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[maria-the-ghoul]

Yesterday was my first day back in the gym since getting injured in January.

Slowly getting back into it.

Squat Day:

✨️Hip Thrusts: 2 sets, 30 lbs, 20 reps

✨️ Squats: 3 sets, 30 lbs, 6 reps || 4 sets, 45lbs 6 reps

✨️ Dumbell Deadlift: 3 sets, 15lbs in each hand, 10 reps.

[soulcereal]

This morning my sister and I are going to the gym in hopes to create a new healthy habit and simultaneously have much needed sister-time.

I’ve gained nearly 60 pounds since quitting hard drugs… dealing with heavy feelings and some messy wreckage from my using. The joys of recovery.

I put down the pipe and picked up a fork, clearly.

I’m trying not to beat myself up. The last time I weighed this much I was pregnant with my second daughter, so there’s that…

BUT! I’ve been here before! I counted calories and exercised my way down a few pant and shirt sizes years ago, before children & before drugs. So, I know I can do it. And I will do it. And so it begins.

[theotherstephencobert]

July 10, 2019 - The Prodigal Son finally goes back!

Today’s bicycle ride was pretty routine, to the bank and back. But I got in a couple extra miles the best way possuble.

After too damn log -- months, literally -- I finally made my way back to the gym!

I had planned this for Monday, but some excuse - OOPS, I meant reason - came up and I missed it. Today I was resolved nothing was gonna stop me. I finished getting change for the office and then biked over to the YMCA. Stran ge though it may seem, I had kept my membership up all those months I was absent, so I keyed in my member number and went to the weight room.

Serves me right for being absent so long. They bought a lot of new equipment and rearrange ti location of the ones I usually use. I found most of them and was able to get in a good weight training session while I was there. One thing I was surprised about: I was able to use most of the machines at only slightly less weight than I was setting them at the last time I was there.

Felt absolutely GREAT after my time there! I’m planning on making this a regular part of my routine and see if I can get some momentum going now!

[iridescentdesires]

Weigh In 8.28.18

Highest Weight: 242.1

Last weight in 8/11: 191.8 Weigh in today: 205.6 Weight gained: 13.8 So. I know I fell off track for about two weeks. I had a couple of good days mixed in with some pretty awful binge worthy days. My birthday started it and then the nursing boards and studying all kept it going. I took my exam yesterday and now I am just waiting at this point. Told myself today we were gonna get back to it for the two weeks until I leave for PA and then I’m hoping to at least move enough to maintain in PA.  I know I gained weight but I know that today's awful weigh in is bloat related. Gonna push a lot of water and get things on track and hopefully come Saturday I will be looking at a lot less disturbing number. I wish I could find the determination I once had a year and half ago. I know I’m capable. I just need to get in the right head space. Sick of getting partially down and then messing it all up for myself yet again. 

[tabbycat]

1325 calorie day that was filling and satisfying! I’m ONE pound away from my first big goal of 15lbs down. I can’t wait to post some progress pics • Brunch - 5 egg white omelette with some veg in there and a skinny cow wedge of Swiss, also 100g roasted potato and some sautéed zucchini. Such a filling breakfast! • Lunch - huge fresh salad, super filling and low cal. I use a few tsp of my fav Italian dressing and a few splashes of red wine vinegar. • Dinner - turkey sandwich in an ezikiel bread pita pocket. I use miracle whip light instead of mayo to save some calories. • snacks - buttery sourdough toast, snap peas, natto and rice, and a Fuji apple with a serving of PB2. • I love PB2, I just discovered it lately. I can have peanut butter again! Yay!

[tabbycat]

I’m finally seeing success

I’ve been gone a while and have faltered in my fitness goals, but I’m happy to say that I am back on track and seeing success.

I have lost 10% of my body weight so far, and I feel like I have put on some muscle with all my exercise the last few months. I’m feeling... tougher. I can run now and not feel like I’m dying. My legs feel stronger. I feel good!

Starting weight: 140

Current weight: 126

[tabbycat]

Week-long NO SNACK Challenge Results

A week ago I started a no-snacking challenge to see how I would do. What’s wrong with snacking, you might ask? Well for one I do way too damn much of it. Snacking between meals is a pitfall of mine because I eat out of boredom when I’m not actually hungry which has led to me not being able to buckle my jeans, and has led to me hate the way I look and how all my clothes fit. 

I did pretty dang well on my no-snack challenge. I’m a few pounds down and fitting info my jeans slightly better (slightly, lol).

If I did have something to eat I really asked myself if I was HUNGRY. If I was, I would have a reasonable portion of something.

I was maybe 80% successful because I did catch myself munching on things a few times when I didn’t really need to. 

This was a good exercise in moderation and self-control!

[tabbycat]

Lean People Habits: observations of the thin people in my family

Let’s face it - people who are “naturally thin” aren’t any different body or metabolism-wise than people who are overweight or obese. They’re not magical, their bodies are not special, their metabolisms are not super-powered.

What IS different is their habits.

“Naturally” Thin people don’t consistently overeat. “Naturally” thin people don’t eat when they’re not hungry.

They’re not plate-finishers, feeling the need to eat everything in front of them. They usually have food left on their plates

They eat slower and more deliberately

They eat junk food too, but not as much.

They rarely go for seconds

They’re not special, and they don’t have magical metabolisms. They’re not better than the overweight people. They just have different habits and different relationships with food. They make food choices that give them a lower caloric intake at the end of the day.

I acknowledge that the only reason why I’m fatter than everyone else is because my eating habits are different. I’m a plate finisher, I eat when I’m not hungry, and at the end of the day or week I have eaten proportionally more calories.

I’m working on changing my habits!