Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred

The wonderful meals I had last week in Indy did not go unnoticed by my scale or clothes.  I took a skirt to wear and couldn’t zip it.  Yikes!  I had ordered the 30 Day Shred DVD before I left for Indy and I was never so pumped to get back to exercising Saturday.

When I was going to the gym, I had gotten used to the advanced 1 hour classes and when I was done within 20 minutes of workout Saturday that only included about 6 minutes of cardio, I was thinking I had gotten off easily.  But by mid afternoon I was starting to feel a little sore.  By Sunday morning, I could barely walk.  Knowing if I just pushed through, I’d be ok, I continued every day with the workouts.  But I was still really hurting into Monday.  Tuesday I woke up 90% better though.  It was like magic!

I’m pretty sure it’s doing something.  At times, my muscles have definitely felt shredded.  I have lost about 2 lbs since Saturday.  But I have to say usually I don’t lose weight by exercise alone.  It’s usually all about the snacking.  I’ve buckled back down on my Isagenix shakes and cut out the late night snacking which is always my Achilles’ heel.  I just think about the scale in the morning and I’m more apt to choose a handful of almonds over a bowl of ice cream.  Not to say I don’t give myself a treat.  I was happy to eat the chocolate chunk cookie Scott brought me from Starbucks yesterday afternoon.

The thing is though that when I’m exercising, I always, always eat better.  Eating bad makes me feel like my exercise was all for naught.  So for me, they go hand in hand.

One thing that is hilarious though is the girls have really gotten into this.  They love when I pull my mat out and have started doing the exercises with me.  On Tuesday, they insisted on doing the workout by themselves.  And Lexi did NOT want me watching.  I thought for sure they’d bow out early but they did everything start to finish.  I did sneak  a few pictures and video but at the time they didn’t have clothes on except their underwear *ahem* so I don’t really want to YouTube that.  So anyway, just trust me when I say it was HILARIOUS.  Here is a peek at them stretching though.  So cute!