Life style change 2015

A few months ago (November), Superhubby and I had to get some blood work done for our health insurance (they said it would get us a discount on our premium, but we are still paying more). When the results came in we weren't very happy about them, all of our levels were normal and in healthy ranges except for our weight and blood pressure.  Since heart disease and stroke are common killers of most of my family members we decided to make a change to our life style.

I got to work (on pintrest of course), finding as many home workouts and meal plans as I could to get us started.  We decided to begin our fitness journey with a "beginner" 6-week home crossfit workout.  That lasted a whole week.  By the 6th day I thought I was going to die... we weren't ready for that.  We took our rest day (Sunday) and spent the whole day coming up with our own version that was ACTUALLY for beginners.  Don't get me wrong, I am no stranger to the gym or intense physical activity, but that first workout was HARD.  The plan we created was perfect and we were able to stick to it through the holidays working out 4-6 days a week until the first week of January.  At that time I had decided that I wasn't going to even think about changing my diet. I knew that trying to change everything about my lifestyle all at once and smack dab right in the middle of Thanksgiving and Christmas was a recipe for failure.  Therefore I just worked out for 6-weeks and didn't worry about anything else, not my nutrition, not weight loss, not anything but getting my butt up and moving 4-6 days a week. 

What do you know, it worked!  I was able to stick with it, work at it and successfully compete our 6-week program.  On January 2nd I implemented clean eating and started weighing myself.  Then half way though January I began to count and calculate my calories, while still maintaining 5-6 workouts per week, baby steps!  At the end of the month I had only lost a whopping 3lbs!  THREE POUNDS... THREE!!!!

I was so pissed, but what was worse was that I felt like complete and total GARBAGE. I was tired, irritable and unmotivated in all areas.  It took all that I had to workout everyday and I was doing little more than that, which is bad because I have 4 people who depend on me everyday to keep this ship moving.

Superhubby noticed that I was exhausted and to be honest, just plain sad, and he went to work (on pintrest of course) to find me a solution.  We came up with 2 thing that will probably be the beginning of a complete lifestyle makeover for our entire family (my poor kids!).  

First off, I may be magnesium deficient.  Secondly I may be missing iodine in my diet.  As soon as I read up on these 2 minerals I ran straight to the store and picked them up, along with a more expensive liquid vitamin, a few bottles of Kefir and some Kombucha.  Since I've implemented those items to my daily routine, I have lost 3 lbs...THREE!!!! in a week.... A WEEK!!!! And guess what, I didn't work out that week (the kids were sick).

Magically I have more energy, I sleep all night, like ALL NIGHT LONG!!!  Without an Advil PM, praise the lord! I feel motivated to do the things I love again, and I'm not depressed.  I always knew that diet and proper nutrition was important, in fact, we eat pretty well in or home, I cook from scratch %90 of the time, we don't eat processed packaged foods, and we get out and get moving so I never imagined that my diet was keeping me fat and sick.

This experience has ignited a fire in me to change more things about my diet and lifestyle than ever before.  I want to find simple and ENJOYABLE ways to implement super foods and fitness on a daily basis and share them with others.  I wish I had known sooner how amazing I would feel in such a short amount of time. Hopefully this will wake up this old blog!

Happy Cleansing!