Hey y’all! I’m back and ready to lose weight…again. My family and I went on a road trip to visit family and the entire time, I felt uncomfortable. I love spending time with our family, but I just did not feel like myself. My clothes did not fit well. I was very tired, and my mood was all over the place. For the past two years, since birthing my son, I’ve been told to give myself grace. Well, grace is nice, but it was time to gift myself a big helping of discipline. Yes, I know grace is needed, but I could no longer allow it to be my excuse to not improve. It was time to get my health, my body and my life back. So, sooooon as weeeee got hoooome (shoutout to you if you sang that), I did just that and started my weight loss journey.
How did I start?
I dropped my excuses and picked up my goals. I’ve always known what to do, I’ve done it before. Fun fact: I used to be a certified personal trainer. I know exactly what I should be doing, this is not my first weight loss journey. I just stopped doing it, cause…life and lazy. Working out with fibroids is not always easy. I still have four fibroids, even after the open myomectomy and I get straight tied…a lot. Read more about my fibroid journey here, but I’m not allowing that to stop me anymore. I’m back and I’m ready and I’m taking you with me. In the first 4 weeks, I didn’t share my journey with anyone, except hubs. I needed to get myself into a groove before I shared, ya feel me? I needed someone, even if it was a stranger, to be in the struggle with me, and then I found Nourish, Move, Love on YouTube. She has so many great workouts and at the time, I needed something that I could easily follow along with. I did two of her 2-week programs, and I dropped 7 pounds and 1.25” off of my waist in the first four weeks. I was amped and ready to keep the good time rolling.
Week 6 workout plan
At week 5, I started doing the strength workouts from an Athelite Pro program, Dirty 30. It is an 8-week program focused on fat loss and strength. The program provides 3 full body training days and with a warmup and cool down, I’m done in less than 40 minutes. I know I use the term weight loss, but let’s be clear. I really want to lose fat. Strength training is the best way to do this. Pick up the weights folks! The exercises are challenging in such a great way. Of course, substitutions and modifications are provided. This week, I did week 2 of the 8-week program and it felt so good to complete. I just finished my 6th week of consistently working out 5 days/week and watching how much I eat and we’re still going in the right direction. Praise God!
This week consisted of the following workout plan:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 35 min of full body strength training/day
Tuesday: 20 minutes of mat Pilates with Pilates Body Raven on YouTube
Saturday: 30-minute row with Shane from Darkhorse Rowing on Youtube
Every day: At least 10,000 steps
Week 6 meals
My diet was very repetitive and boring, but the food was good, and it worked just fine for me. I start each day with AG1 greens. At this big age, I do not eat enough veggies, so I have to get them in however I can. This has also replaced my multivitamin, because it gives me all things my body needs. With the exception of Monday, I had a premier protein shake and yogurt for breakfast. Monday, I worked from home and had time to put together some toast and jelly to go with my meal, small wins. I absolutely love Alani Nu Energy drinks, say what you wish, but imma have one almost every day. Let’s not forget, I am a toddler mom and sis be tired, mmmk. Along with the energy drink, I had a Fiber One bar for a morning snack. My lunch had little variation, but it was basically ground chuck and potatoes. Afternoon snacks are usually another Premier and/or more ground chuck. Dinners are very grab and go for me because it’s such a mad dash here after 6 pm. Usually, it’s a little something like get home, kiss hubby, go for a family walk, feed and bathe kid, clean house, feed and bathe self, bed. So the goal at dinnertime is to get in some protein and keep it moving.
On weekends, I give myself more flexibility. I had Chick Fil A twice this weekend, shrugs. I eat what I want on weekends, but I keep my numbers in check. I’m still either eating at a caloric deficit or at maintenance on these days. I’ll talk more about this next week.
Week 6 results
In week 6, I dropped 2.4 pounds and 0.25″ off of my waist, go me! In total, so far, I’m down 11.8 pounds and 1.75″ off of my waist. Silly me did not think to take photos when I started my journey on March 11th. However, I did take pics on March 30th so that’s my visual comparison start. I’m so excited to say that I was released from the 190s, halleluiah! Never ever did I think I would be happy to see the 180s, but here we are lol. To hear more about week 6 and my weight loss journey, click here.
These accomplishments feel so good, but the greatest victory is my knees. Yall, my knees feel so much better. I’ve been able to add more lunges and plyometrics to my workouts, simply because my knees feel better. I love seeing the scale and measuring tape move, but it’s the non-scale victories that really keep me going.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. If you need medical advice, please consult your doctor; you know the person with a degree (or 3) you are paying. I’m just a numbers girl that’s making the numbers work for me. Dropping fat comes down to the numbers, calories in<calories out. Let’s do this together. Don’t let me get fine without you!
That’s It. That’s all Yall.
J. Bai
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