Weigh-in Wednesday #14

Wednesday April 24th - 5 workouts in 9 days and I lose 6.3 pounds?  WTH?  I need to do this "active rest" thing more often!  Of course, Monday and Tuesday contained 2 stints on the treadmill, 2 aerobics classes, 2 sp!nn!ng sessions, and a yoga practice.  

Starting weight:  292.1
1st weigh-in:  286.8
2nd weigh-in:  280.1
3rd weigh-in:  276.4
4th weigh-in:  274.1
5th weigh-in:  270.6
6th weigh-in:  266.2
7th weigh-in:  262
8th weigh-in:  261.4
9th weigh-in:  257.7
10th weigh-in 251.4

11th weigh-in 247.3

12th weigh-in 243.6

13th weigh-in 241.7

14th weigh-in 235.4

I suppose I shouldn't have been so melodramatic about eating that halibut and drinking all that wine.  Haha...when I told the ninja, he couldn't get over the loss...but I suppose it's because my body was fooled into thinking that I would be working out as hard as ever so it kept metabolizing food efficiently.  All hail, my body!  Or, all hail, our bodies!  They are amazing machines when we treat them the right way.

Weigh-In Wednesday #12

Can it be?  Are we already here?  Have I been postponing this last TC Health Challenge unofficial Wednesday Weigh-in blog post because I don't want this magical time to end?

Maybe...

Definitely.

Like leaving the swimming pool when I was 7...just 10 more minutes, puhleeeeze!!!  I promise to be good.  I'll clean my room, I'll empty the dishwasher...I'll do my homework! 

And I have been doing my homework, nothing like writing down your goals to hold you accountable...Christie was right.  I may have tripled up on my workouts too...mornings consisted of elliptical or treadmill then aerobics, at noon there was sp!nn!ng with Teresa, and I would return to the gym again in the evening with Stéphane, not to mention my nijnja workouts with Jonathan and yoga with Taryn.  I am officially a gym rat.

Was it worth it?

Yes...almost.

Starting weight:  292.1
1st weigh-in:  286.8
2nd weigh-in:  280.1
3rd weigh-in:  276.4
4th weigh-in:  274.1
5th weigh-in:  270.6
6th weigh-in:  266.2
7th weigh-in:  262
8th weigh-in:  261.4
9th weigh-in:  257.7
10th weigh-in 251.4

11th weigh-in 247.3

12th weigh-in 243.6

One more frigggin' pound and I would have been able to round up to 50 pounds lost.  Ugh...48.5 pounds...if only there was another official, weigh-in.  Haha...oh, wait, there is...tomorrow.

Let's get physical, physical...I wanna get physical...

Yes, I am Madonna.

If the thought of bouncing around in an aerobics class conjures up 80s images of Olivia Newton-John singing PHYSICAL, spandex leggings, braided sweatbands, high ponytails, and blue eyeliner, then we're on the same wavelength.

More realistically for me, it should be reminiscent of the step classes I used to attend in bike shorts and wife beaters, the music was more C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat and House of Pain - Jump Around with a little U2 - One for cool down or slow dancing...haha.  My hair was to my waist and parted in the middle, but I'd stick it in a bun and remove my plaid flannel shirt and leave my teenage angst at the door before class started.

So a couple days ago when I tried an aerobics class I kinda knew what to expect.  The music is contemporary, the clothes have gone from spandex leggings with a g-string leotard holding them up to yoga pants and a quick dry tank, and I have gone from looking like I know what I'm doing to making things up as I go along.  The thing is, it's fun and it burns calories.  The ninja says it is what you make it.

Yesterday's class was awesome!  When I wasn't lost and making up my own dance moves (much to the chagrin of the women around me), I was box-stepping, knees-upping, and kick-backing in sync with the rest of the group.  It must have been my jock-inspired workout gear I was wearing...a cut-up Bon Temps football shirt and some new fancy fabric yoga pants.  I even copped on to the "repeaters" and the four to two count stuff.  The gods of bouncing around were smiling on me.

Workouts can get monotonous if you let them, that's why you gotta shake it up a little.

*Jiggle Jiggle*