Day 4 of 20

This picture was posted on the DDPYoga Facebook page. This is pretty much what goes on in my head when I don't want to do yoga/exercise. Yes I really want to do it essentially and am even excited that I've been doing it, but still I have trouble actually wanting to get up and do it. So the argument just becomes the solution in the end. The question mark becomes a period and I get up and do it. Not all the time, but it will for the rest of these 20 days at least.


Today is Day 4. The sleep deal is better. I could have went to bed a little earlier, but the fact I went to bed last night is improvement enough for one night. Woke up about 11:30, which is later than I had wanted, but I'll take it over 3 or 4 p.m. Hopefully I will be able to get to sleep tonight, so I can keep this going.

Mentally, I'm okay except I am a bit down I suppose. A friend said something at the end of volleyball last night, which is probably what got me really thinking about the future and when I was going to start working on having an actual life. You know... actually living. Still working on that, but seriously need to be more proactive about it. Other than that, I guess I am having a fat day. I mean everyday is kind of a fat day of sorts, but lately I have been feeling a little smaller and feeling confident that I am losing weight. Not today. Today is heavy, but I'm hoping that ends after I do my yoga for today.

I thought with waking up earlier I would be more motivated to do yoga during the day, but since I was so tired after waking up I didn't feel like much of doing anything. I might just do energy again. RHC is so very tempting, but I'm determined not to fall back on that too much. Actually I am making a new rule for myself: no doing RHC two days in a row (unless it's to add at the end of another work out, like doing Energy and then RHC too). I really don't feel like encountering those Broken Table crunches or whatnot and I don't feel like moving on to another disc yet, so Energy it is. But it is better than nothing.

It's kind of pitiful that I seriously want to do a great workout where I really just sweat and feel great at the end, but I still am not too motivated beyond a certain point. It's so weird to be so excited about something, but still feel so.... meh about actually doing it at the same time. I just talked with Zulmarie about weighing in on Fridays and I think tomorrow I will be better motivated for a great workout. I might do yoga tomorrow and then do some regular exercise or something at least extra. Wish I had someone to play tennis with or just play around with volleyball. I suck at both, but I think they are fun. Until then yoga and other stuff around the house it is!

So off to do Energy! I like this picture too, also courtesy of DDPYoga, and this is what I'm going to do now!

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Day 1 (8/18/13): Fat Burner

Day 2 (8/19/13): Energy

Day 3 (8/20/13): Red Hot Core (and volleyball!)

Day 4 (8/22/13): Energy

Day 3 of 20 (Fare thee well ole volley)

Amazing how days go fast huh? Already done with Day 3 of my 20 Day Challenge to do DDPYoga 20 days in a row as well as generally eat better and be more active and record it all here for your reading entertainment!

Today was the last day of my volleyball season. We actually did great for us. I mean we still lost, but we had a close one going on there and we actually played for a full hour. Anyway, it was a good workout. I normally wouldn't do DDPYoga on top of it, but since I said I would specifically do DDPYoga everyday, then that's what I did. I just did RHC though. I know it's kind of a cop-out to do the shortest one, but it IS a great core workout and I definitely feel it in my abs! So yes the shortest, but it's a good workout and I did a full hour of volleyball, so I consider today a success on that front.

Sleep wise: I stayed up through the night until 7 a.m. and then decided to sleep until noon, so I could actually play volleyball instead of the zombie that would have shown up in my place had I not slept. So far it has worked out, even though I was a bit tired. I'm hoping I can wind down and sleep in the next hour or so. Then I can possibly wake up at a decent hour tomorrow. Here's hoping!

