Friday Progress Report

So I'm almost done with the 21 day arm challenge (after having to start over) and am seeing progress! Its been slow and steady but I am seeing some muscle definition and muscle tone. I even have little baby biceps! Chicken arms are going away and any progress is progress. I'll post pics on the last day. I already plan on waiting a week and redoing it but this time increasing the dumbell weight to 10 pounds from 3 pounds.

I also started a new 12 week training program from an app I found on my tablet. The first workout today kicked my butt and I literally collapsed when I was done. Mainly worked legs and core today. So far it's a pretty good app as you can pick the program I'm doing for weight loss or one of their other ones. I took my before pictures today before I started and I'm actually really excited to post the final picture with today's picture so I can see the progress.

My iFit is working again after being MIA for a year. I've been wearing it for a week straight and so far I've realized that I eat less than I burn which is what you want to lose weight but you also need to feed your body right. So that is something else I'm working on. Right now my cals out are about twice as high as my cals in.

I'm a work in progress but I'm not giving up this time.

No time to eat!!

I'm the worst when it comes to eating 3 times a day, I barely remember to eat once. So I started making smoothies since they are healthy and fast. My favorite is a Strawberry Banana Oatmeal Smoothie. I make it with a cup of strawberries, 1/2 a banana, 1/4 cup of oats and 1/2 cup of Dannons Vanilla Yogurt. You can tailor it to fit your tastes and add in other ingredients. I've added in kale and it was pretty good.

After having one of those mid morning I went outside with my boys, played soccer, ran around, began teaching my 6 year old how to skateboard and did walking lunges up and down the little hill in our backyard. Its been a productive day overall. Maybe later this week I'll take some photos and post them so that throughout this journey I can come back and see my progress. And of course my smoothie pic won't post, I'll try again later...

My little walking lunge hill

Getting back into it

    I'm just going to be honest and say now that for the past 3 years I've been dormant and my only exercise was at work. That being said I work as a nurse and move all the time and lift people on a daily basis. But I used to do 5Ks just for the fun of it and I want to get back to that but also be better.

Last week or so I had heart to heart with myself and decided I wanted to feel better, eat better,be comfortable in my own skin,cut down on some of my own body shaming of myself but most of all just to be happy and to be able to do things with my kids for years to come.

I really didn't know where to begin even being a nurse I'm still clueless about something's :). So I did what apparently quite a few other people do as well and got on Pinterest researched workouts I could do from home and saved a lot of pins. I started doing 2 of those consistently several times a day and am actually quite impressed with myself and the fact I'm feeling a little better already.

My 3 kids are enjoying not only cheering me on but also doing them with me and picking on me. Now if they would just get on board with the healthier eating! One battle at a time lol.