A Healthy Postpartum

To begin the journey to greater health the first thing you need is imagination. You need to see beyond today to perceive that you can indeed say no to seconds, cheesecake and overcome other struggles. Right now all your clothes fit you, your comfortable. Buy a pair of jeans a size or two to small. I knew I could make it back from 180lbs to 155 because I had been 155 only a year earlier and had an entire wardrobe I wanted to fit again.

Since last January I've become considerably healthier, tracked by weight and messurment, I've lost 35lbs and a total of 12 inches which can be seen in greater d-tail in the messurments tab above. I love feeling healthy and every time I'm excercising I get to thinking, how can I help other people break ground in their own health transformation. The best way I could think of was sharing the day by day process that brought me to where I am now.

I hope you are inpired by my fitness story. As I record my P90X round 1 journey and other health endevours I have attempted, both the successes and the failures. I stared a round of insanity assylum, but realized in the first week it was above my current abilities. I'm going to be taking the P90X challenge for another spin.

as a note, I'm still updating my 2011 P90X round 1 story, I did record most days in the journey, it's just a matter of typing them out and posting them



Tuesday, July 12, 2011

P90X Day 85

I walked 3 miles around town to do some erands and visiting but didn't do my workout. I had a headache from being in a room with a pick coil, which was better than being in a room with mosquitos and my eyes burned from the onions that where cut for egg rolls.
I've got to do something about my sleeping habits, I slept in to late to go to moms and tots today I was sad to miss it =(

Brunch
waffles 4
butter 3 tbsp
lite aunt gemimas maple syrup 4 tbsp

Snack
whole wheat bread 2
butter 1 tbsp
jam 2 tbsp
DQ buster bar

Monday, July 11, 2011

P90X Day 84

Surprisingly even after everything I ate yesterday I felt great in the morning.
Wesley woke up at 6:30 in the morning for some strange reason fortunately she wasn't to difficult about going back to sleep.

Breafast
coyotes flax seed ready mix pancakes 4
butter 2 tbsp
lite aunt gemimas maple syrup 3 tbsp
coffee 1 cup sugar 1 tbsp milk 0% 3 tbsp

Snack
arrowroot cookies 2

Lunch
bean soup* 11/2 cups
lite campbells alphabet soup 1 1/2 cups

Snack
bean soup* 1 cup
cheese string

Supper
spanish rice with peas 1 cup

Other
two scoops ice cream cone

Sunday, July 10, 2011

P90X Day 83

woo hoo, second time I've done this so far, I woke up at 6:30 in the morning and did my workout it felt so good throughout the day knowing I didn't have it hanging over my head all day. In the evening I sat back and thought, you know I'd be struggling to find time to fit this in now, but I've already done it so yay me.

I guess I should really start thinking about what I'm going to do after day 90. I did taekwondo from when I was 15 to just last year at 6 months pregnant so I know how to be intense which is probably why I'm getting such great results even with an unhealthy snack here and there.

Part of the reason I had initially started P90X was because I went back to class 5 months after having Wesley and couldn't stand how poorly I did, in my head I knew I could do the things they where asking me to but my body just wouldn't do it, I actually gave up half way through and left.

That club isn't running anymore but Wade drives an hour twice a week to another club, they train national fighters, secretly I hope I'll get good enough to make it into that class. Maybe I'll join him with that and continue doing weights on the other days... oh, and I'll fit yoga in somewhere cause I love it so, and stretching because it's so very good for me. In fact I'm not sure which ones I could part with except Kenpo because Taekwondo would replace it.

Workout: Kenpo
Intensity: 9 it was morning and I didn't quite feel all there yet

Breakfast
whole grain bagel
lite strawberry cream cheese

Snack
marie tea time cookies 3

Lunch
farmer sausage 4oz
frozen burger 4oz
white burger bun 2
fried mushrooms 1/4 cup
lettuce 1/2 cup
tomato 1/4 cup
ketchup and mustard 3 tbsp
watermelon 1 cup
bell peppers 3/4 cup
lemon mirangue pie 2 large pieces
chocolate cake 1 small piece
sour cream and onion potatoe chips 1/2 cup

Snack
yogurt cup 1% 2

Supper
mixed bean soup* 1 1/2 cup
greek bread salad* 2 1/2 cups

Other
raspberries 1/4 cup
strawberries 1/4 cup
banana 1/2
milk 0% 1 1/2 cup

*from the recipe book Company's Coming 30 Minute Diabetic Cook Book

Saturday, July 9, 2011

P90X Day 82

I got to bed around 2AM last night after completing my workout, the important thing is though, I completed it. I'm finally seeing progress with the chin ups, 83 days later and it's about time I was beginning to think I'd never be able to do more than three (with chair suport by the way) my goal is to be able to do 1 without the chair by my fit test on day 90

We went to the Ichiban Japanese restaraunt for Dans 25th birthday they cooked the food right in front of you and put on a show it was very entertaining and I got to see everything that was going into my food, though I didn't know what all the sauces where.

