30 Day Shred: Day 10 Update

Wow. I honestly cannot believe that 10 days have already passed since I started Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred. Considering when I started I just thought it would be a good idea to work out once a day, it has been different to know that when I get home from work, I have to work out before I can do anything else I have planned. And I haven't skipped a day, and it makes me so proud to say I haven't! If I would have wanted to skip one, I would have, but excuses don't get results, and this is one thing I have really held onto and kept going with. I am creating a new lifestyle for myself, and it feels great.

Along with the 27 minutes worth of working out every day, I have been using the MyFitnessPal app to keep track of what I'm eating, so that I don't just jam whatever I want in my face and not have to be accountable. I know they have a community of other people with forums, but I'm not really that good at keeping up with forums... so I'll come back to that, I think.

All in all, it has been a great experience. The first few days were HARD. It was hard to get up in the morning because my entire body HURT. It was hard to walk up and down the stairs at work (down was absolutely the worst). But from what I read, starting at around Day 3 or 4, it wasn't going to hurt so bad. And you know? It didn't. Yesterday was my 10th day of doing the workout, which means that I am officially done with Level 1! I start Level 2 today, though, which has me feeling like I'm going to wind up in a big ball of muscle pain for the next few days - but Rome wasn't built in a day, right?

The other day, I took a photo of where I'm at now (I didn't take measurements when I started and I don't own a scale - yet), and I can tell you that I can't really believe the difference. It doesn't feel that different, but it looks different, and that's good enough for me. I think I was pushing out my gut in the first one, but you get the idea!

If you're thinking of starting to work out, or even getting the idea and thinking of thinking to start a workout regimen, DO IT. I feel a hundred percent better than I have in a long time, and I can say that it's likely due to working out and not treating my body like garbage. You should try it!

30 Day Shred: Day 1

I have always been pretty comfortable with my body. Sure, like anybody else, I would tweak this or that, but overall I have been happy. I have never been smaller than a size 10, and I'm okay with that. I'm usually closer to around a 12, and it's fine with me. But, with how blah I've been feeling lately, I decided to shake things up. Of course, I wasn't aware it would give me jelly legs, make stairs difficult, and make me climb into bed at 9:00 PM, but it did. Tonight, I started Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred.

Like I said above, I have never been a huge fan of working out in any way, shape, or form. I don't know exactly what flipped in me that made me want to try it, but I did. And let me tell you, it's definitely going to make some changes in my body if I already feel every little movement. Of course, that could just be the fact that I haven't really worked out in many years, but that's incidental.

If you don't know about it, the 30 Day Shred is a workout grouped into three levels at around twenty minutes each, with each level representative of ten days of the program. The DVD was relatively cheap (around ten bucks at Target), and so were the hand weights (around five bucks each at Target - I went with 3 pound ones), and I figured I didn't have much to lose - except maybe some pounds and inches.

All I can say about it is I definitely needed a little of this when I was finished. I can't wait to see what kind of results I wind up with! Wish me luck!