Hi friends! Thank you for your comments yesterday. The overall consensus seems to be diligent about tracking and keep on keepin’ on. Both of which, I can do. 
I will admit, my tracking is not 100%. I have this problem where I track religiously during the day and then don’t track at home for dinner (and those snacks that sneak in) – it’s obviously a problem if I’m not seeing results. I need to break that dirty little habit. I also need to focus more on my portion sizes. When I started I measured, now, I eyeball. Another problem. So, out come the measuring cups and food scale again. I know, it gets annoying to do, but if it’s going to make a difference – it’s time for me to just suck it up and take a little extra time to do it. Thanks for making me open my eyes. We all need a little reality check once in a while. I needed mine – and thanks to you guys, I got it… and totally not in a “you suck” kind of way. Thanks guys.
So, I haven’t mentioned this to you guys yet… mostly because I’m scared I might “fail” and then have to admit that I did – but tonight, at 7pm I have my one month evaluation at the gym. Time to see if/how much weight/inches I’ve lost since I started meeting with my trainer in January. I’m scared. Really scared. I know I’ve gained about 2-3 pounds since my baseline evaluation – which I keep telling myself will be okay if I’ve at least dropped some inches.
I honestly don’t know if I have or not, which worries me. Usually you can tell if things start getting looser and whatnot. I don’t know, I kind of feel…. the same. I’m just hoping to God that I didn’t gain any inches – I will cry and pout and whine – and then hit the gym harder for the next month. So… I’ll keep you posted!
This will be me tonight at 7pm – and I’m pretty sure I look exactly like this…
On the plus side, I KNOW I have gotten better at some of the exercises Vicky has me do. So, I guess that means I’m getting stronger.. right? I don’t want to pass out anymore after my work outs with her. That’s always a good sign!
When I first started training with her, she made me do push ups. I will admit it – I cannot do one, not even ONE “real” push up. I do the girly ones. When we started, I would do 2 sets of 10 girl push ups and it was torture. My very first session with her, she made me do 3 sets of 10 push ups on an incline – I couldn’t do it. I think I got like, 5. I sucked. Granted, it was at the very end of an intense arm routine, so maybe that is the reason, but like I said, I could do like 5, total.
On Tuesday, during my arm routine, the dreaded incline push ups made their return. I was expected to do 3 sets of 12. Guess how many I did. More than 5. I did ALL OF THEM. It was a push at the end, but I did them all. I was so proud… so was Vicky. She had commented on how much better I was getting at them. That made me happy. I had told Vicky the first time I met with her that by the end of this, I wanted to be able to do AT LEAST one REAL push up. She said to me, “don’t worry, you’ll be able to do more than one!” – I hope she’s right. I’m not quite at the real push up stage yet – but I’ll get there. And before you know it, this will be me…
Haha! Okay, so maybe not… but I cannot WAIT until the day when I am able to do a real push up.
I hope you guys have an amazing day! I’ll update you tomorrow on my evaluation. Thanks for all your support, all the time. You guys are the best!
