Just worry about the overall trend
Current weight: 221 (+5.5)
I’m guessing your eyes have popped out of your head and your jaw hit the floor w/the 5.5 pound gain in 3 days. I can’t surprise you even further to tell you it was in 1 day! Yesterday was a very carb-heavy day so I’m guessing most of it is water that attached itself to those wonderfully tasty treats and w/i a few days it will be gone. My shorts fit the same way they did yesterday when I was 216.5 so I’m not going to freak out. I’m going to look at my weight loss like the stock market, just worrying about the overall trend. There will be days that it’s up and days that it’s down but at long as that arrow is heading in the proper direction I’m ok.
I’m so happy that we’re off today for Labor Day. I would rather be off on a Monday than a Friday, it seems more restful. My in-laws are taking Justin to the parade downtown and then they’re watching Kyle so we can go miniature golfing. I think the weather is going to be perfect so we’re excited.
I started Barry’s Bootcamp yesterday and let me say that I’m impressed. I figured it was going to be a fun little break until I went back to Chalean Extreme and it may honestly be one of the toughest workouts I have ever done. I did the lower body workout yesterday, today I’ll do the upper body and you rotate those as well as tack on extra short workouts. It’s definitely not heavy weight lifting like I was used to doing but I think it’s going to be a great fat-loss workout. For both workouts you do 14 moves for a minute each with a 30 second rest in between. Piece of cake, right??? I couldn’t make it through the minute on a couple of them and for those that I did finish I was a sweaty, gooey mess. There’s a ton of high-impact plyometrics that I don’t generally do so it’s going to be a great challenge. I’m curious to see what the upper body workout will be like today. My biggest concern is that rotating the same 2 workouts for a month is going to get tedious but I’ll start adding on the extra workouts soon which should help w/that. I’ll post more later after I have done the upperbody workout.
7:00
Did the upper body workout and although it was easier than the lower body it’s still tough. I think I have it figured out that of the 14 activities, every other one is plyometrics. I’m going to have to stretch my calves more b/c they’re definitely tight after 2 days of jumping jacks, flying lunges and jump rope drills; but imagine how awesome they’ll look after 30 days of this!
Watched a good movie today, “Seven Pounds”. I had it figured out pretty quickly but it was still worthwhile. Cried my eyes out at the end, definitely recommend it.
Progress toward workout goal: 108/300
You are a brave woman to take the 5 lb hit for one day.
When that happens to me (and it does) I just ignore it.
With both approaches I’m sure it’ll be gone in a day or two, max.
It is indeed the trend that matters.
I get on the scale daily but only count Mondays as my ‘offical’ (also the only one I write down).
…but if Monday is one of those weird fluctuations from Sunday and Saturday I’ll sometimes wait until Tuesday - if I get 2 bad numbers in a row I’ll accept it as that week’s number. (For those following closely at home, I did NOT update my chart today, because I had a random 2 vs the previous days)
The workouts are impressive, as always!
Three day weekends will do that for you- I wasn’t exactly on my best behavior either
Seven pounds was a good flick. Like you, I figured it out pretty early but still loved it! The Women didn’t do a lot for me but, in all honesty, I didn’t give it much of a chance. Started watching it late at night and I was so sleepy I could barely keep my eyes open. I dozed off about two thirds of the way through it and watched the rest the next day. All the little surprises must have flown right over my head.