That New New

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Ok so I’ve been doing about the same workouts for the last couple of weeks… and guess what?!? I’m not getting sore or feeling it anymore. Go figure right! Like I have added weight to it, but it’s just not enough for me. I decide to focus more on cardio than weight training for now. Bitch is going to be in the Bahamas in less than a month!!!!!!!!!! I really want to drop a couple dozen pounds then I’ll think about shape up. Since me and traditional cardio don’t get along so well… me and the treadmill give each other dirty looks! I’ve figured I would amp up my Zumba nights.

  • Zumba = Mondays, Tuesdays. Wednesdays.
  • Weights = Thursdays. Sundays.
  • Swimming = Fridays.
  • Spin Class = Saturdays.

I’m hoping this doesn’t become repetitive or ineffective. I’m becoming also a lot more strict on my calorie count. With Zumba, my food diary says I can eat a lot more now with the extra calories burned. BUT… my fat ass, in turn, is holding onto all that old weight. So I’m cutting my limit to 1,700-1,900 daily no matter what the app says. I’m also thinking about going crazy and doing a liquid diet for breakfast, lunch, snack, and then a big dinner. Kind of like Jenny Craig but more choices lol. I could totally be wrong never done it lol.

April/May Check in

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**I’m late, I know I am a bad person.

My weight has been all over the place the past couple of weeks. I didn’t do any of my goals last month… OOPS! I wanted to eat more veggies, go to more classes, and take measurements of my body. I still have time to start the last one with measurements. The veggie thing is stupid! I literally have cans and frozen vegetables in the house too… I finally got a swimsuit, so hopefully I will take a swim class. BUT that means I have to start shaving my legs more. BOOOOOOOOOOO! And I still really need to use my fasciablaster more. I think I kind of stopped cause I was making new bents in my booty.

MAY GOALS:

  1. Go to the gym everyday to help with my challenge. I get at least 2 off days a week to skip, but that’s only extreme cases.
  2. Find new work out routines to add in once a week, plus swimming.
  3. Try to learn how to reduce my fat intake. It’s out of hand. I really thought when I started my food diary, it was going to tell me my carbs were out of hand. I was waaaaaay wrong.

Weight In!
Near the beginning of April I weighted in at 161.4. And near the end of April I was the lowest I’ve been in forever at 157.3. That was awesome except I gained a crap ton back… 2 issues I have with my numbers are what is fat or muscles?? And the floor isn’t level in the bathroom. SO I never truly know how much I weight. But I’m going to keep pushing forward. I have faith that it will be all worth it in the end.

FML…

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my fat ass gained 6 pounds in the last week. Like for reals?! FML! It was a perfect storm of overeating and not going to the gym. Yes, my body is that sensitive to weight gain. I think I’m starting to learn I overeat when I’m out with friends. I’m ok with my boyfriend cause I eat dinner with him almost every night. But when I go out with friends it’s normally bad and fatty foods. Don’t get me wrong I love me some Hooters, but it’s not good for me to eat it more than once a week when I’m trying to lose weight. It’s hard to have willpower when I go out to eat, my friends don’t make the best food choices or don’t care about calories like me. I’m back to a strict(ish) diet and going to the gym daily. It’s beyond frustrating when I was making such progress…

Shopping

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Shopping is always an annoying task when you are not skinny.

So I’ve been talking about going to the pool at my gym for awhile now. Small ish problem… I only have bikinis… more than I would like to admit too. I went to Walmart to grab a cheap bathing suit. Let’s be really real Walmart has cheap ass bathing suits. I’m not about to ruin one of my $40 suits at a high chlorine pool. If it dies, it dies. I’ll just grab another one next Spring. Sadly, after trying on the only 4 decent ones that were in my size… I found one lol! It looks like that traditional grandma bathing suit with flowers all over it. It comes up to my ribs in the back! I’ve never been this covered to go swimming before, AND I’M A GINGER! It’s not horribly ugly or anything. It’s just something I’ve never worn before or I thought I wouldn’t at this age lol. I’ll be swimming this Tuesday or Thursday… I can’t wait to add swimming to my workout routine for something need and I have bad knees.

