Health Challenge

My family has decided to have a Health Challenge for one year.  This challenge is to help motivate us all to be healthy.  We get points for exercising, for eating healthy food, for being physically active in a social setting, etc.  We get minus points for eating bad food.  We are all putting some money in a "pot" of sorts and after a year the person with the most points will get the money. That is definitely motivation for me.

Yesterday we started our competition.  I also officially started the P90X program yesterday.  My husband and I took the fit test yesterday and today we did the Plyometrics video. It. Was. Crazy! It is an hour long workout of death.  It is like doing those workouts 3 times in a row. It was intense.  I don't think I gave it 100% but I did work hard and I know I will feel it tomorrow.


I am not happy with my body at this moment in time. I am 5'1" and 155 pounds. I haven't been able to get the baby weight off.  I want to motivate myself to change.  So I am letting it all out there folks. I want to document this year to see how my body is changing.  I know that if I eat healthy and exercise I will lose weight and get fit.  Good bye donuts, chocolate, and nutella! You do not belong anywhere in my life!  You are the fat makers! haha.

Holiday Hiatus

Ok so I took a sabbatical from working out the last two weeks.   I got sick and family was in town and it was Christmas time and excuse, excuse, excuse.  I got lazy. And I ate naughty food. And I loved it!  I did get some fun fitness presents as well.  I got a pair of Nike Flex running shoes from my mother -in-law and they are beautiful! She also gave me a pair of yoga pants.  My husband gave me two 5 pound weights. I am really excited about those because I was in need of 5 pounders when I did the P90x arm workout.  My brother-in-law's girlfriend gave me an interval timer and my mom gave me a pedometer.

The pedometer is awesome.  It tells me how many steps I am taking, how many miles I am walking, and how many calories I am burning.  I realized that I do not move around enough during the day.  Some days I don't even walk 1 mile during the day.  So my goal is to walk 3 miles during the day not counting my workouts.

Now that the holidays are over I am ready to get back on track.  I have made some fitness goals for myself. Along with my 3 miles worth of steps a day goal I also have a goal to workout every weekday this year, and not miss a day.  I started today.

After we put the kids to bed my husband and I did this little workout:

Yes it was only 4 minutes but it was a good start and it was hard. At the end I was out of breath.  I can't believe how much not working out for two weeks takes a toll on your body.  Where did my muscles go?  I need to get myself back on track and in a good place.  Here's to being fit and healthy in 2013!