Still Chasing!

Well it has been 8 months since my last post but that doesn't mean I have given up hope. Wow how my life has changed in the past 8 months. Oh the things I have learned and the changes I have made to reaching the 50# goal!
Since my last post I have moved, got a puppy, started my career , joined a new gym and learned so much about what I have been doing so wrong!

I have to admit the weight I had lost I have since gained back, lost it again and gained it back. You know this endless circle I have been stuck in. However, I am finding something that seems to be working for me and feels so right. 

My new gym is  organized around classes. There are no treadmills, no elipticals, no cardio machines...all weights! They are 30 minutes classes of high intensity, weight trainin. 30 minutes?!? Really?!? yes. 30 minutes of crazy intense working out. I thought when I first started that 30 minutes wouldn't be enough but I was basically crawling out of my first class. It is so much fun though. 

In addition to the new gym style I have done 2 cleanses with this group. This cleanse isn't anything that like what you are thinking. It isn't a starve yourself and eat/drink nasty things. It is a cleanse of toxins and processed foods. Therefore, the cleanse is all the meat (grass fed, free range, organic), veggies (organic) and fruit (organic) you want. That means, no dairy, gluten, soy, eggs, alcohol, or caffeine. It is really not that difficult. The hardest part is the gluten. Gluten is in EVERTHING!!! It just takes some meal planning and devotion to food shopping. My first cleanse was in October. 

For the beginning of the year I decided that it was time to not only lose weight, which is the ulitmate goal, but to have a lifestyle change. Therefore I decided to dive right in. I joined the cleanse that was happening mid January. I did really well on the cleanse, it helped that I had some experience :) 2 days after the cleanse ended the ME Fat Loss Program started. I signed up, dove in and am still going strong. My third weigh in is in 2 days and I am super excited to find out how I did this week. 

From the first weigh-in to the second. I lost 6 lbs of fat, went from a 10 to a 9 in visceral fat, dropped 7 years on my ME Age, dropped body fat%, gained almost 2% of water%, gained 3lbs of muscle, and made my bone density go up from 10 to 114 :D!!! I was on such a high when I found out my results!  I have been eating sooo well and and going to the gym 3 times a week. In the next post I will talk about the food plan but for now I just wanted to get back on track with reporting to and keeping myself honest with my goals. 

I may have had a goal of 50# by Christmas...and I did, I missed that goal. However, my new goal isn't an amount of pounds--IT IS TO GAIN MUSCLE, LOSE FAT, and BECOME A HEALTHIER ME!!!!!! I have already seen results so I am already reaching that goal :)