Post 30 Day Challenge

So earlier I posted the script Betty Rocker suggested for completing the 30 Day Challenge.  Here's a bit more of a follow up to that post:

First, a challenge completed pic!

Lol, I was dressed quite colourfully today. 

I wanted to actually see what progress I'd made (since I don't really feel like it's been that much).  So here's my pre-30 Day Challenge pic next to this one:

Wow!  I'm actually a bit more toned in the mid section and bum area.  That's super exciting to see!  I think my arms have a bit more definition too (you can't really see it, but I know I'm stronger - at the beginning of this I couldn't hold a plank).

I also weighed myself after the workout:

weight: 209.8 lbs
fat percentage: 45.1%
hydration: 37.7%
muscle: 27.0%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2344
It's interesting that my weight, fat percentages, and muscle percentages haven't really changed through this whole month - the fat and muscle percentages are both the same as the day I started. 

I also completely failed at taking measurements.  Here's what I got this time:

Waist: 35.25
Hips: 44.5 or 43.75
Left Thigh: 23.25 or 22.75
Left Arm: 14

Like during my halfway measurements, these are all over the place.  I was thinking this would be a good way to measure progress, but I guess not.

Oh, and a note about that Challenge Completed statement: I got to fill in a couple of blanks.  I was the one who added in that I "find it easy to fit a 15 minute workout in on most days and what workouts I like."  Adding in a 15 minute workout on most days has been surprisingly easy.  I have a harder time on days where I work 9-5, so going forward those will be rest days in my schedule.  The second part of that statement, that I found out what workouts I like, was also interesting: I absolutely hated the cardio ladders and the tabata workouts.  I talked about the cardio ladders when I checked in about day 27, so I won't repeat that mini-rant.  But it was during a tabata workout that I hurt my knee at the end of April, so I've been very leery of them since then.  I find that because you're going so fast, you end up sacrificing form for speed, which leads to injury.  So I wasn't very enthused by the Day 30 Workout (it was a tabata), but I made a point of going slower so I could do the movements correctly. 

So that's been my progress over the last 30 Days!  I haven't seen numbers on the scale move in any significant way, but looking at the pictures side by side, you can totally see the difference in my body! :)