mak145’s BodyBlog

It’s easy when you can be a schedule. This was my life from June-August:

Wake up: 5AM…have protein shake…go to gym for weights/cardio

8AM - work (lifeguarding) …eat meal 2
10AM - swim 1500 m

11AM - eat meal 3

1PM - eat meal 4

4PM - eat meal 5

7PM - HOME eat meal 6

9PM - sleep!

I successfully lost 10 lbs over the summer this way, carefully monitering calories/macros to make sure I wasn’t losing too fast, and I was preserving my muscle.
It’s easy when you’re in a routine. Fast forward to mid August-September and put through dumb ass RA training and crazy days starting at 8AM and ending at 11PM with no gym available and only the food they give you..way to screw up my rhythm/metabolism. Now that I’ve got school and homework and a MASSIVE desire for a 4.0 this semester along with my random duty nights that last until 230AM and homework until whenever I finish it’s really really hard to think about fitness.

I have no time/desire to eat, and when I go to the cafe (on a meal plan) I don’t want anything they have there because I refuse to eat the junk food. The friends think I have an eating problem because I won’t eat ****ing ice cream. And here’s the thing with the gym: do you go or don’t you when you’ve only had a few hours of sleep?? I’m terrified I’ll end up very sick if I do that to myself because that happened to me when I was 17 during swim season…one practice from 6-730 and another from 330-630 on three and a half hours of sleep put me on my death bed along with severe depression for three months. I had to drop swimming for the year, and prayed that I could get into a minor accident on the way to school so I wouldn’t have to take a Chemistry exam or go to dance class and that I could just sleep in the hospital for the day.
If anyone has any words of encouragement, I’d be grateful.

Today is my first official day of consistency! Though I’ve been working out a few days a week for the past 4 weeks, I haven’t been too focused and have made little progress, although some progress is better than none. Today I did chest and triceps, and ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes, walking on and incline for about 10 of those minutes collectively. Running in general is a HUGE accomplishment for me because i absolutely despise running. This is why I swam competitively for 8 years instead of doing track or cross country or soccer or anything that involves running for that matter. I always feel good when I’m done, but I hate it while I’m doing it. I ran/walked a total distance of 2.5 miles and plan to get up to 4 miles by the end of the week. Now that the training portion of my day is complete, I have to tackle nutrition which is a little more difficult than the exercise, in my opinion…and classes and work. Joooy

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