Off to a great start this week, with 9:15am bootcamp on Saturday, rest day on Sunday, and bootcamp Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. It feels good to be able to get back on track after a lackluster Week 5, to not backslide into oblivion just because one week didn't go as planned...I fell down. But this time, I got back up... mainly because I am in this community of people who are supportive and who encouraging and challenging... because I have team mates and a coach and people who are rooting for me to stand my ground and push through and suceed. And for this I am SO appreciative.
My OH-YEAHs were most definitely yesterday (monday's) bootcamp class where I was able to do two moves that I just straight-up could NOT do 5.5 weeks ago. First, the plank rows - I did them (though without weights) for the duration of the circuit. When we started, I just could not balance my weight on one arm - I literally fell out of the move because I was putting all the pressure on my writs and was not using my core and I just could not withstand it on one hand (I could barely do it with both hands down). But yesterday, I did it - it just happened, I didn't even realize that I was doing it until I was halfway through - what?!?!? OH YEAH, that's right - done and done. Next time, I'm going to try with some weights...The second OH YEAH was when we were doing partner work in one of the stations where we were just holding in a low plank - I did that too!!! for like the whole time...the first day I did that elbow plank, it looked more like a downward dog than a plank, lol, because the moment I would try to straighten out I would just start shaking like a polaroid picture (insert Andre 3000). i'm dead serious...for real. But yesterday, I held firm with good form for the entire circuit...there were somem shakes at the end, but I held it together.
I cooked this weekend too - made salmon and roasted veggies for lunch for 3 days this week and I have one lunch 1 lunch out and 1 dinner out this week and I already picked places and checked the nutrition facts online for what exactly I'm going to eat so I stay within my boundaries. Figuring out this kind of stuff is important to me because everytime I've tried to lose weight in the past, I do these crazy fad diets and take on this all-or-nothing approach that makes me miserable and is unsustainable and ultimately ends in failure. But if this time, I'm truly reaching out of my comfort zone and tyring something different and earnestly treating myself with love and respect and kindness - for me that means that YES of course I'll go shopping and dinner with my friend who's in from Rochester on Wednesday night, but I'll do it smart by getting on the treadmill at lunch, entirely avoiding the food court at the mall, and deciding from now where and what I'll eat that is legit and won't undo the sweat and tears (no blood...yet) I've put in.
Shout out to my coach Maia for some quality time on Saturday... a worXout plus lunch plus a lil' shopping makes for a lovely Saturday afternoon...
I loved this post for so many reasons...for one, Andre 3000 LOL...yes I know the feeling. And for two, it's amazing to identify things we weren't able to do before that we can now do. Even if the form isn't perfect or if we can't do as many as others, we can still do it and keep pushing. I've noticed the same and it gives me motivation to keep going forward.
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