Oh…hello…how are you Fit Fridays…I haven’t seen you in a while…

I’ve been doing well, thank you for asking!

I’m eating less carbs overall which is making my stomach go down. HALLELUJAH!!!

My exercising is more regular, and I’m making less excuses about working out! * this is a…BIG DEAL!*

I’ve been running and doing various Jillian videos and my new besties: those fitnessblender videos.

Also I started doing a little quickie workout when I wake up: crunches, squats, pushups. A lil “jailhouse” workout to start my day. … ok, lemme stop frontin’ I did that like 6 times….I haven’t made it a true habit yet.

What I’ve noticed is that even though my stomach is starting to go down, and my weight is down (3lbs away from pre-preggo weight, holla!) I am so de-conditioned and laughably weak. My endurance is slowly starting to get better, but now I want to get STRONGER.

May is a crazy month for the OKDani household, but I’m going to try to get some more strength training mixed into my days. And….*GULP*…. my mouth went dry even as I am going to type this. but…. I’m going to start taking Roey to the gym with me and leaving him in the sitter place there. *tear* I can’t keep doing my gymming around John’s schedule. I’ll never get in shape this way.

So I’m going to bite the bullet, and trust these people…ish….I know I’m gunna be the mom to like…run 1/2 a lap then go peek in, then run another 1/2 a lap then go peek. ::hides face::

How have your workouts and eating habits been?

Have a great weekend girls!!

Boy oh boy, there is nothing that’ll motivate you to get your workout on more than an upcoming vacation. The thought of looking a mess on the beach has revved my engines.

Actually, looking back at my cruise and vacation photos last Sunday while I was writing Monday’s post about choosing a cruise really impacted me. I saw that skinny little girl that I used to be and I was like “I’m gunna get there again”….then I looked down and realized I actually have hips now…and was like….”naaahhhh….I’ll keep em, thanks.”

I ordered swimwear from my new best friend ASOS for the trips ahead this year, and I was brazen enough to order bikinis…soI hope I’ll actually fit them in time *gulp*

Exercise

So I discovered FitnessBlender last week on Youtube and have been obsessed ever since. I kicked Gaiam to the curb and have been using the videos they provide. They’re all 100% free! I love the videos because they’re fuss-free. Just the voiceover directing you, one person on the screen with a plain white background doing the moves along with you. No music, no sickeningly fit people bouncin around, no “you can do it, way to go, yeah!” crap. Just the work you gotta do and that’s it. I absolutely love it.

I can’t say I don’t miss seeing Shaun T take off his shirt mid-workout, so I’ll definitely be popping in an INSANITY dvd every now and then, but FitnessBlender has about 300 videos of all styles of workouts (HIIT, Strength, Cardio, Tabata, Pilates, Kettlebell, Bodyweight, Total Body or Body part specific vids) and all lengths from 5 minutes to an hour and a half.

Last night I lost my mind and did this one:

Yooooooooooooooo

It was rough. But when I finished I felt like the bossiest boss!

Nutrition

Well, what had happened was…….

I went back to eating less veggies and more…everything else. Well, that’s not accurate. I haven’t slipped back into the junk food by any means, just notice I was eating MORE overall. And my intention of eating veggies with every meal was slacking. And snacking was increasing.

Because of this, I started this week to not eat past 5pm. I was previously trying not to eat past 8pm so this is a new challenge for me. So far so good.

Overall

OK so let’s see. My weight is still the same. Body still looks the same. But I guess that’s to be expected when I’m not eating well. I’ve got 47 days until vacation. I really hope to make some type of noticeable difference by then. John says my belly is going down, but I don’t see it. (Body dysmorphia, anyone?) Good thing I’m documenting with photos so at the end when I’m a sexy momshell hardbody I can look back and follow the progress pictorially.

 How are you doing with your fitness efforts? Do you have any new finds or anything giving you renewed motivation?

Happy Friday!

I hope you had a good workweek and are ready for the weekend!!! Any big plans?

This week was a low workout week again. I walked and jogged 4 times, and had one really good run.

It was the type of run where everything was against me (my calf siezed up, my music player died mid-run, it started to rain when I was 1/2 way through, I had to poop like…immediately, my gram called saying Roey needed me, and when I sped up toward the end I twisted my ankle – can you believe that mess?!) BUT I powered through!

I’m back home as of yesterday and I feel like since I’ll have to cook for myself again, I’ll be eating better again. Funtime’s over but it was nice while it lasted….I could go for some fried dumplings and cocoa tea for breakfast right now but alas…. no more gramma’s house. John eats low-carb (and low veggie unfortunately) and I think I’ll join him in his low carb lifestyle but with high veggies.

Have any of you guys done Paleo before? (I keep hearing about it and forgetting to read up on it)

I was asked “You’re small why are you trying to lose more weight?” from an e-”friend” who recently had her baby (who was thin before pregnancy, and says she’s going to “embrace her curves” post-pregnancy):

I don’t care about the scale numbers. I weigh 8-12 lbs more than I did pre-pregnancy (depending on the day) and I wouldn’t mind staying this weight forever. It’s not the weight I want (read: NEED) to lose, it’s the fat. The condition of my body is what I’m aiming to change. I think most moms will agree that after baby, the weight is secondary to the gross de-conditioning and mis-shapen-ness that occurs.

I’ve never had and will never have an hourglass body and I’m fine with that. However, pre-pregnancy, my body was built in a way that there was a discernable waist! My fat is now situated in such a way that I look like spongebob a large rectangle and I have dunlap syndrome going on with my stomach. (You do know what dunlaps disease is, right?) So I want to lose the fat and re shape my body. The weight can stay the same for all I care.

So that’s the physical answer. The vain answer is so I can wear a bikini this summer vacay, and fit back into my favorite jeans and wear fitted tops without feeling like a chocolate muffin!

The mental/emotional answer is so I feel sexy and strong again and feel like my “old” self again.

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As for results: NOT SEEING ANY….

BUT

I am feeling some in my runs. I can last a bit longer before I feel like I’m going to die. My legs are definitely taking longer to tire out!

Hooooraaaay Progress!!

How are you girls doing in your fitness pursuits?!