Hello everyone!!!
This is my last post of 2011, (it may be 2012 already for some of you right now) and I want to say I am very thankful and grateful to my readers for their support.
I hope that 2012 is a happy, healthy, and successful year for all of you. If you go out and party, be safe and have fun!
Tomorrow I begin my 2012 weight loss challenge, I hope everyone sticks to their New Years Resolutions (at least for January, hahaha).
It's not going to be for about 6 more hours, but here goes:
Hello everyone~
In my last post I talked about my challenge for 2012- and here are my goals, as promised!
1. My exercise goals- I am starting Meta fresh with the new year. I would PREFER to do it with an hour of dance cardio but as long as I get at least 30 minutes in a day, that's good too.
2. Journal- I have a wire bound journal dated all the way up to May 31, 2012.
3. Dieting goals- eat 3 times a day (I have been eating maybe 1-2 times a day which is just as counterproductive as eating too much food) and keep it grain free.
I hope more of you join in on the challenge! Regardless, I will be blogging my way through it.
Very excited to start!!!
Hello everyone!
As 2011 is coming to an end, I have been thinking about the new year, resolutions, and all that. So, I decided that I would come up with a challenge for 2012 and you are all invited to join in!
The challenge is pretty simple. Here's what it involves.
1. Set exercise goals. They do NOT have to be TAM workouts. Pick a workout you like and make a plan. Example, work out 4 days a week for 40 minutes a day, etc. You can always change them later if your start goal isn't working out as planned, but the point is to have some kind of plan in mind.
2. Keep a journal. Ideally write down what you ate and what workout you did. I have a paper wire bound journal but making a journal even in Microsoft word or something is good enough. As long as it's recorded somewhere. Studies say that keeping diet/food journals help a lot with losing weight by making us more aware of what we eat and how the calories and such add up.
3. Set dieting goals (if you need to lose weight). Again, this is based on the individual.
4. I made a secret Facebook group for anyone who wants to be in on this to keep accountable with each other. Your friends won't see it, outside people cannot even search for it so you will be able to keep this to yourself. If you want in, please let me know. This is, of course, optional.
5. (again optional!) Join MyFitnessPal.com if you haven't already. I am on it, and I love it. It's free to join and it has an Android and Iphone/Ipod/Ipad app which is also FREE. If you join, add asagi722 as a friend. (That's me!)
I will be posting my goals soon. I already do have them figured out, only working on the diet part now.
Hello everyone!!!
Some of you may have heard of a new accessory you can get for the Xbox 360- the Kinect. I ended up getting one for a late Christmas gift!
What it does is connects to your TVand like the Nintendo Wii you use your movement to control the games. Except the Kinect has no remotes, it scans your body and you use your arms and legs themselves.
Additionally (and why I mention it in this blog) it can be a good workout tool.
I also got a game with it called Fighters Uncaged. It's what it sounds like- a fighting game for the Kinect.
Yes, you actually do have to punch and kick. And it's harder than it looks. The one bad thing about this game is that the controls are not as responsive as I'd like but trying to do the moves also gives you a workout in itself.
Another game I really want to try- Dance Central 2
Here's a clip of someone actually playing it
I like that you actually have to dance, with your arms and legs. I think this will be my next game, I think it would be a fun addition to doing Meta (which I took off today, really wasn't feeling good but I will do it tomorrow) .
Do any of you have Kinect? Do you have any games you'd like to try?
Hello everyone!
Quickie post!
I completed a second day of Ab meta, just as intense as before. It was NOT easy because yesterday made me really damn sore and I also am having bad cramps. Despite that I got it done anyway with a few small differences.
1. It took way longer because I was feeling weak (period be damned)
2. I was very tired by the end of the dance cardio, instead of doing the actual last combination the way it was taught, I just did a lot of grapevines and step touching as intensely as I could handle.
The end result- still very sore, haha. I do feel more tighter and sucked in also.
I really hope this soreness starts to lessen a little. It's hard to walk and everything. >_<
Hope everyone had a good Tuesday!
Hello everyone!!!!!
After some consideration, I have decided that I am going to give TAM one more shot for the new year. In fact, this is one of my new years resolutions- to give TAM a full year to work on me and see what happens.
I am giving myself a week head start by starting Meta today.
I decided to put a little more "oomph" into it. I did all the arms and abs twice, followed with 40 reps per leg. It took 2 hours, a lot of sweat, but that got done. On my new Tracy mat, which I must say is WONDERFUL. It's really thick, dense, and cushiony and it made my workout that much more enjoyable. I do not regret that purchase at all.
Next, I popped in my good old friend Beginner Dance Cardio. I did all 4 combinations in that and the warm up and I was pretty much spent after that. WAY more sore than when I did Meta cardio. You move your body in a much bigger variety of ways doing the cardio DVDs.
And yeah, I gave op Power 90. For one, I thought it was actually kinda lame. Yeah I sweated and all but I wasn't impressed really. Also I wasn't seeing the same results AT ALL that I was seeing before when I tried TAM. So, I concluded that it's just not for me and I am going back to what I know.
I am soooo exhausted after my workout today, I am going to hit the bed but I hope you all had a good Monday!
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.
