P90X Adventures: Week 10 Day 2 Jazzercise... wait a minute...?

Yesterday was supposed to be my Plyometrics and today, my Back & Biceps but as I was just getting ready to start the routine around 4:45 yesterday Zu calls up asking about how I wanted to meet her at this mexican restaurant...

...great...

Not only was I not going to be able to do my routine today, but I was going to a place that basically doesn't do anything veggie without plastering it in some sort of cream or serving it with a stack of tortillas a mile high. We were going because of happy hour margaritas.  Another reason making me a sad panda.

If it's one thing I've discovered is that, as a recovering food addict, I'm already fairly weak against good (bad) food.  I've managed to build up a fairly strong resistance and nearly got my body to the point of "forgetting" about bad foods.  The one thing that I've been coming to find that breaks down that willpower...

Alcohol.

I've found that I might be able to maintain having one beer maybe, but even so, I don't drink often enough anymore so 2 beers or one of the beers I actually like and I'm pretty much done.  Anything stronger and well, I'm done but then again so is ALL OF THE GODDAMN FOOD within eyesight.  In either case, later in the evening, I'm always out craving food and can't stop myself.  It's really a losing battle.

Lastly, there's everyone's weakness at a mexican restaurant...

                                                            Fucking.  Tortilla.  Chips.

So, I wasn't very happy.  I don't necessarily think I hid that well either, but I wanted to spend time with Zu and not be lame so I tried to make the best out of the situation.   Since we had to sit at the bar so that they could get their cheap margaritas on, we had to wait forever to actually order, and then another forever for our actual food.  The hunger was too great and the goddamn tortilla chips were there.  I moved very slowly, getting just one chip at a time, but I'm sure I had a bunch.  perhaps even enough to fill 3/4 to a full basket on my own... They were slow as shit with everything else, but damned if they let the friggin chips get low!

I ordered the veggie fajitas and ate all the veggies leaving the rice and tortillas.  At least I had one moral victory for the night.  As the food settled, I started feeling a little better.  "At least I didn't get the margarita, or else they'd have to get security to pull me away from that old mexican tortilla lady..." I kept telling myself...  I contemplated maybe attempting Plyo later on that night but who was I kidding.  That's THE most intense workout in the series and like hell I had the energy to wait an hour or two then go jump around in the middle of the night.  I finally calmed down when I realized I could just make that day my rest day and then I'd hit it all the rest of the week.

Today, I was set for some Plyo.  Zu was getting geared up to go to Jazzercise today after work so I knew that was gonna be my window to get it done.  I've been really busy as of late and I actually end up working standard business hours trying to get all my stuff done which basically puts me on the same normalized schedule I'd have if I wasn't working from home.  She has a friend and co-worker who's basically, less than supportive.  She's signed up for Jazzercise and I guess has only gone to 2 actual classes.  Since, she's just been coming up with the lamest excuses I've ever heard of.  One time she tells Zu, "I think my husband drove to Portland and left the stove on at home so I gotta run home and take care of that"  which meant she couldn't then head back out to do Jazzercise.  Today's Excuse? "I don't have any workout pants and if I go home the kids are just gonna freak out so I'll just sit in the car and read 50 shades of grey..."

Needless to say, Zu was not feeling very encouraged to go.  She's been telling me for weeks that she's going to Jazzercise.  Every day, I see her walk out with her stuff for jazzercise only to see her come straight home after work.  She seemed pretty bummed out too and nobody wants to see her succeed more than me, so I figured... what the hell.  It's like girly Plyo.  And don't get that confused.  There's nothing weak or timid about a damn Jazzercise routine, it's just all the dances seem pretty effeminate, but hell if they don't wear you the hell out.  I was sort of impressed with myself because I hung in for the whole routine and didn't pause for anything...  Something I couldn't do when I did my first couple classes with her back in may/ june.

Besides, I like working out with someone else.  It's basically one of the most important motivating factors.  This stuff is hard work and having someone to go through the toughness with you is so critical in what keeps you motivated to keep going hard yourself.  A lot of times, people get hung up on the ones that want to help because they already look like they're at the point the person starting wants to be.  It feels discouraging.  I get it.  Hell I even started feeling that way when I first put in P90X, but I got over it.  I think a place like Jazzercise is especially good and motivating since everyone there is generally around the same look.  the coach looks like a normal person, not a friggin' supermodel.  There are people in the crowd that look like they can out maneuver that coach but the coach works that shit and holds her own.  Zu just needed someone familiar to help her through and I saw that.  Hell, that's what I'm trying to do anyway with all of this.

I know I've tried time and again to get other people on board with my workout journeys and more often than not end up all by myself.  Thankfully, I've been so motivated by the results, that I've just been forcing myself regardless of all the things I keep telling myself I could be doing otherwise.  I'm really hoping to get Zu to that point.  I know she has it in her, but again, I know how that opposing force of our mind works.  It's tough.  So I feel great that we got to do a workout together.  It's kinda like old times when we'd team up to do this type of stuff.


Yesterday, I made another video powering up with a smoothie.  So here it is below:
                                                                   Green Berry Bliss

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Catch you soon...
~Mike