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Welcome to my 1st blog! I started this blog to document my cize experience. Cize is a new Beachbody exercise program based on dancing combined with the meal plan from 21 day fix (another Beachbody program). I have done one round of 21 day fix and lost 6 lbs, but more notable was the inches! Unfortunately due to travel and moving, I fell off the 21 day fix wagon! Cize was appealing to me as I am a former dancer and the routines require no equipment. I also signed up to be a coach...mostly for the shakeology discount (a yummy chocolate protein shake also by beachbody) but I'd love to help out others, hence the blog! After seeing my Facebook newsfeed blow up with Beachbody coaches, I became curious, but incredibly skeptical! I'm loving cize so far, but can I really see the success that so many others have? The only way I previously have been successful with slimming down and getting healthy was when I trained for the NYC marathon in 2013...and I want that back! Hoping without running another one! Time will tell! This is my skeptical, but curious experience with Cize, 21 Day Fix, Beachbody, and Shakeology!

Saturday, August 15, 2015

CIZE: Week 2 Day 1

Confession time!

I had an enormous burger yesterday...and it was delicious!  


And that's ok.  That's why I'm a fan of this plan.  I can't live by anything too stringent and I want to be able to try the latest fads and not feel left out.  The burger place I went to had a donut burger...yeah that's right a burger between 2 donuts!  I passed that up though for a different burger...I think I should get some credit for that. ;)  BUT no excuses right?  I made up for it by eating back on track the rest of the day!  :)  Mom made the caesar salad dressing from the Fixate cookbook and we ate salad with a side of teriyaki chicken skewers...and the dressing was delicious!  I'll admit I ate it straight from the bowl!



So, this blog is going to take a different turn.  It's doing a great job on keeping me accountable for my work-outs, but I need some accountability on my eating as well!  I keep hearing all over the Beachbody pages- abs are made in the kitchen!  I think I'm ready!  I'd like some abs now please!  I've been reviewing the Fixate recipes in a separate post...up and coming!  Be on the lookout! I hope to review other things as well and share some successes.  Good healthy recipes are out there and the fixate cookbook has just had so many wins so far we haven't had to stray!  It stinks to have a healthy recipe failure though...those can taste pretty awful!  So I'll mention my failures as well!

Cize Week 2 Day 1!
So new week with Cize!!!  Todays work-out was "Full-Out".  Man, we did not have good luck with this one. My DVD would not work in the DVD player then it kept getting all garbled when we tried to watch with my computer.  Luckily, I currently have the 30 day trial with Beachbody on demand (that's where you can stream the work-outs online) so we were able to load it on there, but it still got garbled!!!  Maybe it was my internet connection...

Somehow we pushed through.  The steps were more intricate in this routine.  I love dance because if you can't make yourself mirror the instructor, you can just make it you're own!  There's one move Shaun T calls the "nanny" or maybe it was "manny?"  Not sure, but I changed it to the hand flap!  That justified me looking silly!  And that's what you do in dance, just own that move and make it your own!   Due to our technical difficulties and not being able to fully see some of the dance moves mom and I both were not as pumped about this one.  With 8 minutes left mom was out!  But i convinced her to come back and we finished it!!! 


Definitely just a back-up dancer today, but I loved when we cized it up to Destiny's Child's Lose my Breath!  Remember this one??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeIiF0DlTg

Much more excited for next round of this...if I can get the DVD to work.  Will have to give Beachbody a call....

Finished off the workout with my favorite shakeology recipe to date:
Banana
Almond milk
Peanut butter
Ice
Chocolate Shakeology

My dog reaps the benefits as well!  ;)


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