Weight And Size Update!!

I have completed 8 full days of my 4 Week (Not Weight Loss) Challenge!  Only 22 days to go!!  I soooo can do this!!!!

I thought you might like a comprehensive update.  I hope all of my updates can be this inspiring!

Discipline:  I actually am doing well but I seem to have a problem getting all of my meals in during the dayon occasion.  This isn’t because I don’t want to eat or feel too full (although yesterday, I had to force down the pre-workout yams).  I just run out of time some days and skip a meal.  So much going on in life!  Yesterday, I was grocery shopping during the time I should have been eating lunch and  I can’t just go up to a counter in the cafe at Wegman’s and say, “Can I please have 15 shrimp with cocktail sauce and 6 baby carrots?”   I ate lunch as soon as I got home but my then it was supposed to be time for my snack.  I think you get the picture here.

I have not cheated other than my cheat day and that damn lick of frosting I mentioned in this post.  By the way, that crack frosting?  It is STILL in the fridge UNTOUCHED!  I think my daughter is leaving it there for me as some sort of bait!!

The family had tacos for dinner last night.  I LOVE taco meat!!!!!  I am such a carnivore!!  I actually thought to myself, “Nicki, the taco meat is just ground beef with some seasoning.  You are going to make ground beef after your workout anyway so just eat this awesome stuff right here!”  Then I reminded myself that ground beef covered in wonderful taco seasonings and sauce is NOT on the diet and this challenge is about DISCIPLINE, not weight-loss!!  So I drank some coffee and removed myself from the evils within the kitchen.

Workouts:  I found that the I-am-a-hamster-running-on-a-damn-wheel feeling is not present and the time flies by if I do the following.  Play music from my computer from my iTunes account.  Look at a group of songs, and find out when to stop my workout based on how long the song is.  I love when there is a longer song in the mix.  Then I am all “Sweet!  I only have to do this for 5 songs!!”

This is soooo much better than looking at a watch or the screen of the machine to see how long I have been on it.  My whole time is spent convincing myself that if I wait longer to look at the time, then it will be time to be done by the time I actually look.  Then when I do look, and realize I am not even half-way done yet, I want to die.  This is never an issue with the music!  I play the music loudly, close my eyes, and get totally lost in the songs.

Weights and Measurements:  The moment you have been waiting for, I am sure!!!

On 7/2 (first full day of challenge):

Weight:  136 lbs

Top of right thigh:  24 inches

Hips: 39 inches (although I am thinking now that this may have been wrong.  It must have been 38 inches)

Waist:  30 inches

Bust:  36 inches

Ass/Saddlebags (THE GROSSEST PART OF MY BODY):  41 inches

This morning:

Weight:  132.8 lbs (down 3.2 lbs)

Top of right thigh:  23.5 inches (.5 inch smaller)

Hips:  37 inches (2 inches smaller???  This is why I think I measured wrong last time.  I doubt I lost 2 inches in my hips already).

Waist:  29 inches (1 inch smaller)

Bust:  35.75 inches ( quarter of an inch smaller)

Ass/Saddlebags:  40.5 inches (.5 inch smaller) YAYYYYYYYY!!!!

Physically, I feel like I got hit by a bus this morning but I do feel more fit already and I have not had any issues with the bulging disk in my back this week!!!!!  I do have more energy.  My son even commented on how I seem to have all this energy now.

I woke up yesterday with  Lupus headache but I got right to working out and by the time I was done, I could move my neck and the pain was only a small annoyance!!

Mentally:  I feel fantastic!!!!!!!  I am so proud of myself for not eating that damn taco meat!!!!!!!

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