November was a challenging month. I guess every month is pretty challenging actually! Lol! But with Thanksgiving and doing Core De Force, it felt a bit tough.

I started Core De Force on November 7th along with a bunch of my Team ReDefine girls. We all committed to doing the entire 30 days along with sticking to the portion fix meal plan.
I figured I would wait the extra week to blog so that I could post my full results from doing this program.

When I last posted here at the end of October, I hadn’t had a perfect weight loss month. I’ve been losing 5 lbs a month since starting and so last month when I missed that mark, I was bummed. And then by the time November 7th rolled around, I was hovering between that 175 and 177, and on the 7th was actually 177 again.
I figured that by starting this new program and really nailing the nutrition, the weight would fly off me at warp speed.
I was wrong.
It dropped ever so sloooowly. To the point where I was getting pretty peeved.
Then, just this past weekend, all the hard work paid off.
Patience. I’m not so good at it. Lol! But with consistency and patience comes results.

So, here they are….

I’m using the weight from last blog post, but really since I went back up to 177, I lost 8 pounds!!! Weeeeeee! AND, I’m in a new weight decade! lol!

I also lost an inch in my hips and waist, and an inch and a half around my tummy, and my thighs!

 

I feel proud to have completed a program that turned out harder than I thought it would be. I was modifying all the time, stopping early on moves, and my push-ups were pathetic.
In the end, I gained some upper body strength for sure and my core is definitely stronger. This is fantastic. Especially with my diastasis recti. Since I teeechnically shouldn’t have been doing most of those planks and push-ups, luckily, the intensive core focus actually helped and I think it’s closing! It feels closer to two fingers wide rather than three! This is a huge win!

Am I excited to turn on Country Heat tomorrow morning? Yes. Lol! SO much. Though I’m keeping CDF in rotation in the future.

It was also a huge help going back to the portion fix cups. I’m sure that was a big factor in my success.  Here are a few examples of typical days the past month.

And Thanksgiving? It was great! I had some of everything. Cranberry bellinis and all!

It’s been almost 8 months since I decided to change. I can’t even imagine what my life would be like if I had waited until it was less stressful (never gonna happen), or till I was less tired (never gonna happen), or until I was less busy (ha!).

So now, I’ll just keep on pushing play. And keep on eating clean. I’ll be checking in the accountability group each day as per usual.
This is my life now. Through good days and bad days, I will always strive to be healthy.
Even on Christmas. You enjoy and then you get right back at it.

Me and my girls are taking these last few weeks of 2016 and making them the best yet. Taking charge of our health and making sure we start 2017 like a rockstar badass.
As always, if you’d like me to be your cheerleader in this game of health, click that contact button right there at the top so we can get started!