Results at my own pace

After a ridiculous P90X workout.
 

Good morning and happy Monday, friends!

Today marks 47 days until the Big Day and I'm starting week 3 of my p90x/Shakeology and week 33 (eek!) of my trainer workouts. I should be in better shape. My first reaction to seeing results slowly is discouragement and disappointment. I want to sleep in and go home after work and eat pizza because clearly working out isn't doing me any good, right?

Read that sentence again... I'm seeing results. Also, I'm in for quality and not quantity...I don't want to lose weight super fast and be a bag of loose skin. That's not ok. Thirty-three weeks in, I was hoping for more noticeable results. For people who haven't seen me in awhile to gasp with surprise and squeal, "Wow, you look great! What are you doing?!" I want Jennifer Hudson-like results that have me rocking skinny jeans and singing about weight loss just because I can.

Remembering my first workout with my trainer on September 12, 2012, she was concerned I couldn't make it through and I almost didn't. I was breathing hard and sweating like a pig. I nearly threw up several times throughout the 30 minute workout. The way I was breathing, an onlooker would have thought I was training in high altitudes to go up Mt. Everest or something...it was bad. I left the gym that day completely exhausted and sore all over. It was awful.

Fast forward to this morning. April 29, 2013. My P90x workout this morning was chest and back. Y'all, in my 52 minute workout, I did 6 push-up exercises and 6 pull up exercises. I did 102 reps of the push ups and 270 pull up exercises.

I couldn't even do one push-up (on my toes) 6 months ago. I did however, struggle pathetically through push-up on my knees.

I have changed my eating habits to actually consider what  I'm putting into my body. I slip up all the time but it's a conscious thought now and I work it off in the gym later. I am also more conscious of how much I move. Walking, running, etc... ya gotta move to get weight down.
I guess my point today is, although you may not be getting the immediate results you want, you are working towards it. Rome wasn't built in a day and this body you're trying to improve wasn't either. It takes time and work and you can do it! I am not Jennifer Hudson, yet. I have not reached my goal, yet. But going how I'm going, it's just a matter of time!