Risty's Diary (Christina)

Man I loves my anime! I want to watch some right now! :p Anyways...

I was so busy yesterday I didn't get to post anything! But I went to work from 7:00-5:00, went to go eat (had sushi (2 rolls)), by the time I got home it was 5:30, started and finished my P90X by 6:45, had a quick shower before my company for my belated bday party came at 7:10! I ate like crap last night because they brought unexpected goodies, but I did get my P90X in (which was legs and back). I also played the Wii's Just Dance for about 45 mins.

Today I my calves and butt are sore!

I worked from 7:30-6:30 today (lucky cause I got off early) and did P90X (Kenpo X) which is like a cardio kickboxing.

I also want to note that despite yesterday way a bad food day, I stayed within my cals for today AND avoided the donuts and apple pie that was at work!

My next weight in is Tuesday for the Biggest Loser Challenge. I want to look at what I weight now because I'm curious, but I'm worried I won't see a change or maybe even a gain for some unknown reason (I've exercise everyday this week for at least an hour and only had one bad eating day) and I'm worried if I weight myself and it's bad that it'll discourage me. So I'm avoiding it until Tuesday.
 
My butt always hurts when I exercise. Such a random place! Tried to get out bed this morning after going for a run late last night and was in agony! Poor butt :(

It's nice having the "burn" though, isn't it?! Means we are getting somwhere!
 
Well done on the exercise. I was reading in another diary that you're new to exercise and lost before without it. I did too. This time I realisr how much I need it to keep the weight off when I get to goal. I've been dawdling around exercise trying to figure out what to do and I think I'll try the turbojam series. The px90 seems like hell!! Maybe will try it when I'm fitter.

Anyway I read your diary too and I'm new so I'm totally self-involved!! My weigh in day is Tuesday too so I'll pop in and check on you when I'm here.

Keep up the hard work!!
 
Hi Risty;

Aww, I remember those days, I hear ya. Sometimes it was hard was to keep up with all the posting because everyone was so dynamic and funny and you just didn't want to miss not a one diary. We made some real connections doing that.

Today I post on WLF and fitday.com to keep accountable to myself and others. It sort of helps me keep mindful of eating healthy/exercise. When I read other people's diaries, I see what they're doing and eating and it helps keep me strong. Have you been over to Steve's new forum? I saw mention of it in someone's diary (can't remember whose) and maybe some of the other posters are over there?

But I hope you stay put. Things will pick up again ... seem to go in cycles.

Have a great night. Hugs, Lili
 
Thanks for popping in everyone. And nice to meet you 20to10! P90X is really hard, and I'm definitely NOT fit, but I'm going to do it anyways! No time like the present. I just do what I can of it and try my best. Eventually I'll be able to do it like they do and that's my goal.

For exercise, today was the rest or stretch day, so I took it as a rest day. I think I needed it.

My food was good until the end of the night. We had wienies left over and they had to be used so we made the wienie wrap thingies and I ate far too many of them (so did the hubby) and we both felt like crap after! I hate how I don't want to waste food so I'll just eat it even though I know I shouldn't. My calories would have been at around 1500 until I ate those damn things!

Tomorrow is another day and starting P90X week #2. I don't know how it will go since my shoulder is still feeling not right and it's chest and back (which means a lot of push ups, which is what did it in the first place). I'm going to see how it goes, if I can't do it, I'm going to do the opposite order so that I'll have an extra 5 days for my shoulder to get better.
 
I used to have some shoulder problems from vertical pushes, and dips, they havent been so bad once i started doing more pulls, like rows and pull ups, not sure if you might be unbalanced as well, but thats what worked for me
 
Hey Risty,

Keep positive... you're getting good exercise in even if you've had few naughty treats along the way :) I think avoiding those scales until tomorrow was a good move... I've got two days a week I weigh myself now and NOT inbetween, or else I'm always wanting to jump on and as you say a bad result can make you pretty despondent.

Good luck with the weigh-in. :) x
 
I think the shoulder thing is because I was trying to do a really hard type of push up to see if I could do it... which was stupid because I can't even do a normal type of push up from the feet (I have to go from the knees) so then trying a more advanced type from the feet... NOT SMART! So I think I hurt it a little.

On that note, because of that my shoulder doesn't feel ready so I did not do the chest and back dvd today. Instead I went on the elliptical for 45 mins (51 mins including the warm up and cool down!) It was really hard because I haven't been on the elliptical since ... I can't ever remember. After a while of not doing something your fitness level decreases, so that 45 mins that I used to do was so much harder now, but I made sure to keep going.

I did the 45 mins on hills level 6. I also plan on doing some DDR tonight, and maybe the ab ripper part of p90x tonight. The biggest loser challenge weight in is tomorrow so hopefully it reflects well.

I had lost one pound just before the challenge started. I just never mentioned it. So hopefully I'll at least see another one or two.

