Day 10

Welp, last day of level 1 on 30 day shred today. Tomorrow morning, I will get up and do my workout and weigh in. Guess that means I better be up pretty early so I don't have to rush. 

I'm totally loving this 30 day shred followed by a short class of zumba on the wii! I had so much energy this morning, I'm pretty sure that the 2nd years were thinking I was crazy and that they wanted me to leave them alone in all their nervousness for their practical this morning at 8 am. I made up little goodie bags for my sponsee and two friends who had their practicals this morning. Chocolate and this piece of fun!

How fun is this?!

Anywho. So tomorrow I'll have my 30 day shred in the morning, then a 2 hour zumba marathon at the rec center at 530. I'll be amazed if I can make it through 2 hours of zumba! I guess we'll see tomorrow. Luckily I only have Primary Care clinic in the morning and nothing in the afternoon, so I'll be plenty rested for it. Tomorrow is going to be a fun day, I'm pretty excited and pumped!

See you tomorrow morning bright and early.

Day 8

I've made it 8 days! I can't say that I've been good for those 8 days, I skipped 30 day shred on Tuesday and yesterday, so I've only done it 6 times, but I'm getting better. I have two more days on level 1. If I feel up to it I'll be starting Level 2 on Wednesday.

I did 30 day shred and then a short class of Zumba on the wii today. Man oh man, how I've missed zumba! My schedule hasn't allowed me to go during the week at the rec center and I've been lazy on the weekends previously, but I have it on the wii. I guess I need to use my wii for something other than Netflix and wii voting... Speaking of zumba, I will be attending a zumbathon on Wednesday at the rec center, for Toys for Tots. Wow, I just realized that Wednesday is going to be a full day; I'll have level 2 on the 30 day shred and a 2 hour zumbathon, but at least I'll only have to do a half day of clinic, other than getting my peds check-offs.

There's only two more weeks of the semester and then a week of finals, so keeping up with my exercising is going to be difficult for me. I've got to keep getting up in the mornings to knock it out so that I don't talk myself out of it in the evenings. Surprisingly, it's been fairly easy to get up in the morning and work out. I'm not very happy with the results that I'm not getting my doing these exercises and eating OK (in between healthy and non healthy)... but we'll get to that on Wednesday when I check in with my measurements. I guess that I just have to be more diligent with my eating habits and ramp up my energy with working out. I'm going to try to add zumba this week in the morning with 30 day shred. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.” 
― Zig Ziglar

Day 5

Whoops, it's been a few days since I've posted anything. It's been a rocky couple of days emotionally.

So, Day 3, Tuesday, I was so sore that it hurt to sit down and to put on a shirt. Since I'm just getting into working out, I didn't want to push myself too much and decided to take the day off.

Day 4, yesterday, I got up and did the 30 day shred. I had intended to blog yesterday, to walk around the neighborhood, to clean... Yeah, I didn't get any of that done. I got home early and was expecting a package to be delivered by UPS, so I just passed the time waiting for them to show up. I finally got my packages at 9pm! Wow, they must have had a lot of black friday stuff to deliver, at least that's what I was waiting for. I was so excited, it was my VS order. I have been drooling over this star bikini from them for as long as I can remember. Naturally they didn't have it in my size so I ordered one size smaller to hang up on the wall and to serve as inspiration for my weight loss journey. I haven't decided on exactly where to hang it up yet but I'm thinking I need it somewhere between the kitchen and the couch to prevent my couch potato eating habits.

So, I think something is going on with my scale. I dropped 3 pounds on Monday morning and this morning, I'm back up those 3 pounds. I don't know what the deal is, but I'm going to try to not let it affect my mood in the morning, just an inspiration to continue eating well and exercising.

Day 5, I got up again this morning and did the 30 day shred. I am still not able to get through the entire workout without stopping a few times, and it's mostly the cardio stuff that I have to stop during, the strength and abs I can do slowly but at least continuously. I think it might have to do with the fact that I don't jump high off the ground and my floor is carpet, it's got to be easier to do on a wooden or laminate floor. But I'm going to keep on keeping on. This weekend is going to be the big trial for me. I love my sleep and I love to sleep in late and practically all day. I'll be forcing myself to get up and exercise and then I'll get out to a coffee shop or the library to study. Weekends are just so darn depressing for me. I hope that the above plan will help the weekend and myself to not be so depressed.

