PW: 212.8
CW: 209.6

Great week! I am trying to work on my mindset.

Something exciting to look forward to today is I have an appointment with my NP today. I am looking forward to this to show her the progress I have made! I am also baking cookies for my book club tomorrow. I am not making my favorite kind, so it will be easy to avoid or only eat 1 😄

Good Morning Beautiful People!!

“There is always a bigger mountain ⛰️ to climb, and each peak is just a resting place until you find your path to the next summit.”

Today I summited one of my peaks!! I’ve been very open about how I was going to make 2024 about me getting healthy; mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, part of that journey was a goal of 10k steps a day.

Today I hit a crazy milestone (peak) … I’ve officially “stepped” more than half of the steps I had for all of 2023!! In two months, I’ve done what took 6 months last year. 🤯

What peak are you summitting? Where is your next path leading.

❤️🦋

Feelings have zero to do with your results, it's harsh but unfortunately it's the truth.
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I feel like I should be a millionaire....but I don't put the work in to be one or at least not enough work.
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I found the following thoughts helpful today. Coach Ben (at KDR where I work out online and in person - wrote it).


“Let’s say this is you-
-Steps – different every day, but always under 4K. Sometimes it’s 1K, sometimes it’s 3900. Every day is different.
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-Sleep – different every day; sometimes, bedtime is at 10 and wake at 6am and sometimes, it’s bedtime at 1am and awake at 9am, and everything in between. Every night is different.
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-Food – different intake every day. Sometimes, 5 meals per day, sometimes just 1. Sometimes, it’s 3000 calories, sometimes, 1000. Every day is different.
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-Water – different intake every day. Sometimes it’s a gallon sometimes it’s 20 oz of coffee…and that’s it. Every day is different.
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-Exercise – different every week. Sometimes it’s 3 work outs per week, sometimes it’s 1. Every week is different.
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Take home point – in this example, this person has zero consistency in their life.
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We're going to call this PHASE ZERO.
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This is usually how people come to us, i.e. no consistent behavior/choices. Or at least very little.
When we start working with this person, step one is to create patterns and be more consistent.
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So, let’s say the person works for a few weeks and now their life looks like….
Every day is 4K steps, minimum.
Every night they get the same amount of hours sleep.
Every day they eat the same number of meals per day.
Every day they drink the same quantity of liquid.
Every week they get the same amount of exercise.
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Let's call this PHASE ONE. This is the first point where you actually start working towards your results and it will result in one of three things happening...
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Positive results – YAY!
No results – BUMMER!
Negative results – WTF!

Negative results? In other words weight goes in the wrong direction, generally this doesn’t happen. If it does happen it’s usually just for a week or two, then their weight starts going down.
Positive results? Great…stay the course.
IF YOU DON'T GET ANY RESULTS IT DOESN'T MEAN THE PLAN DOESN'T WORK IT MEANS YOU HAVE TO GO TO PHASE 2.
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Phase 2 = more of the stuff you've been doing. More steps, more strict on your diet, more sleep, etc.
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Often times, losing weight looks like this….

Q- “What do I need to do to lose weight?”
A- “Be in a calorie deficit.”
Q- “Great, how much and how do I get there?”
A- “You will know when it happens.”

As Liselyn likes to remind us, experiment and learn!

Confirming that I did get to my lower body workout last night - it was quick but VERY effective, I am super sore today. I think I would be less sore by now if I had moved around more today but I was stuck at work until 8:30pm and really felt my quads when I finally stood up from my desk. Dinner was absolutely delicious though so I am glad I stuck to the meal plan, even getting home so late.

I did 15 min of stretchy yoga before hopping into bed.

Love the questions!
Something that I can get excited about today - I've been wearing a bit more jewelry lately, including an opal ring I bought myself a few years ago. 1. it's nice to feel pretty and girly sometimes. 2. I think this ring may not have fit all of my fingers in the last year or so but it is sitting quite nicely now on my left middle finger!

What is my next summit? This is a good one to think about but the first thing that came to mind was having things to do/look forward to each season of the year. I think 2022-2023 I definitely had some seasonal depression in the fall & winter, but since summer 2023 I have been more active, and planned trips/drives/social things, and even just romanticized my own friday nights living by myself so trying to keep all that energy up without burning myself out - that's a mountain!

@micki48 gosh what is your Employer thinking? Sorry you have to go through this. To cut health benefits on top of everything else?

@strong_fit_ells Love to see a photo of your new puppy

@MaddawgMadsen great way to celebrate your husband's birthday

@ashleycarole86 - Jamacia will be so much fun. Always so much work to prep for a trip

@EvMakesChanges great work on your progress. Any steps are worth celebrating. You're right what do you have to lose trying to get some small consistencies in?

What can I get excited for? I'm excited to spend some mama daughter time next week for her PD days. We have a time booked at our climbing gym and some pottery painting. We have a 2024 bucket list of about a dozen things we want to do together and those are 2 of them. I love spending time with her doing fun activities and it's part of my 'why' on taking care of myself.

PW 162.6
CW 164.0
I know my weight goes all other the place but have been keeping consistent with my activity and eating so again it doesn't get me down.

PW 153.6
CW 153

Not bad, was hoping for more, but it's okay, I seem to have a pattern.
In Nov I lost 7lbs
in Dec I lost 1lb
In Jan I lost 9lbs
So I guess Feb will be a slow month, and thats okay, I need my skin to catch up with me...
Seriously considering an arm lift, but I know it takes time for skin to catch up, so I will give it a while, but honestly I am dreading pool days... I guess when it gets to be too much, I will just fly away with my new wings...

Have a great day !

Username ashleycarole86
Thursday weigh-in

PW 238.6
CW 240.4

Also, I found a state job that I want to apply for today. Today is the deadline. I saw it a few days ago and have been debating. But, after talking with a friend, she pointed out that the state usually takes a while to hire for positions like these. So, even applying now means I will have time to talk with the president of our company. If that talk doesn't go well and my decision is to leave, I at least will have started. If it goes well and I decide to stay, I can always say I'm no longer interested. And, if anyone is curious why I haven't talked to him yet, it's because his wife is our realtor and I'm waiting for the house to close. The house closes on Monday. So close!

another long day at work. this week is wearing me out. but I rallied late tonight for a dance cardio session followed by a simple upper body dumbbell workout.

my neck is unfortunately still bothering me. I would like to snowboard this week but now it's not definite.

Dinners were really solid this week. Finished up my pork cutlets tonight.

@MaddawgMadsen glad you found a job posting that has you motivated! and so close to the house closing, very exciting!

@Gidgitgoescrzy I really want to get to where you are with jeans!! you are definitely due for a shopping trip


Off to bed. I need to be really efficient with work tomorrow because I also have errands to run and helping a friend to do, and I do NOT want to be working past 5!