Here I am letting it all hang out – good grief! Wearing black March 11, 2012 – in the orange July 21 (3 weeks) before my 50th birthday…. That my friends is the look of 7 lbs and 15 inches lost in 4 months!
In case you missed the why of all of this – here is a quick run-down…. For the last 3 years I have been able to keep 15 of 20 lbs. off that I lost with Valerie Waters and her Red Carpet Ready Club…. I was able to keep it off by continuing to plan my meals and workouts and then consistently following those plans. I agree – never fun and never easy, but I’ve been told when you do something over and over again it becomes habit, which I’m happy to say it does….
Unfortunately this year a midlife breakdown sent me spiraling into 4 months of I’m not even sure what – but there was a lot of physical and metal self-abuse – bad food, bad personal choices, no workouts – ugh somewhere I don’t ever want to go again. In those 4 months I put on 8 lbs. and no I am not pushing my stomach out in the above pic – that is pure fat and bloat.
So on March 11th, 5 months before my 50th birthday, I decided I had enough and have since been steady moving toward my goal of being in” fitness model” shape by 50… with 3 weeks left to go I have a LOT of work ahead of me – so here is my plan.
First I am very lucky that my husband Mark runs an AMAZING Fitness Bootcamp which I attend 3 times a week – Mon-Wed-Friday. Starting this week on Tuesday and Thursday for the next 3 weeks I am going to hit the track at 6am for some sprints – run as fast as I can on the straight away and walk the curve for recovery (4 times around, 8 sprints). This gets me 5 interval training sessions during the week and then on Sunday I will add a 40 min slow burn cardio session.
Food is going to get a little tighter – my workouts are in the morning so breakfast will be the only meal that includes carbs – so here is my meal plan:
- Meal 1 – quinoa, apples, blueberries and walnuts – have been having this each morning with oatmeal – super yummy!
- Meal 2 – Egg whites and green beans
- Meal 3 – Fish /poultry , nuts, salad
- Meal 4 – Protein green smoothie
- Meal 5 – Fish / poultry, veggies / Salad with Avocado
This isn’t a lot different than what I am doing now except cutting out oatmeal and substituting quinoa – and no dairy.
Days 3, 2 and 1 will be different – I will update you all on that later…. but for now that’s it – thanks for reading and wish me luck!!
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