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Hitting A Wall
I think everyone hits a wall. But this is a blog about my walls. My big, giant, weight loss stopping walls. I hate walls. Well, not the walls that keep my dog from running away, or keep thieves from breaking into my house, or a wall that keeps people in prison because I don’t want them breaking into my house or stealing my dog. But walls that keep me from losing weight.
I’m hard on myself. I push myself and I fight with myself to do better, be stronger, eat healthier, run faster, be smarter (this isn’t a blog about my brain, but occasionally I try to be witty on here and a big brain helps). And there are times when all the work in the world doesn’t make your belly flatter or your butt smaller. These are my methods for working through it:
1. Yell, scream, curse, get it all out- then get over it. BUT- don’t stop. Keep doing. I think “this isn’t working! Why isn’t it working. I work so hard it isn’t f@##^@#!%^^^ working!” And I know if I stop- I go back to super fatty and not “fit” included. I’m hard on myself, and then I get over it. And I work my butt off another day.
2. Do what you love. Even if there’s not fat dropping off in the butt-loads (literally)- loving the gym makes you interested in going. I love the classes I take: Pump, CX, Attack, Combat. Even if I don’t want to exercise, and don’t feel like going to the gym, I go because I enjoy it. And because I’ve been consistent in going, I’ve met multiple other gym obsessed people who know me (and may, or may not- probably not, love me).
3. Make friends at the gym. There are people there who take me to task for missing days, encourage me on Facebook, and that I look forward to seeing when I go. They cheer me on, comment on my fitness posts on Facebook, and promote my blog (all of you- PROMOTE MY BLOG!!) And if I miss a week, they may send someone to check on me and make sure I didn’t exercise myself to death. . .
4. Reassess when you hit a wall. Try something new- a new class at the gym, lift more weight, make a diet change. Sometimes shaking things up is what you need to get out of a rut. And shaking that butt will help you lose that butt (I need some of it for sitting, but I have way more then necessary- so some of it can go).
5. Don’t take into account only pounds lost. I take my measurements once a month, and I take pictures every few months. And does a picture tell a thousand pounds. Well, not a thousand. If I weighed a thousand pounds I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be writing a fitness blog, I’d be writing a blog on competitive eating. A scale tells me the pounds lost, and a measurement will tell me inches lost, but a picture shows. . . well, the whole picture. It shows my biggest changes, and combines them all in a history for me to see. And my Facebook friends to see. . . for bragging rights.
So hit your walls, and then bust through them. Inspire yourself. . . or just talk big, brag, and puff yourself up until its true. Like I’ve said before “May this inspire you to do great things. Or at least average things with great melodrama- like me.”
Wanna see my muscular core? (me too!) CX Works
CX Works is a core class that works my midsection. . . well, to the core. You may be saying “why do I need a class just for my midsection? Why not take Body Pump where every muscle group is covered?” First off- why are people always demanding things of me on my blog? Stop […]
Fatty Loves Pump
Body Pump is the first exercise class I ever did- a barbell weight lifting class. Why is it that I took so long to write about it if I’ve been doing it so long? First of all- back off, its my blog. Secondly- I worry I may not do it justice. It’s the class that […]
Fatty Body Combat
What could be more fun than someone who’s uncoordinated and overweight pretending to fight? Well, besides WATCHING someone who’s uncoordinated and overweight pretending to fight? That’s pretty much my summary of me attempting Body Combat. It combines multiple martial arts, as well as boxing and kickboxing, into a class that makes you feel (well ME […]
Fatty Foodie Chicken Recipe
Those of you who read my last installment of Fatty Foodie know I love, love, LOVE spicy food. I made this dish with habanero peppers because it does make me sweat and cry. I try and make all my lunches for the week Sunday night so that I don’t have to worry about finding time […]
Finding Your Fatty Fan
I have lost weight. I’m not where I want to be yet, but I’m on a mission to do it. Along the way I have met great people who cheer me on and encourage me to do great things, support me and love me (and, honestly, this blog is my forum to toot my own […]
Class Etiquette
This post will most likely sound like an old lady curmudgeon (word of the day- it means a bad tempered person, usually referring to a grumpy old coot), but people today have no manners. It seems that this has become the time, the place, and the FORUM to post my rules on gym etiquette. These […]
Body Attack
For the first time ever, this week I took Body Attack. For those of you who are saying “what in God’s name is Body Attack?”, I’ll explain. Its a 60 minute class in which 50 minutes of said class is used to try and kill you. A friend once described it as “Jane Fonda on […]
Fatty Foodie
I love food. I mean, look at me- food is awesome. Food is fuel, it gets me through my workouts, but I also want it to taste delicious. Not like cardboard. And I have tried different diets. Atkins (no bread killed it), The grain-free diet (no grains=no bread, killed it), and the Paleo diet (what is […]
Fit Foundations
A year and a half ago, I walked into Gold’s Gym the heaviest I had ever been. For 8 years, through middle and high school, as well as college, I took belly dancing, rode and showed my horse, and participated in different sports. My senior year I walked/jogged a marathon (well, 25 miles, but that’s […]
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