I Haven’t Forgotten…

I have this tendency to ignore posting here… I’m not sure why. I need to make it a bigger part of my routine (or a part at all!) in order to stay accountable to myself.

I will be back, tomorrow, with updates.

A Little Push

One day, a few weeks ago, I was at a playground with some friends and some ladies were passing out fliers. Apparently, they were planning on running a “workout” at this playground beginning, um, TOMORROW. It includes things like journaling, workouts, and all the usual stuff. Plus, there are prizes! (That’s what drew my friend in! That and it was free to begin with.)

Hey, I thought. Why not? After all, Phoebe could get in for free to this playground and play while I’m in the corner doing whatever it is that we’ll do. Plus, our playgroups are being scheduled for that location during this time. It should work out great. Why? Because, if I drop out, then I would likely not take Phoebe to playgroup and that would suck for both of us.

So, tomorrow begins that little bit of a push that I seem to need to stay on track. We’ll be doing weigh ins, measurements, and before photos (ack!). I will post all the horrid details (well, most of them…the relevant ones) following these torture sessions weekly workout meetings.

That and perhaps I should have signed up for blog365 on THIS blog!

Happy New Year!

New Year. New Outlook?

Over the past several weeks, nearly a month, I have spun wildly out of control. The nutritional aspect as well and the fitness aspect have both gone rapidly down the drain. With it, my health has suffered. My acne is beginning to rear its very ugly head(s). And in general, I just feel awful.

Sure, I could chock it up to the time of year that it was. Or, that I (and everyone else in the household) got sick. And, while it is all true, the fact of the matter is that I let myself down. I didn’t honor the promises and declarations that I made to myself. It’s like I lied.

I have also decided to set the calipers aside for a while and just go with weight and measurements in a million places. I know that I have a lot of body fat and truthfully, I’m just not that interested in that measure of progress at the moment. I may well be sometime in the future and when that point comes (if it does), I’ll pull the calipers out and go to town with measurements.

I have been thinking a lot about what my goals are for the coming weeks, months, year, and beyond. That and how I plan to achieve them and measure them and how to reassess when and if it is needed.

I have decided to go with Precision Nutrition for my eating and nutrition plan. It is similar to how I was eating before (my spiral out of control), but more refined and more structured. I loosely started on January 1st. I say ‘loosely’ because I couldn’t maintain any semblance of a schedule to save my life that day (up til 5 am, only slept til 10:45 am, and more issues). The contents were good. Great, in fact. Just not the scheduling. January 2nd (today) is when I really went for it gung ho.

For fitness, I am really liking Turbulence Training. I had waffled back and forth about whether to jump back into the beginner 4-week program (at the beginning) or start with the 12-minute workouts for the 12 days, and then go into the 4-week program. I decided on the full 4-week session with strength and cardio split (on different days) most of the time.

While I did workout today (workout 1 from the 12-minute regime) before settling on the decision of which program to follow. Today is still day 1. Tomorrow, I will do cardio HiiT on the bike and then Friday start the “official” day 1 of the beginner program (but may call it ‘day 3.’ Maybe.).

My current goals are:

1. to get well below 200 pounds by Easter (which is March 23rd this year).
2. to be at 180 (or less) by my next wedding anniversary in September.
3. to follow my nutrition program 90% of the time.
4. to consistently workout in a manner that is effective.
5. to keep a record of measurements and what I’m doing so I have tools to evaluate progress (or lack thereof).

I will be “weighing in” and taking measurements and photos tomorrow. I may or may not post everything at that time. I haven’t decided.

This is my plan for the next four weeks. At that time, I will evaluate my progress and make necessary adjustments.