Have a lean, powerful, energetic body that matches the woman inside it

I’m getting thicker and its SO uncool.
I have been doing some videos and trying to walk a lot but its been gross out and my resolve has been weak.

I’m eating pretty well, but i have to do something about going out especially. There are a lot of ‘dinner outings’ with the boys, and i eat a lot of HUGE sandwiches.

So here’s the new deal:
NO WHITE FLOURNO REFINED WHITE SUGAR

Its easier to stick to that than to say ‘i’m going to eat more vegitables’.

I feel like my trouble (lethargy and food coma’s) may come from my eating schedule rather than from what i’m eating.

I often find myself eating because i’m starving and making poor choices as a result.. So I’m going to try and eat 5 times a day.

6:30am Cheesy Bread (dark euro-rye with 1 slice melted swiss cheese) OR english muffin and cream cheese OR granola/yogurt, fruit and coffee

9:15am hard boiled egg and Fruit OR oatmeal

11:15pm Big meal of grains, vegitables, beans/protein with water and fruit desert OR dark chocolate square.

2:30 veggie sticks and mustard/dip black tea

5:30 soup or salad for dinner

8pm fruit/yogurt and tea

I’m gonna start re-grouping my day like this and see what happens.
Hopefully i’m more aware and alert in the morning and less hungry in the evenings so that i don’t binge.

I hit a kind of body ‘low’ in the last week or so.
I was eating a lot and not doing much of anything.

I have walked a lot the last week and played basketball and mostly been doing more and i feel a heck of a lot better.
My arms are kind of achy from bowling on friday (okay so bowling is cancelled out by the beer it took to get me there) but its still refreshing for my body to remind me that i have been active rather than feeling like a slug.

I set goals left right and centre and they don’t really inspire so, i think i’ll just try to drink water before i decide to cut to the chase and eat something, and remind myself how happy i am to go walking places rather than taking the bus. I love walking here because its suburbia and hardly anyone else does it, so i can sing as loud as i want and no one listens. :)

I’m satisfied. This is not to say that I’m at my leanest, strongest or have six-pack abs! But you know what? That doesn’t matter to me now. I’m happy. I feel good. I’m healthy. I’m making healthy choices and I’m taking care of myself spiritually.

I haven’t been paying much attention to this goal. I can blame a busy summer, travelling, hot weather, joint problems….bottom line is this goal fell down my priority list.

I have managed to lose a couple of pounds and pay much better attention to my eating. But even a serious reboot on my attempts to get back into an exercise routine weren’t working this week. Every night it’s been scouts, soccer, teacher meetings….

So this morning I got woken up at 4:00 by someone snoring. Instead of drifting back to sleep I just told myself “NOW” and went to the basement for a workout. Nothing spectacular. Some stretching and a half hour on the treadmill. Damn, it felt good.

I started packing it on again (the pounds) when i finally had a home and my own cupboards/fridge space. Not so good, but at least i’m eating. The problem is that i haven’t got a real excersize plan in the works yet…
Today i walked up ‘The Hill’ to my house which takes about 25 minutes going up and about 10 minutes going down at a walking pace because the incline as about a 40’ slope. I am always a little winded and pretty sweaty by the time i get back to my apartment, especially if i’m carrying stuff, like just now with about 20 lbs of groceries.
I think this is good.
I plan to use this to my advantage to negate the disadvantage of being up a hill too steep to bike to and from.

My tentative plan is to walk home from school or at least up the hill 4 times a week at minimu. Thats how many times i ended up doing it this week anyway just because i hate waiting for the bus.

Aside from that i need to start doing pushups/situps every weeknight before dinner.
I’m going to start with
5 (GOOD) pushups and add one more every week.
5 Lateral Dips adding 1/week
10 (5 upper/5 lower) sit ups and add 1/week.
Until i’m happy with my muscletone and overall fitness again.

I also have used my jumprope and will need to keep that up to keep 1ce a week is good.

Iggy and I took a walk and it felt so good. With each step I really felt like I was doing something good for both of us. I felt stronger and healthier. I feel healthier in so many ways. My life feels more in perspective, my time is my own (for the most part), I’m moving forward. These changes aren’t just physical; I feel healthier spiritually. I’m finding balance. I’m making time for what’s important to me.

I’ve lost like 8 lbs in the last week and a half, living in the hostel here because, well i was sick for a little bit but i think mostly because i have no schedule or regularity in my life so meals seem like a hassle more than anything else.

I think honestly most of my calories come from beer, and much of my excersize is co-ed.

Its been an amazing summer but i’m SO glad to be going back to school finally.
I need discipline in my life or i devolve (apparently) into a really fun fraction of the human being i know i can be.
I look forward to excersize being part of my regular scheduled programming too… get rid of some of this angerziety.

Gah.
So i’ll probably gain a little weight when i start eating meals again, but i’m gonna try to build some muscle and do some vinyasa yoga twice per week to keep the flab at bay.

I have had so many little BUT HEAVY moves and each time i moved something i was SORE the next day at work.
But that means that i was actually building muscle.
I have ab muscles underneath all this paunch and seeing as i’m on vacation for the next few weeks, i’m going to do my best to cut out some of this flab.

I’ve got my skipping rope, my trusty bicycle wheezie and a few lakes and pools to swim in.

I’d like to get my waist down to 27” from 30” (relaxed) by the time i get to seattle.

after taking Iggy for a walk and bringing him back home. It felt good. I ran much further than I had expected to be able to without needing to slow down or stop. Then I became aware and suddenly felt the need to walk. Had I not realized what was happening, would I have ran even further without difficulty? Hmmm…I wonder how to put this to the test?