Happy Holidays!!!

Hello everyone!






First, I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy, holiday, no matter what you celebrate.  Enjoy your holiday dinners and time with family. Even though it is Christmas today, I am still going to get my workout done. I also got my workout done yesterday, which was my cardio/abs day.  Today is another strength training day, maybe followed by some extra stretching. 


Another thing I am noticing- I have been wheat free for about a week now, and my appetite/desire to eat has decreased dramatically.  I am almost never "hungry" and I am pretty sure it is leading me to eat too little calories. Which comes to the next thing.


I have been weighing myself daily (Not obsessively, just once in the morning) and at first I saw the weight starting to come off, but the past couple of days my weight is INCREASING. This is worrying me a little but I will try to give it more time- 


1. I also started my period yesterday, this could be making me retain water.  
2. When you start harder strength training they say weight could increase a little from the muscle gain.
3. Sore muscles (like mine) retain water.
4. (The worrisome one) since I don't eat much because I don't have an appetite, they say too little calories also causes weight gain. I do eat when I am hungry, until satisfied and not stuffed. 


I am not taking measurements until I hit the 30 day mark, but I have been told I seem to be walking more gracefully and with better posture, as well as the sides of my face look a little slimmer.  I also think my legs are starting to slim down a little too but that could just be my eyes playing tricks.  It's only been 4 days (today being the fifth) so I guess I will give it some time.


On a side note. I MISS DOING MY TAM!!!!!!!  I really can't wait to get back to it.  It might be just in my head but I don't feel like I am shrinking quite as fast as when I was doing Meta.  When I was doing Meta, the scale and the tape measure both were going down, whereas now the scale is going up and I have no idea about the tape measure yet. Maybe I should take a 10 day measurement just out of curiosity.


Also, it has been suggested to me that I do both Power 90 AND Metamorphosis but I keep thinking "won't one workout undo the effects of the other???" 




I know exercise is exercise but sometimes I really wonder about this stuff. Hrm.

Power 90 Day 3

Hello!


Ok, so I got the hang of how Power 90 works now, and the first two days I sorta just went with it to see what it would feel like.


Day 3, another strength day, hurt. It hurt a lot.   This time I did something different.  Instead of trying to do as many as I could trying to keep up with the people in the video (not completing all 15 reps of most of the exercises), I did what I used to do with Metamorphosis- watch, pause, do, repeat.  It took a little longer than the 30 or so minutes but the end result is I was able to get the most out of it


Speaking of muscle soreness and cramping, if you didn't already know, drinking coconut water is a great way to help alleviate some of the pain.   The reason is because coconut water has a lot of potassium in it (more than a banana) and it is very hydrating.  While at Costco today, I was browsing the aisles (I haven't been there in a while) and to my delight and surprise, they now carry 12 packs of Vita Coco plain coconut water.  Pricing depends on your local Costco but by me it was a little over $15 for a pack of 12 and I ended up buying 2 cases.


Today is Christmas Eve, some of you may already be celebrating early, or depending on where you are, it might be Christmas now.  Hannukah is also in progress, so I will close this post by wishing all of you (wether you celebrate or not) a happy, healthy holiday season.

Power 90 Day 1

Hello everyone!!!! 




Yesterday I did my first day of Power 90.  


The first day I did the sculpt 1-2 workout, which is basically strength training.  Having not done such a workout in a very long time, this was actually pretty challenging. I am still sore today, too. Also, as I said, I did also do my Beginner Dance Cardio DVD. All I can say is wow.


1. I felt more muscles worked than in Meta cardio. Blows it out of the water.
2. I can't believe I was able to remember all the dances from before! I only watched the learning parts a little bit to refresh my memory.
3. I can't believe I was able to do all 4 combinations without a break. Perhaps there IS still hope for me.  Perhaps I will be moving up to Dance Cardio 2007 sooner than I thought.




That's it for today, time to go do my second workout! 

Taking a break from TAM for now... but hear me out!

Hello everyone~




Yes, the title is true. I am putting TAM on the backburner now after careful thought. (I have also posted thoughts of holding off on it before)


I am not saying that TAM doesn't work. It does. It's just not working FAST enough for what I need it to do.  I want to lose the initial 80-90 pounds relatively fast and when I am lighter, THEN go back to TAM to refine the work I have done on my body. If my starting weight was around 160-170 pounds then it would be fine. 


I am doing Beachbody's Power 90 program right now, and MAY go on to P90X to lose more (I am too out of shape to do P90X at the moment). It all depends on the kind of results I get with Power 90.


Yes, these programs require a lot of weight training and stuff, but bulking up right now is not really on my list of problems. My main goal right now is just to burn off a good portion of the fat I have.  Worry about bulking/toning up/refining my shape later. 


But that's not to say that TAM will totally be out. I still want to do the cardio portion for a few reasons.


1. The Power 90 workouts are not very long. Especially the strength training days. I want to add some extra cardio if possible. Nothing wrong with doing cardio every day, now is there?


2. I want to be able to have learned all of the dance cardio (or most of them) by the time I am back to doing TAM.   Meta and Boot Camp cardio is boring and by then I want to be able to dance around.  The choreographed stuff is not just more mentally challenging but physically as well. 


I do not doubt that TAM will make you lose weight. I just want the initial flab off faster even if it means doing "traditional" exercise. 


Have a great day and I will post my first workout day shortly.