So true story, I had plateaued on my weight loss for about two months solid. Nothing I was doing seemed to be working and I got to the point where working out hard 7 days a week still wasn't breaking through. So I sat back and thought about where I might be going wrong in my diet and realised I was doing a lot of snacking. You know, what difference is a few chips while I'm eating dinner going to make? Or hey, I've been really good today, how about some homemade strawberry jam on some rice dream? Yum! So I figured that maybe I should start tracking my calories for a bit to see where I'm going wrong and just get some awareness really.
Now I had been tracking calories online a long while ago through www.prevention.com and their fitness trackers, but I found there to be a lot of problems with it. First of all, it was ridiculously slow! Secondly, it was hard to find things. A lot of the time I'd search for something that just wouldn't be there... so it made keeping track pretty tedious. So I hitched up with my 'ol friend google to find another online calorie and exercise tracker and was SOOO lucky because I found www.myfitnesspal.com. HOLY CRAP! Fast, easy to use, efficient, and the forums are amazing for meeting people on similar weight loss journeys and the support you get from people is phenomenal! I can track a whole days worth of food in exercise in minutes and it calculates my calories for me based on my weight loss goals and how much exercise I've done that day. Talk about a no brainer! After one week of using it, I not only broke through my two month plateau, but I took my goal of losing a pound per week, and lost 2.2 pounds in the first week! Needless to say, I'm feeling pretty freaking awesome!
Not to mention that the 7 days/week of working out that I do now is making my bod look pretty swell... Not to brag or anything, but my belly is looking leaner, my legs are looking leaner, my butt is looking perkier... not too shabby at all! Speaking of my perky posterior, I've decided to give the Brazil Butt Lift (BBL) program by Beach Body a try. I am actually going to pick it up tonight and then I'm setting a start date of March 1st. I don't know how it's going to go, and I haven't tried any programs by the same company before, but I figure it really can't hurt. For you readers, I'll post before (ew) and after pics as well as give a brutally honest review so you can decide if you want to try it for yourselves!
That's about all for now. Will hopefully be posting yet another vegan cheese experiment in the very near future!
Take care!
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