Technically Day 16!

So it's taken me 27 days to do 16 workouts. I've been to the gym 3 times as well. Friday I had a lovely swim, jacuzzi and sauna with my friend C, who I usually go running with but it's freezing now.

Then Saturday I had to do a ton of Christmas shopping - was pretty healthy and ordered an egg sandwich on brown instead of cake with my mum! She had a yummy yogurt flapjack, so I traded a corner ;-) I am definitely more of a sandwich person and actually had a late breakfast so technically that was lunch.

Then Sunday (yesterday) I did Insanity Cardio Circuit first thing. Better to do it in the morning to get it out of the way before you have a shower. I wish I could do that in the weekday but I don't have time. It was harder than I remember - a few days off is the killer. That's why it's an everyday plan with 1 day off. Weirdly, I find the press ups get easier when i'm on the 3rd set. 

Just as well I did the workout - we had a roast lamb dinner at my mother-in-law's and then had dinner out with friends, argh! I had 2 small glasses of rose wine too. But as I decided not to go to my Christmas party on Fri night in favour of the pool, I think that's okay. Also, I must've had about 6 portions of veg yesterday - curly kale, carrots, leeks, peas, broccoli and swede.

I tried gurnard - a type of fish - for the first time last night. It was wrapped in parma ham and was delicious. I might try and do that myself if I can find it!

Only this week and next week at work, then 10 days of for Christmas, ahhhhhhhhhhh! I can't wait!!!
Because we got married in June and had 2.5 weeks off, I haven't had any holiday since then! This Weds arvo we're going to a spa as a treat for husband's birthday :) 

I'm also going for a Christmassy dinner with the girls tonight, so will workout tomorrow eve and Weds AM for sure. What's quite funny, is that recovery week is Christmas week! I'll probably supplement with swimming as it's nice to have the time to fully take advantage of the sauna, jacuzzi and steam room.

So anyway, still carrying on with it. Trying to fit it in as much as I physically can. If it takes me 3 months to do the whole thing, then that's fine if it's the best I can do (or so i'm telling myself!).

Skip

Work was manic and by the time i'd done a Tesco shop on the way home, I was shattered. I might add, I carried an entire weekly shop around the store in a shopping basket for half an hour so this definitely worked some biceps, just not by Shaun T's standards!

When I got in at 7.30pm, husband had already started to do the cardio workout. I started dinner instead, which was super healthy baked chicken, with sweet potato wedges and salad with balsamic dressing. I'm working from home today so i'm going to squeeze Insanity in at lunch time, or before if I can.

I must admit, i'm finding working out 6 days a week really tiring. However, i've found an app for ticking off your daily workout on your phone and keeping track of your measurements and weight which is clever and better than that paper booklet they give you with the workout DVDs.

After watching I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, I really want Amy Willerton's stomach, okay whole body! Well, who wouldn't! All of the women on the program have been slating her for being so hot which is bullying, just because Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Adlington has body issues, ridiculous!

I better go, as this blog is turning from a workout diary into my own little monologue!!

Gym cheat

I feel like I cheated on Insanity with the gym last night! But at least I pushed myself there too. I did a 15 min fast run, 10 mins on the normal bike, 15 mins on the low sit down bike, then weights and ab work.

I got home and cooked the Waitrose frozen seafood risotto. When I say cooked, I mean chucked it in the wok and waited for it to melt, ha ha! It was ok, needed a lot of chilli sauce and pepper to make it tasty and less like mushy porridge. 

It's cardio circuit tonight, followed by chicken, sweet potato wedges and salad. I am becoming obsessed with dinner because exercise makes me so hungry, agh!

Fit test take 2

I wasn't really feeling like doing the fit test. All I could think about was my salmon, brown rice and broccoli for dinner, how bad is that?!!?

The fact i'd written on this blog that I was going to do it made me power through. I was tired, feeling heavy and aching from the gym workout the day before, however I gave it my best go. Husband did it too but as he didn't do the first one, he stopped counting. As we've put up the Christmas tree, there was barely enough space for both a 6ft 4 man and a 5ft 7 woman to do push ups side by side. (You're thinking, I have an excuse for everything!)

So these are my scores:
                                                           #1                               #2
SWITCH KICKS                               56                              59
POWER JACKS                              59                              53
POWER KNEES                              84                              80
POWER JUMPS                              33                              46
GLOBE JUMPS                               10                              11
SUICIDE JUMPS                              15                             14
PUSH-UP JACKS                            24                              30 (HALF PUSH-UPS AS NO ROOM)
LOW PLANK OBLIQUE                  50                               65

So it was a mixed back of better than last time scores and worse than last time. Next time i'll aim to do this on a weekend morning when i'm fresh and without my husband getting in the way! Argh! The 2 areas I really excelled on were the power jumps and low plank oblique, which are the toughest, so i'm trying to be positive.

Here are how other people have done - as their switch kick scores are in the 100s, I think they are double counting the switch kicks when in the Insanity booklet it says 2 kicks = 1 rep. 

I put all of my food into My Fitness Pal yesterday and it came out at 1,400 cals. I reckon I burnt 200 minimum with this workout. Why do I still feel so heavy?!!? 

I said i'd meet a friend at the gym tonight, so i'll do Cardio Circuits tomorrow.

