The Healthier Me

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P90X Round 3: Weeks three and four

This update is a little late but it's important for me to post — accountability and all that. Now, if I remember correctly, weeks three and four were a bit of a blur and some of the problems I've mentioned previously hadn't been fixed. Despite the setbacks, there were some nice improvements.

[Link] The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Lately I've started hearing more and more about primal eating and Intermittent Fasting — this article focuses on the latter. While the author pokes a little fun at diets being a method to sell books I couldn't help but laugh that at the bottom of the article is an ad for a book on Intermittent Fasting. There are some interesting scientific quotes and this is certainly a topic that requires more research.

Win $5000 drinking Shakeology

Yes, you read that correctly. Every month Beachbody is selecting one lucky person and giving them $5,000. What's the catch? Drink Shakeology and tell Beachbody your story. That's it.

[Link] Why You Got Fat

An excellent video explaining how your body deals with fat and processes carbohydrates. Found via Tyson, via Dave, via Mark.

P90X Round 3: Second week, more setbacks

As it turns out, my second week of P90X wasn't much better than my first week. This is going to be more work than I anticipated. Time to take it up a notch.

P90X Round 3: Struggling the first week back

If the title wasn't a big enough clue, the first week back on P90X has been rough. My entire body is sore and I'm finding it difficult to get back into a good routine. It's a nice reality check and puts the next few month into perspective.

[Link] Healthy, Hot Breakfast Recipes

Here are some excellent recipes for breakfast. All recipes contain less than 12g of fat and weigh in under 500 calories. There's a recipe for oatmeal, a "soufflé", a breakfast sandwich, and a hash.

P90X Round 3 — Here we go again

It's been a long time — far too long in fact — since I've done a regularly scheduled workout program. Sure, there have been days and weeks of workouts in the meantime but nothing rigid or planned. Everything changed this week when I started another round of P90X.

Power 90: Why I'm Starting Over

It's been almost five weeks since I started the Power 90 program, and there's been some decent success, so why am I starting from scratch?

The first time through Power 90 (then and now)

I wrote a blog entry right after my first P90 session almost five weeks ago. Now in my second full week (I had some 3-4 session weeks in the interim), I'm looking back on that first post with more current observations.