#redandbloggingit

Well, I decided to weigh in last night after dinner (I know...) and I was around 195, which is totally fine with me!  The scale lets me know of my weight change.  My muscles let me know that I'm getting stronger.  My eyes can see the physical changes of my body.  The scale is one of many guides that tell me I am making progress.

Play Dancing On My Own while doing Cassey's Fat Burning Cardio Warm Up.  It synchs up pretty well!

Cardio Warmup!

http://youtu.be/7BkjRlYq_UE

Robyn!

Step 1. Bring up the video for Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn on youtube.

http://youtu.be/Nv644ipg2Ss

Step 2.  Try to dance along with Robyn, and improvise!

Step 3. Repeat.

Today's JaNEWary workouts turned my legs into noodles! So good!

I grilled and baked a ton of chicken last night. Grilled chicken salad for lunch, chicken & brown rice in cream of celery soup for dinner, and a shitload of fruits, yogurt, and granola to snack on.

Well, I didn't blog about much this weekend...but I did do my workout Saturday, and made some blueberry pancakes with ground flax seed and banana.  They came out pretty good! My husband really enjoyed them.  I think I'll need to work with the size of each pancake so they look better.

Well, Saturday and Sunday turned out to be not so great as far as eating goes.  I started off great with the pancakes, but then with our schedule, I didn't really eat a meal after that.  Just snacks, some candy, a couple sodas...and of course, repeated last weekend's bad behavior with Jack in the Box at 1am.  Sunday was an all fruit smoothie from Jamba Juice, then a milkshake in the afternoon.  I did make spaghetti squash and grilled chicken for dinner so I feel like I didn't complete ruin my body with garbage food! :)

I had to revise my workout a bit to fit it all into a 15 minute workout instead of my usual 30.  My husband (who rised a motorcycle) usually leaves as I'm getting up, but it's SO COLD out so he's taking the car today.  Him still being here threw me off, and I didn't get up when my alarm went off.  Oops!

I did moves that hurt the most, that I haven't felt myself improving on, mostly working on my inner thighs and triceps.  I also incorporated some extra stretching.  I can almost straighten my legs out! Haha, I'm not close to flexible, I'm like the Tinman when I exercise!  

I would like to start off with a moment I had this morning.  After my workout, I was walking into my bedroom and as I passed my mirror I glanced at myself, then stopped.  My butt looked a little different.  So I dropped my shorts, got closer and began to examine...it's sitting just the tiniest bit higher!  I even asked my husband if it looked different, and he said that it looks lifted. Yay!!!

Ok, so when I started this, I weighed in at 205 pounds on Tuesday January 1st.  Today, Thursday January 10th I weighed in at.....

196 pounds!!!

I'm so proud of myself.  And also kind of shocked at how unhealthy I had been.  :/

But...9 pounds in 8 days! Making all my meals, eating healthy snacks, and spending 20-30 minutes doing Blogilates for the last 8 days has made me 9 pounds lighter and my butt is sitting a little higher. :)  

http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/express/10-minute/stretches-to-help-you-sleep/

Sleeping Swan

Happy Baby (One of my favorites)

Bridge

Seated Side Bend