I just finished day 4 on Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred. Now I haven’t been doing them consecutively; as a matter of fact there were 3 days between today’s workout and the previous one. I planned to workout yesterday, but some scheduling conflicts came up, so I didn’t get it in. I was sad. I really wanted to because I didn’t want that many days between working out, I wanted a good weigh in this week, and I got new shoes (Puma’s) for working out. But, alas, I wasn’t able to get it in. Oh well. I did do it today however, and I must say the 3 days in between is not good. I felt like I was back at day 2. I had to hop back and forth from one foot to the other during the last set of jump ropes and jumping jacks. BUT, I was able to do ALL the pushups! Yay me! That’s a huge thing for me because I’ve NEVER been able to do more than one or two pushups…EVER. So, even though I was more out of breath, I accomplished more.

Okay, so on to today’s weigh in. I didn’t record it because I had to get up this morning and go to the court house with my mom, and I couldn’t find my camera, so I just got on the scale real quick before I jumped in the shower. And the scale said….

212.2

So that’s a loss of 0.6 lbs from last week, and a total loss of 9lbs. since I started. Not as much as I hoped, and I’m going to blame it on not getting in as many workouts as I should have. Only 1 this week. But, hey, it’s still a loss so I’ll take it. I was really hoping to get down to 210, my first goal, which is 5% of my body weight. But, oh well. I know I’m eating pretty good, though I COULD really step it up there. I do choose some not so healthy foods now and then…so….

When I reach 210 I also want to measure myself again. I can tell in my clothes that I’ve lost inches, so I really want to see the results, but I will wait till I hit that goal.

I did have a nice NSV (non scale victory) though. Yesterday my daughter and I went to Wal-Mart to pick up some stuff for her slumber party she’s having tonight. A friend of mine who works there, that I hadn’t seen in a while, walks up as we were waiting in the check out line, and asks me if I’m losing weight. Yay! She said she could tell, especially in my face. I’ve only lost 9 lbs. so far, but it was nice that someone noticed who doesn’t know I’m working at it. Know what I mean?

Anyway, that’s about it for now. I’m really going to try to eat much, much healthier this week to see if it affects my efforts any differently.

How are you all doing?