Day 2

Weight:  274.6
Workout Length:  19 minutes
Calories Burned: 141
Total Calories Burned:  223

After getting started yesterday and completing my first workout I went online to checkout the website for EA Sports Active 2 and the different Community things they had and discovered there is a Jump Start Cardio Kick Start Program to get your heart and body in gear.  I was relieved at this discovery and revised my workout program today by going back and "quitting" the original 9 week program I'd started and going into the 21 day Cardio Jump Start program.  I was able to FINISH the workout session today without the struggle I had yesterday and I feel better about my progress.  Also if you notice up there I weighed in 1.4 lbs less than yesterday.  It might not seem like a lot to many and it may be just weight fluctuating from day to day but to me that is a start and that 1.4lbs means a lot, I'm looking forward to turning it into 10, 20, and 100lbs in the coming months.  In other news I'm excited because I told my friend Barb about this and I think she may be getting it so I'm looking forward to having a real person to talk to about it!

Here we go!

I haven't updated in... well... forever.  I guess it's just because I don't really do a whole lot day to day other than play with my mini love and do school work with TV and gaming mixed in.  For awhile now I've been saying I was going to attend Zumba regularly but haven't and that's mostly because the times don't work out very well for me to attend the one at the church I attend.   I had purchased the Kinetic for Xbox 360 for Tj as a Christmas gift and we haven't used it very much but I've been wanting to buy the EA Sports Active 2 workout program made for it and today I did.  This blog is going to be my ramblings about my experiences and progress toward my goal.  I'm going to stop being secretive about my weight which comes from my love of food.  I've decide that being brutally honest with myelf (and now whoever actually reads this blog) is going to be the best way for me to get where I want to be.  We bought the game and bought a scale so here we go...


Starting weight:  276
First Workout Length:  14 minutes
Calories Burned:  82

Journal:
I was excited about buying this workout system and ready to come home and get started, thankfully Jeremiah was sleepy and went for a nap so I was able to set up my Xbox character profile thing and then get into the EA Active 2 workout program.  I set up my profile on the system and selected the 9 week workout program.  The initial ambition quickly dissolved as I started running the track and doing squats and making my way through the workout.  It is no secret I'm a bigger girl to those who knew me but I didn't expect it to be this hard.  I'm not going to give up though, I will do my workouts to the best I can and in time I will get rid of 77 lbs and be at my goal of under 200 lbs.  It's not going to be easy and it will take a lot of endurance and discipline but I can do this.

To my friends who have been wanting to meet weight goals I do recommend this and I would be happy to have workout buddies since there are options on the web site to have workout groups.  Let me know if you are interested and I'll figure out how to set up the workout group and together we'll get where we want to be.