#thisismypath

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#keepmovingforward 👉 I’ve spent the last month in Thailand. Working out at an old school gym with rusty equipment and a very limited range of machines. I love #running for #cardio and i’ve had so much fun running in the jungle. Warm AF and you really gotta watch your step - but so much more fun than the treadmill. 👉 But no matter where I am in the world - I always have got to #moveforward 👊 I will keep on pushing myself hard and I WILL improve. I will get better. #thisismypath 🙏🏻👊😀 Wishing you an absolutely amazing Sunday and I hope you will stay on YOUR path and keep on training hard and improving 👍👊 Like and comment if you’re chasing your dream 👍👊 #trainharderthanme #gymmotivation #gymaddict #gymquotes #chaseyourdreams

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Stuck in the mud

That's me lately. I'm having trouble getting motivated to do much at all. It's easier to just not go anywhere. I'm still going to the dojo.... I've learned I always feel better afterwards. Even when working on things that make me uncomfortable (and today was one of those days). Yoga has taken a back seat (and not so much because of how I feel as because of life. Kids have had snow days/delayed openings or school activities, and that stuff has to come first). My weight loss has stalled again... probably because of the last paragraph. My eating is only so-so. My kids are on vacation next week, and so am I. I'm going to bring my hand weights with me, and try to do something every day. I'm going to try to eat healthy, but not worry too much. When I get back, I'm shaking all this off and starting fresh. I need to get my confidence back. I need to get back on track. Here's to March being a new month, a new beginning?

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Monday morning weigh in

Last Monday found me up 10 lbs from my last weigh in (months ago). Not a good way to start the new year. This week.... down 5.5 lbs. I figure it's mostly water.... for the first time in awhile I'm drinking the water I should and not drinking the coffee like usual. Here's to more positive changes in 2017.

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Week 1: good so far

So the ironic part of my goals... I decided before Christmas I was giving up drive through coffee.... and then o got a gift card to my favorite coffee place :-) eh hem. But anyway, a week (ish) in, and and no drive through coffee. Also hit my water goal the last three days. So all that is good :-) my eating has been good - I wrote a meal list on the 2nd, and we've stuck to it so far. And I've been packing up the left overs for lunch, and have been sticking to that, too. So far, so good this year!

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I talked to a family member on the way to the Y this morning. It’s become a weekend thing - we workout Saturday or Sunday mornings. My family member says to me good for you for working out. It got me to thinking.. I mean, yeah. But I feel so much better on the mornings I workout. My joints feel better, mentally my days are so much better if I workout, and I sleep so much better those days too. Plus I am stronger, I feel stronger, the weights I’m pushing are higher. It is good for me. And? If I can do it, anyone can. I was so out of shape when I started. I’m still overweight, but I try hard not to focus on weight as a number, but focus instead on staying active, working out, and moving my body.

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My class is typically strength/lifting on Tuesdays and cardio on Thursdays. Tuesdays we do less reps with heavier weights, Thursdays more reps with lighter weights. Why is it cardio days hit so hard?? I am so much stronger than I was, and I need to keep telling myself that.

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Spent the week in the mountains - my only exercise was hiking. In the realm of small wins - my knee didn’t give me the grief it has in the past. Step by step I’m getting stronger.

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Box jumps and Bulgarian split squats - amongst other things - but both are two things I could not do at all 6 months ago. My box jump was on a step with no risers - so super flat - but more than I could do 6 months ago. I take my small wins when they come!