smkenne2’s BodyBlog

My 9th day into my diet and HIIT and I am lagging here.  I think it is a combination of endless days of school, working out, work, and homework.  Today I feel like giving up on school.  I just don’t have the motivation to do my homework write now or study for tests.  I hope this is something that everybody goes through every once in a while.  I really need a break.  I want a cheat week, where I can just eat whatever I want.  Of course, guilt would never let me do that.
Only a week and a half until spring break, and I am praying that my bosses will give me time off so I can go back to California for a couple of days and try to remember what it is like to be carefree.  I doubt I will even get the time off though, since a lot of people are asking that week off also so they can go to Mexico or Las Vegas and get STDs.
The days can only go by so slow.  I just need it to be the weekend so I can go shopping, for food of course, and treat myself to a nice hike.  If only life was that simple.  Instead it is full of bosses who hate me because they got picked on in middle school by the pretty people, trainers at the gym who tell me I am doing my workout wrong when I didn’t ask for their opinion (the girl didn’t even know what HIIT was, so how would she know it was wrong?), and classes that I can barely stay awake in.  I need to get out of this funk, and soon.  Time for homework.  I will accomplish something school oriented today!

So far I have been keeping my food journal, following my macros, and doing HIIT for 6 days now and I can see the progress.  Writing down everything I eat really helps me to keep track of what I am putting into my body.  I have already dropped 2.5 pounds, but some of it is probably water weight.  I can’t wait to see my abs and go back to my regular caloric intake.
Keeping the food journal also makes me look forward to my cheat days even more than usual.  I did go to asian buffet for my cheat day last week and I kept it pretty clean.  I stuck to the chicken, raw tuna, lots of shrimp, some fruits and veggies, and stayed away from the rice.  I had to finish it off with frozen yogurt and oreo cookies in the bottom.  It tasted amazing and was totally worth it.  I sort of cheated on Sunday with some gelato, but I’m going to act like that never happened.
There was more to write, but I completely forgot.  I’ll add more next time.

So I have been working out for the past year and while I have seen significant changes in my body I am still not completely sastified with my body.  I thought that I had been leading a relatively clean lifestyle and working out effectively, but after doing some in depth research on this website I have decided that I need to switch up my routine.  I am now going to start keeping a food diary and making sure that I meet my caloric intake and what I eat fits into my macros.  I am also going to be starting HIIT tomorrow.  Hopefully this will take care of the few problems I have with my body.  I am hoping that this will lead to an amazing body in a month.  I might be a little too optimistic with that assumption though.  I figured I only need to drop those last 5 pounds to hit my goal.  But to be a little more realistic, I will aim for my dream body by summer.  So I am counting down the days until May 10th (rough estimate) and will be logging my peaks and pitfalls on here.  It is going to be a new day tomorrow, and hopefully with it I will transform my body and reach the goal that I have been trying to achieve for the past year.

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