Overweight!

I am overweight!  It is a strange thing to be happy about, but anyone who has been obese knows how this feels.  I do not put s whole lot of faith into the BMI scale, but it is still nice to not have that label hanging over me.

I actually hit this milestone on September 4, but I have been seriously busy lately.  We are in the middle of our adoption homestudy.  So much stress!  My individual interview is tonight.  After that we are supposed to have one more meeting with the social worker and then we can start working on matching with children.  We are hoping to have kids in the house by Halloween or Thanksgiving.

I have also been somewhat of a slacker with my P90X because of things to get done with the homestudy, but I've not given up entirely.  I've also started getting ready for a 5K mudrun that I plan to be in on October 29.


Today's weight is 162!

Fitness and Weigh In

The scale has been moving pretty slowly for me lately.  I don't really mind though because I am in this for the long haul and I have improvement and victories that have nothing to do with Mr. Scale.  I am doing things that I never would have imagined I could before I started this journey.  Right now I am going to the gym M/W/F and doing 1 hour of weight lifting (power hour - body pump style class) and 1 hour of zumba.  I am also doing P90X.  I have surprised myself quite a few time lately with the things I am able to do.  First I did double burpees (burpees with 2 push-ups instead of 1), then I surprised myself by adding the jump between burpees, then I discovered that I could do 15 push-ups in a row, then I did the entire Ab workout from P90X (AbRipperX is a non-stop ab workout that totals to about 350 reps total of 11 different ab exercises in about 15 minutes.), then I did quadruple burpees, then I did quintuple burpees.  I couldn't possibly impress myself more than that, right?  Wrong!  Yesterday I did one-arm push-ups!  I did them on my knees, but I busted out 6 of those, alternating arms, 3 on each arm.  Yes, I would like to be able to do them on my toes, but I used to have to do my normal push-ups on my knees too (heck, I used to not be able to do normal push-ups on my knees), and I WILL get to the point that I can do the one-arm push-ups on my toes too.  Can anybody say badass?  I hope so, because that's what I am!

Today's weight: 165.8