Holidays Make Me Cheat! :/

Holidays make me cheat!

I love a good holiday weekend with my family as much as the rest of you. I mean what is not to love, more time to sleep the F in!! (sweet precious sleep! I only sleep about 5 hours a night during the week so any extra sleep I get is like winning the damn lottery!) But why oh WHY does the holiday weekend also make me cheat on my eating plan? (these holiday weekends have me like “eating plan shmeating plan!” LOL!) And yes, I do mean MAKE me cheat…lord knows I would never knowingly cheat myself. It is all a force of holiday nature!

So this past weekend I ate pancakes. Well maybe I should clarify, they were gluten free pancakes, but still syrup was all over the plate. And I quickly sopped up any syrup excess with my numerous pieces of bacon. Then we had a birthday so I ate two, count them TWO cupcakes. Tacos, and refried beans were also in the mix. Totally ridiculous! I am pretty sure I could go on….. at least when we went bowling I managed to have a salad…. I think the greens were a shock to my system at that point!

I do better with routine. I eat pretty much the same things on the same schedule every day. Throw a holiday weekend and time at me and apparently I throw in the eating plan towel!

I’ve said I am laser focused on my fitness goals but I think I must say that in a “fake it until you make it” type of way. What else could it be?

No more holidays for me for a while for the love of sweet baby Jesus!!

Sometimes I Just Don't Want To.....

Sometimes, I just don’t want to…..

Sometimes no amount of, “come on…this is good for you! You will feel better, look better, be more healthy, and build a better body” internal pep talks make me want to work out. I cannot be alone in this inner debate. Admit it, sometimes you just don’t want to either.

#thestruggleisreal

Sometimes I get stressed out by the mere thought of still having my work out to do at the end of my day. I am a night worker… to be honest, I am a night person period. But being a working mom/wife of a million kids, at night, on my time, is the only time I have. And I find myself pulling on my work out clothes thinking about how much this all sucks and I just don’t want to.

#thissucks

Sometimes I feel like none of this is working anyway and this whole “some progress is progress, keep going” crap is just that, crap. So I should just lay down in my bed that loves me and relax with a book, my hubby, and our puppies. After all, it has been a long day.

#mybedlovesme

 Sometimes I think, you’re fat. Some people are just fat. You have a strong inner fat kid that refuses to die. Maybe that f’er deserves to live after all the ways you have tried to kill it. So just do not work out today.

#powertotheinnerfatkid

Sometimes I think, well, you ate about 4 small pieces of dark chocolate today. The eating plan is shot so why not give up entirely today and forget that dang work out? Seems logical

#darkchocolatecallstome

Sometimes, I just do not want to MOVE IT MOVE IT

#watchedtoomanykidmovies

But then I remember, these are all the reasons that you have to drag your ass to that gym, pump some heavy reps, and get some sort of cardio in. Because you will hate yourself if you don’t. This easy road is what got you to looking this way and feeling this way, remember that lady?

Sometimes you just don’t want to, but you do. And that is all that matters…..

Fitness Moms = Wonder Woman

Fitness moms…sometimes I think we deserve an award. Every single time we finish a workout, while dealing with the world’s problems through a child’s eyes, someone should magically appear with a trophy and a speech all about our fabulous worth. (I might be being dramatic here, sue me!)

I am sure some moms have it all together, scheduled and easy. I am not one of those moms. These are not excuses because I make it work regardless, but I think I identify with those moms that get it done in all kinds of F’ed up ways. Nothing in my house seems to go as planned, not usually any way. We have 5 crazy active kids. They are the best, but nothing about being a working mom of 5 kiddos is what I would call an easy walk in the park. I love it when people say, you just have to make yourself a priority. I am like where? Should I not get to work on time, or should I not spend time with my kids? Which one? LOL J So instead I sacrifice my sleep because those hours are the only ones that are actually mine. I want to be a sexy fitness badass so not sleeping is okay with me, but I am not about to sit here and make it seem like being a fitness mom is this yellow brick road of easy. (and yes, I wish bad things on those working mommies that make it all seem like cake! Not really….. well, mostly!)

I get up at 4:15 to get myself ready before I get the kids up & start their days which means that any type of fasted cardio is out of the question. I actually did lose my mind for a hot minute and tried fasted cardio at 3:30AM (AM people!) a few times. Yeah completely not worth it. I was exhausted by about 5PM which meant my pump session at 9PM either was a disaster or just did not happen. (awe friggin rats!) Some parts of trying to be a great fitness mommy are out of my reach. And I’ve had to come to terms with that fact.

But the few things I can control, I work hard to do so. I can control my nutrition. (still working on my simple carb control! I love love love stupid simple carbs! L) And I can control how consistent I am with my workouts, making the most of the time I have allotted. I do not skip workouts (although some are better than others! Let’s be honest!).

So if no one has told you fitness Moms just how Wonder Woman like you are for putting it all together daily, take it from someone in the trenches with you, YOU FRIGGIN RAWK! Keep on keeping on, you’ll get there!