So, I'm on my last rest day of this round of JMBR. I'm resting, drinking water, various teas, and good clean foods. I'm still feeling very frustrated because pants are not getting any looser yet, and I'm not looking likely at all to reach the milestone goal I had set for 12 days from now [...]
Category: Fitness
Venting again
I'm So frustrated and discouraged. I've been at this consistently for 4 months (minus the week after my surgery and the week we were on vacation which was a planned recovery week) and I'm barely any smaller. Yes, I'm far stronger, my muscles are more defined, etc, but is it so wrong to have wanted to [...]
Can I do this?
I had a "moment" during my workout this morning. It was my first post-vacation/post-injury JMBR workout and it was intense. Lots of jump lunges, jump squats, half moons, just tough! About halfway through I thought "and I'm starting BodyShred in less that five weeks? There's no way I can do this!" But then I thought [...]
Halfway Point/Breaking Point
It may be partly that I'm tired and still adjusting to getting up at 6am, it may be partly hormones, but I just want to quit working out. I've been working out consistently and eating pretty clean (and definitely not too much) for 3 months now, and I'm seeing no tangible measurable payoff. I know [...]
Rethinking Goals
It's occurred to me that I've had some unrealistic expectations on myself. I know, this isn't shocking if you've been following my journey any length of time. The first area where I've been riding myself too hard is schedule. I was in such a groove a year ago, early in my pregnancy with Declan. Up/Devo/eat, workout, [...]
My first workout with my Apple Watch
For my birthday last Friday I was given an Apple Watch by Scott and Max. I was and still am blown away. It's so fancy and cool and I love it! This morning was my first workout using it, and I have thoughts. The good: the heart rate monitor was very accurate when I was standing and [...]
Frustrations and comparisons
So I shared yesterday that I'm frustrated with my external progress. I really really am. I'm trying to be patient and lety body figure things out, and tweak and experiment with my calorie intake, but it's really tough to push and push and be tired and sore without the payoff. I've been here before and [...]
Recovery tips
Ok, so we know generally about how to eat healthy and exercise, right? (Posts to come on my approach to those!) There's a third important factor that I think we forget all too often, and that's recovery. The soreness we feel after a workout is tiny tears in our muscle tissue, which results in stronger [...]
Starting Body Revolution
Today I started Jillian Michaels' Body Revolution for the fourth time. It was tough, but that's good. I feel like I'm starting at a reasonable level of fitness, and am looking forward to to experiencing lots of progress in performance and I hope hope hope I'll get to see some external transformation over the next [...]
Self Care and Normalcy
Those have been my key words and cravings since Declan has been born, and I think I'm finally almost to where I want to be with both, but boy has it been a battle! Normalcy seemed impossible. Declan's birth took far more of a physical toll on me than Lexi's did, and that started me out a [...]
Mae Breakall 