Fit Bitchez

Spotify is my new favorite tool. Free, pre made playlists, and an endless supply of new music. Truth is, Kay has been telling me to use it for months but I’m just lazy with apps. Today I listened to nothing but 90’s and pushed myself a little harder on the elliptical. I swear music makes all the difference in my speed and stamina.

Try it out!

Check out our balls!

Don’t just drink water, chug water! Beyoncé says she drinks about a gallon a day so that’s probably what we should all be drinking. Always ask yourself, “What would Beyoncé do?” in regards to all of your fitness goals.

Hi bitchez!

(That is just too fun to resist.) I’m feeling a little…feely…and wrote down some thoughts to share for whatever they’re worth.

You will fail sometimes. But, restarting is the most important part of the journey. (And that isn't just some bullshit people say.)

My life has been a long series of failed attempts to get healthy. When I was in elementary school and started to get fat I wanted to try dance, but my family mocked me until I gave that idea up. I tried track in middle school, but didn’t have many friends on the team and didn’t think I was good enough, so I quit. By high school I cycled through field hockey within a couple weeks, giving up because I wasn’t fast enough, and then tennis for a few weeks until that too fizzled away. I did dance for three years, only because it was a club that never made cuts. 

I have never been brave enough to stick with anything. I failed before I started because my fear of failing made me not want to bother trying. I have felt too far gone to save, too incapable to try, and too embarrassed to be seen making an effort. But recently something has clicked. I don’t care about using new machines at the gym because I truly, for the first time ever, don’t give a shit what anyone nearby is thinking about me. I will do terribly formed yoga poses proudly in public because I know it brings me closer to conquering years of poor health habits and even more years of social anxiety and poor self-image. Most powerfully, and also an entirely unfamiliar sense is that I’ve realized that my body isn’t broken or useless. It is capable of all the same things that other bodies can do, I just have to choose to do them. I don’t care what the scale or size says, I care if I can walk long distances or swim or walk up a reasonable number of stairs without gasping.  

Life has gotten in the way a little bit lately. I’ve spent some days feeling very low, done with trying, and ready to accept my fate as a short, plump, invisible person in the world. But not today, and hopefully not tomorrow. All we can do is spend each day trying to see ourselves as valuable and beautiful no matter what, and worth the effort to be healthy and happy in our skin, and use that knowledge as motivation to push forward.

You are an incredible person, capable of incredible things. Get inspired!

Alright fitbitchez, Kay here. You already know my BFF Bay as she has been picking up alllll of the slack on this blog so far, but I’m ready to play! I guess some of my hesitance has been related to the fact that I lost 60 lbs in 2015 and despite my (kinda) best efforts, I haven’t been able to drop an ounce in 2016. So first off, I’d like to remind everyone on the journey to fitness that it’s ok if things don’t go exactly how you want them to. I still plan on losing another 40lbs, and that dream isn’t going anywhere! It might not happen this year, but the only way it is going to happen is to not give up, right?! Right. This past month it has been very hard to not just say fuck this, I don’t care, I’ll never get there anyway. In fact there have been days where I do say that, and then I console my grumpy self by binge eating and trying to convince my boyfriend that he actually doesn’t love me, because it would be impossible to love me, because I’m a loser and a failure. Yup, it works about as well as you’d expect. Not at all. So I’ve learned a few things this month I’d like to share. They might be things that you’ve heard before, and nothing works for everyone, but I hope that some of what we have to say on this blog will ring in your head when you need to remember it the most. You aren’t alone. Us fitbitchez gotta have each other’s backs! A coupla things to remember this week:

1. If you’ve been feeling great mentally and physically, seeing changes in your body, and you all around feel like a bouncy ball of health and happiness, why do you need to know what the scale says? Why does it matter!? Your body is clearly rewarding you for the good choices you’ve been making. Don’t knock yourself down a peg by risking not liking the number on the scale. If you’re like me, one of two things will happen when you see your weight. You’re either going to be disappointed and you will take on the attitude of “why the fuck do I even bother?” And have a good binge about it. Or you’ll be super excited to see a new lower number and reward yourself for being good on your diet by binge eating. (As you can see I struggle with binge eating disorder and will get into that in a separate post.) I’ve had a scale tell me 5lbs difference in my weight within only an hour. So stop letting your scale ruin your day. If you have to weigh yourself, I recommend sticking to once a month.

2. The first week or two of trying to be good on your diet and exercise routine can feel impossible. I literally had to have a disclaimer for my actions every day for the first week to reassure my boyfriend that I wasn’t going to be this crazy forever. But now that I’ve made some progress, there are far more days where I gush about how happy I feel than there are days where I want to burn something down. So a couple weeks of crazy Kayla was more than worth it for a summer of happy, active Kayla.

3. GET REAL. This has been one of my rules since I first started losing weight about a year ago. Basically, I believe that all of us know what we are doing wrong when we fall short of reaching our goals, so get real with yourself! Are you having three diet cheat days a week instead of one, like me? Ya, that’s not gonna work. Let’s both get real about it together :) Are you only doing the easiest machines at the gym and putting them at settings that are too low for you because you hate to get sweaty? C'mon bitch, get real. You’re gonna have to sweat for this one. Complaining about how hard it is to lost weight isn’t going to get you anywhere. Looking at your faults and improving upon them will! Stop convincing yourself that you can’t and get real, because we know that you can!

Keep up the good work Fitbitchez! Love, Kay

Gym Time!

If it's not even noon and you're elbow deep in chocolate chip cookies, and you get a text asking if you're up to go to the gym it's time to say yes! We recommend trying to get up to at least 20 minutes or two miles if you're just starting out on an elliptical. We started with ten and worked up to twenty with higher intensity.