Still maintaining strong, folks! Hey, at least I'm not gaining right? Yeah, that mantra isn't really doing it for me anymore either.
I was out of town this past weekend so I didn't have the opportunity to take measurements. That will happen this weekend.
I took some "beginning" photos for NROLFW... well, one. I got distracted and didn't get the side shot. Enjoy:
Looking at this.. compared to this:
I was out of town this past weekend so I didn't have the opportunity to take measurements. That will happen this weekend.
I took some "beginning" photos for NROLFW... well, one. I got distracted and didn't get the side shot. Enjoy:
I am definitely feeling okay with my weight loss and body changes so far!! Anyone else find it bizarre that my face is totally the same regardless of the nearly 30 lbs difference? lol
My goals for February were:
- Break the fast-food habit
- Finish 30 Day Shred/Start a new program
- Do yoga with James at least once
I am happy to report that I was mostly successful in all of my goals this month. My fast-food intake has come way down. Mike and have instated a new rule that we only go out for lunch on Mondays and Fridays. This a) saves lots of money, and b) saves our health. I didn't do the last 4 days of 30 Day Shred, but I'm okay with that as I went straight into New Rules of Lifting for Women (NROLFW) and am occasionally adding some HIIT to that. I did yoga with James, as well!! Plus we did other exercising together a few other times. He really enjoys it and that makes me really happy.
New goals for March:
New goals for March:
- Wrap up Stage 1 of NROLFW (9 workouts to go!)
- Make morning yoga a regular routine (I've been doing this as a "rest" day activity in the evenings, but it really helps jumpstart my day the few times I've done it in the morning)
- Stick to consistent sleep schedule (this means trying to go to bed and wake up at around the same time on the weekends as I do during the workweek)
These all seem pretty reasonable to me.
One thing I really noticed this past week is how much more positive my body image has become. I still have "fat" days, and times where I don't like the way certain clothes fit or feel, but overall I am really loving my body. It makes it so much easier to want to take care of my body now, too. The one thing I still struggle with loving is my belly. I gained a lot of belly fat just before and even during my last pregnancy. This is always the last place fat wants to vacate, so that doesn't really help matters. I also think part of the reason my belly doesn't look the way I want it to is because I had a baby... y'know... just over a year ago. Skin gets stretched out. Shit happens. Maybe I just haven't reached my "bounce back" point yet. Maybe I never will. Maybe I'll need a tummy tuck. Who knows! ...I honestly don't think I would ever get a tummy tuck. Because I'm a big scaredy baby when it comes to surgery and/or general anesthesia. Hopefully weight lifting will allow me to get my stomach looking somewhat less stretched out and "normal" again. We'll see. In the meantime...
..."they" all say abs start in the kitchen, and this is true. I need to reign in and watch my macros more closely, as well as reign in the calories. I've been eating right around maintenance for the last month, maybe a little longer - this is showing on the scale. I need to steadily be eating between 1900-2100 calories without eating back exercise calories. This is my biggest crux. I need to just stop logging exercise calories. MyFitnessPal allows you to log exercises and assign them with a specified calorie burn - for example: I can log my NROLFW Workout A as being a 1 or 2 value in calorie burn. I did this for a couple days and then.. stopped. For some reason. Probably because I didn't want to be real with myself and admit and face the fact that I was continuing to eat at maintenance when I know in order to continue losing weight/fat and slimming down I need to be eating at a TDEE deficit. It's all good. I'm getting there. And, honestly, it may just be one of these things where I'm just going to be in a "I don't wanna" phase for a month or two and then will snap out of it. I'm allowed that. It's all a process, and if I start harping on myself I'll just end up quitting altogether, which obviously doesn't accomplish anything. However, it is good to know that I can maintain when I get to that point. Bonus points!
One thing I really noticed this past week is how much more positive my body image has become. I still have "fat" days, and times where I don't like the way certain clothes fit or feel, but overall I am really loving my body. It makes it so much easier to want to take care of my body now, too. The one thing I still struggle with loving is my belly. I gained a lot of belly fat just before and even during my last pregnancy. This is always the last place fat wants to vacate, so that doesn't really help matters. I also think part of the reason my belly doesn't look the way I want it to is because I had a baby... y'know... just over a year ago. Skin gets stretched out. Shit happens. Maybe I just haven't reached my "bounce back" point yet. Maybe I never will. Maybe I'll need a tummy tuck. Who knows! ...I honestly don't think I would ever get a tummy tuck. Because I'm a big scaredy baby when it comes to surgery and/or general anesthesia. Hopefully weight lifting will allow me to get my stomach looking somewhat less stretched out and "normal" again. We'll see. In the meantime...
..."they" all say abs start in the kitchen, and this is true. I need to reign in and watch my macros more closely, as well as reign in the calories. I've been eating right around maintenance for the last month, maybe a little longer - this is showing on the scale. I need to steadily be eating between 1900-2100 calories without eating back exercise calories. This is my biggest crux. I need to just stop logging exercise calories. MyFitnessPal allows you to log exercises and assign them with a specified calorie burn - for example: I can log my NROLFW Workout A as being a 1 or 2 value in calorie burn. I did this for a couple days and then.. stopped. For some reason. Probably because I didn't want to be real with myself and admit and face the fact that I was continuing to eat at maintenance when I know in order to continue losing weight/fat and slimming down I need to be eating at a TDEE deficit. It's all good. I'm getting there. And, honestly, it may just be one of these things where I'm just going to be in a "I don't wanna" phase for a month or two and then will snap out of it. I'm allowed that. It's all a process, and if I start harping on myself I'll just end up quitting altogether, which obviously doesn't accomplish anything. However, it is good to know that I can maintain when I get to that point. Bonus points!
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