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. 

Back to the Gym...!

I wasn't able to work out as much as I would've liked last week. There was a lot going on with regards to appointments (for me and for Little Guy).

BUT - I was back TODAY for Zumba. I have to say, I feel sooooooo good after I work out... I really do! I just love Zumba. I missed it so much. It's like a long-lost friend.

This week isn't looking "clearer" or anything, with Little Miss possibly arriving any day now. However, I do believe I'll be able to work out 4x's this week - with two of those being Zumba. So yippee for that!

It's been so long since I've consistently worked out... that I forgot how much my body loves to move and feels so rejuvenated after I have a nice workout session. Now, just to get the discipline to do my "at home" workouts. THOSE are a challenge because I actually have to FORCE myself to do it. Not as fun as Zumba. LOL.

I feel good. Just need to keep it up.

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 :) 

Back to the Gym - ZUMBA

I haven't been back to the gym for over a year!!!! I used to be REALLY good about going to the gym and watching my weight. One of the issues with having a baby is that I am overweight. If I can drop my weight, my period will normalize on its own (which will help me get pregnant), it'll be better of my diabetes management, and I'll be healthier overall.

<sigh> So, WHY haven't I been to the gym in over a year you may wonder...

Truth is, being a single foster parent is time consuming. My little guy had so many specialists appointments early on. I would use my lunch break from work to take him. My lunch break is when I used to go to the gym...

There can be arguments that you can "find the time" - go after work and such. But after work was my time to bond and spend time with my little guy and I didn't want to trade that. Not to mention, I had other commitments that I was participating in - which just meant I had a time issue.

Well, those are my "excuses"! I know that there are many people out there that will argue about making excuses. I used to be one of them, believe me. The truth of the matter is, I was overextended with my commitments and something had to give for my sanity & time management. That just happened to be the gym.

I never cancelled my gym membership because I always intended to go back. I absolutely LOVE Zumba class and didn't want to give it up.

Today, I went BACK to the gym and I went to Zumba class!!! YAY ME! It kicked my behind... but I enjoyed it. What was really nice is, some of the ladies in the class came up to me and "welcomed" me back :) I forgot how much of a community I build with some of these random stranger ladies in Zumba class. LOL. It felt good and I'm glad I went.

My schedule and time commitments haven't changed... What's changed is - I'm going to go WHEN I can. That's not going to be 5-6x's a week...! But that's OK. I'm going when I have time in my schedule to go. That's going to have to be good enough. For example, I can't go to Zumba this Wednesday because of a work meeting. That's OK. I'll go WHEN work/schedule allows me to go.

I'm also going to work in other stuff like circuit training. I'm just not going to stress when time is short and I can't go. I'm going to do what I can, which is better than not doing anything at all.