Amanda's Life

This week was a maintenance week and I gained 1.2 pounds. Not a lot considering, I was actually shocked a couple of weeks ago when I dropped weight during the maintenance week. I am changing back to the macro plan that was really working for me at Christmas time and we will see what happens. This is truly the year I am going to get this done!

I keep forgetting to take pictures. I just finished week 10 of phase 1 of the dance program. I love the program!

This week was crazy everywhere. I was able to control my eating and stay to my plan for the week. I was also able to lose 1 pound this week!

The top pictures are from the beginning of January. The bottom pictures are from today. I am definitely losing in the stomach area. Super excited to be moving in the right direction and will be keeping on the plan!

Hope everyone else had a great week!

It’s been a week. It was a weight loss week for me this week. I also started back up my dance workouts after taking a brief break with the brother in law in town. A little anxious due to everything going on but dancing definitely helps!

This next week I had to modify my normal repeat meals a little due to not being able to find any kind of ground beef. Luckily when the brother in law came he brought some ground venison, which as it so happens is actually pretty good with my dinner meal.

My body has finally decided to work with the losing weight and I was finally able to lose some weight. There’s not a lot you can control at this time but how you eat and move your body are 2 things that you can definitely control! That’s what I keep telling myself and hopefully it helps someone else.

Down 1.8 pounds this week! It feels really good to make such good progress. On to another week!

Finished out another maintenance week. Somehow I managed to lose .8. I’m not sure how since ideally I would have stayed the same BUT I am not going to complain. I did change up my dinner this week, away from the Moco Loco that I love and changed to a salad of sorts. It was super yummy. Maybe I have a sensitivity to too many cruciferous veggies? Who knows! This week it’s back into a weight loss calorie amount and we’ll see what happens!

Well, weight stayed the same this week. My body is doing something funky and I hope it figures itself out soon 😂 lots of bloating and allergies galore! 🙄 BUT I hit my macro goals every day!

This coming week is another maintenance week for me, starting next Saturday going back to the single reset meal which seemed to work well for me.

Brother in law is in town this week so the maintenance week fell at a really good time.

I’m gonna give this plan I’m on till the end of April to start doing SOMETHING progress wise, that’ll be about 2 1/2 months. I had to get honest with myself about my reset day last week, it could have been better. It WILL be better going forward. Consistency is 🔑 right now. I’m not so concerned that the weight isn’t dropping. I am way more happy that I have been consistent and not binging often.

That’s about all the update I’ve got.

Let’s go out and CRUSH this week!

This was my first week back in a deficit after taking a week of maintenance. Last week as I expected I gained a little weight, nothing crazy, this week I lost most of what I had gained. After 4 1/2 years of deficit, deficit, deficit, my body is not super thrilled with continuing to be in a deficit.

I’m not gonna lie, if I had been 100% consistent in those 4 1/2 years, I KNOW I would be at my goal weight by now. I cannot make myself have done better in THE PAST, all I can do is make sure I am better from now going forward.

At Christmas, I took 2 entire weeks off for the holidays and while we were visiting my husbands family in Missouri. I didn’t count a single thing. And as I knew would happen, I gained weight. I was also hoping this would kick my body into some good week of weight loss. The entire month of January I had really good losses every week. When February came around, the weight loss slowed…by a lot.

So a couple of weeks ago I went back to the strategy that was working for me towards the end of last year, I would take a week of maintenance followed by a couple of weeks of weight loss and see what happens. So last week I was up 2 pounds, which I expected with all the extra food. This week I am down 1.8 and hormones did not do me any favors this week.

I am going to stick to this plan for a while and actually give it a chance. Switching plans every couple of weeks when I am not seeing the progress I want is not doing me any favors. I am close to my goals but still haven’t lost all the holiday weight gain. Since the beginning of January I have hit my goals EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I am super proud of my consistency, I have not been this consistent in I don’t even know how long.

I hope everyone had a good week and I cannot wait to see what the last 30 days of the challenge bring!

This week I knew I was going to gain weight after essentially taking a maintenance week. It was good to have the increase in calories but as expected I did gain weight. The goal here is to take a maintenance week followed by 2 weight loss weeks and ideally the trend will be down over time. We’ll follow this pattern for a couple of months and see what happens.

I had started doing something similar at the end of last year and it seemed to do my body some good. After nearly 5 years of losing weight and being in a deficit (or not) my body is tired of the constant deficit. I want this to be the year I am done so I am doing what I think will work best.

More importantly, I am making sure to stay at or under my calories EVERY DAY so that I know I am doing what I am supposed to.

This week I gained 2 pounds, ideally next week I lose that and some but we’ll see what happens!

Weight loss of .4 this week. Switching things up for the next week after a couple of weeks of little loss. Down is down but mixing things up never hurt anything either.

I was able to hit my macros, water and workouts all week which always makes me feel really successful.

Here’s to another week!

Another week done! It was also my 30 day weigh in for the 90 day challenge. I was still getting over being sick this week so the weight gain I expected last week ended up happening this week. Not a lot, I just managed to gain back the weight I lost last week. Overall, since January 4th I have managed to lose 8.2 pounds which is incredible!

I will continue doing what I am doing. I am off all cold remedies as of today so I will be starting this next week with nothing causing me to bloat. We shall see what happens!

I am still LOVING the dance workouts. I love that each week builds on the week before. It takes me almost the entire week to master the new song but usually by day 5 I’ve got it down pretty good. As for how good I look doing it, I love doing it and no one watches me so who cares what it looks like.

Here’s to jumping into next week and into the next 30 days of the challenge!

Weight gained this week .6 pounds

Inches lost since the beginning of the challenge 3.8 inches

This week I started getting sick. I did stick to my macros and still danced but dealing with being sick almost always results in little weight loss. I am happy to have lost .6 this week and I hope to get better soon!