New Year New Me?

2011 is here.  The holidays are over.  THANK GOD!  Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with friends and family, but the holidays have DESTROYED any progress I made in losing weight.  So it's time to refocus, get back on track with the zone diet.  I lost 6 1/2 pounds in 2/12 weeks when I was focused, so I know I'll see results quickly.  The challenge for me is staying on track.  I tend to celebrate my weight loss by cheating on my diet, a lot!  Oops!  I'm not going to make any unrealistic goals and say I won't have ups and downs with my diet, but I am going to make a short term goal to get back on track ASAP! 

This last week at the gym was hero week, meaning every WOD was dedicated to a hero who lost his life serving our country.  These workouts will kick your ass, they are tough and a reminder of the struggles and hardships endured by the people that serve our country every day.  My big achievement this last week is that I did the prescribed weight on all 4 workouts I did!  I am so excited about that because these workouts were tough!  Thursday's workout was 5 rounds 15 deadlifts (155 lbs), 20 box jumps and 25 pullups.  I ended up ripping both of my hands during that workout, but finished!  Friday was the mental challenge, the day I pushed through a mental barrier I didn't even realize I had!  The workout on Friday was Murph, run 1 mile then do 100 pullups, 200 pushups and 300 squats.  You could break up the reps any way you wanted to, but once they were complete you had to finish with another mile. 

This is who the MURPH workout is named after

The workout itself was tough, but the hardest part for me was the pullups because my hands hurt so freaking bad.  I got to 35 pullups and could feel the tears behind my eyes, I wanted to quit in the worst way.  I kept saying, I'm too much of a sis, I can't do this, there is no way I'm going to be able to get to 100.  And then everyone started finishing up and heading out for their last mile run. 

Here is where the breakthrough came, I was given an opportunity to quit, to do dips instead of pullups, to not do any more pullups.  In my head I screamed no!!  Out loud I snapped back, I'm going to do this!  I got strong and started back at the pullups, this time not with fear of the pain, not with anger or anxiety building up in the form of tears but with sheer determination to finish.  I said to myself, I didn't get shot, I am alive, I am lucky and this pain isn't THAT bad.  I worked through my pullups as the last of the others came back from their last mile, they were DONE with the entire workout.  I don't like being last and normally this would have set off breakdown number 2, but I wasn't doing this workout to be first.  I was doing it for me, to prove to myself that I am stronger than I give myself credit for.  I was doing it for me to push myself beyond my comfort zone.  I was doing it for everyone who has given their lives so that I can go to the gym and do stupid pullups!  It felt so great to get that last pullup and head out to run my last mile.  I finished with the slowest time of the day, but I finished and I did it all on my own! 

To top things off, I finished the 100 mile challenge and 50,000 meter row!!

In all honesty 2011 won't bring a new me, but I don't want a new me anyways.  I don't know if I'm going to make a new years resolutions.  No one ever sticks to them, they are way to vague with endless timelines.  The only one I might make is to bowl a 300 in Wii bowling!!! 

Happy New Years everyone!  I hope everyone has a great, healthy 2011!!  Back to the zone diet I go....tomorrow!