Well, here we are – eeeekkkk!!!
GOAL ACHIEVED!
I didn’t even know that this was the goal at the beginning. It wasn’t even a goal a few months ago.
When I set out in 2019 I wasn’t able to see and visualise exactly where I was going. I would have found it very intimadating and oh so far away if I’d had a goal at that point.
At the beginning I simply decided that I would show up each day, back myself and see what I could do.
Weight loss isn’t linear.
Weight loss isn’t the same for everyone.
I decided that I would educate myself and take responsibility for my health and fitness. I was important to me that I didn’t simply follow a list of rules that someone had said was THE diet. All diets work as long as you are in a calorie deficit so I didn’t need a diet with a fancy name.
The equation is IN vs OUT and I needed to make sure that I was educating myself in so far as the INs and the OUTs where concerned.
Stuff going IN. I went from having quite chaotic eating patterns with a lack of portion control at meals times. I didn’t have the worst diet in the world BUT I didn’t have clarity on my nutritional input and choosing to nourish myself rather than simply eat.
I used MyFitnessPal to start to look at my eating and educating myself around foods. I also made a commitment to eat stuff that made me feel good rather than mindless eating. I looked at it as conscious nutrition. Being conscious as to what I am eating. Enjoying the food I eat and not having negative emotional reactions to what I have eaten.
Movement was important to me too. Now, I’m not talking about exercise here BUT simply moving my ass. I work from home and work in front of a computer so it’s super easy to not move all day long. I took responsibility for the morning dog walk, I tried (wherever possible) to walk the school run, I made sure I was creating more movement on a day to day basis.
Exercise ~ running has been my favourite and chosen cardio. I love how running makes me feel, I love how easy it is to fit in and I love how you can have some real tangible progress as you get fitter and stronger. I’ve committed to twice per week PT sessions too which has made me stronger and helped my body composition HUGELY.
I’ll dissect each of these in turn and give you more details of what I’ve done in further blogs too!
So, it’s no longer about what the scales say. Now it’s about stronger, fitter, faster, farther.
