Boot Camp

215.4 (hell yeah)

MONDAY

I had a great weekend. I'm in such a good place today. First, I had no alcohol. Erik had Daniel and we didn't go out at all this weekend. As I posted earlier, I was kinda sick on Saturday morning, but somehow it mostly cleared itself up by Saturday night and I feel good today. Yesterday I was kind of lazy but got a lot of little things done around the house including laundry, sorting and responding to mail, organizing counters. I didn't get any boxes unpacked, but I'll count my small victories.

Food-wise I was fabulous on Saturday which showed me 215.4 yesterday on the scale (so this is day 2 in the 215's). Yesterday I splurged a little at dinner, had 6 wings and small fries at Taco Mac, but I was really low on calories there rest of the day so apparently it didn't hurt me on the scale this morning.

Last night Erik left for a 4 day trip to DC for work. After he left, I had dinner, then went and browsed Books a Million for a couple hours. I ended up buying a book that provides a boot-camp style program for 6 weeks that includes cardio, weights & pilates. It's called 6 weeks to a bikini. Now I'm much farther than 6 weeks away from wearing a bikini, but I liked the format, I liked that all of the weight training could be done at home, and I like the bit of pilates thrown in. I've always wanted to try that and never did.

So, with that encouragement, I got my lazy ass up this morning at 8:00 am (I know - so NOT early) and hit the treadmill for my "Week 1, Monday" assignment. It was interval training which basically means really hard running mixed in with jogging/walking for recovery. I was actually a little disappointed with how I did. I did the exercise as assigned, but expected to be able to kick it up a bit considering my recent running. I guess over a week off, and being sick this weekend, did me in, cause I was REALLY tired and didn't run nearly as long as I've done before. Hopefully Wednesday's cardio will feel better.

Either way, I did 55 minutes on the treadmill this morning for 4 miles and over 600 calories burned. Not a bad start to the day. Now I knew I'd feel good if I could get myself up and do the exercise. Why did it take me so long to do it?

I really hope I can stick to this program. I'm a little less than 19 weeks out from the wedding, which means I could do this program 3 times through and maybe really see some changes.

So - so far so good. Last week I cut out the alcohol. This week, no alcohol PLUS exercise. I really think I might see something good at weigh in on Thursday!

Here's to: Day 9 of no alcohol Day 1 of Boot Camp!

Here we go...