I never imagined what kind of wrenches would be thrown into this workout plan, and I can for sure tell you I never thought I'd have gotten thrown off because of a hurricane. Traveling home to my parent's house because of Hurricane Sandy really threw me off my game. The last night at home (Thursday) I missed my workout because I was packing and trying to make sure I didn't forget anything. THe day I drove we didn't get to my parents until 1am the next morning and then Saturday and Sunday I was just lacking the space to do a workout. Finally last night, things settled down that I could make space to work out and I'm glad I finally got back to it. I've been stressed and anxious, and focusing on a workout instead of the million other things I need to do was really what I needed to get my head back in the game. I have been stress eating which consisted of more bowls of cereal than I care to count and handfuls of M&Ms. I can say that I gave up soda for at least the duration of P90X and other than Friday, I've stuck to that. I opted for it Friday to give me caffeine while driving and I'm not a coffee drinker and tea was out because of it's diuretic properties (I didn't want to have to stop and unload kids just because I had to pee). It's one thing to not drink soda at home because I have stopped buying it. Apparently when I left my parent's house back in April, I also left one bottle of IBC rootbeer and a bottle of Ale8 in the back of their refrigerator. Those are two of my favorites and they've stared me in the face every time I open the refrigerator door. But I've successfully said no, and will likely continue to say no now that all of you are reading this and know my struggle.
What could have happened with this huge wrench thrown in my plans, is I could have just quit. It would have been so easy for me to decide that now was not the time to try and complete P90X because I'm going to be at my parent's house for a month and the space is smaller and there may be some things I'm limited in doing. I could have said that I'm too stressed to work out when my parents get home because of tryign to keep my kids from destroying their house while they're gone. I could have said that since I was so far behind it was best to just wait until I got back in my own house to start over.
I didn't do that. In my head I've committed to finishing this program by January 2nd. This was my recovery week so I've modified the last few days and tomorrow I will start Day 1 of Phase 2. This also means that hopefully tomorrow or at least by this weekend I will have my phase one results of weight and inches to post for you guys to see. I planned on posting my reps and things so you can see how I'm improving with my repetitions and amount of weight used but those unfortunately were forgotten at home :/ I will make an effort to post them after phase 2 or all of them at the end of the program.
I wont' lie, last night's Cardio X was more difficult on me because it had been a couple days and my body is still exhausted from lack of sleep, but I felt SO MUCH better in general after pushing myself through it.
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