Ohhhhh, We're Halfway there . . .

No, we're not Livin' on a Prayer. But, we ARE halfway through the Power 90. Over halfway, to be precise. We have now completed 7 full weeks of the program. Only 6 more to go! (At least our first go-round.) I am proud to say we have not missed a single session!


As promised, we did an official weigh-in this week. Drum roll, please . . .


Jeff: 232 .......... + 3.8 lbs (since last weigh in) - 0.6 lbs (total)
Valerie: 200.4 .......... - 1.4 (since last weigh in) - 6 lbs (total)

For those of you who are Biggest Loser fans, you know this weigh in would have resulted in a large "GASP!" Someone is heading the wrong way! You would also be able to see who is the Biggest Loser in our house right now at approx. 3% total weight loss vs. .3%. Not that I'm gloating, or anything. (Teehee!)

As for the progress report:

Exercise

We had to shift our schedule again to accommodate a busy Saturday. It just was not feasible to get up at 4:30am to try to fit it in before I headed to LOC to do some training. So, we did our day off on Saturday, and shifted our final day of the week to Sunday. It just means that this week we will do 7 consecutive days of workouts.

Chatty Cathy - someone PLEASE clip her string!

We also switched from Sculpt Circuit 1-2 to Sculpt Circuit 3-4. Wow. I think the toughest part overall is the pace. It is much more aggressive, so I don't get much of a chance to recover between exercises. Which makes my stamina wane as the workout progresses. It is also a longer strength routine.

My kryptonite is that Tony (Horton, that is) wants the first set of push-ups to be regular rather than modified. My muscles are still not capable of being the load of my behind. I tried my best, but I am not sure that anything I did this week could actually count as a real push up. I am thinking that I was getting more out of the modified, so I may go back to them until I either: a) build more arm strength, b) shed some poundage to lighten my load, or c) both a and b.


For the cardio, we are still at the Level 1-2. Progress is consistent. Kind of at a plateau here, not really improving, but not getting worse.


On the running front, I never made it out this past week. I know that is lame. I did finally make it to Fleet Feet to get a much needed pair of new shoes. I went back the Saucony Progrid Omni. I really liked them before. I also registered to the do the Hickory YMCA Turkey Trot 5k this weekend. I am going to pre-burn some of those Thanksgiving calories!!!


Diet


My calorie differential ROCKED this past week! Well, except for Saturday...wah, wah, wah, wahhhhh. We won't talk about Saturday. Let's talk about 12 consecutive DAYS of having negative calorie differential (remember that means I burned more calories than I consumed). That is success that I can take to the scale! And the scale approves - see above weigh-in results.

Coming soon . . .

Will I see success at the Turkey Trot 5k this week? Will Jeff turn around his trend on the scale (let's face it, he doesn't have quite as far to go)? Will I EVER be able to do a real push up?


Stay tuned, my friends. And, thanks for being here to make sure I pull my butt out of bed in the mornings!