P90X - Let's try this again

OK. So this is my second attempt at the P90X. I saw some decent results from the first go-around, but I stopped after 30 days (I had a birthday then went on vacation for two weeks to New Orleans and Mexico and had a bit of a hard time getting motivated during and afterwards). It’s January 4th and from when I stopped P90X I’ve gained about 17 lbs. This morning I stood at 187. It’s all hanging on my gut. I should take pictures to show the results, but I’m almost embarrassed about it. I’m 29 years old and would like to get in the best shape of my life. I’ve always been active growing up and I played college baseball in the SEC through college. I’ve toyed with running after my college days and would like to run a marathon this year, but I’m a long way off. I hope to stay true to the P90X program and get some running in at least 3 times a week this time around.
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As I said earlier, motivation has been very difficult. Day one began poorly. We have had snow in this weekend which only happens a couple times a year and usually brings the area to a screeching halt. Our town does a pretty good job and clears the roads, but this morning, they woke my wife up around 4:45. She couldn’t sleep, so neither could I. Honestly, I was inappropriately angry this morning. I didn’t want to be up at all. My wife asked me if I wanted to get up and do P90X, and I reacted so poorly, she no longer wanted to join me this morning. I poo poo’ed around and started day 1. About 3 minutes in, I was very thankful for my early morning motivation. I later expressed my gratitude to my wife.
Now, I’ve been through this before, but the chest and back day is tough. All those push-ups and pull-ups, Uggh! I’m not good at the pull-ups and I struggle to do 6 on any exercise even with the assistance of a chair. I remember that this will get better. All in all, it’s after 11:00, and I’m not too sore yet. I can’t wait for Wednesday. Body will hurt.
My biggest challenge will be the first couple of weeks and managing my diet following the Holidays. I’m amazed that I gained less than 20lbs. I love food, and I am hungry. I usually go overboard on the diet front, but I’m not sure of any other way to do it.
Evening update: After work I did the abs workout. My disk skipped, but it was towards the end and I knew the remainder of the work out. Then I went out for drinks.

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As stated above, I went out for drinks last night. 4:30 came very early. When my alarm when off I couldn’t help but think what my wife told me the night before: “Don’t get up early and do P90x, we can do it together in the evening.” So the alarm went off at 4:30. I was tired, a little hung over and I reset the alarm to 5:55 and laid back down. Very disappointing….
BUT then my guilt overcame me and I sprung out of bed (ok… rolled out of bed) and walked around in the dark looking for shorts, socks and a shirt. Made it to the living room and after finding batteries for the Blue Ray remote, I began Plyometrics. I remembered this being the toughest of the workouts, but I really didn’t remember it was this bad. I was actually getting tired in the warm-up. The jumping almost killed me, and I believe at one point in time (through my fog) I decided to never smoke a cigarette ever again (we’ll see how that goes). It was really tough. No, it simply sucked. But I finished. I even did the bonus (which is actually pretty easy after everything else).
Everything hurts. I noticed this when driving to work this morning. My shoulders and abs are probably the worst. I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’m going to have a hard time getting out of bed, and I look forward to the struggle to sit down on the toilet. Day 2 down. Check.

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I knew it was coming. It’s Wednesday, and I am hurting. Oh shit. I am sore. I actually don’t remember being this sore the last time around. I think it’s probably because I’ve stepped it up with weights (just got some of the Gold’s Gym adjust-a-weights) so now I don’t just use an 8lb and a 25lb dumbbell. Today was the arms and shoulders and all those muscles already hurt before today. My legs are what hurt the worst today. My prediction on toilet sitting and getting out of bed was certainly true. I think my new system is going to work. I have a hard time doing the full hour work outs then the extra 15 min of abs on the abs days, so I’m going to continue to do the abs in the evenings after work.
Getting out of bed today was terrible. I did notice a difference though, there was no doubt I was getting up to do the workout. I’ve also noticed a couple of subtle changes after only two days: 1) I’m getting extremely tired driving to work, but 2) My energy level is much sustained throughout the day. I was wide awake at 11:00 last night (I usually start crashing around 8:30).
On to the diet: I’ve been pretty good for the first few days. Eating breakfast in the morning (either oatmeal or cereal) and having a salad (thus far from Arby’s) or a veggie sub from Subway. I haven’t been as good in the evenings, but I haven’t been that bad either. Monday, I had a large portion of veggie fried rice (which was too much food, but I ate it anyway), Tuesday, my dinner was good (healthy potato soup), but I had some ‘light’ potato chips and some light French onion dip with them prior to dinner. I haven’t been all that hungry lately, but I’ve been trying to mix in 1 grapefruit in the mid-morning and 1 in the mid-afternoon. I’ve heard (and experienced from my youth wrestling days) that grapefruit has magical weight loss properties. So, after day three, I believe solely due to diet, I’m down 5 lbs. 182 today. I would love to see the 170s by the beginning for P90X week 2.