BL Update: Weeks 3+4

So much for keeping up with this every week!!

Week 3 actually started on Saturday this week because we had a make-up training for the session we missed during Snowpocalypse 2011! This training was AWESOME!! Burned a ton of calories, but had a ton of fun! Travis set up stations where we had to do different exercises for 2 minutes, then rotate!! My favorite was definitely the station that Travis was holding the punching bag and blocking our way to a basket where we had to throw balls into. Our goal was to get around him... or knock him down!!

Our challenge this week was wall sits! I rocked out a 5:05 wall sit, but wasn't enough to come in first, as Maria and her tiny legs sat there for 10+ minutes(RIDICULOUS!) BUT.. Our team came in first, and that's all that matters!

I was REALLY afraid of weigh in this week (I'm starting to see a trend)... but I did all I could, and actually ended up losing 7.2 lbs (290.2), so I was very happy with week 3!!

Week 4 started out with a bang, when we had to do our challenge! This week's challenge, as many laps as you can do around the track in 15 minutes.. and if you remember from the first week, Indigo doesn't walk.. Indigo runs!! So I ran.. and I ran.. and I ran!! (And by running, I mean more of a jog)BUT... Here's the GREAT news... I ran a whole mile straight!! WOOOOO!! That would be doubling my last run of only 4 laps and make it a whole 8 laps!! I did it in 14:20! I felt like I could have kept going too, but with only 15 minutes in the challenge, I opted to walk my 9th lap because I wouldn't be able to get back around the track to make the 9th lap count!

I didn't feel great about this week tho... It wasn't my work outs.. Cause both Dorian and Travis killed us during our training sessions... But it was my eating! I was NOT good. We drove up to Minnesota for Blues and Rivermen games over the weekend, and I had very little motivation to be good (although I did end up bringing food and cooking several of my meals) And even when I got, for some reason, I couldn't get my head back into my full on nutrition game!!

At the weigh in, I ended up gaining 1.4 lbs (291.6) which made me feel like crap! I work TOO HARD at the gym to go home and just eat mindlessly... I'm still 290+lbs... I should be able to lose 4-5 lbs a week easily!! I NEED to remember that everytime I reach for something that I know I shouldn't!!

6 weeks left... 20.6lbs down... 41.6lbs to go!! That's nearly 7lbs per week! YIKES!! I CAN DO THIS!

BL Update Weeks 1+2

Starting weight: 312.2 (Total lost = 137.8)

I had put a little weight back on after going out and eating/drinking all weekend long before the weigh in.. But I was ok with this! With the ramped up workouts I knew it would come off pretty easily because most of it was water weight due to the stupid amounts of sodium in anything that tastes amazing!!

Work outs were ok for Week One! Day One we had to do our rope pull challenge and PT tests and that pretty much took all our time up! And it felt so good to do so well on my PT test! I don't really remember what I did for sit ups and push ups.. but that's not what made me happy anyways!!! I did do a 5:06 wall sit.. And that my friends is crazy! I thought my legs were going to fall off, but Travis assured me that its never happened before!

The part that makes me the proudest is running... For the PT test we had to run a 1/2 mile... 4 laps around the track?!?!? EEEKKK!!! I had NEVER done more than 2 laps running at a time.. and I thought I was going to die after that.. My absolute fastest 2 lap run was 2:48.. so Travis wanted me to do it in 6:30, even tho I thought that was pushing it cause I was planning on walking at least part of a lap to catch my breath before running the rest of the way! BUT... I got told by Travis and Dorian that Indigo doesn't walk.. Indigo runs!! So with intern Julie by side cheering me on and taking away all my bad thoughts, I ran.. and I ran.. and I ran some more (At least it felt like forever.. haha) AND I DID IT!!! And somehow, Travis pinned it pretty much right on the nose.. I ran it in 6:32!!!

Week One ended with a climb up Mt. Everest (Travis' KILLER workout) and a 12lb weight loss!! YAY! I've never lost that much in a week! Granted, some of it was water weight from my weekend splurge.. But a lot of it was eating right and kicking butt!!

Then came Week Two... I'm calling this the OFF WEEK!! Everyone on my team has been killing it tho!! Our challenge this week is Group Exercise classes! I've got in 12 this week even after having 2 days off from the gym! Snowpocalypse 2011 ruined my gym time on Tuesday and Wednesday.. But I still got a little bit of a calorie burn when I shoveled a whole lot of snow, and went sledding (steep hills with a foot of snow are a pretty good workout climb up them again and again!) Without my workouts and I wasn't fully on top of my nutrition game, I was soo afraid of my weigh in this week..............

But at weigh in, I ended up losing 2.8 lbs.. So I'm at a total of 14.8 lbs down in 2 weeks (That is OK with me!)

AND... The best thing.. I hit ANOTHER milestone this week!! I am FINALLY in the 200s!!!! 297.4 to be exact!!!! Gotta keep this up at a huge pace... I've got 2 major rewards once I hit 200lbs that I am super excited about doing!!! So its back to my game face... Super nutrition.. Super workouts.. And resting my body as much as possible so that when I do my workouts, I can give 110%!!!

"ALLL MY LIFFEE, I WANTED TO BE AN INDIGO GIRL!!!... We're not red team.. We're not blue team... We're not paprika... WE'RE INDIGO!!!!"


I love my team.. I love my trainers!!