Measurements - Week 1

Well, my weight has not changed, but there are a lot of reasons why that might be happening, still annoying though. Hmph!

BUT my measurements are still shrinking slowly but surely...

I lost another 1/2" in my arms!!!!! {12.5}
lost another 1/2" in my hips!!!!! {38.5}
lost another 1/2" in my waist!!!!! {34.5}

I think the change is my arms is the most amazing.... they have been at 13" since the beginning of time!!!!  -  ok slight exaggeration there, but they've been at 13 for a very long time. 12.5 is huge to me...

i gotta keep going with this....

The hike....

a few weeks ago, a typical saturday for me would have been going out to breakfast (after a long night of drinking) maybe doing a bit of shopping, and then A LOT of lounging around the house in sweats. then having lunch. lounging some more, then dinner.

lazy and full of calories.

saturday is my cheat day, but i don't want it to completely ruin my progress for the week, so on friday i invited all my friends to go on a hike in santa barbara, followed by a delicious lunch/dinner at Eureka burger - {which by the way is the most amazing restaurant to have a cheat day at.... EVER}

not a bad idea, huh? burn a boat-load of calories THEN have your cheat food.... i like it.

and, it was so much fun!!! {can you see the excitement on our faces?}

i think we have decided to make this a weekend tradition.

Measurement update: SUCCESS {so far}

All this week I've been sticking to spinach smoothies and egg whites for breakfast, chicken and spinach salads for lunch and a paleo-inspired meal for dinner.

I've also been doing body boot camp at lunch three days a week.

The report: I've lost 1/2" in my waist and hips, everything else is still the same, but hey that's a huge start.... especially for having been doing this for only 4 days so far.

High-Five to myself.

:)

It's 2013, and this year I mean it.

it's 2013...

every year countless people swear they'll make a change. i'm guilty myself of doing such things....

this year, i'd like to mean it.

i'd like to mean it when i say i'll eat healthier, run more, eat less processed foods, get smaller and smaller until i fit into that elusive size 6...

so what was the first step?

i undeleted this blog. and i made it public again. and i am going to try my hardest to document the things i eat and exercises i do until i am a size 6..... i'll even take a size 8 for now. as long as i do it and i mean it.

Day 1 - check.

:)

I haven't really been putting much focus on diet lately, and if I decided to step on the scale tonight I'm sure it would show. Life has been stressful to say the least, and when my body experiences stress it does one of two things: I over eat on delicious fatty foods like burgers and french fries, or chocolate ice cream... etc. OR my appetite is completely gone and nothing is edible.

Well, this time, my body has decided to combine the two... i now feel completely nauseated about 70% of the day, and when food actually does sound good.... its the salty, fried, fatty foods that my body is ok with ingesting. Luckily though.... I don't eat much of it.

I'm at a loss right now... I don't know how to curb this eating issue my body has decided to create – And NO I'm not preggers.... but right now veggies and sweets are making me gag... and that is so weird.

I'm really hoping this is all over soon. This can't be healthy for me.

Vegetable garden...

last weekend I did a little work around the house.

I turned my overgrown side yard into a vegetable garden.

I can't even express to you how excited I am to have all these beauties growing in my own yard:

tomatoes

bell pepper

jalapeño

cayenne pepper

zucchini

cucumber

broccoli

green beans

green onion

basil

thyme

oregano

LOTS and LOTS of veggies and herbs!!

here's to having healthy foods right outside my door!

Coach and be coached...

Still doing the boot camp... and I'm still loving it so far, even the sore-almost-every-day element doesn't seem so bad anymore. It's a good feeling.

SO... my friend Wendy wanted in on the boot camp action, but she couldn't participate because it's through my work and it's an "employees only" type situation, so what's a girl to do?

Well...

 I am writing down all the exercises I do at lunch time boot camp and do a 2nd boot camp evening workout on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

Yup, that's right. DOUBLE boot camp.

The 2nd workout is almost harder because I am trying my very hardest to show her how to do the exercises properly, which makes them harder... But it feels great, and I really think the 2nd workout twice a week is amplifying my results. I feel like I am shrinking a bit quicker, I'm firming up in more areas.... I'm getting fit.... just a teensy bit faster.

And I like that.

So I am going to keep putting in the work, and hopefully start to see major results.

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Last night's workout:

Warm up jog - about 1/4 mile.

Running sequence around 5 cones, sprinting.
(3 minute, 2 repetitions)

Chariot Pulls {where you run with a rope around your waist
and your partner pulls back on the rope and runs with you}
(3 minutes, 2 repetitions)

Regular squats, with workout band - lifting band with arms as you come up from squat
(1 minute, 3 repetitions)

Workout band curls - Standing on band while doing curls with band
(1 minute, 3 repetitions)

Rock climbers (aka: evil workout from hell) - plank position while moving your feet up and down in a running-like movement. HARD STUFF
(1 minute, 3 repetitions)

Stretching and some yoga loveliness.


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done.

It sounds much easier than it really is... this stuff is rough, I tell you.

but I love it.