Cardio and Kiddos

I decided to change my blog's name. After I'm done with Body Revolution, I want to keep blogging my weight loss progress, so it seemed only fitting to get rid of the "body revolution" in the title. This name sounds good to me. Cardio and Kids. Basically sums up my life lately. Kids. They are a workout by themselves! I swear I burn so many calories chasing them around all day. Well today was not a good eating day for me. Don't worry. I didn't OVER eat. I UNDER ate. I was so busy. I had to cut the grass today but it was such a lovely break from the kiddos I did it all by myself. Usually my husband and I split the yard in half. We fight over it. We both want that break from the kids. Ha! But today I was selfish and wanted it all for myself. It turned out to be fun, but maybe a bit of a mistake? Well it just so happened to be the hottest day of the year so far. I think the heat index was 111? So I had to keep stopping and cooling off and getting water...

So I am officiallly halfway through week 12 of Jillian Michaels Body Revolution. Last weekend I went to a wedding and ate way too much, so my weight has been up. I finally got it back down to where I was before the wedding so *hopefully* I will see a loss when I weigh in on Monday. Next week is my very last week with Body Revolution. I'm excited to take my before and after picture because I really have no idea how much of a change I will see. I know that I have changed, I just haven't seen a picture comparison yet. Hopefully I did change a lot and that you can see that too. I'm ready to be done, but also I want to keep going! I wish Jillian had made a Body Revolution Part 2! :( Oh well. I will move on to Insanity and then come back for another round of Body Revolution. I just want to mix things up for my body a bit. How is everyone else doing with this program? Are you seeing any great results?

Next week is my last week! I'm in week 12 now. I'm so excited to be finishing up! I ate horribly this weekend so my scale was up and I felt discouraged. But I'm just going to work hard this week and hope I see a loss.

Tomorrow I do Cardio 3 and then I am done with week 11 of Body Revolution. Then I just have 2 weeks left. I'm so so so excited! I have seen some people skipping the 13th week of workouts and ending the program with week 12 but I feel like workouts 11 and 12 are really awesome and will bring me great results if I keep it up. I think my goal to end Body Revolution is to get to 171. That's about 4 more pounds judging from what I weighed this morning. I would love to hit 170 or even 169 but I would really have to push it for the next 2 weeks. We will see. I know I really need to drink more water. It is so hot here. It was almost 100 degrees today! I weighed my lowest today and I so wish it was my official weigh day. Tomorrow is my friends wedding and I'm seriously going to try to not over eat.  Wish me luck!

Workout 12 was not as hard as I thougt it would be. But those wheel pushups are nuts. I just held myself in the wheel position because I could not push up. I have officially done every workout in Body Revolution! It feels great. I think workout 12 is my favorite. Lots of great leg and ab moves. I just want to do it over and over because it feels like its going to bring results. Which workout is your favorite?

So yesterday was workout 12 and today was Cardio 3 (again). Workout 12 was not as bad as I thought it was going to be but wheel pushups were killer. Wheel pushups... how to describe them. It's like you are bending over backwards and doing pushups at the same time. Yeah. Jillian Michaels just about killed me with that move. I couldn't do the pushing up part so I just held myself in that wheel pose. I'm kind of bummed out that my Body Revolution with Jillian is almost done. I am halfway through week 11 now. So just 2.5 more weeks and I will be done. I was going to restart the program and use heavier weights and do the more difficult modifications. But now I think I will do Insanity (um... TRY to do Insanity) to mix things up with my body a little bit. I heard that if you change up your routine it will shock your body and change it. So the plan is for me to try Insanity for the 60 days, then go BACK to Body Revolution for another round of 90 days! By my calculations, if I stay...

Workout 11 was the toughest so far! But I ws very pleased and surprised that my body was actually capable of doing all the moves. I had to modify some slightly or couldn't do them as fast as Jillian wanted, but I could do them! I was so proud of my body. I burned about 385 calories. Today was weigh in day and I weighed 177! Yay! A 2 pound loss this week and down 18 since the start of Body Revolution. I went slightly over my calories tonight but I'm not concerned. I was hungry this evening and wanted another bowl of oatmeal, so I ate it. I'm using today as a treat day. Its nice to treat yourself every once in a while. I used to make my husband buy me a big pint of ben and jerrys ice cream. I'd say a bowl of oatmeal is much better than that. Today was super stressful and I'm sick and just feel awful. I'm impressed I didn't go over my calories more than I did. Hope you are all doing well on your Body Revolution journeys!

I know I haven't updated in a while, and I wanted to do so. I got off track yet again. I feel awful about that but it happened. I think that it doesnt matter if you get off track, its just important that you get back ON track. And I am back. I had lots of stuff going on in my life, which is no excuse but sometimes life gets in the way. Well, my little girl turned 1 two days ago and we are officially done breastfeeding. I'm both sad and relieved. I'm excited to really crack down on this weight loss journey. So I kept getting stuck on week 9 and I restarted phase 3 like 5 times. About two weeks ago I restarted again and decided I wouldn't blog again until I stuck with it and finished weeks 9 and 10 and I'm happy to tell you that tonight I finished week 10. Tomorrow I will begin week 11 and I am positive with only 3 weeks left that I will not get off track any more. I'm excited to finish up. I'm also excited to take my final weight and measurements and my befor...