P90X Week 8

RECOVERY WEEK! WOO! Yoga, Kenpo, Stretch X, and Core Synergistics are all on the menu for this week. I hope I do better at Core Syn this time around than last time... Week 4 was pretty brutal.

Since Chris' parents were out of town and no one came over for dinner, I didn't have any cheat days this past week. I think it really shows. I also didn't feel like I NEEDED a cheat day. The past few days I've been having a serving of pasta, but I still stay around 100g of carbs a day. I don't feel the compulsion to OMG MUST EAT CARBS RAWR anymore. I don't think I have for awhile... unless it comes down to bread. And I mean really good bread. Italian bread or homemade bread, I just can't win. I have to have a piece. Maybe two. And sometimes three, even though I KNOW that a) I don't need it, and b) it's really not that good for me. But... we can't win all the battles in our life and we have to chose which ones to lose. This one? I'm perfectly okay with losing, as long as it doesn't turn into a binge.

I still haven't seen a change in my hip measurement, which at this point is pretty disheartening. I can feel that my clothes hang differently... Clothes that one never needed a belt now do, and those that were too tight fit much better. In comparison to when I started, my waist is much more defined. But I still have this layer of fat between my stomach and  my hips that is refusing to leave. I'm short and stocky -- my waist is literally 5 inches from my underbust... and my hips are about 4.5 inches from my waist. So you don't really get any sense of my body being more defined than it was before... my boobs end at my waist (Yay DD/DDD), so it still just looks like one amorphous blob. I really need the fat at my hips to get a move on and go away.

A little over halfway done, and I've lost 8 pounds, 2.5% body fat, and 8.75 inches total... I hope the second half gives just as great results.

Week 8, Day 1 Measurements

Measurement	This Week	Last Week	Change	This Week	Beginning	Change
Weight	148.8	150.8	-2.0	148.8	156.8	-8.0
Body Fat %	36.5	36.3	0.2	36.5	39	-2.5
Underbust	35	35.25	-0.25	35	36	-1.0
Waist	35	36	-1	35	40	-5.0
Hips	39	39	0	39	39	0
Thighs	20.5	21	-0.5	20.5	22.25	-1.75
Biceps	10.5	11	-0.5	10.5	11.5	-1.0