Psychology major
I hope i can motivate all of you as much as you motivate me
Most of the pictures I post myself on here are my original photography/motivational words. I Hope they inspire you.
I post workouts every Monday and Wednesday that I do in my circuit training class, they are very effective if you want to give them a try
feel free to ask me anything
Age: 21
Height: 5' 1" (I'm pretty short)
Starting weight: 153 (Aug 2011)
Current weight: 132 (Today)
Goal weight: 115
21 pounds down, 17 more to go! one.day.at.a.time
I extremely determined to get over this plateau so I’ve written out a new workout plan that’s different from what I’m used to.
Mon/Wed - 1 hour of Yoga, 1 hour of Rollerblading
Tuesday/Friday - Running ~30 minutes
Thursday/Saturday - Stationary Bike or POP Pilates ~45 minutes
Sunday - Actual Bike ride 12 - 24 miles
Hopefully this works!
It was so much fun!! I didn’t eat horribly and I exercised almost every single day (either at the gym or during our day-long excursions) However I gained a few pounds of water weight.
Water was hard to come by down there in large quantities so I barely drank any everyday and drank WAY too much alcohol - I think that’s what caused most of my weight gain. If I had drank more water and less alcohol I probably could have lost weight on this vacation from how active we were!
So starting today I am detoxing - no alcohol, no salt, minimal carbs, lots of water, watery - fruit, and lean protien.
I leave for Cancun this Friday and I’m not anywhere near my UGW/size.
It’s not that I didn’t try my hardest, the bottom line is that it just didn’t happen for reasons that are out of my control.
Am I discouraged and upset about it? Not really - I am not as skinny as I’ve ever been, but I am in the best shape of my life right now and I feel great about myself.
I am going to continue to strive for my UGW/size, not with a time-frame in mind, because I know if I keep on keeping on it will happen eventually and that’s all that matters to me.
Two days ago I weighed 133.4
Yesterday I weighed in at 132.8
and today I weighed in at 131.8
How is this even possible? I know weight fluctuates, but I haven’t seen a weight that low on the scale for a long time! Also, yesterday I ate a huge steak and strawberries and whipped cream, and 2 glasses of wine - I was sure that I was going to weigh in at 133 again (I always show a little bit of weight increase the day after drinking)
Also my workout yesterday was 50 minutes of mild yoga, I barely broke a sweat.
Maybe my 6 month platau is seriously over and my body is compensating? I really have no idea, but I’m not going to change my weight on my blog to 131 unless I see it a couple more times on the scale.
Hot damn that took forever!!
I was yo-yoing between 134 - 137 for months it seems!! Finally yesterday I was 133.8 and today I was 133.4 so we’re making progress.
Hopefully this incessant plateau is over! It was seriously starting to make me crazy
This is a before and *during* photo - I still have about 20 pounds that I want to lose in order to be the right size for my height - but I really needed to see this, to see how far I’ve come so far, kind of re-motivated me :)
I’m wearing the same shirt and shorts in the first two photos, and the 3rd photo I’m wearing more of a skin tight shirt to see how I’ve changed since then
Today’s workout: my legs feel like jelly now! I chose to do 40 burpees instead of the 1 mile run. Finished in 21 minutes :)
If you don’t have a pullup bar - just do 50 tricep pushups instead :)
If you can’t do a full pullup, do jumping pullups until you get stronger
Forgot to post yesterday’s workout - so here it is - abs are so sore today from doing 1500 flutter kicks - totally worth it though!
In case you didn’t know:
Here is an elbow pushup example
Here is a flutter kick example
Seriously - you can do so much more than you think you’re capable of
Breakfast:
1 piece of toast
1 tbsp peanut butter
1 cup vanilla almond milk
Snack (only if I’ve lifted weights):
1 cup chocolate milk
Lunch:
salad (spinach or romaine)
1 can of tuna (or chicken breast)
1/2 avadado
2 tbsp honey mustard dressing
Snack:
1 string cheese
1 small palmful of pistachios
Dinner (usually anything just a small portion) BUT an ideal dinner is:
grilled chicken or fish with roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, and parsnips.
All of this is usually ~1500 calories
definitly think I can do it
I still have clothes from back in the day from when I was smaller that I’m slowly size by size fitting into. Makes me so happy to see my progress this way
can’t wait to get down to my UGW/size and buy a whole new wardrobe (I’ve saved so much money not buying clothes every time I visit the mall for the past 6 months) I’ve seemed to have broken that addiction
Weight loss progress - this is a classic example that the scale lies! This gentlemen only lost 1 pound and look how different he looks!!
