I am single and have a beautiful daughter (15yrs). By day, I train new military recruits how to be weather forecasters. At night I teach college-level earth science part time.

I have completed P90X and Insanity and I regularly run 5K and half marathon races. I would not call myself a cardio junkie since I much prefer weight training, however, I am looking for new and fun ways to drop my body fat another 5%.

My eating is well under control thanks to a healthy dose of CDO (that is OCD, but with the letters in alphabetical order, the way they should be). I have found if I log my food/menu the day ahead of time I can not only get the right number of calories and carb/fat/protein percentages, but I don't wander aimlessly wondering when and what my next meal will be. It also helps to find recipes you like and cook 10-14 meals ahead of time and throw them in the freezer.

Thank you again for the invite. I am hoping this group will be more active than the others on MFP and I can somehow contribute.

Mike

My name is Niki and I am an HR recruiter for a bank. I work from home which is nice for the most part. My husband is great and is a left leg amputee. We have a 7 year old daughter. I spent many years in yo yo diets. In the past year I have really put a focus on clean eating and found I get much better results eating a lot more food. I still allow myself a cheat meal here and there. The past year has been the most successful for me. I had unexpected major surgery in Augutst and have been struggling to get my body back since then. However I am more determined than ever. I am a home workout program junky :-) I have done most of the programs out there!

Hi all! I am a 38 year old mother to 4 2-legged (2 mine two acquired by marriage and 4 4-legged kids on the Oregon Coast. I work for the Department of Corrections full time and teach at the community college part time. I started the Classic Schedule yesterday, though my diet sucked due to brandy and eggnog. I wish they would just take eggnog off the market again already!!
I have gained and lost and gained again the same 15 pounds for years. My goal this time is to lose it and keep it off. I was doing good early this year and finally working on the last 10 I wanted to lose, then I was hospitalized with an intestinal rupture and a couple months later had surgery to remove 18 inches of intestine. Since then I am back up to 150 and need to start over.
I loved Total Synergistics yesterday and am really looking forward to Agility X tonight. I told mom I would meet her at the pub for a New Year's Eve drink, but it will be one glass of wine and that is it and only after my workout.
Thanks for starting this group! I hope we all stay active!
Heather

Hi Angie, I am a 52 year old, mother of 2 boys (24 and 26) who lives in the Houston area. I have been using Beachbody programs for years. I loved all of Chalene's programs, but my favorite was Les Mills Pump when it came out. That was the program the helped me win the monthly Beachbody contest last year but losing over 35lbs. I have since done Les Mills Combat and T25. I really like the shorter intense programs because I just don't have a lot of time for the hour workouts. Tonight is week 1, day 2 for me. Loved Total Synergistics but need to go up on some weights. My nemesis is pull ups, though. I thought with all the strenght training and pushups I have done, pull ups would not be a problem for me. I could not do a single one on the chin up bar for the fit test. I now have to modify with bands. Does anyone else have this problem? Nice meeting everyone!

Hi everybody! Nice to meet you all. I'm Max. I'm 38 and a mum of 1 year old twins. I've done a few Beachbody programs in the past - most recently T25 which I totally hated. I'm on Week 2 Day 2 of P90X3 and I'm loving it so far. Now I just have to work on getting my eating under control. I always start out well but as the day goes on I get sloppy. Looking forward to getting fit with you all!

Hi, everyone!

I hope it's okay if I join. I'm officially beginning p90x3 on Monday. I have tried a number of the workouts already. I can't wait to get started.

I'm a 31-year-old marketing professional by day and a single mom to an 11-year-old boy and two lovely puppies by night (and weekends).

I completed 90 days of Chalean Extreme in November. I loved the weights. I then moved on to T25. Although, I did enjoy it, I didn't complete it. I've been all over the place with these workouts, while also incorporating the lifting routines from Chalean Extreme. I'm not big on cardio and wanted to continue down the path of strength training. So I got my hands on p90x3.

I'm hoping to shave off 20 lbs, but I'm trying to be realistic and not overly hopefully. I only lost 11 lbs with CLX. Why does food have to taste so yummy??

Hope everyone is doing well with their routines!

