You hear about it all the time - heck maybe you've even experienced it.
Someone lost a whole bunch of weight - and then started falling back into bad old habits and sslllllooowwwlllyyy started putting weight back on.
You think - oh that'll NEVER happen to me, I'm different man! I got this under control!
At least that's how I thought.
I was interviewed once about my weight loss story and in the interview I was asked if I ever worry about gaining the weight back.
"No, my whole lifestyle has completely changed - I KNOW I will NEVER go back down that road!" I answered with confidence.
Yet, here I am.
I am currently 20 lbs higher than my lightest weight - the weight I had reached at the end of my 21 day Ultimate Reset cleanse last December.
I don't think this qualifies as "water weight" or a "little bit of bloating from a weekend of eating bad"... I've been telling myself this about my growing waist size and as the number goes up and up on the scale - "oh... that's just water weight... I'll lose it in like 2 days once I'm back on track!"
You know what that's called?
DENIAL!
I have spent the majority of this year in DENIAL! Denial about the fact that - no, I do NOT have this "under control" and yes, maybe I do need to get serious about tracking everything I eat again and get back to ONLY one treat a week... My one treat a week has really been 4 treat DAYS each week... Needless to say this isn't getting me very far.
So, you're probably wondering - wow Lara... so what are you going to do??
Well, I have figured out a couple things about myself in this last year.
1) I NEED to be doing a workout program - complete with a set schedule and I need to follow the schedule that it came with.
2) I need to get back to doing a workout that I actually love and enjoy.
See, here's the thing - I have consistently kept up working out yes. But not following an actual program I slacked off during my workouts and there were some weeks that I did only workout 3 or 4 days... This is not acceptable for me... For me I gotta workout at least 5 days... AT LEAST! This was one of my "rules" that I set in play when I first started on my journey back in 2011.
So... I was gonna jump back in with both feet and go right to the Insanity Asylum workouts - cuz that was gonna get me FAST results! HARD WORKOUTS = FAST RESULTS!
Yeah... that lasted a day. Hard workouts only equal fast results if you actually DO them. I know, sad :(
I finally realized - Okay... I'm trying to get back into a groove where I LOVE working out, just like I used to at one point... Maybe I should try to get back into this with something I actually enjoy.
hmm.. weird concept right?
So I pulled out my FAVE program - Les Mills Combat and OMG SO.MUCH.FUN!!!
Last week was week 1 - I am going to complete this program again and I will be done it just in time to do the brand new Insanity Max:30 program that is being released at the beginning of December!
I HAVE TO stick with this so I am ready for Max 30!
I didn't really enjoy Insanity when I did it 2 years ago... But I still did it because I was in the groove where I loved working out - sticking to combat all 60 days will get me back in that groove, I know it will... It already almost has in just a week!
Max:30 is also going to be INTENSE so I wanna be back in tip-top shape to start it!
Two other things I am doing to get back into my groove of eating right, tracking everything I eat and seeing the number on the scale go back down -
1) Shaun T's Dietbet! I bet $30 I would lose 4% of my body weight in 4 weeks... I'm really gonna double that tho - just watch me!
2) 4 weeks NO JUNK FOOD OR BOOZE challenge! 4 weeks of No chips, no candy, no donuts, no booze, no soda, no cake, no cookies! I got an accountability group I'm going to be setting up and I will succeed - yep... NO CANDY FOR ME AT HALLOWEEN!
LET'S GO!!!!!