New Challenge Pt 2

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So Monday was the first day and OF COURSE I have a huge migraine that wouldn’t quit. Well, that means I actually started yesterday. And to top it off I gained weight from Easter… long story short, I sat on my ass all day and ate. I just want to take a minute to talk about how awesome this 1stPhorm app is! The workouts are fun because you can determine what style of working out you like… circuit, HIIT, traditional, and 1 more but I can’t remember. I chose traditional cause I’m still new at doing the whole routine thing. I had arm day, leg day, and abs. I’m learning that it’s better to target certain areas of your arms. I’m definitely feeling it more the next day. My favorite thing about the app is that it has videos next to what the exercise is. I familiar to most the ways to work out, just not the names. And it gives you modifications if you can’t handle that exercise or maybe you have bad wrist/knees. Zumba is still going to be my Wednesday work out. I plan on adding it in one more day in the week. Not sure if I want to add it on Tuesdays or Thursdays… Plus, I want to add in swim class too. Or at least add swimming into my weekly or biweekly routine. There’s a pool at the gyms I go too. I really need to fit in walking the dog in there too. I haven’t took him for a long walk in a long time. We normally would do about 2 miles around the pond by my house. So, day 2 is done! ONLY 53 days left…

–Red

New Challenge

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…Cause I’m so great at these right?!

So one of my customers work with/for/idk 1stPhorm. It’s like a direct sales company but not at all for work out people. It’s more like really informed mentors. I pretty use I already talked about why I respect this company. But long story short, they have a 8 week challenge that happens every 8 weeks and it’s free! I like $Free.99! It comes with work out plans, healthy meal choices, and my customer that mentors us in a Facebook group the whole time. I did do this once before but it didn’t work for me. It started right before winter when my job is the busiest. Since I’m way more serious about working out I decided to try it again. AND the winner(s) of the contest can win $50,000! I definitely try for that lol. I’m going to try and go to the gym everyday for the next 8 weeks… even if it’s just to walk the treadmill for 30-45 minutes. They have a new app they just launched too which is pretty sweet! It helps with the workout part. Last time it was just a pdf file that never changed, unless I had no idea where to find it. It starts on the 22 of April… so I’ll wait to go crazy until then. I’m going to need to eat more protein in my diet. Costco has Robert Irvine protein bars!!!! I’m going to snatch those up soon!

Food!

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So I’m sure you’ve seen those memes on facebook about eating healthy… I eat whole meals. Whole pizzas, whole box of Oreos… etc etc. I was always the unhealthy eater that would laugh at those memes and be like same! Don’t get me wrong, I still struggle not to eat more than my daily calorie allowance. BUT… I have noticed that now when I do eat over my calories, like more than 300+, my stomach is bloated and hates me. I never in my wildest dreams thought that this would be my life lol. I used to eat until it hurt to bend over and tie my shoes on a regular. And the WORST part was that made me happy. Now I live by my food journey and the gym. I really don’t do cheat days either cause what I stated before. When they say working out in a lifestyle/mindset, they do mean it. I’m trying to explain to one of my friends to join this program that is cheaper than most gym memberships, but she is happy going to a basic bitch gym. I guess it works for her, because she rarely goes to the gym. I was once like her and I didn’t fully see the value in going to a real nice gym. She might change too one day…

**Small information about redheads, we are at a higher rate to get Prader-Willi Syndrome. So there’s always been a joke that I have it. I also used to say that I had a tapeworm which I named Pepe… why I named it that I don’t know?!

UP & down

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My weight has been an issue for many years. Mainly when I went to culinary school, I gained over 30 pounds in 2 years. I can maintain a steady weight of plus or minus 5 pounds since then. But I always was eating whatever I want. I actually have looked into getting my fat frozen off, lipo, and all sorts. I’ve been stuck at this same weight for over a decade and it’s HIGHLY ANNOYING!! That’s pretty much why I’m getting really tough on my work out and diet this year.

