C-tina's work out blog!

[Athene]

The exact words out of trainers mouth on our way back in the gym were " Sunday (in case your wondering why shes calling me that, that is last name believe it or not lol!) u were FUCKIN awesome!" Lol that made me feel so good. While I was the only one actually finishing strong with the lunges, I over heard her tell the fit team about weight loss and how I always give a 100% and push myself to the limit. It felt awesome to he bragged about. I had to flip the huge tires, do plank crawls under the benches of picnic tables, Indian run, knee high runs, run laps carrying a tire, lunges, jump squats...need I go on? Lol one of the women in the class told me I'm her inspiration. It's an amazing feeling to be the one inspiring others vs. the one looking for the inspiration. I couldn't feel anymore on top of the world then I do right now!

I'm so happy for you! You are likely being watched by more people than just one woman who has admitted it... you are probably a role model for people you haven't even thought of yet Oh yeah, and flipping tires IS FUCKIN AWESOME!!!

[Boss Man]

I'm really happy for you Christina, because you are the sort of person who deserves to know what real inner happiness is like and it's about finding more of the person you always have been, which you are doing.

I want you to start to appreciate exactly who you are and what it can mean, now that you know more about yourself as a person as I think you are someone who has always had the ability to make your body look as good as your face.

You're a beautiful person with a heart to match Christina and I feel so elated for you, because you've come so far from that confused person crying in the shower, to the person you are now; coming from a nadir state to a zenith state and this is not just about your long term future, but about proving those negative people you've come across in your life wrong and this is something to be truly proud of, that finally you can find a way to give yourself more human value and worth.

I can feel in some small way how you feel, because you have never ever emoted from anywhere else but the heart and I have always appreciated how it must have been difficult for you at times, to have wondered why you couldn't make things better and couldn't make the right things for you, become an entrenched part of your life, as opposed to attitudes and actions that yo-yo'd and didn't remain consistent.

Now I think you finally get so much of what it means and takes, to consistently achieve the moments that lead up to the end goal and I think you are finally maturing your attitude to your life, in the way(s) that seemingly looked difficult to do in the past.

I am sending you a BIG HUG misses and I am VERY PROUD OF YOU, because I have never stopped believing that one day you would start to get what you deserve, by being able to work out how to get it and how to stay the distance.

WELL DONE Christina, truly WELL DONE. You are a pretty amazing young Lady who is becoming more amazing and more beautiful by the day and I hope you feel more beautiful inside yourself these days, because people like you who have what it takes to be so, deserve to feel that way.

So keep sticking at it and don't stop caring about yourself 100%, because this is just part of hopefully a very long road in life, where you experience the feelings you are able to give to others and I hope you will one day soon, be able to use your sometimes frustrating past and your current and future achievements, as a way to teach and educate others, because that's something that could give your life even more meaning.

You WILL make your hopes and dreams come true and you WILL succeed, because you DO have what it takes and you ARE capable and 10,000% belief will continue to be yours for as long as you want it, so chin up, keep smiling that incredibly touching smile and most importantly, KEEP BELIEVING in yourself, because you ARE worth so much and you are capable of becoming a really special person to this world and I don't ever want you to forget that which you are and CAN become okay .

We are are pushing and pulling for you sweetheart and we are all truly proud of you

GOOD LUCK and best wishes

[rockchick_82808]

thank you so very much boss man! your kind words always mean so much to me.

i am looking for some advice. summer is here which means parties and going out every weekend. i need some tips on how to stay on track. does anyone out there have past experiences on how they over came temptation at events? the past two weekends have been hard. i gained a couple pounds then loose it during the week then gain then loose it. with this weekend coming up and a weigh in coming up on Wednesday of next week, i don't want to go off track.

i need help in developing new habits for times such as these.

[musculArgirl2]

i don't have any real suggestions i think most of us struggle when going out to eat and eating healthy. It's definitely hard to make the right choices in social situations. But like i heard once on hear, nothing tastes as good as feeling fit feels. Maybe try to plan ahead before you go and decide what you are going to eat and drink, even bring your food with if possible and just eat that?? I think everyone that knows you well knows how you've sturggled with losing weight so they should understand if you don't eat what they are eating. Good Luck!

[Boss Man]

Props on the bringing your own food idea. If you're eating your own food, then temption is avoided more easily. If you may be expected to share the hosts bounty and feel eating your own food, might seem like a some kind of snub or slur regarding the hosts food and even hospitality, then as also suggested, try to acquire information regarding the food options in advance, so that you are able to make the best choices you can.

If the hosts residence is close to where you live, you could walk there and back as well, because if you do eat a little too much, compared to driving back, even burning 20-30 calories on the way home is better than a poke in the eye.

