I'm back!

Well my blogging friends! I know its been awhile since ive posted, I'm sorry for my long time away. Life has gotten away from me! FITNESS update!

I have been living at the gym again!! Which mentally is helping alot. I hit a bad spot for a min. I was working all the time, and of course being mommy and trying to balance that all with house care and running around etc and I let the gym time slip away.

SO my tip of the day, a fitness journal, I wont lie, when I first started it,  I had a hard time remembering to write in it, and add all my daily things, but after about 2 weeks it was alot easier! I think the best thing to start with in your journal is to write what you ate for the day, then add what physical activity you did. Mark if you took the stairs and not the elevator or you walked farther from the store. And after 2 weeks you will see what you did. If you go to the gym write down what weights you used, and what things you did, maybe even write lil challanges for yourself! Tomorrow ill eat 100 less cals and Ill do 15 more mins of cardio, or ill walk farther at the store, or ill do 100 jumping jacks! every lil bit counts when you are making life changes.

I started to after 2 weeks, write down why I ate things, I really was craving Ice cream one night, and I kept thinking about it, wanting it, I could almost taste it! well then I was wondering why, is my body needing some form of dairy product, was I depressed over something and needed a mental boost from the yummy ness of ice cream, was it I just that hungry... what was it... after i figured it out I was bord, had a crappy day and I was trying to self sooth, my craving went away! and bam I didnt eat the 200 cal ice cream! But I did write it down in the fitness journal.

This idea helped too around my "girlie" time. What was I craving then, why was I craving it. Did I eat salty foods cause I really needed it or was it habit because its socially ok to pig out before our periods to help self sooth our misery! I needed to stop giving my self permission to eat crappy foods just because everyone says its ok! I say its not ok, I say I needed to make a mental change that means I stop allowing my self to self destroy my hard work. I need to look at my self in the mirror and say im not the fat lil girl I used to be and damn it stop reverting to that behavior! I am an adult who can make adult choices! I cant blame anyone but me for my poor eating and lack of working out. And finally you are worth the body you want! Health is number one in my mind. I have lived unhealthy mind body and soul long enough and it needs to be about whats good for the whole! Start new patterns, new good habits!

Lets rock this together! whos with me!