Revolt: Week 7

I can't believe it's been 7 weeks!!  Time is just flying! I feel so much better than I have in a long long time!!  All thanks to Revolt I have moments of weakness and eat some chocolate or cake or other goodie. I am still making progress so that's good. I don't have a whole lot to say about last week I guess. I do however have some progress pics like I promised. I don't see a whole lot of difference but I feel it so I guess that's what matters.

Here is a reminder of my before Revolt pics:

Here is what I look like today:

I still have some progress to make but I'm getting there I think.

I also have my measurements. There wasn't much change from last week. I kind of had a rough week last week I guess. I had some tests done on Thursday and the anticipation of that made me weaker than usual. Thank goodness all came back okay so now I can focus on eating healthy and working out!!!

Last week:

 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 121 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29'
Waist: 24'
Hips: 36'
Thigh: 19'
Calves: 11.75'
Body Fat:19.7%

And this week:

 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 123 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29'
Waist: 24'
Hips: 36'
Thigh: 19'
Calves: 11.75'
Body Fat:19.2%

The only change was .5% body fat.  I'll take it though. any loss is good right?

Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!

 

Revolt Week 6

Halfway there! I am blogging about Revolt for 12 weeks and I have made it half way. At first I wasn't really clear on what I was going to do once my 12 weeks were up. To be honest I wasn't sure I could make it the full 12 weeks. Now that I've seen what Revolt has done for my body and my health I am going to try to stick with the program for the long haul. Or at least take what I have learned and incorporate it into my life. For a long time I wanted to get healthy but just wasn't sure where to start. I wanted to eat clean but it all seemed too hard and too expensive. I didn't know what was considered "clean" and what wasn't. I mean I had a pretty good idea, but there were questions and what I knew was clean just didn't sound like stuff I wanted to eat ALL the time. With Revolt I get to eat real food, with a few adjustments, and it actually tastes good. Well, most of it anyway. I still don't like stevia or truvia. They make everything taste like diet. As you may remember I'm a self proclaimed sugar addict. I just stick to the desserts with natural sugars like berries and other fruits.
 This last week was a detox week. I'm a punk and won't eat brussel sprouts. I refuse. I also refuse to force food down. I just won't do it. So instead of sticking with one detox diet I combined the 2 Nichole gave us. By Wednesday I was angry and discouraged and I wanted chocolate so bad I would have sold my first born for some. I got on the scale that morning thinking I had to have lost SOMETHING. Nope not a pound. That's when the anger and discouragement set in. I told Mike, "If I don't have a huge loss in the morning I'm eating a candy bar." He laughed and asked me what kind I wanted. I was really looking forward to it and was actually kind of hoping I wouldn't have a loss.
 I stepped on the scale Thursday morning. HUGE loss! I was stoked and a little disappointed at the same time. Damn no candy bar. I had a Dr. appointment later that morning because of a small lump under my arm. I now have to get some tests run and it's a little scary. After my appointment I had to run to the grocery store for some things. The first few things I threw in my cart?

Red Vines and a huge bag of Peanut Butter Snickers. I am proud to say I didn't eat any until cheat day. I sucked it up and dealt with my fears like a big girl. I just have to make it until Thursday when I get my tests run then I can move on.
 Let's move on to my results. I'm pretty stoked about these. I will post my beginning measurements, last week's measurements and my current measurements just so you can see the difference from the beginning. I ordered a new bikini and it should be here next week so I will post pics then. Drum roll please...

Beginning measurements
 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 129 lbs
Neck: 12'
Chest: 29.5'
Waist: 25.5
Hips: 38
Thigh: 20.5
Calves: 12.5
Body Fat: 28%

Last Week:

 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29.75'
Waist: 24'
Hips: 36.5'
Thigh: 19.25'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:20.6%

And this week:

 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 121 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29'
Waist: 24'
Hips: 36'
Thigh: 19'
Calves: 11.75'
Body Fat:19.7%

 That's an 8lb loss, a total of 6.25 inches lost and at least 9% body fat lost. Remember I didn't have my calipers until a week into the program so I'm not really sure where I started. You can't argue with these results! Why wouldn't you want to give it a try? You can sign up for a free week! Or for just $10/month you will have full access to the plan. Menu plans, workouts and support from Nichole herself. It doesn't get much better than that!! Check it out here or any other link on this post.

Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!

