This blog post will mostly center on my weight loss of my fitness journey. For the last several months I have been fighting to get out of the 170s. I keep bouncing between the same couple pounds over and over. And let me tell you: it fucking sucks! I truly try not to put a lot of emphasis on what the scale says but coming from someone who has been overweight/obese most of her life it really is a hard trait to break. One thing that I have learn to help take my mind off what the number on the scale says is by taking photos through out my progress. I did this back when I had dropped from 242 lbs to 148ish lbs. It really helps keep your head in the game. So recently I took some random photos of me and realized that I had take some of me in the same clothing a couple months back. I decided to do a side by side comparison of the two photos. Here they are: The ones on the right are from mid March and the right just this past Friday. Here's the thing with these t
This past week I have had some ups and downs with my workouts but lucky enough the ups have been more than the downs. I have also finally broke past 174# to get down to 173#. I would love to be down to 150# by my birthday in mid July but that would be pushing myself to drop 23# in 2.5 months and I just don't think I want to put that much stress on myself as stress has a way of coming back and biting me in the ass to the point of either no weight loss or even weight gain 😕. To jump back to my workouts I usually try to stick to doing a leg workout every other day with the other days consisting of a run or a run and upper body depending on how my shoulders feel as I have a slight issue with my left shoulder with working in a rest day in or an active rest day. This week I have re-started a 12 week squat training plan. As of right now I sit at a 180# back squat and a 150# front squat. My goal is to hit a 200# back squat and at least body weight front squat. The training plan I&