P90X

In a few days, Ryan and I are going to be starting P90X.  I've already stocked up on food for the first phase - basically, lots of protein, very little carbs, and no sugar/junk.  This should be interesting...


I started this back in May and lasted exactly four days :).  I was actually doing pretty well until Mother's Day.  I was training for the Dam to Dam (i.e., the best dam race in Iowa!) and had run 10 miles that morning and was feeling fantastic.  We get to Sunday School, and someone had brought the ooeyist, gooeyist caramel rolls ever.  Uh oh.  Well, me being the queen of rationalization, I decided I could have just one!  I mean, come on - I ran 10 miles and it was Mother's Day!  I deserved to have just one little caramel roll!  I could promptly get right back on track, no big deal.  Or not.  Instead, I decided if one was good, two was better.  And then decided, who is crazy enough to give up sugar??  This stuff is amazing.  Needless to say, it was all over from there :).


Hopefully, with Ryan's help I'll do a little better this time.  Hopefully.  I don't diet well at all - I'm terribly all-or-nothing - as seen in the example above.  Also, my rebellious side seems to come out when I diet.  As in, no one (meaning myself, in this case) is going to tell me what I can or can't eat.  I can't have a cookie?  Watch me.  Maybe I'll even have three or four...


I've done some of the workouts off and on since May, choosing the ones that I like.  I've skipped right over yoga (long and oh so boring) , chest and back (too many pushups and the woman in the video annoys me), and ab ripper X (so stinkin' hard!! and I can't keep up).  I'm thinking I won't be able to get away with that now.


The plan is to do the workouts together early in the morning.  To say Ryan isn't a morning person is a bit of an understatement :).  So, combine him getting up at the crack of dawn to join my annoying, perky morning self and me going through major sugar withdrawal...


We'll see how this goes...