Summing It Up.

So as most of you know I used to way 200lbs. I sort of low carbed my way all to way down to 168lbs which I reached in January of 2011. In December 2010 I got the news of having T1 cancer cells located on my cervix. Apparently many catch this virus during c-sections which is rather confusing to me since hospitals are suppose to be CLEAN. Anyways, I knew I had to change my ways of living big time. I knew that losing weight the way I did was not healthy. I lost most of my muscle mass! January I started doing Chalean Extreme. One of the easier workouts from Beachbody. "Easy" my bum! It was so hard and every day was a struggle. The eating part was hard as well since I just stopped low carbing....I felt sick whenever I would eat carbs. More blood tests where done to find out I am borderline diabetic. Quite easy to get a hand on...just need to find the carbs that work for me. After my first month of Chalean Extreme I saw NO change. I gained a few pounds but lost inches. This sucked! I kept pushing play...and put my scale away. At this point I was at 1800 calories a day. I added a Zuzana Light workout here and there though I could feel I was getting stronger I did not see a difference until Day 60. How I wished I would have taken pictures though I was way to ashamed. By day 60 I lost 8 inches and 15lbs. Guess the diet was working! Now I was hooked...I knew sooner or later I will see more results IN THE MIRROR...because pants started to be loser which I did not care much for. I wanted to SEE it. I started adding 5-15 minutes of jump rope daily but all in all worked out only 5 days a week. By day 90 I lost 30lbs and 13inches. I took my before pictures for P90X (basically day 90 of Chalean Extreme). With P90X I had the same "issue" I lost 2lbs (whaaat!?!?!) and a few inches. But guess what? Finally EVERYTHING started to pick up fast. It took 120 days for ME to see change...for skin to get tighter. For me to believe it. Past that point I hardly cared for the scale anymore. I wanted to be healthy, wanted to beat cancer...if I can top it of with some hotness? SWEET! From time to time I felt myself getting angry over my large stretch marks...here I was, my skin tightening up more yet the stretchmarks stayed (they just moved closer to my back (weird...lol). But no matter what I always found my way back due to my awesome husband and friends. I kept pushing play and by the end of P90X I lost another 8lbs and about 8 inches. You could REALLY see it now. I did The Asylum after that...always wanted to be as fast as a rabbit. It surely did it's job and pushed me to my limit BIG time. Here and there I was able to have a fun day yet most of my fun day could have still be considered clean...because there was still this cancer thing in the back of my head. After The Asylum I did my own little P90X maintain hybrid. I lost so many inches in those 6 weeks! CRAZY. End of November I got the news. Cancer is GONE. I am fine, just need to have check ups done every 3-6 months. Beachbody and a good diet did that. I am sure of it :) Thank you for all of your support. Never forget WHY you are doing this! Push yourself to live this life as healthy as you can...while enjoying it. 

My apologies on not posting as much lately, I am still pushing play of course. Just am rather busy to post it all :)

Les Miles, Pump And Burn

After getting so very bored with P90X 2 I decided I will give Body Pump a shot.

Phase I of P90X 2 is still very much fun so I will use some of the workouts on my rest days. Body Pump is 5 times a week and the workouts are rather short in the first month. The deluxe pack comes with the bar, the weight plates and a stepper. Plus the nutrition guide and all the other goodies.

I tried Pump Challenge yesterday which is only 20 minutes long...I used 5lbs plates so all in all you are lifting 15lbs (the bar is a tad more then 5lbs). It was so so much fun! Today was suppose to be a rest day yet I felt great so I tried out Pump and Burn (30 minute workout) and added some weight as well. (I have some 2.5lbs plates so I lifted a total of 20lbs)

I took a video of it and I must say...I have to relearn my squats again! LOL

Let me know if you have any questions about the workout...or click on this link to see what this workout program is all about.

Body Pump!

Legs Are Shaking Like Mad

Hey everyone! I hope you all feel well? I am completely out of it. Feeling rather tired but will push through as always. 

Today I smoked out my legs! I love the One on One on One Leg workout DVD!! It gave me a good burn the other day so I just did it again today. (Had a rest day yesterday so please no worries!)

Wednesday Les Miles Body Pump will get here!!! I am so very excited. Two of my buddies, one of them being my coach Carey Martin, get a crazy burn from it and are left shaking! I am quite sure I will be challenged! 

Just had some peppered Beef Jerky. I think I am addicted. 

Here is today's mug. Going to watch Football now :D

Pups..Not Really About Workouts...But So What?!

Some of them are a tad graphic. Yet I just find it beautiful! I also took a video of her birthing. If you are interested voice it in the comments and I shall share it.

I Am Still Here

Such stressful days lately. I might have not written anything but I was still working out though only for about 12 minutes a day. First my mom passed, then my daughter got sick, then my doggy had puppies and then my son fell pretty hard.
I am back now. Today I did oooool (One on One on One Leg) and liked it a lot. It was one of the bonus dvd's that I got for pre-ordering P90X2.
I took some pictures...please no comments on my choice of pants or socks (lol). Plus here you see my lose skin I am left with after losing all this weight. It surely did get better though! 

Sleep Well Mother And More.

What a weekend. O_O First it was sad...then it was awesome...then it was sad again...mixed with a bit of confusion.

Saturday I met my wonderful up-line coach Carey Martin! I was so excited to finally meet her. (though it is rather strange to see her in normal clothes and not workout clothes. HA!) She is super sweet and I am quite glad to have met her. She showed me the new Les Milles Body Pumo workout. I WANT IT SO BADLY!

On the way to her house I found out that my mother had past away after being in a coma for 7 weeks. This lady raised me since I was very young after my biological mother decided to run out on us. Without her...who knows where we would be today. This is a rather hard time...she left behind so many people including my little sister and her small son, my stepbrother. I am not good with words and tend to stay away from things that might cause hurt or pain...so I here is my older sisters blog. Read what she had to say...she summed it up nicely. 

Mama gone too soon. Stefanie's Blog.

Sunday I heard all the voices of my German relatives. I miss home.

Anyways, you all know I need to work out in order to feel good. So even though I only had 5 hours of sleep in the last 2 nights I pushed play. My back was still sore from last Monday (no kidding) so I took it easier on the Pull-Ups BUT went all out with the Push-Ups. I sort of kept track with the numbers ....well not really, just know it is more.

No video today...not even a mug! Bare with me!

X2 Shoulders and Arms

Ugh...THIS was lame. 

O_O I was seriously surprised after X2 Shoulders and Arms. It was not hard...I was not pushed or challenged at all. Yes...Tony added a whole lot of balance by doing all of the moves with one leg of the ground but darn it, I just did 4 weeks of Phase 1 that included so much balance that a foot in the air (ankle next to ankle) did not face me at all.

The workout is broken up into 3 parts, 7 sets repeated. Where I love when workouts repeat sets only 7 sets was just not enough (total of 21 sets). Meeeehhhh. I also did X2 Ab Ripper and then ran the stairs again. 178 times...I was able to cut my time by two minutes (so 21 minutes) and after that I added 1000 step ups which took me 26 minutes (meaning I spent 47 minutes on my stairs...lol)

Now I am kind of toast. I really wanted to take a mug shot but kind of spaced out. It would have been a good one for sure because I was sweating a lot.

Well...I did take a video of the X2 Shoulders and Arms workout. 

Click here to watch it!

X2 Shoulders and Arms