The scale, the evil tricky scale.

Okay, so I am not going to lie, I am obsessed with weighing myself. This can be a good or bad obsession, and sometimes I struggle with which it is for me. I like to weigh myself, because it gives me an idea of how I am progressing for the week. I usually only beat myself up on weigh in day, because I see everyone elses scale moving and mine being over or stuck. It's hard to focus on inches or how I feel or the way my clothes fit, because we live in a society that views the scale as the most important number. I am getting better with it, but it can be discouraging when it doesn't move. So what do I do to overcome this? I focus on my good bloodsugar numbers (morning fasting have been in the 120's, almost normal whoo!), trying on new clothes that fit in smaller sizes, and my inches. It is not easy though, but I also think about what I am doing with my eating and exercising, along with my water consumption and I ask myself am I doing what I need to be doing to see that number drop? For instance, I was waiting too long to eat, and then I would overeat because I didn't eat for several hours. I stopped doing that. Another thing I am working on is drinking a gallon of water a day, this is hard because I don't drink enough, but it keeps me fuller long and takes away those "fake hunger" feelings, yes they do exist. The other thing I am doing is trying to not eat after 8pm. I am a night snacker by nature, and this not only affects my weight because I eat right before bed, when my body is most sedentary, but it also spikes my bloodsugar. Since implementing these a bit, I got to see the scale moving again. That's one of the things I love about Team Beach Body, is it teaches me to listen to my body and adjust it based on what I need. So to anyone who struggles with the number on the scale, I am there with you, I understand. But please keep going and ask yourself some questions. What am I doing differently? What do I need to do to fix it? DO NOT GIVE UP! I promise, the scale will eventually move in the right direction. :-)

Transformation Tuesday

So as promised, on Transformation Tuesday, I am posting my Day 1 and Day 30 pictures, I have about 4 weeks left in the program. I can't see a big change in the pictures, but I can feel the change! :-) If you are serious about losing weight, eating clean and having a great support system, then please contact me or check out my website! This program truly is amazing!

Clean eating and the fabulous fitties

Today I am going to talk about Clean Eating a bit and my amazing support system/challenge group. Clean eating I think for me has been the key to my weight loss so far. I never realized how much bad stuff is in the food we eat. I am an ingredient checker to the max now, I stay away as much as possible from anything with preservitives, GMO's, BPA, etc. I try to eat organic when I can and stick with food that is as natural as possible. The challenge of course comes when eating out, but I've been having fun finding places that offer local, fresh, organic ingredients. Pita Jungle is a huge favorite, Chipotle as well, even Panda Express is allowed. Woo hoo! No but seriously, I don't even crave the bad stuff hardly at all anymore, except for maybe pizza, I love pizza. The previous times I've tried to lose weight, I would eat well but still eat things that weren't great for my body. I purged my entire fridge/pantry and everything I buy fits into my lifestyle. So when I have an urge, I am forced to eat something healthy. Unfortunately with my diabetes, I cannot consume many carbs from grains (rice, quinoa, bread, etc.) it all raises my sugars. But I can eat fruit which is a huge relief, as it helps kill the sugary cravings. I also eat five times a day, and this week has been rough, as I haven't been eating as often as I should and it's messed up my whole metabolism. Crazy how your body becomes so used to something and when you change it, your body reacts. My body reacted by gaining weight. Hopefully with going back to work next week, it will fix my body. I've been lucky to be home for the first half of my program and haven't had to do much meal planning. Tomorrow is my first real experience with that. Will blog about that on a different day. So part of my program is to join a Facebook Challenge Group. This is probably my favorite part of team beach body. As part of my program, I have to post every day in the group talking about my food, water, workout and shake consumption for the day, and any hurdles or wins I may have had. I also must post transformation pictures from the start, 30 day and 60 day as my program is 60 days (some are longer, some shorter)and I must measure myself and post my weight every saturday (or as we call it Staturday!). This group is amazing, you get to see people's transformations, you can ask questions and they are always there to support you as they all want us to succeed. It's so wonderful to have a support system. I also got to meet some of them at a huge Beach Body event where we learned about the business aspect of Beach Body, heard awesome transformation stories and got to do two workouts. We share recipes and we challenge ourselve and use that group for anything we can in order to help us reach our goals. Especially after a tough week like this one, I can start fresh, knowing that my fitfam has my back and I not only want to make myself proud but them too. Beach Body is amazing in every aspect! <3 this program!

Shakeology-Shake What?

So today's post is all about this wonderful drink called Shakeology or Shakeo as we fitties like to call it. This is an amazing meal replacement shake that not only tastes good, but has wonderful ingredients. So what does it do? What's it cost? Can't you make it yourself? It does many things, for me it keeps my full for up to 3 hours, and lots of energy. I drink mine for breakfast, right now since I'm not working, right after my morning workout. I make mine with 4 ounces almond milk, 4 ounces water, ice and a product called PB2. Beach Body is awesome and they give you 30 days worth of recipes and I've tried a good amount of them and haven't found any that I didn't like. They also offer a 3 day cleanse using Shakeology, which I did and lost 8 pounds. The great thing abou Shakeo is is provides you will all your veggies and vitamins for the day, and it helps clean out your system of all those nasty toxins. Now, for the cost. It is 125-130 bucks a month, but I always use the comparison of McDonald's breakfast. I love the egg white delight meal with a coffee and a fruit yogurt parfait. This cost over 6 bucks a meal. If I ate that 5 days a week (which to be honest I did A LOT) it amounts to the same cost as my Shakeo!! So is it really expensive? Nope, you just think it is because of that big number thrown at you, and quite honestly, I don't think I would be getting the same results as I am right now without it. Not to mention my bowels (I know, gross) are super good now and I have always had issues with that (I suffer with IBS-D) and it has pretty much stopped. Beach Body offers Chocolate, Vanilla, Greenberry and Strawberry; As well as Vegan Chocolate and Vanilla. I am currently using Chocolate and am trying Vanilla this month. I strongly encourage anyone with questions to contact me, I am more than willing to answer any questions. :-)