Lettuce Eat Cake 2 Update

Feb 1, 2011

And so it begins...

My weigh in on Sunday was 162.0.
My exercise plans for the week:

Monday - P90X Cardio X (5:30 am at Julie's - check! YAY!)
Tuesday - 30 minute strength training/cardio video - check! YAY!)
Wednesday - JustDance (check)
Thursday - P90X (5:30 am) (check)
Friday - Just Dance (snow day)

Feb 8, 2011

I may change my format back to most-recent first. I'm not sure I like having to scroll down to find out if an update has been made....

Well, I'd say last week was largely successful. Thursday I spent cleaning my bedroom because a pipe had frozen and I needed to move all the furniture away from the walls and put a heater there (which worked perfectly for the job!) But in the process it must have sucked all the moisture out of the air because I dropped 5 pounds the next morning. I didn't believe it when I saw my bathroom scale, so I double checked the Wii. Sure enough. I am quite convinced it was all water-weight and knew that was not healhty. So, I began loading up on water to counter-act it. By Sunday's weigh-in I'd gotten back up to 159.8 I was not disappointed because I knew I'd gain some of it back. I am happy it seems to have stablized there.

I've decided I really like doing the P90X at 5:30 am. I feel so good the rest of the day, but by the end of last week I was seriously dragging. I was so tired Saturday and Sunday night that I even went to bed early (10 pm). Apparently my body was trying to fight off illness because it caught up with me last night. It's absolutely amazing how I could lay down to snuggle with my son for 30 minutes and wake up feeling absolutely awful. So, today I'm taking it easy and I'm eating whatever I feel like - potato soup for breakfast and an egg sandwich for lunch (and it's barely noon) - and trying to drink lots of water.

On another note, one of the reasons I've felt exercise has needed to take a back butner before the contest started was that I felt like my house was a disaster and I wanted to spend my time cleaning instead of exercising - which takes up a good 2 hours of my morning. I teach piano lessons pretty much full-time at this point and the bare BARE minimum is what has been getting done. I had a group lesson two weeks ago which meant all of my students come at once and the rest of the week I'm 'off'. It was really refreshing and I began tackling my home. So far I've tackled the kitchen, laundry room, our bedroom, the floors, and my son did the bathroom Saturday. Every morning my youngest has been helping me make beds too. I feel like the house is slowly getting under control again and it feels great! The 5:30 am workout has been really beneficial in this regard because I'm able to exercise, come home and shower, get my 6 yr old to school and be ready for the rest of the day by 7:30 am instead of starting it closer to 10 am.