Revolt: Week 5

 

 Sorry it has taken me so long to write this post. I had such a busy weekend that there just wasn't any time to sit down and do it. Thursday I went to my neighbor's house and she taught me how to make pies. I know I know it's a post about healthy eating and I'm talking about pie making. Then on Friday I had to make my own pies, which took ALL day! And my in laws came into town and we had Blaze's last baseball game of the season. Saturday was Blaze's baptism and Sunday we had church. Yesterday Mike and I went for a beautiful ride on the motorcycle to relax a little. So now finally I am getting to sit down and write.

 On to how I did with Revolt last week. Oh buddy I sucked it up!! Seriously. I had a cheat day Monday for Memorial Day. I was going to try to be good but then Mike decided to make scones. My mom had the brilliant idea to make Navajo Tacos with said scones. Needless to say my plan of being good went straight out the window. So with cheat day on Monday I wasn't supposed to have one Saturday. I spent an entire day making homemade pies, I wasn't about to let everybody else eat them without having a piece myself. I did pretty good with dinner. We had grilled tri-tip and dutch ovened potatoes. Sunday I cheated all day. I don't know what my problem was but I had pie and my favorite chex mix. I was good Tuesday through Friday though.
 Now I am detoxing. I didn't detox the first week and I didn't detox Memorial week because I'm kind of a rebellious punk. I figured with all the naughtiness that happened last week I better put my best foot forward and kill this this week.
 I did want to talk a little about the workouts since I haven't yet. The workouts on this plan are awesome!! We do a cardio workout 3 times a week and then upper body and lower body. They are different every week so I don't get bored. I am getting stronger. Remember a couple posts back I complained about my neck and upper body being weak? Well on upper body day I managed all 40 pushups. 40 big girl pushups! No modified little girl pushups for me anymore! It can only get better from here!
 Here are my week 5 results...

Last week:

 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 124 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29.75'
Waist: 24.5'
Hips: 36.5'
Thigh: 19.25'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:22.3%

And this week:

  Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29.75'
Waist: 24'
Hips: 36.5'
Thigh: 19.25'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:20.6%

 I had a little fun with body fat calculators this week too. I just wanted to see how different all the different methods were. I only did 4 methods including the Durnim/Womersley. Here are the results...

Tape measure method: 19.72%
Jackson/Pollock 4 site:   15.86%
Jackson/Pollock 3 site:   17.78%

I will stick with the Durnim/Womersley method. This is the calculator I use.

Also don't forget I want to build up a team of people to do this with. The newest uprising just started yesterday. Go here to check it out!! You won't regret it I promise!!!!

 Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!


 

Revolt Week 4

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Okay friends I am done with week 4 on Revolt. I said I was going to do better this week but it was harder than I thought it was going to be! Next week will be better I swear! The thing I love about this fitness plan is you can mess up and still see results. As long as you don't go completely overboard!

 I also love the flexibility of it.  I got tired of some of the lunches pretty quickly. I was going through all the available lunches and couldn't find anything that looked good. So I went back to the free trial week and found a Warm Chicken Caesar Salad. This salad is AMAZING! I have eaten it every day for almost a week. So so good! I will post the recipe at the end of the post. If you try it let me know how much you love it too!

 Speaking of flexibility, I have been able to get my husband and kids on board with some of the dinners because I was able to swap out dinners instead of having the same thing every night. I would have quit if I would have had to stick with that! Not only can you swap meal for meal you can do substitutions for foods you don't like or don't have on hand. You have to swap fruit for fruit veggies for veggies etc... Use common sense basically.

 I would love to build a team of people to Revolt together. We can support and motivate each other. I've found it's so much easier when your not alone in a weight loss endeavor. You can click on any of the links throughout my post to join my team. Let me know if you sign up by emailing me at toniaisawesome@gmail.com. You can also try Revolt for free for a week by clicking any link in the post. Now on to my results!!!

Last week:

 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Neck: 11.75'
Chest: 30'
Waist: 25'
Hips: 36.5'
Thigh: 19.25'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:23.5%

And this week:

  Height: 5'6"
Weight: 124 lbs
Neck: 11.5'
Chest: 29.75'
Waist: 24.5'
Hips: 36.5'
Thigh: 19.25'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:22.3%

 I'm slowly losing! Slow and steady wins the race right? Next week is a detox week and since I didn't do the first detox I'm going to do this one. I'm also going to be strict with the diet plan. I hope by telling you this I will be more apt to follow through. Wish me luck! I am going to need it!!!

 I almost forgot the promised recipe!! Here you go. I am writing it based on what I eat. There are 3 different diets for women and 3 for men.

