3 Day Refresh Results and Review

3 Day Refresh Result and Review:

Okay so the three days are over and well..... I feel absolutely amazing! That's the first thing I want to say about this! I feel amazing! 

I fell way way way of track that I was losing my way and couldn't get myself back on track! I knew something had to happen so I my team said lets do it right after thanks giving and I asked one of my challengers to do it with me for extra accountability and I am glad I did! 

When I say I was off track I didn't even want to look at myself in the mirror and that is what was bothering me because I don't want to worry about image anymore but that just meant my head was in the wrong place. I was avoiding the scale because I didn't want to see the number that k knew was creeping up up up but it was just a reality that I needed to suck it up, own it and move on! That's what the refresh did for me. 

So here it is this is how it went down and how I felt! 

Day 1: I hated it I told my team I hated it haha! I had the worst headache I was so tired and had a hard time keeping my eyes open all day and yes I was hungry! So I went to bed with the thought.... I'm done I'm not finishing this that's it!

Day 2: woke up to a nice voicemail from my coach saying she felt horrible yesterday too but is feeling alive today so I stopped and said wait a minute.... I feel that way to. No headache, I was ready to conquer the day... I can totally do this! So day 2 went on I followed the plan to a T again. Not starving at all (no I'm not lying) ohhh and the peeing like every 10 mins I felt like I was pregnant again I was cracking up!!!! I was up till 11 pm wide awake! 

Day 3: again feeling amazing but ready for eggs for breakfast I knew I could make it one more day follow the plan and see results! So that's what I did! I took a shower last night out face lotion on and smiled a REAL smile for the first time IN A WHILE! I felt alive! I felt refreshed! I felt like my mind was clear and ready to go!!!! 

Day 4: results day.... I got on the scale this morning and it was worth it all!!!!! I am officially down 8.6lbs in 3 days from the refresh! The bloat is gone I don't feel heavy, tired or weighed down. I am back in full force and I am determined to lose 12 lbs this month, that's how revived I feel!!!! 

So yes this is so worth it, I loved it and I believe in it! I will be doing this 4x a year now! 

Ohhhh and I did promise I would share a picture of my breakfast of eggs today hahaha!!!! I had 1 Apple chicken sausage and 1 egg/2 egg whites all cooked with coconut oil and 1/4 of a red pepper and of course my coffee! But my coffee only had 1 stevia packet in it today and no milk! 

21 Day Fix Week 1

Okay so I told you all I would do a weekly Summary of how my 21 Day Fix Meal Plan and Piyo Workout Journey goes.

So lets start with this.....I will be following the 21 Day fix Meal Plan (I'll post what i eat for the overall week) and doing the Piyo Schedule with 2 days a week Turbo Fire.... I will take Sundays off as my Rest Day.

Here is the complete weeks worth of food:
      


Day 1: I did Turbo Fire HIIT 25 and I stayed within my portions I was given I am in the 2nd category and my calorie target is about 1600 a day (seems like a lot to me, but I am following the program) I didn't go over my containers in any section but I def missed 1 or 2 in a few :-) I felt good over all..... i was hungry at times but as my coach said it was probably in my head. The one thing i missed was my almond butter i like to just scoop it and eat it anytime during the day hahah and i did feel like i was missing some protein...we will see how i can move things around over the week to see if i can fix that feeling :-) So in the book she suggests drinking your coconut oil vs. cooking it and i can see that because you don't get it all once you cook with it. So instead of adding butter on my 1 slice of toast i spread 1 tsp of Coconut oil right on my hot toast! IT IS AMAZING!!!!! Try it sometime ;-)

Day 1 pics of food:

Day 2: I did PIYO Define Lower today short 19 minute workout and overall felt great even food wise...i just made a couple adjustments on when i ate things and how and it seemed better. Still missing my large spoons of almond butter and peanut butter though! I miss them but i know its probably for the better....

Day 2 pics of food:

Day 3: Exercise was PIYO Define Upper and again only 18 mins long! Love these short ones even though i waited till night time to get it done i knew it was only 18 mins.  As for the food, I wasn't feeling great so i did not pay as much attention. I was definitely within my guidelines but when i was giving my kids a snack I totally ate some goldfish I called those YELLOW I didn't know what else to do haha. Then for supper i usually use a Yogurt Ranch dressing I love but tonight i decided to make my own and it was wonderful finished fill up my red container and I was good to go!

