Well, as is obvious I haven't really been keeping up with the blog, mainly because I hurt myself pretty good with last Sunday's workout. I spent most of Monday and Tuesday almost unable to walk, feeling as if I had either pulled a muscle in my leg or tore a ligament pretty good and let me rephrase, I could walk but when I bent my legs the pain level went way up. I tried some basic stretching and warm up moves but I came to realize if I pushed much more I probably would hurt myself even worse. I kept the dieting up and I stayed active but I let the workouts rest for a bit. Today I jumped on the scale, expecting to be totally disappointed and back to my original weight, only to find out I have lost 3 more pounds down to 341.. That is a total of 7lbs in 2 weeks and almost 11 lbs from my highest point.
The thing is, I feel like I have been eating like a pig. I mean my daily caloric intake is around 2500-3000 calories but it is all healthier than what I am used to eating. Whole wheat breads, salmon, low fat ham, and more vegtables than I have eaten in my life. I guess there is something about this style of eating vs the fast food and greasy stuff I am used to eating.. Oh well whatever it is I am happy and I hope the trend continues... Well I guess I am going to get up and workout, then go get active and do something.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Day 8, January 09 2011
So I missed day's 6 and 7 as for doing the P90X
workouts, I stayed active and I went to the grocery and stocked up on the recommended food for the diet part of P90X. Today I picked up both a set of weights and a set of power bands to workout with (found them at Best Buy of all places!!).
I did tonight's workout on the Day 5 disc: Leg's and Back. I managed to do a little over 30 minutes of the disc before my legs felt as if they would melt. When I started the program I told myself I would progress a little more with each workout and tomorrow I start back into the day 1 disc and I will see if I can advance further than what I managed last week.
So far I have about quit the snacking, the meals have become healthier, I am actually eating vegetables more, and for the first time in my life I have started eating salad's (with spinach instead of lettuce I still don't like lettuce) and I believe that I am making a difference for the better. I may not be able to run marathon's in 90 days, and I may not be "cut" with a 6 pack but I will be more active, be able to go hiking without feeling like I am dying, and I will be able to get out and have fun with the kids this summer,
workouts, I stayed active and I went to the grocery and stocked up on the recommended food for the diet part of P90X. Today I picked up both a set of weights and a set of power bands to workout with (found them at Best Buy of all places!!). I did tonight's workout on the Day 5 disc: Leg's and Back. I managed to do a little over 30 minutes of the disc before my legs felt as if they would melt. When I started the program I told myself I would progress a little more with each workout and tomorrow I start back into the day 1 disc and I will see if I can advance further than what I managed last week.
So far I have about quit the snacking, the meals have become healthier, I am actually eating vegetables more, and for the first time in my life I have started eating salad's (with spinach instead of lettuce I still don't like lettuce) and I believe that I am making a difference for the better. I may not be able to run marathon's in 90 days, and I may not be "cut" with a 6 pack but I will be more active, be able to go hiking without feeling like I am dying, and I will be able to get out and have fun with the kids this summer,
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Day 5: January 6th, 2001
Well I am at a small halt right now, I didnt have the required items to do the workout today (power bands, and weights, if anybody has a spare set they are not using) so I took a pass and will use this as my rest day and continue working out tomorrow and hopefully tomorrows workout can be done with what I have here while I shop for the items I need. I have managed to keep eating well and that should help out some since I am not digesting 6-7 cokes a day and eating whatever crap a fast food place can feed me. I am also watching portions now, eating a 6" sub instead of the foot long, ordering half a sandwich with a cup of soup instead of a full sandwich and a bowl of soup and so on.
It didn't help today though that I had to sit through jury selection which threw my eating way off schedule so by the time I got to lunch i was starved, still only ate a 6" turkey and ham on oat bread but it left me feeling a little hungry the rest of the day. I do know I am feeling better not only physically but also mentally. I feel better grabbing a water with my meal instead of ordering a soft drink.
My wife picked up a copy of P90
the basic workouts so I may switch to them till I lose 30 or so pounds but I doubt it, I am going to do my best to stick to the P90X formula...
Till tomorrow.....
It didn't help today though that I had to sit through jury selection which threw my eating way off schedule so by the time I got to lunch i was starved, still only ate a 6" turkey and ham on oat bread but it left me feeling a little hungry the rest of the day. I do know I am feeling better not only physically but also mentally. I feel better grabbing a water with my meal instead of ordering a soft drink.
