I fell behind too, but the idea of paying catch up is too stressful to me. So I've decided to just start over with dvd 3 like I'm just starting the second part of phase 1 again. I'm ok with being behind.

Speaking of behind, my *kitten* is so sore from doing dvd 4 yesterday and it hasn't even been a full 24 hours yet! I told my husband that Jillian obliterated my *kitten*, and he laughed and said that sounds cool. Haha.

I'm going to measure myself tomorrow before I work out so I have a full day of rest. I'm drinking a crap ton of water today to hopefully get away from any sodium puffyness so I can get as close to accurate results as possible. I've been taking pictures of myself I might upload those. I've been taking them in my groomsmaid dress from my friend's wedding I was in since I have a picture of me in that 2 days before I started Body Revolution. I have some in just my workout bra and pants, but I'm not posting those. I feel weird about posting pictures of me so, not clothed lol, plus I'm so pale you'll need welding goggles to look at it anyway.

Are you feeling better since your wreck? I'm going to try and follow her diet as close as I can. My boyfriend says he wants to "lose his gut" so I think I have him talked into doing this round with me with the diet, which will make it a lot easier with us eating the same meal. There is a breakfast in the kick start week, the eggs with the avacados, I'm all over that. Although probably won't poach the eggs since I have no idea how to do that. lol He has crohn's and hasn't been eating what he should be eating for his diet (lots of fish, chicken, bland pasta and sweet potatoes) so we will probably be mixing her diet with his diet.

I'm going off pop starting tomorrow, which I did that back in May and lasted 4 months. I felt so good and then I started drinking one every once in a while and worked my way up to once a day. But still not near what I was drinking at this time last year, so hopefully the withdraws won't be as big of a nightmare as last time. I know Jillian promotes that Eboost stuff that is all natural with caffiene. I might try some of that and see how it is.

That's great!!!! Glad you are doing better and your face cleared up! My friend got into a wreck a few years ago and her face was burned by the air bag. She looks fine now but for a while I felt so bad for her. She had a huge burn on her chin and bottom lip. Poor thing.

Oh yeah my boyfriend tells me I'm a bad girlfriend because I don't cook for him. I barely cook for myself! I learned how to bake a pie for him, he should be happy with that. lol!!!

I still need to measure myself. I totally forgot to last night. We went to Cici's Pizza (saw a 3 year old with a grill in his mouth...wtf?) and then had some chocolate beer and since I never drink I was tipsy from one and went to bed. I'll do it and take pictures when I get home. I'm pretty happy with what I can see different just looking in the mirror. My obliques are way more visible, my shoulders feel a lot more muscular and look more cut. I've noticed my face has gotten thinner, and I have more of the dent in the side of my butt and I can see more muscle definition in my butt. It's also higher. I have WAY less celulite in my butt and backs of my thighs too. My upper back is more muscular looking than it has ever looked too.

I did Workout 1 this morning. I'm using 10 lb, 8 lb, and 5 lb weights. Chair squats with front raises with 10 lb weight....sweet Jesus they about killed me. lol The cardio intervals were redonkulously easy compared to Phase 3 ones, but I still burned 380 calories and my average heart rate was 140 and the max it got to was 170. I think when I do my cardio 1 days I'm going to do them holding 5 lb weights the whole time, except for when you do speed bag, because I don't want to smack myself in the face with a weight. That should make that harder. Since I'm doing the kick start week, tonight I need to do a cardio. I had planned to do her DVD, Banish Fat Boost Metabolism. But I might do cardio 1 and 2. Or do Cardio 3 and then go to our cardio room we have at our apartment complex and do something for a half hour there. I want to burn at least 500 calories a day from exercise alone to see if I can burn the fat off a bit quicker.

I noticed her kick start week for food was only 1200 calories, which I don't know if I can do. I was having problems with my heart fluttering at random times. I thought it was my asthma medicine, so I went off of it and it still kept happening. Then I got my heart rate monitor and could see how many calories I burned so I started eating back my burned calories and the fluttering has stopped. That's the only change I've made. So I'm not sure if I should do the 1200.

Aren't boyfriends great? lol! My boyfriend also calls me something from Family Guy. I'm his "Chinese Lois".

See I like to bake and decorate cakes. So his first birthday with me I had planned a kick @$$ cake and then he tells me he doesn't like cake (not knowing what I had planned). Cake is my favorite food so I didn't understand why he didn't like cake. He likes pie, so I learned. They aren't pretty, but they work. lol

LOL Sorry to confuse you!! I'm doing Cardio 1 (with weights) on my cardio days, but will also either do one of the other cardio dvds as well. During the kick start week (which I missed last night's work out and this morning's because I was tired as hell) I'm doing cardio 1 & 2 one night, Banish Fat Boost Metabolism another night, and then Cardio 3 and something else another night. And rotate that. Basically at night I want to get 45 minutes to an hour cardio in. My first day, I did workout 1 in the morning, then that night I did Banish Fat Boost Metabolism and between the two workouts I burned 1004 calories. BFBM is no joke. If you want a really good 45 minute cardio DVD, I highly suggest it.

Oh yeah her cardio DVDs for BR are intese for 30 minutes, especially cardio 3. So just doing those even if you aren't doing BR as planned will be an awesome workout.

I've actually kind of sucked this week. I did the kick start starting Wed. and Thurs. I did workout 1 in the morning and BFBM at night. The next day I got up and did workout 2 then that night I felt like crap. I was really tired and I thought I was starting to get sick so I went to bed and didn't do a workout that night. Then the next morning I still felt like crap so I slept in until I had to go to work. I didn't workout Friday night either. Saturday, I felt better so I did Workout 5 then workout 1. That made my arms and shoulder HURT. But in a good way. Sunday I was really busy so I didn't workout again. Tonight I'm doing workout 6 and workout 2 so I can get the back of the body like I did the front.

Now that I've started it over, I get kind of bored with it, so I think I need to take a break before I start it again. I ordered the book The New Rules of Lifting for Women and might do that. Until it comes though, I'm going to be doing either BR workouts or some of her other DVDs. I have No More Trouble Zones which is a companion DVD with BFBM, but it deals more with resistance training than cardio. That one is a great one to pick up too. Before BR I was rotating that and BFBM. The only thing that sucks about BFBM and NMTZ is the two women that are with Jillian. One chick is pretty cool (I can't remember her name) but Kristen I just want to slap because she is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too smilie in it. Although the other chick ticks me off in BFBM because Jillian says "if you aren't winded right now, you aren't working hard enough" and it shows the lady and she's not breathing hard at all. She's breathing like I do when I'm sitting on my @$$ watching netflix.

Yeah you won't get bored, especially when you get the Phase 3! Yeah I've read where people didn't like the cardio DVDs that come with BR, so they would go running on those days or do some other cardio. I figured if I'm going to do 2 DVDs on the same day, I want them to be the same ones, like 1 and 5 were both chest, shoulders, tricepts, and quad workouts. As long as you are giving the muscles you work 2 days of rest in between working them again, it should be okay. That's why she has it set up the way she does.

I don't know if it was me working out too much or if I was starting to get a cold or what. Since my boyfriend works in a jail a lot of the inmates get sick and he brings it all home with him. I rarely get sick but since he's lived with me I get sick more often now. I need to hose him down with lysol before he walks in the door.

Her name is Salema. I like her better than Kristen in BFBM and NMTZ but that one part I'm like COME ON. Its in the first circut of BFBM, which is a kick boxing circut so its not exactly easy. But in NMTZ she seems to get her *kitten* kicked a wee bit more. Both of them. That DVD is pretty hard too.

Double post. My bad. lol