A Fat to Fit Update

As week 4 is drawing to a close, tonight was my 28 day weigh in.

Here are the results: 
 I gained 15lbs of muscle
 I LOST 23.39lbs of fat
 I lost 7.6lbs on the scale
 and went from 54.9% body fat down to 46%

WOO HOO! More to go, but this is good to see! :D

2 Weeks In and an Artful Adventure

Well I've been meaning to blog but I haven't plain and simple. I'm sorry you've missed a few Throwback Thursday's but I promise to have one up this week, I'll have to dig deep in the archives and find a good one for ya.

As of yesterday I have officially completed week 2 of my Fat to Fit program. Week 2 wasn't the easiest, more mentally than physically though. I do notice myself getting stronger and having more energy, but I'm still waiting for the big payoff. It's very hard to wrap your mind around working so hard and not "seeing" the results. Yeah, yeah, "you didn't put it all on at once, it's not going to come off all at once" yeah I get it, but I need to see it happening. So week 2 was working through that. I also had the feelings that I don't want to go tonight, I need a rest... but I always went and always survived, I'm totally in the whole mind game part of weight loss at the moment. Onward to Week 3! 

Today in an effort to get out of the house and do something entertaining, NiBo and I headed north to Chicago to check out the Art Institute. Both of us had been there long ago on a quick school field trip and since the other Bo's were busy we waited to hit up the other museums until they could join. 

The other adventure on our agenda had been the Skydeck, which is a clear box that sticks out 103 floors above the ground of The Sears Willis Tower, but once we got in line and heard 2 hour wait, we decided against it and just hoofed it around Chi, but first, here is our adventures in art.

The front of the Art Institute

I liked this painting because the sun looked so real and I loved the shadows

This was just kinda creepy cool looking

Even Armor is art!

Good ol' Van Gough

NiBo was intrigued by this "art" piece

Yes this is art apparently, literally just throw random crap on the floor

NiBo was confused by this as well, if this is art, his room is a masterpiece he said

American Gothic

We weren't quite ready for our adventure to be over after our artful adventure so we walked and walked and walked around. We went to take a look at the river and all the happenings on Michigan Ave, and we went and took a look at the bean in Millennium Park.

I'm so glad the weather was perfect for walking around up there today, what a lovely way to spend a Sunday.

Missing In Action

I promise this time I have been MIA for a legit reason. You see my friend MB has been working hard to lose weight and has been doing an amazing job. She talked me into signing up for a gym in the big work city and then took it another step further when she talked me into the personal trainer program at the gym, she got a week head start. 

The program "Fat to Fit in 84 days" promises to kick our butts into smokin hot shape by time fall rolls around. It's 6 days a week for an hour- hour and a half working with a trainer and food program. We alternate weight days and cardio days and increase the intensity. Our weights are mostly done with kettlebells so far, and I'm kinda loving it. 

Monday- Weights light day
Tuesday- Cardio light day
Wednesday- Weights medium day
Thursday- Cardio Medium day
Friday- Weights heavy day
Saturday- 8:30 am cardio heavy day
Sunday- Rest

I survived my first week. It wasn't exactly easy and dare I say kinda fun. It's been great having someone to workout with and to help me push and motivate myself. The food part of this consists of 80g carbs per day/20g fat per day/24g of protien per meal and eating six small meals every 3 hours. We meet at either 6 or 6:30pm with the trainer so I've been working some overtime hanging out in work city to pass the time, then getting done at the gym around 7/7:30 with a 45 minute drive home, you can see where I haven't had enough time to blog; but I promise in the coming weeks I will work harder to get some blogging in. Be prepared though it may become a slightly more exercise/healthy food zone and me venting/sharing my struggles as this time goes on.

Our trainer Annette is amazeballs. She is so nice and encouraging that you can't help but love her and want to do everything she says, I really do feel that she believes in me more than I do myself right now, but hopefully I'll get there.

My biggest struggle this week has been the food. During the week I didn't even notice, but these past two days have been a little rough. I want pizza and I want McDonalds. Ugh how awful, it's just the knowing you can't have something that makes you crave it I think. But don't fret I didn't give into temptation, I just kept thinking how bad I want this and it's only up to me to screw it up, and I'm not going to. During our 84 days we need to follow the plan to the T. Once the 84 days, in moderation, there will be room for those kinds of things, hopefully I won't want them, but there will be a place.

84 days in the gym will conclude on October 19th. By then, Annette is bound and determined that I will be smokin hot. So we shall see. Six days down, 78 to go. Monday is a new day and a new week, let's get this!

PS
If you have any good recipe that will fit into my plan please share. I'm already getting blah'd out on salads.