Burning Babi Fat: Celebrate Progress not Perfection!

It’s Monday Already?

Seriously?

I know that we all have the Monday Blue’s

(more so if your team lost last night)

but don’t stress,

let’s plan to make this another fabulous week!

You Are What You Eat Post: My constant struggle with nutrition, was my wake up call that I blogged about last week.

I recently sat down with myself and had a very productive meeting (sometimes I can cooperate) realizing that changes needed to be made in my own lifestyle if I ever wanted to see changes to my physical body.

I’ve been struggling for what it seems like for forever with reaching the goals that I’ve set for myself a long, long time ago.

Last week, although I was certainly focused… it definitely was not easy. It’s Year End here at work meaning, that my hopes and dreams of making my evening workout classes are placed on hold until it starts to calm down over here and things go back to normal. With this change of plan in my daily routine, I had to really focus and figure out ways to make sure that I stay on track.

To understand what I’m talking about a little bit better; this is how my daily routine works during busy season…

Leave my house at 8am…

Sit in traffic for an hour, sipping my coffee… rocking out Bruno Mars… and listening to my favorite morning show (z100)…

Arrive at work at 9am…

Usually break for lunch around 1pm (If I can)…

Leave work whenever my work is finished (which on average, is anytime between 6-9pm)…

Drive home from work…

Eat dinner…

Pass out…

So as you can see I don’t have a set 9-5pm (it's the life that I have accepted as an accountant :) ) job meaning that I really never know when I will be leaving work which kills the crazy planner in me. I am the type of person that needs to plan everything from my wake up call to my meals to my bed time. Plus, sitting all day does not help me or my tail bone.

No Excuses…

Exactly! NO EXCUSES! So what that I can’t make my evening workouts… the world isn’t going to end and there are a lot of other; maybe even better ways to get a sweat in. My favorite classes will still be there when my work hours go back to normal.

New Routine…

When is the only chunk of time that I have control over? Anytime before 8am is MY time. I have NO where to be or any responsibilities so this time became my sweat time! I can control what time to go to bed in order to wake up and get a sweat in, so that’s just what I focused on!

Welcome my new daily routine…

Wake up – 5-5:30am…

Workout 6-7:30am…

Leave for work at 8am…

Work…

Get home (whenever that may be)…

Eat dinner...

Bed at 9:30pm…

Do you see what I just did there? Instead of stressing everyday of when I’m going to get out of work and if I will be able to even get to the gym at that late of an hour; I just took the chunk of time that I CAN control and made it work FOR ME.

Is it tough? 100% it is… I am NOT a morning person but I know that if I remind myself of my goals and keep my head on straight that I will not slack. Every time my alarm goes off I literally remind myself that although this may SUCK right now (pitch black/cold/bed so comfy), I will feel AMAZING in a little bit.

So how did I do with Week #1 of the new me?

Positives:

I meal prepped and stuck to my game plan…

Some meals from last week's meal prep!

I ate about 80% clean…

I made it to the gym 4 out of 5 days before work…

I worked out 6 days…

Check out that calorie burn from Saturday!
P.S. Bottom right was my breakfast -
Protein Shake & Scrambled Eggwhites w/Veggies & Salsa

I pushed my workouts further than the past few weeks…

I started using my HR Monitor to track my calorie burn…

I didn’t eat carbs after work for about 3 out of the 7 days…

I didn’t cheat on the weekends (HUGE DEAL FOR ME)…

Instead of ordering my usual Greek Salad for dinner on Thursday, I ordered Salmon and Veggies cooked dry w/lemon…

I feel great!

Things to Improve:

I need to meal prep more of my dinners…

20% of my diet was not clean (flavored yogurts/frozen TJ Salmon for dinner two of the nights)

I need to kick my sugar habit and lower my fruit intake in the evenings (I had fruit after my dinner on the remaining 4 out of 7 days noted above)…

I need to learn about macro-nutrients and what is right for my body and my goals…

I need to track my food better…

Overall, I give myself a B+!

I am extremely proud of myself of the accomplishments that I made this past week. By me not cheating on the weekend is proof enough to me that I am focused and ready to tackle these goals of mine. I mean… I was drinking tea during the Super Bowl = Committed/Crazy haha! I need to remind myself to celebrate the small steps that I make in the right direction and not to focus on the mistakes but to learn from them instead!

Today I am in a fabulous mood!

I'm proud of last week!

I kicked ass this morning at the gym!