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Jul 19 2012
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2012, Change

Sleepless in Edmonton

These past few nights have been rather hellish. Sleep seems to evade my body at night and it is honestly starting to do a number on my body. I am tired, restless and agitated. Being sleep deprived doesn’t exactly make for the greatest combo. These last few days I have allowed my sleepiness as an excuse to skip my work out at the gym. I can feel the snowball of failure beginning to roll and I need to take some responsibility for myself and put an end to it.

I haven’t really started doing anything really different. Experts always say you should “unplug” before you go to sleep but I find it incredibly hard. As soon as I can sleep I reach for my phone or my tablet. Luckily Netflix is a 24 hour kind of service.

My nighttime ritual may need a bit of a mix up. I brush my teeth, wash my face and turn my iPad on. I usually end up leaving the damn thing playing all night. I don’t think I need something playing in the background while I sleep but I usually just end up falling asleep watching it. The whole thing probably isn’t the greatest sleep ritual around.

It is time to start getting out of bed on time, not listening to any of my own excuses and just finding a way to get my butt into the gym. Eventually waking up at 5:30 in the morning will make me to tired to have a sleepless night. That is the goal after all. Fingers crossed that I fall asleep tonight and do not wake up until my alarm jumpstarts my day.

 

Does anyone have any sleep tricks? Any bedtime rituals?

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May 07 2012
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25 LBS, Healthy, Weight Loss, Working It Out

Kicking Some Ass

This last week has been fantastic as far as healthy eating goes. I finally feel comfortable in my healthy eating skin. I feel confident I can make the right choices, fuel my body properly and improve my overall health. As a bonus I am only 5 pounds away from my first goal. Hopefully I surpass that goal this week.

A few things have really helped me in getting my shit in order. First of all I don’t even allow myself to buy food that is going to tempt me. I still allow myself to indulge and have a treat every now and then. It is just preferable if I don’t have 10 servings available at all hours of the night. My self control is not that good yet. Another thing that has really helped me is loading my meals and snacks with fresh veggies. It sounds pretty simple but I did not get to be 100+ overweight by overindulging in vegetables. My body just feels so much better when I am eating a lot of veggies and fruit. I have energy, my sleep is better and overall I just feel great. The weight loss is just a bonus.

This week I really want to focus on getting into the gym and starting a work out routine that is maintainable. I have signed up for a 10km, a 5km and two (!!!!!!!!) half marathons so I need to get my but in gear. Now that I feel comfortable with the healthy eating aspect of weight loss it is time to kick it up in the gym. I know my body wants more and I am totally ready to let it have it.

 

What is your Monday motivation to kick ass this week?

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Dec 05 2011
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Confession, Healthy, Weight Loss

Sabotaging Myself

So I joined a new gym, signed up for a personal trainer and then found my self intimidated as all hell. What is the fat kid doing in the gym? Trying to bust her ass so it slowly becomes less fat.

My trainer is awesome, my gym is awesome and yet I still have this overwhelming feeling that I will be fat forever, like I don’t deserve to be thin. This destructive thought pattern always gets me into trouble. I don’t know when I started to devalue my self, but negative self talk always brings me down. I want nothing more than to be healthy, fit and run that damn marathon I have been lusting after. I want to be part of the group that knocks out 10km like it’s nothing.

I don’t know why I sabotage myself all the time.  If my alarm goes off in the morning, I turn it off and just roll back over. When I should be running/walking after work I will suddenly have 16 things to do. This type of behaviour is killing me. I need to just do it. Put one foot in front of the other and not over think every little decision I make. One day I will come to the realization that my personal happiness and well being is worth more than 1 hour of sleep or the bowl of chips I just “needed” to have.

Starting right now I need to kick myself and get started. Nothing makes the skinny girl on the treadmill better than me. We both are at the gym for own reasons. I am determined to workout like a champ and look forward to starting to see some results. Today is the last day I let myself believe that I am not worth it, because I am.

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Nov 23 2011
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Marathon, Motivation, Working It Out

Working it Out.. Snap Fitness Style

This week has flown by, honestly I can not believe it is already Wednesday. I seem to have taken a turn to more writing about beauty and skin care more lately than health and fitness, but to be honest I felt like I couldn’t write about health and fitness if I wasn’t actively being healthy. Sure I was making some OK choices but I still was eating chips and desperately avoiding the fact that I need to work out.

That is all changing… quite rapidly.. because I joined a new gym!

I am looking forward to working out in a gym that is solely a gym.  There are no kids running around, they have brand new machines and most importantly they are open 24 hours.  I went in for a tour of the gym last Friday and decided that it was the place for me.  This place is a little pricier than what I would like to be spending but I figure an extra $25 a month is more than worth what I will gain in health benefits.

I went in Sunday to do my run through of the gym, essentially a personal trainer who shows you how to properly use the equipment, and to also do my fitness test.  Every bone in my body did not want to wake up early on a Sunday morning and have someone who is in great shape mock my very own fat ass. The fitness test started off with weight, blood pressure and body fat percentage and then led to a 1/2 km jog to see what my maximum heart rate was going to be.  I don’t know why I expected to be totally humiliated but the whole experience was far from that.  The trainer that helped me through everything was amazing! Not only was she super energetic, she was also knowledgeable and seemed to genuinely care about my experience at the gym. I signed up for 3 personal training sessions with her, and I will probably start those within in the next two weeks. Tomorrow night is my consolutation  with the trainer, where I should get my nutrition plan and decide on some goals I want to achieve.

I really want to be able to complete a marathon by the time I am 25 (just under two years) and in order to do that I need to focus on loosing the excess weight and getting back into good shape. Keeping the marathon motivation in mind, I’m going to aim to be at the gym 4-5 times a week. I don’t want to get crazy with gym but I am also sick of being fat and at this point I am willing to do whatever it takes.

Cross your fingers that the consultation goes well, and I leave the gym with a new plan. I’ll be back Friday to break everything down for you guys!

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