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***Shawna is a client of our ours, that’s willing to share her weight loss journey each month. She’s a mother, wife and works a full time job. All of her comments are in her own words, unedited. Please contact us to start your journey, info@ironfit.ca, 7807184805***

Hello my faithful readers.  It’s been a while.  I’ve decided to do this blog once a month.  I felt like every 2 weeks was too much for me.  It put pressure on me if I had a bad week and the scaled showed this.  And then I had to come here and tell you all about it.  In the beginning, I thought this blog would motivate me a little bit more to stay on plan…because how embarrassing to have to share your failures with a bunch of people.  But some weeks, it really doesn’t do much to keep me motivated.  I really don’t know what will.

I’m trying something different…I joined Orange Theory Fitness on top of doing personal training sessions.  And let me tell you…I absolutely love it!  I love the group setting…and I’m already making friends with some of the regulars I see.  I also really the coached sessions.  So I’m hoping with this new routine I’ve added, that I’ll start to see progress with my fitness level. 

I haven’t been all that great with food choices over the past 2 weeks, I will admit.  I haven’t gained, but I’m not losing…I’m not necessarily pigging out or anything…just haven’t been making great choices.  So my workout sessions have just really been cancelling out the bad food choices.  And I know that I’ll find it again.  I found it once, way back in January/February/March-ish…I know I have it in me.  I just need to kick myself in the ass.

I’m still dealing with the hormonal stuff…that part of my life is really starting to get me down.  I can’t even really talk about it here…but I have joined a couple support groups for other people who suffer from PCOS because until you have it…you really don’t truly get what is going through my mind…And I don’t really feel like putting any of that in here.  Just know that I’m getting tired of getting the run around from all the doctors. They send me for blood tests only to show that yup, my numbers haven’t changed. So they send me away and tell me that they will check my levels in 6 months. 6 months later…more blood tests, same stupid results, but no fixes. So here I sit…with a body full of whacked-out hormones, and no one will fix me. Anyway…got away from myself there.

So ya, I’m still here and I’m still trying to fight my way back to where I know I can be…It just might take some time…more time than what it has already taken.

I know it’s been a while since I last updated this and I SHOULD have lots to talk about…but I don’t. I’m really not feeling it right now and maybe next month I’ll have something interesting to talk about. I can only hope.

Thank you for being here for me…even if I’ve never met you.  I know that there are other people out there who are struggling with this healthy lifestyle and maybe I just needed to let this out in the hopes that someone has some insights to share…

Until next month, I shall keep trucking on.

***Shawna is a client of our ours, that’s willing to share her weight loss journey bi weekly. She’s a mother, wife and works a full time job. All of her comments are in her own words, unedited. Please contact us to start your journey, info@ironfit.ca, 7807184805***

Well here I am all registered for the next weightloss challenge through Epicure.  There wasn’t really one in the summer time, so I’m very eager to get this started again.  It officially started this past Monday (September 10).

Before I go any further with this blog, I need to be honest about something.  Not even my trainer knows this…but I ended up gaining some weight back over the summer.  I allowed myself way too many “treats” like steak dinners, hot dogs, ice cream, ice caps, and I just didn’t give it a second thought.  I also just kind of stopped caring…yay depression.  I also didn’t do much as far as exercise goes.  I still kept up with my personal training sessions, which were once per week.  But the other cardio wasn’t as great.  I did some swimming from time to time and did some running around my neighborhood, but not as much as I should have been doing.  I should be close to the 250s, but I’m not.  I gained too much back.  I can sit here and tell you all that I was too tired after working 8 hours a day (I WAS tired) or I could say I had other priorities (some days I did), but am I unique to these challenges?  Nope.  I’m sure not.  Yet others find the time…MAKE the time…to get some exercise.  So what the HELL is wrong with me??

So here I am…back at it with the weightloss challenge.  My first weigh in was this week.  So looking at the my weight watchers app, on July 6 I was down to 268.4.  When I weighed in just before this challenge, on September 8, two months later, my weight was 273.  This week at weight watchers I got back down to 270.  Actually the scale DID say 269.9 but then when it stopped, it stopped at 270…So next week the 260s will be mine again.  And like I said, I should have been in the 250s by now…but I let my excuses overrun my mind again.

