Personal Fitness Blog

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Lifestyle changes

FYI: Losing weight isn’t about getting lighter, it’s about finding a new normal that allows you to balance your new health goals with the realistic indulgence and enjoyment of food and drink. If you sway too far one way or the other, it becomes hard to maintain. 

…But it will take you a while to figure out the balance, and that’s okay. It is hard to break the cycle of gaining, or losing in order to find a realistic maintenance intake. Take it day by day and think realistically about what your body needs vs. what your mind wants to consume. 

It will be the single most trying obstacle of your weight loss journey. Consciously deciding to commit to different consumption patterns will take some trial and error, but you can do it. You are in control and there is a power you will learn to master and apply to your day-to-day life. It is possible.

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Mostly Just Blabbering

I had not even realized, but I started this blog on the first of this month. It’s kinda a pleasant surprise- I do things when the whim strikes, not waiting for “a good time to start”. But when I saw how it all lined up it just fit... especially with #noexcusenovember. So... here is an update on the last few days.

I am pretty happy with my work outs. I’ve been doing quick- but not easy- bodyweight training at home, focusing on a certain group of muscles each day. I’ve done arms and back, butt, abs & obliques, and today I focused on thighs. I’m pretty sore and have to remind myself to consciously eat some protein and stretch! Btw, I think my absolute favorite is working out my glutes (yass booty), and my least favorite is probably.... quads. Lunges suck. My weakest muscle groups (or at least the ones that tire out and burn the fastest) at this time seem to be my abs and triceps. Mostly this is just me to myself about keeping in mind where my biases are and where I need to focus on. I’ll also want to keep stretching too, I’m incredibly inflexible.

Food over the last few days has been hit/miss for me personally. I went to a party last night and, well... pizza, garlic knots, chips and salsa, and my friend poked me into trying a pumpkin spice twinkie. A twinkie! I’m not super thrilled with my food choices yesterday because of that, but I forgive myself. For one, it’s a party... for two, no point beating myself up about it now. I’ll consider more carefully in the future how I can avoid going overboard at social gatherings. Still, I have started making some better trade ins as well. For dinner Friday night, I took home a ‘low country shrimp’ from work. It’s a moderately sized portion of basically shrimp gumbo, with a lump of rice in the middle. Tonight will be some beef stew with veggies and I am EXCITE.

As I reflected over the last three days, and week overall, I decided I was okay with the times I didn’t make the best choices possible. For one, this is literally week one (of this round ^///^) but also... I realized suddenly, and I don’t know why this simple thing never in all these years occurred to my damn self before, that I can’t expect myself to overnight change years of my current habits and lifestyle. Of course I had heard it before, said it to myself before, but I feel like this is the first time it has actually sunk in. The point is, I still made consciously made better choices this week than the week before. For me, it’s still a win.

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Which will you choose!

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Use this simple positive thinking techniques flowchart to help change your thoughts and conquer the unwelcome cynic in you.

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Big Effing Reminder: If you’re adopting a healthier lifestyle, please don’t get discouraged after a damn week. You need to be patient and remember this is a slow, steady process and your body needs time to adjust. This shit doesn’t happen overnight or in a week. Chill.

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A big healthy sandwich for lunch to make up for the pizza last night 😏

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I need some sprout sandwiches!

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The reality of Instagram Modeling

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This is important.

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I mean also just a handy guide

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I absolutely love this

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Yesterday.... well I am not going to call it a flop, but it wasn’t ideal. I did some at home bodyweight training for my arms and back but I was pressed for time and don’t feel like I really pushed myself as much as I wanted to. I did make time for a pretty solid breakfast, tho- I was ravenous and knew I had to be full to resist temptation @ work because I am a waitress in a restaurant. I fried up 2 eggs with pink sea salt. fresh ground rainbow peppercorn, and a small sprinkle of red pepper flakes with a half of a lightly toasted everything bagel spread with pumpkin spice cream cheese (I shit you not, dear diary, it tastes like a piece of pumpkin pie...) with a mug of chai tea- minus the milk and sugar I normally add to it. 

*reminder to myself to invest in healthy snacks I can take to work*

But there I fell off the wagon! I ended up eating broccoli mac n cheese @ work for lunch....and then my lovely boyfriend surprised me with tickets to Thor: Ragnarok and I definitely drank most of his soda...so thirsty x.x Dinner was... dinner was two individual bags of cool ranch Doritos leftover from my Halloween party. I’m so ashamed ^ ^; I was just so tired I felt like I didn’t even have the energy to heat up my beef stew like I had planned. But! a new day is here, and I shall do better than I did yesterday.

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Breakfast :) Apparently pumpkin spice cream cheese + everything bagel = pumpkin pie???

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I really don’t either a) generally like to cook or b) have much of a kitchen facility, but here is a picture of my amazing dinner... frozen “Mediterranean chicken quinoa” with bell peppers, kale, and sun dried tomatoes.... I’m all about being healthy and convenient, sign me up!

ps. it’s delish.

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I will glo up physically I will glo up mentally I will glo up spiritually I will glo up financially

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🍌💪🏼 FITBLRS 💪🏼🍌

I want to follow some actual, human people trying to get fit. People who upload progress and share tips, not generic motivational tumblrs.

Reblog or like this is you’re a real human fitblr pls.