Day 3 pics of food:

Taco Salad went like this: 2 cups of lettuce tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage mix, 1/2 cup 95% lean hamburg, then for the dressing i too 1.5 TBSP of plain greek yogurt and mixed it with 1 TBSP of salsa....PERFECT AND FIX APPROVED!!!!

1 Red, 2 Greens, 1 TBSP of Purple

Day 4: Exercise was PIYO Sweat I love this one too its 35 mins but man it gives you such a good workout! As for my food i kept it similar to day 3 i like to eat leftovers and its cheaper that way too...Yes goldfish again but i accounted for them! 

Day 4 pics of food

Day 5: Actually did not do a workout today i was not feeling well hence the little amount of food. But I chose to double up on my shakes for the year fact that they taste great on my throat and i wanted to extra nutrients to feel better:

Day 5 pics of food:

Day 6: Today i did PIYO Define Lower i am feeling great my legs are sore and my abs feel tight! Gosh i love this program! I do not have pictures of my food for today i was too busy scrambling around trying to get chores done and get ready for a family party later in the day. I should have though because i think it would have kept me a bit more accountable to what I ate. I missed a few container and had a few more containers than I should have on 1 or 2 of them. All in all though it was an okay day......

Day 7: REST DAY for me :-) Sunday is almost always going to be a rest day unless I miss to many days in the week. Family day, football day thats the focus. Today was a pretty good day on the plan i was feeling little weak so i really upped my water intake and it surely helped.  I again was a bit off my food containers but plan to really stay on track on the weekends for week 2. My fridge if fully stocked and its ready to go for this week. 

My food prep has begun and i can't wait to conquer week 2 100% 

WEEK 1 RESULTS: Down 2.6lbs

My PIYO review and results

Well I'm not sure where to start really. I truly loved this program I did not think I could love anything more than turbo fire and this has to be very close to my soul workout :-). What an amazing experience, my body has change in so many ways. I am stronger mentally and physically. I am seeing some serious definition in my arms and in my legs and my core seems tighter as well. I do believe if I would have been more strict with my nutrition I would have seen a whole different change in my core! I did follow her meal plan for 2 weeks to see how it was and it was making but honestly I just wanted to go back to my eating clean and not measuring anything. 

Lots of people asked me do you think PIYO is really going to work???? I say YES!!! It's whole new way to work your body without any weights and without any high impact and if you know me you know my feet have thanked me for the last 8/9 weeks :-). I couldn't believe how sweaty I was I was literally dripping on my mat during some of the workouts and um hello no high impact.... WHAT! Chalene is an amazing trainer and she knows what she is doing. 

I loved seeing pictures I would take during the workouts because each week I was literally seeing a change  in some part of my body. I really noticed a change in my arms it was crazy. I was thankful it was tank top season because boy was I a proud mama to be able to wear a tank top and be comfortable with how my arms looked! 

So here they are.... Here are my results for my first round of PIYO I lost about 2 pant sizes (from a loose 14 tight 12 to a comfortable 10 tight 8) and I went down 1 shirt size. I lost 6lbs and 12" overall AMAZING! I can not wait to continue on, next up for me..... A hybrid workout with Turbo Fire and PIYO :-) 

Finding Your Why

So let's talk about Your Why! 

This topic is so important because it is going to be something so very important. This thing, this why is what is going to drive you to reach your goals and your dreams. You might think you know what it is but I am going to challenge you to dig a little deeper! 

I remember when I first started out I sat with my coach and we started talking about why I wanted to loss weight and stuff and why I wanted to coach. I said "I need to get healthy" she said "well that's a great start but dig deeper, why do you want to get healthy?" 

I had to stop and think, I couldn't respond right away I wanted to get this question right! 

She said " it needs to be attached to something emotional, something so deep that every time you think of it it's going to push you, it's going to deter you from the bad choices and help you make the right ones!" 

Well finally I got it right and do you know how I know I got it right??? EVERYTIME I think of it or talk about it I cry! I cry because I know when I reach those goals it's going to be so amazing and so freeing and so well .... just amazing!!!! I am crying just writing this post! 

