confession &an update...

So as you may remember if you read this blog regularly, Trevor and I have put on some pounds over the last six months and made the cliche new years resolution to lose some weight! Thing is, I wrote that blog post before I officially weighed myself after Christmas. I knew I had weight to lose, but Christmas kind of did me in... the 12 pounds I had to lose was actually 19 pounds...! My heart stopped. I just couldn't believe my eyes. By far this is the heaviest I have ever been in my life, I honestly felt sick. How did I gain so much weight in such a short amount of time?! Honestly this weight has come on just in the last six months, which makes it even worse.

I have always been petite, and in reality I still am, but I am way over my normal/healthy weight, and I have been busting out of my clothes (I have been wearing a lot of my "fat" shirts haha), I haven't been eating healthy at all and I feel like crap.

My whole life I have been able to easily and quickly workout, eat healthy, get back in shape, and kind of sneakily go back to eating bad food. I use to bounce back so fast - but my body just can't do that anymore. My old resilient teenage body is officially gone and eating healthy and working out needs to be apart of a balanced lifestyle. I don't know what it is about hitting your lowest low, but it can be a real motivator! I have never cared so much in my life about eating right and working out for my body to be healthy then I do right now.

So now for the update, since January started I have literally gone "cold turkey" as I like to call it in regards to eating right. Can I just tell you the biggest difference besides the weight is ENERGY?! In the past when I would eat right I still always cheated a little. I mean, just a little bit. I always had the mentality that I could afford it, "you are young!" I would tell myself! 

I had never had a perfect consecutive two days in terms of eating right. Well folks I am here to say I just had a PERFECT consecutive week (well 6 days), and the results really shine through. Skipping out on just that one little Reese's candy, and all the other little extras that tempt us throughout the day has really paid off. I can feel it in my energy, in my skin, my weight, everything! Giving it up is so worth it. I really am hoping to be able to maintain it because I can tell such a difference in how I feel.

To add with the extra energy, my body has also responded, I have lost 5.5 pounds so far! I have been so impressed with how if you treat your body right, it will treat you right back. If you give your body just what it needs, it will serve you so much better. The past few weeks have made me want to take this journey a step beyond weight loss and health and towards really getting that strong body I think every girl imagines or wishes having at one point. Besides a few years in Lacrosse, I have never really been able to get muscles. I don't want to be a muscly woman by any means, but I want to be toned, strong, lean and healthy. One day at a time right?

So while I still have some more weigh to lose, I am going to be trying to add some more work outs into my routine that will help me tone up my body and make me stronger!

Now to be fair I did eat some naughty things on Saturday, but I am still beyond proud of myself for eating perfectly Sunday through Friday. You see, Trevor and I like to have a "free day." Now this doesn't mean you go wreak havoc, but once a week we just eat normally without being crazy. It is all about the balance and that free day keeps me from wanting to stop the healthy diet all together. Does that make sense?

What are you guys doing to encourage a healthier lifestyle? I would love to hear more about your own personal journeys?!