Just Starting! (AGAIN)

[Mrs. Izzy]

Goodness! I just did TWO super slow. I might need a day off instead of a light day tomorrow. I don't know if I could do that once a week or not! I started sweating during the PBS. I think I'll take it easy for a few days, I just can't quit! I think the big thing for me is just keep doing SOMETHING. If I have a tough workout, like today instead of taking a day off, I'll do less for a couple of days. Maybe I'll focus on nutrition and body brushing for the rest of the week and let my body recover. Guess I'll take a look at those forums and see if I can get some good ideas.

[MomAtHome]

Hi, Mrs. Izzy! I see you already have a lot of good advice. The most important days of your week are the Days Off. Please check either on these forums or across the internet for good explanations of the muscle recuperation cycle. But, beyond that, let me tell you my own experience, which is that I lose more, quicker, when I place a Day Off in between my days of workouts. After a bootcamp (once in a long while) it is Every Other Day that yields the fastest inch loss for me by far, and if you will check the experiences of others by doing a search here, you'll find I'm the rule, not the exception. So, if your goal is to look better when your husband returns, treat your Days Off like jewels. They need to be True Days Off, too. It is the alternation of Days Off and workout days that is going to provide the results, so don't do your Days Off half-way. Do them well. Rest.

[Mrs. Izzy]

OK, took a couple of days off this week. Today I did instructional #2 and had an epiphany. The first time I went through the instructionals I felt they were something to just get through to get on to the next level. Somehow I thought that I wouldn't get in shape doing the instructionals, that weight loss would only happen after I learned the moves and graduated to "boot camp". I rushed myself to get it right and move on. I wanted to get thin and then maintain my loss. The point is not to loose weight and then only do the minimum to maintain. I might not ever get to that point. Finding what my body needs to be healthy is why I started T-Tapp. Yes, I want to look amazing for my husband, but he has been gone for six months and when he does get home he really won't care what I look like. He doesn't care how my body looks now, he remembers how it looked when we first got married. He loves the time we have spent together and the children we have together more than what I used to look like. Now, I need to get it into my head that I am doing T-Tapp to feel good, to be healthy, to (God willing) live longer than my mother did. I will slow down, I will breathe, I will enjoy what I am doing.

[healthymom1434]

What a refreshing epiphany, Mrs. Izzy! Congratulations! T-Tapp certainly will work on your insides as well as your outsides and gives you an overall sense of well-being. (At least that's what I'm experiencing.) Good job!

[BlessedMama]

YES! YOU GOT IT!!!

[wahmof9]

OK, took a couple of days off this week. Today I did instructional #2 and had an epiphany. The first time I went through the instructionals I felt they were something to just get through to get on to the next level. Somehow I thought that I wouldn't get in shape doing the instructionals, that weight loss would only happen after I learned the moves and graduated to "boot camp". I rushed myself to get it right and move on. I wanted to get thin and then maintain my loss. The point is not to loose weight and then only do the minimum to maintain. I might not ever get to that point. Finding what my body needs to be healthy is why I started T-Tapp. Yes, I want to look amazing for my husband, but he has been gone for six months and when he does get home he really won't care what I look like. He doesn't care how my body looks now, he remembers how it looked when we first got married. He loves the time we have spent together and the children we have together more than what I used to look like. Now, I need to get it into my head that I am doing T-Tapp to feel good, to be healthy, to (God willing) live longer than my mother did. I will slow down, I will breathe, I will enjoy what I am doing.

Yippeee