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lifeunhurried: This is good. I’ll have to alter it a bit for my asthma but good good plan!
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runforfitness: Start by setting realistic goals! If you’d like to be a runner, lose the muffin top, tone up your entire body or get back to your healthy weight… that’s great! Congrats on deciding to take time to feel better about yourself! But no matter what your motivation, make sure you’re not asking too much of yourself. If you have unrealistic expectations of yourself, you are setting yourself up to fail! Instead, set yourself up to win!  Plan to start small and gain endurance over time.If you haven’t been moving your body much, you may not be able to do the exercises you’d ultimately like to be dedicated to. Your first couple of weeks working out, keep your workouts under 30 minutes! Your body needs to get used to moving! Start with the resistance low/medium and work your way to feeling comfortable working harder.  Be consistent and COMMIT!A workout plan sounds great until the plan is too overwhelming for you to continue! If you plan to move your body every day, you’ll soon form a habit of it, and you might even start to feel cravings for exercise once your body realizes how much better it feels when it moves! Listen to your body.When you’re exercising, you want to make your body work, but not so hard that you can’t catch your breath, you feel pain in your limbs or you feel dizzy. Form is important!For cardio, make sure your back is straight and you’re engaging your core as you exercise. For strength training, make sure your posture is always good, and try to engage the muscles being targeted. If an exercise is too hard or you’re using too much weight, no one is winning because you’re not exercising the proper muscles. You are the one who may end up injured if you do the exercises the wrong way. Stay safe! Be positive.Don’t beat yourself up for missing a workout- that will make you want to go LESS next time! Don’t tell yourself that you are currently worthless because of how your body looks! With that mentality, you may never be happy! Appreciate your body and what it CAN do, and feed it properly, move it often, and know that you owe happiness only to yourself. Try to set up situations in which you’ll succeed.If you are not a morning person but you want your body to suddenly wake up every day at 5:30AM to get to the gym, you might have some rough starts! Instead, try putting yourself in situations where it’s an outlet to exercise, you’re exercising at a time of day when you have a lot of energy, or you plan to meet a friend at the gym. However you will succeed! Cardio AND strength training are important!Cardio will help keep you lean and mean- not to mention be a real fat blaster if you do it right!Strength training will, well, make you strong! Simple day to day tasks like lifting things, standing up straight, wearing sleeveless dresses and having sex (for those of you having it) will be way easier if you dedicate two days per week to toning! Stay Hydrated.I know you’ve heard it a million times before, but while you exercise, you’re losing a lot of water, and that needs to be replaced! Try filling up two water bottles every night, putting them in your fridge and having them ready for the next day!  Fuel yourself.You don’t want to be completely empty when you show up to do your workout, but if you’re having a meal beforehand, make sure you wait about an hour before you start exercising. To start off with, a full stomach while exercising might get upset. If you need to eat something before hitting the gym, though, a banana (maybe add some peanut butter) is a great, easily digested option.After your workout, make sure to eat some carbs and protein (egg and toast, yogurt and granola, good cereal.) If you feel ravenous after your workout, you should probably be eating more beforehand, but remember, try to keep big meals an hour apart from your workout. VARY YOUR WORKOUTSTry lots of different kinds of cardio -running, rowing, walking, elliptical machine, biking… anything that gets your heart rate up! To boost strength try yoga or pilates and look up videos of routines you can do at home. Whenever you can, play sports for recreation! Soccer, tennis, baseball, basketball, volleyball- all of these are fun and even if you don’t know what you’re doing at least you will be running around. Also, you can look into rock climbing, rowing, kayaking, swimming or hiking. If you’d ever like help with an exercise plan, we can work together to find out what may work for you, personally!RunforFitness

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chubby-bunnies: crookedglasses: :/ There are plenty of mothers who don’t have the time to work out. Or maybe they can’t afford to work out and let’s be real, doing sit ups will only get you so far. Once your body reaches that plateau, you’re going to have to put more work in and let’s face it, a gym is usually more helpful. What if the mom lives in an apartment and would love to buy those 20 bucks workout DVDs but she can’t fully workout without disturbing her neighbor. Let’s just say there are plenty of “excuses” out there and laziness isn’t one of them, or at least not the only one.  Here’s my after baby body- So what’s my excuse? What’s my excuse for what exactly? The excuse for why I’m still fat? My body looks the way it does because ~shock horror~ I LIKE my body. I love my stretch marks, I love my fat rolls, I love my cellulite. My body looks the way it does because I LIKE it to look this way. If the woman in that picture loves to work out and she wants to be toned then that is completely okay, it’s her body and that is her choice.  I like to look the way I do and that is my choice. Fuck anyone who tries to make me feel inferior because of my choices. I’m a great mother, regardless if my body looks ‘acceptable’ enough for society. 
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healthysquiddy: Moar progress photos :p 10 weeks in, 17 pounds down, feeling fantastic.
Lunch Time!