Man my eyes are tired. I'm sleepy. This is what I get for going to bed late and getting up early to exercise. I must get to bed earlier, I cannot live on 5-6 hours of sleep. I'm gonna need to get 7-8 hours, which means I'm going to have to start going to bed around 9-10 pm. Which means I'm going to have to actually study when I get home and not put it off for an hour or two while I while away my evening on the tube. OMG, I just realized that I'm going to miss Vampire Diaries and Gray's Anatomy tonight due to a contact lens workshop this evening.

Well, see ya tomorrow for another exciting (boring) installment of shu10str's life!

Day 2

Whew! Just finished my second 30 day shred workout. Will be on level 1 for at least 10 days. I did not want to get out of bed this morning, it was so warm! But I made sure that I slept on the far side of my bed by putting pillows on the other side, this forced me to actually get up and walk around the bed to turn off my radio alarm. Then my ipod alarm went off a few seconds later. Double alarms all the time because sometimes I don't hear one; don't know why it just happens.

I'm having a little heartburn this morning. I think it's just from finishing my 20 oz pepsi, that I got for the drive back from Georgia, and eating a frozen pizza for dinner. I will be better today, I have Thanksgiving leftovers for dinner and pb&j for lunch. Speaking of pizza, I forgot to mention this last night. I have ordered Papa John's pizza wayyyy too much. The delivery guy accidentally came to my apartment last night instead of the right apartment in my building because he is used to delivering to me! Ahhh!!! Not good! My promise to you is to not order a single pizza during this 30 day shred. I may break and get a frozen one from the store, but I will not order delivery, that much I can promise.

Ok time for some breakfast and a shower. Oh, and I'll weigh in on here on day 11, the first day of level 2, but I will be checking in on myfitnesspal every day after my workout to hopefully get myself in the healthy mindset by not wanting that number to go up the next day. I know it may, water weight is a factor, but this may help to monitor my sodium and water intakes. Laters!

*Update*
It's now almost 5 pm. It's been a long day, I'm super tired. I'm also very sore, my thighs are sore, my arms are sore, there are places on my body I didn't know could be sore that are sore! (if that made any sense). Today would be the kind of day that I would order a pizza. I got out of school early, it's getting gray outside, I don't feel like leftovers, I don't feel like making anything either, but I will eat my Turkey day leftovers and have a big glass of water, maybe even some cocoa for dessert. Then I will get some studying done and I think I'll be turning in early tonight, especially since I didn't get to sleep 'til past midnight last night and got up at 530am... <sigh, yawn>

Day 1

I'm starting this new blog because it was tiresome for me to sign in and out of my blogger account to get to my gmail calendar and back and forth, so I'm linking pages to my craft page and my previous weight loss blog. I will combine the two together from this point forward, unless I can figure out how to post to those through here.

So today marks day 1 of the 30 day shred. Mom and I are doing it together in our separate homes, me in B'ham and mom in A town. Day 30 will be Christmas eve. We are truly taking on a challenge as it is holiday season and we have to be careful to workout every day and eat healthy. My challenge will be to log in and post on here and on myfitnesspal every single day and just talk about the challenges of the day; what made me not want to work out and how I talked myself into doing the 20 minutes of strength, cardio, and abs, and how I talked myself out of eating that something sweet. I am going to try to get up early in the mornings to do this workout so that I can study in the evening and it may be easier to prevent myself from talking myself out of working out because I have so many other things to do for school.

So day 1, level 1 of 30 day shred. I have to admit that I wasn't expecting it to be too difficult. I mean I can make it through 50 minutes of zumba without stopping, but this was different because it is interval training. Strength, cardio, abs... 3,2,1. I admit that I stopped a few times, but hopefully by the end of the first 10 days I'll be going strong, we'll see.

Ok so moment of truth... before picture and measurements.
Weight: 231.6 lbs
Bust: 44 inches
Waist: 38 inches
Hips: 50 inches
Thighs: 30 inches

Before

I think that is all for tonight. See you tomorrow.