For months now I have been struggling to get the athletic body I want. I can build muscle without a problem, but I have a problem getting the body fat off. I look bulky when I want to look cut. I have tried several different things with my eating since eating is the biggest part of losing weight. Six-pack abs are made in the kitchen.
Here are a few things I have tried:
- I’ve tried cutting my calories down to 1,250, on the days I don’t work out. Then I eat 1,700 calories on the days I work out. That didn’t work.
- I tried eating 1,300 to 1,500 calories a day. That didn’t work.
- Then I tried lowering my carb intake. That didn’t work.
- I tried lowering my fat intake. That didn’t work.
I was getting to the point that I was measuring out my food. Despite all of that my body didn’t change. I became this crazy lady obsessing over her weight. Here I was measuring my food, while my husband could eat almost anything with no weight gain. This was starting to piss me off.
When I tell people what I have been trying, some people get it and others just say it sounds like too much work (and they look at me like I’m nuts). Sometimes it takes a little elbow grease, but in the end you are a better person for all the hard work. If it was easy then everyone would be in shape and we wouldn’t have the highest obesity rate ever. I look at it this way: once I crack the code the hard part will be behind me.
So this brings me to what I’m doing today. My husband found the LiveFit Trainer by Jamie Eason, my fitness idol, on Bodybuilding.com. It is a 12 week program modeled after what she does to get into shape. She also gives you some great tasting and healthy recipes. She even tells you how often and what food group to eat from. I hope this workout will get my to were I want.
The most important thing is I feel like I am alive again. I’m enjoying the workouts and I feel like I’m eating real food again. So, I guess just stay tuned to see what happens as the weeks pass. I will keep you posted each month as I go to each phase.
