Day 30 and 31

Workout log day 30: 3-4 mile walk/run

Workout log day 31: ZWOD #1 and followed it up with Blogilates 8 minute butt workout

LOVED both workouts! If you have not checked out Zuzana on youtube, go check out her workouts! RIGHT NOW! Her workouts are awesome! I LOVE them! I am also loving Cassey's workouts on Blogilates!  So many  workouts that I love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 28 and Day 29

Day 28 workout log: nada.... running around all day with kids.

Day 29 workout log: 4 mile run with Parker in jogging stroller and Taj 10:29 avg pace. Not bad.
Jillian Ripped in 30 week 4

Tomorrow is the start of Zuzana's  ZWOD workouts. I have to admit I'm nervous.

Join me?

Day 27

Workout log day 27:
Jillian's Ripped in 30 Week 4 8lb weights

Day 26

Workout log day 26:
Jillian Ripped in 30 Week 4 8lb weights.

Over lunch I did a corset workout from Blogilates. Excellent 10 minute workout that focused on core work. LOVED it!

I think I am going to try to implement these short workout throughout the day, and next week start the ZWOD workouts. All with some running thrown in.

Where exactly am I finding time for all of this? lol

Day 25

Workout log day 25:
4 miles walk with Mel and the dog. Approx 55 minutes.

Day 24

rest day. Those 8lb weights schooled me! lol Between that and the run with G and the dog, I needed to rest.

Day 23

Workout log day 23:
Jillian Ripped in 30 week 4 with 8lb weights
30 minutes on the elliptical

Day 22

Workout log day 22:
3 mile run with Gryphon and Taj 3 miles in 28 minutes. Between the two of them they are great pacers! I'm thinking Melinda and I are going to enlist Gryphon to run with us! Felt great after we were done!

Day 21

Workout log day 21:
2.9 miles in 29 minutes. Took our Puppy out for his first run, he was awesome!

Day 20

Workout log day 20:
Jillian Ripped in 30 week 3 used 8lb weights this time... I think I need to stick with the 8lb.
I followed up with 30 minutes on the elliptical

Day 19

Workout log day 19:

Jillian's ripped in 30 week 3

Still feeling sluggish, but felt good enough to do this. Now off to rest some more.

Day 18

Workout log day 18:

rest day

I was sick and did nothing.

Day 17

Workout log day 17:

30 minutes of YogaX
My left shoulder was hurting, so I called it quits.

Day 16

Workout log day 16:
warm up and cool down walk 1 mile total
Ran 3 miles.. avg pace 10 min mile :)
Jillian week 3

My legs are a bit sore, but overall I feel good.
Today marks day 1 of half marathon training. Have I mentioned how much I love running!

Day 15

Work out log day 15:

Jillian's ripped in 30 week 2. 

I am done with week 2. Tomorrow I start week 3. Last time I did Ripped in 30, week 3 was my favorite. I'm thinking of upping my weights. I might try it tomorrow and see if I can move the next day. I'm noticing that my arms aren't sore at all. I know I'm cursing myself. I thought about adding in some elliptical tonight, but my legs have been sore, so I'm going to give them a rest tonight. Hopefully I'm running tomorrow with Mel. We have 13 weeks until our half marathon and I've done NO training for it. I think I need to get on the ball! OK Off to enjoyt he rest of my evening. night!

Just start and see how you feel.

I just wanted to pop in and say I am feeling GREAT! My food intake has been pretty good, I am working hard, and I feel strong! After 14 days of working out everyday, I feel good! Of course today I thought.. "I might take today off" but instead I decided to take it easy and at least start my workout. That was all it took, as soon as I started moving I felt my spirits lift, and by the end of the workout I felt so much better! I needed to write this, so that later when I want to just not do anything, take a break, do nothing, I can look back and see how much it improves my mood. OK now I am done my exercise I am off to re-fuel. (That's my favorite part!)

