#ouch

if you follow me on instagram, you may have seen that I started the bikini-body-guide yesterday!

I've been researching the bbg for about 2 months now, and following kayla (the creator) on instagram.

don't follow her unless you want to be completely 100% motivated by the transformation pictures.

(@kayla_itsines)

I finally showed her instagram account to my cute workout buddy, jadey.

and then we both got even more obsessed about doing the bbg.

and SO, here we are. day one complete! and 12 weeks to go! haha!

but we are really pumped, and are hoping to see some awesome results (especially right before summer!)

^just look at how good our form is!^

before we started yesterday, we were looking at the day 1 circuits and we both said, "oh, that's not even bad!"

uh. wrong.

IT WAS SO HARD.

like probably the hardest workout I've ever had.

and I (used to) think I'm pretty tough.

this was 10x harder than: p90x, insanity AND jillian michaels COMBINED.
(the intensity of it may be a little affected by the fact that I haven't been able to do ANY cardio for a month because of my dang cough and weak lungs. i was literally dying. and crying over the fact that I felt so fat and was SO ANTSY TO RUN. so I mostly just pouted while I ate tubs of ben and jerrys on the couch. HA this is my life.)

jadey and I have been running/workout buddies for almost two years (!!!), and this seriously kicked our butts.

we were one hott sweaty mess.

thank goodness it was raining last night, because we literally stood outside after each circuit complaining that it was too hot outside. HAHA

so, if you've considered doing it for awhile, I am happy to be your real-life sacrificial lamb--I'll give you the good and the dirty about it.

but a quick p.s.: the first thing that intimated me was the equipment needed for the bbg. 

jadey and I didn't want to go to a gym to do it...I knew I'd need a good ground to lie on after each circuit, and I didn't really want to lay like a pancake on the gym floor (but I'm seriously giggling a little just thinking of that image)

BUT kayla has some ways to substitute some of the equipment.

and I've been following other girls doing it, and learned what they used instead.

so all you really need are:

dumbbells

jumprope

and some sort of sturdy furniture to use as a workout bench

today is ACT testing for the juniors.

and I feel so bad for them as I watch their little stressed faces while they clumsily punch numbers into their calculators.

and then their faces scrunch up as they look from their calculator to the test booklet and can't find a matching answer.

It's times like these that I do NOT miss that phase of life--and they still have all of college ahead of them. poor poor children.

but then again, I was complaining all last week because I have to "re-certify" my teaching license.

and I had to make a whole portfolio and watch all these dumb videos.

does it ever end!?

but I'm happy to announce I am officially done with recertification--wahoo!

anyways, wish us luck on day 2!

(my body already hurts...)

oh, and:

currently reading: sarah's key

SO GOOD

just finished: where'd you go bernadette?

(super quirky read--definite recommendation)