The twelve days of Thanksgiving - Boot Camp Style

Last Friday morning my Boot Camp instructor announced that we were going to go through the twelve days of Thanksgiving that morning.

1 - minute of jump rope
2 - laps around the track
3 - push ups
4 - stand up/lay downs (basically, hold a dumbbell over your head while standing and then lay all the way down and then get back up; that's one.)
5 - squat/jumps (squat down and then jump up with your hands in the air)
6 - triceps push ups on each side (lay on your side with the hand of your top arm on the ground, your other arm wrapped around you, like a hug, and then push up the top part of your body)
7 - leg lifts on each side (lay on your side and lift both legs up in the air)
8 - ab crunches (lay on your back with a dumb bell in your hands and then sit up with the dumb bell up in the air as one)
9 - side skates (jump sideways and touch the ground, then sideways jump to the other side and touch the ground)
10 - plateau on the ground then lift each foot/leg up
11 - jumping jacks
12 - squat thrusts (stand up, put your hands down on the ground by your feet then jump your feet back so your in a push up position, then jump your feet back up to your hands and then stand up and that's one)

So here's how it works. You start with one. Then you add two. Then you start over with one, two, and add three. Each time you start over at the beginning and then add another one.

And yes, I'm still very sore!

Dress and Diet Adventures

I've already posted on my other blog about shopping for wedding dresses this week with my mom, but I wanted to make sure you all knew to go there and check it out!
I wish we had more time to look at dresses, because it was just so fun, but I did try on a lot of them and since I'm waiting to get one until I'm a little smaller, it would seem smart to do another wedding dress party in a couple of months or so.
I'm up to 52.8 pounds lost now, and I'm feeling great! But I've got more to go.
I've also been getting up at 5 a.m. to do the YMCA workouts in the morning before I go to work, so I get them out of the way. It's pretty addicting, once you start and are in the habit of going, especially when you see the results! Friday mornings is where they have Boot Camp at the Y and it's so hard core, and I'm ALWAYS sore after that class, but I know it works so good, that it's hard NOT to go to it!
Either way, I am very thankful that I've got the motivation to lose weight and continue to have that motivation! And I'm also glad I waited to try on dresses until now, because as sad as it is, I just don't think I would have fit into any of the dresses I tried on this week, but maybe one!

Keep checking my other blog for other wedding dress updates though!