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After a one day break, I am back at the gym. My football team won this weekend and I found 5 dollars so I could purchase sponges for my apartment. Things have been looking up for me.

What hasn’t been working is the scale. Yes, my meals haven’t been perfect but they haven’t been crazy either. I’m not sure why I haven’t seen any progress in two weeks and I’m worried.

Maybe it’s time to right size and check my MyFitnessPal. For the next week I will log everything and see where I land. Maybe there’s more calories than I realize which will be brutal because I’m already hungry. The good thing is, the workouts are pretty consistent. I don’t go more than one day without a good workout, so now, it’s time to focus on food.

Keeping postive. Sending good vibes!

Day 7:

I am writing from Joshua Tree. This was a nice ending and beginning of a week. I am here on a retreat to get focused and one thing I want to work on is wellness.

This past week, my lunches have been good. I meal prepped :

Grilled shrimp, onions, and garlic

Zucchini and mushrooms

2 baked chicken legs

Summer squash

2 tablespoons of marinara sauce

Almonds

1/2 orange

I spend the time intermittent fasting which has its up and downs of how hungry I am. I drink tea with a little Apple cider veingar in the morning but I have to remember not to add too much vinegar or my youth and stomach hurt. But overall it’s a great drink to stage off hunger.

I worked out 3 times this week, including elliptical cardio, and weight training. Today at Joshua Tree I ran 2.5 miles in the desert sand which was great and took this picture. My goal is to keep my health first and my wellness at the forefront.

Here’s to the second half of January and more new beginnings. My goal is to continue to cross things off my list, do well at work, and find moments of pure joy.

Day 1:

I just recently went through my tumblr posts and remembered how fun it was to blog. It also helped me stay on track with my goals. There are three that I’m focusing on this time around:

1. Weight Loss

2. learning Guitar

3. Writing

These three things are things I enjoy, which I think will enrich my life and make me a better person. I moved to a new place, I’m settling into my routine, and I’m meeting a lot of new people along the way.

Yesterday I started intermittent fasting and it was hard at first, but I loaded up on meat and veggies while at Whole Foods (which is the most expensive place on the planet)

I fought the cravings and made shrimp, onion, and zucchini bowl which was divine.

I drink a lot of tea and water to get me through the day and try to Lee my mind busy. Right now, I’m just focusing on eating. Working out is secondary.

Day 1 The most fit since I stopped playing sports was when I was in graduate school. I had spent endless hours of googling the right diet, the right workouts, and I spent hours using fitness as a way to heal after a particularly bad breakup. Since then I’ve had relative fit moments (usually closer to vacations and festivals) and not so fit moments (when I’m at my most stress.) The ups and downs are hard to manage and the uncertainty lends itself to sabotage. Triumphs feel short lived and the person you know you could be sits in the wings, waiting to be called, but never answered. One way I know that helped was the blogging. I blogged everything from recipes to inspiration. If I was so successful then, I could be successful again. I could take some of those principles and apply them to my young professional life and see what sticks. But I can’t lose this time. I can’t continue the cycle, the heartbreak, the elation, the in-between. I want to be my definition of healthy and fit. I want to be the person that I was then because it was a reminder of my abilities but also mental strength. It showed me what I could do if I applied the right amount of effort and rewarded me with accomplishments that I rendered on my own. So while the first post is wordy introspective jargon, the next will be steps on a journey. This is my time. I’m not afraid to begin again. And I’m not afraid for this to be my last beginning. It’s finally time. All those years have led to this moment. I hope to look back on this post and smile because this was the turning point. This was when my whole life changed.

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