Week one of the Beachbody Challenge is in the books! In doing so, I’ve completed week one of Core de Force. The unofficial results are in…I lost 2lbs this week. Did I mention I still haven’t changed my meal plan? Those two pounds were lost by simply adding the workouts back into my schedule. Now, I won’t be posting a before photo until I’ve completed the 30 days. I’m also dreading posting the photo, but what the heck. I can handle internet shame haha.
Breakdown of the workouts this week. This program makes me feel completely uncoordinated and at the same time like I’m working a million muscles in my body. There’s jabs, kicks, knees and push ups till tomorrow. I’ve never heard of half of these moves. I seriously can not do push ups on my toes, but I’m doing the modified version and feeling like I’m getting stronger. Maybe by week 4 I will be able to complete a full set of push ups in one of the rounds. My favorite move is actually the staggered push up.
Now, to describe the meals for this week. In one word: FATTENING. This week I ate pizza, wings, cake, candy, cookies and a salad. Yep, one salad. I would say the meals were improved from the previous week, but obviously needs more work. I will admit the Shakeology that I’ve been bashing for years surprised the crap out of me. I drank one every single morning and didn’t feel like I needed to eat until noon. Four solid hours of feeling full. But, I didn’t want to go 4 hours without eating since I am a nursing mom. So, I did scale back on my food through lunch. Then around 2-3pm I started eating out of habit. Not boredom, work keeps me super busy. But, when I was on maternity leave, I ate out of boredom and the habit has continued into my work life. Do I feel that Shakeology is worth $120 a month, not really. Yes, it may only be $4 a day, but I don’t like to spend that kind of money daily. If you are someone that really needs to cut cravings, then maybe. I just can’t justify it at this point.
Next weeks goals:
*Complete all workouts for the 2nd week of CDF
*Avoid candy, cake, cookies
*Try one round of push ups not using the modification
Be confident, be fit, be you!
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