, I did it. I feel good right now and don't feel as though I will be sore tomorrow which is almost a let down because then I feel like my workout wasn't enough. I think I may feel so good because yesterday was my day of rest. Hence, no blog. I did, however, get a workout walking around the PIT and up and down the stairs several times (being that we were in row 34 which is near the bottom) when I took my boy to watch the Harlem Globetrotters. I should log that in my devil of a food journal thing. HAHA! I can log that, laundry, housework, yardwork, etc. LAME!

Alright folks, time to go tend to the sick kid and dream of a massage. I can really use one right now.

Gravity Fit vs Insanity Day 6

I don't even know how to begin with this one. I will say that in the Gravity Fit vs Insanity Day 6 battle, Gravity Fit wins. Granted I was so exhausted from Gravity Fit still that when I attempted to do Insanity I was so weak that I think I did worse than the first time I did this video on day 2.

So let's talk about Gravity Fit.



I was oddly excited about this class even though I knew it was going to kick my butt and the major fact that it began at 8am...on a Saturday. Anyway, I woke up easier than I do when it's a work day. Anyway, I pick up my friend who we shall refer to as Jumping Josephina. We head over to the facility and fill out our waivers. Running Regina was already there and on her trampoline square waiting for the class to begin. Did I mention there were a bunch of people there? Yeah, I think it was a full class. So Jumping Josephina and I ended up sharing a long trampoline. From this point on I proceeded to sweat and gasp for air. This was probably the funnest aerobic/cardio/cross-fit class I've ever been to! I had so much fun! Of course there was the one part of the class that wasn't so much fun. I'm sure you don't want to hear about all the fun, jumping, etc so I will tell you about the funniest (not for me) part of the class. Yes, I don't mind everyone laughing at my expense because I can only imagine how it really looked.

During the last about 15 minutes of class we were doing a "triatholon" so to speak. So I go to my assigned station and do my trampoline suicide drills. Not like Insanity suicide drills, but like soccer suicide drills. Anyway, after that my next station was suicides on the hard floor. Then came the "jump". There is a part of Gravity Park that has 2 long trampolines that you can jump into a foam pit from. I was unsure on what to do so I asked the instructor. She advised to go to the end and jump in, then we "swim" to the back wall and "swim" back to get out of the pit. So I skip hop down the trampoline and when I reach the end, I take a big jump and into the foam pit I go. So I start trying to "swim" to the back wall. Everyone that was already in the pit made it look like a piece of cake. Yeah, not so much. It was like trying to eat yogurt with a fork. It just isn't happening! So I try and try and the more I tried the further down I sunk. I wasn't going anywhere. I seriously felt like I was trying to swim in quicksand. Yes, poor me! I finally make it half way and decide that was as far as I was going to make it. Then I see Running Regina (who was part of the group that was a station behind me) jump in, swim to the wall then swim back and out she goes to the next station. Finally I asked another lady how the heck she was doing it. She told me she was raising her knees really high. The instructor even tried to motivate me (I'm sure she really meant for me to hurry up and get the eff outta there) by telling me to use high knees. By the time I finally struggled my way to the edge of the floor I was so exhausted it took me a couple more minutes to climb out. I step to the side, hold onto the rail and try to catch my breath. As I walked to my water, a guy (employee) that was watching couldn't even look at me. I'm sure he was trying to contain his laughter. Of course, I find out later that I just looked so defeated. Jumping Josephina told me that my face was so red and I was dripping sweat, while the look on my face was so sad...as if I were about to cry. POOR ME!

Needless to say I was done at at that point. Thank goodness this was the end of the class. Even though I had that moment I still love the class itself. I definitely want to return again next saturday. SO MUCH FUN!

Now, onto Insanity Day 6.



