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Day 23

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Workout: TurboFire HIIT 15 video

Meals: Chocoprotein bar, Panera Greek salad and Sierra Turkey sandwich with chips and a chocochip cookie, cantaloupe, roasted chicken thighs with veggies

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So I’ve discovered that drinking lots of tea really affects how my body flushes things out. Lately I’ve been drinking green tea in the morning and vanilla-chamomile tea at night, and I haven’t had much of an issue with bloating since I started doing that. I know that chamomile helps with bloating and green tea kicks your metabolism up, so that must be it, but I had no idea my body would respond so well to it! I’ll go with it.

This week I’ll be paying my last vendor, finishing up the last of the decor, and organizing our timeline so that everything can run as smoothly as possible on wedding day. I just can’t believe it’s right around the corner now! It’s a pretty exciting time, and I’m just doing as much as possible to fully enjoy it and not get stressed out because it really is falling together so well. 

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Day 36

Today's going to be an extra long and extra exhausting day at work so instead of working out before work I logged in early so that I can finish the day sooner lol. Once I'm off B and I will go for a good walk because we've been so busy this week that we really haven't had a chance to just stop and talk, so we're going to run away for an hour or two to do that this afternoon. I hope everyone has a wonderful Friday and I really hope it's nowhere near as exhausting as I know mine is about to be.

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Day 38

Workout: TurboFire 45 video

Meals: repeat yesterday, minus all the candy (secrets revealed on my fitness pal womp)

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TODAY is a busy day. Taking my dress in for my FINAL FITTING can you BELIEVE IT OMG. It’s been nice to have this dress be around because after all the times I feel like what I’m doing isn’t working, I can put the dress on and realize that it’s keeps getting looser and I know I’m getting results.

Might have had my dress on for like an hour last night just so I could look at myself because I love it so much and every time I put it on all of my insecurities about the wedding go away. Is that weird? Don’t care, embracing it.

BUT I have to prep for this little “cube warming” at work coming up on Monday because the team I support is moving to a new campus, and we’re trying to make them stop being so sassy about it (old people are such babies, I swear). Then LOTS of wedding prep today. Being a little over 5 weeks away from the big day puts things in perspective on how much is still not DONE! AH! AND it’s one of my best friends’ birthdays today so I need to stop by her place (luckily she lives literally like a block down the street) to give her her present and give love to her sweet 5-month old. AND we have premarital counseling tonight, so I have to get all this stuff done BEFORE that because it always runs longer than planned.

Charliepup is currently snuggling me JUST to snuggle and NOT to steal my food. This is a rare occurrence, people. It’s really super cute, and I’ve been putting off getting up to do stuff because I don’t want the love to end. Sigh. must stop procrastinating.

I like endorphins. Off to be productive. Be happy, lovelies!

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Day 39

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Workout: TurboFire 45 EZ video

Meals: Check out MFP! amesizzy

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Okay, y’all. How did we get here? Day 30-freaking-9?! HOW? 

I feel like there’s so much that has to be done I just have no idea how I’m pulling all of this together lol. I need to take my dress in for my final fitting tomorrow, I need to finish the decor signs, put together bridal party gifts and party favors, pay remaining balances to my vendors, ... holy crap there’s so much to do. 

Also okay. I’m trying to not freak out over the fact that my body doesn’t LOOK exactly how I want it to. I feel GOOD, I’m active and doing things that I like doing, I’m eating well and I like what I’m eating. I’m way better than where I was almost 200 days ago. I just can’t help but think that I should have done MORE, even though there’s literally nothing MORE I could have done. And then there’s the thought that if I pull off slimming down AFTER the wedding I’m going to look back on pictures and regret that I couldn’t be whatever smaller size on my wedding day. But that’s not what it’s about, you know? There’s a bit of a fight going on in my head, and I’m just not sure how to get past it.

Why am I on here right now? Gotta go DO STUFF.

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Day 46

Workout: TurboFire HIIT 20 & Core 20 videos

Meals: ZoneFit (or something like that) chocolate mint protein bar / watermelon / chicken taco salad! - lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, crushed multigrain tostitoes, tomatoes, monterey jack cheese, bacon bits, green onions, cilantro with aubernutter‘s bomb homemade ranch dressing (SO GOOD) / handful of chicken in a biscuit crackers / grapes / ground turkey wraps with avocado, salsa, and a cilantro-lime crema thing

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I have been SO SLACK on posting workouts and meals lately - sorry! I promise my slack-ness on here does not equate to what I’m actually doing. :) Like I’ve said before, I’ve realized how crappy I feel physically when I don’t work out and my body’s been so sensitive lately that eating too unhealthily isn’t really an option!

Also, ummm we are TWO DAYS from being the MONTH BEFORE my wedding. WUT. 

Hehehe so I accidentally found out where our honeymoon is going to be. B’s planning all of it and it was supposed to be a surprise, but when he booked the hotel on booking.com, it charged until the hotel name instead booking.com, and I manage our bank account sooo.... whoops. :) OH WELL I AM SO EXCITED! Anyone have any suggestions for cool things to do/places to eat in Asheville, NC?

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Day 59

So. I was going to take Charlie for a good long walk this morning, but this. dog. Was so SPAZTIC that it took 30 minutes to cross a street that is 5 minutes from my house. So I took her home and trucked it around the neighborhood behind mine by. myself. for the next 45 minutes. 

I think the dog knows I’m talking about her because she keeps looking at me all puppy-eyed. Of course NOW she is all sorts of snuggly. 

Anyway. Gonna go make myself a burrito bowl for lunch. Hope everyone’s having a fabulous day. :)

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Day 60

AH! Workout: TurboFire HIIT 20 video And I WAS going to do the 30-minute Strength video, but then I realized 15 minutes in that I had 15 minutes to shower and get ready before a 7am conference call, so that put the kapoosh on that plan. Meals: Fudge graham protein bar/watermelon/(all the) empanadas/dark chocolate granola bar/homemade burrito bowl.

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Day 61

Workout: Fire 30 TurboFire video

Meals: Zone Perfect Fudge Graham protein bar / watermelon / roasted chicken & veggies / KIND Dark Chocolate Crunch granola bar / homemade mongolian beef with brown rice

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2. months. until. wedding. day. OMG. I might have put my dress on the other day just because. It’s loose again. :)

Since I stopped tracking macros and started to eat somewhat intuitively/find balance, I feel like my body’s been reacting really well. I’m actually surprised because, for example, I ate ice cream for dinner last night (no regrets) but I’ve been waking up much leaner than I used to and I just feel better overall. 

It’s also been really cool to realize how much better I feel on days I work out verses days that I miss. When I get up in the morning and do a workout, even if it’s a super quick 15-minute thing or as simple as taking the dog for a walk, I feel so much more alert throughout the day. On days where I don’t get up early enough and have to wait until the afternoon, I feel sluggish and cloudy all day. And it’s by no means any sort of guilt-ridden sort of thing; I’m just paying attention to how my mind/body responds to being active. It’s so interesting to see how much my body works so much better, and when I miss a morning workout, I feel how my body actually craves to go do something active. This is what I wanted when I first started working out. I wanted to feel clear, I wanted my body to want to be active so that I could actually willingly go instead of just forcing myself to go all the time, I wanted to enjoy what I was doing, I wanted to see results. 

Feeling good. :)