Sarah's Progress:
Weight at Start - 131
Weight Now - 127.2
When we started I was comfortably wearing a size 8/9 in pants/skirts. I found that my pants were really starting to sag so this past week I decided to take a chance by trying on some of my pre-pregnancy clothes. I couldn't believe it when I was able to fit in size 5 pants, 2 of my old suits, size 6 shorts and a pair of old jeans!
Here are some progress photos! I can really tell that my waist is getting smaller
Weight at Start - 183
Weight Now - 173
Jason also had problems with his pants sagging - big time! He bought more jeans and then lost more weight, so they now sag too! His body is of course responding faster than mine and he looks great!
Eating Clean:
I have really enjoyed coming up with new things to eat. I am so proud to say that I did not cheat even once on clean eating. I did "cheat" a few times with clean desserts but it was so great to know that splurging on a clean treat isn't really cheating! I really limited how many times we took in desserts though because even if it is clean, in my option it defeats the purpose if you overindulge. But having a few clean sweets really helped to keep me away from the things I shouldn't have.
One night we made protien cookie dough bites found on Sarah Evans' Facebook page. And of course there was my Mother's Day gift - clean chocolate covered strawberries! As a celebration treat for completing 4 weeks of the program we made this Cookie Dough Greek Yogurt which wasn't too bad! Jason found it on Pintrest and I tweaked the recipe a bit. We split the recipe below and actually couldn't finish the entire thing.
1 cup plain Greek yogurt (recipe called for vanilla Greek yogurt, but we only had plain on hand)
3 tablespoons of natural peanut butter
1 tablespoon of Stevia (I used a little less)
2 tablespoons of dark chocolate chips, chopped
1/8 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon of almond extract (recipe called for 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla instead of almond extract but we ran out)
I went grocery shopping today and because we are really trying to prepare for the coming week my basket was full! It is so crazy to look in my shopping cart and not see even one piece of junk food (by the way there are paper towels below the food so my cart wasn't as full as it looks below).
Weight Lifting:
I was pretty nervous about weight lifting. Everywhere I looked there were pictures of body builders who looked great, but don't really have the body I'm hoping to gain. I looked at the term body building as a negative thing at first, but when I really considered it, isn't that exactly what we are doing? Trying to build the body we want? Once I looked at it like that I had no issues with admitting to body building!
I really pushed myself to do things I have never done before because I thought they were too hard. Barbell squats, pushups, and walking lunges never would have made it into my workout routine 5 weeks ago. I look forward to going to the gym to see how much more I can push myself today than I did yesterday. And it doesn't hurt that I have a great workout partner who always tries to make it fun!
Moving Forward:
I am so incredibly encouraged by the results we've seen so far and I can't wait to see what's in store! The start of Phase 2 is going to be extremely challenging. We are adding 30 mins of cardio into our workout several days a week and being that we do weights during our lunch break, we will now have to do cardio at a different time in the day.
Also, instead of eating lunch at lunch time and dinner at dinner time, our "dinner" like meals now have to be eaten as our mid-afternoon snack which means we have to take 2 full meals with us to work each day. This will mean that we will have to do a lot of food prep so that we have easy to grab meals ready to go at all times. This works out well for Jason because it was always so hard for him to eat before leaving for the dojang to teach taekwondo each night. I think it will work out well for me because I won't have to do as much multitasking each night in order to juggle Aria and cooking dinner. As you can see I've already started portioning out exactly what we will need so that we can grab it and go!
So here we go with Phase 2. We will need lots of prayers and lots of patience but I can't wait to see the results!
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