Update.

Haven't exercised in several days, mostly because I somehow managed to hurt my knee pretty badly. Pain started on Tuesday (before that, I was busy and then lazy a day or two), on Wednesday it was worse and started swelling some. Yesterday it felt a little better for a while and then a lot worse, still swollen, mainly in one spot where it was also hot. And today it still hurts, swollen, hot, though I took Aleve for a headache earlier, which made it feel better for awhile, but now it's starting to hurt again. Was also sick this morning, threw up, was gross and incredibly unpleasant. I slept better afterward though. Felt fine when I woke up for good. Also waiting and hoping to see if I'm pregnant. Crossing my fingers that I am. And J decided that if my knee still hurts on Monday, I'm going to the doctor. Dueces.

Day 3, done.

Not nearly so sore at this point of the day as I was yesterday. Still sore, just not as much. Just finished day 3. I'm sweaty and gross, but happy and feeling good, if still somewhat out of breath. Still paused a little, but it was a bit easier than it was yesterday or the day before. May have a new workout partner soon. Hopefully it will motivate both of us to do more and better. Exercise begets exercise. So hopefully continuously doing it will make me want to do it more. Here's hoping so. On the plus I haven't really been dreading doing it these past days. I put it off longer today than the previous 2 days, but mostly that was because my workout clothes were in the laundry. I had still planned to do it, and did do it without complaint. I was actually looking forward to it. Hopefully I'll visit the gym soon. Jimmy says it's free which is pretty nifty, and I could easily walk to it in probably little more than 5 minutes. Did stock up on some fruit and veggies today, and some more chicken and turkey. Usually we just eat red meat. Terrible, I know. Anyway, gotta go shower, fellin stanky. Dueces.

Day 2, done.

Just finished 30ds L1 day2. Omg, I'm frickin beat. I was sooo sore when I woke up this morning, especially the muscle at the top of my chest that goes down into my underarms, from presses and pushups, I have no doubts. And my thighs. I had a hard time walking down the stairs yesterday and this morning. On the plus side, my legs do not feel like jell-o like they did yesterday. Granted, I have not yet tried walking down stairs. I am dripping with sweat though. But it is such a great feeling. I like that while you're exercising, just when you feel like you can't do any more or you';ll die, she switches to another exercise. They're still hard on my completely out-of-shape self and I did have to pause a couple of times, it wasn't too terrible. I am kind of getting a little bit of a headache right now, though. But I'm susceptible to them and I just hope it doesn't turn into a migraine. I hate those. I have been drinking water with lemon today and yesterday, which I'm proud of, even insterad of iced tea, though I have still had a couple of small glasses today of it. I don't feel nearly so bad about drinking tea as soda. Ok gotta go shower and relax, and hopefully this headache will go away. Dueces.

Day 1, done.

Just finished the first of many workouts. L1 JM 30ds. Good Lord, she kicked my butt. I'm sweaty and disgusting and somewhat out of breath, but goodness it feels satisfying. I honestly did not think I would make it all the way through today. Granted, I did cheat a little, and broke on a couple of exercises when I absolutely couldn't breathe. Almost turned it off about 10 minutes in, but I didn't, and by the time I was 15 minutes in, I was like "well, I'm well over half done, I can do the rest." And I did and that makes me happy and satisfied and proud of myself. Now I just have to keep this up until I get down to my goal weight. I feel disgusting and I need to shower. But I feel great. And my muscles feel quivery a little. Haha. So now I have to watch what I eat, and do it again tomorrow. Dueces.

Day 1

So starting the 30 Day shred today. I really want to get into shape and I really like what I see so far. Bought a scale, have a tape measure. My hand weights are, of course, in FL. Just where I need them to be. And our NEX doesn't carry them. Campbell's soup cans it is, until I can get somewhere to get real hand weights. As horrifically embarrassing as it is to put it down, I will, maybe it will inspire me and I'll stick to this and get the weight off and the body in shape. I weighed in just a few minutes ago at a disgusting 200lbs. I'm sick to my stomach writing that down, but it will give me the boost I need to get rid of it. When I moved to FL I was 153lbs, when I was married I was 164lbs. I was disgusted by both of those numbers at the time, but I've really let myself go now. My goal is to get to 120lbs. Since that is way, way lower than what I am now, I'll set my initial goal to 146, which according to some website is my "ideal," see I'll use that as my leap off point. It's still a lot of weight, but I'm determined. I hate being this fat. And a friend took a photo of me the other day and when I saw it I was just terribly disgusted at how I looked. It always seems like I carry the weight better than that, and then when I see something like that, I realize I'm just deluding myself. I want to be nice and thin like I was in my photographs as a child. So here we go. We'll see how quickly I can get there. I have cut soda out, granted I replaced it with iced tea, but I put in very little sugar, about 1/3 cup, maybe a little more, for a whole gallon-size pitcher. So hopefully that will help, because basically that was all I drank. Yuck.  

Measurements are:

Bust-44 1/2

Chest-37 

Waist-42 1/2

Hips-46

Midway-46

Thighs-44 (together) 28(individually)

Knees-31 (tog) 18(ind)

Calves-15 1/2 (ind)

Forearms-10 1/4 (left) 10 3/4 (right)

Upperarms-14 3/4 (left) 14 1/4 (right)