Dreya and I totally wouldn't get along. And because of that I refuse to do the Dreya Roll.

Filling in today is Kiera from Imperfect Daisies, aka my P90x instigator and bloggy soulmate. We share a love for steak (although she likes hers less moo-ing), beer, pizza, sweets, Giada, chubby babies, GAP body, and celebrating our Irishness.  Living near my former drunkenland stomping grounds, she gets to have Tim Horton's on the regular while I only dream about my first Maple Log.  One of these days I will go back to Upstate NY and we will meet up, drink beer and coffee and binge eat before weighing ourselves and reasoning out our skinnies.  Until then we have to share our awesomes/funnies from 3,000ish miles away...

I'm quite convinced Tony Horton's little band of angels sent Hutch to me to ask me to hold down the fort today.  See, I'm one of those p90x'er's.  And Tony Horton is the god of p90x, just to clarify. 

! OK I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE P90X'ER'S.  I'm only 66.66666% of a p90xer and I'm so ashamed and I'm so p90x evil.  But I guess that's where awesome Hutch comes into play. 

We've basically decided that we're probably almost definitely internet soul mates and my husband and she get along just swell and we almost lived relatively close to each other at one point in our awesome lives.  And we're very alike.  But anyway.  I started doing p90x sans diet part of it.  Apparently my 30 day pictures (absolutely not will I link that up, you'll have to find them yourselves) inspired Hutch to start this series of workouts.  (Mistake me if I'm wrong, Hutch.  I want your comments in red.)  Done! When I wrote my 60 day pictures post I basically said something along the lines of 'woe is me I don't WANT to do 30 more days' and Hutch said:

Hutch said...

You've already done 60 so the hardest part is over! You can definitely do 30 more! And the measurements are amazing. If you quit I won't post my 30 day pics, how's that? :)

Well I totally did not hold up my end of the deal.  And neither did she, come to think of it.  And this is why Tony told Hutch to tell me to do a guest post because I did not have the lion courage to admit to all of my adoring fans that I didn't finish p90x.  (sarcasmsarcasmsarcasm.  SO unflattering.)

Defensive:

I used to recommend p90x to people because the results were so fast.  Frankly, of course you're going to see awesome results if you eat right (better) and exercise one plus hours a day six days a week.  Especially if your exercises were kind of few and far between.  I have no idea what you're talking about here!

That being said, I got strong QUICK.  For instance, before p90x I swam a half mile in something like 27 or 29 minutes.  After about 2 or 3 weeks I swam a half mile in 17 minutes, then I think got as low as 14 minutes rather effortlessly.  Same thing as with running.  Had I died and gone to heaven and was running on clouds and there was no such thing as weight even though I ate a box of those damn little debbie oatmeal cream pies?  Yes, that's what it felt like. I call this CareBear land, let's go there now!

Things I've learned:

• I love working out, always have, hopefully always will.  We're not the kind of family that sits around the tv, though.  So this was new.  1) that the tv was on and my kids had to occupy themselves or Mr Incredible had to be home for me to exercise and him vice versa 2) that we weren't getting fresh air, even on the days that we normally would've been because we had to do a certain video.
• Chocolate and peanut butter keep me from losing weight.  If that's obvious to you then say a prayer for me or something. I just did, can you do the same for me, please?
• Doing the videos with your spouse and with kids can be kinda taxing.
• Dreya and I totally wouldn't get along.  And because of that I refuse to do the Dreya Roll.  I don't understand why our bff, Tony, likes her, plus she has a manbody, ew!

All in all, I like the videos to do every now and again.  I'm still doing the ab ripper, and I'm semi satisified with my body and weight.  I have 5 pounds left til I'm happy and I'm glad that p90x kick started that.  I think the people that love the videos are the type of people that don't mind sitting around watching tv.  So that could be a fair warning/consideration to those of you who are contemplating it. 

So sorry, no wonderful bikini bod 90 day pictures here.  But I'll bet my mom will sleep easy tonight because of it.

Good for all of you that have stuck with it!  Keep going strong!  And goooooooOOOOOO HUTCH!  ps i want 60 day pics. just look back to Day 30, they're exactly the same except for my new back muscles, swears.

And thanks Hutch for asking me to guest blog!  Sorry if it's very apparent that I was becoming increasingly tired as the post went on.  Started losing the funnies and eating more bread.  That always means that I'm tired.