Monday Momentum:: Its about to get crazy!!

Happy Monday!! We are almost halfway through summer and there is no time to waste. 😉

I have hit a plateau and boy is it frustrating!! I guess you could say I'm stuck in a little rut. My focus this week is to continue my gallon a day (celebrating 2 weeks with no soda!!🙌🙌) and eating A LOT cleaner for dinner. During the days I do so well eating clean and eating smaller meals every 2-3 hours. And then dinner rolls around, 😒 we eat with friends/family 4-5 times a week followed by dessert. Some days I can resist that dessert but others, I get sucked back in to the old ways. I pay for it the next day because my tummy gets mad at me, but I need to be stronger.

So I'm changing it up!! I gotta let my body know that my mind is the boss of me!! 😉 If there's one thing I've learned this year, it's that weightloss and eating clean is more a battle of the mind than anything else.

Today, Monday, I will kick off the momentum of a hybrid program. This program will be a combination of Insanity and Turbofire. I'm choosing to do this because I get a great burn in my lower body with Insanity; not to mention that it challenges me to my very core!! And I'm absolutely loving Turbofire for my cardio and arms.

Starting this morning with HIIT 15! Chalene gives Shaun T's T25 a run for his money. In 15 minutes I was SWEATING!!! Tomorrow, I'll be doing insanity.

I took my measurements this morning to see how I'm doing and as a starting point to see how mixing these two programs will affect my progress. In the last six months I've lost 18.6 lbs and 9 inches.

Now to some, this may not sound like a lot but it's something I'm proud of. I've not once "dieted," counted calories or points. I've just slowly changed my habits so that this really will become a new way of life. I'm excited that now, when I eat good clean food, I feel great and when I don't- well, I don't feel good either!!

Here's a sample of the calendar I'll be following::

I'm so pumped about this new scheduled!!!

Every new day is an opportunity to be better than the day before! Put those blinders on and just think, you vs you. Don't look at the body to the left and don't look at the dessert 🍰 to the right. Just focus on your goals and CRUSH 'EM!!!!!

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