Day 14

Workout log day 14:
Jillian ripped in 30 week 2

That's it. I feel like I'm cheating. lol

Day 13

Workout log day 13:
Jillian Ripped in 30 week 2 followed by 15 minutes elliptical

Day 12

Workout log day 12
P90X yogaX 1.5 hours of yoga during naptime. Then tonight before dinner I did 5 miles on the elliptical. I'm starving and I am pretty sure I cannot eat enough healthy food tonight to make up for the calories I burned today. I'm hungry and going to go eat a big bowl of chili and a salad. mmmmmm

Day 11

Workout log day 11
Jillain's Ripped in 30 week 2 followed by 30 minutes on the elliptical. I had a soccer meeting so it was a quick elliptical/run.

Day 10

Workout log Day 10
1.5 hours of yoga. P90X yoga.

I had planned to do a Jillian workout as well, but then Uptown sent me a text and asked me out on a date. I ditched my second workout for a date with my fiance! It was more than worth it. We went to Genghis Khan and I had amazing food, and wine. Wonderful dinner without the kids.

Day 9

Day 9 workout log:
Jillian's Ripped in 30 Week 2 followed by week 1

Going back to Body for life as far as eating. It's what works best for me. It's whole foods, I cook more, I eat better, I have a free day to indulge.
The blog was started for me to keep track of my transformation during a 12 week body for life challenge. I've strayed, tried other things, and I'm going back to what works. I'm not doing the whole challenge, with the exercises and everything, I'll keep up with Jillian 6-7 days a week, plus walking/running, and yoga on Tues and Thurs. I think that should be plenty. lol I have some homemade sweet potato black bean chili waiting for me downstairs. yum!

Day 8

Day 8 workout log:
4 mile run/walk felt great! My lungs were not happy, but muscles felt great.

Day 7

Workout log Day 7:
Jillian's ripped in 30 week 1 then I met up with Mel and we went for a 6 mile walk. It took us 1hour 29 minutes. Not too shabby. I have some eating to do.

Breakfast: 2 egg whites, 2 whole eggs, hand full of spinach, one tomato, a mushroom, tbs salsa tbs guac I only ate half and saved the other half for later

Lunch: pure protein bar

Dinner: other half of breakfast and left over broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and fake chicken with guacamole.

I think calorie wise I'm under. Off to log and see.

Day 6

Workout Log Day 6:

P90X Yoga X 1.5 hours of yoga. 

Day 5

Day 5 workout log
Jillian's Ripped In 30 Week 1and week 2
Still no elliptical so I doubled up. I'm hurting from yesterday. Maybe I am sick, but I love feeling that next day muscle soreness. it lets me know I worked hard. I'm not legs and back P90X sore, but I'm achy from chaturanga.

Day 4

Workout log day 4:
Jillian's Ripped in 30 week 1
Not a bad day.
Breakfast 3egg white and 1 whole egg, handful of spinach and one small tomato, 2tbs salsa, 2tbs guacamole half a soy sausage. Coffee

Lunch protein bar

Snack: apple with almond butter

Dinner: same as breakfast.

1.5 hours of yoga and 30 minutes of strength and cardio is a damn good day. Now if I can just keep this up...

Day 4

Day 4 workout log:
Today I did P90X Yoga X. I am really out of shape. Usually I can do that without too much of a problem, I had a hard time  maintaining my runners pose/warrior pose. My brand new elliptical power supply is messed up and buzzing, so I have to wait 3 days until a new one arrives to use my elliptical. I am thinking I can use it without the digital display, but if I can't I'll double up on yoga and Jillian.

Day 3

Day 3 workout log:
Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 Week 1
We had a lot going on yesterday so I only got to do that yesterday.

Day 2

Workout log day 2:
Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 week 2

So I did week 2 today just to shake things up a bit.
I'll have to come back later and edit this to add in my elliptical after I get it done. Uptown and I have plans today and I needed to make sure I get in my workout before I really start doing anything today. So tonight I'll get in some miles on the elliptical. I'm off to eat and then go shopping. yay!

