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My kids want their mother back, and I want control of my life. This is a little thread to keep track of progress, and to be honest with myself.

My package arrived on Saturday. I work as a Registered Nurse on a psyche unit so I packed up the box and took it to work Saturday night.
I reviewed all of the information, and thought hey I'll try one of the workouts out between 15 minute checks on my patients. Took my break, put the other nurse in charge and headed down to the dayroom. As the patients slept... I broke a sweat. I put in cardio. All I can say is OMGosh... it was hard as heck, tough as nails but I did it. I was able to make it the 10 minutes but I was breathing harder than I've ever breathed in my life. My heart rate went from resting 72 to 157 in 10 minutes. Thank God I was at the hospital already, I warned my co-worker to checkon me. Ha! Well, I didn't start sweating until after I sat down then the floodgates poured open. I work night so I decided I'd come up with an official start date and that was to be Tuesday
Honestly: It's harder than I thought.

Hey RNMommy,

I'll join ya if you want - I just got mine yesterday and took my measurements this morning so that I can start today too

I'm not doing the lean jean (officially) - I don't like some of the food on it, but I've also learned over the years that following someone else's diet plans just *don't* work for me. (I gain back after).

So this time I've been just doing my own thing, counting calories, eating better - fell out of wack for a while due to a lot of stuff going on in my personal life, but I'm raring to go again too.

I have P90 (bored to tears - gained weight - how depressing!)... TurboJam - LOVE LOVE LOVE it... P90X... my hubby said my attitude went straight downhill during the 2 weeks I was doing it LOL!

Plus, time for me is often difficult to find, and I found myself putting in the abjam dvd for one of the 10 minute workouts (10 standing/10 floor), simply because 10 minutes I could squeeze, even when I felt down or was super busy (or it was late in the evening).

So I was thrilled to see the infomercial I saw it about 2 weeks ago, I was really sick (bronchitis/cold), couldn't sleep so I went on the couch so that I wouldn't keep my hubby up with my coughing. I caught the last 10 min of the infomercial and decided - I can find 10 minutes no matter what!

I'll be doing my first w/o tonight. (Did AbJam yesterday - my daughter had her friend sleep over, and they were up late). Figured I wanted to get my measurements, before pics etc. done first too

So if you'll have me... I'll push play with ya!

Amber

Hi Amber and Mommie to 2 kids in Ga~
The more the marrier on this Merry Go Round of Life

I am back to post on my eating. I need to go to the grocery store because I don't have all the foods on the lean jean plan either. But, I am watching my calories and doing the 2 suggested workouts for each day

Tommorrow I teach hatha yoga at the Y. I've been teaching it for quite some time. I've got the whole flexibility thing down but so desperately need to get the weight off and do cardio/sculpt in my every day life and rearrange my eating habits.

I did really good eating today and stuff up till this evening. My father in law wanted us to go to Pizza Hut his treat. So, I ate 1 piece of pizza, a spoon full of pasta and a lettuce salad with no dressing and drank unsweetened tea. It was bible school that caused me to crash and burn. I am helping out with one of the classes and couldn't resist a smore. But, all in all I am doing better than on most days Plus I got all my water in.

Amber~ I have the turbo jam too I love the ab jam P90X I still didn't feel I was to that level even when I lost the 45 pounds. It's pretty hardcore. So are you feeling better since the Bronchitis? I certainly hope so.

Mommie to 2 kids~ Yeah, I hear you on the family photos. Now at 35 not only am I noticing the weight I am noticing the wrinkles in those pics. The wrinkles I could botox but I'm not ready for that. Ha! I am still a little leary of botox but the weight I know I can take off with determination. I ordered my workout standard ground shipping and it arrived sooner than my email said I wasn't supposed to get it until Thursday and it showed up on Saturday

Well, I need to get kids in bed... look over the yoga video who knows I may still a routine for my class tommorrow I teach for an hour so if I could squeeze the 10 min yoga into my original class I'd be doing it on 2 days a week plus what it recommends or what have ya

Here is to fat blasting workouts and eating better.