Workout: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper
Intensty: 10

Breakfast
whole grain bagel
lite strawberry cream cheese 3 tbsp

Snack
value pack protein bar

Lunch
turkey taco salad 2 cups
chinese 5 spice chicken noodle soup
1/2 whole grain bagel

Snack
marie tea time cookie 2

Supper
veggie soup 1 cup
white rice 1 1/2 cup
shrimp 4oz
chicken breast 5oz
sirloin steak 5oz
mixed veggies 1 cup
soy sauce, terryaki, sesami oil type of sauces for everything amounted to about 3/4 cup
traditional japanese green tea 1/2 cup
green tea ice cream 1/2 cup

Friday, July 8, 2011

P90X Day 81

Alright, I must confess, I chose to hang curtains and clean upstairs today instead of do my workout. Wesley went for a wonderful long nap in which I could have gotten it done but I told myself, you know I'll just do it when she's awake I'm sure she can keep herself entertained and play around me while I do it. But I didn't even try it out once she woke up. On the other hand, the curtains look great =D.

I was going to do it after she went to bed as I have taken to doing lately (and wind up in bed by around 1:30AM most nights) but I fell asleep. I'm not discouraged by it though maybe I'll just swap today with sunday and count it as my rest day, then I'll still get all my workouts in, I'll just miss stretching which is sad cause I do enjoy stretching.

In other news, my cat brought a live garter snake into my bed last night the bigest one I've seen in my life, fortunately he was standing guard over it and wouldn't let it go anywhere. That's what I get for falling asleep instead of doing my P90X.

Breakfast
whole wheat bagel
lite strawberry cream cheese 3 tbsp

Snack
value pack protein bar

Lunch
five spice chinese chicken soup* 2 1/2 cups

Snack
whole wheat bread 2 pieces
butter 1 tbsp
cheddar cheese 3oz
no sugar jam 2 tbsp

Supper
turkey taco salad* five cups

Snack I was still hungry at the end of the day so had an extra snack
vector cereal 1 1/2 cups
milk 0% 1 cup

Other
green tea 3 cups
arrowroot cookies 3

*from the recipe book Company's Coming 30 Minute Diabetic Cooking

Thursday, July 7, 2011

P90X Day 80

The big 80, only ten days away. I've definately been cheeting a lot this month. I want to get more serious though. I'd like to prove to Wade how incredible this program is so he'll join me for round two later, I'm absolutely certain that if I could get my eating right and stop sneaking junk in with my healthy food I'd blow myself away with the results. Only way to know is to try it.

Lissy went food shopping with me today, yay I love when I've got a whole fresh stock of healthy food in the house it gets me pumped for the upcoming week.

Breakfast
apple cinnamon instant oatmeal
milk 0% 1/4 cup

Snack
milk 0% 1 cup
marie tea time cookie
sunflower seeds 2 tbsp

Lunch
low sodium alphabet veggie soup 1 1/2 cups
canteloup 1/2 melon

Snack
mcdonalds hot fudge sunday

Supper
smokie
white hot dog bun
ketchup and mustard 2 tbsp
mayonaise 1 tbsp
2 pieces little caesars pizza

Other
homemade caramel mocha smoothie
lite microwave popcorn 1/2 bag

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

P90X Day 78

I did my Plyometrics, I'm so happy with myself. Fed Wesely, bathed her, and as soon as she went to sleep I did it. No stalling or distractions today.

Today Lissy and Mom came over to help me get the house ready for the evaluation they worked on painting the back fence and cleaning my yard, which I am extremely grateful for. Then we went to a second hand store and picked out some nifty decorations for my house and tried to get curtains put up but found we had chosen the wrong size of curtain rods, that was a little disapointing.

Workout: Plyometrics
Intensity: 10 but I didn't do the bonus end bit, I just did some extra stretching

Breakfast
apple cinnamon instand oatmeal pack
milk 0% 1/4 cup

Snack
Value pack meal bar

Lunch
chicken quasadilla wrap
tornados house salad
coffee 2 cups 4 creamers 4 sugar packs

Snack
chocolate milk 1L

Supper
french toast 4 slices
low sugar syrup 4 tbsp
1 egg
1 cup 0% milk

Other
milk 0%
4 marie tea time cookies *I eat these now and then just cause I love them not for any nutrition reason.