New Weights & Measurements

By far INSANITY has been the best program for us. WE absolutely love, love, love, this fitness routine!

In just two months we have seem some phenomenal results. Overall, Sherri has lost 8lbs and dropped 2% in body fat; while Steve has lost 3lbs and dropped another percentage in body fat.

Since starting our fitness and health journey Steve's overall body fat has dropped from 23.2% to 19.8%. He has lost 11" all around and has dropped 15lbs. Steve is super stoked and is amazed at all the changes his body has made over the last year (11/27/2011).

Sherri started her journey 15 months ago (8/1/2011) and has had similar results. Sherri's body fat has dropped from 27.0% to 22.7%. She has lost 16" all around and has dropped 16lbs. Sherri is delighted with the transformation she sees going on in her body and loves how she looks. For the first time in her life, she actually feels happy about the body she's living in.

INSANITY Completed

It is hard to believe but we have completed INSANITY and loved every minute of it. Our last day was Saturday, November 25th, but we chose not to blog about it until after the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale had ended.

It was a good thing we waited as we had a bit of a set back over Thanksgiving. It appears that even though we were choosy about what we ate, and controlled our portion sizes, we still managed to gain a couple of pounds. We also felt bloated and a bit uncomfortable in our skin, so we decided to do a 3-day Shakeology cleanse prior to doing our final weight in, measurements and FIT Test.

This cleanse has helped us lose the pounds we put on over the short holiday (we can't even imagine what will happen to us during Christmas). So come tomorrow we will be shooting our after photos, completing our final FIT Test, weighting in and taking our final measurements. We hope to have the results posted in the next day or two.

Now, if we could just decided on which program to do next. Decisions, decisions...

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!