Tutti - I peeked at my weight last night because I just had to know if I was on the right track, and it looked promising. But I'm not counting anything until Tues! I think I'm going to do 2 weight ins a week. One on Tues for the challenge, and maybe one fri or sat just to see if I'm going the right direction.
 
I love you enthusiasm for your weight loss and your stick to it-ness in your cardio routine. Thanks for today's inspiration!
 
Good on you for a great workout on the elliptical trainer Risty.

I'm still hovering at 165, just can't move it on the scale. But I'm going to the gym tomorrow and doing the elliptical, sit-ups and weights. I saw a guy doing push-ups the other day and thought to myself I really wanna learn HOW damnit! lol

Good luck on the biggest loser weigh in tomorrow.
 
I just wanted to add that not only did I do my 51 mins of the elliptical (45 mins being hills level 6), but I did add DDR after that and I played for an hour. I'm sure tired now, that's for sure.

Xgenboy - Thank you so much for that comment, it really really made my day :)

2Skinny - I remember those days when I had long plateaus and they were discouraging. Maybe you need to change up your routine. Maybe you're body needs a change in workout, intensity, etc. Oh and the way in cardio kickboxing that I built up my pushups was to do as many full pushups as I could and when I couldn't do anymore then you go down to your knees and do as many of those as you could. You many need to start out with your knees and then after a week try to do a full one.
 
You go girl with your exercise! Whoo hoo!

I hope that shoulder heals up quickly. I can hardly do a push up right now, going to try to change that.
 
Thanks MissJellyBelly!

So I weighed in today for the Biggest Loser Challenge and I weighed in at 191.0 down from 194.2. So I lost a total of 3.2 pounds this week! WOO! I'm just hoping that next week won't be a gain or staying the same. 3.2 pounds is a lot for me!

Today is P90X Plyometrics. Plyo is my nemesis! It's my most hated one I think. But, I shall do it. This one won't aggrevate my shoulder since it's jump training as he calls it. Stupid jumping! ALTHOUGH.... it will help me with my DDR, lol.
 
Risty said:
Thanks MissJellyBelly!

So I weighed in today for the Biggest Loser Challenge and I weighed in at 191.0 down from 194.2. So I lost a total of 3.2 pounds this week! WOO! I'm just hoping that next week won't be a gain or staying the same. 3.2 pounds is a lot for me!
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WOOOO WTG!!!! :party:
 
That is fantastic Risty, congrats on the weight loss. You've been working so hard, you deserve every bit of that buttah gone forever! I think you may be on to something re: switching up routine. I'm gonna start on the treadmill tomorrow.

Keep on keepin' on!!
 
Sorry didn't catch you on chat. That wouldve been fun!

Wow. I was reading about that P90x programme. That's amazingly impressive that you'd go for that. I'm so unfit and uncoordinated now that I'd never be able to do it!! Maybe it's something I can try during the summer holidays! I have 2 months off and will have loads of time on my hands. How do you manage so many new exercises?

How did you get on with the plyo? If it's jumping I can't really do that now especially with this much weight on me.

3.5lbs is awesome at this stage of your weight loss!! Way to go and thanks so much for motivating me!!!
 
Risty said:
Thanks MissJellyBelly!

So I weighed in today for the Biggest Loser Challenge and I weighed in at 191.0 down from 194.2. So I lost a total of 3.2 pounds this week! WOO! I'm just hoping that next week won't be a gain or staying the same. 3.2 pounds is a lot for me!
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Congratulations on losing 3+ lbs this week. That P90x muscle confusion must really be giving you a workout. Keep up the good work!
 
Thanks everyone for the congrats on the weight loss! It's a number I'm definitely proud of!

20to10 - P90X is really hard! I wanted to do it because I knew it would work, just because it was that hard. I knew I wouldn't be able to do everything but I just said to myself I'll try my best and do what I can and eventually I'll be able to do it all. The plyo was hard still, but it felt slightly less hard than last week. Not by much, but I could tell there was a tiny difference!

2Skinny - I'm glad you're gonna change it up! I hope the treadmill is good to you (but still kicks your butt!) LOL

Today:
I did the shoulder and arms + ab ripper x dvd. It was hard and the shoulder stuff was bothering me a little. But I did it all and I feel ok now. Tomorrow I won't be doing the yoga dvd. I have this other challenge I'm doing and I have to climb 1500 steps, so that's my exercise tomorrow! Definitely scared, but I will do it.

My calories have been in the range I want them to be which is good. What's not good is that we still have chips left from my b-day and so I've been eating a little bit of them with lunch or dinner (along with my very low cal and healthy salad wraps, lol). I know I should just throw them out but it's so hard for me to do. I will throw out the dill because it's a flavour that I only kinda like... but the sour cream and onion and the tandoori bbq one will be hard to throw out! AHH!
 
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