After Gravity Fit I was so hype and motivated. I loved it! Normally I crash after I workout so it's easier for me to workout at night. On the drive home from taking my kids to soccer and cheer I was starting to crash. This was 4 hours after the class ended. So I came home, rested a bit, ate a couple scrambled eggs. Around 3pm I finally was going to do Insanity. Today was the same video as day 2 (polymetric nonsense). So I begin the warm up and lose my breath right away. The furter into the video I got, the more breaks I had to take. I was just too exhausted but I didn't want to just completely stop. So I tried to do what I could. My legs were mush, my lungs were not cooperating, it was hot as ever because the sun was up and it was a decent day today so I was sweating like crazy. Yes, basically I felt like everything was working against me. I think I did this video better the first time I did it and I only did about half of it then. I am going to have to figure something out because if I continue to do Gravity Fit I will always have 2 workouts on Saturdays. Either way, I did it and that was all she wrote.



Sidenote: I went to a "muscle" store to get a blender bottle (shake bottle) and ended up asking about recover and meal replacement shakes. I was ready to purchase some protein shake stuff but their credit card machine was down. So I left, I didn't have any cash on me at the moment. So for comparison I went to another nurition store and get told something completely different. The stuff the guy was trying to sell me I've tried before and I didn't feel that it worked. In the end I didn't buy anything, not even the blender bottle I wanted. I have a lot to think about and compare. I did receive a couple samples today though. Running Regina brought me a couple samples of the Body by Vi, I received some curb your appetite with caffine samples from the muscle store and I tried some small (mini dixie cup) samples at the nutrition store.

Ok I'm super exhausted still and am going to finally crash and hopefully sleep in on my rest day. Rest day, Ha! What a joke, this means it is my cleaning and laundry day. Thanks for reading. 6 days down, 54 more to go.

Insanity Day 5 - 7 Month Anniversary

Yes, as a matter of face we are going to celebrate first today! Cake first, workout later. Sounds like a great plan to me! Besides...I LOVE CAKE! (that will NEVER get old) Today makes 7 months since I quit smoking. Wow, time flies! Then again, so the scale needle when I stand on it. For those that haven't been with me throughout that journey, I quit smoking without even planning on it. June 30th was the last day that I smoked a cigarette. I'm sure it was after midnight but I didn't sleep yet so whatever, don't judge me. In the last 7 months I have been smoke-free, ran 2 5k's, gained a crap load of weight, stopped running, and now started Insanity. So let's everyone take a moment to celebrate with in my achieving this. I appreciate all the support I received in the early months so Thank You to all that supported me and kept me motivated to continue my smoke-free lifestyle.

Now, on to the other stuff...



Yes, I do believe that those that are trying to keep me motivated to continue with this Insanity nonsense are highly over optimistic. I mean seriously though. Even the Workout Queen told me that Insanity is an extreme workout to begin for someone who hasn't worked out. Although, Running Regina seems to think that I can accomplish this. I say they are all crazy!

Now before you say anything, yes, I did complete Day 5 tonight. Of course this almost didn't happen because life was trying to get in the way. I worked late, picked up dinner, came home and my baby was still feeling and looking like crap. Poor thing. So I feed everyone, call the Dr. and wait to see if I need to take her in. So in the meantime 30 minutes is passing by, I haven't eaten, I haven't worked out and before I know it it is almost 9pm. So my daughter has the nasty flu that is going around, I worked out, I ate and here I am now. And...as much as I hate to admit it, I actually liked tonights workout. No, I didn't complete the whole thing. Yes, I still had my moments of standing there with my arms over my head to catch my breath. Yes, I had my moments of my legs feeling like jello. I feel that I can honestly say that of all the workouts I've done so far, Pure Cardio is my favorite. What does this mean? What kind of nonsense is this? I must clearly be under the influence of something to be saying these absurd things.

Although my diet is still not good, I do feel that I can do more and more of certain exercises. Even if it is just 1 or 2 more reps. I don't feel that I've lost any weight and I'm not sure I am going to since I can't get control of my diet. I just love to eat. Of course, waiting to eat dinner until after my workout does help somewhat. Even though I eat all my food, I do start to feel sick after I eat. I'm hoping that eventually I will learn to stop eating crap! Once I am able to meet with Beautiful Betty I will have more of a plan. I was even thinking tonight that tonight would have been a great night to just have a shake for dinner. It was late and I had no business eating what I did. No, I will not tell you what I had for dinner so don't even think about it. I did add it to my food journal and yes I am going over in my recommended calorie count nightly. OF course there isn't a way to define my workouts so I just try to pick which might best cover it.