Day 1

Workout log: Day 1
Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 week 1
done. 5 lb weights except for side lunge with lateral arm raises, dropped down to 2lb weights.

So I just finished all 4 weeks of Ripped in 30 on the 28th. I'm starting the whole thing over again and adding in elliptical workouts and running. There are some days when I will do two levels back to back, or I will do a level and do several miles on the elliptical. That's my plan (loosely) but with some yoga and running as well.  Tonight was a really late workout, we had family visiting but I wanted to try to do some sort of exercise every day of this year. No excuses, meaning I didn't have time, or I can do double tomorrow etc... sickness and injury are acceptable excuses. I'm not that much of a hard ass, unless you read back on this blog and you read the part where I continued to run on a stress fracture and was out of running for months, I never really got back to where I was previously. OK enough for tonight.

Happy New Year! Welcome 2012!

     Ah New year's day.. a day full of good intentions. A day full of promise of another year to get things "right". I slowly started my "New Year resolutions" back in November. Let me take you back to August, just to fill you in on a couple of things. In August I found out the we were expecting again. This was a surprise to us, but a wonderful surprise. I had a hard time dealing with the mental shift of going from training everyday as hard as I could, while also trying out new eating regimens. I was trying to get rid of that last little bit of love handle and struggling with it mentally. I knew that in reality I was in great shape and should have been happy, but I wasn't. Maybe I need to mention that I can be a bit obsessive (except about blogging.. cause I'm so busy being obsessive about other things), so obsessive that I can not own a scale. I just can't do it. I have the type of body that is heavy, dense, thick, and so I can fit into a size 4 pair of jeans and my weight will still be higher than what my "ideal number" (in my head) is. I will weigh myself several times a day and it just becomes very unhealthy. So I have learned that I have to go by how my clothes fit, how my body feels, and measurements. I'm such a HUGE proponent of taking pictures and measurements when starting out a new exercise routine. So when I found out that I was pregnant, I had to make that mental shift into "it is now ok to gain weight" Let me say that it was HARD! It took a while for me to be ok with the weight I was gaining. I knew pretty much right away that I was having a boy, I just "knew". So when I immediately started gaining weight in my hips, butt and thighs at a rapid pace, I just silently confirmed my "guess". I was 16 weeks and going in for a routine visit with my midwife, and mentioned that I had seen a very small spot of blood, so she mentioned that we would do an ultrasound just to check things out. She put the ultrasound wand on my belly and as soon as the image popped up on screen I knew. I had lost our baby. Immediately all the thoughts of me obsessing over my weight, obsessing over my running, or lack there of, my workouts, flooded my brain with their most evil sides. Maybe I had worked out too hard, maybe I shouldn't have complained so much about my weight, I should have enjoyed the pregnancy more.. etc etc etc. My mind was a terrible place to be in that moment. Blame was ruling the scene and it was horrible. I am very fortunate to have amazing friends and family and they were/are a wonderful support system. When I went into the hospital and delivered our baby, my suspicions were confirmed.... It was a Boy. Uptown's only biological boy. A whole new level of horrible.
I waited a week, just like the Dr asked, before I threw myself back into an exercise regime. It was/is my outlet, my sanity.

Wow, I didn't mean to get so into details about all of that, but well there you have it.

So with a new year comes new resolutions. My resolutions or goals of this year are:

• Start running again, Half marathon in April and Full in October.
• Start eating food for fuel, and stop using it to comfort (cookies I'm looking at you)
• More yoga. I LOVE yoga and I don't do enough
• Do one post a day for the entire year. (this is the hardest one of all)

What are your goals? What do you want to accomplish this year?

. My goals, my story, my first post of the year. I'm going to try to post recipes, and log workouts. If you have any tips, tricks, vegetarian/vegan recipes, or just comments please feel free to post in the comments. I would LOVE feedback, or if anyone wants to follow along, let me know. 

Happy New Year.