11 months later....

Hey Cyberworld!

Let me just tell you that life is good! It took me about 11 months to reach a place where I am really happy and working toward what I want.

I found an AWESOME website called fitnessblender.com and they offer free full length (intense) workout videos. I love them I love them I love them!! I purchased one of their 8 week fat loss programs to give me some structure and it took me two attempts before I completed it but I did it and I felt great. A friend of mine gave me a diet plan that she had done and I tried it and lost about 8 pounds in 10 days. It was great to jump start my weight loss but I couldn't keep with it. It was to restrictive and boring!!!

Currently I'm doing a different 8 week fat loss program from Fitness Blender and it's going great! The workouts are tough but manageable and I love that it is free and I can do it right in my living room!! So perfect! I'm also following their meal plan that they offered on their website. I just finished day 3 out of 28 so I still have a ways to go, but I am really loving it. Kelly and Daniel from fitness blender are big believers in a healthy lifestyle, not just about getting ridiculously ripped or losing a bunch of weight or the most current diet fad or trend. I really really appreciate their perspectives on health and what they have to offer.

Their diet plan is all about clean eating. Eating foods in their simplest form with out processing or adding extra garbage to it.  The meal plan spells out exactly what to eat everyday and I really like it because it is forcing me to try new things and things that I wouldn't have ever thought of making myself. I like it for the inspiration for healthy eating. I'm going to stick with it for the rest of the 28 days and see how it goes.

As happy as I am to just be making healthy choices, I'm also very much so hoping that this will help me loose weight. I've lost about 20 pounds since I started my fitness journey, but I would still like to loose another 20. That would be pretty cool.

But I feel like the changes I am making now are ones that I can totally keep going with. I'm able to make time to workout with no problem now a days. And once I reach a fitness level where I am happy I feel like I can easily maintain it. I'm excited to reach the maintenance phase but I have to keep working hard to get there.

Part of me really wants to say that I just want to reach a certain weight which is true. I do have a set of magic numbers in my head of my ideal weight. But I've started thinking about my ideal body. It's definitely a strong, capable body, One that is less squish and more muscle. No back fat and no pouchy tummy.

The fun thing about trying to loose weight is that I am also thinking of trying to get pregnant sometime between the end of summer and the end of the year. And with getting pregnant means gaining weight, but if I'm truly committed to making life style changes, I will still be working out during that pregnancy and still be eating healthy during that pregnancy. Just because you are pregnant doesn't mean you have to go off the deep end and become lazy and eat like a crazy person. I can still keep working out and being fit. I'm excited for that challenge.

But I suppose I should just stick to the challenge ahead of me. Wish me luck these next 25 days. I'm going to do my best to stick with my plan!

ps: I love FitnessBlender! If you haven't checked them out or don't know anything about their website, GO LOOK NOW!