Ok I must call it a night because I have to get up in 7 hours to be at a Gravity Fit class at 8am. Oddly enough, I'm super excited to go to this despite the time of day. I will report tomorrow all about it so most likely I will have 2 entries tomorrow depending on how busy my day becomes. Wish me luck! Day 5 down, Only 55 more to go.

Insanity Day 4

*Warning: contains adult language*

Cardio Recovery huh? I call BS! That is just a play on words for really meaning we are going to make you sore in all the other places you aren't sore yet by making you sit in postitions that you have no business sitting in. Yes, straight to business today.

Ok ok, twist my arm some more why don't you? I will tell you about my day. Like I predicted last night my calves were super sore today. It hurt just to straighten my legs completely. Walking was a whole other story. Of course as the day went on the soreness began to fade but not completely. I guess this is my new normal. This morning I was forewarned about tonights workout. That just because it is supposed to be just stretching it is still quite the workout. Yeah, that crazy ass wants to turn me into a ballerina.



I just say "Thank goodness for my dance (as a child) and cheer experience!" Otherwise I would have been face planted tonight. Find your core, find your balance, kiss my ass. Yes, let's not do cardio so you are a hot sweaty gasping for air mess but instead let's move very s.l.o.w.l.y. and hold the postition while maintaining your balance and feeling the burn. Yes, I felt like there was a forest fire in my legs tonight. Stand on one foot while you hold your other leg here, stick your arms out and your other leg there, hold it for a minute, blah freaking blah Shaun T! Let's not even discuss the pulse. Just don't! Yes, I tried and I was shaking and this is what my legs felt like:



So enough of that nonsense of recovery while we make you sweat while feeling the burn but not making your heart beat out of your chest and your lungs feel like they don't exist.

I was told about a phone app to use as my food journal. I'm not sure I like it because it counts calories. Idon't want to to become obsessive with it. For those that know me they know I have a very addictive personality. It is called "Lose It" and it is pretty cool that you can just scan the bar code of whatever you are adding and it adds it for you. Easy enough! Speaking of eating, I just defeated the purpose of all my workouts this week by treating myself to chick-fil-a. The only crappy thing is that I ate after I worked out and I just wasn't feeling it all that much. Blah!

Still debating the Shakeology vs. Body by Vi shakes. Anyone with insight or suggestions, comments, likes, dislikes, anything, please comment to let me know what you think.

Oh...did I mention yet that I'm about 75% sold on this gravity fit class? The only downfall is that it is at 8am on Saturday. EIGHT AY EM! That is obsurd! Anyway, it is at the new gravity park. For those that don't know what that is, it is a huge play area with a ton of trampolines. I was talking to the Workout Queen tonight about it some more and she has the nerve to say "I think we are going to be very sore after it!" Yeah, ya think? I'm already freaking sore! It just sounds fun. I mean, who doesn't love trampolines? I will keep you updated if I do end up going to this nonsense of a class.

Ok, time to go tend to a sickly baby. Ok, so she's not a baby anymore, but she is my baby so back off! HA!

Insanity Day 3 - battle of the front butt

Let me help you out with this one. The caption says: When you have to double check to see if you are as fat as people joke about.

There was a different picture I wanted to use today but I felt this one was perfect. Why you ask? Well let's start by just saying that I took my "before" pictures tonight. I'm just hoping that I am able to have "after" pictures to be able to compare it to. OK wait, let me rephrase that. I'm just hoping that my "after" pictures are a smaller, more fit me than what was taken tonight. I had my daughter take the pictures and I haven't looked at them yet. To be honest, I'm a little scared to see them. I took "before" pictures back in June of last year. You remember, when I first started running? Well needless to say, I didn't take any "after" pictures after that one. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that the "after" pictures would have been worse than the before pictures. I just remember when I saw the video of me crossing the finish line at the Chocolate Run and wondering how I didn't knock myself out with my boobs. No, this is NOT a good thing. However, that is neither here nor there.

