A Smidjin at a time

I love a good before and after. Don't you? You know like in Biggest Loser when they show contestant the day they started at the ranch (where biggest loser is set) and then change to a now picture, after they have lost tons of weight. And they are awesome. Usually very motivating, at least for me. But then that's it. You never see them again after the finale, unless they are the winner and even then not so much. But that's not the end. There is so much more to the journey than that one weigh-in. It is every day continually making the healthy choices, when no one is watching and you are the only one looking at the scale, the only one counting the reps. Which is why I am recommitted to counting the reps and watching the scale go down.

So there I am in my weekly R.I.P.P.E.D class, and well something clicked tonight. I was able to push a little harder than I did last week. I'm not sure if it was the pizza I had at lunch that I felt I needed to redeem, or if it was all the sideways glances in the full length mirrors at class on Saturday, or the fact that I gained at last weeks weigh-in instead of loose, but I did more. I used the 8 lbs weights when Saturday I only used 5. I even managed to do the push-up section in the Power set. Granted I didn't do all the push-ups and mountain-climbers and kick-throughs...but I did more than last time, as in I actually did kick-throughs this week. But I also had to cut back and use the 3 lb weights for like the first time since I started ages ago. One of my shoulders didn't like the shoulder portion of the Resistance set on Saturday, so instead of pushing it to hard to the point of injury I backed off so I could still complete the movement and hopefully work on strength