Physique 57 8-Week Challenge: Week 4 Check-In

Hi lovelies!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I’ve officially finished the first half of my Physique 57 8-week challenge so it’s time for another check-in (you can check out my two week check in post here)!

So the first two weeks went really well, which means it was time for life to throw me a few curve balls.  First I really hurt my wrist/hand the day after writing my two week check-in and was unable to bare weight for the rest of the week.  Then that Thursday I started to feel a cold coming on, and I’ve been wandering around hacking with a chest cold ever since.  Week 3 was mostly a write-off, I got a few of my workouts in, but over all I was only able to teach my regular classes and spent the rest of the time icing my hand or curled up on the couch coughing.

Last week, even though I still had my cold I got back at it.  Even though I still have my chest cold, I find the strength workouts aren’t too bad, I just have been replacing the cardio workouts on the schedule until my lungs are feeling better.  Last week I wondered if I should even write a 4-week check-in post.  I felt like I had missed so many workouts in week 3 and felt pretty guilty about it, even though I had a good reason to miss them. But then I decided my blog is about real life, and this is real life.  Sometimes despite our best intentions things just come up, and things don’t go perfectly.  And that couldn’t have been more true in the past 4 days. In the past 4 days two very unexpected things occurred that broke my focus and I missed another workout.  But again, that’s life, and I am really hoping that the nest two weeks will prove to be nothing but good stuff after two weeks of pretty negative stuff!

I also wondered if I should even bother getting weighed or taking my measurements, but I decided I would.  I missed I think 4 workouts total in the past 2 weeks, but am still pretty impressed with my numbers when I took them this morning.

After 14 days:

Pounds lost=1

Inches lost=4 1/2 (1 off each thigh, 1/2 off my hips, 1 off my lower abdomen {around my belly button}, and 1 off my natural waist.

After 28 days:

Pounds lost: 2

Inches lost: 7 1/2 (1 off each thigh, 1/2 off my hips, 3 off my lower abdomen {around my belly button}, 2 off my natural waist.

It’s so annoying that I always lose weight off my waist first (when it is already really tiny) and my hips stay pretty much the same even though that is where I hold my weight.  Hopefully when I recheck my measurements in another two weeks I’ll be able to report more of a loss there!