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(via Bodybuilding.com - The Female Training Bible: Everything You Need To Get The Sexy Body You Desire!)
This article covers all the bases of fitness and provides a wealth of information on how to make your body work for you! Worth the read whether you’re trying to get in shape/lose weight or you’ve already met your goals. There’s always room for improvement or making the most efficient use of your time. Use this as a baseline for your research.
Sharing from theberry.com There are so many ways to get healthy, so try everything! For me it was running, I've only recently started lifting weights(in the past 10 months) and doing strengthening exercises...but only so I could improve my running form & speed. Maybe you like biking or hiking, or tennis or zumba or maybe you just hate cardio. It's ok! As long as you find something you can enjoy, it doesn't matter what everyone else is doing.
This backs up my last post perfectly - Don't starve your body, take it outside, get it moving, feel your blood pumping and enjoy the sun on your face. Don't cut yourself down and criticize yourself. Eat delicious food to fuel your adventures and every day, say "lookin good!' out loud in the mirror ;)
No need to be insecure!
Something I've noticed recently is how disturbing 'thinspiration'/'thinspo' and 'weight problem' posts can be...it seems like 75% of the content under those tags are not only accepting starvation as a method for getting skinny but outright CONDONING symptoms of anorexia and other eating disorders.
It's alarming how many girls believe that stomachs are somehow not supposed to have rolls and thighs are meant to have a space between them...That is NOT true at all. And I'm not saying that girls who have a fast metabolism and whose bodies naturally end up with a thigh gap and no tummy rolls should try to acquire more fat to achieve anything. The truth is you can be healthy and fit and in the best shape of your life and STILL have tummy rolls and touching thighs...AND have the kind of body folks are jealous of.
Another kind of post I've noticed is pictures of outfits and types of clothing that women believe are reserved only for when they are skinny.
"Things I Will Wear When I Lose Weight"
"I'm totally going to buy this item when I'm skinny"
I can understand body confidence issues SO WHOLEHEARTEDLY because I have been ashamed of myself in a bathing suit before. I have refused to wear shorts all summer, choosing instead to sweat in jeans just to cover my legs. However, some of the items include...baggy sweaters? Shoes with heels? DRESSES? Cute underwear - underwear that is hidden inside your outfit. Hell, when I was heavier, cute panties were the one thing I made sure to wear because I felt good just knowing they were there.
LADIES! There are attractive, sexy outfits out there that WILL LOOK GOOD ON YOU no matter what size you're in. Even if you don't feel confident in a bikini, short skirt, or crop top, that doesn't mean you can't go shopping and find clothes that were made for you.
I need to inject more images into these. Still playing. Thanks for reading!
Let's get started
Let's back track a little bit: My mother was at one time over one hundred pounds overweight, and by this time she had shed almost all of it by exercising and eating WELL(NOT less!!).
However, since I was a stubborn 17 year old, I refused to follow her example and continued to eat refined crap and sugary junk food every time I could, thinking she was just turning into a health nut granola eater and would get over it.
She had found her proper fit and here I was, youthful and going on eighteen years old watching my mother go out running and becoming happy with herself for the first time with a big plate of nachos in my lap...unable to wear shorts because I couldn't stand my thick legs and absolutely LIVING in baggy t-shirts that would hide my body.
So a little more about my history - I think I started this adventure right about when I started my job about 4 years ago. I landed a position at a boarding kennel for dogs and cats in 2010 and immediately was getting up at 6:00 AM to be at work for 7:00 and doing work I had never done before.
We had to walk, clean, feed, and clean some more and in addition, I was responsible for a lot of the grooming, aka vigorously brushing, washing, rinsing, and blow-drying dog after dog.
I had never done so much physical activity on a day-to-day basis like that, and naturally, my family and friends started to notice that I was slowly losing weight just from getting a little activity at work.
Eventually I started to realize that I was just doing my thing - I hadn't started a diet, or a workout regimen, or even made a decision to shed some of the pounds that were making me miserable, but they were coming off nonetheless.
It took some time to be conscious of how these slow changes came from small habits forming. I realized that with just a little effort here and there, a small decision to eat the healthier choice, or go for a short walk instead of watching TV, I could fit into my clothes again!
So, in spring/summer of 2012, I think I started in earnest to go outside and walk a mile - sometimes more, sometimes less - a few times a week. No schedule, no plan, just my iPod and a little free time here and there.
I knew my mom and sisters were all runners and outwardly I pretended they were lame health nuts, when deep inside where even I couldn't see it, I admired their discipline and of course, the healthy bodies they had wrought.
Even though I wouldn't admit it to them at first, I started jogging(no more than 30 seconds at a time, with a stitch in my side and entirely out of breath) intermittently when I went for my walks. As I began to build stamina, I jogged a little more until I was no longer walking with jogging in between - I was actually running! It took WEEKS of slowly increasing distance, but I found myself going out three or four times a week to run about 2 miles. Go figure!
This is getting wordy but I wanted to post some background. I'm starting to wish I had documented all this from the beginning! If you read my wall of text, thank you and please come back! They'll get shorter, I promise ;)
First post!
Hello and welcome! I have never done this blog/journal thing before so bear with me :)
I think the reason for wanting to document some of what I get up to stems from seeing so many people who have lost control over their weight and habits desperately try to lose weight and get 'skinny' by going on crash diets and taking on advanced workout regimens they cannot hope to maintain or WORSE - starving themselves and feeling guilty for every bite they put in their mouth.
I want to show those people - those who are angry with themselves for not having control over their diet, who believe that the number on the scale determines their worth and their right to wear cute clothes and be loved, and people who downright don't know where to start their weight loss journey - that it can be rewarding and SO MUCH FUN to change their life forever.
Now what gives me the right to say a damn thing? I don't have any credentials, but I have got a bit of personal experience...
This photo was taken back in February 2010
This one is July 2010
And these were taken this September 2014 - October 2014
I'm the one with the cool pants :P
That's about fifty pounds lost, with NO dieting, weight watchers, calorie counting, or even a gym membership(yet!). I wish I had more concrete information but the truth is, when I started making better choices for myself and actively trying to improve my life, I didn't take a 'before' bikini picture or record a starting weight. I didn't have a plan. I had no idea where this trip would take me or how far I would come.
Sometimes I wish I had, but I don't think I would have been as successful if I had set out with a goal weight in mind. This was a long and simple transition from an unhealthy, UNHAPPY couch potato to a healthy, fit girl who is SO HAPPY with her life and body :)
I'm not sure where I'll be going with this, but I'm going to click 'Post' and see where I end up. Thanks for reading!
