60 Days Later: Insanity Results!

7-23-2013

I can officially say I have completed Insanity! For anyone who ever doubted the validity of those before and after pictures you see on the advertisements, I present to you my own before and after. I’ll be honest, before we started this program I was skeptical of all those pictures. Surely they were just put on the commercials to make the program look good, right? They were probably photo-shopped or something, right?

Wrong.

If those people really put the work into it, then those results are 100% possible. As for myself, I’m thrilled with the outcome. Do I still have a few areas I’d like to work on? Sure, I’m always a work in progress, but this was just the beginning. Did I make one hell of a head start? You’re damn right, I did!

Now for the logistics.

Total weight lost: roughly 4 pounds. I’ve been holding steady at 130.

Total inches lost:

Thighs – about half an inch. I can feel significantly more muscle there, so I know it went from flab to muscle with little to no circumference lost.

Waist – just over 2 inches

Hips – about an inch overall

So, not huge, out of this world numbers. However, I’m not disappointed in the least! The pictures speak for themselves here. The numbers can only show so much change. The pictures and physically seeing and feeling the difference is where it really counts. If this is the kind of change I can see in only 60 days, I can only imagine what Asylum is going to do!! For now, I’ll be taking a few days off then jumping back into Day 1 of Insanity until Asylum gets here. I’m officially lost without my daily dose of Shaun T. At this point, he’s my best good friend who I’ve gotten used to seeing on a regular basis. My best good friend who kicks my ass every chance he gets and somehow I still love him for it.

The best part? Not that I can wear clothes that I haven’t been able to wear since before Ryleigh was born, although that’s certainly a plus. The best part is being able to pat myself on the back and say I stuck with it. Did I have days when I was kind of sick of it? Sure, but they were few and far between. This whole process has shown me that I have what it takes to stick to something like this and not give up because it got hard or I got tired. Now, to be honest we did skip a few days here and there and we didn’t follow the nutrition plan, but honestly with the results I got out of it, I’m not going to nit-pick at the few slip ups we had. I love being able to look at those “after” pictures and go, “Wow…did that body really give birth to two giant babies?” That’s pretty awesome, I’ll admit. Yes, there’s still some loose skin that needs to be dealt with, but that takes time and I’m giving it all the time it needs. After all, I did have two rather large babies. The loose skin and stretch marks are part of their stories. The marks are fading and the skin is slowly tightening back up, but I’m more than willing to accept that it may never get back to my old flat stomach.

All in all, I can’t say enough good things about Insanity. It’s hard as hell but it’s so worth all the of sweat, pain, and frustration. Next up is Asylum, so stay tuned for when we start that!