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: 133 (Today)
Goal weight: 115
20 pounds down, 18 more to go! one.day.at.a.time
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
Don’t set up a time period in which you want to reach your UGW or size - for example don’t say “I need to be x weight by July” or whatever you may be telling yourself, because if it doesn’t happen you are just setting yourself up for discouragement.
I am guilty of this too, I want to be at my UGW by my trip to Cancun at the end of July - but at this rate, I’m realizing that it’s probably not going to happen…
Then I remember that if I just keep on going I WILL get there eventually, whether it’s this year, or next year, or in a couple of years - it will happen, and that’s the whole point right?
Next time you start to get discouraged about not losing weight fast enough - think about how you will get there one day and how amazing it will feel. Let go of your time constraints.
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
I have a bad feeling about trying to fall asleep tonight
Hopefully all goes well and I’ll be able to fall asleep relatively quick - who knows though
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
learning to do this more often
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
Today’s warmup/workout - do it fast, as usual ;)
Weight loss progress - this is a classic example that the scale lies! This gentlemen only lost 1 pound and look how different he looks!!
This circuit, is fast, yet very effective - it will get your heart rate up as well as work your muscles
Thrusters example - make sure when you squat down, you squat bellow your knees/parallel
Boyfriend and I are going to see Starwars in 3D (lol - I know) - but I’m going to take a huge tote bag with me filled with my own popcorn and water. :) Boyfriend thinks I’m ridiculous - I think it’s brilliant.
