Insanity kicks it up a notch or 12

This past week, I started the final 4 weeks of the workout program Insanity. It was nice to have a break from the craziness and all out tiredness of working my butt off. I have never, and I mean never had a workout as cardiovascularly challenging as this week has been. Even in all my years playing sports in highschool and even during P90X. All those pale in comparison to the workouts I did this past week. Instead of the regular 40 minute total workout time and 30 seconds for each exercise, we did 60 minutes total time and 45 seconds for each one. I literally thought my legs were going to explode and my lungs collapse on themselves. I was so sore and tired afterward that I wasn't sure if I could make it through the next workout. Somehow, I pulled it through and made it through week 1. I am now in the middle of week 2 and it is not any easier.

I still have not lost any weight on the scale and I'm a little concerned about this. So, this week I'm trying something different with my diet. I'm either not eating enough calories so my body is in shutdown mode and not releasing fat or I'm eating too many calories. This week I started eating very low carb (like 20-30 a day, not counting recovery drink). I'm gonna try it for a week and see what difference it makes if any. If it does, then I'll modify my diet to match this. If not, then I need to eat more and can definitely do that! If I make it through this week unscathed, I will let you know how things turn out.

On a completely unrelated but more important event, my daughter Addi won a beauty pageant a few weeks ago. This was the first time she has ever even entered a pageant and she won her age group! She was so proud, as was I! This past weekend, she entered the Miss Magnolia pageant in Gardendale and got 1st runner up in her age group. She was so beautiful! As long as she has a good time, I don't mind her entering them, but as soon as she doesn't want to, we are done!