Random {fitness} thoughts by LP

In high school, my friends and I were always writing notes back and forth to each other. While cleaning up my house and packing to move in with the hubs after the wedding, I've stumbled across a few that I saved. In an attempt to waste time in classes and make my friends laugh, I would take up a whole page of "Random thoughts by LP," which would include silly things I observed of our classmates, the teacher... whatever drama was happening in our lives at the time. Because of this and that it's Monday and my thoughts are in pieces above my head like the chocolate bar scene in willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I bring you, Random {fitness} thoughts by LP.

Weekends are always hard for me. I'm at home, kind of lazy and therefore, don't always make the best decisions. Food choices are worse and more frequent, exercise is not as intense and I take a nap or two.

To make matters worse, my dvd player isn't working for some reason, which I need for P90x. I forget about it until 5am when I'm groggily stumbling through setting up my workout area. This morning I realized again that it wasn't working. So, I did 50 reps of ab exercises.

Why 50, you ask? We are 54 days out from the wedding... so I'm doing 50 of everything. When we get into the 40s, I'm going to increase it by ten. By the time we get to the wedding, I'll be a beast.

Anyway, 50 reps of crunches, side crunches, lower ab exercises, pelvic lifts, and planks. I can definitely feel the abs under the flab! I see hip bone definition and from the side, I look a lot less like I've had a few kids. My love handles are even shrinking, although not nearly fast enough. The best improvement I've noticed is that when I sit down, I don't have to readjust my pants to, for lack of better term, "tuck in" my belly flab. That may be a little too real for some of you that have never had that problem but it's real for many and for this, I'm totally high-fiving myself.

Today, I work out with my trainer for the first time in about a month. She's been on vacation out of the country for a month, so I've been reporting my weekly weigh-ins to her via email and expressing my immense discouragement with lack of results. I'm hoping that this week, I'll like what I see on the scale. My trainer assures me that once I get to a certain percent of body fat, it will be much easier, but I'm SO FAR AWAY from that and her perfectly fit, 100 pound frame does not help. I know her workout tonight is going to kill me, so I need to be prepared for that.

With these 2 a day workouts I'm doing, I've got 11 more workouts this week. *whew*... hang on friends, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Mondays aren't too bad, but with the combination of the trainer being back and the amount of working out I'm doing, I'll be exhausted by Thursday. I need motivation and encouragement to get me through the week!! I'll be looking for it, friends.