Things.....

So. I am having a Facebook meltdown. I love me some Facebook as I think it is a great way for old friends to reconnect. The one thing I hate about Facebook is that it takes me right back to high school and all the insecurities that consumed me during those four angst filled years. What happens if I friend someone and they don't friend me back within that day? I lose sleep. I should know that sometimes people aren't on a computer 24/7 and that checking their Facebook isn't top priority. Some people aren't like ME and need to check it 45 times a day. Once again, I am a loser.

I have stopped losing sleep because I just stopped requesting friendships. If someone wants to be my friend, they have to ask. I need to sleep at night. I do sometimes lose sleep when I see someone out there that won't request me. I wonder, "What did I do to them?" I had never considered maybe they are also on a friend request hiatus and then we will never be friends again. See? This whole Facebook thing is stupid. It's high school all over again.

The biggest thing that has consumed me in the last week is that a friend that I cut ties with a couple of years ago, friended me. I was all determined not to accept, but then a lot of my other friends were accepting. I have never said to this person that I was over our friendship. It just stopped. As you can tell, she was very upset about it since she obviously has no idea we weren't even friends anymore. The friendship just ended because I was the only one trying to keep it going. I stopped contact. Obviously, she never tried to contact me again. So, maybe I wasn't the one that ended the friendship.....maybe it was her. Whatever....she friended me on Facebook.

I ended up accepting the request just because I was curious what was going on in her life. But, she is being one of those people that has nothing on their Facebook page at all. It took her a week to upload a profile picture. That makes me want to unfriend her right now. Why are you even doing it? Is it just to spy on your friends that you cut out of your life? If so, take a good look at our photos. Do you see how we all still get together without you and life has gone on? Do you see that we have an awesome time and all of us look pretty darn good? See??? High school all over again......

And, since I started updating this again because of my workout, I should say I am still going strong. I am on week 8. I am loving it. I am down 18 pounds.

I still suck at this.....

Exercise and eating wise, I kick ass. Writing here, I suck ass. I am still on the wagon. I am still getting stronger. I am still losing weight. I thought maybe writing here would help me with staying honest with myself. I guess I was wrong.

Maybe I'll just try to write about other things going on in my life. The exercise, diet thing is boring. Crap, my whole life is boring. Oh well. Boring is good.

Hey! I'm wearing jeans I haven't worn in 2 years. They fit. They are on the verge of being too big. That's a good thing.......AND it's exciting.......to me.

In other news, I've got nothing!

Oh, I've lost 13 pounds.

Days Ten - Seventeen

Wow.....I have been neglecting the updates. Even though I have been neglecting writing, I have not been neglecting my 90 day plan. I have done very well. The workouts are getting much easier. Now that I have decided not to wake up at 4:45 to workout, I feel much better.

Eating wise, I am still doing well. I made the decision not to drink any alcohol until this is over. So far, so good. We went out for dinner with some friends on Friday evening and had to make a 2 hour trek to make it there. I ate food that I shouldn't have eaten, but I knew this date was coming. We ate at a Japanese steak house and I haven't eaten there in almost two years. I ate without any regret and felt great that I didn't have anything to drink so we could drive home afterwards. It was a good night.

Workout wise, I am doing just fine. Some things are easier than others, but I think changing it up every day is helping me not get bored. I can definitely see changes in my body already. My jeans are fitting better (since they were all tight!) and I am getting much stronger.

Weight loss so far....9.5 pounds.

Days Seven, Eight, and Nine......

Day 7 was a day of rest. Peaceful, quiet rest. It was very nice. I ate within my diet and everything went well. I don't find myself obsessing about food. I think it's because I feel like I'm constantly eating. Of course, it's lean protein and not chocolate.....but the lean protein makes me not think about the chocolate.

Day 8 I started all over again with the first workout. Lots of push ups and pull ups. It was a LOT easier this week than last. I had a hard time with most of the push ups last week and at least did 10 of each of the push ups this time. I felt like a rockstar when I finished. I ate well again. Geez. I'm so boring......but boring works.

Today is day 9. I haven't worked out yet. I plan on doing that this afternoon. It's a plyo day. Last week I was really sluggish with the plyo workout, but I think that's because I woke up at the butt crack of dawn to get it done. I decided to wait until after work to see how I did with this workout this week.

It's working. My husband can't believe how much I've already lost in the belly (limited carbs will do that to ya) and I'm amazed at how much better I feel already. Weight loss has slowed down....which I knew would happen. I'm down 6 pounds....

Days Five and Six.....

I woke up late on day 5. I had planned on getting up at around 4:45 am to workout before work. I don't use an alarm clock. Since I've hit 35, I don't need alarm clock because I am a horrible sleeper. I am usually up by 4 am to watch TV until I workout or jump in the shower at 6 am. Yesterday morning, I woke up at 5:15 which was too late to get the leg/back workout in. It's sad when I think waking up at 5:15 is late. Oh well.

I made it through work without cheating on my diet (no cheating done yet....) and went home to work out. I'm wondering if working out in the afternoon is going to be my new thing. I had an awesome workout. I have incredibly strong (runner) legs anyway so this workout was awesome. Not to say it was easy......it was hard work. BUT, I made it through without skipping a single rep. That's an accomplishment. The ab workout is still killing me, but reading other accounts of this workout/diet regime, people say I will be able to do this workout at some point in this 90 days.

I slept in again this morning (this time on purpose) and am planning on doing my workout tonight. The workout tonight is called Kenpo, which is a cardio workout with punching/kicking. I'll give a review later....but I'm kind of looking forward to it. Tomorrow is my rest day....yay!

The scale hasn't moved so I am still 5 pounds down. I'll take it........

Days Three and Four....

Day 3 went so awesome! I enjoyed the arms and shoulders workout. I have been using bands but found that some of the exercises were less awkward using hand weights. I used 5 pound weights for those exercises.

The food part of the day was also easy. I had decided that I was going to follow this program completely, but I have found that I need to be realistic about it. I have been drinking and loving diet pepsi for most of my life. To cut that out cold turkey would be a killer. So....yesterday I bought myself a 32 ounce diet pepsi and I found it to be heavenly.

Day 4 is here. I woke up this morning and popped in the yoga dvd. It is over 90 minutes long. I seriously thought I would do the whole thing. I made it 60 minutes. Then, I heard the dryer stop and I was seriously a little bored and my mind kept wandering to the mounds of laundry I still had to do today. So....I skipped the last 30 minutes. Oh well. One hour of yoga is more yoga than I've done in a long time.

I got on the scale this morning after I showered. I am almost embarrassed by my weight loss so far. I've lost 5 pounds.....

Day Two

It was so hard for me to get up this morning to do my workout. Once I was up and moving, I was happy I decided to drag my butt out of bed. Today was Plyometrics. It was a great workout. I did sit down on the couch for a few minutes during the workout.....so I guess I didn't do the entire thing. I am used to running 3 miles, which takes me less than 30 minutes. Working out for over an hour a day is going to get a little boring, I think. Oh well. 88 days to go.

As far as diet goes, I did well today again. I have to focus on this and just eat what they recommend in the plan. If I fall off the wagon, I usually fall off hard. I just need to keep pushing the lean protein so I feel satisfied most of the time. The lean protein is going to get old real fast. I can tell already. I am headed to bed now. Yes, it's only 9:45 on a Friday night. I can't wait to dream of bread.....