I have finally come to accept the fact that my choice of career will be busy, stressful, exhausting, and full of all sorts of other excuses to put my health and well-being on the back burning.
As an accepted fact, I decided that I need to address it. A huge thank you to my parents for supporting me in this challenge. Here it goes!
The Challenge
I've signed up to a 60-day weight-loss challenge through Achieve Personal Fitness . The Challenge starts on November 1, 2012. However, my personal weight-loss journey started on October 1, 2012 with a 3-week boot camp also through Achieve Personal Fitness.
The 60-day Challenge is a culmination of nutrition and exercise. For the nutrition aspect I will be keeping a diary of my food that my personal trainer has access to and will leave comments above ways for me to improve.
Some small tips I received today:
- drink 1 GALLON OF WATER PER DAY!
- eat .75 - 1.0 grams of protein/day per pound you WANT to weigh. So since I want to weigh between 125 and 130 I need to be eating between 95 and 130 grams of protein per day
- eat 5-6 meals a day, your body is most efficient if your blood sugar is constant
- There is a difference between starchy carbs and fibrous carbs. Eat 2 servings of starchy carbs/day (pasta, bread, rice, potatoes), and 2 servings of fruit/day and as many vegetables as you can get - the darker the better.
- Good fat doesn't make you fat! Sugar makes you fat! - Cut out the sugar, all forms (even be careful about fruit)
- Your biggest meal (most calories) of the day should be breakfast! Between 400-450 calories to start your day off!
The fitness aspect of the Challenge includes 6 days of 30-45 minutes classes a day. The classes focus on cardio, strength, power, combo and are offered all different times during the day. I will be keeping track of my progress with my fitness coach.
My Goals
It's too simple to say I want to lose weight. It's also too simple to say I want to look better. For this to be successful I need to dig deeper. So here are the reasons that WILL encourage me to keep going:
My Happiness: working out releases endorphines, endorphines make you happy. Law school sucks, I'll take all the happiness I can get.
My Genetics: I have a lot of things naturally working against me, if I'm not proactive about it it's highly likely that I'll turn down a path I really don't want to.
My Body: You only get one body (I suppose there are exceptions to that but I don't want to go down that road). You only get one. There is no magic eraser, no undo button, no restart or reboot, this is it. If I don't take care of it I am the only one to blame. It's a miracle that my parents were blessed with two children and it would shamefully disrespectful of me to disregard that miracle. No one else has control over how I take care of myself, but me. So I'm finally taking responsibility and giving back to the body that has served me so well this far.
My Relationship: "Couples that Sweat Together, Stay Together" If you have ever met Adam, my boyfriend, you should know that health and fitness is at the very core of who he is, he has been studying it for the last 4 years and its in this area that he plans to develop a career. That being said, his lifestyle has inspired me. I want to be able to keep up with him and fully participate in this things we both like to do like running, hiking, lifting, camping, etc. Knowing that I have his full support in this endeavor means the world to me and I don't want to let him down either.
Starting Stats
Weight: 151 lbs (Oct 27th)
Right Arm: 12"
Left Arm: 12"
Left Leg: (coming soon)
Right Leg: (coming soon)
Shoulders: (coming soon)
Waist: (coming soon)
Hips: (coming soon)
Statistical Goals
Weight: 125-130 lbs (June 13th, 2013)
Right Arm:
Left Arm:
Left Leg: (coming soon)
Right Leg: (coming soon)
Shoulders: (coming soon)
Waist: (coming soon)
Hips: (coming soon)
Body Fat %: 29.4
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