Week 28

PJ Weight:  158.2
Week Loss:  -2.4
Cumulative Loss:  -33.4

Seth Weight: 171.4
Week Loss: -0.8
Cumulative Loss:  -27.7

What a week for Team Mintz!  We just hit the combined weight loss total of 61.1 pounds.  GO US.

Take THAT, plateau!!  HAH.

But now... ah, the challenges abound.

This week I have a buffet Indian lunch to go to, a coworker's mid-afternoon baby shower to attend (with baked goods aplenty in evidence), and then my boss is taking me and some other coworkers out to the Cheesecake Factory for lunch on Friday. Friday evening, we generally dine out with friends.

Hm.  And this is before all the holiday festivities and related gluttony of the following two weeks.

Methinks I may foresee a problem.  I'll just have to do what I can.  (You can find healthy options everywhere, etc, etc, blah blah blah.... It's the frickin' Cheesecake Factory for cryin' out loud!! Do I really WANT to find a healthy option??)

Seriously.  I'll try.  And I won't have dessert.  Or the pasta dish that I absolutely love and haven't had in a year that's 2500 calories.  Sigh.  [After finishing this blog and doing some research, it appears they have a "Skinnylicious" menu now.  We'll see if I can bring myself to order from that.  The thought depresses me.]

On the exercise front, we've finished our first 30 days of the Power 90 program.  We dutifully took pictures this morning to track our progress.  You'll note the distinct lack of any pictures here.  This should tell you that I'm not as of yet keen to post a picture of myself in a sports bra & workout shorts, and have not arrived at my "After" photo.

I might never get to a point when I'm ready to share these pictures.  They're a record for me (and for Seth) to see progress over time.  Though I have to say this month showed but little progress, honestly.  Seth's pictures show a lot more progress, but guys put on muscle quicker than us ladies, and it shows a lot more.  (And they get to eat more, and lose weight faster.  But it's more taboo for women to carry extra weight in our society than it is for men.  WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?!?)

When we get closer to the June finish line, I'll certainly post my non-workout-clothing pictures from before diet & after, but those are T-shirt / Jeans pictures.  Different story entirely.

Back to Power 90 - we're still doing the "easy" DVD.  The program comes with two DVD's.  I forget the exact terminology they use for them, but no matter, it breaks down to easy & harder, no matter what you call them.  I'm starting to get sick of doing the same 2 workouts all the time, and I think we might switch around the 45 day mark to the more advanced DVD just for a change of scenery.

Certainly the weight routines have gotten MUCH easier over the past month.  I've upped the weights several times, and I don't feel that my form's suffered at all.

Cardio is much more difficult for me.  I just can't take the jumping.  My feet have bunions, and it's just plain painful to try to jump around, so while I try to do as much as I can without hurting myself and I just keep moving, I don't think I'll ever get to a point where I'm duplicating everything the trainer does.

I'll keep trying not to get discouraged, different strokes for different folks and all.  It's tricky.  Now that I think about it, it gives me a whole new respect for those athletes who compete missing limbs and such.  I get bummed about not being able to do everything the trainer does because a few little bunions.  Those folks get out there and rather than just get discouraged, they do these amazing things while MISSING ENTIRE LIMBS.

Thinking of it from that angle, I'll just shut up about my bunions now.