My wife picked up a copy of P90
the basic workouts so I may switch to them till I lose 30 or so pounds but I doubt it, I am going to do my best to stick to the P90X formula...Till tomorrow.....
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Day 4: January 5th, 2001
Day 4.. Wow I couldn't ask for a better start to the day, I woke up feeling energized, feeling better than I have in a long time. I slowed way down on the coffee this morning, got active early working around the house and managed to eat better than I ever do starting my day with a whole wheat english muffin with egg whites, low fat ham slice and low fat cheese. Got a ton of work done and then stopped for a small lunch of a healthy choice meal. Dinner topped the day off with 6oz of grilled salmon, cup of rice with broccoli and some peas. Not bad considering what I normally eat.
Now for the working out part, well..... Today should have been the Yoga X disc, which yoga didn't sound all that hard. At least I thought it wasn't going to be too hard. Less than 1/4 of the way through the video I called it quits my body hurting worse than any of the previous days video's. P90X Yoga twists you in a way that a fat body just cannot twist, so I guess I am going to put this disc off for now and substitute with some other kind of workout. For today I put the Kempo X video in and did what I could of it for about 15 more minutes and then just had to stop because I am still hurting from the yoga moves. Hopefully tomorrow I will fare far better, more like I did yesterday but all I can do is push on and keep trying.
After I return from Jury duty in the morning I am going to go to the grocery and spend some money putting healthy foods in this house, I may even clean out a lot of the unhealthy food already here. When I started this path I was weighing in around 348lbs. Today I jumped on the scale and saw a 4lb improvement to 344.3lbs which gives me hope.
Now for the working out part, well..... Today should have been the Yoga X disc
, which yoga didn't sound all that hard. At least I thought it wasn't going to be too hard. Less than 1/4 of the way through the video I called it quits my body hurting worse than any of the previous days video's. P90X Yoga twists you in a way that a fat body just cannot twist, so I guess I am going to put this disc off for now and substitute with some other kind of workout. For today I put the Kempo X video in and did what I could of it for about 15 more minutes and then just had to stop because I am still hurting from the yoga moves. Hopefully tomorrow I will fare far better, more like I did yesterday but all I can do is push on and keep trying. After I return from Jury duty in the morning I am going to go to the grocery and spend some money putting healthy foods in this house, I may even clean out a lot of the unhealthy food already here. When I started this path I was weighing in around 348lbs. Today I jumped on the scale and saw a 4lb improvement to 344.3lbs which gives me hope.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Day 3: Tuesday, January 4th 2011
Day 3, hm let me see how many excuses my brain can give me not to work out today. Woke up sick with a sore throat, feeling under the weather, no motivation to move, still hurting from yesterday's workout and on and on. During my normal early workout time I came up with every reason for not working out today and it all came to one thing LAZINESS complete and totally being LAZY.... I didn't jump back on the bad food bandwagon at least and I managed to keep eating decently.
I spent the first part of the day putting in applications and submitting resumes all the while still making up the excuses for not working out, played on the computer some afterwards. talked to my wife and done some housework.
And THEN I made a realization, if I don't workout now, today then more than likely I will find a good excuse to get out of it tomorrow and the next day as well. I got up, grabbed the P90X schedule to see what my next workout disc was, put it in the Xbox
and started the workout. Todays disc Arms and Shoulders X 
along with Ab Ripper X. A small victory for me because the Arms and Shoulders was in reps with a weight of my choice so I grabbed the only set of weights around the house and did the entire 60 minutes of that video, feeling good. I moved on to the 15 minutes of the Ab Ripper X video and couldn't continue it. So I dropped one workout but I managed to complete one whole hour session today!!!
Now for the next time I do this workout I need a heavier set of dumbells but I at least know for me that I can do this workout. I need to find a good post workout recovery formula and I also need to find foods that give a little more energy to go with working out (I guess I should use the P90X diet guide as well), and I have to start drinking more water throughout the day, but I will do this I will succeed.
I spent the first part of the day putting in applications and submitting resumes all the while still making up the excuses for not working out, played on the computer some afterwards. talked to my wife and done some housework.
