Summer bod, I'm coming for ya!

Okay, so it's official, on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, I had Scott take pictures of me to be used as "Before" photos. Time to shed this chub and stop wasting my workouts with bad eating! I haven't set a goal date yet. I am currently 134 pounds and I'd like to lose ten pounds or more, keeping in consideration muscle weight. I need to have a goal date. I will figure that out. This isn't the first time we have taken "Before" photos of me, in fact its probably the third time. But I've never actually had "After" photos to share. I fall off the wagon every single time. It usually starts with dessert one time and that leads to another night of dessert then another until all the healthy eating has gone to shit. I'm going to continue my flexible dieting but focus on filling my daily macros with healthy nutrient filled food and not anything and everything. I've gotten pretty good at making ice cream, pastas and pizza to fit in my macros nicely. Although flexible dieting does allow me to consume fun foods occasionally, I am cutting late night dessert out. I find that when I cut dessert out, the pounds start to shed.

I wish I could see food this way! I LOVE crappy food! It's part of my happy place! While some may thinks its punishment and wrecking havoc on their bodies, for me, good (but bad) food is a treat for me. That may sound awful, but I truly look forward to thinking about what I'm going to eat throughout the day.

I may say hashtag "no excuses" but really, I make an excuse for my eating every day. I truly feel that life is short and I don't want to look back and think "I should have eaten that slice of pizza" which is why I opt for the flexible dieting. Fun food in moderation. I want to loose these extra pounds. I have muscles growing underneath this thick winter body, and it's time I saw them! Plus, I paid a billion dollars for boobs a few years ago, they deserve to rock a hot bikini...haha! So, 2016, I will be summer ready. I better set that goal date...... I CAN do this. No more wasted workouts.

These are my current motivation pictures in my phone. Clearly I have a quad obsession. I want my whole body to be fit, but the ass and quads are my favorite areas to focus on. I know these bodies have taken hard work, healthy eating and dedication. With my workout plan, two days Crossfit for the high intensity cardio and weights and the rest of the week bodybuilding and heavy weights with Scott...... If I dedicate myself to healthy eating, I'm hoping to make some progress and feel more confident with my body. Hopefully it will lean me down and help with my cellulite on the back of my thighs which I am most self conscious about....

And now it is Sunday night. Almost a week since I started this blog. Since then I have consumed pizza, fro-yo, biscuits and gravy, a cupcake and probably some other goodness mixed in there. Not the BEST way to start my week of healthy eating....but there has been more protein and salads in there as well. I have to say, my love and craving for pizza and Ben and Jerry's has diminished. Weird right? I've reached a point where cooking something on the healthier side at home is more appealing then a meal out. Unless it's sushi. Nothing beats eating sushi out.

Today I wore non workout attire. My new skirt that I earned for hosting a LuLaRoe party. I wish I had some short black booty type boots to wear, but I haven't bought myself non workout attire (shoes included!) in I don't know how long! I admit, I like how this skirt made by booty look! It's the one area I get the most compliments on. I have that quad goal like I stated above also, and in the picture that I zoomed in on, there is the slightest hint of some muscles in my leg!! Seriously! For me this is huge. All my life I have always had scrawny stick legs. So to have meat on them AND some muscle is HUGE for me. It's quite exciting really.

Always keeping this in the back of my mind. Lately my schedule has been so busy and so I don't get to workout until later in the day, and I find it hard to stay motivated. I get myself there, whether it's to CrossFit or Give and I am ALWAYS so glad that I did. I've never regretted a workout, but I have regretted not going, feeling guilty. Plus, that adds to my eating excuses "Well, I didn't workout today, so I might as well eat bad!"

That's Christmas Abbott. She's my favorite. She is right up there with Dana Linn Bailey. People always hate on CrossFit, but I don't think she looks weak or has any reason to be hated on as a woman in CrossFit. I have a lot of fitness men and women that I follow on social media. CrossFit, Power Lifting, Bodybuilding....you name it, I follow them and admire each and every one of them for their hard work and dedication.

 

Pictured below is Bart and Gio, husband and wife, owners of the Barbell Brigade, Power Lifters and also popular YouTubers. Funny thing, when Scott and I went to our first fitness expo we walked past their booth and I bought a hat because they have my very favorite logo. The skull with barbell crossbones. If you go on my Instagram and go back many weeks, you will see a selfie of me wearing it. The only time I have worn it. Since then, Scott jacked it and wears it daily. Shithead. Anyway, we have started following them. They are hilarious and go beastmode every workout. I've added them to my top favorite people to follow. Following all these people help keep me motivated as well as inspire me to go after my goals. They are all different and I learn something from each of them. I truly feel that following people that have the same passion as you helps keep you on track. You see them keeping it real and kicking ass daily and it pumps you up. On top of their fitness lifestyle, they are all entrepreneurs. Each of them (Dana and Rob, Bart and Gio, and Christmas) have started very successful businesses. I have my own business with plans for adding to it as well as long term goals that Scott and I will fulfill. You can never educate yourself enough in an industry that is changing and growing everyday. You will fail, probably numerous times, before you succeed.

I went to an Essential Oils holiday party today. I have to admit. I was sucked in to the many uses of essential oils! Holy cow! I had no idea. I had so many different ones on me, I was high on life by the time I left the party haha! Pictured above on the left are all the fun goodies that I made! I am not a crafty type at all, but I was pretty proud of the lovely items that I made. On the right was the delicious spread that my friend Tracy put together. The brownies had oils in them! Everything was bomb. I may be jumping on the essential oil bandwagon.....



Let me finish up this blog with a quick update on my workouts. I recently hit a deadlift PR. It was quite entertaining to hit 205#. For a good laugh, go watch it!  On my blogs home page, there is a link to my YouTube channel on the right hand side. There you can see me ramble live on video daily as well as watch some of my workouts and sometimes Scott is in there at well. I hit a PR at crossfit the other day for Power Cleans as well. 75#. I always get really excited when I am able to do something that I was never able to do before. Which is a lot! I know I am forgetting a lot, with CrossFit two days a week and weights and bodybuilding with Scott four days a week, I feel like I'm finally finding a balance with the two things that I love without killing my body. I post a video almost everyday, so if I don't get to my blog daily or even weekly like I had been trying, you can always see what I am up to on YouTube. So, that's that. Like I said, "before" pictures were taken last Tuesday. My next blog I will have a goal date for reaching my ideal weight...and maybe an idea of when I will share progress pictures? Six weeks? Twelve weeks? Just at the end when I am done? I don't know, posting pictures will be waaaaay out of my comfort zone, but, maybe that will help hold me accountable. We will see......