Day 32!

Well, it's been over a month now since we started this :). Thank you everyone for your support so far, you have been great. A special thanks to Chuck for agreeing to do what we thought was a crazy idea at first. Now it's just a normal part of our life. People are still wondering if I have cravings for anything unhealthy. The truth is I really don't! I think I finally found my willpower and self control. Before when Chuck & I tried to lose weight I failed because of lack of self control. Now I don't think twice about going for the healthier option when shopping or in the kitchen. Crash diets don't work, you don't need weight loss supplements and you don't need to spend all of your time in the gym to see results. You're going to see awesome results just by changing what you consume.  I've lost 18lbs so far with no exercise and Chuck has lost 38lbs. I'm not saying you that don't need to exercise, because you do. Just don't make 100% of your weight loss routine. I've read that weight loss is 80% what you eat and 20% working out. You can't go do a lot of cardio/strength training and then go eat at McDonald's. To reach and sustain your goal weight, you need to discipline yourself when it comes to food. Otherwise, once the weight comes off and you stop working out you're going to pack on the pounds again with your bad eating.








Starting today Chuck & I have added in exercise.We bought a Kinect for our Xbox 360 and I did Zumba today for an hour earlier and then another half hour about 20 minutes or so ago. We also have The Biggest Loser game on the way to us and Chuck will be doing that with me. Aside from that, Chuck is doing the 100 pushup challenge & I am doing the 200 situp(but I'm doing crunches, instead) challenge. For our initial test, Chuck completed 9 consecutive push ups and I completed 30 consecutive crunches. So, he is in column 2 and I am in column 3. Today started Week 1 Day 1 for & Chuck's max amount of pushups, after doing the reps, were 9 and my max amount of crunches were 27. See below for our Day 1 workout to see what I'm talking about. This is a 6 week program and day 1 is monday, day 2 is wednesday and day 3 is friday. The purpose of these challenges is to be able to do 100 pushups/200 crunches consecutively by the end of it. There is also a squat challenge, which I plan to do after this one :).

week 1: pick the appropriate column depending on your initial test results

Day 1 rest 60 seconds between each SET (longer if required)
	up to 5 push ups	6 - 10 push ups	11 - 20 push ups
set 1	2	6	10
set 2	3	6	12
set 3	2	4	7
set 4	2	4	7
set 5	max (at least 3)	max (at least 5)	max (at least 9)

Day 1 rest 60 seconds between each SET (longer if required)
	up to 10 sit-ups	11 - 20 sit-ups	21 - 30 sit-ups
set 1	3	9	15
set 2	4	9	18
set 3	3	6	10
set 4	3	6	10
set 5	max (at least 5)	max (at least 8)	max (at least 14)