No Need for an Alert, Cheerleaderbody is Still Here!

It's Saturday morning and I have been slowly waking up to the day by thinking of what I want to accomplish today. I am going through this phase were I am really examining how I spend my time and in which areas I can cut back so that I have time to focus on my studies in the fall. A few things come to mind that I want to keep up with. My pursuit of fitness is definitely on the short list. That reminded me that I haven't written a blog entry in some time. So what have I been up to? Hubby and I are still renovating our home. I am still working diligently in my current lab in effort to get a publication before I leave for my month off before classes.

I know, you guys don't care about that. Let's get to what you really want to know. I have not given up on tackling this weight loss and fitness thing. I have been much more focused on my food intake since I have been experiencing quite a bit of pain working out. It has finally started to pay off. Most of the artificial and processed food has been removed from my diet. At this point, I cook most of the meals in our home and we have done a wonderful job of transitioning to an organic, whole foods lifestyle. It has been a struggle for me more so than hubby because I had become so used to eating at least two of three meals out everyday I have experienced an unfortunate amount of detox. I can honestly say that breaking my addiction to refined sugar has been the most difficult part of adopting this new lifestyle. I am so pleased to have gotten to this point. I know there are still improvements to be made but that's okay. Rome wasn't built in a day right?

Apart from the food, I have tried to become more active in my daily lifestyle. I walk a bit more and have been incorporating a walking and stretching program. I am heading to the doctor next week to get the all clear. Pain is the body's way of telling us something is wrong. I want to be sure that my body is merely pointing out the injustice of carrying around at least 50 pounds more than my skeleton is designed for and not some underlying medical issue. Once I get the green light that it is pain I can ignore, I will be back in the saddle with the exercise portion of my program. Don't discredit the benefits of diet in addition to exercise. I am down five pounds in the last to weeks and I credit clean eating with that loss. I am finally out of the 200s and in Onederland. What a great feeling. On that note, I have to go prepare some healthy foods for my friends coming to lunch today:)