Day 4/Hurricane

I had thoughts of doing the workout this morning but that didn't happen. I ended up enjoying my morning of peace. I lounged with coffee, read my book, and watched the Today show. I really needed that time to me. 

So I did the workout this evening after dinner. Tonight's was Cardio Recovery. I wasn't sure what to expect and was scared of what a insanity recovery workout would be like.

My favorite part of this workout was doing squats. I didn't have a least favorite because I liked all of the moves in this one. It was great stretching out my muscles that have been so tight lately. 

On a different subject I'm really hoping this hurricane isn't too bad. We put up signs at work giving the members a heads up that we may close on Monday and Tuesday due to it. We even had a high volume of people coming in at the end of the day pulling out cash just in case. 

One lady went off about how all this stuff will stop working, stores will close because the automatic doors can't open...etc. I wanted to tell her that next thing will be the zombies. I understand wanting to be prepared and it could be horrible. But with the way she spoke you would think the world was ending tomorrow. 

At least I recently bought 4 huge books so if the electricity does go out I'm good. 

Day 3

I brought up at work that I was doing the Insanity program. A couple of other girls seemed interested in doing a workout here and there together. I got the number for one of them and if we can get this set in stone it would be fun. To have someone there doing the same thing and pushing each other. 

Work was super insane today. It made coming home to workout sound amazing. I looked forward to burning off some stress this evening.

Tonight was Cardio Power & Resistance. It was a lot of fun. I liked this one. It involved moving pushups which reminded me of bootcamp classes with Danielle in WA (miss those and her). 

The highlight of the workout was doing a squat jump and landing on a super squeaky toy. The dogs loved that hehe. 

Off to enjoy my smart pop kettle corn. Best 130 calorie end of day snack.

Day 2

This is my amazing post workout, I'm super soaked in sweat face. It's beautiful right ? hehe. I think so.

Why? Because this face says I pushed it through and made it. 

Tonight was plyometric cardio circuit. It was tough but then again this program is called Insanity. If it was easy I'd be mad. 

The only issue I had to push through was ankles hurting. I've sprained both of them in the past pretty bad. Every since then they've been weaker. With time and less weight I see them getting stronger. 

Not only did I do this today but I had a session with Laura. It was the best way to start the day!

In order to get the best results from this I've been hardcore tracking my calories. I even bought more snacks tonight. I did great day and stuck with 1550 calories. I had to throw in a banana tonight to make it through Insanity. 

Insanity Day 1

I was never sure if I should blog about this or not. But with the help of some amazing friends I decided to go for it. 

My fitness journey started several years ago when I met an amazing person, Laura. I weighed in at 200 pounds in 2008 and was not happy at all with how far I had let myself go. I signed up for training sessions with Laura and it changed my life forever. 

Thanks to her I lost 40+ pounds and found a love for working out. 

Now years later I wanted to challenge myself. I started sessions with her again because she is amazing at her job! I also then took the plunge and ordered Insanity. 

It came in the mail today and I was thrilled! 

I went ahead and started the program today. Day 1 is the fit test. You go through several exercises, do them for 1 minute, and then write down how many you were able to complete. The fit test is done every two weeks to keep up with your progress. 

Here are my results: 

Switch kicks- 48 reps

Power jacks- 37

Power knees- 80

Power jumps- 28

Globe jumps- 8 reps

Suicide jumps- 13

Push-up jacks- 21

Low plank oblique- 51

I also took some before pictures so that once I'm done I can see how far I've come. 

Everything is good :)

Right before the new year Mike and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary. I was excited because he was going to be home this year so we decided to do dinner, Japanese food like normal but it's our favorite. Except to make it different than normal we took a ferry over to Seattle. We love Benihana and found that the nearest one is in Seattle. I figured I could get in a ferry ride to make it more exciting. Well come that night getting to the ferry was interesting. We ended up getting a little turned around in where to park and pretty much made it to the ferry with no time to spare. The ride over was nice and the scenery was pretty. Once we got closer to Seattle I made Mike come outside with me so I could take pictures.

Here's our awesome picture out on the ferry :) 4 years down and I still get butterflies in the stomach with him. He's such a great person.

Dinner that night was very nice too. It was neat walking around Seattle.

Now we're enjoying him being home this year. We've been working out together and our new thing is playing racquetball. I am by no means good, I try though and it's a lot of fun. We go at least a few times a week and play for 45 minutes. We even bought our own equipment last night so we don't have to borrow the gym's stuff anymore. So far I've managed to hit myself in the head twice with the ball, hit him with the ball, hit myself with the racquet and a few other funny moments. I'm extremely talented lol.

