Health {Inside & Out}

Mamavation Monday: Boot Camp and I’m Actually DIETING (Sort Of)

May 15, 2012, by Kat Robertson 222 views | 4 comments

I’m late, as usual. Yesterday was a LONG day and I didn’t get around to updating lol I have 2 weeks and 5 days left in my personal 7 week challenge and I’m not going to make my weight loss goals, but I feel like I’m going to be very happy with my results. As I’ve been burning fat while building muscle, each has canceled the other out in terms of weight. I don’t feel like I will actually start losing weight until this week or next. I’ve got 19 days until my challenge ends but it doesn’t stop there. I’ll be finishing THIS boot camp session next Thursday and starting my second 4-week session on the 28th of this month. I won’t be satisfied until I have abs to be jealous of… so if you’re the jealous type, it’s game ON!

Mamavation Monday: Boot Camp {One Week Down, Three to Go!}

May 7, 2012, by Kat Robertson 255 views | 5 comments

I’ve been making MUCH better food choices over the last week. I keep reminding myself that there’s no use in putting myself through all this torture if I’m going to come home and counteract it by eating junk. I’ve also noticed that I want to be more active in general now. I will go the long way to do things, park further from the entrance to a store, and take things downstairs to the laundry room as I pick them up instead of collecting everything and making one trip. I also (finally) switched from whole milk to 2% which is something I never thought I would do. (I love my milk! lol) I’m just SO ready for my body to get accustomed to the running. I get SO winded and my left leg just doesn’t particularly care for the impact, but I’m trying and hopefully that will work in my favor in the end.

Mamavation Monday: BOOT CAMP BOUND, BABY!

April 30, 2012, by Kat Robertson 276 views | 6 comments

I haven’t lost any weight this week. I swam twice this week (lots of active swimming, water aerobics, not just wading in the water lol), haven’t had the best week nutritionally but I did eat veggies for dinner twice. I’ve been drinking more water and trying to cut back more on the tea… I don’t drink a ton of it but I’d like to cut down to maybe just once per week. I am starting boot camp TONIGHT! I will be going four days per week (Monday through Thursday) for the next month and I’m EXCITED to have trainers that will push me to my 21-pound weight loss goal by June 3rd.

Mamavation Monday: Eating, Drinking, and Doing Stuff

April 24, 2012, by Kat Robertson 325 views | 7 comments

Last week, I started a 7-week personal challenge in hopes of getting myself back to my “five-kids-ago” body by the 13th anniversary of the day we found out we were expecting our first born. So far, I’m honestly not doing so hot. I’m trying to take my own advice and not get down about it — not get discouraged — and just pick up today and turn things around. The mind is a powerful thing, though. You have to get it on the same page as your will and that’s not always easy. I WANT to rock this challenge. I WANT to kill these 7 weeks and look hot this summer. So what’s the hold up? I’ve eaten out twice in the last 7 days. I had brownies on family night. I ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast today. I’ve been on the treadmill … once. And all that water I was drinking? Sweet tea really isn’t a good substitute. Does that sound promising to you? Yeah, me either :(

Mamavation Monday: My Own 7-Week Challenge?

April 16, 2012, by Kat Robertson 179 views | 10 comments

June 3 will mark 13 years since the day we found out we would be parents for the first time. It’s also 7 weeks from now. Since it was at that point I gained my first few pounds from being a mommy, how awesome would it be now — 5 kids and 13 years later — to reach the same weight I was that day when we sat down in the clinic and found out I was in my 6th week of pregnancy with our daughter — our first born baby? I began my personal challenge last night at 11pm when I hit the treadmill before bed with one goal in mind: size 8 jeans on an approximately 147 pound frame by June 3, 2012. That’s 3 pounds to lose per week.

Mamavation … THURSDAY? Well, For ME It Is ;)

April 12, 2012, by Kat Robertson 175 views | 4 comments

I have Fibromyalgia, as most of you are already aware. Being consistent in my exercise is important — VITAL — to being comfortable enough to get around (and not be bed-ridden for days on end) and maintaining my pain at a bearable level without being constantly medicated (which, by the way, I’m unwilling to do – I hate meds). The problem is, I get all hopped up on adrenaline and doped up on motivation and I OVERDO IT. I push myself and I’m feeling all accomplished and that lasts a couple of weeks and then all of a sudden – BAM! I push myself TOO far, get hit with some bad days, and I get out of my routine trying to recuperate and I just never … get … back … in … it. Why? Mainly because I get ashamed and I don’t want to explain why I failed. Again.

Mamavation Monday: Still Movin’ & Shakin’ ;)

March 18, 2012, by Kat Robertson 195 views | 11 comments

I’m horrible at this. Not the “Mamavation” thing, but the “remembering to post an update on Mondays” thing. The “Mamavation” thing, I’m totally rocking… for the most part, anyway. I haven’t kept up with the workout plan I was sent completely but I’ve definitely done what I can. The weather has been changing a lot lately causing Fibromyalgia to leave me in pain but I’ve been killing the treadmill and have done as many circuits in the workout plan as I can without pushing myself to the point where I won’t be able to move the next day.

Between running myself crazy trying to keep up with client projects, preparing for the audition last Friday, and visiting with my mother in law this weekend, last Monday’s post got lost in the shuffle. I haven’t given up though – just running a little behind. The new 2 week Challenge starts in the morning and I’m totally participating …