[rockchick_82808]

thank you both for the great ideas! i will for sure use them! btw i think its time for progress pics! here we go with the awesomeness! lol

[Boss Man]

Yes, you can a diffference in both photos. WELL DONE and keep on pushing okay, because you ARE worth it .

I'm really happy for you, because you deserve to look as beautiful on the outside as you are on the inside and this sustained period of progress has been longer in coming than it should have been, but it's happening now and that's brilliant .

[rockchick_82808]

YES! I DID BOOT CAMP IN THE POURING RAIN AND COMPLETED THE COURSE 3 TIMES! WE HAD TO DO THAT WEIRD BLACK ROPE THING THAT YOU SEE ON BIGGEST LOSER, WE DID PLANK CRAWLS, BEAR CRAWLS, 15 BANANA CRUNCHES, RUN, 15 FROG JUMPS, FLIP TIRES, 25 PULSE PUSH UPS, JUMP IN THE AIR THEN HANDS TO THE GROUND AND JUMP LEGS OUT BEHIND YOU (NO IDEA WHAT THEY CALLED IT), THEN WE HAD TO REPEAT IT TWO MORE TIMES, THEN ON THE END OF YOUR STRETCH YOU HAD TO CARRY A 25POUND WEIGHT ABOVE YOUR HEAD TO THE FINISH! I NEVER EVER THOUGHT I WOULD OF BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS. ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THERE WERE ALREADY PART OF THE BOOT CAMP CLASSES THEY HAVE. I WAS THE ONLY BIG ONE THERE, THEY ALL WAITED FOR ME AT THE FINISH AND CHEERED ME ON. IT WAS AMAZING IN SO MANY WAYS! EVEN OWN TRAINER WAS THERE AND CHEERED ME ON!

[musculArgirl2]

Do you think you will do team weight loss after the 12 weeks are up chirstina. You are having so much success with it but i know it's not cheap too. If you can afford to i think you should because you are doing so well. But i know it depends on money and everything too. You have me tempted to try it myself. It would be worth it if i could lose some weight. But i have also plantar so if that acted up while i was working out it wouldn't be worth it. Also I'm not really a team player. I've always done individual sports and enjoyed them more than group things. But that's just me. Sorry i went off on a tangent there.

But i truly think if you can afford it i would stick with team weight loss and do another 12 weeks because you are really doing so well and gaining so much confience and success with it. Why stop you know?

[Boss Man]

The idea that has been put forward, about you doing the team weight loss thing again, is a good idea. What I would suggest though, is you use what you have learned, to cultivate your own weekly regime and see if you can make it for 2 weeks without messing up once and slacking off. Perhaps doing something that could be done outside or maybe indoors, depending on what yo felt was better for you.

What you would be doing, is assessing if you now have the added focus and mentality towards weight loss, that would allow you to go it alone and if you could complete just two weeks on your own, of something you had devised yourself, then you would prove a lot to yourself.

If this experiment failed to work and you found yourself struggling to commit to a preset plan, then perhaps consider going back to the team thing. The other alternative of course being, if you could hook up with some of the other people from that team weight loss regime and develop a group plan that you all could stick to, because if all those people can frequently attend something at the same times, than you would have the foundation for an unofficial team weight loss system, by all being able to go at the same time to a pre-agreed place and work with a pre-agreed system.

You might find if you all spent money on the use of a cheap local venue, like a Church hall, the cost of group hire would be relatively cheap per head, so you would have a venue to allow your pre-defined group activities to go ahead on set days and times of the week, assuming that is the system didn't involve someones basement, garage or an outdoor area, that could provide adequate space at no cost.

Every time you post things like you did before, I feel proud of you, because you have always touched me deep inside, with the human qualities you have and that warm, touching smile you possess and when I see you looking happy, I feel really happy for you, because you're one of those people I could happily wish a lot of amazing things to and I continue to want what you want almost as much as you do, because the increased happiness from being physically how you would wish to be, would be something a person like you deserves.

I hope you can continue to find a way to keep making this superb progress happen for you and I will try to find to the time when it's feasible, to continue to support you and that includes through messaging you as well and vice versa .

I'm not going to give up on you unless you give up on me okay and when you need it, tell me what's on your mind good or bad and we'll try to work it through, for your own good and your own good alone .

Keep pushing and pulling Christina and keep believing, because we are ALL behind you and we ALL want the very, very best for you .

