Ok, so I’ve taken a break from losing weight. Yeah, right — totally and completely fell off the wagon — stopped watching what I ate, stopped exercising, stopped everything, and gained my weight back. But that’s gonna change.

My husband and I ordered the P90X system (got it off of eBay). We did the preliminary stuff yesterday (weighed, measured, did the “pre-fit” test which we both barely passed, etc.). The “pre-fit test” didn’t seem to be that difficult, on paper anyway, but I gotta tell you, I was sore from that! And I was afraid that today was gonna be even worse.

There are 3 different ways you can do the P90X program — original, doubles, and lean. I’m doing the third, because I want to lose the chub, and don’t really care about bulking up and getting my muscles big. I bet that a lot of women go this way! My husband is probably going to do the original series, which has a lot of workouts of the different major muscle groups.

The first workout was “core synergistics” and it was pretty cool. I wasn’t able to do everything (a couple of the moves were rather tricky, and I’m just not able to do push-ups that well, but I bet that I did about half of what the people on the video did, which is better than what I had expected. I’m a little worried that my form wasn’t what it should have been, but I did my best. Right now, I’m tired, but I still feel more sore from what I did yesterday than from what I did about an hour ago.

The pre-fit test I did yesterday included 2 minutes of jumping jacks; and a move where it looks like you’re sitting in a chair against the wall, except there isn’t a chair — you just have to sit there as long as you can; and also an attempt [pathetic, feeble attempt] on my part to do a chin-up or a pull-up. I could feel my muscles trying to work, but my husband said I didn’t move at all. But my muscles are *sore* from trying.

Anyway, it’s a cool workout, and I worked up a sweat and could feel the burn; but it wasn’t so difficult that I felt like I just had to give up and do nothing. Seeing the video people’s perfect form gives me something to shoot for… not to mention their ability to hold certain yoga positions when I can barely get into them.