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April/May Check in

Posted on by RedHeadMess

**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.

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