Impending badassness :)

Well, here we go - beginning Monday bright and early, I am starting a P90X/Insanity hybrid workout schedule. Also starting Monday is the eating clean regimen - couple the two together and I'm hoping de-toxifying results will happen quickly!  I have been 'off track' for so long now, it's starting to feel ridiculous, and clothes fitting differently is getting more depressing daily.  No more refined sugars and junk.  Only one 'cheat' day a week (Sunday, I've decided) away from the clean eats. 

From this past Tuesday, when I decided that it was going to be the hybrid workout program starting Monday. ... I gave myself free reign to eat whatever I wanted between now and Monday. The reason I do this is because I KNOW I'll get sick of eating crap by then - and be more than ready to jump into eating clean without being tempted by the crap, truly. There was a time when I really wasn't tempted by it, and I'm searching for that mindset again! How do I know allowing myself free reign for several days will work? Because I did it once before and it worked great for me.  When I originally got my P90X, it arrived on a Monday or Tuesday - so I had the whole week to prepare before beginning and I did the same thing. I was sick of eating crap by Friday!  So it was all that much easier to make the transition come Day One. :)

We will see how the weekend goes - even though I'm not totally eating clean yet, I will be prepping food and readying myself for the week ahead (shopping lists, shopping, prepping veggies and other meals and snacks for convenience during the work week) so I may try to wean myself off of junk a little bit (save myself some grief, maybe, in getting over the refined sugar withdrawal?).  I think I might want to go for a run/walk or two, or whatever.  I know I'll definitely be prepping the workout area to be sure I have everything I need to hit it hard Monday and every day following!  I really need to get this habit started again - and I know that once I get going I will love it and want to stick with it.  It needs to become a lifestyle. NO EXCUSES!  Excuses are a thing of the past. .... because a fit body does not become fit without some work on my part. That's just the simple facts, ma'am!!   Nothing works if I don't work it!

Guess who's back. .... back again. .. . .

Well. .. what have we here?!  The long-lost blogger, that's what.  WOW, talk about being M.I.A.  I haven't signed in here and/or blogged for such a long time I'm surprised I remembered what my sign-in and password were! Ha

BUT.  Now comes the time when I'm ready to go from fat to fit. .. .. AGAIN.  After such a crazy long hiatus (broken up only by continued summer running workouts last year and another round of P90X in the late summer/early fall. ... after which I slacked pretty heavily)... . I truly feel fat again.  I am not a big scale person, because I truly don't believe that when your goal is to get fit that a number should be gospel - but I would guess that I've gained anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds.  The problem is that those pounds are goo - and they have metriculated to areas that I seriously don't like. .. . and all of that is seriously depressing me!  Not to mention that a lack of physical activity dampens my mood - I can always tell. 

The evil refined sugar and many other not-so-clean foods have made their way into my life again.  Though I completely know they're bad, I somehow reasoned them through the gates, telling myself that a few of them in moderation wouldn't kill me. ... and they have gotten me NOwhere GOOD!  So here I am.. .. . circling the jump-off point, preparing myself to launch into 'the lifestyle' again.  I think I'm ready, truly!  As I've said in my past entries. .. .. WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE?  Nothing but fat and toxins. 

So, with a combo of eat clean and lifting as much as I can (I mean really pushing it with the weights - women, DON'T BE AFRAID OF WEIGHTS!!) my hope is to get in decent shape by the end of July, when I will spend a week in a swimsuit (or, the usual dying-of heat-and-humidity/as little clothing as possible if not an actual swimsuit the entire time!).

I have the help and input of a former trainer and current CrossFit participant to help me with the weights part. .. .. and there are always my trusty P90X strength-training workouts if I don't make it to the gym.  Cardio is important and I will continue to run (uhm, ahem. ... get back into running, as that has also been on hiatus!) but I will mostly focus on the strength training.  Once again, I post the following as an illustration of why I seek to put on that muscle . .. ...



Um, ya.  Who wouldn't want sexy strong muscle replacing the goo and taking up a LOT less space?!   Yet another reason why the scale is an inaccurate representation of how fit and healthy a body is!

So here's to the next adventure. .. ... getting back into shape.  Next stop. ... sore city.  Because the first week is always a killer!!!

Anyone want to join me?! :)