Weekly Recap

Happy Friday!  It feels like I write the same old posts over and over again. I guess I am just not creative enough to do a weekly recap post and make every single one different! Ha!  So here we go...my week in a nutshell:

I am first going to start off with a progress picture that I made yesterday.  I always need a visual reminder of how far I've come.  Obviously after my post last week I was feeling a little down discouraged. Sometimes when I feel like that I like to try on old clothes that are now too big or look at pictures from when I wasn't at my absolute best.  This picture helped for sure.

315+lbs vs 268lbs

The picture on the left was from 2007 in Italy when I studied abroad my senior year of college.  #1...what was I wearing?!  This was def before I had an interest in fashion that's for sure.  #2. My roll ughhh. I am a HUGE (no pun intended HA!) advocate for dressing your current body to its best potential.  Meaning...not having your rolls show. And loooook ughhhh that huge roll hanging over! Such a pet peeve of mine and I am so embarrassed of it just hanging out there. Damn. #3. I def still have that cardigan and I just recently put it in the donation pile because it is now way too big for me. I should take a pic of me wearing it standing in the same position and take a pic!  This picture makes me happy.  I know that the gym picture is at a weird angle which prob makes me look smaller than I am, but I still can tell a difference. Yeah!

So on to my workouts...It was a pretty good week!  I was able to hit the gym Sun-Wed but unfortunately that means I did not meet my 5x/week goal.  Bummer. Of course I could have woken up at 5am and gotten to the gym Thursday morning and even this morning...buttttt...yeah.  So here are my workouts.

Monday Zumba

Tuesday Body Pulse & Abs
My hardest classsss
(But fav)

Double Wednesday!!!
Zumba & Kickboxing
Can't wait to get my pink boxing gloves!

4x this week, 5x last week.
Hopefully 6x next week :)
This app is called Streaks
Everyone always asks for it!

So all in all I had some really great workouts!  For still being a "big" girl at 268lbs I am pretty athletic and "in shape."  I can hold my own in my cardio classes. I will say that on double Wednesday I do struggle with the kickboxing cardio section. I'm not sure if it's just too hard for me or if my body is just tired from already doing 1hr of zumba.  I would be interested in seeing if I do only the kickboxing class if I could keep up.  But come on now...that will never happen because I CAN NOT miss a Wednesday zumba class! My fav! :)

On to a few food items.

Zuccini Pasta

Ummm Shrimp Omelette?

So this week I made 2 "new" dinners.  I strayed from my go to chicken & avocado dinner. I miss it hahaha! On Monday night I prepped a huge pot of zucchini pasta.  Almost exactly the same as the pasta dish I made last week only instead of making it with pasta I used julienne zucchini strips. It was SO good!  I def recommend skipping real pasta and subbing zucchini.  Yummmm. And it was so healthy! Olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, roasted chicken breast, alot of zucchini, spinach and a little bit of feta.  Bang bang. Gunna make this one again soon!

The other dinner was a random ass dinner I put together on Wednesday at 9pm after my double cardio classes.  The zucchini pasta only lasted 2 nights because I didn't make enough so Wednesday I had nothing prepped for dinner.  Super annoying.  I didn't want to defrost and cook chicken so I grabbed some frozen shrimp and threw it with some eggs. HA! Not as weird as I thought...actually kinda good!  Ate it with my classic avocado, tomato and red onion mixture. Yum! Lot's of protein that night! (Which we all know is good for post workout meals.  Thanks to my guest post!)

Now on to yet ANOTHER mental weightloss issue...of course.

The reason I couldn't workout yesterday was because I was prepping for the big weekend I have coming up.  My friend is getting married and I'm a bridesmaid!!! Yikes.  I'm leaving in about 2 hours to head down to the eastern shore of Maryland for the events today and the actual wedding tomorrow.  I am SO nervous!! I had big plans for this weeding...you know...lose more weight.  That didn't happen and now I am freaking out about the dress.  I am so scared it will look horrible and I will ruin all of the wedding pictures.  I even apologized to my friend for still being fat for her wedding. Ugh.  I know that I will get yelled at by people for talking like this but it's how I feel.  I want my friend to have a perfect wedding with perfect pictures. I am just so nervous that I am going to ruin them all.  I keep saying this over and over and over. I am usually a confident girl but not when I'm taken out of my comfort zone.  I have to wear this dress sleeveless!! Yikes. I have a really hard time going sleeveless and I'm hoping my strength training has helped a little in that department. I HOPE.

Wish me luck for this weekend...hopefully all of this nonsense is just in my head and it will all turn out fine.  I will post some pictures from the wedding next week..IF I look ok in this dress.  Let's hope hair and makeup helps. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Here I go...