In just 3 short weeks……..

Wow what a crazy week and last weekend it has been!!! Lots of good and not so good has happened! Let’s start with last weekend. First off on Friday Andrea (my roommate) came and worked out with me and Sarah at the gym.  Andreas a runner. She runs everywhere. It’s nothing for her to run 4 to 5 miles a day if not MORE. I call her crazy b/c that is NOTHING I would ever desire to do but she comes in all happy like she just won the lottery and it’s partly a little annoying lol.  I think it annoys me b/c I soooo don’t get excited after a workout. I normally hate the person who is training me and DESPISE them if they even make me jog, let alone come in real happy about it!  But she likes it.  So she had been hearing about all my awful workouts I had been telling her and thought it would be fun (told ya she’s crazy) and she came.  I think Sarah hurt her too, which in fact made me feel better!  Made me feel like I wasn’t the only that struggled to do it. If Andrea was hurting, then I knew I had EVERY right to cry in the shower after we get done in the mornings!! So I was satisfied! Hee Hee…

Saturday we went to Kri Chay’s bootcamp! He was having that week for free so Andrea came with me too. She is truly in hog heaven with all this working out (insert finger in mouth to gag).  Even after I got out of the car to this bootcamp I thought..what was I thinking. Who drives to Independence just to get hurt L  The only happy part about the whole thing was I got to see Ali (who is in this weight loss challenge and has become a wonderful friend to me) Sandy who was on last rounds challenge (who also has became a wonderful friend and such an encourager to me) and Angie who was on the last round and they are such cool people and it was exciting to put a face with a fb comment! Hee hee! It was pretty hard.  Had 8 stations.  4 on the outside and 4 on the side. You had to do each exercise for 45 sec and then race to the other one before the bell went off.  First one was planks which my (whole body still shakes at these), then the next station was side planks. At one point Kri came up to me and said Mandi raise your hips higher…I said THEY ARE UP…YOU JUST CAN’T SEE THEM..now go away!!! J…he may not have seen them raised but trust me they were. My hips are just larger than some (or most) and just because they don’t look off the ground does not necessarily mean that they aren’t.  3^rd station was bicycle sit ups (blah) and 4^th was the other side planks…double blah.. The inside 4 stations were awful kettle bells, lunges, tricep thingies.  Did you know he laughs at you if you bring under 10 lbs weights…I don’t own over 5 lb weights…so thankfully he had some to spare (wish he hadn’t off) He laughs at 10 lbs and makes you do 15 lbs… he’s in my new category of evil people.  It was a hard workout for sure but we did have fun talking.  That was from 8 to 9am.  I had to meet BTT at 11am…I text him and told him I would be there between 11:30 and noon b/c I needed to recoup and dry my bra’s out.  Big girls gotta double up.  I have 2 sport bra’s.  That’s not something us bigger girls have a lot of.  We buy food, not sports bra’s!  Thankfully we just did cardio and no weights, lunges, stairs, squats or anything else devilish like.  We did the arc trainer for an hour.  That thing is pretty awkward. It’s almost like an elliptical but your foot goes in the this thing and it’s almost like high knee raises…well whatever it was..my butt and the back of my legs burned like the dickens afterwards. I was sweating like a pig..there was really no reason to dry the bra’s out!! None at all.

Sunday was Title Boxing.  Andrea came again with me.. She was excited as usual. I knew what was coming so I wasn’t excited at all.  We went to Art’s class.  As we are wrapping our hands up..we were told that the class on Sunday’s was 1hr and a ½.  I said well gee that’s nice…glad YOUR class is that long, but MY class is still an hour!! I had to fit a nap in before church ya know. Priorities people!!! HellUr!!   As I have said before the thing that I don’t like about Title Boxing is the warm up..it’s the running around the rooms and around the bags.  It kills me.  I just despise jogging at all.  BUT this time..he had us running around BOTH rooms..never had we done that…or I should say I had NEVER done that…..and it wasn’t as bad as it had been.  I wasn’t huffing and puffing like I normally would. I was like WOW..I got this…and then we finished it off with lunges around both rooms and that was awful but I could still breathe! It’s amazing how much that has changed.  My tolerance.  I was pretty impressed!!!  Went to church after that…and knew I wanted to get another workout in before bed so Andrea was to the rescue again and we went and played softball for a bit, then kick ball for a bit and then soccer. Soccer is MUCH harder than I thought…panting up and down the field trying to kick a ball.  By the time I made it to the end to kick a goalie I was to pooped to care if the ball got in or not. I just kicked it..didn’t aim at all. I was just thankful I made it back and down alive.

