After Week 1 of T25

One of the greatest thing about this program is even though I feel its a 7 day a week program I have not missed a day. Well I haven't done today's stretching yet but I am going to do it right after this post. Technically its a rest day but there is a stretching workout to be done today.

On Saturday I was really happy I left the second workout from friday for Saturday. If I didn't do that I was feeling like I missing something. That workout was cardio which was the same workout I wrote about in previous post. It was different this time, when you actually focus and do what Shaun T tells you like suck in your stomach and tighten your gluts when you squat its an intense workout. Its also a fantastic workout one that you know you just keep pushing yourself but its doable.

Yesterday was stat day I have not weighted myself as I am waiting to go to the gym. I have lost inches already pretty much at least half an inch everywhere. That's only after a week. I could play find the differences with my before and after week 1 picture.

So this week
monday - cardio - nailed it

tuesday - speed 1.0  - nailed it (i really like this one as you would go really fast for a minute and then do a yoga pose or stretch for a minute)

total body circuit (barely made it) - I kind of blocked this one out I know it was tough i think a lot of planks, pushups etc, but its one that I can work on and I know I will become better

Thurday - Ab intervals (barely made it) - I hated this one, I was like what happened wasn't Shaun T the inventor of abs without getting on the floor. This is mostly floor work like scissors. I find this is really hard on my back. I did like supermans which is good for strengthening your back. I think I am going to replace this one with one of the dvd's from my other shuan t programs. Its seems to only be the double workout for the next two weeks so maybe ill do a longer hip hop abs workout that day.

Friday - Lower Focus - Nailed it - there is a lot of doing things while standing on one leg very difficult exercises but you know they work.

Saturday - Cardio - nailed it I already talked about this one.

My favorite Shaun T quote of the week, you are moving your lower body and sweat is pouring out of your head that's how you know your working.

Sweat has been pouring out of my head all week but it feels great.  I did take a break today and pretty much binged all day hopefully take a day off from working out and eating right doesn't throw my results off track.

I am looking forward to another week of this.  I better go do that stretching.

July 15 -T25

The program I have been waiting months for is finally here.

So far I have only seen reviews of people that have done insanity. So here is a review from someone who has no desire to do insane workouts and I am not a coach. I am a huge beachbody fan though. The idea of this program is its 25 minutes a day 5 days a week. Well that's how it was marketed. In reality its 25 minutes + a 3 minute cool down. Friday is 2 workouts but you can choose to do the 2 second workout on saturday and sunday is a stretching workout. So essentially in my case its a 7 day a week workout.

Part 1 is alpha its 5 weeks getting your body ready for part 2. Part 2 is beta and as far as I can tell its more strength training that's when the resistance band or weights come out. For the first 5 weeks the only equipment is a mat.

I really like that they have this on 11 dvd's with the diet book, and calendar all nicely package in smaller than book size packages. They really want you to take this with you everywhere and not miss a day.

I actually like the diet as there are a lot of vegan options this time. Usually I find I can't follow diets because of the lack of vegetarian consideration. I am not into diets.  This one is all about clean eating which I am a fan of. Its all about making things quick you have to have your quinoa, lentils, and brown rice pre-cooked then there are recipes to use those ingredients with. I am not following the diet as I am set in my eating. Chocolate is now on the list of super-foods so my addiction is justified. I will try some of the recipes though future blog posts to come.

They have included the workout calendar with boxes of if you nailed the workout or barely made it each day. It was nice to check off nailed it this morning. They also have STATurday on the calendear so you can keep track of your progress each week. We will see if there are any results at the end of the week. Its only day 1 but if it stays like this I can do this. I enjoyed it I kind of thought it was like zumba without any dancing its mostly the boring gym moves but its Shaun T flair so I didn't get bored.  Day 1 is cardio. The only thing I found that I didn't like is there is no warm-up and a lot of jumping at some points I had to do the modified workouts because of this. Other than that I actually found rockin' body harder. You are only doing each move for about a minute so I didn't feel I got worn out or tired and if I did there was the modified moves for almost everything. I really enjoyed day 1 thought it was fun. I was actually scared I wasn't going to be able to do this one but it was no problem. I am looking forward to day 2 have a feeling it is going to get harder, kind of like the first day of school.