Gym day

I was in the gym last night for 5.20 to meet a friend, but she was about 40 minutes late so once she arrived I did a workout with her too! Having already done mine! I didn't leave the gym floor until 7pm! I did 20 mins bike, 20 mins fast run (10.5km), 5 mins fast row level 7/10 (I did 1000m 20 secs faster than EVER!). Then I went on the mat and did arms weights, 3 and 4kg, then ab moves from Insanity and knee push ups.

I was cream crackered afterwards! (knackered)

I was really healthy yesterday and had a small bowl of Alpen with raspberries and milk, then mid morning 2 black pepper Ryvita on their own, then for lunch I had a 320 cal Covent Garden Chicken Soup, with a 100 cal yogurt and an apple, then as a snack a slice of granary with light butter. For dinner I had a small steak with onion and garlic cous cous, couple of tablespoons of half fat mayo, and broccoli. With teas and coffees about 1,800 cals and burnt about 450 in the gym.

A girl in the gym was telling me about the 5-2 diet as she's looking really slim since I last saw her, around the middle where I want to trim up. She said that surprisingly on her low calorie day she has loads of energy - she'd just done a spin class. I might try it for a week but I don't know how I could go a day with only 500 calories while exercising. Maybe for my day off... Apparently because your body is always digesting, if you give it a break then it regenerates cells instead. May have to read into this malarkey. The only diet that's ever worked for me is the Dukan but I was too strict and was on protein only too long. Basically looked so thin at 8 stone 12. Now i'm 11lb heavier, agh! I should basically just eat half what I do and not pick when i'm cooking!!

So tonight is 100% fit test! After surprising myself with all of that exercise yesterday and a personal best on the rowing machine, i'm feeling quite positive!!! :)

Sunday ache...

I feel really guilty but I skipped the Insanity fit test :-/ as i'm going to the gym tonight with a friend, I can't do it until tomorrow eve. 

I actually woke up in the night and my sacroiliac joint (lower back) was hurting. I've had a couple of horrendous car accidents and about 30 physio appointments in the last 4 years but it's just a case of not overdoing it. Yesterday I did a hell of a lot.

So we woke up at 9, had a yogurt for breakfast and were in town 10 until 12 to get a few bits for Christmas and get a replacement pair of jeans for the torn pair due to falling over on that walk!

Came back and had an omelette with salad and a slice of grainy bread. Husband had a whole 1200 cal pizza to himself!!! Then put the Christmas tree up (on my own I might add!) which was an hour's workout in itself! I've been trying to find the time to sort my wardrobe out as it's full of Summer clothes, and usually I switch around and so my Winter clothes are all bagged up.

3 hours later i'd managed the switch and had a huge bin liner full to take to the Charity Shop :) I'm trying to be a little cut throat with my clothes choices now and not just buy things because they're on sale or cheap. It must be the asian half of me that doesn't want to buy anything full price ha ha! Then had a slice of toast...

Then I had to pop to my parents' to watch 2 hours of my sister-in-law's wedding my father had taped. Gave me a numb bum!! 

Came back for fried beef, the little potato squares and runner beans. At least I had a healthy day. As you can hopefully see, I just didn't have an ounce of time. Technically Insanity only takes 40 mins, but if you have other strenuous activities to do that day, e.g. clean the house, do gardening, then it's tough work to do it all!

Anyway, going gym tonight. Then i'll update you on tomorrow's Fit Test (which I am definitely doing!).

A crazy Saturday!

I can't believe how much I did yesterday all in one day! Started with Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs. This is the first time the plan has said to do 2 back-to-back. That said, Cardio Abs is only 20 minutes, but very tough. We did the plan in the morning which was nice for a change compared to weekday evenings. I'm not a morning person so it was about 10am. I couldn't do it on a weekday morning with work! I had a little yogurt before or i'd probably be sick with the usual egg for breakfast.

Husband finished Pure Cardio, which I would now say definitely is the toughest one, and refused to continue on to Cardio Abs with me as he was apparently "dying". I got a second wind and continued right through without break and felt really good after! Endorphin fix eh!

Then I had a tuna and cottage cheese salad after as an early lunch, as I had an afternoon tea planned with friends at a beautiful manor house to look forward to. I'm usually very healthy and don't have a sweet tooth. 

We went for an hour long walk around the grounds before the tea. We walked at quite a pace (I was walking with 2 marathon runners!) and uphill and downdale. Tough. I did the most embarrassing thing - I fell over right on my hands and knees! It was quite muddy with lots of wet leaves and I lost my footing. Excuse to buy new jeans and I definitely deserved the tea after that!

I had a scone with jam and cream, 2 petit fours and about 10 finger sandwiches - cucumber and salmon. I love savoury and enjoyed the sandwiches way more than the sweet. My mum says i've always been like that.

Then for dinner I had an 8th of a thin crust pizza, salad, some french salad dressing, a spoon of half fat mayo and a glass of pink fizz. 

I reckon I had about 2000 calories and burnt off at least 800 with the exercise. Sufficed to say, I slept 9 hours like a baby. My cat had to wake me up!

I do feel quite heavy round the middle today - probably because of all that bread. The other girl with us can't have gluten and is so slim. Probably quite a good way of not having bad food!

Fit test today, eeeeeek!!!!!!