We are finally in 2012! Excited? It's really hard to make resolutions like "lose 30 lbs in 2 months" or "do 2 hours of cardio everyday." I mean let's face it, these goals are just unrealistic especially when you are a busy person with lots to get done! Instead, I thought it would be fun to make my fitness resolutions a little more realistic, specific, and share them with you all. Here they are!
- Drink at least 8 glasses/bottles of water daily and consume healthier teas. I already stay away from soda as much as I can but I have an addiction to sweet tea. This needs to stop!
- Limit dessert/chocolate to a small portion only once a day. I have a really bad sweet tooth that screws everything up. I don't want to get rid of it entirely because we all know that isn't going to happen, but I want to consume less and less until I don't crave it so badly anymore and eat it less often.
- Eat more small (healthy) meals a day rather than 3 large ones. This is to speed up my metabolism and help me feel more energized throughout the day. I got off track with my Eat Clean Diet and I need to get my nose back into that back PRONTO!
- Ok, so I lied. I'm going to squeeze in just one seemingly unrealistic goal that seems too tough to conquer... Hit the gym/workout 5 days a week. I don't care what anyone says, THIS IS POSSIBLE. My last quarter of my undergrad education starts next week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) with my earliest class being at 10am, about 40 minutes away from my house. Instead of taking forever to wake up and get ready in the morning my resolution is to force myself out of bed and to the gym before school, even if it's for just 30 minutes as long as it consists of high intensity exercise. My latest class finishes on these same days at 3:50pm which makes it totally easy for me to hit the gym after school if I failed to do so in the morning. Can I just say how thankful I am to have such an easy schedule for the next 10 weeks?!?! Compared to last year, it's going to be such a breeze getting back to my ideal fitness goal. I'm also going to use this time to get myself ready for bikini season. By the time my final quarter at CSUSB is over it will be spring break!!! Let the countdown begin.
- To break this down a little further, my go-to cardio will consist of jogging, sprints, spinning classes, kickboxing, and high intensity intervals with weights and just bodyweight. I want to challenge my body and make it stronger by not sticking to the same routine for too long. To balance this intenseness out I'm going to continue with Pilates and yoga, of course ;)
- TIP: What I like to do is to get my Victoria's Secret bikini during winter so that I have something to work towards. Use a TAPE MEASURE to keep track of how many inches you lose, not a scale. Scales can easily get us off track because we become more concerned with the number on the scale rather than the muscle we are building to shed off those inches around our waist!)
- And for my last and final goal, I want to get in better shape and eat healthier with my boyfriend. When you're in a relationship you eat together, A LOT. We've decided to promise each other that we will make healthier "date night" choices and be each others' support when we feel too lazy to exercise. "The couple that gets healthy together... stays together." Ok, so that might not be how it goes but you get the point ;)
Aaaannd, that's about it. I know I made this post way too wordy and potentially boring for some of you, but I hope I helped get that itch started in a few of you to get up and make healthier choices!
This is YOUR year.
Challenge yourself.
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