swinginchandra Member

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Syd that's fantastic! What a difference! And Lizzy, as I've learned, .5 inches everywhere is no small difference! Rock on everybody. Can't wait to get caught up with you guys. I'm home tonight and will do the chest workout!

Aww, thank you everyone! I guess I messed up, didn't buy the dress. But yah, express! Yay, I'm still so giddy about this!

OMG. So, I went shopping today. I can't even believe it. I was a size 10 before I started P90X. I fit into 6's, consistently! I almost cried... every pair of jeans, ever dress, and they all looked great! Small tops... Oh my gosh. I guess my beginning measurements weren't that accurate, because that was such a difference!

Managed to fit in AbRipper this morning. Figured that was a nice short workout to get a little burn in! Anyway, happy weekend everyone, and thanks for the kind comments.!

Alright, pics are up on my blog. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/swinginchandra/view/p90x-30-day-before-and-afters-120606 I can't wait to get home and get started with phase two. Bring it!

So today marks the end of my first 30 days. I lost about 4lbs, and probably about a half inch from most places. This mornings weigh in put me at 155. I think I'm going to edit my goals to under 150 by the end of the second phase! I did take pictures, they'll be up later today... I can't really see a difference! I hope…

I've been trying to get more on board with the stretching. I used to do gymnastics, and one of my goals is getting back into it a little. that having been said, as far as breaks and such, I'm keeping my 5k training pretty intact over this week, which means tomorrow is a swim day for me. (The only thing I'm killing is my…

I feel like I should only log the first 45 minutes as "yoga", and then the second 45 minutes as stretching... ohwell, still only crediting myself about 300 for the whole thing. I thought of another reason I enjoy this DVD. It's like a so there at Tony for kicking my *kitten* - cause I have much better balance than him! Oh…

I don't think it really needs the yogurt, although it tastes great with it - nice fresh taste. The pancakes are pretty rich. Greek Yogurt is pretty awesome though, you should check it out. Higher protein than regular yogurt, and more thick and stuff. Try a small container next time you go grocery shopping!

That was a serving for me... 354 calories is fine for breakfast, although it was a ton of food, i could've eaten less! It makes... I dunno, 1.5 cups of batter? Didn't really notice. I'm curious what people do with these, I want to perfect them! Report back with any modifications, and results, if you want!

What do you usually get as far as calories burned?

Did my yoga this morning, as per my weekend sub arrangement. I hate to say this y'all, but it's growing on me. 30 minutes isn't THAT much earlier to wake up, and if I focus the whole time on doing each move as well as possible, instead of how many minutes left in the DVD, I get a much nicer workout. Definitely felt harder…

I was thinking tempo pace... So I think I may have misunderstood what a tempo run is - should I be running longer than 3 miles? So three miles at 'tempo', plus extra length for the warm up and cool down? Or are the warm up and cool down included in the ~ 3 miles? Also, one thing to note, is my legs are pretty darn strong.…

So do you think it would be better to just kill the swims all together, as far as my training goes? I was thinking of swimming on days that my P90X workouts are cardio-ish...

Right now I think I run closer to 20, 25 miles a week. I keep promising I'm going to swim twice a week, but I never actually do. I pretty much run every day now, with half the runs being 5 miles, half of them 3. I put the swimming days in the schedule, because I saw someplace you should only really do 3-4 run workouts a…

hate to bump my own thread, but anyone have any opinions on this!!! Help! :P

thanks for the tip, I'll look into them! It's not so much discipline, as boredom.... I'm stuck out in the middle of nowhere with not much to do sept workout... :p

I'm so the same way! I figure the next part of my psychological diet battle war is to get myself out of the habit of obsessing over food. Dunno why it is... I try to do something else interesting when I start thinking about food... I should be able get through a few meals without it... lol. I actually think one of the…

I did it this morning! I was actually signing on to ask the same thing. I logged it as calisthenics - high effort, and I think the calories burned were accurate. My heart rate was up pretty high the whole time. Although I don't think it got any particular part of my body too intensely, I found that to be a generally good…

That's great deadzip! I see a huge difference in your lower core area - look at the shape of your lower sides! You used to kinda have curves / love handles, and now you're just cut straight down! Great back muscles too. Any measurements / weight changes to report! This is awesome motivation... I'm hoping y'all can see…

I ussually do a poached egg on half an english muffin. A little bit of marinera sauce and some turkey / tofu bacon. I know it sounds "gourmet" - but this is seriously, other than bowling water, a 5 minute prep time meal.…

bump! Thinking of adding chocolate protein powder to this, anyone tried / any thoughts?

I am planning on taking the pictures, all though I'm not really expecting to see too much results wise. The scale has only budged a few lbs, and I've only lost fractions of inches.. I know I'm stronger though, so looking forward to bigger changes next round! Hope adding more protein works for you! It did wonders for me -…

I haven't yet (although I get more and more tempted to skip yoga...), but I'm going to have to do some shuffling the next two weeks. I'm going out of town for 4 days, and I don't want to be a rude guest while staying at my friends house, and make our whole visit be me exercising! So I think I'm going to replace wednesdays…

It's just occurred to me that the first day of our next round is the 4th! Fun! I'm going to be travelling to visit a friend of mine... hopefully its not too tricky to find the time to work out!

Just wanted to stop by to say, that after 3 weeks of P90X, I decided to pull out 30DS again, to see how I'm doing strength-wise. It definitely reaffirmed how great a workout 30DS is, for burning calories, and getting toned. I think I'll use it to help me maintain all the muscle I'll gain with P90X. That having been said,…

My legs feel like they were ran over by a train... legs and back plus the longest run I've ever taken... Oh my!

give it another day or two and weigh in again, at your regular time. 7 lbs in two days is basically impossible unless you sat around chain binging the entire 48 hours. It's most likely extra water retention for some reason or another... either from more sodium or carbs than usual, or TOM. (this is assuming the 17lbs down…

that's a great question, I can't wait to hear what people have to say. I've been getting ansy since I bought my tape measure, and have been checking bi-weekly, but I don't think I'll ever notice a difference like that...