Love your motivation Mommie to 2 kids in GA. I haven't purchased the advanced CD's yet. These here are whooping my butt into shape.

Last night for day one I have to add the 10 minute yoga. It was a nice little workout. Being an instructor of yoga I found no difficulty with this one but, for someone that isn't familiar with yoga they went straight into the poses like you should know them already. I would recommend watching this one through if you've never done much yoga.

Today:
Cardio~ Well, I feel I am improving from it

Total Body~ Either I am a whimp or I need a different band. I couldn't hardly get my hands over my head so I grabbed my weights to substitute for a few. It kicked my bum big time. My arms are killing me.

I also did 5 minuts on the octane at the Y today and did 30 reps on 5 machines to work my legs and did 15 leg raises for my abs. Then I taught an hour of hatha yoga and we added some weights there for the arms.

Eating... in all honesty I know I ate more than a 1000 calories and my selections in foods were junky. I so need to go grocery shopping.

On another note when I got up this morning my entire body felt it.

Well... gotta go clean up and head out to bible school.

Look forward to hearing more from both of you Mommie and Amber and anyone else that wants to join us

Hi Hannah,

This has been a crazy few days for me-going to officially start Monday because we have to go out of town for the weekend for family. (My parents' 50th anniversary was 2 weeks ago, but my brother is just able to fly in from Bermuda this coming weekend, so there won't be any workout time).

I talked with my hubby last night though.

He always thinks he's helping but isn't really... he's never had a weight problem LOL. I told him that when he tries to be "tough", it just makes me feel like I can't do it - because its like he expects me to fail.

He doesn't mean to do it - he thought he was helping by pushing - it wasn't really pushing as it was making me feel guilty (which makes me run in the wrong direction!)

Anyway, last night he said he would even be willing to do 10 min with me... we'll see about that one lol.

I guess I didn't really tell you about myself.

I am a 38 yr old stay at home mom (but I work from home too), with a 12 1/2 yr old daughter (who has her father's metabolism so far thank goodness!)

(Christel - I'm like you - 5'5", 185 pounds)

I fluctuated weight in high school - was an avid swimmer as a kid (they called my sister and I the "fish" of the public pool because we practically lived there), got to my lifeguarding level 2 years too young so I couldn't go further (by legal age). That's when the problems mainly started, because I wasn't "as" active. I rode my bike quite a bit, but it wasn't as much or effective as the swimming.

When I hit highschool, I was fluctuating between 115-140 depending on the time of the year... spring I always went back down for summer.

Met my hubby when I was 120/122 range, got married at 125, and hovered there for about 6 months. Then my new dr changed my pill (for no reason) and I shot up 30 pounds in 2 months. Went off it, had a tubal pregnancy - which messed up my abs because they cut through muscle

Then about another six months later I got pregnant with my son - was so sick with the pregnancy my dr told me to have milkshakes and fries every day if I wanted to gain weight. I ended up at 185 when he was born. By the time he was about 2 1/2, I had managed to get myself back down to about 155, then found out I was pregnant with my daughter.

Then my son got sick - (thanks to a vaccination shot, it attacked his immune system) - and from that point on, my focus was never on me anymore. My daughter was born and my son was in rough shape - we moved across the country out west (Calgary, yeah, I'm Canadian) - and it did help my son for a while.

When he was 7 1/2, (we were there for 4 yrs) we returned to Ontario because my dad had been pretty ill (stroke, heart, pneumonia all within a 3 month time span), we figured we wanted to bring the kids back to be close to my parents. A few days after we returned, our son passed away unexpectedly.

My weight was around 170, and about 2 yrs later I tried to lose some weight - got down to about 163... yo-yo'd for a bit, after having my daughter I've had hormonal problems ever since (low progesterone) which is playing havoc with my metabolism.

Back in October I bought a new scale that showed metabolic age, etc - and it was SO different than my old scale, which had told me I was still around 175. THIS scale said I was "50" in metabolic age (it didn't go higher) - even though I'm 38 (how depressing!), and that I weighed 198. That was *after* I'd lost about 10 pounds according to my old scale!

