Day One

Welcome to starting over from scratch. I went to Florida with my husband a few weeks ago - he had a business trip (the 3rd 2 week trip in 6 weeks. Blah.) and I went for the fact that a) I hadn't seen him but one week each between his two week trips to Florida, and b) I hadn't personally had a pack-and-go-somewhere vacation since our honeymoon in 2010. I had already fallen off the exercise track before we left and figured I'd use my time stuck in the hotel room to get back on track - took my PiYo and laptop with me. On the flight down, we found out my motion sickness is more severe than we originally thought, and I lost 5 pounds between the flight down and the flight back just in vomiting. While I looked tremendously better in my bikini, I don't condone vomiting for weight loss. Not only do you feel like hell while doing it, that stomach acid is terrible for both your esophagus and teeth, among many other upper body organs. Unless you can't help it due to circumstances beyond your control, just leave your stomach fluids in the stomach where they belong. God didn't create the world in a day, so don't expect to have a flat tummy in a day - just ain't gonna happen.

That being said, I leaned on my best good friend Lauren (kudos to those of you who got the movie reference), and asked her to help keep me accountable to get back on the exercise road. Zach's tossing the phrase "start a family soon" around, so I need to get with it so I can lose baby weight in a few years (!!!!), which I'm thoroughly excited about. I slept in a bit late today, but I did get up and print off my schedules for my workouts. I'll be doing only PiYo for the next 8 weeks, followed up by 8 weeks of TurboFire, and finish it all off with 47 weeks of a combined PiYo and TurboFire.

Above, you will see my chart. It's easier to read in person, I swear. I'm only doing before and after measurements, and I need to do new photos, but I have to leave for work in about 10 minutes, so I'm trying to post fast. I'm not entirely sure those measurements are right, as I never was good at measuring stuff other than my weight, but you just stand on a scale for that. I'm going to cross off the workouts as I do them, so the first two are crossed off, and I'll do the Define: Upper as soon as I get home. I ran out of time this morning, and still had eating and showering to do after the Define: Lower (which kicked my hindparts, let me tell ya). 

Did I mention I'm also trying to stop swearing during all this? Mom - who is my cheerleader and ref on that front - has said I sound less sailor-ish, so I'm claiming a win. Amazing how you want to change yourself when you know you'll be spending a lifetime as someone else's role model in a few years. 

Now it's your turn. Get out there and move around, even if it's just house cleaning chores! Whatever you do, you're lapping everyone on the couch.