From princess to pumped: Eating healthier

By Hayley Woodin [Contributor]

I am going to come clean and start by saying that I have not quite met last week’s goal of losing some weight in order to give my poor little arms a break.

In fact, I’ve come nowhere close.

But that doesn’t mean my cardio efforts haven’t been paying off: I’m getting toned, and I feel great.

Eating healthy has also become more of a priority since my bold declarative statement that I was going to lose over a-pound-a-day within a week.

Let me say, fruits and veggies are your friends. And once you quit eating junk and loading up on carbs for a couple of days, you miraculously stop craving them and begin craving nature’s goodies.
After falling into a more scheduled workout routine, you also begin to crave the exercise.

No word of a lie, there have been days when I can’t wait to get home in order to pick up my weights and begin pumping up my guns.
That’s right, my guns.

I have moved up and I am now doing my routine curl & press with 10 pound weights, and the results are showing.

I still have my eyes on the prize and the end goal of being able to perform a couple of pull-ups and show up my competitor.

However, regardless of the event’s outcome, and even though this may sound like a sappy consolation in the event that I don’t win, I have made strides towards a healthier lifestyle, and that in itself is a win for someone who hadn’t exercised prior to the competition.

I am still going to give him a run for his money, though.

Have you bought your tickets yet? The gun show goes down in less than two weeks.

Next step, working on the actual chin-ups.

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