Thursday night I managed to mangle both of my big toes so badly, I immediately had to call in to work for the next morning.  Without going into too much detail, let’s just say my left was completely jammed, and my right…well, I lost pretty much all of the skin around the top and back.  The good news is I’m a very, very quick healer, and it already looks much better and my left feels about 95%.

My amazingly supportive wife actually wrote out an entire meal plan for my first week of P90X, made a grocery list, and we cleaned out a lot of the fridge and freezer together to make room.  Today we went out and bought a ton of stuff; turkey meat, Nulaid egg subs, almonds, dried fruit, Fat Free yogurt, all fruit jam, veggies, V8 Juice (last time I tried that stuff I was 10 years old and gagged) and other stuff.

Part of the whole basis for success on P90X is “bringing it.”  That is, doing your workout every day and sticking to the basics of the nutrition.  Since I am 6′4″ and weigh over 290, I actually get to eat a hell of a lot on P90X, but it’s all quality, high protein foods for the first 30 days, then the diet shifts.  Despite my size, my body fat is still less than 30% (28% at the moment), so I think as long as I “bring it” I should be able to dip that under 15% in 90 days, based on what other people are doing.  15% puts me in the “healthy” range for a male at my height.  Ideally Id like to be around 10%, but we will see how realistic that is after the first round.  It’s funny, even though I am expecting P90X to be a lot of work, even when I’m not actually working out (managing my eating, cooking meals, planning, etc) I am incredibly excited for it.  I look at the three month commitment like this.  Remember when you used to leave school in June and then when you’d return in Fall, someone would ALWAYS look different.  They’d have grown a bunch, lost weight, gone through puberty etc?  That’s sort of how I’m approaching this.  I am going on a little vacation of my own to push and challenge myself for 90 days so that I can see what I really am made of, and return to school looking and feeling better than ever.  I guess the funny part is that I’ll actually be in summer school the whole time. Whoops.  Speaking of which, my graduation ceremony was today and I blew it off.  I don’t feel like I have many peers in my graduating class (I turned 33 two weeks ago) and really, I’d rather sleep in.

Anyway, the first day won’t be easy.  I have to work a 5am-noon shift, and manage to eat properly all during, and then come home and do my first ever P90X workout, which will no doubt almost kill me.  I’m planning on a very tough week.  Fortunately I do not have a lot on my schedule aside from working Monday morning, Friday night, and again on Saturday morning.  I just know I am going to be sore, sore, sore for the first couple of weeks.  Pain is temporary!