Change things up for Results

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Change things up for Results

Six weeks into this effort and my weight loss is starting to slow down.

Results? I've lost 1.2 pounds (0% body fat) since last week for a total loss of 16 pounds (4.3% body fat)

I'm frustrated. After all, I had good momentum going! And then I had a week where I got sick. Now I'm losing weight but only a bit at a time. It's harder to stick to my diet when I'm not seeing those insanely awesome results.

I must've slipped in my nutritional plan somewhere. Must've, although I don't know where when I look back on what I ate. Sometimes eating at restaurants is really hard because there's hidden calories in even the "healthy" offerings. Perhaps it was cooked in a LOT of olive oil or salt was added for taste that you wouldn't normally have had. Maybe sugar was added to a marinade or they didn't tell you the chicken was marinated.

Or maybe my eyes got too big I need to go back to carefully measuring my portions of carbs instead of guess-timating. (Methinks this is the culprit)

Get too used to something and you don't realize the amount creeps up on you. Check yourself once in a while to see if what you thought was a good portion has actually grown into more.

And it's time to change up the work out routine with more options. The body is incredibly adaptable. Once it acclimates to your workout, you won't see the dramatic results you saw when you first started. Luckily, I went to a Women's Self-defense Workshop over the weekend and got in a bit of mixed martial arts training while I was there.

I'm SORE. The oh so good kind of damn, I kicked my own @$$ kind of sore.

Yah, I'll be adding some of my old MMA drills back into my workouts both because I need to change things up to confuse my body and because this past weekend proved I've slowed down and need to sharpen my skills again.