30 Day Shred - Day 3

for some reason today seemed harder than yesterday. i continue to get very short of breath. i really need to find my inhaler!

starting weight: 149.6
weight today: 148.6

i wish that pound of weight loss actually meant something, but if I were on the Biggest Loser i would definitely be below the yellow line! oh well, it's really not so much about weight as it is about toning up. and also, i really want to lose this baby pooch.

i'll keep the baby tho! he's going to be 4 months old this Sunday and he weighed in today at 18 lb 12 oz. that's 12 oz more than the size 2 diapers that he's wearing are supposed to fit. we have about 60 diapers left to go through and i hate to waste them. i think he can go through these in a little less than a week so hopefully we'll get through that without too many blowouts!

G is such a cutie! i know i'm his mom so i'm supposed to say that, but truly he is. he loves to be on the move and carried around (a little hard on the back since he's almost 20 lb now). we can't lay him down without him flipping over on his stomach. he can't flip back on to his back yet so that frustrates him. sometimes when i'm feeding him, he'll stop eating and just look up at me and get this huge smile on his face. it's adorable! and also in the last couple of weeks he's starting to laugh. usually he giggles for me when i'm kissing him all over his face. it's amazing how this little person can change your life so much and how it can be so incredibly hard and so awesome at the same time.

30 Day Shred - Day 2

after working a 10 hr day today, i got home at 7 pm (12 hours after leaving the house this morning). i then changed, changed G, fed G, put G to bed, ate dinner, pumped and finally (at 9:15) started day 2 of the 30 day shred. i really didn't feel like it but i forced myself to do it. i got through the whole video tonight without once checking the amount of time left in it. go me! i was definitely short of breath (boo, asthma) but i tried to push myself.

starting weight: 149.6
weight today: 149.2 (first i put the scale down on the floor mat in the bathroom and it said 142.1. false! then i moved it on to the tile and got this much higher and more accurate number)

obviously the two dozen or so wanna-be oreo cookies that i ate at the office today haven't shown up on my scale yet. i'll keep my eye out for them tomorrow. i know they're here somewhere!
score - cookies: 24, willpower: 0

30 Day Shred - Day 1

whoo hoo ~ the 30 Day Shred renewed on Comcast OnDemand! even tho i did two days of this last week, i'm going to call this day 1. i weighed in at...i can't believe i'm going to type this...149.6 pounds. (already down almost 50 lbs from having a baby just a few months ago!) i'd much rather take my measurements and go off of those, but i didn't have time to do that tonight.

7 minutes in i was already hitting the play button to see how much time was left. about ten minutes after that I did something funky to my right knee. it hurt. a lot. i couldn't really do the next few exercises - the 'butt kicking' cardio move was modified to be barely running in place as it hurt too much to bend my knee. weird because it's my left knee that i've always had problems with in the past. i pushed through and did the best that i could do to finish the workout.

i will call my current level of skill on this workout "hot mess." it can only get better from here...? according to jillian, i am well on my way to being shredded. i sure do appreciate her confidence in me.