BodyJam just keeps getting better. Here in Manila, Body Jam 49 has just been launched weeks ago and we’re yet to see the “advanced” options which I think was introduced in Body Jam 47. Now that I enjoy Body Jam 49, I think this one looks exciting as well.

1: Saturday (Fedde Le Grand Vocal Mix Main) – Cunnie Williams feat. Monie Love
2: Love, Sex, Magic – Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake
3: 75, Brazil Street (Original Club Vocal Mix) – Nicola Fasano vs Pat-Rich
4: I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) – Pitbull
5: 75, Brazil Street (Steve Forest & Paul Simon Mix) – Nicola Fasano vs Pat-Rich
6: I Wanna Rock – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
7: Voice of Freedom – Freedom Williams
8: Set it Off – J. Williams
9: Blame It – Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain
10: Pictures (Tonite Only Remix) – Sneaky Sound System
11: Suburban Knights (Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso Mix) – Hard-Fi
12: Finally 2008 (Kam Denny & Paul Zala Remix) – Denzal Park
13: Spotlight – Jennifer Hudson

Welcome to Week Nine!

This 12 week challenge is absolutely flying by.  We turned our books to the last page today, which symbolizes there’s only one month to go.  How unreal.

Today, as every Monday was weigh-in day and due to it being the end of another month of the challenge, it was also measurement day.  I knew I had pushed myself hard this week at the Gym, and bringing back up my visits to what the previous weeks were (Going twice a day on a couple of occasions).  As well as my Personal Training session on Tuesday, I had partaken in Body Pump on Wednesday and also BodyJam & Body Balance back to back on the Saturday.  Plus my own cardio and weight sessions on the other days.

This week I lost 1.4kg.  Which after last weeks gain of .3, is really 1.1kg.  Still, a girls gotta be happy with those results.  My measurements were taken and this months results are:

Bust: 99cm (-1)

Waist: 78cm (-4)

Hips: 99cm (-2)

Upper thigh: 63cm (-2)

Lower Thigh: 58cm (-3)

Arms: 30.5cm (-1)

Total CMS lost for Month Two: 13

Total KGS lost for Month Two: 3.5kg

TOTAL CMS LOST FOR TWO MONTHS: 40.5cm! (15.94 inches)

TOTAL KGS LOST FOR TWO MONTHS:  9.9kg (21.8 pounds)

Day 24 already?

I just had to count the days on my card to make sure that I wasn’t getting too far ahead of myself.  But what do you know – we’re already 3 and a half weeks into the Challenge.  I could quote that time flies when you’re having fun, but I wouldn’t exactly call getting up when it’s still dark and aching every single day from some form of exercise from the day before “fun”…  But I digress.

Last week at the Gym I worked my absolute butt off.  Group Personal Training session, attending BodyJam for the first time in 6 months (I used to go weekly until my BodyJam buddy up and moved cities and I felt lost without her, so I stopped going completely), RPM class at 6:15AM on Friday (I wanted to throw my alarm straight across the room when it started beeping at me at 5.05AM) and of course the individual Personal Training session and other workouts.

So when it was time for the weekly weigh-in on Monday, I was super nervous.  What if all this hardwork and sticking dead on to the daily food requirements have no impact on my weight-loss?  I am well aware that gaining muscle is heavier than fat, so therefore there will be a time over the next few weeks that I’ll probably gain some weight due to this reason, but hopefully not yet!

And luckily, the scales were in my favour – another 1.3kg down.  From the previous two weeks results tallied on top of this weeks result, I have  lost 5.7kg since the start of the Challenge.

Next week is our first Measurements since the Challenge started – something of which I am looking forward to.  I don’t physically feel any different as yet – my clothes aren’t falling off or anything (..yet) so it’ll be interesting to see how my body is adjusting to all of this exercise!

- Harelda.