T25 - Day 1

I won the weight loss challenge for one week (a few weeks ago) and got $60! I now want to win at least ONE more week, then I'll break even with my buy in of $120. I would love to win the POT at the end of the 10 weeks. However, this one lady has one almost every week - besides two. I think she may be the one that will win it at the end.

My workouts have been VERY sporadic. I haven't been able to make it to the gym more than 1x a week. Some weeks I wasn't able to make it at all. Between work, kid's appointments, my appointments - it's been nearly impossible to make an hour. I knew this would happen and I've been OK with it. 

Yesterday I decided to get a little more "committed" to working out. I HATE working out at home... I really do. I'm more of a morning workout person than an evening workout person. I just don't have the energy at the end of the day, most of my energy is jumbled in the morning hours. 

Little Guy used to wake up at 5/5:30am every morning. Lately, he's been consistently sleeping until at least 5:45/6am. YAY for that! I decided to try this working out from home thing again. I used Focus T25 before and have the videos. I actually have MANY workout videos!! But this is the quickest and pretty effective workout. It's 5 days a week, 4 days is 25 minutes, and 1 day is 50 minutes. Here's the "Game Plan: 

• Go to sleep by 9PM every night! Lay out workout clothes before going to bed. I've been going to sleep closer to 10-10:30pm. 
• Wake up at 4:15am, start workout at 4:30am. Eat breakfast afterwards (another area I haven't been doing consistently). 
• I printed out the T25 calendar so I can visually see it at my desk and am X-ing out the completed days. 

Last night I went to bed closer to 10pm!! But I still woke up this morning at 4:30am and started the workout at 4:45am. A little later than planned, but I did it! 

Now... to stay focused and get through the first week. 

Back to the Gym

After such a crazy January, I was FINALLY able to go back to the gym today for Zumba. Man, I absolutely love Zumba! So much fun. 

As part of trying to get pregnant, I'm supposed to be trying to lose weight. I'm happy to report that I've lost 11 lbs since Dec! 

I haven't been able to work out as much as I would like, but I have been able to try and watch what I'm eating - eating less. Working on making better decisions. But this is good. I'm hoping to get 10 more off by March to get to an even better weight. 

Work Weight Loss Challenge - 10 Weeks

Some of my co-workers are doing a Weight Loss Challenge for the first 10 weeks of the year. It goes like this: 

• Pay in $120 
• Each week, the person with the most percentage of weight loss gets the "pot", which would be $10/person each week. 
• The "winner" after the 10 weeks gets the remainder of the "pot". 

I figure, might as well. My IUI may be delayed until March anyways - with the potential fibroid surgery in February. 

Why not? Maybe it'll help motivate me to keep up with my workout program. 

The challenge begins 1/9 and ends 3/20. It's almost perfect timing, must be a sign to do it. 

Here's to being motivated to workout...! I hope :)