Medifast Diet - Week 5

I have now officially been on this diet for over a month, five weeks of sticking strictly to the plan. I have to tell you that I am very glad that I made this decision. I lost another 4 pounds this last week for a total of 28 pounds lost. Medifast really does work.

I received the exercise DVD's in the mail last week and got to work on Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred. You know, when I was in the Navy we would watch exercise videos quite often. Not for the exercise, but for the eye candy. Watching beautiful women jump around in leotards was great entertainment during breakfast a couple hundred feet below the waves. Things are quite different when you are actually following along in your living room.

The "30 Day Shred" routine is a 20 minute daily workout. Only 20 minutes? Heck, I can do anything for 20 minutes. I'm a big guy, I can pick up heavy things and move them "over there". This should be a piece of cake.

It probably would be a piece of cake, if, Jillian Michaels were not the devil. This woman packs more into a 20 minute workout than an hour or so of working out in a gym. The first day she finished with me I was jello, my legs just did not want to hold my body up any longer. I went for a quick 10 minute walk after the work out just to get a full 30 minutes of exercise in, and for the first 50 or 60 yards or so it was an effort to keep my feet going in a straight line. She is one tough cookie.

Each day the routine gets easier, my recovery time gets shorter, and my after workout walk gets longer.

It is time to get, Jillian is waiting to get started with our next 20 minute session.