This week, when the challenge started, I made a deal with myself.  You see, I have a ton of Walking Dead to watch because I am trying to get caught up…Ya, I started to watch that show lolol  Anyways, my deal is that I am not to watch any Netflix as long as my lazy ass is on some form of gym equipment.  So this week, between my treadmill and the elliptical at a friend’s gym, I got on some sort of fitness equipment each and every single day for almost an hour (the episodes are 45 to 51 minutes long).  I have never done exercise every day before, and I’ve never lasted almost an hour…cardio is so boring lololol

On this challenge, we are allowed one free meal per week, but I have zero desire to do that this time.  I WILL have a free meal from time to time (special occasions, holidays etc) but I don’t want to have one just because it’s there…I’m still very much a food addict and I need to get control of this if I am to lose any weight.

I do still have these stupid hormone issues in the way.  I am still seeing an endocrinologist and my numbers are still very much out of whack.  I was doing just the bare minimum, but with all the issues my stupid body has, that’s not going to cut it anymore.  While I was on my treadmill, I kept playing with the speed and incline to challenge my heart rate…keep it wondering what I was going to do next LOL.  Kind of like when my personal trainer changes the number of sets I do from time to time…keeps the body from being in the same old routine.

As boring as cardio is, I did it daily this week, and guess what…I’m ok.  And actually, I will admit that I stepped on the scale this morning and it read 269.8.  I didn’t want to share that.  For this challenge we submit our weights every 2 weeks, so I was going to wait until my next blog to share.  But I felt I needed to share this because it was the movement that made the scale move down again after 2-3 months of nothing.

So like I said, my personal trainer didn’t know, until now, about my gain.  I was too ashamed to confide in him.  But at our session on Saturday he was really excited about me being close to the 250s…and I couldn’t keep it from him any longer.  So if you’re reading this blog, it means he didn’t give up on me as a client and he still has faith in me that I will conquer whatever it is that is going on in my mind lately that has been holding me back.  Mark, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry I let you down.

But…I think I can honestly say, I think I found my mojo again.  I want to annihilate this obesity and doing what I was doing this past summer won’t get me to my goal.

Well thanks for making it this far in my blog today.  I appreciate that you all follow my blog, despite of the trials and tribulations I seem to have been suffering until now.

Until next time, stay healthy.  I know that this time, I WILL be practicing what I preach.

Shawna

***Shawna is a client of our ours, that’s willing to share her weight loss journey bi weekly. She’s a mother, wife and works a full time job. All of her comments are in her own words, unedited. Please contact us to start your journey, info@ironfit.ca, 7807184805***

Hello my readers. My apologies for the late blog this week. I was certain I had another week to go. But my how time flies. I wasn’t going to post a blog this week at all, once it was determined that I’m due to write one. You see, I’m feeling a bit like a fraud lately. I am truly struggling, mentally. And as much as my ever so patient personal trainer keeps trying to encourage me to get myself out of this mental block, I just can’t seem to.  Did I go too strong in the beginning, causing my mind to feel overwhelmed when my weightloss slowed down?  I don’t know. I’m not an expert. All I know is, if I don’t get out of this funk, butt-quick, I’m going to end up at rock bottom again. And I sure as shit don’t want to be in THAT place again!!!

I have been keeping up with my once a week training sessions. Still can’t get back to twice a week. There are too many other financial obligations going on in my household at the moment that have to take priority. I’ve also started back to walking around my neighbourhood. While it’s not gung-ho like it was back in January, it’s a start. And it works with my schedule and we all know that with life and work, it can be challenging getting other stuff scheduled in.

I don’t remember if I mentioned that I rejoined weight watchers. I’m still doing that, and I have a great accountability partner who I text throughout the week. She helps me stay on my meal plan at least!!  I haven’t been losing much. Maybe a pound over the whole summer. But I’m not gaining either. So I’m hoping that now that I’m back doing some walking (and I’m not strolling…I’m actually doing a brisk pace), that my numbers will start going down again.

I also have one more piece of motivation. I joined an adult beginner tap class this year. It starts next week. And I believe it’s either December or January when we start getting measured for our costumes for competition and recital. So once that happens, I most definitely won’t want to gain. How embarrassing would THAT be?!??

Anyway I really have nothing new to report and I guess I better get my act together because you guys are going to start getting bored with me.

Until next time,

Stay healthy