Sunday, April 29, 2012

Should We Be Discouraged? Maybe, Maybe Not

Discouraged or encouraged, which way should we feel? Steve and Sherri took their weight and measurements on the 28th day of their P90X journey and found the results to be puzzling, at first.

Both Sherri and Steve gained weight, but the gain was less than a half a pound. Sherri's body fat went down and Steve's went up, but again not by any real significant decrease or increase, respectively. Our more noticeable changes were in our measurements. Overall, Sherri lost 1.5 inches all around and Steve lost an inch, primarily in his waist.

So, should we be discouraged based on the numbers? Not really. You might be asking yourself, why? Well, for a few reasons. First of all, we never trust the scale completely. It is an estimating tool only. It does not reflect our overall fitness. Secondly, we are only 28 days into the program and we feel the best changes are yet to come. Phase I, in our opinion is the learning curve phase. You are introduced to a program you are not all that familiar with and it takes time to grow in strength and stability before you can actually start sweating like Tony and the "kids". Thirdly, we are still in the process of refining how, when and what we eat. This process takes a little more time as it is not easy to implement new eating habits. It is not that we eat bad now, but there are things we need to change, like cutting back on our cheese and eating roughly every 3 to 4 hours.

We are already excited about Phase II and hit the play button and began sweating as we worked our way their Cardio this morning. Tomorrow we learn a new routine, which will work on our chest, shoulders and triceps.

Let's keep pushing play!


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