transformation

Sense of Purpose

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This past week during our spring transformation instead of posting our week 4 goal – we were asked what is our purpose (The ask of us is in bold from our BodyProject Fitness Spring Transformation).

When things get tough…when you want to give up…when you don’t feel like waking up or just want to go home after a long day instead of taking time to exercise…when you feel too tired to prepare for the next day…WHAT WILL KEEP YOU GOING?

  • Is it your kids?
  • Your husband? A loved one who inspires you?
  • Feeling like the most amazing version of yourself?
  • Is it happiness? A sense of accomplishment?

Of course, as I was thinking of what to write – this song popped into my head…so I had to find it on youtube – enjoy!  Anyone else remember this or did I just clearly show my age?

Back to the question and my answer (and I’ve expanded it):

What a great way to change it up on us in week 4.  I started this journey (quite a few years ago) as a way to get in shape and lose weight.  And then my body revolted and I gained weight.  And quite frankly everything went wrong.  Maybe – just maybe it was supposed to happen this way as I had to deal with the very controlling muscle that sits on my shoulders.  There were many moments of frustration but I kept coming back.  

In May 2012, I started seeing a nutritionist – which turned out to be my X factor in the weight management area.  I still have a ways to go – but I’m heading in the right direction.  We just made some adjustments this passed week and I’m seeing some positive results already (and I really needed that as I’ve been struggling since December and was losing my patience :-))/

I finally had my ‘aha’ moment in the fall – finally finding that balance between eating and my workouts (that I actually missed my workouts when I didn’t go).  This has always been about me and I find that if I don’t make it to BP – it not only impacts me but it impacts everyone around me.  A perfect example, I’d had an extremely stressful week at work awhile back – I’d missed 3 days of workouts to boot – and finally on Thursday morning I decided to take an early lunch and get in a yoga class.  It was the best decision I had made all week – I was back in balance!

I’ve become an advocate for my friends and co-workers that it is OK to take care of ourselves (get rid of the guilt) – if we do that – the rest kind of takes care of itself – becoming the best version of me (that continues to evolve through this journey)!

Getting back on track

Posted on by keepingupwithkate91

I’m week out from my big transformation win – so how am I doing? Believe it or not last week was a bit of a rough week.  I was in a funk!

I kind of didn’t know where to start last week – I know it sounds odd – I was on such a high from the weekend – Monday was kind of a letdown.

Last week was super busy with work/personal and some volunteer stuff – so my schedule was a bit off.  I was able to hit a barre class and yoga early in the week.  I got some walking in when I could (the cold weather didn’t help – also making me re-think my walking during the workday – I’ll save that for another day).  And I was able to hit a Spin class on Saturday.   Not too bad right – eating wasn’t out of control – I just wasn’t feeling it last week.

I’ve had this annoying cough which I know is my fall asthma cough (I just need to use my advair and it should go away) – I allowed myself to let some negative self talk get into my head – I postponed my nutrionist appointment because I needed to do a 10 minute breathing metobolism test (and I didn’t want to cough through it) but if I’m really honest – I got on the scale Monday morning and didn’t like the numbers I saw (don’t worry – the appt is on the calendar for December).  I didn’t go to my normal Thursday night yoga – but that was a lot more legitimate – I really didn’t want to cough through the whole thing.

I put it out of my mind over the weekend and stayed active while I watched my niece and nephew Saturday into Sunday – they even got me to rake some leaves – so they could jump in them.  🙂

Yesterday, I got a text that said – ‘Today is the day to plan your week!’  I looked at it and realized – it was time to start over.  I grabbed a few things at the store last night.  I still have some other things that I will pick up tomorrow.  Grabbed a nice evening walk – it was so darn nice in NJ last night.  But the most important thing I did last night was re-read the 5 sheets of paper I received from my very first nutrionist appointment – I needed a refresher – something to reground and start the week off better than last week.  It seems so simple, but really helped.  I reviewed the proteins to focus on, carbs to eat, the hunger scale, the plate methond and lastly the Nutritional Goals to Maintain Energy and Optimize Weight.

There are 10 items on the Nutrional Goals to Maintain Energy and Optimize Weight.  The first 8 are all things that I know and I’ve been doing so they were nice reminders.  The last two really hit home for me (a lot more last night than in the past).  9. The scale is not the only measure of success.  10.  Good behavior changes take time.  I know I’ve mentioned before I’m all about the numbers and both my trainers and nutrtionist have told me numerous times the scale is not always the answer – I know this from the transformation and I just need to remind myself.  One of the ways I hold myself accountable is I get on the scale every morning – my goal this week is to not get on it again until Friday morning!  I need to see if changing things up and not worrying about the scale (so much) this week makes a difference for me.  I feel like I’m back on track this week!