So now that I am back all the weight that I have lost has crept right back up but I knew that was going to happen. I went out yesterday afternoon with my family and I put on jeans that normally give me a little bit of breathing room and they fit. Not a bad thing to say the last but DAMN I know that I have to start all over again.......which is DOOKIE! I did learn a few things from that trip that I am taking back with me and embracing as a learning process.
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| Getting ready for the wedding :) |
As I go through my journey with my weight I am constantly learning new things about health and nutrition and I love it. Sometimes it is at the cost of me gaining some weight but seriously I gained a few pounds but I had fun doing it and life isn't all about weight its about the memories and the relationships that you make in this world. Weight and health IS important but it is not the only facet of life.
Before I went to the wedding I went on a pretty strict paleo diet and I felt the best that I had ever felt in my life. I guess I had some serious inflammation and that went down and my stomach was flatter that I had ever seen it. I felt confident and I loved it! When I went to Cali all the paleo went out the window because we were just simply too busy to do anything (It was too new for me to make a serious lifestyle change) and when we went out to eat I indulged BIG time........I went to a luau and ate three plates of food where one of them was desert! ha ha ha! Jesus help me! But you know what we hadn't eaten all day and that was the first real meal we had.
Lesson 1: Fuel your body through out the day so that you are not binging!
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| Local food from the Farmers Market I went to last week! |
I seriously ate 1-2 meals a day while I was there, which was booty and I should have made time for my health and I didn't. It almost cost me getting into the dress on the wedding day.....2 people had to zip me up! What a mess it was! I seriously freaked out for 5 minutes that damned thing was WAY too tight the whole night and was uber uncomfortable! It fit my boobies or lack thereof didn't show and it was GREAT!
I drank A LOT!!!!!! I was on vacation, I didn't have to be a Mom or have to get up for work so I totally indulged on that as well. I don't know of many people that would have done anything differently but!
Lesson 2: Drinking will make you fat! You will eat things that you normally wouldn't and alcohol has sugars in it and it will turn to fat because you aren't burning it.
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| Yes I totally ate all those plates in front of me! |
We slept about 5 hours a night. 4 AM was a normal thing and waking up at 9-9:30 became a serious thing. We had so many wedding projects left to do and family was in town and we went sight seeing which put the wedding on the back burner so when my friend and I got home we were kind of punished with wedding projects which was cool I had gone early to help her out but DAMN I was tired. Guess what happened? When I got home I caught the nastiest cold and I can only assume that it was because of my lack of rest, the lack of nutrition that I was putting into my body, and the drinking that happened almost nightly. My body was not running like the machine that I had made it previously going to Cali.
Lesson 3: Get your REST! It is essential in keeping your body regulated and boosting all of your bodies natural ay of keeping you healthy.
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| Bachelorette Partay!! |
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| My sicky soupies! |
When I came back home it was really hard for me to fall back into my eating and sleeping schedule. I got a really bad cold as I had said before and I ate a lot of salty soup and barley eating because I didn't have an appetite. I was making up for all the lost sleep that I had and then battling this cold. It took me about a week. Tuesday was the first day I had worked out since the beginning of August.........I was sore as heck and I still get sore. I had to take an additional rest day for T25 to add in some Yoga because everything was so stiff. Crazy right! I was at what I thought ultimate performance......not so much! I lost it all and I am back at ground zero. I am still having problems on the grain free Paleo front as I am resorting to eating them again.
This week begins my Paleo journey again with T25 and maybe some Crossfit here and there. We shall see but I kind of want to start running again so it may be a mixture of everything that I like with T25 as the base workout.
I know that all of these things happened to me because I am a person of routine and I don't ever steer away from it. I don't take vacations by myself, and when I do take vacations it is to go and see my son at my parents house and I have control over what I eat. I am sad to report that I gained weight back but I am happy because I am have a learning experience to go back to and I didn't let myself get too carried away. I went there weighing 121 and I am 125.6 now and already everything is tighter.....not so good but it is going back to my "happy weight" very soon!
I have added some pictures of my time in Cali for your enjoyment :)
