Day 101 of 125

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

I'll get to my Month 1 Insanity Results and what I am now doing for exercise in a moment, just want to get a quick few updates out of the way first. If you have any interest as to what's been going on these last few days that is.

So, I'm not really dealing with my great aunt's sudden passing, at least not yet. Still just doesn't feel real and I expect it to not sink in until my grandmother gets here with her urn and we bring her to where she wants to be buried. I have moments where it does hit me and I do breakdown but they haven't lasted long when they do happen.

I've spent the last few days doing research into new housing options for my grandmother too. My grandmother and great aunt were living together and just getting by on both their incomes. Now it's going to be tricky in order to make it possible for my grandmother to stay where she is. So, I've been e-mail with independent living homes she's been interested in, as well as looking at smaller, less exspensive homes that are closer to where my uncle lives, so that we can get her a good chunck of money into her pockets and have someone close by in case she needs it. Also, I've been trying to find ways to evaluate how much her home is currently worth without having to inconvenince her by having someone come by and do an inspection. Now is definitely not the time for that. I did find a home almost exactly like hers, except reversed in layout and minus a seperate garage. So I've been calculating what she could get on that house and using it to determine the best budget in which to spend on a new home or independent living center.

Thankfully she has found a great lawyer to help her with all the crazy and frustrating paper work that there is to handle between the two provinces. To put it mildly, Quebec's paper work and rules as to how things should be handled are a pain in the ass and the only province that differs it's laws from everyone else so wildly.

I've also been looking into my options in case I need to move out there and help support her. Either by finding a home and living with her to help pay for the majority of the housing exspenses or by chipping in with the independent living home. It'll probably be another month or two before I know what's going to happen. We need to get everything settled with my great aunt's estate first and finalize a living budget for my grandmother that her lawyer plans to create for her. Thankfully his number one goal is to make sure she is living comfortably and can stay in her current home for as long as possible. We really lucked out by finding this lawyer, he's been amazing thus far.

Anyway, I'm sure you've had about enough of reading about my family struggles, on to the purpose of this website, exercise and diet....

Last week I decided to discontinue doing Insanity. Although my pulled calf is doing much, much better now, I know without a shadow of a doubt that if I restarted Insanity on Monday like I had planned, it only would have been a matter of time before pulling it again or worse, injuring something else. It's a very intense program and my body was not in the condition it should have been in to start it. I took too much time off inbetween programs and my calves immediately tensed up when I started Insanity but I continued assuming they would eventually loosen up. Boy was I wrong.

Thankfully my friend who loaned me the Insanity DVD's has agreed to my borrowing them again at the beginning of next year, after I finish a full round of Chalean Extreme again. At least this way my body will be fully prepared for what the program has to torture it with.

I will post my Month 1 results at the bottom of this post, before my daily stats.

So, that leaves me open for another exercise program. Well, my friend, who gave me the Insanity DVD's tried to talk me into doing another program with her two weeks ago, while I was doing Insanity. I politely passed, given I felt she personally was getting the better end of the deal because I've done Chalean Extreme before with an additional program and it's not so bad and is managable. However, adding on another program with Insanity, while doing it for the first would just be, well, insane.

Now that I'm not doing Insanity anymore I've agreed to do the program with her. She graciously started over her first week so I could do it with her over video chat every day, since we don't live in the same city/province anymore. So, she has a one week head start on me doing Brazil Butt Lift from Beachbody. I took my measurements and weight on Sunday and started the program on Monday. Should finish just two days after my challenge does and right before vacation starts.

So far, I'm not really liking it. 1) It clearly shows me just how much rhythm I don't have. 2) I can sometimes feel my knees pulling a little funny and it worries me. 3) He doesn't cue well, there's barely any warm up or cool down and sometimes I can't stand the switching between watching them exercising in studio to on the beach in Brazil. They cut people off at the waist up and you can't see the moves they are doing. The editor deserves a slap for that one.

Despite those annoyances, I've commited to doing Brazil Butt Lift for the entire 4 weeks, so I hope it garners some good results. I'll be very upset with myself if I don't see much, given how well my results were coming with Insanity.

Speaking of results, onto what's is probably the only reason you are here reading this...

I do not have my Day 1 measurements for Insanity. I started the program in the middle of my period, so I was very bloated and didn't want to scue any results. So here is Day 7 to what would have been Day 35. (I only got to Day 26 when I injured myself and then took a week off.)

(All in inches)

Monday, July 12th -> Sunday, August 8th.

Chest- 34 -> 33 1/2
Up Arms- R= 10 1/2 -> 10 1/4 L= 10 1/2 -> 10
Waist- Sucked In= 30 -> 29 1/4 Relaxed= 34 -> 33
Hips- 37 1/2 -> 37 1/4
Butt- 40 -> 38 3/4
Thighs- R= 23 1/2 -> 23 L= 23 1/2 -> 23
Calves- R= 14 1/2 L= 14 1/2 -> no difference.
Weight- 128 -> 123.5

4 1/2 inches and 4.5 pounds in four weeks. I'd lost 6 pounds total from starting Monday, July 5th to Sunday, August 8th, in five weeks. 6.5 pounds if you count Monday, August 9th's official weigh in of 123 pounds. Pretty good. :) Although I could have done without losing anymore in the chest, lol.

Just so we're clear, I didn't count the relaxed waist into the calculations as to how much I lost over the duration of the proram. It's a seperate measurement taken just for my curiosity.

Anyway, this has gotten far too long and it is disgustingly late and I still have another half an hour worth of stuff to do before I can go to bed. So...

I hope everyone had a good day.

Exercise:

BBL Cardio Axe
Routine: 28 mins
In Zone(126-165bpm): 25 mins 14 secs
Average Heart Rate: 141
Max Heart Rate: 174
Calories Burned: 202

BBL Bum Bum
Routine: 30 mins
In Zone(126-165bpm): 20 mins 13 secs
Average Heart Rate: 148
Max Heart Rate: 175
Calories Burned: 228

Total Calories Burned - 430


Meals:

Breakfast - 450 calories

Lunch - 365 calories

Snack - 200 calories

Dinner - 500 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 1515