That being said… I had a couple of bad days and ate back 2 pounds. You don’t know how frustrating that is. It always feels like it’s 2 steps forward, 1 back. It might be muscle but idk…I try not to weigh myself too much because I become a little obsessed with knowing the number. I’m not sure what is helping me stay focused instead of just throwing in the towel like always and saying FUCK IT! But I am and for that I’m grateful.

–Red

Juice

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**At the gym I go to has it’s own juice bar. Pretty cool, not going to lie. This story doesn’t really pertain to my weight loss journey but it definitely is weird.

As you know I go to Zumba every Wednesday… well afterwards I kind of hang out with my friend and her friend while they get protein shakes at the juice bar. The guy working there seems pretty friendly with my friend and her friend. I have never met this person before nor does he know me at all. So I was kind of shocked at his choice of conversation to have with me. Let me forewarn you that I don’t get offended barely ever. I was raised in the 80’s where being PC wasn’t even thought of. I sit down at one of the chairs and this guy go straight into a story about me, my friend, and him are going to have a threesome. I internally laugh cause I know I look sweet and innocent, BUUUUUT the thing most strangers can’t tell about me just looking at me is I’ve worked with all men since I was 19 years old and for the last 4 years I have been educating women on their sexual lives. I am VERY versed in sexual conversations. And weirdly, I love making men feel uncomfortable in said convos. Back to the story, this man keeps talking about how amazing this is going to be… My favorite is when he tells me he’s “going to make you a lesbian after I’m done with you… get it? I dive in“. UMMM WHAT?! I’ve been pretty quiet until this point, but I’m dying laughing at this idiotic reference. I change my personality to day job mode and make him work for this conversation now. Both my friend and her friend are dying laughing at this scene I have now created. Long story short, I got this guy all butt hurt over a fake conversation. Then proceeds to tell me I am the way I am, because my boyfriend is bi and wants to leave me for another man. That is the farthest thing from the truth. I just laugh straight in him face and tell him how wrong he actually is. After realizing I don’t really care what he thinks about me or is getting under my skin at all, he says “we cool, just joking you know that?”. I’ll take that as a victory!

March/April Check in

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I know I’m a little late for my end of the month goals… but 1 day won’t kill ya lol.

SOOOOO… my first goal of March was to go to the gym more, cause I think I went all of 2 days in February. I went a total of 14 days out of the month! Not bad! That’s a little less than half. I’m going to give myself a gold star! And I’m still going to Zumba every Wednesdays. The instructor, who is amazing, said hi to me randomly at the gym. The group of women on that night are really positive and friendly. I wasn’t expecting it actually. Goal number dos, I’m still doing my food diary. Everyday might not be a 100% right, like while I was in Vegas, BUTTTTT I’m still doing it. It’s getting a little easier for me to maintain my lower calorie count that is now my life… sadface. And last but not least, using my fasciablaster more… that one I’ll say I half got right. I just work out late and I’m tired afterwards… BLAH BLAH BLAH I know… I’m a walking excuse…

April goals!

  1. Eat more veggies! I have been getting better with what I eat, I just need to add more of it. I started taking a multi vitamin too.
  2. Try more classes at the gym. I just found out I can go to other gyms for half the cost I’m paying for the 1 gym I go to now. So I have many many new options!
  3. I’m going to start taking measurements of my body parts. I think it’s healthier to see inches lost instead of focusing so much on weight. Muscles weight more than fat.

NOW FOR THE REVEAL!
On March 5th I weighed in at 165.8 pounds and I weighed myself the other day… 161.4 pounds!! BOOM 4 pounds down! That’s a good month! I haven’t noticed it yet on my body yet. But I’m still pretty proud of myself!! Hopefully this keeps up!