Alcohol is a depressant – WHO KNEW?! Also: 30DS Level 2 stats

I missed two workouts last week – Tuesday and Friday. I had full intentions of catching up Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was a go – I got out of bed, got motivated, got it done. BOOM. Then I went out for drinks for a friend’s birthday… lots of drinks. Sunday I was in a funk and pretty depressed the whole day.

Did you guys know alcohol is a depressant?!

Obviously that was sarcasm… but I guess I never really made the connection for myself, the way my body reacts, as lots of drinks equaling mini depression the following day. But this time I definitely felt it/saw it.

There was no rallying for Shredding on Sunday. I had a brief moment of motivation around 6pm, which fleeted rather quickly. Andrea was going to come Shred with me that night around 8:30pm – I really didn’t want to do it, but when you have someone specifically coming over to workout with you it’s a little rude to just be like, “oh, hey, thanks for coming – I don’t wanna anymore”. I was dreading it but at the same time knew it would really make me feel better. I would feel a million times better. So I resolved myself to get it done at 8:30pm. Well, around 7:45pm I got a text asking if we should just “shred now” and then we could get busy just hanging out later in the evening – yes! Yes, let’s do that! I went upstairs to put on my gym clothes. Let’s just get it done, I thought to myself. Well… that was the moment my 7 year old decided to start arguing with me over bedtime. This argument spiraled into a full-blown meltdown. That lasted for an hour.

Bye-bye chance for exercising. Bye-bye motivation to do anything but have a glass of wine and feel sorry for myself. Bye-bye chance for mommy time and taking care of my own health and happiness.

Siiiiiiiigggghhhhhhhh.

It may seem like I’m being a big whiner, but I feel like this is a big part of why I haven’t been able to reach my goals yet. A) I have mommy guilt and therefore focus my “free” time on doing stuff for my children and/or family and/or around the house instead of taking care of my body, or B) I get in this “What’s the point when someone is just going to need me as soon as I start a workout anyway?”, which is SO TRUE. Out of the 9 workouts I’ve done for 30 Day Shred, 6 of those have been in the midst of being asked a billion little kid questions, yelling at James to quit standing in front of the TV, and/or almost stepping on him/smashing him in the face with a dumbbell.

I should have spent this weekend transforming my basement into my Home Gym area. We have a TV down there. We have a DVD player down there. Unfortunately both of those things are completely buried beneath millions of toys that never get played with and stuff that is supposed to be living in our storage area – NOT in the middle of the basement floor. Unfortunately my husband regularly mistakes middle-of-the-basement-floor with storage-room.

…then there’s the issue of being a tall person and having a low basement ceiling. But I need to get over that. It’s not SO low. It’s still, like, I dunno – 7 ft. Just not the 9ft ceilings we have in our living room on the main level. #firstworldproblems

Okay, so even though I have not officially finished Level 1 (which I WILL do tonight and maybe even FOLLOW it with Level 2!! AHH! LUNACY!), I’m going to go ahead and provide Level 2 starting measurements – updates in blue:

Weight: 189.6 lbs / 191.2 lbs

Estimated Body Fat: 32.5% / 34.6% (I TOTALLY measured myself wrong the first time. This time around I also used the 3-point caliper measurement instead of just using my belly measurement. Had I used just my belly measurement for this, my estimate was closer to 36%. So: 34.6% NEW starting measurement.)

Chest (across bust w/sports bra on): 39” / 38” (same sports bra worn for accuracy)

Waist: 34.5” / 33”

Waist at naval: 39” / 37”

Hips: 45” / no change

Bicep (flexing): 12.5" / 12"

Thigh: 26” / no change

As you can see, there is quite a difference at my waist/waist at naval measurements! Hips haven’t changed at all, but I don’t expect this measurement to change until I lose another 10-15lbs. I am a pear. Most of my weight is in my hips/thighs. Plus my butt is definitely, erm, perkier? Maybe I should put it this way: I actually have the beginnings of having a butt now instead of being cursed with perpetual “white girl butt”, ie: WIDE AND FLAT.  A lost half an inch off my arms – super excited about that! However, gaining almost 2lbs = major disappointment. But looking at my measurements I know I should get the hell off the scale and just focus on measurements and body fat.  …I’m just not ready yet.

I will be posting end-of-level-1/beginning-of-level-2 pictures later tonight!