Simone and Manda met in college in Ottawa, ON, Canada. While Simone has moved back to her native Trinidad, Manda remains in Canada.

Together they are about to undertake the most difficult 3 months of their entire life together...only...while residing in different countries.


Tuesday, March 16, 2010

SIMONE - DAY 19, 20, 21, 22

SO these last days were rough .. i was ill from thursday till the weekend (my eating wasnt that great then).. but i was def better by monday .. so yesterday i was back on track (great eating and lots of water today).. however i could not do the entire core i was kinda beat .. only did 20 mins ... i walked with my mom before for about 40 mins b4 .. and i ran for 25 mins before i started core .. i guess i pushed myself too far. anyway back on track today (tuesday) .. cardio x this evening after my walk with my mom .. should be a good day :)

hope all is well with u mands :)

much love simone

Friday, March 12, 2010

SIMONE - DAY 17 & 18

unfortunatly i was unable to do anything the last couple days ... i have had a bad sickness /virus ..
i think i may have to sit out the rest of the week .. fresh on monday

sorry manda :(

much love

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Day 18 - Manda

Totally bailed on Yoga this morning. I reset my alarm and slept in until 7am. It was a beautiful thing. Lol.

I WILL do it tonight though. No doubt about it.

I am more and more confident every day that i can stick this thing out.

Eating today is going to be a bit of a pain. literally. Got my braces tightened yesterday and I am so feelin it. My teeth are extremely sensitive.

Simone I hope today goes well for you. I know it is your least favourite day of the week (as opposed to mine which is tomorrow.. f'in "legs and back" i hate you) but you can do it.

Keep me in the loop. Excited to know how you are doin

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Day 17 - Manda

Woke up this morning and got straight to Ab Ripper X. I like to do the Ab workout before the other one.

I still cant do the V Up Roll Ups or whatever they are called and I have trouble with the Oblique V Ups to but every week I can pump out a couple more reps of everything else.

Shoulders and Arms went awesome today. I up'd my weights to 8's today for most of the exercises except mostly all of the tricep ones. I felt like i really worked today and had to grunt out the last couple reps.

Drank mad amounts of water yesterday. Was peeing like a pregnant lady but dont feel as though i am retaining as much today which feels good.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

SIMONE: DAY 16 & 17

GOOD MORNING MANDA!!!

I HAVE BEEN GETTING INTO THE ROUTINE NOW .. IM OFFICIALLY BACK TO MY MORNING ROUTINE YAY!!!!

AFTER MY WORK OUT YESTERDAY (MONDAY) MY BF AND I DID A 15 MIN HARD FAST RUN FOLLOWED BY A 15 MIN WALK IT WAS AWESOME .. MY HEART WAS POUNDING AND IT WAS VERY HARD BUT FELT SOO GOOD WHEN I WAS DONE :)

SOO THIS MORNING TUESDAY MARCH 9TH I WOKE UP .. IT WAS VERY HARD TO WAKE UP AFTER PUSHING MYSELF WITH CORE AND A RUN/WALK THE PREVIOUS DAY BUT I DID IT CARDIO WAS AWESOME THIS MORNING AND AS MANDA SAID I REMEMBERED IT AS ONE OF MY FAV WORKOUTS :) I EVEN DIDNT MINE THE YOGA THIS MORNING.

I COULD TAKE YOGA IN SMALL INCREMENTS ... DREDDING THURSDAY FOR YOGA X .. I LOVE HAVING MY AFTERNOONS FREE TO TAKE A RUN .. NO PRESSURE TO HAVE TO DO THE P90X UNTIL MORNING TIME :)

IM DEF DOING GREAT ON MY EATING .. I DECIDED TO TRY TO STICK MORE TO THE P90X DIET PLAN .. AND IM DOING ALOT BETTER .. THE PROTEIN BARS REALLY HELP KEEP ME FULL AND HELP MY SWEET TOOTH CRAVINGS .. JUST BEEN CUTTING BACK ON THE CARBS NOW AND DRINKING THE WATER AND THE GATORADE (MIX) ONE SQUEEZY BOTTLE A DAY AS MY "RECOVERY DRINK"

FEELING GOOD FEELING GREAT .. FEELING GREAT FEELING GOOD HOW R U?

MANDA .. I DONT KNOW ABOUT THE INSANITY THING ILL CHECK THE SITE AND GET BACK TO U .. BUT IM ALWAYS UP FOR A CHALLENGE

LOVE YA
SIMONEY OUT

Day 16 - Manda

Day 16 already. Man.

So yesterday I did get around to Core. Got a good workout out of it but maybe didnt push as hard as i could have.

Woke up this morning and hit Cardio hard though. Felt awesome. This is slowly becoming one of my favourite workouts. I like that it starts off with Yoga as I typically do Yoga first thing in the morning if i am saving P90x for after work and then you get all sorts of variety. I wouldnt have said this three weeks ago when i was doing the test run but the video really does move quite quickly now.

Back at work today so hopefully that will keep me on track with my diet. Didnt do so well while i was at home but really didnt do THAT bad either.

With each workout it feels just the tiniest bit easier to imagine myself making it to the end of this.

Simone - Have you seen the infomercial for INSANITY yet? Sweet mother of everything holy. If not go to the beachbody website and check it out. Ideally when I make it to the end of this round.. AND I WILL MAKE IT... i would like to do a round of the classic and then possibly take a stab at INSANITY. Let me know what you think suhmoeknee. Luv ya my trini princess!

Monday, March 8, 2010

SIMONE - DAY 13,14,15 & 16

good morning,

last time I wrote was friday ... and i made up for the missed day .. this weekend was def one of the hottest weekends of life 36 degrees celcius OMG and the air was still .. very hard to work out
not to mention i went to the hair dresser friday evening .. soo friday was a hopeless case and could not muster up the strength to work out .. and saturday was filled with errands and to do lists and the heat had everyone overwhelmed and drained two fans on me and keron just to keep sane lol

soo unfortunatley this weekend was not as productive as i thought it would be ... and of course sunday was some more needed relaxation with some more heat .. gosh i wish i could afford air conditioning :( .. anyway soo the eating wasnt that bad ... but i had a weak moment i had something called doubles sat night .. manda u remember that .. anyway not the healthiest .. but did pretty good other wise .. i had some fries .. baked .. but cassava and sweet potato fries .. just for a change with some sauteed chicken and shrimp for dinner last night .. holy yummy but not too bad i think... not much snacking and lots of water esp cause of the heat.

good news is I woke up this morning ..MONDAY MARCH 8TH AND KILLED CORE THIS MORNING ~~ :) mornings are def my thing when it comes to working out .. i have more energy .. once i get out of bed .. which by the way was soo hard to do .. .. im trying the p90x diet this week .. to see if this helps soo far im doing well today .. it satisfies me ... as i know it did before

i weighed on sunday and i lost 2 lbs which is good i now weigh 144 soo im happy with the progress slow but steady.

im going to try to run this evening on the treadmill tonight .. before keron and i try to go see alice in wonderland in 3d!!! im soo excited :) .. gonna eat dinner first soo im not tempted to cheat lol

my mom isnt feeling well these days soo our walks are put on hold until maybe next week when she feels better .. love u mummy!!!


good going manda .. we have hard days but the point is for us not to give up and keep on getting back on the horse!! we can do it .. even if we stumble !!!

Simoney out!