End of week 3 - whoop!

Yesterday was plyometric cardio circuit - last workout of week 3. Tough as ever - I think i'm sweating more than ever now. We managed to squeeze the workout in between friends coming over for tea and cake and going to our neighbours for drinks and nibbles at 8pm! Phew! 

Had a busy morning shopping with my sister and mother-in-law - we got to see glass blowing which looked very tough. 

Foodwise, I had a Dukan galette with a banana toffee activia yogurt for breakfast, then I had lunch out, which was an open sandwich covered in huge prawns and salad. Delicious! Then half a slice of cake at tea and a 200 calorie boxed salmon, prawn and sushi rice salad from Boots after Insanity. Prosecco, crisps and popcorn in the evening was naughty, but it's Christmas, what can I say?!

So today i'm doing week 4, day 1. I haven't posted this before, but you can see where I am here. I don't think i've lost any weight but feel fitter.

Cardio hell

Ahhh yes it's finally the Christmas break!! 12 days of not working! Bliss!!! Saying that, no lie-in for me today as we need to get a few more presents in town and beat the crazy traffic :-/ 

Last night we did cardio power and resistance. I think it must put you through around 100 press ups in total during the final half of the workout. I can now easily do 10 push ups at a time - which is amazing! It's always the last 5 seconds of each round that kills me!

The rest of the next 12 days I have off work i'm going to try and be as healthy as I am in work (I always have a healthy breakfast and lunch with hardly any snacking). But hopefully i'll move around more than I do at work where i'm confined to my desk - yesterday I had to work through lunch so barely moved all day! 

So I had a healthy dinner but my husband had been talking all week about getting a chinese takeaway and I can't remember the last time I had a chinese, let alone a takeaway. 

I also had 1.5 glasses of prosecco to wash it down. Watched a great film called New Years Eve.

Anyway, i'd had 2 eggs for breakfast and a small chicken breast with salad for lunch, then worked til 6 and did Insanity, so that was well deserved I think. I didn't pig out either.

We're going to watch the rugby this afternoon which is exciting! 

Feeling very positive about this time off and doing Insanity as the plan says. Currently this is coming to the end of week 3, so hopefully I can sail through week 4 and then straight on to the hard 2nd month.

I've read horrendous things on other blogs about month 2 - that it's absolutely ridiculous compared to the first month. Eek!

Prosecco and laughs

I worked from home yesterday pretty much right through lunch - then had to take husband in the pouring rain to his Christmas do. A 20 min journey took me an hour to get through the traffic and back! That was my workout time!! Grr!

My friend S came round for dinner - she's so sweet, she brought pudding and a christmas card and box of chocs (naughty!). We had a glass of prosecco, then 2 fishcakes (only 130 calories each!) and roasted root veg with potato wedges. Then split a small tart (like 80 cals) with some light cream. Mmm!

S makes me laugh so much my sides hurt, so i'm sure that's an oblique workout in itself ;-) my cheeks were literally aching by the end!

Husband came in steaming at 2.30am. I was not happy and now feel knackered! Off to work. I'm going to make him do Insanity with me tonight as revenge!

Last run of 2013!

My last run of 2013 went so well! Especially considering that I only started running outside in May - when i'd only ever run about 3 miles at school once a year between the ages of 8 and 13. I was a fat child and always came last in the annual cross country race. The PE teacher would run the last leg with me and the rest of my class would watch me finish. HORRENDOUS! Ever since, I never wanted to run. I would do about 5 minutes on the treadmill in the gym. But now, I love it! 

When I started in May, I was always behind my friend C. I had to stop and walk and felt totally out of breath and would get stitches. Last night I literally whizzed through 4 miles in under 40 minutes. I didn't stop once and kept pace with C's husband who is super fit. I'm sure all of this Insanity is doing something!! 

I was really surprised that I was fine in just a tshirt in the cold too - I definitely ran easier in the cold compared to a hot summer's day. Oh and minor error - I was crossing a road and almost got hit by a van but C's husband saved me :-O I think I need to invest in a reflective top!

So 2014 is definitely going to involve a 10k race - there's one near us which I didn't do this year, but C did, which i'm going to do. It's in August along a really pretty coastline so should be very nice!

The run was my night of Insanity recovery so tonight is cardio power and resistance and tomorrow is the plyometric cardio circuit to finish Insanity Week 3 (technically taken me 5 weeks with other workouts and time away but who's counting!?)...at least I have the next 10 days off to do a workout each morning. I can't wait!!!!

Pure Cardio & Abs

I did it!!! Not only pure cardio, but cardio abs after! You're meant to double these up, but it's extra tough. I did get through cardio and think, wow it ended quicker than I thought. I had a bit of a second wind in places and could continue further than my husband (competitive, moi?!) - again, he wouldn't continue to cardio abs. I will say, on the press up sections Shaun T counts too quickly so I can only get about 3 in, when he's already saying "stand up, jump up". Phew! I did my best though :)

I felt so good afterwards, I was so glad I did it :) just need to remind myself of that feeling. Straight after, I feel toned, but this is probably the placebo effect!

It did annoy me slightly that when you go to do Cardio Abs and you're sweating to death, it's not the same group of people doing pure cardio. So they're fresh and jumping up and down like bunnies, while you're dying and exhausted! Doesn't seem fair!

I'm definitely improving on the press ups. Oh and i've gone off chocolate. Isn't that weird! Right before Christmas! Can only be a good thing ;-) I ate super healthily yesterday so feeling better today.

So tonight is the recovery day of the workout but i'm going running with the girls - probably 4 miles. I haven't been running outside in a month or so because it's so dark, cold and wet, but I agreed to "a last run of the year". We'll see if the Insanity has made any difference! 

Meh!

This weekend was crazy. 

On Thursday night we went to London and Friday morning I went to the gym at the hotel for an hour. Then walked all round London - met my oldest friend which was lovely and did some shopping with husband. He said my clothes were so bad that we went shopping. I had a new jumper on! Anyway, I wasn't complaining about being bought a new outfit!

We ate pretty healthily, but I did have some vino! Woke up with a banging headache so now sworn off wine! 

Slept 10 hours on Sunday and then did a few hours of last ditch Christmas shopping, then had lunch at my parents-in-law's for lunch (gammon and oven chips, not great?!) and went over to my parents to make homemade truffles as presents. I think i've gone off chocolate - I didn't even want to eat any of the mix I made! Then went to see our friends' new baby... Exhausted.com!!! 

But while I was running about like a madwoman, husband did Insanity without me. He also did it the day before as soon as we were back from London. Cheers then!

So, today is the start of a fresh new week. Tonight I have to wrap a few presents before my parents go away for Christmas but i'm determined to do Insanity. I'm also going to walk at lunch. 

At least it's my last working week of the year. 

Now to think of what my new years resolutions will be.......

Something to admit...

It's now Thursday and I had a spa afternoon yesterday with husband for his birthday - facial, massage, steam room and sauna - plus a 15 min swim. I drove for 2 hours.It made us realise we should do this more often - like a honeymoon afternoon :)

So I haven't done Insanity since Sunday, terrible! I'm going to London for a couple of nights so will probably have to take the DVD with me - although there's a gym and swimming pool there, so maybe I just do that. If I go through the floor of my hotel from jumping around I would die of embarrassment haha! 

I think i'll class this as my rest week and then get through the rest of it. Why am I so crap. I wonder how many people actually do every day!?