2 Week Progress Report

So it has been 2 weeks since I've started my Project 26 health & fitness campaign and the results are in:

Total Loss: 6 lbs. and 4 in.

Not bad for 2 weeks.  I'm hoping that by my birthday, June 10th I will be at my ideal size and will have gotten there in a way that is both healthy, safe and sustainable because there's no real point in crazy fads and crash diets when you can't keep up once the craziness is over, trust me.  

What did I do?

MORE WATER

I almost never drank water, I'm one of those weird people that pretty much never gets thirsty and I've blamed that on the fact that my diet has always consisted of alot of raw fruits and veggies but I've been making sure to try and get in AT LEAST 1.5L which is just easier for me because Crystal Geyser and Trader Joe's have them and they aren't overly ginormous.

MORE WEIGHTS, LESS CARDIO

For my wedding I was a cardio freak, 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and while I did drop the weight my body just kinda looked like a smaller version of how it started.  No definition just, what has now been dubbed "skinny fat".  So I've toned cardio down to a sweat-worthy 20 minutes and done more strength training and focusing on one or two muscle groups a day to really get the burn and I'm happy to say I see my butt shaping up and my waist cutting in.  I lose weight in my neck first, weird.  

CHEAT DAY

Every Thursday I eat whatever I want and don't make myself feel bad about it.  If there's something I'm craving on Monday I just tell myself I can have as much as I want on Thursday and when it comes down to it my body feels so good when it does come time to cheat it's never anything huge like I'll have a slice of pizza from Costco and a Soy hazelnut macchiato from Starbucks and feel like a badass.  

HABIT CHANGES

I eat when I'm bored, sad, happy, pretty much whenever I'm breathing I'm trying to eat so I've had to make myself become very aware of what my body feels like when I'm hungry.  I used to always keep snacks in my car because I have downtime in between cases and I would mindlessly destroy a family size bag of whatever so now my snacks are all pre-packaged.  When I have downtime now I read instead of sitting with my phone looking at pictures of what other people are eating (getting alot of reading in these days).  I keep gym clothes in my car for impromptu trips, I make veggie protein shakes for breakfast with a half scoop and almond milk as opposed to not eating breakfast at all.  We don't own a scale so I weigh-in at the gym only on Fridays which allows me to see the bigger picture as opposed to the day by day or in my case meal by meal weigh-ins that would fluctuate and discourage me.  When I do watch TV with DB I have my yoga mat out and am either stretching or planking or doing sit-ups.  

My mind's been clearer, clothes look better and am just overall happy to be doing something to better myself instead my usual routine of just making a pinterest board full of bodies that look nothing like mine, quotes that over-motivate me to the point where I've convinced myself I don't even need to workout or just sit back and play the "I'm already married, who am I trying to impress" *looks at ring and smiles as hand goes into a bag of chips*

Do it for you.