Holidays 2013..

Okay so I have now decided that the holiday season is really difficult to get through with a diet... like really difficult... 

I am going to be really up front and honest about the holiday season with everyone.. I cheated.. A LOT.. like almost every single day.  I made some okay decisions with food, and hiked occasionally, went to a few Pure Barre classes, but mainly, I fell off the train.  I would say off the bandwagon, but I really fell off the very quick moving train.  

I gained SEVEN.. yes 7 pounds over the holiday season.  I wish I was joking, I wish I was lying, and I wish I didn't have to write that dreaded number.  It is actually insane to me how quickly you can gain weight in such a short amount of time.  I am sure I am not the only person.  Maybe some people don't weight themselves regularly, maybe some people didn't weigh themselves before Thanksgiving and then after New Years, and trust me as much as I was not wanting to weigh myself come January 1st (the hangover jump started getting back on track in a very unhealthy way) I did... And there is my number for all of you to see.. 

Now let me back track just a little bit.. I have had to basically relearn my habits being back in a relationship.  Eating and exercising is really easy when its just you, and you basically don't want to see anyone but your mom and dad.. and my sister of course, she might get upset if I didn't mention her.  But once you are functioning back in the real world, communicating with people again, things get a little difficult.  So I had to be really upfront with Parker, that starting in January I really needed to get back on track with my eating and my exercising, and I needed his support basically times 100 because if he doesn't think I can do it, then who else would? Especially because I spend all of my time with him.  

So Parker, being a personal trainer, and has the ability to be extremely disciplined with eating (I don't know too many people that have the will power to just be able to drink water, lemon, apple cider vinegar for a few days) decided that he needed to get back on track as well.  He doesn't need to lose weight, but I suppose he rather eat clean and not gain weight ;) Who wants to gain weight? haha silly concept.  I wish that was the case for me.  Anyways I am rambling... We joined a gym together. We joined 24 Hour Fitness just a few days before the new year.  Today was our first official workout together.. at 5:30am!! WOO that was a grand time.  We spend a few days in the steam room, to sweat out some toxins, and started into a gym routine today.  I also went to Pure Barre this evening, and Parker back to the gym.. so 2 a days here we come??? 

So its January 6th now.. Crazy.. Time flies by, the older I get and the more I blink, the more time has passed.  I wish things would slow down just a little.  If time was slower maybe I could lose more weight in 1 day ;) but anyways, its January 6th, I am officially back on the work out wagon, as of the second I was back to good eating habits, and ready to lose another 40 pounds.  It took me a year to lose 40 last year from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2013 so hopefully things progress a little quicker this year. 

On Nutrisystem I have lost 23 pounds.. I got to 185, I put on 7, which put me at 192, but after a week of good eating, I am back to 188, which means I need to lose 3 more pounds to be back where I was before Thanksgiving.  Hopefully that happens sooner than later, and I can start being back to where I am losing weight.  I am so happy with the changes that I have seen in my body, I can't imagine having to go back to where I was. 

Quick shout out to Bryanna Casey, who knows if she will even read this, but my very first Pure Barre class was taught by her, and she is an amazing instructor, and now as of today, I took my 100th Pure Barre class, and I couldn't have been more excited that it was taught by Miss Bryanna Casey! :) Here is to 100 more lady! As long as you stay in Chandler and don't more back to Boston. PS. If you need eyelash extensions hit her up. 

Well, I will start updating more often, or trying to, sometimes I run out of things to say if its the same old, but keep encouraging people that need encouragement, and keep working hard!! We all are fighting our own battles, but don't give up. 

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