Hello everyone. My name is Darlina and I just wanted to share my journey with hip hop abs with everyone. To start I am 23 years old. I go to college for accounting and am a single mother of a 3 year old boy. My weight problems started when I got pregnant with Kaileb. I was maybe 10lb over weight pre pregnancy I had room for improvement but since the day I came home from the hospital with him I was 200lbs on a short 5'3 body. I am apple shaped body so I am at risk for all the fun things like heart disease and diabetes nothing to joke about considering one grandmother had diabetes and heart attacks and died about 3 years ago and my other I never met because she died in a sugar coma with diabetes as well. To share a little about what I have tried in the past. E diets was my first attempt after Kaileb's first birthday I had a wake up call and lost 30lbs over the summer but when the winter came it all came back plus some. So the following year I did it again and this time for my brothers wedding I was a brides maid and the biggest one to top it off I was in a 22 when the others were size 10, 6 and 4.! I was devastated I actually came home and cried. However when I went back and dropped to a 14 I was in my glory. It all came back again! So I stopped e diets and bought hip hop abs on April 27th 2008. So here are some measurements on day 1:

weight: 189
chest: 43.5
belly button: 44
hips: 44
arm r: 12.25
arm l: 12.75
l thigh: 23.5
r thigh: 23.5
At the end of the week I will be on week 4 and will re measure and post the results.

ok so yesterday I decided to incorporate biking in to my routine. Wow that was a work out I went riding on the tracks 2 miles and my legs were like rubber and burning off when I got back. However I feel accomplished I have no been on a bike in a long time and its true you never forget. Today I will be doing Cardio Blast and ab sculpt. New measurements and 30 days pics come on tues.! I am excited to see the change on the pics.

Good job

find ways to be motivated

So today was a disappointing one with the weigh in. My start weight was 189 and now its 184 in 4 weeks. Kind of brings me down. however the inches are really showing 18inches all around the body mostly in my belly button area and waist and hips. the tape shows it but my clothes dont its weird. Well I still did cardio today and as many times as I do it I still sweat my butt off I have read that you need to switch it up and stuff to keep your body surprised but when I learn how to do the routine and concentrate and really give 100 percent i sweat like crazy every time.

Keep on truckin I guess

You should not be disappointed. Losing 1 pound a week is actually pretty good especially in the first month because you are hopefully packing on muscle mass.

Hang in there!

darlina23 wrote:

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So today was a disappointing one with the weigh in. My start weight was 189 and now its 184 in 4 weeks. Kind of brings me down. however the inches are really showing 18inches all around the body mostly in my belly button area and waist and hips. the tape shows it but my clothes dont its weird. Well I still did cardio today and as many times as I do it I still sweat my butt off I have read that you need to switch it up and stuff to keep your body surprised but when I learn how to do the routine and concentrate and really give 100 percent i sweat like crazy every time.

Keep on truckin I guess

Sweating is good it shows that you're working at high intensity and you're burning calories. you should check your heart rate monitor.
it's important to switch your routines otherwise your muscles will be accustomed to the exercises and will adapt to the moves thus negating the effectiveness.
this is a bad analogy but of the top here I go.it's like when you go to pick up something that seems heavy for the first time like say a box, you will brace yourself to pick it up by engaging every muscles possible as you anticipate a heavy weight. So you will use your legs and back and arms, but if you start picking up that same box everyday you'll find ways to do it without using so many muscles, so pretty soon you will just bend over and pick it up.
if you keep doing the same cardio exercise in about a month your body will have them memorized

Dont worry that you havent lost a lot of weight in a month in fact, your probably gaining muscle as well. Keep Going and Just Like Les Says
in about a month ur body will be mesmorized

Okay everyone I have fell off the wagon and am now starting from point A I hung up my schedule where I see it when I get up and I started at Day 1 yesterday and am totally committed to eating right and following this 1 month schedule to the T! I went to my boyfriend's brothers wedding this past weekend and was so sick of the pictures of me I look pregnant still and when I look in the mirror I see changes but like I said I was not totally committed and being fair so now work outs in the morning so no excuses why I didnt fit it in or anything and I am hoping to see some serious results.