July 7, 2013

I did manage to wake up at 5 and do a workout a couple times in the last week. The days I didn't I still worked out except for one day. I thought it should be a rest day but it actually threw me off. I was more lazy than the days I did work out. So I guess I will stick with it. I am still waiting for T25 to arrive but I will start doing that as soon as it comes. i am really excited about this one.

Its summer my apartment is always hot. I leave the windows open in the winter. July is always the worst. This year we had a heat wave I found I was drinking a lot of juices and drinking a lot of calories.  I always seem to have left over cucumber at this time of year and limes are 4 for $1. I was wondering what I should do with them.

I made this cucumber lime drink. I thought I would mix it first then add sugar or something else to it. To my surprise its really good on its own. I actually crave this drink now and its so easy. I stocked up on cucumbers today. Very cooling and refreshing.

Cucumber Lime Drink

half a cucumber (I did peel mine you can keep it on if you like)
juice of 1 lime
Mix in magic bullet

optional:
add in some seltzer water
add in some sweet fruit
add in some fruit juice
or sweetner

I did try adding some fruit juice to it I didn't like it. I liked it better on its own. I might try adding ginger and mint to it one day.

Happy Canada Day I return

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I did go off track while not writing. I was sent away for work stayed in a hotel room with no kitchen for a month. I actually did pretty well with losing a few pounds even with eating out every day. I did have my workout videos with me but usually I would just take naps. Getting enough sleep is really important. The problem has been being back home I just can't back into my routine. Definitely no time for naps man I miss having my meals made for me and housekeeping, and walking to work.

I started to feel some of the health issues I experienced prior to discovering beachbody workouts and trying to eat right. The workout videos were still in my suitcase prior to this weekend. I did go to the gym a few times and I do walk outside a lot. It wasn't enough especially the way I feel after those workouts they are fun and a great stress relief. I do still drink garden of life protein shake but I am only drinking a scoop once or twice a week right now. Sometimes if I am too lazy to make dinner I'll just drink that.

So the workout I have been waiting for months now finally came out. Shaun T's - T25. For those of you that know me you know that I am in love with mr. abs. Although I have only done hip hop abs and rockin' body. I don't think I will ever do insanity but I have inspired others to do it. T25 is the workout for me 25 minutes 5 days a week. I hate long workouts I just want to go fast and get  it done I don't like taking breaks cause its hard for me to start up again. This seems like the perfect workout for me. I just ordered it and have to wait another week for it to be shipped.

So this week and I started 3 days ago I am committed to doing one 25 minute workout each day. Rockin' body has a 25 minute party express which I did twice but then my muscles hurt. I then did two ten minute trainor workouts (2 ten minute workouts plus 5 minutes warm-up/cool down). I am hoping tomorrow I can be one of those people that wakes up at  5 am and gets the workout done. This is not me I am a night person but I would love to stay committed to working out in the morning we will see how it goes.

Its the middle of a heat wave and I am in an apartment that is always super hot in July. I am going to need morning showers regardless of working out so hopefully I can get it done.

I have a lot of food posts to catch up on and I will try. Most of the summer I just eat simple salads or eggs so there won't be too much on the food part. A hot apartment doesn't mix with a hot stove. For now here are a few canada day things I prepared while being super lazy. Pictures to come.

