Day Eighteen: Goals in sight.

I weighed in today and I'm now down eight pounds from where I started! I'm so happy with that. Even more so considering that I didn't really start calorie counting till this last week. I mean, I wasn't eating a ton different before that, but I was just going by the "It's all healthy stuff, so why bother counting the calories" method. Eating a basically vegan diet, without even the benefit of legumes, gluten, or grains, is naturally low in calorie for me BUT the loss really started happening when I started counting and added the yoga back in. Since then, I've been losing right around a pound every couple of days and I feel awesome!

The workouts are still HARD though! I feel like I'm sweating even more by the end of Level Two than I was when I first started it! The combined pendulum lunges and hammer curls (?) are continuing to mess with my left knee though. I can do it fine on one side but not the other. Again, my left side is weaker. So I've basically booted those and opt to do cardio while they're finishing the side I can't do on the video instead. I'm just not willing to risk injury at all there.

I'm glad we're heading down to Giant's folks this weekend, but I'm SO BUMMED this means I'm not going to finish Level Two on Saturday but now on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to moving onto the final level.

There was a bunch of positive talk on one of my Facebook groups today about kettlebells. Anyone out there have any experience with them? I had pretty much decided to go onto Ripped in 30 after this, but now I'm thinking about working with kettlebells instead. Some of the calorie burning people were throwing out there sounded pretty amazing! Coupling that with how strong people felt core wise, it's pretty tempting. Guess I've got some Googling to do!