Day 5 of the 30 day shred (level 1) : Excercise Good; Diet BAD

It took a while for me to get to day 5's workout. I did it at about 1:45 this afternoon. You see, I'm the type of person that easily gets distracted when I work out. I don't like to talk, and I easily get embarrassed when someone is around. I tend to workout in my older son's room (BACKGROUND: My husband and I along with our two son's live under the same roof with my in-laws, my sister in law and brother in law). I don't like when my two kiddos are in the room asking me a million questions because I easily get distracted. Today was sort of the same situation. Father in law was home. I didn't want him wondering why the heck I was jumping up and down a million times upstairs. So, I waited til he was eating lunch before I proceeded with my quick 20ish minute routine of jumping around.

Definitely a better workout. I think I can go a smidge deeper into the push-ups (still modified), and I can actually keep up with everything. I think I took maybe 2 or 3 mini 5 second-ish breathers. I struggle to get through the cardio portion of jumping jacks/jump rope, butt kicks. They really do kick my butt. After that portion when we go into front lunge w/bicep curl...I don't know what's going on, but my feet are killing me! I think it's because it doesn't really have the time to rest between all the jumping around.

I decided not to weigh myself today. Mostly because I ran out of time after my workout (barely had enough time to shower down before picking up DS from school), and also I decided it would be a better test to see what would happen after 10 days. Not to mention I was scared that I would be discouraged if I didn't see any weight loss. For the most part while reading several blogs about The Shred, people don't loose so much in weight, but they do lose in inches. So, I didn't want to get discouraged and feel like nothing was happening.

As far as eating goes today. I failed horribly. I didn't update my Tweet What You Eat at all today. I'm fairly certain I didn't get enough water. I ate 1 piece of Helen Grace mint chocolate, Quizno's tuna melt (which I only know now is a melt after looking at it online to see the calorie content)...that was 530 calories. I also made the kids macaroni and cheese for dinner. The sauce I made consisted of tons of calories I'm sure. It was made of milk, heavy cream, cream cheese, American cheese and Parmesan cheese. Not to mention the pasta. Who knows as that could have been close to 500-(gulp) 1,000 calories. FAILED horribly at today's diet.

Tomorrow is scary as well. It's my son's first communion. We're having lunch at the house and we ordered Thai food. *sigh* I'm also trying to figure out if I'm realistically going to wake up at 6 in the morning to work out. That would be the only time I could incorporate it into tomorrow's schedule and I really don't want to miss a day. I need to focus and get back on track. We shall see what tomorrow will be like for the shred and the diet.