It’s Fitness Friday and I’m in the mood to celebrate! With the holiday season in full swing, I’m doing what most of us are and working hard to try to maintain balance with my fitness and nutrition, and all the fun going on around me. I don’t ever want to get to a point where I’m not living life and enjoying it because I’m worried about gaining a pound. And as someone who has now successfully lost over 40 pounds, I’m really working to understand not only how to keep these healthy changes I’ve added into my life, but how to maintain the weight loss as well.
Enter non-scale victories. Sure, I still weigh myself and take measurements to ensure that everything is moving in the right direction, but the proof is in the pudding as they say, and lately my pudding has been delicious!
First up we have this killer Beast Mode pic from last week at the gym. Have you ever posed for a flexing pic before and had people say, “ok but now make a muscle?” Yeah, that was me for the longest. Not anymore:
The highlight of my week, however, happened just yesterday. While getting ready for a bike ride on a beautiful day I ran across my most favorite pair of tri-shorts in my dresser. I haven’t worn these since 2011 when I did the Florida 70.3. I remember this because pretty much immediately after doing that race I stopped doing anything and started my slow and steady gain of close to 50 lbs that I’m still struggling to lose the last of.
Needless to say, the shorts haven’t fit in a long long time. I tried them on back in October and still looked like a tasty triathlete sausage stuffed into a spandex casing and had some serious gut dun-lop going on. (As in, my gut dun lopped over my pants).
Yesterday I decided to give them another go. The results are below:
TA-DA! Those are some shorts that fit people. And fit well.
It really is the little things that make this whole journey worth while.
So how about you guys? What are you up to on Fitness Friday?
Weights and Wonder 