Laziness Will Bite You in the Ass

Last week, we all know, was my return to P90X full time.  Well.... on Thursday, it's yoga day.  I don't like the yoga dvd.  I don't know why, and I am kind of tired of thinking about it.  SO. Moving on.  Last Thursday rolled around and I came up with many different excuses for why I didn't have time to do the yoga dvd.  All of which were crap.  Utter crap.  Then I didn't work out again until Friday.

Then no work out Saturday because we were gone all day (we went to see Wicked, which was AMAZING and I'll write about later) and then Sunday is usually my rest day and it was our one year wedding anniversary, so I didn't do anything then either. Crap, crap, crap.

This all means that today, tomorrow and Wednesday, I will be doing two work outs per day until I am caught up again to only one work out per day.

Just in time for yoga.

Crap.

Gotta Love That Feeling....

With the onset of exam week (which I am totally prepared for - I love not freaking out about finals!) I have time once again to finally get back on a regular schedule for P90X!  Everyman is done with rehearsals until the Monday that classes start back up which is good for break, but I'll miss everyone and I hope we all remember the great progress we made the last few weeks.  And, when classes start up again, I will be able to workout at 8a every day, because my classes start so late in the day and I'll have enough free time in the morning to be able to workout, shower and eat!

With everything stopping like this for the end of the semester, it seems to be a parting of the waters - so to speak - for me to finally be rested enough/awake enough/have enough time to be able to finish the P90X cycle I was on before the semester started moving faster than the speed of light.  So, last night I adjusted my P90X tracking sheet dates and popped in Core Synergistics X.  I was pleasantly surprised that after almost a month of not doing the work outs six days a week that I had only lost a little of my progress - I have never been good at push ups anyway.  I think that part of it is that Everyman is physically demanding enough that I was able to kind of maintain my progress.

I worked out hard and I didn't do the bonus round, which may have killed me if I tried it last night.  I also don't do superman/banana (I don't feel that AT ALL) or the Dreya Roll (I physically can't do that yet, but I'm working on it) but this morning when I woke up and moved to go to the bathroom, I knew I had done it right.  I could list all the muscles that are sore when I move, but with my prior knowledge of all the muscles, I would be listing them for days.

In a little side note, Adam and I are celebrating our own Christmas a little early this year, since we will be visiting family on the actual holiday.  So on Sunday (our one year anniversary - holy crap!) we're spending the day together ignoring the world and we'll open our Christmas gifts from each other that day too.  But! We both got to open one early because I couldn't wait for him to open one of the things I got him.  And last night I got to open one and now I have heavier hand weights for my P90X - WOO!  I had 2 lb weights prior and that was NOT heavy enough.  So now I have 5 lb Valeo Hand Weights and I'll talk about those after I use them the first time, I didn't open them until after I had already done my work out.

So, to wrap up a completely random post: it's exam week and I'm ready for it, Everyman is on break until classes start again and the rehearsals are physically demanding, I have time and have started doing P90X again, I have 5 lb weights now, Our one year anniversary is on Sunday and we're having our own Christmas at home before we visit family.

I think that's everything....


Go vote for The Williamston Theatre on the Pepsi Refresh Project!  I thought the other day was the last day for voting, but I think it was just for that cycle....  I'm not sure.  Go VOTE!

It Works! It Really Does!

As those of you who follow Weight Watchers® know, they just unveiled their PointsPlus™system, the biggest change in their system in 13 years.  And those of you who read my blog know that I have not actually attended a meeting in person in several months, but I was still trying to follow the plan on my own.

Well, with this change, that has become impossible (the following the plan on my own, not the attending the meetings, my schedule is what prevents THAT.)  Even though I wasn't going to meetings, I was still on the Weight Watchers® mailing list.  With their new unveiling they were running a special that you could either do a month of meetings for $50 or 3 months online for the same.  So, duh, I did three months of online, way better value, so I could get a handle on the new program.

So far, these are the changes: The old system for weekly food points was based on Calories, Fat and Fiber.  The new system is based on Fat, Carbs, Protein and Fiber.  The activity points still look at the same things, activity length and intensity, but I am NOT a math whiz, so I don't know how it's different on the inside.  You also get more Daily Points and I think that the extra Weekly Allowance is tailored to you.  For example, I now get 32 points a day and 49 points for a Weekly Allowance, instead of the 26 and 35, respectively, I had before.


I also joined Fat Cyclist's campaign to lose 10 lbs by Christmas.


