30 Day Update!!

Week 4 and a little bit of week 5 all led up to my 30 day mark in this 90 day challenge! I waited "patiently" to step on the scale until the BIG moment yesterday! I am very proud of myself for being able to glare at the scale all week, but NOT get on it. I just want to say how incredibly proud I am of my other challengers in my group! We have all been kicking BUTT on this challenge! I am so amazed at the results I am seeing from all the other ladies in my group. But what I get to share today is my progress and my results from my first 30 days!

Day #1 vs. Day #30: Progress is Progress!

My first week, the scale didn't seem to want to budge. I thought I was going to be stuck above 140 pounds FOREVER. I don't know why, but it hardly even occurred to me that this challenge really was going to get me back down to my pre-pregnancy weight! I was just going into this challenge to get anywhere closer to feeling like a REAL person again instead of the blubbery, baby-capsule that I had felt like for so long. And now I feel like I can SEE the pre-pregnancy me right around the corner! And it's only been a month! SO CRAZY.

My scale gave me incredible news yesterday morning! I have lost 7.2 pounds in the last 30 days!

I didn't really feel the need to "calculate" how many inches I lost because my first measurement was my right bicep...and it got BIGGER since my day #1 measurements! All thanks to my P90X. :) OH! After my second week of doing solely P90X I changed it up and did all Turbo Fire on week 3. AND THEN, when Turbo Fire gave me and my asthma a run for our money, I manipulated my schedule to an infusion of Turbo Fire 3 days a week, alternating with the muscle building videos of P90X the other 3 days of my workout week. Not every workout is for everyone! I have found my happy medium, and it is apparent from my results that it is working for me! Losing the baby weight AND building up the muscles I forgot I had!

This week I was so excited to see results at the 30 day mark, I skipped my cheat meal! I was STRONG and managed to make my family's favorite cookies for my in-laws to try and I didn't eat any of them! Although I will admit that I licked the spoon after mixing the batter. Lol!

Being STRONG in my mind is being able to choose to say NO even to my favorite recipes!

Random Thought! For the life of me, I could not figure out how the HECK all these girls in the Turbo Fire videos kept their hair up during all the action and jumping around! I have long hair, but not thick hair, and I was resorting to using a new hair tie each day so that it was still elastic enough to hold my hair up for the entire workout! That was just ridiculous! I knew there had to be a better way. When I was at the little grocery store the other day I found my solution! These things work SO WELL! So if anyone else has my same problem, go look for these nifty hair ties, they were my life savers!

Miracle Workers.

OK! Back to business! My 30 day photos are taken and I am so excited to see a change in myself compared to a month ago! It's hard to see the results when you are looking at yourself every day in the bathroom mirror. You could be making SO much progress and never notice until you compare pictures from then and now! I do apologize for looking like I just rolled out of bed...because that's exactly what I did. I was far too excited about my 30 day results to care about my hair or face being done. In the same outfit as my first day photos of course!

Yes, I'm short and these pictures make me look even shorter!

Right bicep is getting so much more muscle! Can you tell which arm I carry my daughter around with? Lol.

Not all mommy tummies flatten out after child birth. I am having to WORK at it.

 

 

 

Getting there! One day at a time. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Some random additions I made to my first 30 days were that I participated in a January Crunch-A-Thon on Facebook put together by my AMAZING Coach Marlena Hedine! The challenge was a fun little something that I could do to help myself make progress and really FEEL as though I was pushing just a little bit harder each day. I completed 6,000 crunches in the month of January! How crazy is THAT?! It's amazing how being part of groups, or challenges or just setting small goals in your mind can PUSH you farther than you thought you could go! I am currently participating in the February Challenge as well, and already having so much fun with it! Along with that I have also set my own goal for myself of doing a February Squat Challenge I found on Instagram. Set goals for yourself! Write them down! Look at them every day! Make smaller/short term goals! It is FUN when you reach little milestones in your journey to fitness!