My why is this:

I want to be the happiest, healthiest momma around. I want my kids to see what it is like to be living a healthy lifestyle and make those same choices for themselves. I want to run around with them and be an active mom, not just sit on the couch. I want to be the best wife possible who has her confidence back. Who is ready to explore the world if you must with my husband. (They say a happy wife happy life right) I also want to really be able to help my family financially and take some of the burden off my hard working husband who works his butt off so I can be home with the kids. I want to be able to have stress free vacations, fun Fridays with the kids and not worry about where the money is coming from! 

 

   

I want that for you too. I want you to figure out YOUR WHY and start working towards your goals you have. Talk to me let's determine your why and let's get moving! 

I hope you all have a wonderful day today!!!

Carrie

If you haven't already checked out my Facebook page I invite you to do so at www.facebook.com/CarrieReachforfit

UPDATED 7/26/15: Transformation Story

My Transformation Story
Reaching For Fit....

I came to know about the Beach Body programs after I had my 2^nd child. She was almost a year old and I met up with an old fitness friend Karri Charpentier Legault! My now amazing coach. I was almost 225lbs I knew I needed to do something so, I started out with a 10 day Shakeology Challenge and fell in love with it, who wouldn’t with the energy it gives you while trying to run around after 2 little kids. So I continued with it and signed up as a coach while trying to do Insanity. Well needless to say after several attempts I couldn’t get through the program, I couldn’t get my mind in the right place to be successful in getting myself healthy.

Then T25 came out in June 2013 and I thought this is the answer I will do this its only 25 mins a day. I stuck with it for a couple weeks, lost some weight and then again my mind wasn’t where it was supposed to be I couldn’t get the eating thing under control and I couldn’t get motivated enough to workout every day I was supposed to and the weight I lost came right back on plus some. Then there was a sale on Turbo Fire and I bought that…. Same thing happened even though I loved Chalene’s energy and way the program worked…I lost motivation after a couple weeks, it was the cycle I kept going through. I learned a lot about myself in that year though I learned that I had more than just I wanted to lose weight and be healthy issues I learned that I was holding a lot of resentment and a lot of anger inside me that I believe was  holding me back. I used to be a working women who ended up staying saying home with my kids. At times I was super jealous of my husband who went to work everyday. I felt like he didn’t support me or my goals, and I didn’t feel like I “wanted” to support him. Well, through lots of prayer, God was telling me to talk to my husband. We did just that. We opened up and just spoke to each other. He was supporting me more than I thought and he was jealous of me as well being able to stay home with the kids everyday. Just by clearing the air and speaking I felt like that was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and an excuse thrown out the window! I was always an emotional eater and I was using all those things to keep me away from my goals.

Then February 17^th, 2014 I got a call from my doctor telling me I had my yearly physical in 2 days and I needed to confirm the appointment. Well I couldn’t….there was no way I could go back into that doctors office and weigh the same as last year. There you have it…My kick in the BUTT. I rescheduled my appointment to April 1^st and I was determined to be below 200lbs. That was 18lbs I needed to lose in just 6 weeks. I knew I could do it. I had to clean up my diet, faithfully drink my Shakeology and stick to the workout program. I got Turbo Fire and went to town! By April 1^st I lost 20lbs and was down 18” I was so excited. My doctor was excited too and said I can’t wait to see how much you do the next time I see you, next month in May. Man another push for me to see how well I could do. BOOM down another 10” total of 28” in just 11 weeks and down 34lbs. I lost almost 15lbs since the last time I saw her. My blood work was amazing and I had just 3 weeks left of my Turbo Fire Journey. I am so excited that I found my Sole Workout Program and Trainer, Chalene! She is truly amazing and motivating throughout the program; you just can’t slow down!

  

Without the AMAZING support of my coach Karri and our awesome team, Fit and Fierce, and all of our awesome Challenge Groups, I never could have done this! Every day I have sent my food journal to Karri and every day she commented back on it. She didn’t have to look at each day but she did. She held me accountable for what I ate and that is awesome. I couldn’t lie about 4 goldfish here or a handful of Pirates Booty there and then the handful a cheese-its either. I knew she would be checking. So everything went down! Everyday I would take pictures or videos of me doing my workouts and share them with my friend/family and most of all the Challenge Groups. I used them as accountability! I did the videos for accountability plus form checking to make sure I was doing things right and finally MOTIVATION…I didn’t have people next to me pushing me or people to challenge me. I had myself and I found that when I watched myself in the videos (while doing the workout) I was competing against myself and that was the MOST IMPORTANT thing to me…I was only trying to be a better me and that I was my own Competition! 

