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Weight Loss Tuesday: A Little Better (and the scale winner)

Jan 26, 2010 Product Giveaway, Weight Loss

So I listed two goals in last week’s Weight Loss Tuesday post: drink more water, and do my Your Shape exercises three times in the second week of the Your Shape challenge.  How did I do?  Well, I did better than the first week, when I only exercised once.  Last week I exercised twice.  I’m really shooting for three this coming week.  And since the special challenge for the participants this week is to add time to our workouts, I’m not only going to try to do three workouts, but three 30 minute workouts.

As for water, after drinking practically no water, at all, for a very long time, I had two days where I drank 64 ounces and one day where I drank 32 ounces.  OK, it wasn’t water.  It was watered-down Crystal Light (Fruit Punch flavor, if you’re interested – it’s the only one I like).  But I hate water.  Hate.  And don’t try to tell me I would like it with a twist of lemon or a splash of juice.  I would not.  But I drank the watery Crystal Light and will continue to do so until I find a nutritionist who tells me that fizzy drinks filled with caffeine count as water.

So, improvement.  I’m not going to beat myself up about not meeting last week’s goals, I’m just going to be happy that I did a little better.

My two-week weight loss is very encouraging.  As of this morning I’ve lost seven pounds!  Yay me!  Yes, I know the first couple of weeks you always lose a lot, but still, it’s a nice way to start.

And as for my two Your Shape workouts?  Yelling at Jenny McCarthy is fun.  And helps keep me motivated.  I’m experimenting with the sound features on the game.  I don’t want to hear Jenny correct my form every five seconds, but I do want to hear the other things she says – when she names an exercise, for example, or says we’re almost done.  But while there’s a volume control specific to her voice, there’s no way to turn off the critiques but keep the other chatter.  So I’ve just turned her down most of the way.  And that’s my big suggestion for Ubisoft if they do another version of the game: let players choose which parts of Jenny they want to hear.

Everything else with the game is going really well.  Granted I’ve only done three workouts so far, but they’ve all been interesting.  Yesterday I had done a core strengthening workout and woke up with sore abs, so today I added my 3lb hand weights and did an upper body strength workout.  I like that I don’t know which exercise is going to come next.  With DVDs I always knew what was coming and got  bored easily.  Jenny keeps me on my toes.

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I just picked a winner for the EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale, and it’s Lydia!  Thanks so much for entering, and thank you to EatSmart for providing the great prize!

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Tags: EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale, Jenny McCarthy, Your Shape