And THEN I made a realization, if I don't workout now, today then more than likely I will find a good excuse to get out of it tomorrow and the next day as well. I got up, grabbed the P90X
schedule to see what my next workout disc was, put it in the Xbox and started the workout. Todays disc Arms and Shoulders X along with Ab Ripper X. A small victory for me because the Arms and Shoulders was in reps with a weight of my choice so I grabbed the only set of weights around the house and did the entire 60 minutes of that video, feeling good. I moved on to the 15 minutes of the Ab Ripper X video and couldn't continue it. So I dropped one workout but I managed to complete one whole hour session today!!!Now for the next time I do this workout I need a heavier set of dumbells but I at least know for me that I can do this workout. I need to find a good post workout recovery formula and I also need to find foods that give a little more energy to go with working out (I guess I should use the P90X diet guide as well), and I have to start drinking more water throughout the day, but I will do this I will succeed.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Day 2: January 3, 2011
So day two started off about the same as day 1: mediocre. After grabbing a bowl of cereal with a banana for breakfast and getting my daughter on her way to school I grabbed the P90X 
schedule to see what my next workout would be: Cardio X. Knowing how hard Core Synergistic had been, I was a little optimistic that this workout may be a little easier and I would be able to complete a little more of the video than I did yesterday. Well, that wasn't the case at all. Completing about the same amount of time in the workout I again fell out a little less than halfway through the workout.
My body is telling me I accomplished more of a workout than normal though, every muscle group is telling me I put it to use and I feel better than I normally do, wore out but better. I think for lunch today I am going to hit up the Jared diet and go to Subway for a 6" sub on Italian.
After my 2nd workout, I am still amped, still ready to do this and I don't want to lose this motivation I have this time to succeed. I am not going to let the fact I can only do half the workout get me down, I am going to use it to let it drive me and push me to do better with each workout. Do a little more each time, and by the end of the first 30 days I want to be doing the entire DVD to completion, following each step fully and doing each workout thoroughly.
schedule to see what my next workout would be: Cardio X. Knowing how hard Core Synergistic had been, I was a little optimistic that this workout may be a little easier and I would be able to complete a little more of the video than I did yesterday. Well, that wasn't the case at all. Completing about the same amount of time in the workout I again fell out a little less than halfway through the workout. My body is telling me I accomplished more of a workout than normal though, every muscle group is telling me I put it to use and I feel better than I normally do, wore out but better. I think for lunch today I am going to hit up the Jared diet and go to Subway for a 6" sub on Italian.
After my 2nd workout, I am still amped, still ready to do this and I don't want to lose this motivation I have this time to succeed. I am not going to let the fact I can only do half the workout get me down, I am going to use it to let it drive me and push me to do better with each workout. Do a little more each time, and by the end of the first 30 days I want to be doing the entire DVD to completion, following each step fully and doing each workout thoroughly.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Day 1: January 2, 2011
All right, I know it was almost 2 weeks ago that I posted I was going to start working out and posting my progress. Well I got a little sidetracked, with all of the normal excuses to get out of working out and I went through the holidays doing the same ole' thing: eating way too much and not looking out for myself. So starting this morning I ran out of excuses, grabbed the P90X action plan and figured out which set of workouts I was going to start, and dropped in the first disc: Core Synergistics: and started working out.
Within the first few minutes of the workout 2 things were totally obvious to me: 1. P90X was not designed for people as far out of shape as I am. and 2. I am a lot further out of shape than I believed.. I realized it was going to be a hard workout for me because I got winded with just the warm up section of the workout. To start off I managed to do about 1/3 of each workout and about 1/2 of the total session before I was just too wore out to continue.
Tomorrow though I am going to regroup and hit the next DVD and try to get a little further, push a little harder. With a little more each day, I should get to the point of doing the entire workouts within 30 days or so and then I will start to see my weightloss goals come to fruition.
There ain't nothin to it but to do it! Get up, get active, get healthy!!!
Within the first few minutes of the workout 2 things were totally obvious to me: 1. P90X
was not designed for people as far out of shape as I am. and 2. I am a lot further out of shape than I believed.. I realized it was going to be a hard workout for me because I got winded with just the warm up section of the workout. To start off I managed to do about 1/3 of each workout and about 1/2 of the total session before I was just too wore out to continue.Tomorrow though I am going to regroup and hit the next DVD
and try to get a little further, push a little harder. With a little more each day, I should get to the point of doing the entire workouts within 30 days or so and then I will start to see my weightloss goals come to fruition.There ain't nothin to it but to do it! Get up, get active, get healthy!!!
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