Week 49 for Jess

5/22 - Sunday
5/23 - Ripped in 30, Level 2
5/24 - Ripped in 30, Level 3
5/25
5/26 - Ripped in 30, Level 4
5/27

5/28 - Pure Burn Super Strength DVD - 60 min. section

137 min. total <- I'm trying to get up to 150 min./week, regularly.

Ripped in 30, btw, is awesome, workout-wise. Jillian is more annoying and crass in it, though. But the actual workout is like the 30 Day Shred, only this time it's levels 4, 5, 6, & 7.

-Jess

Weeks 47 & 48 for Jess, plus some health news

5/8 - Sunday
5/9 - 30 Day Shred DVD, Level 1
5/10
5/11 - Shred It with Weights DVD - Level 1
5/12
5/13 - Biggest Winner Cardio Kickbox DVD
5/14 - 1/2 hour yard work (digging and wood chopping)
5/15 - Sunday
5/16 - Shred It with Weights DVD - Level 2
5/17
5/18 - 30 Day Shred, Level 3
5/19 - 30 Day Shred, Level 2
5/20

5/21 - Ripped in 30, Level 1

A couple of fairly good weeks, but I learned recently that I need to step up my game, because I've been diagnosed with high cholesterol. It's not much of a shock, because it runs on both sides of my family. I was kind of expecting it actually, and now that I'm thirty and my doctor's testing me for it, surprise! there it is.

So, now I have a medical reason to work out not just a few times a week, but almost every day. And now instead of just eating to keep my weight normal (which I've done successfully for the past two years), I need to eat to keep my weight normal and I need to eat for heart health. Bye-bye oh luscious buttered popcorn that I used to save my calories for! :D

Seriously, it's not so bad. In fact, it's kind of nice not to wonder exactly how much eating healthily and working out should matter to me. Or what method exactly I should be embracing. Now I know, and it's pretty cut-and-dried. And, honestly, there are worse things than clarity.

And, hey, now those ten pounds I've thought about losing for the past two years? They're not vanity pounds anymore! They're I-don't-want-to-take-drugs-unless-I-absolutely-have-to pounds.

So, we'll see. Hopefully the uber-clean-eating-and-sufficient-exercise works. If not, at least, by God's grace, we have good health insurance.

-Jess

Weeks 44, 45, & 46 Summaries for Jess

Week 44:

4/17 - Sunday
4/18 - Personal Training with Jackie DVD
4/19
4/20 - No More Trouble Zones DVD
4/21
4/22 - Jackie Warner Xtreme Timesaver Training DVD
4/23

Week 45 - nada. I took Bright Week off. Wish I hadn't, in retrospect, because it turns out that I feel terrible when I don't exercise.

Week 46:

5/1 - Sunday - 2 hour walk.

5/2 - 30 Day Shred DVD, Level 2
5/3 - 30 Day Shred DVD, Level 3
5/4
5/5 - Jackie Warner Xtreme Timesaver Training DVD
5/6

5/7 - 20 minutes of jumping rope, jumping jacks, & step-ups

Anyone else still going out there?

Jess