I am off to a good start.  Since Monday, when I re-joined Weight Watchers®, til today, I lost 3.2 lbs.  The first weigh in for Fat Cyclist's thing is Monday, so hopefully I will keep it up!  With that 3.2 lbs down, I hit my 10% loss again and I am at 25 lbs down (since Spring Break 2010).  WOO!  Of course Weight Watchers® is freaking out because it somehow got mixed up when I entered in my new starting weight.  I had just put in a guess when I re-signed up, because I was in Moore when I was doing it and not near my scale.  So when I deleted the original number and put in the actual weighed number it thought I had lost weight, even though the new number was higher and warned me about losing weight too fast.  So, when I weighed in this morning, it warned me again, thinking I had been consistently losing more than 2 lbs a week for more than five weeks.  Really confusing.  But don't worry, I'm being healthy about it, I ate all of my Daily Points every day and I ate most of my Weekly Allowance.  (I LOVE FRENCH SILK ICE CREAM!!! ...low fat, of course...and pie....with Cool Whip Free....)

Also, we decorated for Christmas, and I'll post a picture of that with some stuff about that too.  And the end of the school year will get its own post too.  And Everyman.  And P90X, when I restart that on Monday.

Right, well, yes, 3.2 lbs down, ~60* to go!

*That may change.  Depending on how happy I am when I get into the healthy weight range for my height, which is a 30 pound spread.  So, if I am happy with how I look and feel healthy at 140 or 150 or somewhere in between, then I will switch to maintaining.  A whole new monster - just in time for Courtney's Wedding in June!! :D

RANDOM

Always watch oatmeal when it is in the microwave - it blows up - true story.

Check your e-mail before you get to campus, class might be canceled. You think I would have learned by now.

Honey makes oatmeal better - yum.

I want it to snow really bad, but all we get is wind and rain.

But I like thunderstorms.

Oatmeal is hard to eat fast.

Theatre classes are harder than you think.

Today is Day 16 so I'm doing Cardio X this afternoon.

GLEE IS BACK TONIGHT! OMG! OMG! OMG! (Sorry, had to get that out of my system...)

I have to perform a Shakespeare monologue on Thursday and I can't get the last 4 lines in my brain to stay.

Admission: some of you may have seen my Day 2 of 30 Days of Truth on accident, please ignore it, it wasn't finished.

I have a scene in 10 minutes, wish me luck!!

I will add more random thoughts when I think of them.

*EDIT*
More Random:

I feel bad for posts that don't have as many views!

I AM SO EXCITED!! I HAVE 30 VIEWS TODAY AND 69 ALL TIME! (haha, 69! Sorry, immature.)

Day 13 - I don't start on Day 1

No, you aren't seeing things, this is the first post, but it's day 13 for me on P90X doing the Lean program. For me, Saturdays are Kenpo X and I love it. Kenpo X is P90X's name for kickboxing, not sure why...

Anyway, Kenpo X is a lot of fun and if you have any pent up anger or anything, it's definitely the way to go. I've tried to put a finger on exactly why I like it so much - but I can't. All I can tell you is that I am excited to work out on a Saturday. Normally, in the past with other workouts (e.g. the gym), I would find excuses to not to work out. The weather sucks. I'm tired. I have too much homework. AKA, I was lazy. (And I still am) But KenpoX is so much fun I love to work out on Saturday mornings.

Thank God my rest day is Sunday, I don't think there is anything fun enough to make me want to work out on Sunday. Come on, even God rested on the seventh day. (Even though it's day 14 for me tomorrow.)

I also weigh in on Saturdays. Because way before I started P90X, I joined Weight Watchers. And not because Jennifer Hudson started doing it - I pre-dated her, HA. Sorry, anyway, I quit going to the meetings because I, a broke college student who is married to another broke college student, couldn't afford the monthly/weekly fees. And it seemed frivolous to spend that money there when I could use it to save for Study Abroad for next semester. (I'm only going for a week, like I could afford to Study Abroad for a semester. Pfft.) I'm still following the Weight Watchers program however. I track my points and exercise, etc. It's so easy, why wouldn't I?

Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, "Jenny, if you wanted to save money for Study Abroad, why would you buy P90X? That is really expensive and broke college kids can't afford it." Well, this is where my mad baking skillz come in. A friend of mine was in a car accident a year ago and was told she would never walk again. She told the doctors, and I quote, "F*ck that, I'm walking again." And she is. But, because of that accident, she can't do P90X. So, in trade for the DVDs, I baked her some apple pie - YUM. So, here we are, Day 13. (The pie trade was her idea.)

Wow, tangent. My bad. Anyway - weigh ins on Saturday. So, I weighed in today and I gained 0.4lbs this week. Suck. But that's what yummy food that you don't calculate the points for before you make them and eat them. The Pioneer Woman has some delicious recipes but they aren't exactly low point foods, not that she pretends that they are low fat recipes. For the first time ever I actually ended up eating some of my activity points this week, which blows. Poor planning is not your friend when you are trying to control/lose weight.

And I would like to leave you with a thought: Not all low-fat/no-fat food sucks. Except Neufachtel Cheese. I do not like that crap.

Ok. Good night! (And by good night, I mean, I'm going to go do homework.)