June Is Here!!!

Why is this exciting? There's a few reasons. One: It's my favorite month of the year. Summer is almost here and it meant summer break as a kid. Two: It's my anniversary month. My husband and I married on June 7th four years. We usually do something fun every year, and this year we are going to Sacramento to Water World with his sister and her husband. And I get to see old friends and my sister whom I haven't seen in years! Needless to say, next weekend is going to be a blast. And three: I get to weigh myself after 6 weeks of not knowing my weight.

At the end of April I promised to not weigh myself until June 1st after not stepping on the scale for about a week already. It has been so great not knowing my weight! Us women tend to obsess over the number the scale flashes at us. I have been telling myself "Today I feel like I weigh XXX." And so it would be, because I believed it. In a way I made my own reality with how much I weighed, and I have to say it has been freeing.

This morning I woke up, excited to know the true number that my body weighs. When I stepped on the scale I was shocked, to say the least. I had lost 10 pounds. Now, I did have the stomach flu for the first half of May, but I also didn't start eating healthy again until this Monday. What I'm afraid happened was that I lost all the muscle I built during P90X, and instead of being happy that I lost 10 pounds, I'm pretty sad about it.

Now, I could go measure myself, but I'm not sure how much good that would do. If I did lose muscle then wouldn't my measurements still show a loss in inches? I'm unsure. But I'll do it anyway. In fact, I'll go do it now.

My arms are the same, however, I lost a total of 3.4 inches. Once inch from my chest, 1 inch from my waist, 1 inch from my hips, and .2 inches from each thigh. Because I gained weight and inches from not doing P90X, I am now back to where I was when I last did P90X, only lighter with less muscle. Happy and sad at the same time. My ultimate goal is to be very toned, not fit into certain size jeans.

What are your fitness goals?

February & March Workouts

March doesn't look nearly as pretty as February. But as I have mentioned before, I need to keep in mind that I used to not workout at all! And working out on an average of every other day is much better than not working out at all.

Below you'll see a "key" that I have created for those interested in knowing which workouts I have done on each day. My 60 day weigh-in is in 3 days. You may have noticed that I have not once mentioned how much I actually weigh. Even though my weigh-in days are called just that, it's really the inches lost that I consider victories. I feel that on my journey towards a healthy body, that pounds are mostly irrelevant.

I Can't Stop Thinking About Food!

V3 (Voyager Health Supplement) Review

For the past two days I have taken what is known as V3: Weight Management Complex Energy + Mood + Appetite Control. Yes, I am against diet pills, but I honestly didn't know this until after I read the label which happened to be after I took the pills. This wasn't smart, and I'm realizing this now.

Day 1 made me go a little insane. I made a short video which portrays how I actually felt. All joking aside, I was a little scared. When my husband came home from work and saw me all bug-eyed, he straight up told me I looked crazy. The combination of ingredients in the V3 pill revved up my engine higher than it would normally run on a good day for me, which meant my body worked harder than ever before. I cleaned, organized, swept, dusted, did a bunch of stuff I have been putting off for months and powered through my workout with ease. But as I was doing my last cool down stretch for ab ripper, I literally fell asleep.

After what I'm assuming was about five minutes, I woke up in child's pose on my yoga mat. Immediately I called for my husband, who had to physically pick me up and sit me down on our office chair. One pill and three hours later, my body crashed. Now why did I take it again this morning? Probably because I'm retarded. Nothing happened today anyway. Nothing. Zip. Nada. It was almost as though I didn't even take a V3 pill.

This evening I finally did the smart thing and read the tiny packet the pills came in. There is a laundry list of people who should not take this supplement. Because it's not clearly listed on the Voyager Health website, I am listing it here. What I underlined is what pertains to me. I'm a little nervous about reviewing A.C.E. now. From now on, I am never popping anything that I don't thoroughly know about. Lesson fully learned.

Click photo to be directed to Voyager Health website

Vlog Monday

Yay! It's here!

P90X 30 Day Weigh-In

Today was the day I have been fearing all week. Because I missed three days in a row of working out, I was afraid it would affect my weigh-in. In all honesty, I wasn't expecting my body to change at all. After I took my photos, I was a little shocked. Change is so gradual you don't feel it until you take a step back and look at the whole picture. I contemplated whether or not to post this photo. This is called Deb's Fitness Journey, not Deb's Fitness Results where I only show you my body when I'm all done. This is the real deal.
So here it is, my 30 day P90X weigh-in. It's almost embarrassing, but I told myself I'd share the nitty gritty throughout this journey.. I wish I could blame Seroquel XR for making me gain so much weight, but before I began that medication my emotional eating was already out of control.

 

Weird right? Maybe it's only weird to me. Who sees this kind of perspective of their body every day? The mirror behind my bedroom door sure didn't show me this. All I did was push myself through every exercise. In NO way was this a simple challenge. The last month has been one of the hardest 30 days I've faced. On top of dragging myself out of bed, I had to push myself to move. I hate moving. My bed was my best friend, but now I'm not so sure any more. More and more am I realizing it's my enemy. The thought of staying in it all day feels so right, but actually being in it feels so wrong.

I'm not even sure why I decided to do P90X. Turbo Jam works perfectly fine. Maybe I figured if I'm going to torture myself, I might as well go all out. Well... this sure is an all out torture, but the best one EVER.

Goodbye February

This February has definitely been different than the rest. Never in my life have I worked out consistently, or even this much! I have been keeping track of my workouts on Team Beachbody's website. It's free, easy, and it always feels good to go there after I workout and fill in what I accomplished that day.

See all the pretty orange squares? Those are days I worked out. February 6th is the day I started P90X. Before then I was doing Chalene's Turbo Jam. Boy I miss her. Tony is ruthless, but he's making me stronger. Day 1 I was squirming on the ground, trying to lift my body with no avail in attempt to do a side-tri-rise. Week 3 I was able to do 1.5 side-tri-rises on each side! Slowly but surely, my body is changing.

March 3 is the beginning of a weight loss challenge that I joined hosted by BB Product Reviews. I am among 25 female participants. There are 5 video weigh-ins in the month of March, and the girl who loses the most weight wins $50. Although the money would be nice, I'm more excited about having others that I can talk to and help hold each other accountable. Besides, a challenge always makes for great motivation.

Last week I made a video of what my first 3 weeks of P90X consisted of. Some of it 'aint pretty. It kind of makes me laugh. When do we ever see ourselves workout?

Goodbye birthday month, the next time we see each other I'll be ripped out of my mind. Hasta la vista leap year.

Wait... WHAT?!

You mean I can have before & during photos, too??? You mean like all the ones you see and think to yourself "ahh that's just photoshopped" and "they must have energy coming out of their ears"?? YES I CAN! And no I hardly have any energy, just sheer will power. That's 12 DAYS BABY! That's not even 2 weeks! 5.1 inches and 6.8 lbs! Holy smokes, Batman! I'm awesome!
Ok, I'm not as depressed as my last blog entry :)