Week 7

I'm definitely hitting the point where I am ready for a change, and the program isn't as exciting as it used to be. It's become a struggle to make myself work out every afternoon. This week I missed two days of the scheduled workout, but I competed in a Urban Race that had us running around the entire city of Charlotte, so I'm calling it even. The race was basically a mini-Amazing Race with 12 clues that we had to figure out and then go to that location to compete in some sort of challenge. Check out their website to see if it is coming near you because it is a good time (and there were people who came with kids in strollers for you moms)! One of our clues was to find 2 strangers to do the YMCA with us, so I posted that picture too since it makes me laugh.

I'm still holding strong not losing any weight. It's amazing that I can work out 6 days per week for over an hour each day and not lose a single pound. If I wasn't taking the weekly pictures to compare the before and after pictures, I would probably be pretty discouraged.

Weight: 142.6
% Fat: 21.8

Week 5 - Recovery

So this week's schedule was a recovery week so it was all either cardio, yoga or stretching. It was weird because even though I got my workouts in I felt like a slacker because I wasn't sore all week. It also didn't help that I read on someone's facebook that they started P90X this week and lost 5.5 lbs in 6 days....WTF! I figured since I haven't drank much beer since I started that it would help, but not so much.
I decided to do a comparison this week so the first photo is this weeks, and the photo below it is from before I started. I can see a difference when I compare them side-by-side, so it is making a difference.

Weight: 142.0
% Body Fat: 21.7%

Week 4

This was a pretty busy week with the family coming in town for the weekend. Thankfully it wasn't too busy at work, so I was able to get all of my workouts in during the day. I didn't want to wake up my family on Sunday morning to do my kempo (AKA kickboxing), so my neighbors got to watch me do it in my driveway. I'm sure they now think I'm crazy. I somehow only drank 5 beers the entire weekend, which is unheard of when my family gets together, so I deem that a sucess for my nutrition. Hopefully it helped to cancel out the au gratin potatoes, creamed spinach and cheesy corn we ate with our Easter lunch. I weighed myself yesterday afternoon after our huge lunch and delicious desert and didn't like what I saw, so I waited until this morning and weighed myself again with better results.
This week was almost injury free except for one fall on my head during yoga. Seriously, who can do this pose below without falling. This picture will have to hold you over because I was too lazy to do take mine yesterday and I don't know if Joe will be home at a reasonable time this week to take them for me.


Weight: 141.0 lbs
% Body Fat: 21.7%
Both have decreased, so maybe the trick is to weigh myself first thing in the morning before I eat anything.