Deployment Goal

OspreyWife
OspreyWife Posts: 15
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hi everyone! I'm new to this, and hoping having a community to come to will help me reach my goal.
I started working out by running last November, and continued until the end of February. I ran almost every day and even got up to running 7 miles at a time. In January I added in biking and swimming, but it became hard for me when my husband was gone for almost two months for predeployment training. See I have a 4 and 2 year old, plus we live in San Diego where everything is on hills so pushing them up and down hills was killing me. So I went to just biking and swimming until the end of February, I ended up some how getting a staph infection in my right ear. I couldn't do anything for three weeks I was so sick and in so much pain. I let myself give up after those weeks even though I went from 170 lbs to 153, which also was part of it I couldn't get past 153.

So here I am at the end of July, a week into my husbands deployment for seven months and annoyed with myself that I am back at 166. So my goal is to reach 130-135 range before my husband comes home at the end of February. 30 lbs in 7 months, I think that is doable and safe, correct? I started p90x on Sunday, and I'm in the process of going all "clean" with my food. I am going to add in biking as well even though I don't think I lost that much with it. Still scared to swim after the infection since I now have scar tissue and lost 50% of my hearing in that ear. I hope I can stick with it because I hate the way I look! My husband says I'm sexy the way I am but I would love for him to step off that Osprey in February and not even recognize me :)

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  • danithegirl89
    danithegirl89 Posts: 203 Member
    That is such a great motivator! I think P90X will be great because it will incorporate some strength training in there! You can get smokin hot by the time he comes back!

    PS- How tall are you?
  • OspreyWife
    OspreyWife Posts: 15
    Haha so true! I'm 5'8"
  • lorettaasmith
    lorettaasmith Posts: 418 Member
    First of all, thank you for your sacrifice! You have a tough job being a single mom to two small children for the duration of your husband's deployment, and it is appreciated. Second, your goals are totally doable! Set some mini-goals....find a way to exercise at home, a flat track or a gym with child-care, and stick to it! There will be one very pleasantly surprised returning servicemember come February!
  • KALMdown
    KALMdown Posts: 211 Member
    Hey! Feel free to add me. Have lived through 3 deployments and a 4th may be coming up this fall. I promised myself at the beginning of each deployment that I would lose the weight but got lazy because the old man wasn't there to bug me into going to the gym. Now i'm paying for it.

    I have been ordered to attend the USAF ball this September and am trying to lose some of the weight before then so I don't look like a complete heifer in a ball gown. :D

    Also, if you are on base, does the gym have a family workout room? The kids are pretty much corralled into a section while the parents can workout and watch them at the same time.
  • OspreyWife
    OspreyWife Posts: 15
    Thanks!

    No I don't live on base but lucky me Sept 4th my son starts kindergarten! And my daughter will be in preschool 3 days a week for 2 1/2 hours which will be perfect for the gym! Just need to do some at home things till then which is fine because I'm a cheapo and hate to waste so I'm cleaning out our food right now haha So all my temptations will be gone by then, and I should be 100% clean eating by then :) I'm taking that road slow so I don't give it up
  • vger11
    vger11 Posts: 248
    great goal

    very doable...and once you get to the wicked mid-150s change everything up. i usually get in some intense weights about then...it really works.

    kuddos and thx to you and your hubby!
  • jlkeene70
    jlkeene70 Posts: 1
    Good for you! My husband deployed last year for a year (Sept 2010-Sept 2012). I went through P90x twice during that time. It did the trick and was great because I could do it at home after the kids went to bed (I have 4 little guys, all under 6 years at the time). Just stick with it and you'll do great! The only thing I think the program lacked was cardio. It sounds like you were very fit cardio-wise before. You may need to add some extra cardio into P90x to get the weight loss you want. On 2 days a week I added in an extra half hour on my eliptical starting about half way through the program. It helped me to speed up my weight loss. Good luck to you!
  • danithegirl89
    danithegirl89 Posts: 203 Member
    Awesome I am 5'8" and want to be 135ish :)

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