Anyway, here I am today. I got down to 177 by February, but got discouraged a little, plus we had a lot of personal stuff going on in March (anniversary of my son's death at the end of the month, plus our friend's husband passed away young due to cancer and I was trying to be there for her).

Then in May we went away to Florida for 2 weeks (with her - it had been a planned trip with her hubby, us and all of our kids) - and between all that time it was just nuts in life. (At least, that's what I remember and why I made excuses!)

Needless to say, no matter how much I said I wanted to, I didn't really get back to focusing on myself - until now.

I told my husband last night, that my goal is to reach a size 8 (approx) by the end of the year. Right now, I'm a 13/14 (down from a 16/18 from when I started late summer before I got my new scale LOL).

Because I haven't worked out much over the past four months, my stomach is starting to fill out a little again, even though I'm not eating too bad - have hovered in weight around the 180 mark. That 185 was actually last Sunday (after a big bbq the day before). Usually I hover around 181-182.

I refuse to go up. I want to go down.

I'd love to go down 50 pounds, but I'd be happy more so with getting down in size (because muscle weighs more than fat, but takes less space).

I'm so happy I got the 10 minute trainer, because looking back at the spring, that was my beef the whole time I was so busy - I wished I'd been able to do a short 10 min workout rather than 30 min or more... now I can

No excuses.

Last night I worked out a calendar/schedule for myself, for the next 150 days... (30 day increments).

I saw the infomercial online and it seemed to show the results from everyone were at the 90 day mark.

Monday is my 18th anniversary - I had wanted to be much smaller than I am, but I said to my hubby last night, I can't do it for anyone but me. (He never EVER tells me I'm fat or cuts me up - he loves me for me after everything we've been through - but admits he'd like my stomach a bit smaller LOL).

So - I'm going to officially start my 10 days on Monday (10 in a row) - but will as I said, get a w/o in today and tomorrow before we head out.

(hey, its only 10 min right?!)

Well I've rambled your ears off too much... so I'll shut up now

Have a good one!

Amber

Hello All - I am in the middle of week three of the program. I am loving it I can see a difference in my arms, legs, butt and waist in two weeks! I can feel your pain with the workouts - I pant, pant, pant and sweat like crazy when I am finished. I love the fact that it is only 10 minutes. I can make it through anything for 10 minutes. I finally made it through the entire ab workout (with a few rests) but feel great that I am getting stronger each day! Can't wait to see all the results in the next few months from everyone
Have a good week!

Hello drunkinlady and honey pot. WTG on your results in just two weeks drunken lady. Tell us what are you doing to reap of such success.

Oh, Amber... thanks so much for sharing your story with us. It truly breaks my heart. I can not imagine what you have been through these past few years. I am just sitting here crying for you. Life is so unfair, it's so hard to understand... it's hard to make sense of. Know that my heart truly goes out to you. If anyone deserves to be healthy it is you. I would give up my being healthy just to see you reap all the rewards of my workouts. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. **HUGS**
I am sure the grace of God is the only thing that has carried you thus far. Know that I am here to encourage you in any way that I can. As far as husbands. Sounds like you got a good one ready to do the workout with you. I'd say he is just wanting to help you so badly he doesn't know how to do it in the right way when he is pushing you along. Mine kinda does that but there is no way in heck he'd workout with me. He is 10 yrs older than me and I don't think his knees could hold up on the workouts. Have you got your package yet? You can try a few of the workouts out before you go and just wait until you get back to officially start. Does that make any sense? You have me sold to wanting to do turbo jam too I dusted my workouts off and have them out on the shelf.
Know that although I've just met you... I am here for you to encourage you, to lift you up, to listen, and to be hear when you just need a friend.
That goes for all of you girls here.

You are doing great!!
I know the pain of the stomach getting in the way, everytime I try to do situps, the rolls get in my way!
I just found out that my stuff should ship today, so I won't get it until at least Monday. I have to change my WOWY schedule, I so want to get started and will try the 10 day jean slim down and see if I can get rid of a few inches to make me feel better!!

Christel in GA

And Hannah - my thoughts and prayers are with you and your sister in law

Amber