Today was a big day for me and I am feeling good as hell (cue Lizzo) 🖤
If you care to know why, I set out over a year ago with the following goals:
1) get back into a steady habit of working out 2) lose some weight 3) get stronger and 4) tone my body.
These goals haven’t really changed over the last 14 months, but as I started making progress on those, new ones were added to the list:
5) be comfortable in my own body 6) stop being so hard on myself 7) stop caring what other people think and 8) live my life without feeling guilty.
For a while, I was taking progress pictures religiously, but always focusing on my waist. In May, I took my last set of pictures because, honestly, after that life got in the fucking way and I didn’t care. I stopped working out for about 7 weeks as I dealt with some things but made it a priority again as soon as I felt up to it. I’ve been pushing myself in my workouts but struggling with eating right. I still am.
Today at the gym, I was doing part of my workout outside and I was dying because itwassofreakinghot. For the first time in my life, I finished my workout in public, in front of people in a sports bra. Yes – you’ve seen pictures of me in sports bras and videos of my workouts in my hotel room in sports bras. BUT I have control over what you see so that makes me comfortable. At the gym, I can’t control if I bend a funny way and my gut is out for everyone to see if there is no shirt to cover it. But I did it – check to goals 5, 6, 7. Then in the locker room, I was inspecting a bruise on my arm (seriously) and realized that damn! My arms have some definition now. Nothing crazy but I used to have spaghetti noodles for arms. I went back through pictures and realized that damn! What a work in progress – check to goals 1, 2, 3, 4. I literally have been back at it for less than four weeks but I’m still getting stronger and more toned and I didn’t lose everything I worked for over those weeks off. Yes, consistency is important, but we are human and life will get in the way sometimes – check to goal 8.Â
Today was a good day && that’s progress for me. 💙