Food wise: it was okay, but could have done better. I had a egg, cheese, and vegetarian bacon bagel for lunch when I woke up (so I guess it was my breakfast, but it was lunch time), so I did have protein (egg and bacon) and carbs (bagel) together, but in fairness I didn't make it and I certainly wasn't going to waste it. It was pretty good though. For dinner I ate Jimmy Johns, which is a sub chain. I had the vegetarian one and did have a bag of Thinny Chips and some sweet raspberry tea. Not the best thing to eat, but it's better than the other choices I had, so I'm happy with it. I've actually been trying not drink caffeine and I have succeeded until today. You can take me out of the South, but you can't take the South out of me and sometimes a southern girl just gotta have her sweet tea!

So today was good. I'm starting to feel like I need to get other aspects of my life going as well. Like... oh I don't know.... getting a job and moving on my own and getting a life? hehe. All in good time, but I really need to be more proactive about it. Don't want to waste all that time I spent getting All-College Honors and crap with two majors and minor that almost drove me completely insane! I do have to remain calm about it though. It's something that can easily stress me out nowadays and apparently I can't handle that anymore. I guess my mind is starting to clear though. I don't know if that makes sense or not, but I guess I am just generally doing better.

This challenge thing is turning out to be a great idea! Woot for goals!

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Day 1 (8/19/13): Fat Burner

Day 2 (8/20/13): Energy

Day 3 (8/21/13): Red Hot Core

Day 2 of 20

My Internet sucks or it's just my computer, they both suck, but I did my workout earlier and wrote my post:

Just got done doing Energy. I thought I was going to be enthusiastic and do RHC, but Energy coming to a close was met with my own energy depleting. I think when I can finally get my sleep schedule under control that will help with the energy and motivation aspect.

Needless to say, I have not fixed my sleep schedule yet. I thought I would stay up through today and sleep tonight to wake up at a more 'normal' hour tomorrow. That lasted until about 7:30 or 8:00 this morning. I got tired and bored since I was waiting for my video to finalize (which is seriously taking about 8 hours to upload to youtube. I am still waiting... seriously have to figure out how to make this go by a little quicker, otherwise no more videos for me!). Anyway, I went to sleep and didn't get up until after 3:00 p.m. I know, it's horrible, but that's what it is. I will try again tonight as I don't think I will sleep any. (Although I will have to sleep at some point since I have volleyball tomorrow) If this fails again then I will just do a lot of DDPYoga or something when I am up tomorrow to tire myself out or something if volleyball doesn't do the trick. 

Food wise, today has, so far, gone a lot better. I ate dinner about an hour or so getting up, I know it's ridiculous, but bear with me. I like to fill my plate half full with veggies first, so I have limited room for other stuff. So I had half a plate of corn and two choplets (basically a vegetarian version of porkchops) and I said no to the rice-a-roni deal going on. That's hard, but I really want to give the no proteins and carbs together thing another go. 

So Day 2 went well with exercise and food. I just really need to work on the whole sleep thing. Feeling okay otherwise. Hope everyone else is doing well!

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Oh and I just posted my video for Day 1 on my last blog : )

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Day 1 (8/19/13): Fat Burner

Day 2 (8/20/13): Energy

Day 3 (8/21/13):

Day 1 of 20 (w/vid)

I had almost forgot how much I hated the Broken Table Crunches since I haven't done the Fat Burner workout in awhile. Usually I'm perfectly fine hating the Broken Table as it is. Needless to say I have done Fat Burner as the first workout for my 20 day Challenge. I got a good sweat going and feel a lot better afterwards. The food portion of my challenge didn't go well as it consisted of too many carbs and then some fast food (although it was a veggie burger). I don't eat a lot of fast food, but it had been awhile and my brother bought it for the family (I know I know excuses).

On the sleep front, I tried to stay up and just try to make it through the day, but I only made it to 6:30 and then passed out to wake up at basically dinner time. Really need to switch it back around! That's is something to work on in the next couple of days.

I shot a video kind of explaining what I already did in my last post and talking a little about why I'm doing this and about today as Day 1. It's going to take me a bit to edit (since I was rambling again) and then forever to upload, but I wanted to get this post up tonight.