My job at Navy Federal is going great. I really like everyone I work with. They're such nice people. Even better is I was told yesterday that sometime next month I'll be moving to train on the other side, dealing with loans, membership applications..things like that (more so things that you sit down with someone about rather than see a teller for). I'm excited to learn more. With learning more comes other things like I now have goals for the month. Right now they're small because I don't really know the ins and outs of the other side but once I do I'm sure my goal numbers will raise. I'm really hoping to be able to transfer with this job. We're even thinking of staying on this side of the water when the ship moves to Everett. We would just move further up north around Poulsbo. I'm sure we'll start talking about that more this summer since our lease is up around October and we would move then. Until then we've only mentioned the idea and want a little break from anything moving since we've only lived here for a few months.

Lastly I'm super excited to see Photina and the girls this upcoming week. I told her I had this dream that we ran and hugged each other when seeing each other again for the first time. Mike laughed at me and said I'm silly. However I know Photina is right and it's probably going to happen that way especially with the girls. I look forward to it a lot.

30 Days of Me: Day 25

My day in great detail. (Wednesday 24th)

This may not be exciting but honestly I cannot put off doing the 30 days anymore. I need to finish it and get back to normal blogging.

I finally woke up about noon. Yes pretty late but I'm trying to get in a lot of sleep today and tomorrow. First thing when getting up means I get myself bundled up and have to take Lily outside. It's different living in an apartment where I have to actually get dressed first thing in the morning. When we had a backyard it was nice just walking to the back, opening the door and then getting ready.

After taking her out I came in and ate breakfast (I live such an exciting life lol). Then got dressed finally to head out to the grocery store. I had a bad hair thing going on but luckily since it's freezing outside that just meant throw a hat on top of it and pretend I have good hair. I headed to the grocery store finally, at least the roads aren't bad today. There were a lot of people there but then again I didn't exactly pick a great day to head there. Everyone was doing last minute Thanksgiving shopping. I was just trying to grab stuff to make chili and things to help me survive until next payday.

After my trip there it was time to head straight to Starbucks, this cold weather is not helping my addiction at all. I'm even more so a happy camper because of the holiday flavors that are out. I have been drinking a lot of gingerbread chai tea lattes lately, it's so good. I got that and headed back to the apartment. Since then I've put away groceries and have been talking to Brandi on skype. I've also put chili in the crockpot and am avoiding my chore list for the time being.

Mike and I have no started our daily chit chat. It's mainly involved what both of us want for Christmas. I plan on finishing his gifts before he gets here and then he's going shopping once he's up here. He pretty much laughed at me when I told him part of my list is anything Glee related.

The day ended with an ER trip. I'm okay, I just have benign positional vertigo...basically I get dizzy. I have medicine for it now. After I got back from the ER I pretty much passed out after talking to Mike a little.

30 Days of Me: Day 24

Whatever I want.

I will get this 30 days of me done...eventually.

Things have been hectic in a way. More of less just getting in the routine of things up here. I had been job searching since we moved up here. I wanted to get something to pay off some things we have and build up a savings. I ended up applying to Toysrus (thanks Nicole) and got an interview there pretty quick. I did great at the interview and got a job there in a seasonal position. Then I ended up getting a call offering a job at Navy Federal. I took that as well. I should be getting pretty busy soon with working those jobs and working out more. I am looking forward to bringing in some extra money and staying pretty busy. So far the people at Toysrus have been really nice. I meet everyone at Navy Federal on Monday when I officially start there.

I have been working out again. I love it. When we got up here we got a membership at the YMCA. It's such a nice place. I tried a class there for the first time today. It was a muscle toning class, not bad at all. I want to try a few more classes (pilates, yoga, kickboxing). The place is so big and there is so much to do there, it's great.

The apartment is coming together as well. I've set most of the big stuff up and now it's just getting a lot of little things into spots. It's pretty cozy and all it's missing is Mike.

I have been going crazy on some Christmas shopping. I already sent off Brandi's box and I've finished shopping for Photina and the girls. Next is my sister (which I've started) and a few other people. I love shopping for others, it's so much fun. I even need to buy a couple more things for Mike, which I know he'll love. I honestly don't think we'll have room to set up our tree this year, maybe we can make room. If not I'll just go get some other decorations to still make it look festive in here :)