Don't forget to eat...

Yesterday I accidentally ate 5 doughnut holes. I feel like Tony Horton is very disappointed in me. I can just feel him giving me that look that your parents always give you after you bring home a not so decent grade in high school. Or for me it was when I was accused of plagiarizing in my US history class in 10th grade (I didn't plagiarize by the way). However, I think I may have redeemed myself by the excellent dinner I created on my own. I felt like a chef because I didn't use a recipe. Well ok, I glanced at a recipe to see if my ingredients were in the right ballpark, but that's it! I made pasta with tuna and broccoli with a parmesan cheese and milk sauce. So delicious.

Today is day 3 and I have just woken up. My body hurts, but it's a good hurt. I've got arms and shoulders today plus the anxiously awaited Ab Ripper X! Seeing as my abs/core are already just about as sore as I think they've ever been, I'm going to post a warning: Don't make me laugh. It hurts too bad. If you do, I will make you pay in 88 days.

My core feels synergized

DAY 1

I went to the grocery store this morning to stock up on all the healthy foods recommended by the nutritional guide. Who knew that eating healthy was so darn expensive?? I dropped about $115 on groceries and sadly that will probably only last me about a week. However, I am very excited about what I did get. Salmon, tuna, pork, fresh veggies, whole wheat pitas, hummus, fruit, and much more. Maureen and I did the first work out which was Core Synergistics. It synergistically kicked my butt. In a good way. I am already sore. We don't have weights yet so we had to make due with items around the apartment: 64 ounces of Gatorade, a full water bottle, peanut butter, and two cans scotch taped together. As you can see from the picture the Gatorade was much bigger than our other "weights" so we had to rotate that one around. Post work out I had some hummus for lunch. It was very tasty but I was afraid to read what the ingredients were. For some reason I confuse hummus with that thing that means sheep's stomach. Haggis. Similar right? Turns out hummus is mashed chickpeas plus some other stuff. I can handle chickpeas, I don't think I could handle sheep stomach.

Before I begin...

Alright I'm about to accomplish 2 life goals here:

1. To be in the best possible physical condition

2. To blog

The goal is to use this blog to keep track of my progress along the way, but I will admit that part of the reason I agreed to do P90X with my 2 roommates and friend was because it would give me an excuse to start a blog. But that's enough about the blog.

The official starting date is going to be this Monday (March 29) which would make the ending date somewhere around June 30th. Just in time for my trip to Hong Kong. Before Monday I need to get some weights and resistance bands, as well as make my way to Publix to weigh myself so I can keep track of whether or not I'm loosing any weight. To be clear, my goal is not to lose weight, but simply to be in better shape. I also have a lot of reading material and nutritional guides to go over. Honestly, I am anticipating the most difficult part to be eating right... I struggle in this area.

So keep checking in, I'll try to make this as entertaining as possible.