Day 8 - November 1 & November Goals

Happy November!

To start, my plan for Day 8.

Meal Plan:

B: Ancient Grains Cheerios with milk

S: Orange & shortbread cookies

L: Stuffed pepper

S: Broccoli & hummus

D: Orange shrimp Stir-fry

Workout Schedule:

C25K W6D1

Lower: 10 squats, 10 lunges, 10 calf raises

Upper: 11 pullovers, 11 kickbacks, 11 front raises

Abs: 10 roll-ups, 10 ankle reaches, 10 leg lifts, 6 reverse crunches

I went a little overboard this weekend with nutrition (pizza, twice in one day, oops), but overall, I have been doing well.  I have been chugging along nicely with my 30 Day Challenges, but I want to up my workout intensity.  Besides "running" three times a week, my cardio has only been coming from walks.  I love going for walks, but I don't feel that I'm getting my heart rate up enough to really consider them a workout.  I know going for a walk is better than nothing because I am at least moving, but I need a change if I want to see a change.

Starting today, because who doesn't love starting a challenge/setting goals at the beginning of a month, I will be doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred.  I have had the video for about 3 years, but have only done the workout about 5 times.  Since I have been doing well with the mini 30 Day Challenges, hopefully I can power through and complete the full 30 days of working out with Jillian.

Besides completing 30 Day Shred, I have a few other goals for the month of November.

Complete C25K and find a race to start training for.
I have 4 weeks of C25K left.  Week 5 went really well, even the dreaded 20 minute run on day 3.  Once I wrap up C25K and start training for a race, I need to work on consistency in my splits!

W5D1 - R5:00, W3:00, R5:00, W3:00, R5:00

W5D2 - R8:00, W5:00, R8:00

W5D3 - R20:00

Log at 12,000+ steps at least 20/30 days.

Attempt to complete all Christmas shopping.

I know this is quite a lofty goal, but it would be REALLY great to avoid the December shopping mania.

Get out of the 180's

This has been plaguing me for months!  I WILL finally see the 170's this month!

That's that.  Go make November GREAT!

30 Day Shred

Nick and I had such a great time on our Madison adventure this weekend!  Unfortunately, we never made it to the Chazen art museum.  Instead, we added another brewery to our list :)  In total, I ended up sampling 18 different beers in one day. 

18.  Different.  Beers.

That right there, is heaven to me.  

I had plans to take a million photos of our excursion, but this ended up being the only one I took...fail.

All these fun shenanigans kind of threw off my rhythm though.  I weighed myself this morning just for a check-in...not pretty.  Hopefully by my weigh-in on Wednesday, I'll be back to normal!

Time to talk about goals.

Last week, I gave myself one goal.  That goal was to get at least 30 minutes of activity in each day.  I was not 100% on this, but I did do really well!  Friday after work, I had lady cramps, and was just drained from the work week, so I didn't work out at all.  Otherwise, I did either dancing, the at home workout I shared the other day, yoga, or walked.  

This week, I am continuing with that goal, but I am bumping it up a notch.  I still need to get at least 30 minutes of activity in each day, but now, I will be doing 2-a-days at least 5 days this week.  On these 2-a-days, I should get in at least 45 minutes of activity, but I am shooting for more like an hour.  

I really, really, really want to win my Diet Bet this time so I feel like I need to be a little extreme.  To help me get my booty in shape, I have enlisted the help of one, Miss Jillian Michaels.  I started her 30-Day Shred this morning.  I also took some not so great (chunky/not quality) before pictorials.  If you're not in the mood to see a not-so-fit half naked chick, you'll probably want to stop reading now...  

I took the pictures though so that I have a comparison after the 30 day are up.  I'm really hoping to see some big changes!

  Without further ado, my almost naked body!!!!!

Oh. My. God.  It is sooooo hard taking a full body shelfie!!!  Shit. I'm not sure why I don't have Nick just help me.  For some reason, I'm self-conscious about it.  He sees my naked body on basically a daily basis, TMI...sorry I'm not sorry...but for some reason, I don't want him to know about the pictures.  Is that weird?  Does anyone understand where I'm coming from?