Ease Into Fitness

Why start a tortuous diet and exercise plan when you can ease into fitness? Learn how I lost 70 pounds in 12 months and ended up running a 10K by 10 months. Also, check out < 500 cal recipes and instantly slimming beauty tips! Disclaimer: No diet or exercise program should be started without consultation by your physician. Tips found on this blog are for my personal use and should not be considered as medical advice.

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HELLO AGAIN! How do you feel about me moving to Instagram?

Hi!!!! I know that my blog has been seemingly abandoned but transitioning into an adult routine with a big girl job has been challenging. Thankfully, I have kept the weight off!!! I did fluctuate upward by about 10-15 pounds, but I have been successfully on the “down swing” for about two weeks, now! 

I wanted to shout out to everyone an update (and see how many people actually still look at/see my blog) and see how you feel about a possible move to Instagram? I feel like Instagram would be easier for me to keep up with. :)

I hope everyone is doing well! I will post some recent pics and some of my before pics now. :) Oh, and I’ve been blonde for over a YEAR now. Which means I haven’t posted an update in about as long. Hopefully this will be encouraging to those of you worried you’ll gain all the weight back once it’s off. Not so if you ease into fitness!

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I couldn’t track down this original post, but this is seriously important.

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Two falls, two hair colors, two glasses, too happy. Oh goodness.

238 ~> 152

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Transitioning from being a student to joining the workforce has proven to be a challenge to healthy eating for me. It is difficult when I work 60-72 hours every week not to spoil myself with food or just inhale whatever is in front of me. I’ve gained about 7 pounds doing this.

Today, though, I ease back into fitness. Seven pounds is nothing when I was 90 pounds heavier.

Today, I grocery shop. Today, I meal prep. Who’s with me?

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Thought a wedding guest progression would be fun.

Left Pic: December 2012 @ max weight (dress size 20); Middle Pic: July 2014 @ 46 lbs lost (dress size 12); Right Pic April 2015 @ 82 lbs lost (dress size 4)

How is your Monday? Going to try to to better today. This is what I ate yesterday (lol) => pecan pie + fried corn bread + BBQ chicken + Mac and Cheese + good vegetables + watermelon + sherbert + ice cream + doughnut + chips and dip + cashews + spaghetti and meatballs. Studying for my boards make me want to EAT. I take the law exam Saturday. Say a prayer!

I don’t think I have to try that hard to do better today, haha! But if I don’t, oh well! Still tracking!

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I ATE PECAN PIE FOR BREAKFAST THIS MORNING

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you look SO young!! how old are you?

24 :)

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Left pic: Last summer at 45 lbs lost; Right pic: This weekend at 86 lbs lost.

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Ease Into Healthy: 5 Quick Tips

1. Do not give up the foods that you love. Let’s say that your favorite food in the entire world is a doughnut, and you cannot live without having a doughnut at 3pm on Thursday. ALLOW IT. If you are following an eating plan to lose 2 pounds per week you can eat 1000 extra calories every day and NOT GAIN A POUND. The reality is if you ease into tracking your meals, start increasing your activity level, and become more in tune with how your body feels your food motivations will change. Some Thursdays you may find yourself not wanting that doughnut as much because you’ve started to notice how sluggish it makes you feel. Other Thursdays you will not care at all and eat three doughnuts and that is PERFECTLY OKAY.

2. Track weekly calories and embrace the splurge days! If you are on a plan that projects two pounds per week weight loss, that means you are eating at a calorie deficit of 7000 calories per week. Translation? YOU COULD EAT 7000 MORE CALORIES AND NOT LOSE GROUND. Thus, one day over your calorie goal or even over your maintain weight goal will not cause weight gain.

3. Do not weigh yourself every day. This is a good way to become a little too obsessed. The reality is that true weight loss is a slow, laid back process. Minor daily fluctuations are due to a little thing called water. Weighing yourself once weekly, or my personal favorite of weighing once every two weeks, is more ideal.

4. Accept that your projected weight loss will not be reality every week. The human body is a complex organism, and the number on the scale can reflect any number of physiologic changes. Say you ate perfectly and exercised really well last week, but the scale didn’t budge. DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED! Engage in a program that you can have faith in to work and stick with it. The pounds will eventually come off and putting stress on your body by deviating from your healthy and realistic eating plan to try a “cleanse” or supplements or crash dieting can put you mentally and physically back at square one.

5. Know when to ask for help. This is a big one. Although I have found success through calorie counting, this has been due to my ability to not obsess over it. If you are able to look at calorie tracking as a game or general guideline, that is great. However, if you find yourself obsessed with your ins and outs, it’s time to take a break and talk to someone. Even I have went through periods of time weighing myself 5-6x/day and recognizing a budding control issue have asked my husband to hide every scale in the house from me. Have someone to keep you accountable in the anti-obsess realm. Your mental health is as important as your physical health, and without your mental health in check optimal physical health cannot be reached. Talk with your doctor before starting a diet plan and make he or she your number one accountability partner. Talk to someone in your home, at work, or a friend who will build you up. Seek out people who do not make you feel objectified. People who believe in you and live to see you thrive. Let these people help you stay committed to your mental health, first and foremost, and be open to them when you start noticing patterns that make you uncomfortable. Silence is never the answer when it comes to maintaining your wellbeing.

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Left Picture: 1 year anniversary at 48 lbs lost, size 10-12, ran a 5k, BMI obesity class I. Right Picture: 2 year anniversary at 86 lbs lost, size 2-4, ran a 10k, BMI normal weight, my smallest weight ever and smaller than my husband for once in my life (teehee).

I know I haven’t updated you all in a while. I have been busy graduating, working, and studying for my boards! 

Only 14 lbs to 100 lbs lost! My ultimate goal putting my right smack in the middle of my healthy BMI range. Take that heart disease!

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PSA for Body Positivity: Whether you tell someone they are too big, too skinny, going to get fat, going to get too thin, no matter what you say to that effect you are objectifying that person and making them feel like their body is being surveyed and that is never ever ever okay.

It is one thing to focus on improving a person’s health. It is another thing to focus on improving a person’s appearance.

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After a brief misstep, today, I get back on track.

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Confession time...

This has not been the most successful "healthy eating" week for me. Although I have not lost ground, I have hit my "maintain weight" calories every single day, and every morning I have been waking up feeling like I was punched in the abdomen. It's not healthy to be eating what I'm eating at the level I am eating it.

I have not had time to cook lately, so I have been eating a lot of packaged/prepared foods that I know I can trust to not get glutened. BUT I have settled for less-than-nutritionally-sound days, and I am paying for it.

Example: Last Thursday, I ate 500 calories worth of potato chips and French onion dip for BREAKFAST. Then, I went home and ate a 3rd of a carton of ice cream. THEN I munched on gummy snacks throughout the day. THEN I went and got a big plate of steak stir fry and ate about 800 calories of "yum-yum" sauce (basically straight mayo and sugar) with it.

WOW. I could really use some vegetables and meat in my daily intake right now. Here's to hoping someone gets the urge to cook a LOT of food today, so I can have leftovers because I do not have time to go cook it myself.

How was your week? Oh, also, I lost a pound. ??????????

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Y'all, I am 13 lbs away from target BMI. If I can get my act together, I can be at that goal in six weeks. Here's to actually trying!

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WHOOPS

I lost 6 lbs over the past 3 weeks by staying consistently within goal. I go away for the weekend and have not met goal for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday! Now, it's time to quit slashing tires and get back on the road. Here's for another 6 lbs!

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I’m in size 4 shorts! Styling by IG: @jessiewm44