How I Chose to Get Fit & Lose 3% Body Fat

Oh, how this advice applies to me and my fitness journey. I’m sure it applies to many of us and our health! If someone were to ask me to pinpoint the healthiest times in my life, I absolutely could. I could give you dates, fitness levels, how many times a week I worked out, my weight, my size, the way I felt. These are memorable moments along my life timeline because I felt strong and capable and confident!

1.  I started out unable to do squats because of my “bad foot”. Due to a (talonavicular fusion) surgery that never healed, the movement in my right ankle prevented my ability to do squats. I was able to work up to squatting 95 pounds in those weeks!
2. I upped my water intake to 50 oz a day. This is still short of the amount I should really be intaking daily. However, 50 ounces of water is far more than the zero ounces of water I was drinking daily! Before, I was pure Diet Pepsi!
3. I lost 3% of my body fat!
4. I lost an inch everywhere besides my arms for a total of about 7 inches everywhere!
5. I learned that it feels SO GOOD to be working on my health

1. Schedule your workouts ahead of time, put them in your calendar, and never cancel. I have put my workouts into my calendar a month in advance. This keeps me from making up the busy excuse, and I know exactly when to expect them. This means I can’t come home from work and decide I am too tired to go because I have had these plans for a month! If you absolutely must cancel, be sure to immediately replace that workout with another one later that week.
2. Carry around a water bottle. This causes me to drink water, even when I am not thirsty, out of habit! It also makes it so that I can always quench my thirst immediately without breaking concentration on the other work I am currently focusing on.
3. Track your wins! It is so important to celebrate every little goal and gain. This will provide a feeling of success and will be a continuous motivation throughout the workout journey.
4. Listen to your body, but don’t listen to your mind. Your body can do amazing things! It can actually endure longer than you think. Your mind may say that you can’t do one more rep, but your body actually can. Your body will tell you when it is time to stop at exhaustion so that it won’t get hurt.

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