Yesterday I just about gave up. I haven't lost weight in a month, I went down 20 pounds, gained three back and sat. When I got on the scale yesterday I felt so hopeless I cried for an hour and just gave up. I have followed my diet to the letter, except the night I introduced berries back into my diet and Kiri had ten pounds of the sweetest strawberries I've ever eaten. I ate them until my belly hurt and we finished the whole box. I was in pain the whole next day. OOPS! I have jogged three miles a day every day, that's 21 miles a week, even on days that I helped people move or was running around all day. So when people give me the advice that I might not be doing enough or that I need to change my routine, I wanna cry. Running is the only form of exercise that I've ever felt a passion for and I strive harder at every day. I don't know what it is about it that makes it so, but I just love it. I do it happy for and hour and a half, until my sides ache and my legs feel like jello. I do have more energy from it, and I feel pretty healthy. I'm just working really really hard every single day and not seeing seeing many results and it's frustrating.
Fortunately I have an amazing network of people that encourage me, I stuck to it. I've decided to add 30 day shred every day, along with the three miles. Weekends I will trade jogging for swimming laps. Sticking to the diet with added Ali pills, which will mean I will have to watch my caloric intake. Seems like a lot, but I thought I was already doing a lot. Gotta do what ya gotta do.
If this doesn't make some difference in the next month, then I'm marching into Settebello's and never coming out. That reminds me, my craving of the week! Settebello's pizza in the slc.
The only pizza place that tastes like real Italian pizza, trust me. My perfect pizza is white sauce, mozzarella, prosciutto, Italian olives, pine nuts, artichoke hearts, and ricotta, made crispy in a brick oven. Yum!
My favorite diet food this week is cherries. It's getting to be that fantastic time of year that cherries are cheap, abundant, and delicious. They are wonderful straight out of the fridge, I'm addicted!
You can do it, just keep pushing yourself! There will be a point where your weight wont go down, but your waist size will after a while. You're still building muscle, and it weighs more but takes up less space. You'll see it, just stick with it.
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With all the work you are doing, I'm sure good things are happening for your body regardless of what the scales say.
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