crossfit question/motivation

Congratulations for drinking the Kool-Aid. Since late January when I started this journey with CrossFit being my exercise of choice, I have lost 17 pounds, just over 24 inches, dropped my body fat percent by 6.3%, and gained 5 pounds of muscle. Additionally, I have thrown my asthma inhaler away, gone for obese to overweight on the BMI chart, dropped two dress sizes, and wake up with energy. I do not eat anything close to the paleo diet (but am planning on a 6 week trial in September and October). I would say it took about 3 months for me to really notice a difference in my body shape and almost 4 months for the scale to get with the program. However, once the results started showing they showed big time. My hips and thighs have always been my biggest problem and I have lost most of my inches from them (6 from the hips, 4 from my right thigh alone). And unlike most of my attempts to drop weight in the past my...hmmm...Girls (?) have stayed put. Plus the fact that my husband (a self-acknowledged chubby chaser) has found a new zest for fit girls with squat butts. And the best part IMO is that my upper arms no longer continue to wave after I stop because there isn't enough skin/fat there to keep the jiggle going.

To get through the lull of your body adjusting to the sport of fitness, I would recommend two things:

1. Use a tape measure every week or two to measure certain spots on your body (make sure you have landmarks in the area to remind you where you were measuring). This is more motivating then the scale when doing exercise in my opinion because you can see the smaller changes that add up big time.

2. Focus on gaining something from CrossFit that is not necessarily size related. Have you done CrossFit Total yet? (Max weight Back Squat, Shoulder Press, and Deadlift) That was my choice to focus on and in around three months I went up 20 pounds overall.

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ETA: Spelling...not my strong suit.

Crossfit or not, if there haven't been any changes at all (measurements, scale, etc) after 8 weeks, I'd pay much more attention to logging your food.

Hi! Thanks for the awesome response and advice. Congrats on all of your success, I wish you success on the rest of your journey!

I have measured myself but no change. Although you're not following paleo what does your diet look like? I am pretty good during the week although on weekends I find it difficult to stick to clean eating.

September will be my three month mark, I guess I just should keep at it and work on eating better?

PS. I'm 5'10.5 175 lbs...I'm not overweight but I'd like to lose 15 lbs or just trim down.

Thanks again talk soon!

My diet is pretty much a see food diet. If I want it I eat it but I try to keep an eye on how much. My diary is open, but you will have to look back a few weeks to see my basic eating. I spent a week in the hospital and haven't started tracking full time again yet. Weekends are my hard part too. Mainly because I don't follow my same routine and its harder to schedule meals. :bigsmile: