30DS - Day 1

I opened this today to see my first measurements, and for some reason it reverted to a draft?? so now i have to republish. But its not actually new.

I woke up this morning with a cold. That figures, right?? :P Colton has had a cold since Thursday, so I wasn't really surprised.

But also, I slept totally wrong, and my back is all messed up this morning too. Two good excuses to postpone the start of this program, right?

Nope!! I put it out in the world that I was starting today - and I started today!! I have officially completed Day One.

So the first thing you're supposed to do is take your measurements, so you can compare at the end. I am going to share them here. I am not proud of them, and I won't show the pics I took just yet, but here is my starting point:

Waist - 36.5
Hips - 41.75
L Arm - 12.5
R Arm - 12.5
L Thigh - 24.5
R Thigh - 24.5

Ugh. How did all of that even happen?? Yeah, sure, I had a baby. Things shift and change, that's true.

But.....YUCK. I cannot believe those are my stats. How are my thighs the size that I wish my waist was?!?! What is that?!!

And to be honest - two months ago, my waist was two inches wider. Everything was wider two months ago. And it's gone down...so I just have to keep going.

So. Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred. She claims it's only 20 minutes. Maybe when you're in great shape, time moves faster? Cause my laptop said it was almost 28 minutes. But hey - who's bitching for no reason?! Not me!!! Lol!!

So my back was sore, and I'm all stuffy medicine head...but I did it. I didn't hate it, which is a start. And you definitely move through everything fairly quickly, which I definitely appreciate. I didn't do every single second of every single move, because my back WAS sore, and I had to kind of modify things so that I could still walk the rest of today.

But I am very curious to see how much better I get at this level in the next nine days. For those who don't know, there are three levels, and each one lasts 10 days. So I will be halfway through the Level 2 disc when I do my Mud Run in two weeks.

I am going to take pictures at each 10 days, and compare. I don't know if I will post any of the pictures on here until I finish the first complete cycle - I'm just not ready to show the visual of those stats above yet. But I am documenting it all so that when I do get where I'm going, I can remember where I came from.

And I will get where I'm going.