Amanda's Life

Well, I ate WAY too much last weekend and caused myself to gain a TON of weight. I spent all week trying to lose the weight I had gained over the weekend. Note to self, do not eat like a cow on your “cheat” days. Also, I was making cupcakes for a birthday party and had to sample along the way to make sure it didn’t taste bad, very small amounts I might add. Anyways, I did lose some inches so I will consider this week a wash and get back up for next week!

Weight Gained: .2

Inches Lost: 1

Body Fat % Gained: 1.1

Well, I skipped last week. I decided the week after VBS and especially after my knee injury with Insanity that I would take a break to let everything heal. This week I started Cize. VERY low impact on my knees which is awesome. Also, it is so fun I actually looked forward to working out. Last Saturday I had gained 3.8 pounds for the week. This week I was able to lose most of that and I am back on track to go even further than before!

Weight Lost 3.2 pounds

Body Fat Lost .4%

Inches Lost .5

This week I injured my knee on Monday so I have been taking it easy the last couple of days. I have still been doing my elliptical steps. Also, I have been working VBS every night so I have been super exhausted. I am ready to get back into a routine. I will rest my knee until Monday and then back into Insanity I will be. My stats this week were really good! I made sure to bring my food every day to VBS so I was not eating the chips and cookies that were available. I did eat a couple pieces of cheese though!

Weight Lost: 3.2 pounds

Inches stayed the same

Body Fat Lost: .4%

This week I did okay for my workouts. I did too much cheating over last weekend and caused a weight gain for this week. I got back on track Monday and have managed to lose most of what I had gained over the weekend. I still have some work to do but I have been able to maintain my 20 pound weight loss. This week we have VBS so I will be trying to juggle my diet and exercise with a very packed schedule. Hopefully this goes well!

Weight Gain .8

Inches Same

Body Fat Gain .3%

This week I realized I was getting bored with my TurboFire workouts, I was dreading working out which I hadn’t had that issue of before so, I decided to change and start doing Insanity. Now, I am not able to complete it at the same pace/number of reps that the people on the video do but, I do what I can and then rest so as to not kill myself. I am really enjoying it and I can tell that this program is really hard. I have also been making sure to spend my time on the elliptical every day. Last week I forgot to do it on Saturday so I am going to make sure that I remember this week. We also lost a pet this week and rather than eating a ton I just jumped on the elliptical. This week’s results were really good for weight lost!

.25 Inches Gone!

.6% Body Fat Gone!

1.6 Pounds Gone!

This week I enter week 2 of my Insanity schedule, I’ll be pushing it as hard as I can without injury/death! Let’s hope for better numbers next week!

This week I have been making sure to get in my 10,000 steps on the elliptical. It has been going really well. The first several days I was not stretching when I would get off which led to some calf cramping, so the last couple of days I have been making sure to stretch my hamstrings after every time. I also increased to 10 straight minutes on it instead of 2 on and 2 off. I can usually burn between 700 and 800 calories just doing that a day.

This Week’s Stats Are:

Down .8 pounds

Down .5 inches

Down .3% Body Fat

And I finally hit 20 pounds!

So this week I got a mini elliptical. It came in on Tuesday and since then I have been making sure to get in my 10,000 steps! I will do 10 minutes each hour on the elliptical doing 2 on 2 off. This has definitely helped me in the weight loss department this week. Stats were pretty good this week! I am just about to break the 20 pound mark!

Weight Lost: 3.2 pounds

Inches stayed the same

Body Fat Lost: .9%

My Dietbet this week has a challenge to complete 33,000 steps over the course of the weekend. This will be the first one I have tried to hit. I can’t wait!

Okay, I made a couple of mistakes this week we will avoid repeating again. Jonathan’s birthday was last weekend. So, rather than eating one cheat meal I ended up with two whole days of pretty much crap eating and tons of carbs. Also, I didn’t “workout” for 3 days, I did clean my house but that is nowhere near as intense at TurboFire. Due to this there was a weight gain this week but I did still stick to my workouts this week and have been dropping it back off pretty quickly.

Weight Gained: 1.8 Pounds

Inches Lost: 1 Inch

Body Fat Gained: .4% Body Fat

I am already 4 for 4 on my workouts this week, 2 more to go. This is Mother’s Day weekend so I will be eating 2 cheat meals. The first one we are doing barbecue, all that sauce has a TON of sodium. There will also be a TON of carbs there, my solution, eat only the meat. The second meal we are doing is going to be a Chinese buffet. I think if I stick to sushi and salad and limit to only one plate I should be okay.

I did not check in last week. At least I didn’t do any measurements. So, in the last 2 weeks here are my stats, except for weight because I did do that last week.

Weight Lost: 2 pound

Inches Lost: .75 Inches

Body Fat Lost: .5

Yesterday I did not do my workout because we are trying to get the house cleaned for hubby’s birthday. I definitely do not want to pull out my back like I usually do while cleaning so I am taking it easy with lots of breaks to insure no injury. Today we will finish the cleaning and then I should be back to working out on Monday!