12W12SP2 Update: Regimen

Y'all aren't going to believe this, but I've gone and put myself on a regimen.

I barely believe it myself, but it's true.

I've been thinking a lot, almost obsessively sometimes, about how I've stopped losing weight at the expected pace, and how my body is changing, and how I am not happy about all of the changes, and how maybe I don't really need those 10 M&M's I treat myself to when I am feeling a little eleven-o'clock-ish, and how it looks like it's going to be maybe another year before I get to my goal weight, and how maybe I'll never get there, and how maybe I can still get pretty close, and how it turned into 1:00 already and I still haven't finished my breakfast, and how I really wish I could shut up my brain sometimes and just be still and stop stressing ...

... and there it is. STRESS.

My chiropractor helped me make the decision, really. I had to have an extra visit last month because I have this thing going on where my hip is being all wonky. Not sore, not exactly, but stiff sometimes. Difficult. Most of the time it's fine, but sometimes when I am doing my cardio Pilates I can't do the moves quite right because my hip won't cooperate. And my chiropractor told me: "It's stress. Every change you make to your body is stressful. Some stress is good, and some is bad, but it's all stress, and you need to deal with it."

So I am. I put together a target exercise plan for the next four weeks, exercise every weekday, even Fridays, which I will stick to if it kills me, and it just might, because when my husband sees me working out for the first time, he will start laughing and then I will start laughing and then I will end up hyperventilating, but anyway, here is my exercise schedule (click to embiggen):

And based on feedback from both my chiropractor and Dr. Oz (as reported in First for Women, which I can't link to, and I can't find a direct link to this info on Dr. Oz's website either, but here is a pretty good summation), as well as general common sense, I am also taking the following vitamins:

• VitaFusion Gummy Vites (multivitamin), 2 gummies in the morning
• VitaFusion Fiber Gummies, 2 gummies in the morning (I take the weight management kind)
• Emergen-C Tangerine, 1 packet in water at lunchtime (click the link! free samples!)
• Trader Joe's Omega-3 Fatty Acids, 1200 mg fish oil, odorless, 1 gelcap at lunchtime (can't find direct link, sorry)

I'll let you know how everything turns out. Or if I turn into a goldfish.