Day 18.. still truckin' along.

It's hard to believe that 18 days have already passed since we began P90X.. time is flying by, but as quickly as it is passing, I cannot escape the feeling of exhaustion. It would be a completely different experience if we were only juggling work and P90X, but we're not! Not only do we need to fit our workouts around our work schedules, but we also need to get ourselves to class, complete papers and tests, and tackle the last few weeks of the semester.

I catch myself wondering if it was a terrible idea to begin P90X right before finals. Would I be less exhausted? In all reality, probably not. But it doesn't stop me from wondering and day dreaming about food.

Last week, Jeffrey called me on his last break at work. It was Tuesday night, which meant that I was at my mom's house "watching" American Idol and chatting. After I finished asking him how work was, we drifted into a daydreaming back and forth about all the foods that we were craving..

"Mmmm.. A bean and cheese burrito.."

"A cold Dr. Pepper and spicy cheetoes.."

"A couple donuts with icing and sprinkles.."

"Oh yeah, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.."

As we continued to ramble on about food, my mom looked over at me. "It's like you two are having pillow talk, but it's about food," she remarked.

I laughed it off, but continue to wonder if I'm going insane due to my cravings. Our food conversations still occur regularly, but I feel more conscious of them after hearing my mom's comment. I hope that I do not become obsessed with food now that we have begun this program. Even as I write this, I am thinking about driving down the street to Walgreen's and buying some theater candy. I could finish it in the next hour and hide the wrappers somewhere so that Jeff would never know.. but I would feel so guilty. If it weren't for Jeff, I would have broken this diet within the first 24 hours.

Jeff weighed himself last week and has lost 5 pounds already! I didn't weight myself. I don't want to know yet. We are supposed to weight ourselves every thirty days, and I do not want to jump the gun and get discouraged. Jeff certainly has made some drastic changes over the past two weeks, so atleast this program works!

I'll try to blog again soon. I cannot seem to find time to do this unless I have a term paper that I should be writing instead (which I currently do). Until next time! :)

Day 4 - Feeling the Burn

Wow! Four days in and we are definitely feeling the burn.

Jeff and I did the Plyometrics disc on Tuesday- basically an hour of jumping up and down, side to side, on one leg and then the other... needless to say, my quads and calves are still sore almost two entire days later! Yesterday (Wednesday) was the arms and shoulders disc.

This morning, after three days of intense work outs and few carbohydrates, it was definitely difficult to get out of bed. Jeff set his alarm for 8:15 a.m. and was up and ready to roll.. I, however, had to fight every nerve and muscle in my body to sit upright. Luckly, Jeff continued to poke and tickle me until I jumped out of bed. Today was yoga and the stretching really helped our sore muscles.

The hardest part about day four is the cravings. While the food is really delicious, I find myself day dreaming about bean and cheese burritos from our favorite mexican food restaurant "The Taco Shop." When Jeff was at work tonight, I found myself wandering into the kitchen looking for anything to tide me over. I knew that I wasn't hungry, but I wanted to eat so badly. First, I grabbed some plain nonfat yogurt. I cut up strawberries and chowed down on the mixture. An hour later I was back in the fridge and this time I found cottage cheese. After wolfing down that, I opened up a can of garbanzo beans. It was as though I couldn't find anything to satisfy me. Hopefully these cravings will subside. I feel like I am cheating. I wanted to be so strict with the diet and now I am eating many more servings of fruit and dairy than I should be.

I hope that this is a natural part of the P90X process. I am so excited for this program, but thinking about how delicious the foods were that I could eat before this program makes me wish there was a way that I could eat what I want and still have the body that I want too.

Hopefully the next couple of days will leave me a little less discouraged.

P90X Day One

Waking up this morning, we were a little nervous.. Neither of us knew what to expect- was the first workout going to be impossible for us to finish? Would we be able to make the meals for the day? Would they even taste good enough to eat?

Jeff is skeptical. Well, we both are. It's quite a commitment to promise 90 days to a program when we have never known someone who has completed it. Although we have gotten a lot of praise and "good luck's" from our friends and family, we are still afraid that temptation will grab us and pull us down.

Today's breakfast included a mushroom & egg white omlet, strawberries and cottage cheese. Jeff did not like the cottage cheese. His first experience with cottage cheese was last night. I opened the lid to the cottage cheese and scooped a little bit out on a spoon. While that was not enough to trigger his gag reflex, eating an entire bowl this morning made him realize that the consistency was not to his liking. He has decided to drink 8 oz. of skim milk to replace cottage cheese in the morning. The only other problem with today's breakfast was the amount of food that we had to prepare. WOW- who knew that 8 oz. of cottage cheese and six egg whites was a lot of food?! Half way through my meal, I found myself struggling to swallow. Needless to say, some of the food went to waste. Atleast we know that we will not be going hungry.

Another interesting thing about our first day was the transition to a high protein, low fat diet. After lunch, the amount of protein must have caught up with me because my stomach becmae sour and even the smell of food was making me nauseous. I may be wrong about believing that the protein was the cause of this, but what else could it be?

Excitingly enough, Jeff and I made a great discovery today! We were battling over whether or not to purchase the P90X protein bars online.. For almost $30 you can get twelve whole bars.. yikes!! Seems expensive, right? We thought so too. So... we drove down to the mall today and (after wandering through the new Vans store and checking out the Nike Shox at footlocker) we found some great protein bars at GNC. The bars are called "GNC Pro Performance ProCrunch." They had three flavors, so we bought one of each. Once we decide which bar is the best, we plan to buy a whole box! The bars are almost identical to the P90X bars AND you get twice as many bars per box for $10 less! AWESOME!

OH- and the workout today was Chest & Back and Ab Ripper X. Both were insane. We did not write down our weights or reps today, although from now on we plan to. We look forward to tomorrow morning when we will get to try Plyometrics!

Jeff wants me to let you know that he is craving a churro right now. I would love a glazed donut with frosting and sprinkles...

Day One down! 89 to go!