I'm literally so excited to blog about this, finally something has given me a kick up the backside and motivated me to get to the gym!
Recently I've felt a little 'bleugh' I've been putting on weight and totally out of routine. Making up excuses and just letting myself slowly go whilst ignoring it by avoiding anything I know won't fit and not looking at last summers photos when I was a gym addict!
Anyways at the festival, I was wearing a denim dress that fit perfectly last year but this year felt like I'd been packed in like a sausage roll. Knocked my confidence all day cause I had it in my head everyone would be looking at me like 'look at that fatty' cause I just felt so bloated and uncomfortable.
A couple days later when I got home (and recovered) I just held my breath and weighed myself.
A bloody stone, I've put on just over a stone since January :(
That was it no more messing about, I had to get myself back into a good gym routine. It's ok dipping in and out of the gym, once a week to make myself feel better. Or clean eating Monday-Friday and then eating a weeks worth of calories in secret at weekend cause 'its weekend' and 'I've had a tough week' but these stupid excuses aren't getting me back in my denim dress are they?
Everyone around me was telling me I looked fine, a few people saying I look healthier now I was to skinny last summer. So I carried on battling with myself what to do for a few days until Saturday night I went to put on my black skinny jeans and picked up the wrong pair. I picked up a pair of size 8 Armani's I've not worn in months and months and was nearly sick when they wouldn't button up by a good 1-2 inches! That was it, enough was enough of hiding from the truth and making up excuses.
Sunday I was so clean, no cheats, no accidental biscuits, no 'one square of chocolate won't hurt' all the little things that add up in a day. I stayed strong and felt so much better that I even went to the gym all on my own after work and did 20min HIIT sprints then a really hard legs session (that I'm still suffering from now) That was it, something switched in my brain and I was back in the zone 100%!
Monday - Day one of the Female Fitness Bible - Arms!
I set my alarm early and got my ass to the gym BEFORE work (which I don't think I've ever done if I'm not on a late) and smashed those arms all on my own again.. My fear of weight training on my own blown out of the water.
Pre-Workout - Banana
Breakfast/Post-workout - JuicePlus vanilla complete with frozen berries.
Mid-Morning - Carrots and Hummus.
Lunch - JuicePlus chocolate complete with peanut butter.
Afternoon - Carrots and Hummus.
Dinner - Peri Peri Chicken, Wholegrain Rice and Steamed Veg.
Tuesday - Day Two of The Female Fitness Bible - Chest!
My diets been appalling today, in the sense that I've no where near eaten enough food as I've been out all day (excuses again) so I've written myself out a 14 day meal plan. 5 high protein, low carb meals a day and if successful I shall type up onto a spreadsheet and share with you lovelies.
So again no more excuses, big food shop done and every things meal prepped ready for tomorrow. I'm 100% serious now!
I have been lucky today though in the fact that when I went to the gym and was warming up on the treadmill with a few HIIT sprints (my faves) one of the PT's came over for a chat. I told him about The Female Fitness Bible we've launched and that I'm training chest today but is there any way I can do bench press without going in the downstairs gym (that place scares me its just a bulked up mans territory, that no amateur female should enter, you know the kinda place I mean) so he kindly offered to hold my hand (figure of speech) and train me in the dreaded 'mens' gym.
Breakfast - Chocolate complete shake
Mid morning - Starbucks tub of fruit
Lunch - Bag of fruit/nuts uhhhh so bad but I was out and about trying to be healthy
Afternoon - Banana and a Chocolate complete shake post gym
Dinner - Cod, Prawns, Wholegrain rice and Steamed Veg.
Tomorrows the start of my very own '14day high protein, low carb' meal plan alongside The Female Fitness Bible to try shed some of this weight!
If you're interested in The Female Fitness Bible or any of the meal plans just drop me an email - milsatthebodyworx@outlook.com or add me on Facebook 'Heather Louise Milner' where I can send you over all the workout sheets/plans and add you to our FFB support group.
Wish me luck on the new meal plan :-p
Mils xxx
