I might be going back to WWW instead of MILF (Weekly Wednesday Weigh-Ins vs. Mom in Love with Fitness) for the titles of these posts. I dunno. Thoughts? I just have a hard time wrapping my mind around the new MILF acronym instead of the old one. 🙂
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At any rate, I just wanted to check in to say that I’m stick kicking ass with my workout challenge to myself (tracking it here), and I am SO happy about that! Today I want to give a shout out to two blog friends who have recently really kicked their health and fitness into gear, and it’s really been inspiring me and motivating me to keep at this.
The first woman lost 25# over the past 4 months by counting calories on MFP, working out almost daily,and making a conscious effort to walk more. She went from 170.5# to 145#, which is almost the exact same journey I’m on, and we’re built very similarly. When she wrote this post back in May, I was up to about 168# myself, and I could so identify with everything she wrote about feeling overwhelmed even thinking about the prospect of trying to lose 20-30#. However, she is just a couple of months further along the postpartum journey than I am, and it gives me hope that if I stick with this, I too will see those numbers on the scale continue to drop!
The other blogger went for a more drastic lifestyle change by doing an intensive boot camp and paleo lifestyle, and 12 weeks into the process she has already dropped 27# from 180.6# to 153.6#, with an end goal of 142.6#, for a total of a 38# loss. It really is all about what you end and how much you move your body, you know?
Honestly, a few months ago I was feeling very complacent and sort of resigned to this “new body” of mine, and feeling like no matter how hard I worked it wouldn’t make much of a difference. Watching these two women who are in similar situations as me (in their 30s with 2 kids) completely transform their bodies has been incredibly motivating, and it makes me want to really stick with this and feel GOOD in my body again. I’m already so much closer than I was just a couple short months ago. I can finally wear some of my clothes from 4 years ago (when I weighed 151# and had been working out a ton to lose 20#), and that feels fantastic!
Also, thanks to my Fitbit friends not walking as much and me walking more lately, I somehow saw my name in 2nd place yesterday for the first time in a LONG time and over 80k for the first time ever. Wahoo!
