Month: January 2017

Refresh Results

Starting weigh in: 205.9
Today’s weigh in 200.4

Change: 5.5 lbs

I really enjoyed the Shakeology 3 day refresh! I didn’t miss coffee for the 3 days, I drank herbal tea as recommended instead. Since I was drinking 4 shakes a day I REALLY got excited about the small servicing of fruits/veggies/fats I could eat. I feel like I really enjoyed the food.

The downsides were peeing all the time, including many times throughout the night. Also I didn’t realize how tempting it was to grab a pretzel if T had a bag out or a food sample in the grocery store.

I also hosted a going away party for my colleague and I picked up a huge sheet cake and a nice fruit tray, but I just drank water. I was okay with not eating the cake, but I was cutting it and not licking frosting off my fingers. Truth be told I brought. Piece home for T and a piece I had this morning.

I definitely plan to keep up the recommended fruit and veggie/fat (ex. Carrots and almond butter) servings and really want to get better about pounding water. Gotta keep up this momentum!

WIW sorta

I’m doing the Beachbody/Shakeology 3 day refresh since it’s only a 3 day work week. I started yesterday and it was decent. I didn’t feel overly hungry and I’m drinking a TON of water. The hardest part was the timing of when to eat since they way certain windows of time between meals, snacks, etc. 

I weighed in yesterday and I will weigh in on Friday morning when I am done:

Yesterday: 205.9

Last Week: 202.8

I honestly have NO IDEA what is going on with my body. I’ve worked out 14 of the 17 days of January so far. I’m feeling better and stronger, but some out scale, stop fucking with my head. 

MLK 5K fun!

Yesterday two former colleagues joined for me a 5K that we power walked and T ran. The 5K was at a park/lake near my old job, so I reached out to some former colleagues/friends who I had been wanting to reconnect with. We had a lovely time walking and talking. It was a super small race so there was no pressure and we didn’t get in anyone’s way. We did the 5K in ~51 minutes. T ran it, but missed a course sign so he ran it a bit short. He ran it in sub 29, that jerk! 

You’d think waking up at 7am on my day off for a 5K was enough for me, but no I went to a 6:30pm kickboxing class that was very choreographed. I loved the instructor’s energy, but her cues could have been better. Not sure if I’ll become a regular, but it was a good workout – I feel it today. 

How Do You Measure a Year?

measuringlife:

I knew in 2010 I wanted to make big life changes. Aftering a conversation with a friend during a long roadtrip I took the challenge to measure my year in “cups of coffee” as per the song seasons of love in RENT.

For the past 2 weeks I have been tracking my coffee intake and it got me thinking about tracking other things as well. This blog will be my living journal as I track these aspects of my life:

My weight
How often I go to the gym
What I did at the gym
How many miles I run on a tredmill
How many calories I burned at the gym
If I have not eaten after 9pm
How many times a day I wake up early to take a long walk with my dog

I’m committed to changing my diet and lifestyle this year.
I have been on a half ass diet for most of my adult life, that has yielded limited or temporary results.

I’d say the last time I really felt good about myself was my sophomore year of college/beginning of junior year. Looking back I really looked pretty great. Strangely enough I have no idea how much I weighed then either, therefore I don’t have how far off I am from getting there again.
I’d say I was also in decent shape my last semester of grad school. I even have TONS of great clothes from that period that I would love to wear again.

Well I’m dedicated this year. I’m testing my self, my mind, my body and my soul.
If I’m not successful in OH-TEN than I think I’m going to commit to being fat.

My dad struggled most of his life with weight and yo-yoing. He was heavy for most of my youth and then in high school he lost 100 pounds with slimfast, diet, and exercise. He even kept it off for 6-8years. It was when he retired that he started putting on weight again and obviously defeated he let him self gain nearly all of that weight back. His unhappiness with his body ultimately led him to get gastric bypass surgery which killed him.

I want to love my body, whichever body I am supposed to have and maintain. So if things don’t work out for me this year (which is a trial run, which if successful I plan to keep up for the rest of my life) than I want to stop trying to reach for something that is impossible and just learn to love myself where ever I’m at.

Now don’t get me wrong I will always want to stay healthy…I want stay active and try and eat right, but I think this is a test of my state of mind, body and soul.

Seriously, why halfway diet if you get no results. My body tends to like where it’s at regardless of what I eat or don’t eat, exercise or don’t exercise. So in 2011 if big changes haven’t happened I think I’m going to be content with how I look, but I can’t be content unless I try my darnedest within reason.

I have no plans to act like a biggest loser contestant, but I do plan on monitoring my sugar intake (my mom did that and transformed her body and her life),I also want to eliminate late night eating (only liquids after 9pm), in addition to going to the gym at least 4 times a week (I would like to try and get to a 10 minute mile on the treadmill), I want to walk more (morning walks with Freddie before work to get my blood pumping, parking farther at work, etc).

Ideally I’d like to lose 5 lbs a month (which means 40 pounds by my birthday which would be magical). I am only going to weigh myself on Fridays, instead of obsessively weighing myself. I’m on a kick of writing lots of things down (thanks in part to my coffee count) I have made a nightly checklist so to speak to keep my self accountable. I also think writing all this in blog form also makes me accountable. I not only said it, but I WROTE it for the whole world to see (not like the whole world reads this), so it’s pressure, but good pressure.

My mantra may come from a weird place, but it has been speaking to me nearly a year now:

I don’t care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

It’s from Radiohead’s song “Creep”, but the lyrics really stood out to me when David Cook covered it in his old band Axium. Obviously I’m not looking to fit popculture’s definition of perfection, but rather the best version of myself.

If I meet my goal, I would also like to get those lyrics tattooed on my side/ribs. Recently I been to writing the lyrics everywhere to serve as a reminder of the task at hand.

I think this is all truly attainable. The only way I could fail is if I LET MYSELF FAIL.

I encourage you all to ask me how I’m doing and to keep me in your thoughts and prayers on my journey this year

Today marks 6 years since I officially started this fitness and blogging journey! 

I was on blogspot for a few months until I learned about the fitblr community in May 2010. This is been a treasured space, resource, and community every since!