Monday was my “last chance workout” with BTT…He worked me over good.  After work my plan was to go to Title but I honestly was SOOOOOOOOO pooped out from the weekend and everything all I had the energy to do was sleep.  I went home and was in bed by 6pm L..I was out!!! 

TUESDAY D-DAY!!

I knew I had worked my butt off. I knew I hadn’t cheated on my food but no matter what I had done..that scale wouldn’t budge.  I had had a 10.4 lb lost the first week, 7 lbs the 2^nd week.  Those weeks were almost worth the drive to Ottawa. For that scale to applaud you for all the hard work you had done the week prior. That it was all worth it. All the pain, all the stairs, sprints and more stairs! But this week no one was applauding.  Not me, not the scale. I knew when I went in there it wasn’t gonna be good.  My head was bowed before she even read the numbers.  When she said you have lost 1.4 lbs I just wanted to lay on the floor and cry.  I KNEW what I had done.  I knew how I was PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTED..b/c I had worked out so much.  I knew my trainers had pushed me so hard that week. I just couldn’t believe it.  I was disappointed in myself. All that was going on in my head was what could I have done different?  Could  I have seriously exercised more? Did I eat something wrong?  What in the world?  After seeing that I had to do a video concerning that week. Like I wanted to talk to anyone, let alone a camera about my week after I saw that.  All I could think of was…I was 1^st place last week and I’m going to 12^th place in a week. What will everyone think? Will they think I just laid around all week. That I didn’t do anything when I KNEW in my heart that I couldn’t have done one more thing. I got pretty choked up a couple times on the video (which comes out today by the way) and I’ll find out what place I am in. Not looking forward to any of it.  I know we have slow weeks. I knew the 2^nd week curse didn’t affect me..but it was the 3^rd week curse that punched me in the gut.  I had a rough day that day.  Pretty down.  I was just so tired. I knew I couldn’t work out that day. I needed a day of rest.  I wanted a day of no working and to be shut in from everyone but couldn’t.  I was pretty quiet all day and that night I didn’t do anything. I just laid around and that’s just what I needed! My trainers were so awesome. Bob and Sarah are just the best.  They totally encouraged me! Told me not to be so hard on myself and just said keep doing what I’m doing. They are just so great.

Wednesday had another great workout with BTT!!!  Encouraged me even more to not be down.

I got a text from Sarah that afternoon. Normally I don’t work out with them on Thursdays but someone had cancelled so she could see me that morning. I wasn’t thrilled lol…she said I have a fun cardio workout for you.  Me+Sarah+Cardio=does NOT equal fun.  I’m like who is she trying to kid.  I told her that she had to be nice to me Thursday morning or I would recruit someone else for her Friday morning beating she planned to give me. lol…well so Thursday morning I went…not wanting to of course. Her idea of fun is NOT my idea of fun so I could only imagine what she had in store. We started out walking on the treadmill which is normal and then she is like ok are you ready to jog? And as usual I say no, and as usual she speeds the treadmill up. I don’t even know why she asks. It’s not like she listens anyway!  Normally I go for 1 min sprints, maybe 1 min 30 secs tops…well..sometimes she gets to talking and in mid sentence I ask her…are you checking the time??? Lol I don’t want her to get all distracted and not be watching the clock b/c EVERY sec jogging is a sec that counts J…well after 1 min and 15 sec I’m still jogging so I thought ok…maybe I’m going for a min and 30…I keep going…I thought..ok I’m giving it til 2 min and I’m questioning her intentions here…and she goes..your jogging a quarter of a mile.  Ok…I have never done over 1 min 30 sec and she’s asking me to go a quarter?? Oh Lord…I knew this was a bad idea!!!  But I just kept my eyes forward and concentrated on my breathing and all of a sudden I was done. I was so happy! I thought this is the coolest thing ever. I’ve never done that much and look at me go…so we started walking again…and then the same stupid question…are you ready?, no, treadmill speeds up…etc…and another quarter of a mile we go. I was feeling pretty darn tootin good about myself!! I ain’t believing I did it twice.  So we walk some more. As we are walking..she speeds it up and I’m thinking..oh Lord a 3^rd time here we go….and Sarah said well I waited until you started jogging before I told you but your fixing to jog a half mile!! I GO WHAT??? Actually I pant WHAT?? I said Sarah I can’t do it and she said, if you can’t then that’s ok, but I know you can..so keep going!! AND GUESS WHAT??? I DID IT!! I JOGGED A ½ MILE AND 2 QUARTER MILES TWICE!!!  I ABOUT CRIED!! I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT!! I never thought I would be able to do that and I did it…and it’s only week 3!!!! AHHHHH to be continued………