Within/Without

Peace! I cannot let an auspicious moment pass like this…. I am on Day 57 of P90x!!!!! Yes! But the shocking part is…. I finally lost some damn weight! Only 3 lbs, but I’ll take it. I don’t know what happened. The ironic thing is I slouched on week 8’s workouts. I just came out of recovery week. I must say. Last week… I recovered! So much in fact that I only logged 1 workout. I’m not being down on myself at all. And I don’t consider it a failure. Recovery week was designed to be a time when the muscles rest. I just rested them a little more than the designers of P90x would have liked. I got right back on the good foot this morning (Week 9, Day 1) and did chest and back and ab ripper. Sometimes you need to be a little bad to get results. And I lost 3 frigging pounds! Plus all my clothes are getting loose, not too loose but loose enough for me to tell. And people are starting to notice that I am changing. Not the people that see me every day, but the other folks. Recovery week coi...

Peace. I put up a lot of bitching and moaning in yesterday’s post. But bitching and moaning is counterproductive if you don’t do anything about it. So I got on my handy dandy internet and researched why I’m not losing weight after all the effort I have expanded. What I found is the possibility that I may have put my body in starvation mode with my 1230 daily calorie restriction. Hmmm….. I suppose the fact that I am a chronic dieter had something to do with it as well. And all the fasting I’m good for. I have possibly ruined metabolism. All I can do is assure my body that food is coming and will continue to keep coming so that it can release what is on me. How am I going to do that in the confines of my goals? Well… That’s a good question. The P90x fitness plan says for my weight, I am supposed to consume 2250 calories/day. Hmmm…. According to MFP I am supposed to consume 1230 calories a day. Hmmm…. Somebody is lying. So I have decided to slowly up the calorie ante to see where I ...

Peace Good People! I am nearly through the 2nd phase of P90x. I’ve got nothing good to say. I’m letting you know up front, that this will probably turn into a bitch and moan session. So here we go… It’s official, today. I have NOT missed a single workout. One of the things I was afraid of was that I would get sick somewhere in the middle of the phase 2. That seems like the spot where most people get ill and fall completely off their game. I must have worried myself into said predicament because I got sick last week. Maybe sick is a bad description. My back went out last Friday. I could barely move. That was a yoga day. So there was no yoga that day; just a lot of rehab for my back. I got it to a place where I could do yoga on Saturday with modifications. I did Saturday’s workout on Sunday and Sunday’s last night. I would have done it yesterday morning but the time change threw me. Since I took Friday off, I didn’t have Monday off. So now I right back where I’m supposed to be. So I...

Peace Y’all…. I know it’s been a minute since I have updated my P90x foolishness. And you probably thought I quit. I didn’t. I’m one of those people who see things to the end even if it’s a bad idea. I like to give everything a complete shot before I talk shit about it. I completed the 1st phase of P90x and the recovery phase and now I comfortable in the 2nd phase. I held off weighing myself until the recovery phase was complete….. I gained 5 lbs. So I have been pissed for the last few days. I guess the water and the green tea ain’t all that. But I shouldn’t be so crusty. I have lost 4 inches off my stomach and 3 inches off my chest. Clearly something is working. And I know I probably gained a lot of muscle. I assume that’s what’s going on with my arms. They haven’t changed in measurement but they aren’t as flimsy. My thighs haven’t changed either. But then again, I’m not sure I’m measurig them in the same position. They are less jiggly, though. The God has noticed tiny muscles spr...