Huh?!

Well, somehow I have lost track of where I am actually at in the process. I thought I was a week behind. .. . as in, I'm thinking I'm starting week 5 and I looked at the calendar, and I am actually (today, July 26th) starting week 6!! Wow, that never happens to me! ha

So, I'll wrap last week, which was week 5. Because I was thinking that I was on week 4, which is a rest & recovery week on the lean plan (though still working out). . .. I did week 4's workouts on week 5, and will start week 5's workouts today which is actually week 6. Confusing?! Um, yeah!! Which is why the title to this post is 'huh?!'

Furthermore, I am probably just going to stick with the fat shredder eating for this week. I know it changes slightly (or is supposed to) at the 30 day point and again at the 60 day point for your last thirty. .... I'll have to take some time to look at the nutrition guide and figure out what is different. From what I recall you're allowed more carbs and more fruit. But, I think it is not going to hurt me to stay on the fat shredder an extra week! :)

Last week went well also. I think what I am most excited about sometimes is that this way of eating and thinking about my eating (food as FUEL for my body) has become a habit for me, and that's pretty cool. B/c I've never really fully realized that in past. I've been more in touch with my 'you only live once, indulge' side in past - and the evidence definitely showed up on my body! Ugh! Now don't get me wrong, there are still times when I'm tempted to eat a little off plan (like an extra carb/snack or something, over the weekend while I'm hanging out at home watching a movie or whatever). But for the most part, this is fast becoming a way of life, the 'norm' - and that's awesome!

Does anyone realize how FATTENING bacon is?! Holy smack!!!! I was cooking breakfast for the hub Saturday and frying up some bacon (b/c he, blessed with a fast metabolism AND a physical job that keeps him in good shape, can eat like a flippin' hoover - in fact, my nickname for him sometimes is Hooverville) and I looked at the ingredients/nutrition info. ONE SLICE is 9 grams of fat!!! Geeeeeeeeeez, what a rip! One measly slice? Seriously. I know, you're thinking 'why not turkey bacon'. You don't know my husband. He has this thing about poultry (as in, he is against eating it b/c he grew up raising beef and pigs). So yes, I also realize that I could cook separate things for myself - and I do a lot of the time. But I draw the line with frying two different kinds of bacon in two different skillets (if I were avoiding the grease and fat of the pork bacon, of course).

Just had to get that off of my chest.

So anyway. I am also excited to say that I went for a long walk and included running yesterday! Because I'm paranoid about taxing my knees too much, I refuse to jog on pavement or asphalt right now. .. so I just do it on the gravel portion of my route, which is about a mile long. I walked the gravel mile on the way out, and then continued to walk for another mile out on an asphalt road which had some pretty hefty hills! Then, on the way home I jogged the whole mile on gravel (which, also has a hill or two in there, though not as intense as the asphalt road hills). It felt AMAZING! Even on the hill! I would have gone on longer, even - but my IPod froze and totally distracted me thinking it was broken so I headed on home instead of turning around to run some more. But the awesome thing is I felt so strong! - like I'd been running and had the conditioning already - which I do have the conditioning from the P90X program but not specifically from running. My form was great, I can totally tell that my strength has grown a LOT! I just LOVE it, and I can't wait to run again. I want to start putting an extra cardio session or two per week in - again, probably only on the weekends tho with my schedule being what it is during the week right now (with two jobs and fitting an hour workout into a very short evening).

Update on weight - I actually thought to weigh myself this morning, just to see where I'm at. So I was using the weight I got from the health screening as a starting point (even tho that was only a little over a week ago). . and I'm down about .5 pound from that. Not much. But - I feel slimmer, truly. Less gooey and flabby. I HAVE to be, considering the strength gains I've noticed!! And I think I can see it in the mirror also - I feel less lumpy as far as my silhouette goes. All good things!!! This program is awesome! So I'm going to keep on pushing play and 'BRINGING IT'. I've heard that days 60-90 are really when things start to rock and roll as far as visible results - I'm hoping that is the case! I don't have that far to go, so I'm pumped! And what about after the first 90 days? Well, I can see myself keeping it up actually - too bad I don't have the time to train for the October 1/2 marathon . . .. .. ......

OR DO I!?!?!? :>