I have finished Turbo Fire and now I can't wait to get MY SHIRT!!!! I love it, I am going to continue on with Turbo Fire until PIYO comes out at the end of JUNE!!!!!

I have to be honest I am crying writing this blog because it has been such a crazy ride but I am so glad I am on it! I have such an awesome support system in these last 2 years but especially the last 15 weeks aside from our groups like I said above, my parents, sister, husband, in-laws and of course my little cheerleaders and MY WHY's (Vitto and Ava), I couldn't have done this without EVERYONE being by my side!

As I was talking to my coach this morning I just wanted to bawl. I am excited to see where the next step is going to take me and I can't wait to have all of you with it!

Started - 223lbs 2 years Ago
Focus and ready to conquer the world- 218.8 lbs as Feb 17th, 2014
Currently – 176.7 lbs as of June 2, 2014
Ending -TBD

Total Numbers- lost 34.75" and lost 42.1 lbs in 15 WEEKS!!!!!!
2 years in the making pictures 47.1lbs lost

Monthly Pictures

 

 February

 March

April

 May

 

 June

Side by Side pictures

 2 years in the making June '12- June '14

 February 17, 2014 - June 2, 2014

 Measurements From Feb - June 2014

Is this my final story? Nope, TO BE CONTINUED........

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UPDATED PART OF MY STORY:

Let’s fast forward to almost a year later….LIFE happened and I did what I tell all my challengers NOT TO DO…I let life get in the way, I let the excuses get in the way. We lost our dog to cancer in September and then in November was husband lost his job! ARE YOU KIDDING ME , now my routine is completely changed…he is home now when I want to work out, he is home when I want to do my housework AAAHHHHHH LIFE JUST GOT FLIPPED OUT OF CONTROL IN MY MIND……

So of course the emotional eating past I had doesn’t just go away it is still a part of me but for some reason I was unable to control it like I had during my BIG transformation. I started spiraling out of control again with emotional eating and then getting upset and angry with myself. THESE two things do not make a good combination! Everyday day I plugged into my challenge groups and every day I tried to find some positive even on the days that I didn’t want to. I started to get angry again, and grumpy and I knew something needed to change again!

Fast forward now to July of 2015 (yes just a week ago) THE LIGHT WENT OFF….I realized by seeing all these amazing people and hearing all of their amazing stories that I am MORE than an emotional eater, I AM stronger than that…I AM stronger than my excuses. I will not hurt myself anymore with negative self-talk and I will not make myself feel so LITTLE…..

SO here I am plugging away, back to focusing on clean eating and following a fantastic hybrid calendar I found of my two favorite programs PIYO and Turbo Fire. I am Real and I want people to know that I AM real…I have flaws but I am not giving up! I am not giving in I am going to succeed and be consistent with my journey! I am plugging into PD that is helping me with the emotional part of eating and focusing on the triggers that cause these things and taking steps to avoid this from the out of control Spiral that occurs!

Life is a journey of windy wiggle roads…if it was a straight line NO ONE would ever learn how to succeed in the hard times, no one would dream and Dream BIG….
I always say too….This is the book of life…we have so many chapters in our life so let’s work on each chapter one at a time. Don’t look back unless it’s to see how far you come. If you dwell on the past it’s only going to hold you back!

 

Chicken Soup with Quinoa

Today I have just been feeling crumby and really have been trying to eat clean....so instead of going out and buying soup (or making my husband buy me some hehe) I decided to make my own with what I had in the house...

Now this is not the first time I have tried to make a chicken soup before, the first time came out horrible I actually poured the whole thing down the garbage disposal!! This time it came out fantastic!

Here it is:
Chicken Soup with Quinoa

  I have no idea how much water I put in the pot but it was quite a bit (filled my pot up 1/2 full)
2 chicken breast
(Boil the crud out of them)
When chicken starts to boil add:
4 bouillon cubes, 2 heaping scoops minced garlic, cracked pepper...

 Then when chicken is cooked take out and shred it then add back to water and
Add:
2 small or 1 large sweet onion chopped
3 stalks celery chopped
12 baby carrots chopped
1/2 cup frozen green beans
1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach

After 5 mins boiling add 1/2 cup quinoa!
I had two of these bowls I don't know if that's too much but darn it was good and I haven't eaten much today!