Day 1 and 2: Let's Get It Started In Here

My friends in my playgroup and I started a Biggest Loser Challenge in which we all put in $10 and are competing for highest percentage of weight loss in 8 weeks. I am the kind of person that has to have a regimented plan with strict rules to follow. Once I start something, I have to do it perfectly!

My other mommy friends have mentioned the 30 Day Shred and when I found out this was a workout video by Jillian Michaels from the Biggest Loser???!!!!! I couldn't be more excited! I am an avid Biggest Loser viewer, something about watching people much fatter than me makes me happy inside. No really, I like the show up until the point that they become skinnier than me. While I sat around and ate hoho's (just kidding, I would rather die than eat a hoho, more like drink 2 glasses of wine!), these fat arses went and got skinnier than me!! How did that happen when I had such high hopes to lose along with them? So, it is a brand new year and I am happy to say that not only did the new season of Biggest Loser start this week, but I have started the 30 day Shred.

For those of you that have no idea what I am talking about, it is a workout video that lasts 20 minutes. There are 3 levels and you are supposed to do each level for 10 days before you move on.

Yeserday was day 1 and man was it a killer! I was so sore in the evening that I was a little worried my excitement would flounder the next morning.

Today, I woke up before the kids and DID IT! They did wake up in the middle and while I wanted to quit and give in to their pleas for food and drink, I didn't!

Since the new year I have worked out every single day, granted this is only January 7, this is PROGRESS!

I am making small lifestyle changes and focusing on working out to fill in for my lack of eating great. My daily goals are: drink 10 glasses of water and nothing else (yes, this includes wine!), no going back for seconds at meal time, and workout 30 minutes a day most days. I also have started journaling my food. This is very helpful to actually see and maybe makes me eat better once I screw up. I am amazed how I am wanting to eat better when I am working out. It's like I don't want to blow all my hard work.

Anyway, I took my waist, hip and chest measurements this morning, pictures in my bikini (yes, I am crazy) and weighed myself on New Years Day. I am all set to get fit this year!