Whenever I tell people I am trying to lose weight, and tone up. They automatically say, without thinking, you are not fat. You don't need to lose weight.
My response is...you've never seen me naked. Ha, unless, it's husband, of course. ;) wink wink!
No. He never says that to me, because he has been a HUGE part in this HUGE lifestyle change.
So as of today, which marks 72 days on this journey, I am 12 pounds down. With only 8 more to-go!
How this all started, me and husband were driving home from a California vacation, talking about how I am sick all the time, and nothing seems to help. The doctors don't know whats wrong with me. But there is always something. I decided I would research different things that cause fatigue, and muscles cramps and aches. Almost everything I researched talked about foods. Good, and bad.
Then I came across a health foods blog, and workouts to help relieve stress.
We finally arrived home, and I told him how I wanted to get down to business. We had gym memberships and had been going PRETTY regularly. But I told him we needed to go more. We'd both gained a fair amount of weight since we'd been married, and were both feeling kind of crummy lately. Pretty much since the late night snacking, and ice cream, and kix.
So we went grocery shopping and bought only healthy things. We started counting calories, and working out 6 days a week. We made sure we were not only counting our calories, but that the calories were good things. We went from 2% milk, to skim. We got whole grain breads, and brown rice. We stopped buying sweets, and ice cream.
Within the first week we were both down a good 2 pounds and feeling SO good. I was sleeping through the night without crazy muscles pains. We both had 891273189730128973 times more energy each day. I was up early and ready to go. As we've been making these changes it's really opened our eyes to how bad foods can be for you.
We both loved eating as a hobby. When we wanted to celebrate accomplishments, we said "let's go out to eat." It was a big adjustment to change our eating habits. We literally went from 3,500-4,000 calories a day to under 2,000. And hit the gym hard.
It's truly become a habit we are proud of. In the beginning husband was a little reluctant, but once he saw I was serious, and I was going to do it with or without him, he jumped right on board, and at times does better then me. He'll text me saying he is craving something bad, but later sends me a picture of his decision, and it is always something like salad, or carrot sticks. (I'm a proud wife)
We still go out to eat every once in a while, a lot less than before, and we are careful with our choices. Sometimes it's hard to order grilled chicken instead or pork salad at Cafe Rio. Cause the pork is just toooo GOOD! Every once in a while we get a BIG treat. Like sugar free chocolate, or candy corn. Fun size candy bars. Or chips. It's so much easier to eat unhealthy and not to have to worry about what we're eating, but it's totally worth it when we do.
All in all it's been an amazing change for us. We feel better, we have more energy, and we get a lot more done. Because it hasn't only been about losing weight, it's been so much easier to gain a half a pound here or there. I'm not angry with myself, because it could be the fact that I just ate an entire cucumber.
I'm healthy now. My body fat percentage is the lowest it's ever been. I weigh the least I've ever weighed, and I feel the best I've ever felt. It's been a really healthy weight loss as well. One that I plan to keep off always. When we reach our goals, we will do more to maintain our weight, and less to LOSE. But we will still watch what we eat, exercise 5-6 days a week. And take care of ourselves!
I keep telling myself,
HEALTHY LIFE, IS A HAPPY ONE!
& a longer one too^ (:
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