Day 3

Finally, most of this cold has left! I have a lingering cough, tickle in the throat but that's it. So this past Monday, 12/26/11, I began to work out.

It was really hard to start again. I had to really push myself to get my butt up there and push play for Power90. I managed to do so, keeping in my mind it was only 35 mins or so, just half an hour, I can do that! So I did it! Although it is more like 40 minutes when you count the Ab Ripper 100 into it which is part of the Sweat portion of the program. It was difficult to get up there as I kept putting it off in the morning. Getting caught up with work, waking up late....having to wait at least 30 minutes after I ate, trying to get the snack in and again having to wait 30 minutes. I finally saw a window of opportunity however and just forced myself to get up there to do it!!

Of course, once I finished, I was so glad I made myself get up there!

Yesterday, was easier, knowing it was Sculpt and it's even less time than Sweat. To me, the Sculpt part is much easier and I enjoy it more as I am working with weights.  I'd rather that than to do the aerobic parts.

I put it into my mind that this is Power90, that means, 90 day program. Three months sounds like a long time, but it really isn't. Look, already December is about over! Where did the holiday time go? It just flies by! And, in just 3 months, the Ren Faire will start! Scarborough Faire! That brought to mind how last year, around this time, I had started to work out faithfully and had lost a good deal of weight and I was able to fit into a smaller bodice for Faire! I remember feeling so wonderful and the vendors could see the difference in me!! I was on air! At the Faire! ;)

I want that again...so, looking at that goal, I have a good three months to get there! That really just turned things around in my mind and three months no longer seems daunting but instead, I am glad and grateful for that time, to have it so I can really work on this weight and to feel healthier and trimmer!

Of course this wouldn't be the Wild Weight Loss Ride unless I dipped...so I did...yup, I am back to 199.5. Can you believe that?? Geeezz....but no sense beating myself up over it. I couldn't believe it but then again, I could believe it cause I was sure feeling fat the last week or two and then sick on top of that and just couldn't stop coughing and there goes incontinence and oh joy! Just really horrible. I ate bad, no exercising....so yea...kablam...
Did I really need to be smacked over the head yet again? Obviously so.

But...yea, no sense beating myself up anymore. I know the drill by now. I have to stop the yo-yo'ing. I know how to lose this, I know what to do. And...Beachbody is there, waiting to catch me and I can hear Tony talking to me and saying Wanda...get to it. Push play! You can do it! You can do it and stay there!
I know I have all the tools and have all the help and encouragement I could want and need. But I knew I needed to really commit myself....so I went back to WOWY. I wanted to on Monday but forgot to pull it up and the same yesterday. This morning, I was bound and determined so I went ahead and went to the site this morning before I went upstairs and got into WOWY in my account and scheduled the workout. Then I went upstairs and did it for Day 3!! I kept thinking yesterday, ok, 90 days...Day 1....Day 2...now, I just finished Day 3, that means I have 87 more days to go! I am going to count down! Count down my way to fitness!

I also saw where on WOWY, you can schedule a whole program onto your calendar! Oh I like that! I was looking for my Power90 chart/poster they send you but I can't find it. I wanted to cross off the days. Of course my Power90 DVD is so old now that that paper is probably long gone by now. I couldn't download another but that's ok, I was able to set it up on my calendar in WOWY and that will work. It will also help me to be accountable and responsible.

Of course, I have been drinking my Shakeology as well and did so here or there the past few months and it probably prevented me from gaining more than I did. I got a new scale for Xmas and also another pair of capri workout pants and top, new socks too. Hint and a half eh? No...I did ask for them.

I won't do doubles (two workouts in one day) until later on in the program. I am going to just stick with the Power90 alone for now as I know it has been way too long since I worked out and I don't want to kill my muscles. I am already a lil bit sore but I am already, starting to feel more energetic and more like my old self too! :)

I did take my measurements on Monday and logged them in. It was a bit sad to see them nearly back to what they were before but again, I know what to do to change that and fix that.

I get my new computer today and I can't wait to get things set up with that! I can catch up on my other blogs and I am so looking forward to it!

So we say goodbye to 2011. A year of alot of endings and some beginnings. I know 2012 will have a lot of new beginnings and a few endings but it should be a really great year in comparison to this year!

Crud is Nearly Gone!

I haven't forgotten, just been trying to rest a lot lately with this whole cold and allergy combo hitting me so hard. The coughing finally slowed to nearly nothing now. :)
I can still feel some congestion and some liquid in my sinuses but it's alot better than when I posted last!
I should be able to be back to working out again full on come Monday. I want to give myself a chance to rest a little longer to be sure. Of course cycle started as well so I feel like I hit the restart button somewhere in my body!

We didn't order as many goodies from Swiss Colony this time around so that is good, less in the house. I've been drinking alot of that green tea ginger ale with the added antioxidants. I know the soda part of it is not good tho' and so I picked up some coconut green tea which is very good! So I'll end up replacing the soda with that. Today is the last day for the soda.

I have been drinking water too, a lot of that as well and more peppermint tea. Trying to rest and take it easy as much as I can. I picked up a real tree and a rosemary wreath for my bedroom to help as well with my breathing and to make the air better in there and I have run my air filter more often to help as well with the allergies.

I can definitely feel and see an improvement. Not 100% yet but it's getting there. :)

I do feel motivated to pick up some more workout shorts/capri pants and get back to it! I am excited to be close to starting again and getting more fit by April before the Ren Faire starts! I felt so grand when I put my bodice on and had to use the one size smaller earlier this year! I just felt so wonderful like I wanted to just twirl and I could really see the difference too! I am just so close on the edge and I know it wouldn't take much at all!

Just have to get over this cold and then get to it!!!

I'll post again when I start! :)

The Attack of the Crud

Well the crud finally got me. Just as I was starting to work out, bammo, I picked up an upper respiratory infection that is going around. :(
This really has laid me low and scared the heck out of me, complete with breathing attacks, to where I feel I can't breathe in the middle of a coughing attack.

I had gone to the doc's the Monday of Thanksgiving week and got a double strength 3 Zpac but it didn't really take my cough away. My allegra was too old and I couldn't take that and needed more. Friday night, my son began to feel the same scratchy throat that I had started out with too and so by Sat morning, I knew I had to get him in to see the doc as well. I called up and was able to get a walk-in that morning! WOW! Talk about lucky! So I went along and got myself back in again too while I was at it.
She listened to my lungs and they are clear, thank goodness but she could hear me coughing and so gave me some cough suppressant with coedine as well as prednisone and had me pick up some allegra as she said they are no longer allowed to prescribe that since we can get it over the counter now.
For my son, he got straight up penicillin and some tessalon pearls. With him being a heart patient, I don't fool around with him having a cold. She had me pick up some AllegraD for him but not to take it until after his allergy testing. We just had part one of that completed yesterday and he'll go back on Wed, tomorrow for the other half. Looks like he has some allergies for a few things but not near as bad as myself and my daughter do. He'll get the food test done however tomorrow and we'll see and then figure out how best to approach his.

So here I am, back to whatever weight it may be. I haven't looked. The doc's had me back up to 194 but that's with clothes and after breakfast, etc etc. But I figure at least around 192. Now that I am just starting to feel better and have been able to finally sleep, I am back to starting to eat right. As soon as the cold is gone, I'll get back to working out. New goal now will be to trim up by Faire in April. It will give me enough time to do so. This cold has really knocked me for a loop tho' and I know I have to rest my body at this time and not push it.

Looks like a December start date then for the holiday workout.