P90X

Feel the endorphins; exercise gives you a natural high; don’t you just love the feeling you get when you exercise?

Lies, all lies cos I’m constantly in pain.

I’m not new to exercising. I survived the screaming bully that is Jillian Michaels and endured her torture and her tortured tools

1. Banish Fat Boost Metabolism
2. Ripped In 30
3. 30 Day Shred
4. Body Revolution

At the end of it all the fat wasn’t banished, my body wasn’t ripped nor shredded and my body, though down a few inches, wasn’t revolutionized.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying these exercises didn’t work, no; they just didn’t give the drastic results championed by the infomercials. I had high hopes for the duration of my journey with Jillian Michaels but those expectations got the life snuffed out of them at the end of every program I tried. I lost some weigh but not all.

So I decided to curb my expectations and search for a fitness DVD that would get me closer to my goal within an allotted timeframe. I watched countless YouTube videos and read an endless number of blogs and reviews before selecting my next torture tool. Enter P90X – Power 90 X.

My weight loss journey started in May of 2012 after I tore through my dress at a function – it was 12noon. I held the dress together with safety pins for the duration of the event as I was the event planner and couldn’t leave. After the event, I drove straight to the gym and enrolled to start the very next day. I was so humiliated.

Starting out I was a size 20 bordering on size 22. Now one year later I am a size 18 still fighting to become a size 14 before January – fingers crossed.

Transitioning from going to the gym to a Jillian Michaels DVD was difficult and I cursed her every time I popped her DVD in. Good times. Now transitioning into weight training is something of a challenge as I do not have upper body strength.

P90X involves a lot of pushups, pull ups and planks – no walk in the park; and whoever said Yoga was a breeze was just fooling around. Yesterday was Yoga X day and Tony expected me to do this!

Hell No

Give me weights and I’ll lift them, but for crying out loud ‘Crane’, ‘Pushups with one leg in the air’! Seriously dude! And I don’t know where to find the time to exercise for 1hour at a stretch, God help me.

I don’t know what I’ve signed up for cos I couldn’t scrub my back in the shower this morning from the pain.

I hope I can live through this. Wish me luck.

EXERCISE - Yuck

Weight-loss, my Achilles heel.

I have battled with my weight for ages now. I recently looked up a pix of mine from five years ago and I was close to tears as I beheld the not so subtle transformation.

For the past 5 years I have tried all sorts of diet plans and diet pills which quite frankly were a waste of money - I'm an impatient person, if the results don't come early, I move on to something else. Its a weakness, I know but that's story for another day.

I finally stuck gold with my weight loss battle when a co-worker miraculously showed up slimmer than i recalled. It was truly magic. Slimmer waistline, smaller arms etc. I was truly green with envy. What was the secret, EXERCISE. Like seriously!!! That was the worst news ever cos as you can tell, I'm not an exercise freak. Grew up doing lots of them everyday with my mum - Jackie Genova to be exact. I can recite the entire exercise tape, that's how much of a fanatic i was back then. So, I told her to hook me up - Billy Blanks Tae Bo Flex and Flex Express turned out to do the trick.

6 months of rigorous exercise every evening after work plus protein diets, water therapy, a strict water melon diet, no bread for 2 years and I dropped a dress size. Yes, 1 dress size after 6 months. Boy was i pissed. But I loved my new figure.

2 years after that and I am back where i started from. Why? Just because i stopped EXERCISING. Annoying, I know. I did everything but the exercises - diets, calorie counting and close starvation - but i still gained the weight. I am told I have a slow metabolism this is, my body stores food like its hoarding fuel during scarcity. Boo hoo, poor me. That also means in other to stay trim and healthy I need to make exercise a lifestyle choice. I cried all day when i hard that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not lazy, its just that i am not a self motivated person and i need external forces to get me to keep at this new 'lifestyle' option.

So, I went out and registered in an expensive gym (talk about motivation) and torment myself every morning and evening for 1 hour per session. I am in constant pain, irritable most of the time and flat out exhausted at the end of the day. Yeah, I'm having soooooo much 'fun'.

Every time I get a calorie count mail or see pictures like this, I see red. Nobody tells you its bone crushing body aching mind over matter HARDWORK to make the transition from plump to slender but remarkably easy vice-versa.

I don't like being fat and right now I can't seen to find anything that I own to fit me or for that matter anything in the market that is remotely attractive (in my perspective) for a plus size lady so I guess I'm stuck on the treadmill and the stationary bike and the ab cruncher ..... You get the idea.