Giant Salad of Awesome!

Spinach/Iceberg mix
Corn
Cherry Tomatoes
Tuna w/ Dill
Wafu Ginger Carrot Dressing

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fuck-toned-get-shredded: fitblr-fitspo: keep-calm-get-skinny: mermaidcunt: w-ildhorses: mermaidcunt: Pictures like this make me want to puke while thousands of young girls hate themselves tonight *pukes* photos like these make me never what to eat again  WOW LOOK AT THAT photos like these have no effect on my self-esteem or confidence and do not make me want to starve myself because this is not my body and there is no need to compare myself to this lovely lady simply because she is thinner than me. yall dont say you arent going to eat cause you see a skinny girl. you need to eat to live, dont be dumb ok. eat eat eat and keep it in your tummy thinner doesn’t mean prettier ^^^^ This last one. I’m not going to sit and say some stupid generic male bullshit, but bones freak me out. Skinny doesn’t automatically mean attractive, and to be honest, if I had sex with a girl under 120lbs, I would break her in half lmfao, no thanks jeff. Does she even lift? No. This angle makes her look like she has a tumor. Just saying. Nofilter.
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Waiting on Motivation

To do anything today. I want to workout before I shower.

I didn’t work out yesterday because super exhausted ( I slept 15 hours) 

I need to shower before obligations later. I should do some homework. Yeah. Life.

MOTIVATION WHERE ARE YOU?

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Have you been exercising, eating right, maybe you’ve even lost a few inches, but when you step on the scale, (gasp!) it says you’ve gained a few pounds? Don’t panic. “Gaining” a few pounds on the scale can be misleading, especially if you’re doing all the right things. Here are four things you need to know about your changing weight:1. Water can alter your weight by as much as 10 pounds (or more).Think you just lost a few pounds from that serious spin class? Don’t get too excited—it’s just water loss due to sweat. And the amount of water in your system has a heavy influence on the number you see on the scale. “Water makes up approximately 65-90 percent of a person’s weight, and variation in water content of the human body can move the scale by ten pounds or more from day to day,” says Jeffrey A. Dolgan, a clinical exercise physiologist. This is one of the main reasons diuretics are so popular—they flush the water out of your system, resulting in only a short term weight “loss”—but they don’t help to change your body composition in any way.2. A lot of factors can influence your weight—including your workouts.Have you ever noticed that right after (or even a day or two after) an intense workout the scale goes up? That’s normal, and it doesn’t mean you’ve put on ‘weight,’ Dolgan says. “A person’s scale mass is a combination of muscle, fat, bone, the brain and neural tract, connective tissue, blood, lymph, intestinal gas, urine, and the air that we carry in our lungs. Immediately after a workout routine, the percentage of mass in each of these categories can shift as much as 15 percent.” Intense workouts cause variability on the scale due to factors like hydration status, inflammation from muscle damage repair (we call this delayed onset muscle soreness), even the amount of intestinal by-product or urine and blood volume, Dolgan says. 3. Muscle does NOT weigh more than fat.“A common comment when looking at the scale is that ‘muscle is heavier than fat,’ which is misleading,” Dolgan says. “A pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle, however the volume of muscle is denser than the volume of fat, and therefore heavier.” When you start to change your body composition with your workouts—by building more dense muscle mass and decreasing your body fat—your scale weight may increase, while your bodyfat %s may decrease. These changes happen over weeks and months (not hours or days) so the scale is useless when tracking them, Dolgan says. 4. The scale says nothing about your fitness level or body composition.As noted above, the scale can’t tell you how much of your body weight is muscle versus fat, which means if your goal is to improve your fitness levels, it’s not the best tool for measuring improvements. “If someone is trying to improve their fitness, they should ignore the scale and pay more attention to objective measurement tools like body composition to track their progress,” Dolgan says.While weighing yourself can be one way to track your progress, it shouldn’t be the only way. And it certainly isn’t worth obsessing over with daily weigh-ins. Don’t forget, Dolgan says, losing pounds on the scale does not mean that you are more fit—it just means you are lighter, which doesn’t mean much at all. (via Why Does My Workout Cause Weight Gain? - Shape Magazine)