Today I was sore all over. I had sore muscles that I'm pretty sure I haven't used these muscles in, well, ever. I wasn't sore to where I couldn't move, but just uncomfortable at times. My back, my calves, my quads...all of em. My abs even had a slight soreness. Which is funny because I didn't feel like I was using my core at all with last nights cardio polymetric some crap workout. Then we went for an afternoon walk. I'm going to say that it was around 2 miles. I should have put on my runtastic app but I didn't think we were going to walk for so long. I know that around the parking lot at work is slightly over a half mile. Then the other way we went was over the mile that we used to walk for our work wellness walks. By the time we were rounding back to the office my legs were tightening up and my knee was starting to hurt. Did I mention it was cold and windy outside? Yes, I felt like a popscicle. To the point that when we walked back into the office it felt like a sauna. YIKES! Did I mention that the walk was up and down hill? I'm sure it would have been a lot easier if it was just flat land. In a sense (as my walking buddy Bossy Buck <--that's my boss) it was most likely a good thing to walk to get my muscles moving to decrease some of the soreness. Yeah yeah...

Today I also decided that I was going to have this bright idea to start a food journal. Why on God's green earth would anyone want to do that? So as I was writing down what I indulged in yesterday I realized that I snack waaaaayyyyyyy too much! Even though it's not donuts, chocolate, or candy I'm sure it is still not good. Today was a cheer day and I didn't snack at all at work, surprisingly. Maybe one day I will start posting it here. I won't count calories because that is too OCD for me but I will keep track of what I eat. Granted tonight I went to Souper Salad for dinner. Yes, I still pigged out at the all-you-can-eat salad bar. I'm sure that could become unhealthy as well. Boy, I tell you what...this trying to lose weight and be healty crap is for the birds! I say that being healthy is overrated. HA!

So for tonight, I did survive day 3. I'm actually quite amazed because I think I did more of the video than I did last night. I'm not sure if it is because my children were working out with me tonight and I didn't want to seem like such a loser in front of them or if I was just that competitive that I had to try to do more than them. Either way I guess it was a win-win situation. It is funny working out witht them because they try to out-do each other. Then my daughter tries to be a motivator with me. "You're doing good Mom!" "Good Job Mom!" "You can do it Mom!" "Mom, take a rest, you look like a tomato (or something to that effect)." You know what sucks? When you are so freaking hot and sweaty then when you cool down you get the shivers because you realize that it is still winter and the house is cold! Yes, that sucks! You know what else sucks? The fact that I sat down on my recliner couch to power on my laptop so I can update the blog (my self motivator) and then have to get up to tend to the children or use the restroom and your legs are so sore that you are walking like you have a pole up your wazoo! Yes, I'm slightly dreading tomorrow because I'm sure it will be the point where I can't move and no longer just uncomfortable.

All in all, I think I still dislike this video. It is nice to see that the people in it also can't hack it and have to rest on their own and all that mess but still, they look great already so it is kind of like a wash. Still debating the whole beachbody coach thing. Still debating the whole shakeology vs body by vi thing. Still waiting to have lunch with Beautiful Betty, which has been pushed back to next week. And while texting with Running Regina today I decided that I just need to become rich so I can have my own personal trainer in my own personal gym and a personal chef to cook for me.



But since she burst my bubble of that I will just try to keep my eye on the prize!



Oh! I almost forgot. You may still be wondering about the title and the picture that I said was so perfect for tonight. Well tonight at dinner I was telling my mom about front butt. She hadn't ever heard about front butt. I was surprised because she is always talking about the fatasses she works with. So while stuffing my face with my spinach bed salad I was telling her about front butt she was laughing and rolling her eyes at me. Point being, I have the beginnings of front butt. I've said this since a few months ago and my office mates laughed at me and told me to basically STFU. HAHAHAHA! I'll spare you the front butt pictures for now. If you want to know just google it.

Time for me to call it a night and waddle my tail to the bed. Day 3 down, 57 more to go.