I haven't posted in a long time and a lot has happened. I got married in September of 2014. Things have been going pretty well with that. My husband and I have our ups and downs but he's grown greatly from when I first started this blog! I was able to not only get back to 130 lbs before my wedding but I was also very fit! I actually fit into my size 5 shorts that I hadn't worn in about 10 years. Nobody thought I'd be able to do it which made it that much more gratifying when it actually happened!
How did I do it?
No gimmicks. I joined an online community called Tone It Up. It's free unless you want the nutrition plan, which I did, so I bought it. I ended up buying more of their merchandise as I fell in love with the group, trainers, workouts, all of it!
More about that later.
So, why am I back to my weight loss blog? Baby #2 happened. I had our son in July of 2015 and ended up weighing back up around 190lbs!! You can imagine how that felt after working so hard to get where I was. My son's almost 6 months old now and I've mostly focused on nursing him with an occasional period of working out and counting calories. I learned that it's really hard to do the workouts I did in the summer of 2014 carrying the extra weight!
I'm currently in week 3 of another TIU challenge. At the start of the challenge I was about 170lbs. That's the amount of weight I was able to drop in about 5 months with the holidays and all.
I've only dropped a pound since the challenge started which really stinks because I've been doing all the workouts and eating healthier (not the healthiest but healthier). I weighed myself at the start of week 3 and was so bummed to see only a pound gone. I might have given up all together if it weren't for the measurements. Most of my body was remained about the same but I was down 3 inches in my torso!! I had to re-measure a few times to make sure that was correct. 3 inches!! No wraps, no diet pills, no gimmicks! I just followed the workout schedule and ate a little healthier.
Seeing that has given me motivation to work harder and eat better (with the weekly date night cheat MEAL.. no cheat days, just cheat meals).
So, starting all over again.. here I am at 169 lbs. My pant size is about 14. I nurse my (almost) 6 month old and workout 1 to 3 times daily. Today I've done a routine feom the TIU beach babe 3 dvd - coconut core & booty. The next routine, which I'll do after the baby wakes up, is kettlebooty. This workout you can find on youtube. You can find several tiu videos on YouTube! In fact, when I first joined the community I didn't have the dvds so I did the entire bikini series challenge from YouTube videos. All you have to do is find a video to substitute and there are more than plenty! Plus they come out with a new one every Tuesday so there's no shortage of free workouts!
My most recent purchase was a tiu yoga mat and foam roller. Not a necessity but pretty nice to have. I'm finally able to do floor routines with my bones grinding into the hardwood. I actually have come to love yoga. It helps with the stress of being home alone all day with a 3 year old and 6 month old. My hormones are still all over the place and it's hard to have the patience I need. Yoga helps tremendously! I can feel my body getting stronger each time I do it and it's a good stretch for the muscles after toning routines.
Also, I just ordered a water bottle from ogorgeous.com. it's a different organization but I love that written on the back is the time of day each amount of water should be drank by. Admittedly, I'm bad with my water intake. I probably get in 4 bottles of water a day which isn't that great when you're 169 lbs, exclusively breastfeeding and working out regularly. It may be why I haven't seen as much progress as I would have liked.
I eat 5 times a day. 3 meals, 2 snacks. Breakfast was a white chocolate macadamia clif bar and coffee with natural bliss coffee cream. So good and energizing! It pushed me through my 35 min long morning workout after the kids woke me up very early this morning. My recovery snack was a kiwi and half an apple with all natural peanut butter. For lunch I'm planning homemade lean chicken tacos on whole wheat wrap with diced tomato and Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. Haven't planned out my 2nd snack but tonight is date night so we're going out for pizza. I'll just have to be sure to portion it out!
I'll have to post my progress photo and measurements next time.
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