Progress Report

Today's going to be a busy day at work, so I'm trying to get this all up and ready before I leave so I can focus on the presentation I'm giving tonight at a University on what I do at work and what opportunities there are for physicists.

Today was tracking day.

It has been 60 days since I started ChaLEAN Extreme, and 4 weeks since I started Weight Watchers.
The Push Month mostly focused on building muscle, and my legs, butt, and arms definitely benefitted. I can actually do real push-ups, now! I can do at least half of the burpees in Burn It Off without modification. I outlifted my set of weights and needed to go up a notch or two or three.  And I'm planning on starting TurboFire/ChaLEAN hybrid after this next coming month. I think that this was a great program to start with, since I've never focused on building much muscle. The weightlifting progress is a great Non-Scale Goal for me. The slimming will come with more cardio, but the power, and strength can only come from resistance.

I have been busting my buttocks since Monday to make it a successful tracking day. I'm talking taking walks. Going RUNNING, for heaven's sake. And watching every damn thing that I eat and drink since I'm out of weekly points until Friday. Because I wanted to see the results that I feel. Because I feel the results. I know that I'm looking better and slimming down. I'm also building muscle, so some places are actually staying the same pretty much.

The Push month has been good to me, overall.

Here's the photos:

Front View Progress

Side View Progress

Back View Progress
SOON, There won't be any of those rolls at my waist! They are going, going, going, (soon to be) GONE!

Measure it up

 I am quite pleased with this month's progress! Down 6.3 lbs from the last weigh-in! My waist is down 2 inches, too! And that's the waist around the belly button. My natural waist is shrinking, too!

Okay, off to work!
~Katie

REAL push-ups!

I haven't really been pushing myself to do push-ups on the toes. It has been hard enough to complete them on my knees.

But today, today I decided that I was going to try it. At the end of Push Circuit 1, there are 8 push-ups followed by 3 extreme ones. Well, I did 6 out of 8 on my toes!!! And then all of the extreme ones!

So wahoo!!! I did it! I can do it!

Can I have a beer now?

Oh, and I bought myself a gift since I was on the verge of buying all the fill-in weights AND heavier ones. Yep, advertising works on me. And so does all of the really good reviews. I got the Selecttechs from BowFlex off of Amazon. I still have to get used to dialing in the right numbers quickly, and had to pause the video a couple times, but I used 30 lbs for all of the squats today!

I leave for the funeral on Friday, so I'll be using the bands. This time, I'm staying at my aunt's house, so I can go outside & exercise if I need to.

~ Katie