:) no fancy dancy title.

I don't want to lose weight. I don't want to JUST lose weight. I want to get muscle. I want to be strong. I was looking at this site, it's pretty cool, it shows pictures of actual people at different heights and weights so you can get visuals on what it looks like.. of course I went to my height and looked at all the images of people from the weight I am now, down to the weight I want to be - looking at the images of the people at the weight I want to be, the first words out of my mouth, out loud, "Well I hope I'm a lot more muscular and strong than they look.. I wanna be ripped." hahaha! This journey is NOT just about losing weight, or fitting smaller sizes, yea that's part of it but if I got to my ideal weight and looked like a wet noodle for spaghetti, I wouldn't be happy with that either. I want muscle definition, strength, the ability to do things with my body I would of never dreamed of! I know that it's possible too. If I've learned anything so far on this journey, this time around, it's that your body is capable of so much, you just need to condition it to get there. I'm doing the 30 day plank challenge, in 30 days I hope to be able to do a 5 minute plank.. I'm working my body up to it, pushing it a little more each day, getting myself prepared to do the 5 minutes.. if you slowly ease yourself, push a little harder each time, your body gets stronger.. As I said about my supreme 90 day program, the first time around it was torture, the second time? It's still torture, but I can deal with it a lot better. I can push myself now, when in the beginning even trying anything was pushing. Now I can count reps, now I can force more, and if I started it all over again, I bet I'd be even better.. as I continue I'll get better. If your goal is to do pushups do one today, two tomorrow, three the next day and keep going.. over time you'd be amazed at how many push ups you can do!

This morning I decided to look up the correct amount of fruits and veggies per day I should have, as well as what my caloric intake should be and what my protein intake should be for the workouts I'm doing. - aside from NOT tracking like I should be doing, I KNOW I'm not meeting these goals, and in the long run it will only put more problems on me. So from here on out, I plan to document, to be accountable for everything I am consuming. I'm going to take pictures of everything before I put it into my body.. at the end of the day I hope to blog about everything I consumed and the value it's given me, I know it will get tedious, but it's truly the hardest part of my journey right now and I need to correct it.

My current task is to find different things that will help to up my protein.. my fruits and veggies I can do - but according to what I looked up, the protein I should be getting is not even close to what I am!!

Wrapping this blog up, but I am hoping to get another one in this evening! :)

~XO
Erica♥