Hi,

My name is Chris, I'm married with two kids . A 11 yr. old son and a 6 yr. old daughter. I'm 41 and have completed P90X a couple times and started and stopped several other times. I dropped 30 lbs the first time I did P90X and maintained that weight for 1.5 years. Have slowly put weight back on and need to drop about 30 again. Completed day 1 on 1-6, looking forward to a great 90 days.

Chris

Hi,
I'm 44 yrs old, married with two kids. I work for an IT company in the Denver area. I just moved here from Dubuque, IA but I'm originally from Toledo, Oh. I'm also a musician (guitar player) and had to leave a fairly successful band for the job in Denver. I'm about to join another band out here and want to make sure I'm not the fat guy on the stage LOL!
I have been through P90X a couple of times and lost some weight, gained some muscle, but never really did well with the diet. I just started P90X3 on Dec. 30 and I am really going to try to focus on the diet this time around. I feel like I have the exercise built into my life now so it shouldn't be too overwhelming to add just one more piece of the puzzle.
-John

Hello from a late entry to the group.

I'm 44 years old, and have so far lost about 200 pounds. (Unfortunately it's been mostly about 20 pounds at a time, with a 25 pound gain between them... :laugh: )

I did pretty well about a year ago with weight loss and fitness for a while, but eventually allowed life to get in the way, allowed myself to get too busy, stopped watching what I was eating, and stopped exercising. Over the last couple of months I've been thinking I needed to get back to it, and decided the new year was the right time to do it. I ordered myself a copy of P90X3 (which arrived yesterday), and have started tracking my food again.

I'm looking forward to P90X3, as I like the idea of the shorter workouts in which I can still feel like I'm accomplishing something and working hard. I've done the original P90X about halfway through, but really struggled to set aside that much time each day. Half an hour, though, is short enough that if I don't get it in at least the majority of the time, I'm really just making excuses...

I'd like to get down below 200 pounds for the first time in many years - which means I'm looking at more than one time through the program!

HI Everyone,

My name is Sherry. 32 year old, married last year. Want to achive the best body of my life before I start having kids. Big beachbody fan. I completed insanity last year and have been doing a modified T25, turbo fire, Jillian Michaels routine since then. Always was interested in P90 but didn't like the long weight workouts. So happy they changed it up with 3. My goal for 2014 is to make my workouts harder thinking P90 and tony can help me with that goal Starting the program on day 2 tomorrow (very excited)

Please send me a friend request. I use my iphone app more than the website and would love some extra motivation by seeing you guys log your workouts in!

Good Luck Everyone! Bring it!

Hi there,

My name is Julie and I'm 44 yrs old. I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 25 yrs and we have 3 amazing kids 20, 17 and 12. I work full time as a Nurse Manger in a Fetal Care Center and I am back in grad school. I also became a runner late in life. I started running when I turned 40 and I have completed 6 half marathons and have my 7th scheduled for April. Life is busy, but very rewarding! I started P90X3 on Jan 6th! I have hit the play button 9 days in a row now!! Really loving the program. I did before pics for the 1st time and I can’t wait to see the results at the 30, 60 and 90 day mark! Glad I found this group for the support and tips!

Hello folks:

I hope it's alright if I join, considering I'm not doing P90X3. I did a week of it, but I had a choice: shorter workouts, so I had to cut even more calories to stay at my current weight, or choose a program with longer workouts. I went with the latter option, so I'm in my 3rd week of P90X2.

A little background with my experience with P90X/Beachbody programs.

Started 2013 at approximately 180 pounds (all time high was 200 pounds back in 2009 or so). During 2013, I've completed two full rounds of P90X, one full round of a P90X/Insanity hybrid, and the first month of another hybrid round. I'm now at 147 pounds. (No worries, not a beachbody coach).

I was ready for a change, so did a week of X3, then went on to X2, and I'm absolutely loving it.

Best of luck on all your fitness journeys. Feel free to add me if you like.

Hi my name is Josh. I'm 32 years old and live in the Houston area with my wife and 3 kids (7,3,4 months). I work as an IT Consultant and basically sit in front of a computer working all day. I started my journey around Easter last year at an all time high of 252lbs. I've had people tell me I "carry it" well but I certainly don't feel like it. I just got the P90x3 system for XMas and started the workouts yesterday to try to change things for the better. I had tried to do the original P90x but could only ever make it through a week or so before life pulled me away again. This time I hope the new shorter 30 minute workouts will be easier to fit in and stick to.