Working On My Fitness

Today I woke up and I thought to myself, I really want to create something. My days usually consist of work, social media , home, more social media, sleep and start all over. I rinse, wash and, repeat day after day, week after week, month after month and, year after year – but like I mentioned before today I woke up and the urge to create is spilling out of my soul. I’ve always wanted to start a blog; however, the thought of putting content out into the world is freighting and that very fear has stopped me from even starting…many times.

So I’ve decided today is the day, I will start this blog, because today I’m going to start my diet and my new healthier lifestyle, so why not write about it? this way I can hold myself accountable for my goals. Although I’ve decided to start this blog to document my weight loss journey, I’d also like to write about other things I enjoy.

I’ve struggled with weight issues my entire life. I’ve done the yo-yo diets, I’ve taken pills, I’ve done the apple diet, the juice diet, the military diet, teas, shakes, etc. Obviously, everything I’ve tried to lose weight has been very unhealthy, so I end up failing and going back to my old ways of binge eating and not working out. I’ll quickly throw in here that I’m not a licensed nutritionist, trainer or, doctor and I’m simply writing about my journey to reach my goals based on the goals my trainer and I have set for me.

Currently, I am 5′-2″and 145 lbs, so my goal is to drop 20 lbs and gain muscle. My trainer and I discussed doing the intermediate fasting for a month starting immediately. Intermediate fasting means just that, to fast intermittently. How it works is you choose an 8 hour period in your day in which you will eat very healthy foods and then fast for the remaining 16 hours.  For example, I am an early riser, so I will eat my first meal of the day at 8:00am and my last meal before 4:00pm. My fasting period starts at 4:00pm and continues until 8:00am the following day.

I’m sure we’ve heard this before, but here it goes again – If you fail to plan, you plan to fail –  so, I started making my meals for the weak today, mainly because I need to eat today and tomorrow and everyday thereafter, so what better time to start than now. My meals will consist mainly of chicken, ground turkey, veggies and, rice for lunch and a green smoothie in the morning. My total calorie intake will be 1200 a day. I’m going to try to stick to this menu for the first two weeks, because I’m not really creative with menus, especially healthy ones, but thank god for Pinterest.

I started working out last week. I currently hurt all over, but this is good…this is good. If I repeat “this is good” once or twice an hour – as I struggle to lift my body from pretty much anywhere I sit or even lean on – I feel like I can make it through. My current workout week includes two days of weight training (Tuesday and Thursday) and three days of cardio (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). I need to plan to do something on the weekend, not as intense, but just something to get me out and moving. Maybe I should go for walks until I figure out what else I could do.

I will start posting weekly updates. I will also post pictures of my meals and I’m currently working on editing a workout video my trainer and I made for his YouTube channel. I will post the link to his channel as soon as it goes live.