[rockchick_82808]

thank you both so very much!!!!!!!!!!

awesome ideas from both of you. I would love to do own team with the ladies, but all of them have been talking about getting personal trainers and others are saying they wont have the time once this is over ect. ect. but, i have decided to stay once this is up. over the last two weeks i kept thinking about it. all these years i put money towards bills, now that i have the extra cash, i want to use this money on health. for the first time in life everything clicked! i don't have friends that are active, boyfriend isn't the on the go type either and would rather just watch a movie, so being apart of something where i get to meet others who are....is a great experience for me!

I have not made an actual friendship with any of the ladies on team, but i hope the more i become apart of this gym, friendships will form with others. not that i'm putting down current friends i love them to death, but i want to meet people who can help keep me motivated and will get out and enjoy the things with me that i have always wanted to do! the last three years i became a couch potato, and i was miserable, i couldn't stand it. being active alone was awful. which is why i didn't get out much like i use to. not any more! that ends now, in fact that ended two months ago when i signed up for this. things will change in a few months once i go back to college but i am taking classes on Tuesday and Thursday. so i can still attend the gym the other three days. I'm dedicated to this, i know where heart is.

i have been developing a great bond with trainer and i'm not ready to let this go. i still have another month left and to be honest during its last week, i am going to talk to trainer and see if she thinks i should move up to team fitness. she is letting me attend a team fitness class on monday. this past Friday she was talking about how all the afternoon classes are canceled because of the holiday. she mentioned the three times and she wasn't teaching the weight loss one some one else was, so i asked if i could join team fit. not just because she wasn't teaching the other but because i want to challenge self and i think now, i could do it. she loved that i wanted to and said i could. you should of seen how excited she was when she saw me show up for boot camp yesterday. i was the only one from team weight loss who worked up the nerve for the challenge. it made me feel so good!!!!

[Boss Man]

Keep that attitude and keep believing.

You ARE worth this .

[rockchick_82808]

So, I went to the gym to try team fitness ( which is a class up from team weight loss) but since only 4 showed guess what that meant. We joined team boot camp. CRAP was what I thought. I then said to myself there's no turning back now. I have to at least try. So, we got in the gym and did so many damn drills. It was really hard. I wasn't perfect by any means but I didn't give up. At one point the boot camp instructor walked to trainer and asked who I was ( he was the instructor for boot camp mayhem I did saturday) she said name and that I was from weight loss. He was shocked that I pushed the way I did and she said I know awesome right? He nodded and went back to our drills. As hard as it was, I'm proud I didn't chicken out and walk away, instead I gave it all. It was amazing.

i ended up taking a couple hour nap after that too. keep in mind i woke up at 6am today and did a short jog and rode bike for 4 miles before taking the class!!!!!!!

yesterday i was even able to talk boyfriend into going to a local metro park and ride bikes for 6miles! i was so happy that he went with me, not only because he was company, but because he took a big step towards his health too.

[rockchick_82808]

Not only was i the only one who showed up for team weight loss but I have a messed up ankle. I was put into team fit to do circuit training with another trainer. He is such a nice guy. He worked around injury modifying some of the moves and was by side through out class making sure I was ok. I love this place!

[rockchick_82808]

today was awesome! a few months ago i was handed down some cute clothes but they never fit. today i was able to button up one of them! weight status:when i started i was 241-today i am at 227. only a few pounds away from hitting the 20lbs lost mark! it feels so damn good. yesterday i went out to walk with bfs friend for a couple miles at the park. to give a lil back story on him, he lost over 188 pounds this past year all from diet and exercise. he has been a big supporter for me lately and i wont lie a huge role model. it sucks that I'm just now really getting to know him and he leaves for japan in month from now and wont be back for four years if not longer. he was saying to me how much this year i have done a 180 with getting a new job, going to school, getting a new car( purchasing his 2007 hhr from him in July can't wait! for the first time i will own a car where all windows and speakers work!), and now loosing weight. he told me he was proud. that walk yesterday, really made me feel so damn good about myself and really look at what i am accomplishing. next year, i plan to move out. I just can't wait to see myself continue this success. also, when i hit that damn 230 mark and was stuck going up and down three pounds for three weeks (its where i had given up so many other times in the past because of frustration and disappointment) i actually kept it up and pushed myself through it! these work out classes have been challenging me not only physically but mentally and now, i feel i can take on anything! way of thinking has been changing for the better and will power is only getting stronger. this past month i can't tell you how many birthday cakes have come to the office, i haven't had a single slice! now on fridays when they bring in bagels i only allow myself one every other friday.

this past week i wanted to see how i would do with out food journal because i feel that knowledge now will be good enough without it. so far its going great! if for some reason i go off track i know i can always go back to it. when i look in the mirror today, i see a stronger person. not to mention happier. when i walk into old job and see former co-workers they too see how happy i look.