What Goes Around

I just finished my 47th day!  This has been a tough week.  Sunday I took too long of a nap so when I went to workout I was just tired.  I quit after about 5 minutes because my body just wouldn't do it.  Monday wasn't much better.  I did the Max Interval Circuit and had to quit 10 minutes early.  But I still did a long workout so I am not discouraged by that.  Today I decided to go back to the earlier workouts and I did the Pure Cardio and the Cardio Abs.  So again, I am not discouraged.  Some days you just have to realize that your body is tired. I haven't weighed myself in a while.  To upsetting.  But I know I am losing inches and I feel pretty good about that.  My goal is still the 10 pounds.  I repeat that to myself as I am wanting to quit a workout.  I have only two weeks left until I finish the 60 days.

While in Ethiopia I had a very strange experience with what I thought was an ingrown hair.  ** Warning - This is gross **  So during our second week in Ethiopia I developed a sore that was like a pimple on my back side.  And like most pimples, I decided it is best to squeeze it and irritate it so that it gets infected.  That is what I did.  After several days of me bothering it, it was very red and sore and the redness was growing.  It would be painful at times with like a pinching feeling.  I figured I was sitting wrong on it.  Yes, backside actually means my buns.  But we were sitting on hard, wooden seats a lot so I figured that is what was irritating it.  The bummer is that I couldn't really get a good pinch on it or see it very well so all my squeezing was not effective. Finally, one day after realizing it was most likely infected and I couldn't pop it, I asked Steve to try to pop it.  He tried but said I should go talk to the nurse on our team.  So down I went to her r

For some reason I thought today's workout was going to be easier.  WRONG!  It was less jumping but it was still super hard.  I took lots of rests during the 50 minutes of working out.  I am sweating like crazy and my legs are shaking.  Time for my fruit smoothie with the protein powder.  But I have made it to day 39 which is quite an accomplishment for me.

Back in July, the three of us went to Ethiopia with a team from our church.  This was my first time to Ethiopia.  Micah had gone on the team the previous year, and Steve had gone on a scouting trip a couple months before.  I wasn't really nervous, having lived in Kenya a long time ago, and having lived in India for years. Our team of Americans joined with a team of Ethiopian believers who were ready to go out and share Jesus with Muslim communities.  We had two Americans and an Ethiopian translator and an Ethiopian disciple maker.  The disciple maker was from the community and had already planned homes we would be going to.  They would also be the ones to follow up with any who wanted. Micah and I were teamed up the first week along with our two Ethiopian men.  I was excited to get started.  First we went to a hut that belonged to a believing family.  Then we went with the home owner to his neighbor, who were Muslim.  We were able to share with them about awareness of human tr

Yesterday I began the second month of Insanity.  I am on day 38.  So it took me a little longer to move to the second level.  Yesterday I did a fit test.  I'm not really impressed with my results.  Some of the tests were a little lower than when I started and some are a little tiny bit higher.  And my weight is just 3 pounds less than when I started.  But I have lost inches for sure. The second level is intense, or should I say, Insane!  The workouts are an hour long now and the moves are a bit awkward and intense.  I have to modify some of the moves.  I don't want to blow my knees out by doing them wrong. If this doesn't kill me first, I think I should be able to lose a few more pounds with the workouts.  My goal is 7 more pounds.

I have done 30 days of Insanity!  Very proud of myself.  I have only lost 3 pounds, but I have lost inches.  I didn't measure myself before starting so I don't know how many, but I can see a difference.  So I still have 7 pounds to go.  I now enter the week of recovery before I start the final month of MAX workouts.  The final month workouts are longer.  I think they are close to an hour long.  So this will be a bit more difficult.  Hopefully that is what I need to lose these 7 little pounds.