30 Day Workout Challenge

I don't often talk about diets, because it's a dirty word that has all the wrong meanings associated with it, especially for people who are overweight or obese. To many people a diet is a fad or a crash course to losing weight fast before they go right back to eating how they always did – and thus put the weight back on. What it really should mean is a lifestyle change in our eating patterns. It doesn't even necessarily mean changing what you eat, only how much of it you eat on any given day.

Intuitive eating is something thrown around a lot, especially in the healthy at every size movement. But is it really so simple as 'eat when you're hungry'?

Xenical is a prescription drug containing the active ingredient orlistat. After reviewing the studies done on orlistat, I started using it for 30 days.

Xenical's orlistat is from Roche Pharmaeuticals. (This is in contract to My Alli's orlistat supplier, which is an unnamed Indian pharmaceutical company.)

Directions: Take 1 capsule, up to 3 a day, with each meal containing fat.

Take a multivitamin once a day at bedtime.

Claims: Fat blocking

Ease of use: The capsule is average size, made of a coating that gets slick easily and goes down well. It has no smell whatsoever. I had no trouble taking it with either food or water.

FDA: Orlistat is approved for both prescription (Xenical) use in a 120 mg dose and over-the-counter (My Alli) use in a 60 mg dose. It is also available by prescription in Canada and over-the-counter in Australia and the EU.

Week 4 of P90X is a break from the normal routine you settled into for the first 3 weeks so has to be reviewed by its lonesome. And I have to admit that I had a tough time motivating myself to do this week and did not complete it in a week; it actually took almost 2 weeks. Whoops.

But as I said in my (link) P90X week 1-3 review, I really do not like YogaX. And yet yoga X is done two times in the fourth week along with the even more infinitely boring X Stretch. It was hard to rally myself and get myself motivated to exercise on these days. Yoga X is absolutely killing this program's appeal to me.

In the coming weeks, I'll be trying to find something that I feel is effective for replacing Yoga X. I believe that if I keep trying to do this particular yoga program my slacking and dread of working out on those days will only get worse. I'll discuss what I find for replacement in future articles.

Peripheral Equipment:

Yoga blocks (optional)

Yoga mat (optional, but I recommend it)

Weight loss/aerobics:

Since it's only been two weeks, I am not going to post a picture of my graph. I managed to drop 3 pounds total, the graph is still steadily tracking down but did reach a stall, most likely because I was 'resting' so much by making excuses to not do Yoga.