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I am very please with Week 2. It had the potential to be bad week filled with pitfalls, but I had other plans. It was my husband’s birthday and our wedding anniversary so we went out to dinner three nights this week. It’s very easy to go over on your calories when you eat out, but we were very conscious that our goals were more important than splurging so we made informed food selections by checking out the nutritional info online before heading out. We also track our calories so we accounted for what went into our mouths.

This effort paid off. I lost the 2 pounds I gained last week and lost nearly another pound. Nice to see the scale moving in the opposite direction.

The thing I am most proud of is realizing how much progress I really made when my husband and I were getting ready to head out on Saturday for Hollywood Studios. Since the high was going to be around 82 degrees, I really didn’t want to burn up because I was relegated to wearing jeans. I went through a storage container that had a number of pants and shorts that are too small for me right now. I pulled out my camouflage cargo shorts just to see how they would fit. I hadn’t worn these shorts in well over a year because they were really tight around the thighs and I couldn’t button them anymore.  Well this past weekend when I put them on, they were comfortable in the thighs and I could button and zip them up easily. Holy crap!

The real test was whether they were comfortable when I was sitting. So I sat on the edge of the bed and they still felt good. Sat on the steps to put on my shoes so we could leave, no issue. I was giddy and inspired to continue building on this momentum.

I also increased the intensity of my workouts this week. I went up in reps or weights on the majority of the weight workouts. I also completed Legs & Back without issue. I made sure not to go so deep on the lunges and squats and it felt like the right thing to do. I still managed to burn a bunch of calories even though I couldn’t go deep so I am not in any way upset that I couldn’t be like the folks in the video.

I am incredibly excited: weight loss and now being able to break back into old clothes.

Missed/Substituted Workouts

This week, I replaced Yoga X with another video from a different series: Turbo Jam. I wore my heart rate monitor which is calibrated to me. during the workout. According to my heart rate monitor, I burned 619 calories during the Cardio Party Mix 1 video. Sweet! Felt good and it was a lot of fun.

I was supposed to do Kenpo X on Saturday, but after spending half the day at Hollywood Studios, when I got home, I was exhausted. I then decided to switch the days for Rest and Kenpo X so Saturday was my rest day and Kenpo X was finished on Sunday even though and bumps up against Chest and Back for Week 3. Gotta do what I gotta do.  I have built up a lot of momentum and I don’t want to lose it by missing workouts.

This was my first time doing Kenpo and I just wasn’t into it for the first half of the workout. I guess I was just tired from having been tackling my to-do list all day. I gave myself a mental chat and then focused in on the workout. It paid off. By the time the cool down started, I had burned 589 calories. The positive self-talk was all I needed.

Overall

I feel pretty proud of this week. I ate smart, got more active, increased the intensity of my workouts a bit, and am seeing compounded measurable progress. I’m really happy, very excited and curious to see what happens at the end of Week 3.