God Awful Start

It's Day 8 of my second session of boot camp (almost half way through), and I have attended four days. NOT GOOD. Starting today, it's no more excuses. No staying up late, because it either makes me oversleep or be so tired that I decide to skip boot camp. I need to make sure I'm eating five times a day (breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner) and not eat after 7PM (unless I'm going out with friends, and even then, avoid snacking) and drinking plenty of water. I have one and a half sessions left, and I want to get the most out of it that I can.

So Much For That!

So... I didn't exercise this week. At all. The weather was just shit all week long, and then finally on Saturday it clears up, after the unofficial off week boot camp is already over. I don't even know if anyone else showed up because of the rain. I totally could have worked out at the place I was house sitting at, but rainy days make you feel so unmotivated and staying in bed just felt like a better idea at the time. Meaning every morning.

But Round Two of boot camp starts tomorrow morning, so tonight I will be taking a melatonin to knock me out early, since I kind of ruined my sleep habits a bit this past week. Can't sleep in past 720, gotta have that banana and orange juice for breakfast!

LiveFit Week Four Pictures And Measurements!

FIRST OF ALL! I want to share something I am incredibly proud of. In boot camp, there are two benchmark tests on the first and last Fridays of the session. This is what we have to do in 40 minutes:

On February 17th, I got through 23 squat thrusts in 40 minutes. This Friday, March 9th, I completed the ENTIRE test in 36:36. FUCK YEAH! I never thought I would do that well, I was only hoping to get past 23 squat thrusts, to be honest. (:

Now on to business. I know I'm a couple days late on this, but here are the pictures and measurements for the end of Week Four of LiveFit Boot Camp!

Day 1Day 20

Day 1Day 20

Measurements time!!!

Bust Before: 37 inches
Bust After: 36.5 inches

Underbust Before: 30 inches
Underbust After: 30 inches

Waist Before: 31.25 inches
Waist After: 30.5 inches

Upper Hips Before: 37.5 inches
Upper Hips After: 36.75 inches

Lower Hips Before: 40.5 inches
Lower Hips After: 40 inches

Overall Inch Loss: 2.5 inches! Not too shabby! (:

I have to wait until first thing Monday morning to weight in, since I've been eating and it won't be accurate now. I'm not expecting much, if anything at all, in terms of weight loss, since I figured I'd be gaining a bit of muscle this past month. Since muscle is more dense than fat, I may weight the same even though I'm smaller. I'm getting to the point where I'm not worried about the number anymore because what actually matters is how I feel. As long as I feel healthy and happy, I'm good. (:

I also won't be taking a week off between the end of this boot camp and the start of the next. A group of us are getting together at the usual time at Howarth Park to do an unofficial off-week boot camp. So glad, because I do not want to gain back any inches in that week.

Week Three Pictures

So I ended up not going to the JC boot camp on Saturday, and instead I did some exercises at the place I was house sitting using my weights that I keep in my car. I'm feeling a bit pudgy this week, but it happens.

Day 1Day 15

Day 1Day 15

I should make a note that when I say Day 1 or Day 15, that refers to how many days I have worked out. So while Friday should have technically been Day 15, it was Day 14 because I didn't do boot camp on Thursday, and thus Saturday is Day 15 of working out.

I'll be honest, I'm scared of the week between boot camp sessions. I'm terrified that in one week, I'm going to completely screw up all of what will be four weeks of working out "M-F." I'm going to need to plan some light workouts to keep myself in the habit of working out.

I'm also a little frustrated that I haven't seen as drastic results as I was hoping at this point, but I need to remember that weight loss is harder when you don't have as much to lose, and I need to just keep up with my workouts and focus on eating as healthy as I can and drink enough water on a daily basis. I've got a 32oz refillable water bottle, so as long as I can drink one before I leave for work and drink a second before I go to bed, I think I'll be fine.

Pictures On Saturday

Because I didn't go to boot camp on Thursday, I've only completed four out of five workout days this week. To make up for it, I'm going to one at the Santa Rosa JC campus on the track at 730AM on Saturday morning. I don't want to take end of the week photos today if I haven't done my five workouts, so I'll be taking them tomorrow.

Ow Ow Ow!

Let's just say the first couple hours of getting an IUD sucks. On the bright side, no more pills and the cramping is 98% gone! I will fully admit that I whined like a baby a few times and refused to leave my heated mattress pad from 12-145PM. Couple semi-sharp feeling pokes, waves of level 8 cramping for a few hours (nothing a heating pad and Midol couldn't fix), and that was it. It's a different experience for every woman, but in all honesty, the entire experience wasn't all that bad for me. I'd gladly do it again for the peace of mind for 5-10 years (depending on which one you choose). If I find after a year that Mirena (5 years and levonorgestrol, a progestin hormone) isn't for me, I'm going to get Paragard (10 years and copper, meaning no hormones).