Unoriginal Ass Workout Blog

Just trying to commit to myself

[fatfitkid]

Today I decided to write some notes of encouragement and body positivity. My life has been ridiculous lately and I went almost 2 weeks without any alone time (I’m usually alone). I feel so strained and stressed and stretched past my capacity to handle shit. I need motivation and help refocusing so I took the initiative. My self esteem is low and instead of depending on things and other people to build me up, I need to be able to be confident in myself on my own. I’m hoping this will help me out, even a little. Cheers.

[fatfitkid]

So this past week I started feeling like my workouts were starting to get too easy / weren’t really building my muscles. I was workout out maybe 30 minutes of hiit on average, something just to get me up and going. This week I decided to up my workout time to 1.5 hours. My body is feeling it and I love it. But, I also hate it. lol I did lower body yesterday and my body is still feeling it. I also got 1 hour of sleep last night so I’ll have to nap before I workout today.

I took this photo Monday! Best angle of the muscle forming in my arms. 💛 I can’t wait to be able to do pull ups!

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I did it!! I did THREE SETS! Not one, but three! Of 8 regular degular pushups each set. It was hard asf, but I did it! Before I started working out, I could barely do knee pushups! Now I can do 20 shoulder tap knee pushups in a set and 8 regular ones in a set. Bruhhhh the feeling of my body not creaking and cracking as I do them was the best part. I was able to actually push my body to do it without fearing I would hurt myself. It was just my muscles and my breathing. Im in fucking awe and I’m so fucking hype! I’m not seeing much in the way of how my physical body looks and that’s okay for now (I really want defined muscles) but being able to use my own body feels fucking amazing.

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I fell off this week. Working out and eating right both kinda went down the drain. Somehow I haven’t gained back the weight I lost. I actually lost another pound. I do have an exercise bike on the way and I’m excited because that’s a workout I enjoy. All I can do is hit it when I get the chance and try to minimize setting myself back as much as possible.

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This week has been hard and easy at the same time. Working out has been the easy part. The hard part is that I’m not on schedule like I was last week. I’m falling asleep late (last night I went to bed at 5am). I’m waking up early. I’ve been waiting til the afternoon to workout because my body just isn’t ready in the morning, but that’s when it’s the chances of me actually working out drop. Somehow, I’ve still worked out though. But staying up late has to stop. I keep eating at night. It’s not even a habit I’ve had before. I don’t start getting hungry until noon. I eat when I feel it and then I’m coasting for a lot longer than I feel like my body should be. But then, as the day goes on, I’m suddenly starving. I eat what I have prepped, but it’s not enough. It’s like all my hunger hid itself for the day. I think if I can get myself to fall asleep at a decent time, I’ll wake up hungry and my eating schedule will start to fix itself.

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I did start meal prepping though! This is from last week. I lost 5.3 pounds in the single week. I had the salads for lunch and the smaller fruit and veggie trays for snacks throughout the day. For breakfast, I had a slim fast shake when I didn’t want to cook and made an egg sandwich with half the ingredients I usually use (1 piece of bread and 1 egg instead of two, less meat, etc.) when I wanted something hot. For dinner, I’d have a Lean Cuisine frozen meal or extras from my meal prepping when I didn’t want to cook. Turns out, I prefer my cooked food, but my sleep schedule is still terrible so I don’t have time/energy every day to make 2 meals. My plan for this week is to meal prep 2 meals a day and see if that helps!

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Been a while since I’ve been on here. Struggling with fitness as much as I’ve been struggling to keep this blog up to date.

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I know I haven’t been writing but I have been working out! Well, actually, I missed working out yesterday. And I’ve been eating more carbs the past several days (I don’t do cardio so I’ve been staying on the low carb side usually). Every time I eat carbs, I get the itis. I’m just immediately tired and in need of a nap. It’s been making me care less about working out so I want to cut back down. Problem is, I’m broke as hell rn so eating low carb and being full off of less/healthier food is really hard to manage.

A friend of my sister’s has (allegedly) been losing 8lbs a week, but she is literally starving herself. Eating maybe 500-800 calories a day, all eggs. I’m not trying to starve myself like that. Also, won’t be good for the muscles I’m trying to build. I am trying to lose 2-3lbs a week, that’s including fat-> muscle, but I read somewhere you only build half a pound of muscle per week on average and I honestly don’t think I’ve been pushing myself hard enough to build that much muscle per week.

I’m running low on workout motivation so if anyone has some encouraging words, please send them my way.

[fatfitkid]

I’m just feeling too sad to workout rn. And I just bust my knee on the floor trying to do knee ups on my stability ball. It’s all 💩 I’m gonna just get breakfast and try to workout later.

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Day 3

I posted about the last two days of working out on a different blog, but decided I wanted to create one specific to working out so I can post progress photos and really get into working out without potentially alienating my audience.

I’m using BodBot to set up my daily workouts. I alternate upper and lower body. My equipment (minus the tripod) is pictured below. Not pictured is the stability ball I’m sitting on.

Photo description: yoga mat, two 10lb dumbbells, one 25lb dumbbell, one 30lb dumbbell, gloves, and two 2.5lb weights meant for adjustable dumbbell)