Day 1

My P90X adventure has finally begun.  Today was the Chest/Back & Abs.  It was pretty tough but about what I expected.  I would say I was able to do 75-80% of the reps.  The Chest/Back routine is a lot of different types of push-ups, all of which I have to do on my knees for now.  I am hoping that by the end of 90 days I can do many of them as regular push-ups, though.  I also don't have a pull-up bar (which is probably fine because there's no way I can do even 1 pull-up/chin-up right now) so I do those moves with the resistance bands.  The bands will also serve as my weights when I'm on the road but on days like today (when I'm at home) I use my free weights.  Overall I feel pretty good about my first workout.  It feels really good to be working out again and pushing myself.  I forgot how much I just enjoy feeling like I'm doing something active.

The nutrition plan has been fine (for the entire 6 hours I've been doing it).  The increased protein and more frequent meals means I'm eating before I actually feel hungry.  This is in stark contrast to my usual waiting 6-8 hours between meals and then scarfing down anything in front of me because I'm starving.  I'm tracking what I eat on myfitnesspal.com which is a pretty cool tool and will help me know if I'm sticking to the 50%Protein, 30% Carb, 20% Fat ratio that is recommended for Phase 1 of P90X and if I'm getting enough (or too many) calories. 

I had my first Shakeology shake today, which I received as a free trial with my P90X system.  I have the Chocolate version and it tastes pretty good (I mixed it with milk and frozen raspberries to eat after my workout).   It's expensive so I'm going to see how my diet shakes out for the first week or so before I commit to actually ordering more of it but it could be helpful as a breakfast or dinner meal substitute.