21 days

Hello bloggy world!

This morning bright and early at 7:00am I had my session with my trainer and todays muscles of torture:  Back and a little bit of shoulders.  Just when I think we've done enough sets and I think she's going to walk to the next machine, she doesn't.  We stay on that machine until my mind totally starts telling me that it's not physically possible to do anymore reps and then I do reps until I think my muscles are literally going fall off and then I hear Coach Candice say "5 more reps" or even worse and believe me I have heard this number also "10 more reps".  So after some super sets and working my back like I have never worked in my whole life we got down to the brass tacks of my diet and workout.  So although I'm meeting with my trainer once a week for right now she gave me a plan for the rest of the week.  5 days a week I'm up and at em' with cardio each morning for 45 min.  3 of those days I have planned workouts for the elliptical and treadmill.  Those cardio workouts are more interval based so I will using a heart rate monitor to monitor my progress.  The other two cardio days are my pick as long as it's 45 minutes.  And during the week I get to spend 4 days a week training and it's my pick on how I spend that time.  I will probably sign up again for crossfit and do 3 workouts a week with crossfit and 1 workout I make up on my own.  And for now I get 2 rest days that I get to pick.

Now you might be thinking what is with this whole 21 days business?  Welp I got my diet plan and I'll start posting pictures of my food as I start making it and I'm pretty happy about the plan.  It's nice to not have to worry about whether I'm making the right choices or not.  I just prepare and eat what is listed on the paper about every 3 hours.  I do this for 21 days straight.  No cheats, no eating out.  I'm experimenting with my body now and measuring the changes along with my trainer.  This won't be my diet forever and I will have to probably eventually have to make some changes that I won't really love.  But that's what you do when you have a goal, you have to adjust, change or give up something in order to get a new outcome.  So I will officially start the 21 days tomorrow, I've already done some grocery shopping for my new diet and had to pick up and add some stuff to my diet that I've never really eaten before.  Chia powder, raw cacao, flax seed oil to name a few and get excited about my life because I get to eat.....wait for it..................blueberries and rasberries!!  I know, I'm freakin' excited too!!  And wait for it again because............I also get to eat.............greek yogurt!!!!!  It's like I won the lottery!!!  And then, and then guess what!!!!!  I also get to eat.............oatmeal!!!!!  I know I know stop being jealous!!!  You might think this is sarcasm but it most def is not!!  I am actually happy!  I haven't had any of these items in my normal diet in a long time!  Maybe by day 15 I'll be wishing for something different but for right now, I am excited in a totally geeky way.  So I hope everyone is having a fabulous day wherever you are in this fabulous world!

Cheers,
Ash