I'm shredded...

Today's foods were just 1/2 of an iceberg wedge, and 1/2 of an order of steak tips, 3 sugarfree cookies, and then 3 pieces of pork ravioli at Fridays, plus the Jack Daniels flat iron (probably 6 oz, it was small) and mashed potatoes.

At Target, after hearing great things from Shannon about the Jillian Michaels workout DVDs she's tried, I bought this one

and it definitely does what I want it to. It's got 3 20 minute (actually 22 minute) workouts, starting with level 1 intensity, up to level 3. I'm not sure I could ever do level 3, because though I completed the level 1 one tonight, it KILLED me. But I like how she does it, its easy to follow.

Its 2 minutes of warmup (jumping jacks, windmills, etc), followed by three 6-minute sections consistening of 3 mins strength, 2 mins cardio, 1 minute abs, and at the end is a 2 minute cooldown.

So the level 1 you do start with 3 minutes alternating pushups and arm weight exercises, into 2 minutes of jumping jacks and jumprope, and into 1 minute of crunches. each 6 minute section changes up the different exercises.

I could DO them all, but there were a few where I'll admit, i skipped the last 2 reps because it was killing me.

I checked up the average calories burned doing level 1 through the sparkpeople team for this DVD, and the average is over 200 calories. I'm going to plug an estimate of 200 calories in for doing this. That's lower than most people (they seem to be between 215 and 260).

I think this DVD is supposed to be done every day for 30 days to gaurantee like, a 20 pound weight loss, but I think I'm going to aim for 2-3 times a week, mixed in with the Pilates DVD, and add my elliptical and other exercises. Oh, and Brad was nice enough to buy a DVD player for the livingroom TV (its one that converts to 1080 HDMI so it plays like HD) so I was able to do my workout in the livingroom, but now that I've seen it I could do it in the basement too :)

I followed up my DVD with 10 mins on my elliptical. What a good girl I am today!