Giving it everything I got!

Day 9

Woke up this morning and realized I had plans for late morning plus another weigh in with my nutritionist, so I had no choice but to work out at 9AM. Yikes. It was definitely challenging at parts (especially the parts where my baby thought doing a reverse crunch was a joy ride!)

Some parts of the 30 day shred DVD are getting easier, I have more endurance but other parts i'm still struggling. Today I noticed I was able to do more push ups! That was a huge shocker. I also did more anterior raises with a side lunge. I struggled with jump n jacks and the jump rope today. I don't know why but circuit 1 in level 1 seems to be the hardest, maybe it is the mentality that goes with it that we are JUST starting and by circuit 2 I know we are halfway done and so on... 2 more days of Level 1 and then I move on, still not sure i'm 100% ready but at the same time I am getting a little bored of the same exercises.

I had a very good breakfast today and felt really good, lost 2.5lbs in total so far, something I should be celebrating I know but I was a bit bummed, until my nutritionist asked me about sodium intake and I realized that the last week I had consumed a few higher sodium food items, so this week she said to try to steer clear of anything over 400mg/serving and by next week I should notice a huge drop in water weight. I am already noticing i'm getting a bit slimmer in places like my abs area and my thighs.
Something as simple as crossing my legs and sitting "lady like" i've noticed I can do with more ease, losing them chunky thighs helps!

Tonight I am having a chicken stir fry and doing some more just dance. I need to get ready for lane swimming tomorrow too, i'm both terrified and excited about that. 1 hour of swimming lanes and when I tried it on Sunday I could barely do 3 minutes, so why did I sign up? To challenge myself of course! You don't start out with all these exercises doing amazing but you eventually get there, and even if you can't go the whole 9 yards your still exercising your body and burning calories, so anyone who reads my blog -- if you have a work out you'd like to "try" then I say go for it! You may not be able to do everything but give it everything you got and that's the best you can do, you'll still lose weight and get into shape.

I feel both energized but drained at the same time, it is a strange feeling. Today was hard to push myself to work out, it's so hard to start out but I feel SO good to know its done. I know i've said that many times before but it is the same internal struggle I go through each time, haha. I need to decide if I am going to do the 30 day shred in the morning/afternoon tomorrow even though i'm doing lane swimming too.

Well that's all for now. Until tomorrow friends!

~Ciao