6-21-2013
To say I'm happy with my results so far would be an understatement. I'm ecstatic and this is before I've even attempted the second month, which I hear it brutal. But I've come to expect nothing less from Shaun T. I ended up taking about two weeks off due to laziness (I'm not going to sugar coat it and make excuses. It was laziness, end of story) so I'm currently rounding up the tail end of the recovery week. Next Monday starts month two and I'm pumped! So far I've lost almost two inches from the largest part of my waist, an inch from each thigh, almost three inches below my bra, and about an inch from my hips. I can tell my core is being tightened up immensely and that's awesome because that's what I desperately needed to work on. If I could stay the way I am now, I'd be happy but I'm definitely looking forward to the changes month two will bring. As far as weight, I haven't lost any but I've managed to maintain a solid 134 (give or take a few tenths here and there) for the last few weeks which is fantastic. I used to bounce back and forth between 138 and 130 like it was my job. Now I'm sticking to the middle and I'm more than okay with that. My goal isn't to lose weight so much as it is to tone up and be happy with how I look. The scale doesn't always reflect the massive changes my body goes through, as shown by the pictures. In the first one, I weighed 135. The one on the far right was taken today and this morning the scale read 134.2. So not a huge change as far as the scale goes, but definitely a HUGE change as far as appearance goes. There's even a noticeable change from the second picture to the last. My upper abs are even more defined and my lower abs are flatter. Hell, my pants are even looser in the last picture. It's the same pair of pants but they fit significantly lower than they used to. The hems are getting pretty roughed up because I'm constantly walking on them now that my pants won't stay up. My endurance is crazy now compared to how it used to be. Before, I loathed jogging. Loathed it. I had no endurance so jogging was difficult and running was a joke. Wednesday after work I jogged a full quarter mile at the track, jogged another almost quarter mile after power walking for a few minutes, and then sprinted about an eighth of a mile. Sprinted. I'll let that sink in for a minute. I sprinted after jogging half a mile. All this when before I couldn't jog even an eighth of a mile without feeling like my lungs were going to collapse and my heart was going to explode. The best part was that I loved it! It was really fun! Sure, it sucked a little bit, but it's fun moving that fast! Had it not been so hot, I likely would have been tempted to see just how far I could go, but I wasn't pushing too far in the heat.
For only being roughly a month in, I'm ecstatic. I love knowing that I'm working my ass off for real results. I love being able to physically see my hard work pay off, and it's so exciting to think about how much more it's going to change as I tackle month two!
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