All in all I could have done a lot better, but I got my workout in and I feel great about that. Hope everyone is doing great with their respective journey and challenges!



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Day 1 (8/19/13): Fat Burner
Day 2 (8/20/13):

20 day Challenge

Well, I didn't do yoga yesterday, but it's okay to take a day off now and again.... or so I told myself. I WILL do Red Hot Core today. Mostly because I want to feel it today and I want something quick, because I'm not really in the mood.

My sleep is totally messed up again. As I said, I can switch it to more 'normal' hours for a week or so, but then it just slides back around. I really need to switch it back though; this going to sleep early in the morning and waking up late afternoon is not going to work for what I want to do. So either I will hopefully randomly go to sleep tonight, or tomorrow I will have to stay up. Kind of hoping I just randomly get tired tonight.

Now for the part that explains that photo: I recently really re-connected with a good friend (Her name is Zulmarie and she is awesome, so go check her out!). Since I was in school I went off the radar a bit, but now I'm back at home and not doing much, so I have plenty of time on my hands! She's kind of in the same spot as me and we were losing weight together before and using each other as moral support and motivation. We were a little enthusiastic I think and I know personally I went all out. I was doing 1 hour workouts everyday with no days off and counting every calorie. Yes I lost 30+ lbs, but no wonder I couldn't keep it up and gained it back. This time around the key is less stress, because honestly I can't handle anymore right now.

Okay now I'm really going to explain the challenge thing: So anyway, we have set up mini goals for ourselves over the next couple of months, so that we have little things to work towards to help achieve our bigger goals. My first one is 215, which is losing 8 more pounds than the 223 I weighed myself last Tuesday. I want to do this by Sept. 6. So starting tomorrow until then, is 20 days. I will do DDPYoga everyday of those 20 days.

So that's challenge #1. DDPYoga everyday for 20 days. I also want to blog everyday during that time and make a video at least once a week. I also want to try to stick with food combining (proteins/veggies and carbs/veggies). Mainly I just want to eat more veggies than carbs. So it's a little challenge, but I figure starting small and building up is better that going all out from the get-go and trying to maintain that.

So Day 1 starts tomorrow~

But yes of course I'm going to do RHC today.

Red Hot Core

Just a little update for the last post before I talk about today: I ended up doing Energy even though I had decided not to by the time I posted that, but Lanie (check out her blog! She is awesome!) commented and said that we should both just get up and do it and we did! Sometimes that's all ya need, just someone who says I will if you will! I'm used to it being used for dares or doing something stupid, but as it turns out, it works great as a motivational tool as well! So thanks Lanie!

As for today, I was well on my way to not wanting to do yoga again, but decided that while my dinner cooked I would do Red Hot Core since it's only around 12 minutes long. I love it because I start to feel it in my core in the first minute or so. It's great! I feel like I should be doing a little more, but the way I had been feeling, I guess I'm doing great just to be moving everyday so far. I need to find my program so that I can go back and fill in what I've been doing to keep track. 

On the food end, I need to be doing better, but I honestly am just concentrating on moving and not overeating. That really hasn't been a problem lately, but my appetite is returning and I don't want to start any overeating again. So far so good. I'm still here.

To Break or Not to Break?

I ended up not doing Energy yesterday. Went out and ate at Taco Bell. Never eat out, so I never beat myself up about it when I actually do. Had a Veggie Cantina Burrito. Didn't have meat in it so I thought I'd give it a try and it was pretty good. I also didn't feel bad about no Energy either, because i ended up playing two games of volleyball. Each game is three sets. It was a good hour and so of volleyball. We suck, but we have some great laughs. Next week is the last week though, so I'm going to have to step up with the DDPYoga. Speaking of... I haven't done anything today yet. Made red beans and rice for dinner and watched some shows with my brother. I should have done it before I ate. I've thought about just taking a break today since yesterday was a lot of sweating, but I should probably do Energy anyway. It's only like 20 minutes right? I'll try to be good and get it in sometime tonight.