New Elliptical!

I finally got my new eliptical! It's fantastic. It was originally $1000, but it was half off and we got an additional $10 off because we bought the floor model. And then the price came down a little more because my mom is a master at bargaining. Needless to say, we got this elliptical for a crazy price. I used it today for 45 minutes and I love it. I was going to use it yesterday but carrying the thing up 4 flights of stairs to my room was workout enough and my arms are so sore today. But I used it and I love it and I'm so happy I got it back.

Amanda was telling me yesterday how she bought the 30 day shred by Jillian Michaels. It's not the first time I've heard about this DVD. She showed me some before and after pictures that people had posted and wow! The difference in just 30 days is amazing. So I went on amazon and ordered 3 Jillian Michaels DVDs - the 30 day shred, ripped in 30 and banish fat boost metabolism. The 30 day shred seems to be the easiest, and then the DVDs get subsequently harder. So I'm going to start with the 30 day shred for 30 days, and if I feel I'm ready then I'll start ripped in 30. If not I may just up the difficulty of the 30 day shred for another month. I likely won't get the DVDs in for a bit, depending on the Canada Post strike, so until then I'll use my elliptical. I've also made a bit of a workout schedule that I'm doing to try to follow:

Sunday: DVD + 20-30 minutes elliptical
Monday: DVD
Tuesday: DVD + 20-30 minutes elliptical
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: DVD + 20-30 minutes elliptical
Friday: DVD + 20-30 minutes elliptical (but only every other week)
Saturday: DVD + 20-30 minutes elliptical

I'll try to follow that as best I can. If I'm at my parents I'll replace the elliptical with a short run on the treadmill. I think it's a bit ambitious but I'm going to try because I'd really like to start seeing results. As for this month, I'd like to just see myself lose 3-4 more pounds and I'll be pleased.

I also started studying for my LSAT again today. I had taken a bit of a break. I think after this week I'll start on my personal statements as well. I really need to get cracking on those. This week is pretty busy again for me, otherwise I'd start this week. So for now all I'm doing is looking at the practice test I wrote, at the logical reasoning questions, and going over the types of questions I got wrong. If I can learn how to better attack those questions - well, that'll be the difference between getting a 167 and a 170. So I'm really going to try.

I've been eating pretty well. I don't have many veggies left in the house and I don't want to buy any because I'm going to my parents on Wednesday until Sunday (we have a wedding this weekend). So I'm going to survive the week on broccoli and tomatoes. I don't think that'll be too bad anyway. Then on Saturday at the wedding I'm going to probably pig out a little, haha, and drink. But I'll make smart choices during dinner anyway and I'll try not to completely binge. I don't want to drink very much anyway just because the last few times I've drank more than 2-3 drinks, I've felt awful. And the same thing happens when I eat unhealthy food. I guess that's what happens when your body is no longer used to having those things in your body. It also makes me know that my body is getting healthier and I don't want to do anything to screw that up.

I'm still having foot problems. Ten minutes into my workout today my foot was in a lot of pain. So I took my runners off and put my airwalks on. I know I shouldn't workout with airwalks, but my foot doesn't hurt when I use them. That's why I'm being led to believe it is a shoe problem. I've tried to keep my shoes looser but I'm not sure how else to prevent it. Unless it's something that'll go away as I lose more weight. I guess I'll find out.

I think that's it for now!

-Monica