Two months in.

Well friends, here I am, two months later. I've completed two 4-week sessions with Camp Gladiator. I am feeling the effects of getting back to active - running the full time/distance, building more strength, and the big win: shrinking out of my clothes. I don't quite see it yet, but my friends do - and that too is a huge win. There's always more work to be done, but I'm happy thus far!

My 3rd camp started this week, with my first attendance last night instead of Monday. This week is absolutely brutal on my calendar, so I will sneak in ways to work out here and there. I have not been doing the best job of eating well, I will admit it. I am very conscious of my portions, and am still eating smaller meals throughout the day. With the dental issues that started a while ago, my meals are off. My biggest focus as far as food intake goes is to ensure I have adequate fuel for workouts so I don't crash/bonk. Beyond that, mostly healthy and small portions.

Things have been so hectic getting packed and moved, and then having the Farm (special group of people in my life) in for Moto GP, I've had nothing remotely near "normal". Don't misunderstand - I wouldn't have it any other way :) I love my Farm time, and miss my peoples tremendously!!! I am hoping to get to a mostly-healthy food routine within a few weeks. There's still so much to do at the house.

CG wut wut!

My amazing and wonderful roomie kicked off the idea of boot camp to get us going, to keep us motivated, and for general badassery.  Okay perhaps I made up the last one. But it stays. So deal with it.

This is week 2 of my first boot camp style workout ever. I slugged it through 2 months of P90X. This kicks P90's ass like there's no tomorrow. How, might you say?  NO PAUSE BUTTON. None. Did you catch that? NONE. On the "pro" side ... the people are nice, the instructor is encouraging and flexible, and it's a positive atmosphere. I ran for the first time in a solid 15 years. it sucked. I walked some. But last night, 3 laps around the church parking lot. Was I the very last one in? Yep. But I ran the whole thing. Okay, by ran, I really mean jogged, but it was more than a walk, and I kept going until I was done. My knees feel it today. I'm going to be picking up a joint supplement to help out... but I'm not sure if it's just atrophy or actual joint. Either way, my joints won't dislike having some supplements!

Food.... ah food. I'm changing which carbs I eat. Always horrible. Trying to get more protein in my life, which might be more of a challenge. Oh, and getting back to my routine of eating throughout the day on a schedule, to keep the "fire" burning so to speak.

AAAAAH! So much to do!!

Oh - and today's title is brought to you by Camp Gladiator ;)

New gadgetry always helps, right?

I'm talking my way into buying an iPod nano with which to do worky-outy things. This makes sense, right? Perhaps in some parallel universe? Seems like they can do tracking with Nike+ apps, maybe mapmyride, and weigh much less than a phone. I miss my bicycle. I miss being active.

Plus I love food (and beer) too much to not be active.

Motivation

Has anyone seen mine?

*sigh*

It seems my workout partner didn't survive the vacation-break, and is all but done with P90X. As of right now, we've renegotiated cardio 3x/week, and I snuck in a "core" activity this weekend disguised as fun (stand up paddling).

Just when I was starting to see the scale move.


*Update* Gretchen to the rescue!! August CORE Challenge!!! GO!

I got narc'd out.

My dearest Gretchen, this is for you!!!

It has been awfully quiet around here. Vacation happened, and we've been getting back in the swing of things. We were out of town for 10 days, and basically picked back up at the start of the partial week that we were in prior to leaving. So, this is week 10 (minus the two weeks off).

It's been a little rough getting back into it, even though we were not supremely gluttonous on vacation. We did have some adult beverages, and some good food though. Jason has seen more results overall than I have, so I think he's all "I'm ahead of the game, I can slack a bit" ... which makes it harder for me, on top of the fact that I haven't seen as big a change as he has. Sigh. Just a little frustrating.

So.

Back to it. Last night I was weak, and we skipped chest/arms/tris. Tonight is cardio. I will be doing cardio, whether he joins me or not. I have serious bicycle withdrawal, and may entertain schedule modifications to get in some generic riding around the neighborhood as a supplement to the P90X plan. I'm also doing some reading on stand-up paddling, and will be giving that a whirl in a couple weeks (more to come there, supposed to be core city!).

Diet is still relatively boring, lots of chicken boobies and veggies and wild rice, Shakeology in the mornings. More cheating with frozen delight for lunch than I prefer, but work has been such a madhouse lately that it is hard to carve out the time to make a simple healthy lunch. One more thing to work toward!!! :)

Speaking of work, back to the grind ...

Holy smokes .. I forgot the most important part.  I had to spend $170 on new clothes before vaca because I SHRANK OUT OF MY OTHER CLOTHES. 9 lbs officially gone (I was down 10, but found one, grrrr). Haven't done measurements / pics though.

6 weeks down!

The tragedy of all tragedies has occurred: we are out of Shakeology!! My normal auto-ship will go out this Thursday. BUT .... my impatient ass ordered more today anyway. It should be here probably Thursday, I'm guessing. In the meantime, I picked up some Muscle Milk protein mix at the grocery store ... it is SO not the same. Less flavor, less goodies ... lower carbs, but meh overall. It is better with milk than water, but is still lacking and watery in general.

Now, onto the workout part. We've completed 6 weeks of workouts, meaning this is our last "normal" week of phase 2 before the off-week. I can't say I will be sorry to see Chest/Shoulders/Triceps leave the normal repertoire .... all the pushups are really hard on my wrist. Which reminds me, I want to get stands this week to at least make the last bit of it easier. I'm also assuming there will be some pushups/chest/upperbody workout in phase 3 of P90X, which will help me to justify the purchase haha.

Results, you ask? am I seeing them?  Well sorta. I've managed to "regress" in my eating, down to ~1300-1400 cal/day, but I'm not feeling hungry at any point. I've dropped 5lbs overall since starting, and am seeing more of a difference in how clothes are fitting, especially around my waistline. We didn't do measurements on day 28 as we were supposed to ... I think I'll take some before we go on our vacation whirlwind at the end of the month.