Goodbye, Charlotte

I'm sad.  I had originally planned to do a blog post about all the neat new fitness gear I want for Christmas, but I got some disturbing news and would like to share it.

I sat down at my computer this morning with my mocha cappucino and started my day with my 100% favorite blog -- The Great Fitness Experiment.  I only discovered this blog about a year ago.  At the time, I was pregnant and Charlotte was pregnant.  I loved how she continued to be the fitness badass she has always been, especially when it's so common for moms-to-be to plop there legs up and have another bon bon.  I read her entire blog that day like it was coated in crack.  I've mentioned it before on KUrunner, but for those of you who didn't take my advice and immediately rush over, you've missed out.

Charlotte is amazing (and she has awesome hair).  Of course, she doesn't think so, but what does she know?  Maybe it's because she grades the writing portion of the SATs, but her writing style is just wonderful.  She's written comic pieces about having too much soy before an exercise class and she's written tearjerkers about her struggles with addiction and abuse.  She's brutally honest and no topic is off-limits.  (Women, if there's anything you wanted to know about your period and exercise, she'll have the answer.)  Plus, she finds the most hilarious pictures. 

Anyways, I'm in mourning.  I've looked to Charlotte for inspiration this past year and she's never disappointed me.  I completely understand her reasoning for stopping her blog, but it still sucks.  Thankfully, someone is paying her to write The Great Fitness Experiment book, and I'm sure that I'll be the first in line to buy it.  She'll be keeping the webpage up, so if you haven't read GFE yet, I'd recommend going over and starting with post #1 (scroll to the bottom).

And I'll leave you with Charlotte teaching how to do a pull-up (and other naughty things with a training dummy.)

Keep Pushing Play

Sorry about the lack of posting over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been going through a lot of personal stuff and honestly, trying to put my thoughts into coherent sentences just wasn’t happening. I have managed to get a couple of posts up on my other blog in case you are just dying to hear my thoughts and opinions even if they aren’t fitness related.
I’m working on a couple of what I hope will be great posts, but until then, I’ll leave you with a couple of updates.

1. I’m doing Weight Watchers. Again. I have a love/hate relationship with Weight Watchers… which just happens to be one of the posts I’m working on. So, more about that later.

2. I’m on Day 73 of P90X. If you all remember, I decided to repeat Month 1, but since then, I’ve been missing more workouts than I’ve been doing. I promise that the program works, but like Tony says, “You have to keep pushing play.” I haven’t been pushing play enough and it’s my own fault. Sadly, working out while dealing with depression has been tough. At this point, I’m not sure whether to continue until my original 90 days is up or just start over from day 1. I have pictures, but I’m not sure I want to post them since I haven’t been following the program the way it was intended. Now that I’ve started WW and have gotten a bit of control over the PPD, I’m very motivated to give P90X my all.

I have to say that even though I haven’t been following the program as closely as I would like to be, I’m getting stronger. I’m still not doing a pull-up yet, but I’ve more than doubled my push-ups. I’m jumping higher. I’m lifting more. I swear, it really does work.