New Dress

Starting to feel like a real girl, I now own dresses! This is one for the beach, my family is going together this summer and I needed something to wear while walking on the beach. (plus it will be a nice one for dates with Matt *teehee*)

Smaller everyday

Size 14 top that unfortunately? (or fortunately?) is already getting to be toooooo big

Day ??? Technically day 90

Big time lost track of what day I was on, so we're going to say this is day 90.
Found a GREAT online photo cropping/editing site, as suggested by my friend Chelsea,
called Pixlr.com so I will be updating with photos again every week! :)

Video Update

Recovering

It's been a month of me being out of commission, injuring and re injuring my knee over and over. I finally sucked it up and bought a knee brace, and holy crap does that thing ever help, I'm finally being able to bend my knee fully again.

I am slowly working Turbo Fire back into my life, heavily modified and every day my knee is getting stronger. I'm going to post my shameful progress pics soon to help me get re-motivated to continue my journey, either tomorrow or the next day. Strange how I've lost weight since I hurt my knee and yet my belly and legs have gotten fatter looking. Must have lost a lot of muscle while I was sitting around resting my knee. Fortunately my size 16 pants still fit as do all of my new XL (as opposed to XXL)shirts.

As soon as my knee is 100% I will be jumping back into my official Turbo Fire schedule and finishing up Phase 3. I can't wait I've been so bummed out and grouchy not being able to get my routine in every day.

Today I managed to do a very heavily modified HIIT 20 class followed by stretch 10 class, it felt AMAZING, I've missed Chalene and the music and the sweat, I hate sweating and I missed the sweat!

Check back in either tomorrow or the next day for my new progress pics! Won't be fun for me to share but I need to.

Rest Days and Injury

Rest days are VERY important, don't forget to take your rest day, I worked out on my rest day, thinking it would be fine, I was very wrong.

I injured my knee while doing squats with weights even though I was doing them properly. I have had bad knees since I was 18, and knew my decision wasn't a wise one, but all I was thinking about was faster results, now I've delayed my results via injury. So just remember to relax, and enjoy your rest days, and just remember even if you do injure yourself that you can still do some workouts like arms and core that don't involve your legs so don't get discouraged!

Day 81

I'm at the end of week 3 of phase 2, I did 2 months of Phase 1 before I started Phase 2.
This week I mixed it up, I did not do the scheduled workouts every day, I did Fire 30 and then rested, then I did Fire 30 and Abs 10 and yesterday I did Upper 20/Lower 20 I am doing Stretch 40/Core 20 tonight, I was just terribly bored with the same schedule week after week for 4 weeks (phase 2 has the same set of workouts for 4 weeks) I'm not saying that I wasn't seeing results with the schedule they had laid out, I was, I was just getting sooo bored with it. Starting tomorrow I'll do the scheduled workouts again, I just needed something different, I wasn't feeling sore anymore because I was too used to the workouts, but now I am feeling sore, the advanced classes kick your butt!