Immediate Challenge!

(jumping on the bandwagon here!)

I have taken on an immediate challenge for this week! The first part of the challenge is to get in EVERY workout on my schedule for the week and I'm off to a rip-roarin' start. The second part of the challenge is to keep my eating on track... and aside from the one-single-solitary m-n-m I ate yesterday, that is going very well too!

I had a triumph last night on the eating front as well. I finally go the kids to bed around 9pm (one is sick and the other is teething, it was rough) and I was STARVING... all I wanted was a bowl of cereal and a big glass of OJ, but instead I drank a huge glass of cold water, watched some TV and went to bed... (and patted myself on the back a few hundred times for my restraint). Intellectually I knew I didn't need the food and that this close to bedtime it would just hinder my night long fat-burning cycle, so I made a choice not to eat... despite being hungry. And this morning I was no worse for the wear.

Yesterday's Bootcamp class in the afternoon was BRUTAL! Full body focus with LOTS of stair running, squat jumps, pushups, incline pushups, decline pushups, bar pullups, jumping jacks, shoulder presses, lateral raises, bicep curls, skull crushers, chest presses, incline and decline presses, etc... etc... etc... (did I mention how much I love this class?) Today's Dawn Patrol was all cardio intervals and it rocked as well. Jogging and sprinting, intervals on the stationary bike, intervals while running stairs, intervals on the eliptical, and jumping jacks and squat jumps and then we were done.

In other news... I hit virgin-thin-territory (as Erin said!) this week. I haven't wanted to say anything here, because... well... doing that tends to jynx me in the weight arena, but since the numbers keep showing up I hope it will be ok to announce that I am FINALLY below my pre-holiday weight of 148! Keep in mind I probably gained 5-7 over the holidays and the 148 was probably a rather dehydrated weight at the time... but now I have shown up as a solid 147.5 for nearly a week now and that is pretty durned cool.

For now, it's healthy breakfast time... oh and more water, I'm dien' ovah heah!

Posted by Lexy at April 27, 2004 07:50 AM