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30 Day Shred: Days 6-8

September 29, 2011 By Lisa Leave a Comment

I’ve completed days 6, 7, and 8 of Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred and I have to say I am completely amazed at how much more endurance I have. I seriously thought I was going to die on day 1. Yesterday, I still pushed myself, but it was so much easier.

The pushups are still the hardest thing for me. I have no upper body strength and even doing “girl” pushups is difficult. I can make it through the first set without too much of an issue, but the 2nd set I can barely do 5. Oh well…on the first day I could barely do 5 in the first set. At least I’m making progress.

I’ve had my workout done by 8am every day this week, so I’m quite proud of myself. With as crazy as my week has been, I know that if I hadn’t finished first thing in the morning, I probably wouldn’t have finished at all.

Tomorrow will be day 9 and I think I’m going to move to Level 2. I’m pretty sure it will kick my butt, but I’m OK with that.

I’ve been eating horribly this whole week, so the only thing that’s probably kept me from gaining a zillion pounds is my workouts. I need to get back on track with my eating, but I feel sooo unmotivated. I know it’s the right thing to do and I know I’ll see huge results if I combine good eating with 30 Day Shred, but I just can’t convince myself to do it. I keep saying “I’ll start tomorrow” and so far tomorrow hasn’t happened.

If any of you has tips for getting back on track with your eating, I’d love to hear them.

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30 Day Shred: Days 2-5

September 27, 2011 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Although I have been a serious slacker in the daily recap posts, I’m happy to report that I haven’t been a slacker in doing 30 Day Shred.

I’m not going to go into detail about each day since I’m jamming multiple days in 1 post, but I will give you a short recap.

Day 2: I bought weights for Day 2 instead of using soup cans and couldn’t believe how much harder it was with 3 pound weights. (Yeah…I know 3 pounds isn’t much, but after doing pushups, I can barely lift my arms)

Day 3: This is the 1 day in my 30 days that I gave myself permission not to shred. Instead, I woke up at the crack of dawn and did a half-marathon. Yep…I did 13.1 miles on Saturday, so I gave myself permission to not exercise the rest of the day!

Day 4: Sunday was a super busy day for us. We had church in the morning, dinner plans at 6, and I had plans to meet a friend to walk later that night. I also had tons of housework that I needed to catch up on. After lunch on Sunday, I worked around the house and then realized I had 45 minutes til we needed to leave to meet our friends. I knew that I probably wouldn’t be home til after 10, so I had to get my workout in right then.

I threw some workout clothes on and proceeded to do 30 Day Shred. My body was still super sore from the half-marathon on Saturday and it didn’t help that my 13 year old sat on the couch making sure I did each movement correctly and that I didn’t slack off for a second!

Day 5: I managed to convince a friend to commit to doing 30 Day Shred with me on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of this week and next at 6am. Although I didn’t feel like getting out of bed, I headed to the gym to meet my friend for a quick workout. 30 Day Shred is definitely more fun with a friend.

That’s the scoop around here! Have you been working out? What have you been doing?

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30 Day Shred: Day 1

September 23, 2011 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Well…I survived Day 1 of my 30 Day Shred Challenge. I’m sore this morning from doing push-ups. I hate push-ups and they hate me too, but maybe in the next 30 days, I’ll be able to advance from my current “girl push-ups” to “real push-ups”. We’ll see…

I’m going to try to get Day 2 done this morning so I can have as much recovery time as possible before tomorrow’s half marathon.

I need to run to our storage unit (or possibly the store) for hand weights this morning. When I finally got myself motivated yesterday, I couldn’t find any weights. I knew if I left my house, I might get distracted and never make it back for a workout, so I decided to use some canned veggies. They worked just fine (although they’re much lighter than the weights I would have used). I’ll keep you posted on my progress!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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30 Day Shred Challenge

September 22, 2011 By Lisa 1 Comment

I have been seriously bleh lately. I don’t know if I’m lacking willpower or motivation or both, but I haven’t been eating as well as I should and my exercise schedule has been iffy. I know that I need to get my butt in gear. I am sooo close to reaching my weight loss goal. I’d hate to blow it now.

I’m also leaving on my annual girls shopping trip in 30 days. I’d love to be in the best shape of my life when we go.

So I’ve decided to let Jillian Michaels kick my butt for the next 30 days. For the next 30 days, I will be doing Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred every day (OK…not every day. I’m doing a half marathon on Saturday so I’ll give myself that day off from shredding). I tried to do 30 Day Shred once before and gave up on day 3 or 4, but I figured if I announce it on the blog I’m much more likely to stick with it.

If you’d like to join me in my 30 Day Shred quest, I’d love to have you. You can purchase Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred on Amazon for $7.99 or you should be able to find it at Walmart or Target. If you want to start today, you can also get 30 Day Shred on Amazon Instant Video.

I’ll be sharing my recap posts daily! Leave a comment if you’re joining me…the more the merrier! And I’ll feel even more obligated to actually stick with it!

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September 18, 2011 By Lisa Leave a Comment

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