What a Day

Yesterday was a little rough, but it started out good. I got up in the morning and did my daily work out (50 crunches+ 60 sec plank). I made my breakfast; which was just a package of oat meal because I hadn’t gone grocery shopping yet for all my healthy food.

Around 10am I was on the way to my interview and thought I should get some grapes as a snack; that way I wouldn’t be so hungry before lunch. Once I got there, the interview went by really fast. It was good, but it seemed short.  Afterword’s I was so freakn hungry!!! Maybe my body just isn’t use to eating so little yet.  Anyways, I ended up get Chickfila and got everything I was not supposed to get.  I got a cherry coke, 12 count chicken nuggets and fries….. I was so mad at myself after I was done.

At noon I picked up my mom and she wanted to go pick up some lunch from Publix. She bought wings and two waters. I grabbed my water and then she invited me to some wings. Knowing I had just had an entire meal at lunch I ate about 4-5 wings anyways. I felt like shit after that. I don’t know why I didn’t , but I think I was binge eating because I was so hungry after I got out of my interview.

After all that mess happened, I made myself stay out of my house so I wouldn’t get bored and eat anything. I dropped off a couple resumes and did some quick interview. It was nice; except I think it was like, 200 degrees out today. It was so fucking hot!

Five PM rolled around and I picked up my mom from work then we went and got her boyfriend. We ate around 7pm (you’re not supposed to eat past 6pm).  This is where my struggle started up yet again. WE HAVE NOTHING HEALTHY IN THIS HOUSE!!! I didn’t realize how unhealthy we really were until I started looking for dinner food. I thankfully managed to find some salad stuff.

My mom let me take her card to go get my healthy food. I was so excited until she gave me a $30.00 budget…wtf.  I had a feeling this was going to be an issue because I wanted to get everything that was on the list of my work out plan; which isn’t a crap ton of things, but it was still not going to be under $30.00.

I headed out to Aldi, but they were closed. So I went to Walmart instead.  I get everything in my basket and before I went up to the cashier I added everything up. It came out to $61.00. I sure as hell wasn’t paying attention. I putting everything back and got it down to $26.00. By the time I got home I was so exhausted that I didn’t want to work out.

I am proud to say I am very happy I did because now I am in a better mood and I know that all of this hard work is worth and it’s going to pay off.  If you are having struggles of your own just remember you are a beautiful person but in order to get your health right you must change your life style and I promise you will be much happier. I know sometimes it’s really hard to work out when it gets kinda late but just tell yourself that you are worth it.

All my love,

Phoenix

So I love looking at other blogs. Lauren Conrad, Ashes into Fashion and Kandee J. As I was reading Lauren Conrads blogs I stumbelled on to a post called the Bikini Boot Camp Plan. I love it!

If you are interested here is the link: http://www.laurenconrad.com/post/shape-up-lauren-conrad-bikini-boot-camp-fitness-plan

I just started tonight and did my first full work out and it was amazing!
The main work out your suppose to do is every morning and night you do 50 crunches + 60 seconds of planks. So after I did my nightly crunches and planking I did this:

Circuit: 10 pushups, 30 lunges, 30 bicycle crunches, jumping jacks for 60 seconds, plank for 60 seconds (repeat 2x)

I drank water all through out the work out. Remember if you decided to work out do not drink to much water because you don't want to get sick. 


SO, my current jeans size is a 16 and my goal is to try and be in a size 10 by the end of this year. 
Hopefully I can keep my head in the game, be happy and have a great life.


If you decide to try this please be carefully and have fun.


With all my love,
Phoenix

A Bit of a Back Story (they wont all be this long i swear)

Hey! My name is Phoenix, I am 22 years old and 225 lbs and I am working on changing my life. Even before I got to my current weight, I was never skinny. I was semi- healthy though. When I was a kid I was in cheerleading and soccer. I think I started gaining weight probably right before middle school. once i was in high school though, I struggled with loosing weight. My senior year I found tennis and completely fell in love with the sport. I started loosing weight fast. By the time graduation rolled around I had dropped from a size 20 to a size 16. I was so incredibly proud of myself.

Then, after high school I was still pretty active, but not as much as I was in school. So I very slowly started putting the weight back on. I ended up meeting my now ex- girlfriend and moving to Savannah with her. While I was there I played the role as a "House Wife". I cooked, cleaned and took care of the dogs. I lived there for about 5 months and moved back after things weren't working out with us. By the time I got home to Florida, I was almost 300 lbs and was in a size 24.

I honestly don't think I tried to loose weight until a year after that when I moved in to my Sister-in-laws house. She did weight watchers and was awesome. She was my inspiration. She was doing so good and dropping the weight. I started eating better and trying to be a little more active.

As time passed I got to a size 20 and started noticing little changes here and there. I felt a little better and it became clearer to me that I needed to keep going. While I was living with my Sister-in-law I started talking to a girl that was hard core into working out. I started working out with her and got to a size 18.

Now after her and I didn't work out I had a complete mental brake down and stopped caring about myself and went back up to a size 18. So not only was my physical health crappy; my mental health was going to crap as well. I don't know if this has ever happened to you but these's two things don't mix very well at all.
I moved closer to home and then got even worse because my best friend at the time had moved to miami, I wasn't going to school anymore and things at my job were not good. I tried to start at a different school, but was struggling. I had to move back in with my mom in January of this year and she has helped me so much everything.

After a month I decided that I needed to stop feeling bad for my self and get my ass moving. The school I was going gave us multiple breaks during the day so we could go get snacks and drinks. I swear in my first few months of school everyone ate so much lol just because we could. We have a Publix and a Cvs right a cross the street from us so it was very easy to just run across the street and grab something.

Once we got into our next phase of school the snacks runs slowed down for me and I wanted to get healthy. I really started paying attention to what I was eating, but every once in a while I would slip up and get crappy food. Then my weight was starting to go up and down.

I just moved on to the 3rd phase in my school and about two weeks ago I made a decision to make my self healthier. I don't want to me skinny; I just want to be healthy. I have started walking everyday and I already feel so much better. I've also stopped drinking soda and that has REALLY helped. I can already feel a great change for my life.

If you have read all of this, thank you so much for your time and I promise the won't all be this long.

**Please remember no matter what your pants size is you are a truly beautiful person and don't let anyone tell you different. If you want to loose weight and get healthy, do it for you and NO ONE ELSE <3

With all my love,
Phoenix