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!!!!"
AAAAAAND You kicked some butt in RPM classes. Most people don't do everything the instructor does because its that hard. Your so inspiring and I hope to see more of you in RPM!
ReplyDeleteI hear ya on those splurges we need them every now and then but man do I also hold on to that water weight from sodium. My trick is after I try to sit in the steam room for 10 to 15 minutes, really helps me get some of it outta my system and its also pretty relaxing after a hard workout. I like to do my stretching in there like a mini reward.