This blog post is all about March. March 1st is when I started doing monthly weigh ins. Back on December 14, 2009 at the doctor's office I weighed 145.5 pounds. My scale never weighed accurately so I got rid of it and got a new one. I started to notice my body changing and my weight dropping so I decided to start monthly weigh ins on the first of each month. I would weigh myself first thing in the morning before getting dressed. On March 1st I weighed in at 139.6 pounds. I had lost almost 6 pounds! This made me very happy. I was not counting calories or limiting how much healthy food I was eating. If I felt like eating I did but I ate healthy unprocessed food instead of junk.
I also continued my Total Body Sculpt with Gilad workouts. I was doing them 5-6 times a week. One thing I like about the Gilad workouts is that they have a variety of different exercises at different intensities. You may be going at a fast pace for a while and then you switch to something not as intense for a while which gives you time to recover so you can keep up with the workout. The first time I noticed my body changing was during the abdominal segment of the workout. When I was doing my crunches I could tell that my hips were not as wide as they were before- they had gotten smaller!! Seeing my body slowly change was all of the encouragement I needed. My clothes were getting looser. This was working! It felt good to see results.
OMG! I think I just thought of the perfect name for the blog. I can't call it "My soon to be named bloggy thingy" forever you know...
Ok- it's official! I just changed the name to "My Journey to Achieve Optimal Weight & Health" since that pretty much sums up what I am writing about here.
Now back to March. I read a very interesting book about hormones with some awesome dietary advice in it. It was Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels. This book explains the impact hormones have on your metabolism and how your diet affects your hormones. It also has meal plans and recipes included. This book will make you think twice about what you are putting in your mouth.
My metabolism appeared to be working again. I am not sure if I should credit the Gilad workouts or the foods I was eating. I think it really was a combination of both. The results made me want to continue on this new road I was on and I was enjoying all of the new foods I was eating.
At this point I had very little interest in foods containing high fructose corn syrup. You could sit there with a bag of Oreos or Chips Ahoy cookies and it did not bother me. Once you stop eating crap you lose interest in it since the real whole foods actually taste better. There are Oreo Cakesters on the counter right now and I read the label and saw the high fructose corn syrup and for some reason they no longer seem appetizing to me. I think I have reprogrammed my brain somehow to reject all foods with high fructose corn syrup in them. I am ok with that. My next post will cover April.
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