Rachel Finally Gets Fit

Who’s idea was this anyway? Oh yeah…. mine.

So I decided to do a thing.

Anyone that knows me knows that I hate, not only burpees, but also the word burpees! I don’t know why but it has always grated on my nerves. And now I’ve committed myself to doing them every day and talking about them for a month!

So why did I do it?

I’ve been trying recently to push myself, out of my comfort zone and into the fitness zone! Ok, that was lame but I think you know what I mean. Being in your comfort zone is nice, it’s safe, and well, comfortable. While you might not want to leave, it can be difficult to achieve much there.

We all want to stick to things that make us comfortable, I mean why wouldn’t we? If you want progress though, you have to step away from it. I know, I know, easier said than done, but we still have to try!

That’s why I publicly committed myself to doing something I hate, if I can do this for a whole month I know I can do just about anything. It’s going to be hard, I’m going to want to say no, but I won’t let myself quit.

It is for a good cause after all.

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Nutrition! Nutrition! Nutrition! Ack!

Nutrition is the bane of my existence.

I’m pretty good at working out, I get into the habit fairly easy. I pick a beachbody workout or I do the workout challenges my partner gives me, and I can stay fairly consistent for a while.

Nutrition is another thing entirely, I love to cook, I love to eat, and I love to do it all the time.

I love making pizza and pasta from scratch, lots of breads, and cookies, and desserts! The trouble is that it’s not good for you in the amount that I want to eat it.

We all know that you should eat vegetables most, then proteins, then carbs, all in moderation. It should help fill you up in a good way that won’t make you gain weight.

The problem with ‘should’ is that we actually don’t. We all KNOW what’s good for us but it’s far easier said than done.

I’ve been eating terribly, doritos, milkshakes, homemade pizzas. It’s really hard to stop myself, and every time I put it in my mouth I think “stop, don’t, you don’t need it” but I rarely ever listen to myself.

I’ve implimented some tricks for myself to see if I can do better, I try to log all my food and now I’m tracking how many wins and failures I have in a day to see how I do through the week.

I don’t know if this will help but I can hope.

And I can try very hard to do better.

I’m partially sweaty, partially wet, and fully upset.

Working out is hard! Really hard, I mean if it was easy everyone would do it. I myself have failed to do it on any number of ~~years~~ occasions!

What makes a workout worth it? Aside from health and fitness blah blah blah.

That lovely satisfying shower you get to take after you’ve worked up a proper sweat!

Just think about it, you put all that effort in, you’ve pushed yourself. You worked up a good sweat and by golly you’ve earned a lovely steamy shower!

Today I pushed, it was hard. My partner has been giving me workout challenges because with ADHD I find it nearly impossible to push myself. He set me some sit ups, crunches, some weight lifting, and time on my exercise bike.

All very doable, while still being very challenging. I pushed through on the sit ups, I pulled through on the crunches. 75 each! I used my 15lb dumbells on the weight lifting and did 35 minutes on the bike keeping my heart rate up.

I was very pleased with myself, I worked up quite a sweat and decided that I’d take a nice hot bath after my shower.

I get a bath bomb and my new soap, turn the water on and step in.

The power goes out.

So here I am still partially sweaty, now partially wet. And totally upset!

Some days you win, some days you lose, and some days you drink a milkshake while you work out.

Today is the latter.

I started the day with a pancake, I did my best to make it a good breakfast but I don’t know if adding protein powder to a peanut butter, banana pancake with Nutella and bacon is exactly good.

Then I wanted to have some doritos…. bad idea no matter which way you swing it. Doritos however, are ridiculously delicious and I couldn’t stop myself when I found them on sale 3 bags for $7! I knew it was a bad idea but I bought them anyway, and now two bags are gone.

Well that was a fail, but hey we all have bad days, and anyway I was still gonna do my workout! I started it and things were going well, I did 80 squats, which hurt my thighs way more than I expected but hey I did it! I tried to do a wall sit like I had been doing the past week but after the squats my thighs straight up said NO. So I DD some leg raises and 100 crunches.

Alright things are going well I’m doing the work I’m feeling good. I start a short chest/arms workout I found on YouTube I’m trying to work off those doritos.

That’s when a well meaning “friend” brings me a milkshake. I say friend in quotes because why would you do this to me?! I should say no! I’m in the middle of a workout! I don’t need a milkshake after a bag of doritos!

No matter what I yelled at myself in my head I accepted the milkshake. Willpower isn’t one of my strengths… I finsehd the two minutes of my YouTube workout and then hopped on my exercise bike with my milkshake.

It’s not ideal, OK it’s just a straight up bad idea, but I do think it’s worse to eat all that and not work out at all. so while it was a bad day it could have been worse.

The whole of the internet shouts that all the exercise in the world can’t beat poor nutrition, but hey, you have to start somewhere right?

Eating healthy can be exceptionally delicious now and then.

It takes some time to get going

I got myself into my workout clothes then sat on my bed to scroll reddit.

Sometimes it’s like I have so much energy and I can just jump up and do some work! Other times it’s so hard to make myself even fall out of bed to do a push up. I also hate push ups so it makes it extra hard.

On the agenda today is push ups (hate them), crunches (they’re OK), wall sits (loathe them), and riding my exercise bike. None of these things, aside from wall sits, are particularly difficult. I’ve been doing them for the past few days, rather successfully I might add.

Yet here I sit, writing this, rather than exercising like I should. I’m gonna get to it, I know I will, but sometimes it’s really, really hard to start.

OK, OK, enough, I’m doing it. I’ve got this.

Update: Well it took another hour after I posted this but I did complete my workout! Yay!! Then my cousin came over and we drank quite a lot of wine lol

Baby steps.

Falling on the floor

I always liked falling on the floor after a workout, you’re all sweaty, you’re tired, and you’ve completed your workout for the day. Then, you lay on the floor, it’s cool and comfortable and just feeling it you know you worked as hard as you could.

I layed on the floor for a while today trying to calm my heart and slow my breathing. I know you’re supposed to keep moving for a cool down but I just love to lay on the nice cool floor.