Level 2, Day 9 and 10

Its still hard to do... I still sweat like a pig... it doesn't feel like I have completed 10 days of Level 2, so i will continue to do Level 2 for a few more days, till it gets easier for me, or till I get bored of it (whichever comes first...and the greater possibility is that I will get bored of it first)

I wanted to do the 10-day Beyond Calories Diet (a part of the Fat Loss for Idiots diet)... but it is too restrictive and scary for me :(

Now I have decided to follow the diet principles outlined by the website: www.fasttracktofatloss.com

I really like it because I have the free Silver membership and I can still find a lot of useful stuff for myself!

You can go ahead and click on the link, its not an affiliate link (teehee) :D

Happy shredding everyone.... and BTW, I would really like to hear from you .. have you started the 30 day shred? or are you planning to? Or if you are doing it, then which Level are you at and how do you like it? :)

Take care y'all :))

Level 2, Day 8

I gotta admit... I have to FORCE myself every day to do my Level 2.

Seriously, it is still very hard for me...although I have seen improvements in myself over these 10 days (I have skipped a couple of days in between)

I look at the watch when I start and calculate before hand by what time I would be finished and then I just do the exercise...and by the end of the 25 or so minutes, I am ready to DIE! It is hard hard hard... I just hope that i will have a good result at the end of this shred thingy.

I now HAVE to improve my eating habits... every time I get stressed out, I dive into my heaven by chomping on chocolate (hence my name; chocaddict, duh!) hee! I made brownies yesterday and they are almost gone today... I got some dark chocolate and inhaled it within a day... my son ask me to buy him marshmallows and he has eaten 2 or 3 and I have eaten 5 or 6 

*sigh*

ugh... where is my self control? :'(

Level 2, Day 2 to 7

I am so sorry for not writing my updates regularly... life and laziness happens!

Now back to business... today I completed the level 2, day 7. This level is HARD! Makes me sweat like crazy; the 3rd circuit is so hard that it makes me grunt and I swear I would swear bad bad words if I swore, which I do not! LOL

I have purchased 1kg dumbbells because I just cannot exercise with my 2 kg dumbbells when I get to the 3rd circuit. Jillian says something in the lines of... "I want you to feel as if you are going to DIE".... well, I actually feel like I am going to DIE when I am doing the last circuit of the video.

YES, Jillian is a crazy crazy woman... and I guess I love her for it... hahaha

I am planning to go on a 10-day diet starting in a couple of days; it is the "Fatloss for Idiots" fast track diet. it is supposed to help you loose your fat and not your muscles. The scary part is, it does not allow you to eat any grains/cereals for those 10 days and no sugar or milk either. I can live with no grains and bread for 10 days...but...but... what about my beloved chai? My breakfast tea, with milk and sugar...sigh! I am in love with my tea ritual twice a day..... sigh... I will have to convince myself to let go of my favorite tea preperation for 10 days and get my caffiene fix from tea or coffee with no added sugar or milk....aaaaaaaaaaaack! :O

Will keep you updated!

Ciao and happy shredding :)

Level 2, Day 1

Oh - My- God!

I thought after completing Level 1 for almost 14 days, I would be strong enough to atleast complete the easier/beginner version of Level 2, following Anita

BOY! Was i wrong!!

I sweated, I grunted, I got dizzy and I almost died by the end of the Level 2 workout.

Jillian said something like, "you must think I am crazy"...uhhh YEAH! You are one crazy chick, Jillian!!!

Lets see how my body adapts to Level 2 ... I guess if so many people can make it to Level 3 without dying, so can I.

uffffffff, it is hard work though.

I think I will get 3 pound dumbells for some of the exercises because I sure can't for the life of me, do them with my 5 pound weights...sigh!

Day 6 after my re-start :)

Today was the 6th day of Level 1 after my week-long break.

I am sweating less and following Jillian better... I am doing the harder versions of all the exercises except the push-ups. I am still doing girly push-ups :P

And I am still having trouble with the "side lunges with anterior raises"... they are oh-so-hard for me still.

Now I am getting bored with Level-1...maybe I will start Level 2 from tomorrow....eeeep, but I am scared of moving up a level :O

Level 1, Day 9

Today I was a bit sore in the front of my thorax...you know, where the shoulders meet the thorax, and just below the clavicles.... but that was all!

I am so grateful it wasn't anything like the time when I started shredding.... ouch and double ouch! i couldn't even walk and I had to take ibuprofen to be able to sleep! I was hobbling around... i couldn't come down the stairs without crying out in pain... My FIL saw me hanging on to the stairs railing and going "aaaeee, ooeee" and he thought I had some sort of a sprain or something LOL... when I told him I had started exercising, he couldn't help laughing at me
I was afraid that I would be really sore after not exercising for a week... but TYG, it wasn't really bad!

I did my Level 1 again today... I would have been very proud of myself if I had not just gobbled 4 chocolate chip cookies

Back on the horse!

Oh FINALLY!!!

My cough is under control, my nose can breathe and I don't feel like passing out when I stand up!

After a week... a @&%$#%%%%()&$@#%%$$#$$%&*%^ WEEK, I exercised again today.

It was not as bad as Day 1, but it was more difficult for me than the last time I did my Level 1.

I thought I would be back to square one after a week of not moving a muscle, but TYG it was not as bad as expected.

I think that may be I will be able to move on to Level 2 by the end of this week...we'll see

Happy shredding, everyone!