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Going to try to not eat anything between now and my birthday on the twenty-seventh. We’ll see how that goes.

I just realized a couple hours ago I originally planned to be one forty by my birthday and yeah…

I’ve been cruising in the one sixty, one seventy range for the past eight months or so. Time to crack down and have shit get real.

Went for my first official jog/run.

Left about six am got back at seven thirtyish.

I’ll admit. A lot of it was walked and I took a couple of sit down breaks when I saw places I could sit. I jogged and/or ran a decent amount though, and I feel amazing after it all. I want to go back out now, but I had to get back before my mother woke up and realized I’d gone. ((I’m seventeen, eighteen in fifteen days, yet she still thinks I am and treats me like a child.))

I took a couple different routes. I basically used my house as a base point and took off in three different directions over the course of time. I found I liked the one where I was running on main street where there are some cars and so forth, even this early on a Saturday was the most motivating. I did do a sort of interval training ((Walked verses and then ran choruses and as long into the next verse as I could while listening to music…..hey….it worked for me.)), but everytime I saw a car coming I would start up again so I didn’t look lazy or lost. I think I’m going to go run towards downtownish maybe tomorrow ((Yes, I plan on going again tomorrow. It felt so great and it gave me time to think and all that.)). I’m not sure yet.

Okay. Enough babble.

Insanity: Day 2.

I did the bigger bulk of today alone. I had a couple friends looking on and trying to tell me how to do things and that it looked easy and I looked stupid, but neither of them really wanted to join in. My sister did the warm up, stretching, and maybe five or so minutes of the initial exercise with me, but then she quit and decided she would rather run around with her friends instead. I got my younger brother to do part of a set of the basketball drills with me, but he quit pretty early and switched over to making fun of me pretty damn soon and he’s a like in shape little athlete and plays three sports even though he’s only thirteen. He got tired out quick.

The warm up was intense!!!! Maybe I’m just out of shape, but I wanted to stop after just that. I didn’t do much of the stretching successfully, but I did some. The real workout really killed me. I’m sure I didn’t push as much as I could through the whole thing, but it was all incredibly hard. I puked a little bit in my mouth after pushing myself hard. Then I tried to tone it down a little bit. Honestly, I just did what I could. I cannot do one, real push up to save my life, so I did girl push ups instead. I kept falling over and screaming, and I think I even broke out in tears once. More than once, more like twenty or thirty times, I found myself lying on the floor too exhausted to move.

I had a banana right afterwards then jumped right in the shower after eating it. Horrible nosebleed, which apparently can be a side effect of strenuous exercise, so I guess I pushed myself hard enough overall even though I was thinking I wasn’t doing well enough during the actual work out. I’m still I little dizzy when I stand, and I think I’m going to go grab another banana now, because they seem to help stabilize me a little bit.

Insanity is fucking hell!!!!!

((On a side note, I’m trying to eat healthy, but I’m trying to keep my calories in the 1,200 range instead of the 2,222 advised for someone my weight, height, and age while doing this program. I’m not doing too well, but cutting out all those calories…is it bad?))

Insanity: Day 1.

Kicked my ass. I’m kind of exhausted, but no worse than usual.The workout ((wasn’t even really a workout…the fitness test)) was more difficult than I imagined it would be. I almost puked a few times, and then I literally had to crawl up the stairs to get into bed. Everytime I stood up for a good hour there I felt dizzy and like I was going to puke again.

It felt good though too after I showered ((my sister who’s doing the workout with me showered first)). It was that feeling you get when you chew mint gum then drink ice water, but all over my entire body for awhile.

I’m not too sore, so maybe I didn’t push myself hard enough or something? I’m a little sore on my back where my hips are and a little bit on my right arm at the moment and that’s about it. I’ll try to push myself even harder tomorrow to try to get more soreness and lasting burn.

My only concern is the food. According to the nutrition guide and all, I need 2,222 calories a day. That’s a bit extreme in my opinion. I think I’m going to cut that back A LOT….or at least cut out the two snacks. That’s 888 calories less for me and seems more sensible.

Fasting=Fail.

My sister, cousin, and I are starting Insanity tomorrow, and I need to eat to make sure I don’t pass out mid workout.

The results I’ve seen from this are ‘insane’…no pun intended….so let’s see if it works for me. :o