Darlina

new start weight 179

Thats alright, some of us need to fall a few times before we get it right lol. You being committed will bring you better results, so keep charging for the goal!

Good Luck.

utilize your lessons learned to make it better this time, and make it fun

Keep posting a daily log and you will find this helps as it provides a level of motivation via peer pressure to stay on track!

Good luck and don't give up!

Hello all. Okay for week one I missed 2 days of work out but did other things to replace not being able to do the dvd. I set my alarm for 8am to wake up before my son and do it but he beat me twice this week. I weighed in today and a happy 2lbs have come off! and that was with missing 2 days! I was extremely happy. I am doing my own version of the 6 day slim down with the food mainly because I cant afford to buy the foods they have me eating so I am doing low carb high protein for these 6 days. Tomorrow I am starting week 2 with my Cardio but then it gets harder because the following day is cardio and ab sculpt and I dont know if they are ment to be done at the same time right together or could I do one in the morning and one in the evening?? The reason I dont post so much is because I see not many people respond they just view so it takes a long time with dial up to get on line as it is.


Wish me luck this week and I consider this past week very successful!

Okay day 2 of my second week and I am up extremely early to get my work out in since I have to do 2 today. Yesterday was very successful I did cardio dvd and then mowed my lawn for 2 hours which burned major calories I was dripping sweat all day. I can really see some changes happening here I need to keep up the momentum if I was to be hitting my prebaby weight by sept. 1st when I go back to school. which is 167 right now I am at 176 and I have 6 weeks so I think that is realistic.

Come hip hop ab people I need some support on here no one else does it?

Okay today is Day 2 week 2 and I successfully completed both work outs scheduled ab sculpt this morning followed by cardio tonight at 7pm. Man can I feel my obliques he definitely knows how to work out that mid section. I also got about a 30 min walk in bringing my son walking looking for blackberries which was enjoyable. I told my boyfriend that he will need to watch my son at night outside so we have no excuses why we didnt get the work out done. My eating is going great too. Well tomorrow will be another ab and cardio day I cannot wait until sunday when I weigh in again!

Hi Darlina,

My name is kandiapplred and I am starting hip hop abs today. I would love to partner up with you if you dont mind...maybe it will motivate me. I did it a few weeks ago and lost 3 inches around my waist in five day...

I am currently on weight watchers and I am starting hip hop abs today (Tuesday - Saturday)...will start on Monday next week.

I will list my stats when I get home this evening.

Kandiapplred

Welcome aboard! As I asked the P90x folks. Please make your own message thread that serves as your diary where others can respond. It is easier then if everyone piles on Darlina's log/diary. Thanks!

Way to go Darlina
Keep it up

Yesterday and today I got some work outs in the total body burn was yesterday and I did it with weights and yes it is a total body burn they arent kidding! today I did cardio but not the hips buns and thighs I find it hard to fit in both work outs because my son takes up alot of my day and stays up late so I cant even do it when he goes to bed. I try to beat him in the morning waking up and some times it works but I cant do both work outs together so I am a little frustrated but I am getting atleast one in. only 4 weeks to lose 10 lbs not looking so realistic anymore last weigh in was 176. ok so 9 lbs in 4 weeks maybe I will make it if I can figure something out to get both work outs in and my diets been really going well. I know once I start doing the body burn a few times a week it will show I took measurements of my thighs and went from 22 to 19 1/2 but the thing is I need it off my upper body my legs are relatively small.

tomorrow I will make up the hips buns and thighs and try to figure something out.

August 1st! okay I have 4 weeks to lose this weight to hit my short term goal. Today I did 2 hours of cardio ( mowing my lawn sweating like crazy) then I did ab sculpt at 3pm. So from today on I need to kick it up I think I will add a walk in everyday as well.