Watermelon and Feta salad

Strawberries for freezing

strawberry and lime smoothie

April 8, 2013

If you have been following this blog you know my original intention was to lose 20 pounds go to vegas
Put ten back on. I lost ten pounds and went to Vegas anyways because someone pointed out to me life is short and death is much longer. I ate only expensive food in vegas and didn't really put on any weight this time so I am happy. This is new for me as I normally put on weight when visiting the us

March 10, 2013

This week not much change since last week maybe lost a pound but as I haven't been to my regular gym with the digital scale this week its hard to tell. My diet hasn't been that great but I have eaten more veggies than last week.  I tried a new class at the gym body pump I found it too difficult but the instructor kept promising that it takes 3 classes to enjoy it. My free trial will be up before I get the chance to try it again. I have kept with Zumba though and find that it is a great workout.  I wish my gym would offer it.  I have kept with one ten minute trainor workout per day and next week will be the end of the 30 days. I think I will have to do another 30 with 2 workouts a day next.

I wanted to blog about my sunday treat breakfast before I forget. I only managed to eat half of it. I don't usually like pancakes but there was this recipe in chatelaine magazine and the pancakes looked so good I got a craving. As I don't have baking supplies in my house I got some of Safeway's eating right pancake mix and adapted the instructions.

Sunday pancakes

1.mix  1 cup of wholewheat pancake mix
with a half cup of buttermilk and a quarter cup of water.

heat  a pan with a 1tsp of butter or oil
add a chopped up apple
warm
add cinamon

3. Mix all ingredients I used my mixer

4. Cook as pancakes

5. Topping this is just based on ingredients I have but it was good.

mix one tablespoon peanut butter, 1 hershey's mini chocolate square, and 1tsp honey microwave for 30 seconds

I enjoyed it as you can see I ate some before taking the picture.

March 3, 2013

Let me start of with the most interesting part of my day I saw someone I haven't seen for around 2 months in the grocery store. She noticed I lost weight and then she went around yelling in the store to her family that I lost weight. It was embarrassing yet gratifying considering I was wearing my winter coat zipped up that the weight loss is that noticeable.

The last weigh in was on Tuesday and I didn't lose anything. That is due to not staying on track on the diet. I ate too much chocolate and didn't cook other than smoothies and eggs. I really didn't eat many vegetables during the week.

Today is day 17 for ten minute trainor. The first time I didn't get a workout in daily was three days ago I wasn't feeling well. Then I was mad at myself for missing one so I did two the next day. There really is no excuse to miss these workouts they are ten minutes and over before you know it.

This week I started a group buy voucher for Goodlife fitness. Although I have a gym already goodlife offers dance based classes that my gym doesn't offer. I started zumba on Saturday it was fun and I burned a million calories - okay not that many but i definitely left sweaty. I kind of felt out of shape even though I workout daily I just never do that much cardio. I really wish my gym offered these classes as I know this is something I would stick to and get results with. I have two weeks with the voucher there are 4 more classes that I will be taking which ads more variety to my fitness routine.

Today I drank my last sample of shakeology and I still don't know if I like it or not. I feel the increased energy and its great for getting all those veggies in. I have the chocolate flavour today i mixed it with my remaining buttermilk, yogurt, and peanut butter. It tastes like a malt. The first time I tried it I found it too sweet even though I love sweet things I had mixed it with a banana and soy milk. The second time I mixed it with soy milk, banana, and nut butter and it wasn't sweet.

The problem I have you can't just buy it in stores you have to have a beach body coach or become one for the cheaper price. Its $120 for 30 days. Reading the reviews people think its too expensive but looking at the ingredients $4 for a meal replacement that is so nutritious for me isn't that bad. Keep in mind I used to spend over $5 on daily starbucks. The problem I have is I was hungry after there is no way this is a meal replacement for me. I had to eat a meal an hour later. Granted after that I was fine went grocery shopping and made better decisions than usual my grocery bill was less. I am guessing this is part of the detox process and after 7 days or so this won't happen anymore. Its really hard to tell from the reviews as the coaches are trying to sell this.

The second problem i have is I have never taken supplements or meal replacements. The only reason I was willing to give shakeology a try is the ingredients in it are all things ideally I would have in my daily diet. I don't think I could commit to drinking the same thing daily for the rest of my life. I am interested in maybe doing a 30 day just to see what happens but I will wait for a sale or something before giving that a try.

This weeks goal is to not miss a TMT workout and eat more veggies.