So, for the last two weeks I've been exercising. I just got to the point where I was "tired of being tired". I had absolutely zero energy, I knew I was eating out of boredom, and I was disgusted with how I looked. It was enough. I texted Maecy and said, it's time for a change - will you be my accountability partner? She agreed and has been absolutely amazing! We've been talking a lot more (which kind of stinks that it had to take this to be able to talk, but I'm glad anyway...) and it's been working. I started with BeachBody's workout "Brazilian Butt Lift" for a few days. After a few days of checking in with Maecy she told me that she thought I was doing the Insanity workout - I felt like I wasn't pushing myself for the results that I wanted and reluctantly switched over. Since then, I've probably completed TWO actual Insanity workouts that I think I'm satisfied with... as far as form and high intensity and time spent. And sweat.
I have noticed a change; I have more energy and it makes me want to eat healthier and make healthy choices. It makes me want to move more because then all of that work is going toward something. And, believe me... it's a lot of work.
Well, the last couple of days my legs have been hurting when I bend over... I assumed it was just soreness. And yesterday my leg (the portion between the ankle and calf muscle) was hurting... I assumed it was "ruma". Then today during my workout, I was afraid my calf was going to just explode, it was so tight and pained. Turns out I have a calf strain. Ugh. My plan was to cardio this fat right off my body and eat what I want. Then, Aldo's sister told me that 80% of losing weight is watching what you eat. Again, UGH. So Maecy recommended a phone app, MyFitnessPal, that counts calories and watches exercise, and keeps track of water intake, etc.
Am I turning into THAT person? I guess extreme goals require extreme change require extreme habits require extreme daily decisions.
So here are my goals:
- Wear a bikini by August 11th (our family trip to California). I weighed myself the other day because I was so excited that I was feeling better. I weighed 215lbs. What a disappointment! That is the heaviest I have EVER been. I was 205 after I had Mila. Shouldn't that have gone down since I've been breastfeeding for 2 years??? Breastfeeding for weight loss is a joke. Anyway, I used to weigh 165lbs. in high school when I was in weight lifting, gymnastics and karate. Because the app asked for a goal weight, I chose 180lbs. I thought that would be a good start, although for my height less than 160lbs. is considered a healthy weight. Come on.... for real? To get there, it says that losing 1lb. a week is recommended. Well, I ain't gonna lose much by August with 1lb. a week. So this is the goal - wear a bikini. I don't care what weight, if there's a few stretch marks or not - I just want some results.
- Pee more. It makes sense. If I'm drinking more water, then I'll be peeing more. Results you see... The "recommended" amount of water to drink PER DAY is 1 gallon. That's 7.5 of those purified drinking bottles. I barely drink 1 right now. This is going to be something I need to push myself to do. Shortly after deciding to exercise, I found a Youtube video of Joyce Meyer preaching on "Healthy Habits". It was exactly what I needed to hear. One of her main points that I took with me was instead of focusing on the unhealthy things, focus on the healthy and positive things. Sounds more like a Joel Osteen message, but I would have to agree in this case. And it has helped. Instead of getting bummed out about missing 2 days of Insanity, get back on the bandwagon the 3rd day. And if you miss that day, get back on the 4th day. Don't beat yourself up. That would just send me back into a slump of eating peanut M&Ms.
- Reach ___ HEALTHY calories per day. So I like to eat. And I like a challenge. And from what Joyce Meyer said, I need to keep this positive. It's really negative for me to think - oh, I can only eat lettuce every day and stop completely with the sugar. And I know I will fail that mission. So I'm switching my thinking... my goal is to eat [so many] calories per day of medium to healthy food. Like, my goal IS to eat. But the challenge is to make it a healthier thing. So maybe I want peanut M&Ms... well, instead I'll have some blueberries. Or maybe I just want to eat something... the challenge is to not go to the frozen pizza or cereal bowl and get crafty to make a healthy something. AND, to my benefit eggs are easy to make and so is oatmeal.
Let's see how this goes. Expect a thrilling follow up of how much of a babe I am!! <3
