The Pain

I never thought the pain would be this bad. It hurts to do a lot of things, especially sit. Part of me wants to skip tonights workout but I know that would not be fair to myself. I just wish there was an easy way to push pass the pain that did not involve giving up. Maybe I will go for a nice walk after my son wakes from his nap and call that a day?

Day 2 and 3

Day 2 was horrible. I missed working out cause my son decided to go to bed so late that I ended up falling asleep with him. So I did that days exercise the next day. I didn't even survive through a third of the workout before I shut it off. Every time I would jump my legs felt more and more like jello and the last jump I did I could not pick myself back up.

Then that night I did day 3's workout. Holy cow am I sore today! Not only are my legs killing me but so are my arms. It hurts to change my clothes, brush my teeth and even just sit on the couch. No more double workouts in one day. That's for sure.

Also my eating habits have only improved a little bit. I am still eating some dairy but it is not as much as a use too. So hopefully by next week I will be able to completely cut it out and I can start shedding the weight.

It's been three days and I have already lost a little. After my first post I reweighted myself and turns out I put down the wrong weight. I officially started out at 231.1. Yesterday I weighted myself and I was at 229.2. I am just hoping it was actual weight lost and not just water weight. At least I can find out for sure when I go to the doctor's today.

Hopefully I can lift my leg high enough to get on the scale.

Day One: Chest and Back

So last night I did my first work out and it was tough as hell. I am gonna be honest yesterday was no where near what I had planned. First off I did not follow my vegan diet. I had forgotten that I had an appointment in the morning and skipped breakfast come lunch time I was so hungry I almost ended up eating half a pizza. You heard right, HALF of a pizza. And with that I am going to start off with logging all the horrid le things I ate and drank yesterday.

FOOD JOURNAL

Breakfast:
     Skipped

Lunch:
      4 slices of olive and mushroom pizza.
       24oz Rootbeer

Dinner:
       4 small pk of my son's gummi snacks.
       1 LG McDonald's sweet tea

Water:
       4 glasses

WORKOUT LOG

Chest and Back
Push ups: 20
"Pull ups": 20 (improvised with 2lb weights)
Military push ups: 10
"Reverse chin ups": 20 (improvised with 2lb weights)
Wide push ups: 10
Close grip pull ups: 25 (improvised with 2lb weights)
Decline push ups: 6
Heavy pants: 25 w/ 2lb weights
Diamond push ups: 10
Lawn mowers: 20 each arm w/ 2lb weights
Under the fence: 2
Back flys: 20 w/ 2lb weights

I was only able to do 25 minutes of the work out because my son came into the room while I was doing back flys and I accidentally hit him in the head with my weight. Thankfully it was only 2 pounds so no damage done. I also did not realize till later that night that I had forgotten that I was suppose to do the Ab Ripper as well.
But after today I will be following my diet and workout completely. No cheating or half assing anything.

Day one done, now to get started on day two.  

Introduction

First I want to start off with a little history. I have been battling with weight loss almost my whole life. The first diet I tried was Weight Watchers and I was in the sixth grade. I did not lose much weight on it which made me more upset and I just ended up turning to more food as my escape. When I was 15 I decided to become a vegetarian, spent my last three years of high school hoping that not eating meat would help me lose weight. Boy was I wrong. I not only did not lose anything but I ended up gaining and I started wearing nothing but hoodies in hopes of hiding my ever growing stomach. But I guess when its a 100 degree summer and you are wearing a long sleeve shirt people notice you any way.

Nearing the end of high school I had gotten food poisoning, which I think of as a good thing because if it never happened I never would have gotten my butt in gear and started to lose weight. I was sick for two whole weeks and lost about 14 pounds. Only thing I could handle was eating Jell-o. So after I got better I replaced my dinner with a cup of Jell-o. After I few months of this and finally graduating high school I was able to get out of the 200 pound range.

Then I realized I was lactose intolerant, which lead me to being a vegan. I really loved being a vegan. Since eggs and milk are found in a majority of sweets, and seeing how I had to literally stop eating all the foods that kept me from losing weight, a life as a vegan seemed all to magical. Only a few months after dropping milk and eggs from my diet I started to notice the weight melt off. In a few short months I had reached my goal weight and I was extremely happy.

But love got in the way and I went back to being a vegetarian. I am not gonna lie I loved having sweets back, but as soon as I started eating dairy I noticed my waist line started to go up....and up.....AND UP! A few short months and I was back at my pre-vegan weight. Then I got pregnant, add on another 30 pounds and you can call it a nightmare. After my son was born depression kicked in and food was the only thing that made me happy. Its been 2 years since he was born and I am officially at my heaviest.

This is me, my name is Andrea, I am 5 feet and 5 inches. I have brown curly hair and have to wear glasses to see far away. I am a stay at home mom, a single mother, and I have decided that now is the time to start getting my life back in shape. Not just for me but for my son as well. I am currently weighing in at 229.8, like I said the heaviest I have ever been. I have tried many exercises and have given up. But no more. Starting tomorrow I am going back to being a vegan and waking up early to work out. I am going to start doing P90X (hence the title of this blog).


I actually started this blog as a motivation. Every night I am going to log what I have eaten and keep track of my work outs. If I miss a work out then I skip writing in my blog. This is my motivational tool to keep me going and I am not going to give up. I want to reach my goal weight of 150 and hopefully one day fit into a single digit pair of pants. And if that means I have to repeat this work out many times then so be it I am game.

I really hope keeping a track of everything on here helps me reach my goal. And if you stumble across this blog in hopes of losing weight yourself just know that I believe in you and that we can do this together.