The 30 day Shred!

I know that when you read "Shred", your thinking documents, and maybe even thought, "She has that much documentation to shred that it will take 30 days?" However that is not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to my new exercise video that I started this morning. It is 30 day Shred by Jillian Michaels. She apparently appears on The Biggest Loser TV show, however I'm never seen it. I was reading a blog here recently and they referred to the exercise video. What attracted me to it was this person writing the blog is similar to me and therefore I thought (my first mistake) that if she could do I could too. Now my other thoughts were as follows: I'm 40 years old now and I really need to exercise for good health and long life (hopefully), my biggest hang up about exercising is I don't have an hour to go to the gym (hence 20 min. workout video at home), and I really need my kids to see me be motivated about exercising because they are not into it at all, and last and least on the list is IT'S BATHING SUIT SEASON SOON! (Yes, I know that is a vanity statement, but I can't lie.)

So I started this morning promptly after I woke the kids up. I set up my laptop in my room in order to not embarrass myself in front of the kids and because they were eating breakfast (I needed it to stay down you know and if they were laughing too hard at it me, it would be hard for that to happen.). So even though I had it in my room, one by one, the kids poked their heads in to see what in the world was all the noise about!? A look of bewilderment was across each of their faces and one even giggled as they stepped out. Now one of the things the blog that encouraged me to do this video and caused me to take notice is that her teenage son said to her, "Hey mom you actually have abs!" Wow, what an amazing thing for someone to say because I've had three children (stretched all those muscles way out of whack), and I've had three c-sections that cut all those muscles and stitched back together and I'm fairly sure the muscles just laughed at each other each time and decided to go back together but never work again. I've also had a cut-open-wide and pull everything out hysterectomy and then stitched back together and I know for a fact then the muscles rebelled and yelled, "Are you kidding???" and laughed hysterically. After all that my stomach has been less than ideal (that is a nice way of putting it, other than as the Jello song goes, "Watch it wiggle, see it jiggle!"

Well after the first 2 minutes, I thought, no sweat I can do this (of course this is just the warm up), but then I started into the first 6 minute training (there are 3 of these, 3 min strength training, 2 minute cardio, and 1 min abs) and my knees and my legs, as each jumping jack was accomplished, hollered very loudly, "What in the world do you think you are doing???" They continued to do that, along with every other part of my body for the entire 18 more minutes and that included the cool down. Afterwards my whole body is shaking, I'm actually sweating, and I'm struggling to put one foot in front of the other.

After several hours have gone by, I still have shaking parts and add that to the hurting parts. As I get up from this long post, I'm sure to have a long sigh and a loud, "OHHHHHH, That Hurts!" My kids are still looking at me in bewilderment and my husband actually asked me, "Did you enjoy it?" I laughed, and looked at him. I'm still laughing because I'm been married to him 15 years and I've NEVER enjoyed exercise.

However for my children, my bathing suit, and my hubby, I will continue to Shred my body for the next 29 more days! Then hopefully I can continue a exercise regiment for the rest of my life (still laughing here!) I will post more as my body either starts to recover this ridiculous brainstorm I've begun or I will after I get out of the hospital!!!!