Warm Chicken Caesar Salad

2 cups green salad

3.5 oz grilled boneless skinless chicken breast

2 tsp caesar dressing  (I use lite)

1 tsp parmesan cheese (I omit this)

Apple (I use granny smith) 

Toss the salad chicken dressing and cheese. Eat with apple slices.

I like to chop up my apple and toss it in with the salad. So So good!!


 Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!

Revolt: Week 3

 I have survived 3 weeks on the Revolt Fitness plan and I gotta say I'm feeling great! Last week kinda sucked. Okay I'll be honest really sucked! First of all I cheated not once but twice. I couldn't help myself. It was Mother's Day and my little boy's 8th birthday. I told Mike it didn't want anything for Mother's Day so he bought me a Live Wire Mountain Dew. How could I turn that down? So I drank that and then threw my hands in the air and just said screw it. I didn't go as far overboard as I wanted so that's good. I just had a few nibbles and snacks that I shouldn't have had. Then on Monday I wasn't quite feeling myself. I was light headed and just felt icky. I did my workout and got most of my meals in. Tuesday I woke up SICK! And so did Mike. We were miserable. The only thing either of us could stomach was some toast and chicken noodle soup. Finally on Wednesday we were both feeling much better. I stuck to the diet for the rest of the week. It's hard sometimes to remember to eat all my meals. I forget a meal or 2 almost daily.
 I have for you now my results. They aren't the greatest but they are an improvement, which I wasn't expecting considering the week I had had.

Last week:
 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 126 lbs
Neck: 12'
Chest: 30'
Waist: 25.5'
Hips: 37'
Thigh: 19.5'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:24.5%

And this week:

  Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Neck: 11.75'
Chest: 30'
Waist: 25'
Hips: 36.5'
Thigh: 19.25'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:23.5%

There was some inches lost some weight lost and some body fat lost. You can't argue with those results. Imagine what they would have been had my week gone better. I also wasn't drinking enough water, but I have recommitted myself and will do better next week. I may even post some progress pics. Maybe...


Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!

Revolt: Week 2

Here we are at the end of week 2 on Revolt. I'm not going to lie, it's tough. I had a couple days where I cheated a little. I stayed with the diet for the most part. I had a few handfuls of popcorn (it's an addiction) and a bite of Mike's brownie sundae. I did my workouts everyday. They are HARD!!

I want to share with you a little about why I started Revolt and agreed to blog about it. I was a little leery at first, to be honest. I didn't want to be tied down to a 12 week program that was going to leave me frustrated, hungry and in the same boat I was starting in. I have been running 3 days a week for over a year and eating better than I ever had been. Still not great but better. I was in a mental stockade and was perfectly happy there. I didn't want to give up my daily 32 oz Pepsi or my sweets. I love me a good candy bar or let's keep it real here any kind of sugary snack. Sugar was my bestie. I'm actually surprised I didn't weigh more! However a week or 2 or maybe even 3 after Tara had originally emailed me I put on a pair of jeans that was just a little to snug for comfort. That's when I emailed her back. Of course I had questions and concerns. She assured me it would be worth it.

Aside from my mental concerns I had a couple physical concerns too. In October of 2011 I went to a concert in Las Vegas. It was actually a festival so several bands were playing. While Korn was on stage, I was minding my own business, when out of the sky falls a crowd surfer on my head. I was stunned! I may have shed a couple tears out of shock. I went on to enjoy the concert and when we got home I noticed my neck hurting. I just brushed it off for about a month. I finally had had enough and went to a chiropractor. He helped a little but if I didn't keep going the pain just came back as bad as it was before. I didn't want a temporary fix so I went to my Dr. in November of 2012. He sent me for and x-ray and it showed degenerative disc disease. I was then sent to physical therapy. I went for a few months and they did wonders for my neck. The reason I tell you all of this is my upper body was seriously affected by the crowd surfer incident. I never realized how much your neck is involved in arm movement! I have had to start slower and at a lower level than I would have liked to with my upper body movements but Nichole has modified workouts for everybody! It's amazing. I was worried my neck would be back to its previous conditions but I now feel better than I have in years! I have little to no pain in my neck and my muscles are getting stronger.

In addition to the neck injury I have always had knee problems. I know I know running isn't the best thing for my knees but I do it anyway. With 2 knee braces (one for each knee) and some Deep Blue Rub from doterra I survive. With Nichole's workouts I don't usually need my braces.

Now onto my results. I was a little sad when I stepped on the scale on Thursday morning and saw that I had gained back a pound. Then things got worse when I did my measurements and saw that I had only lost half an inch but then I took my body fat measurements and well, I'll let you decide...

Last week's measurements:
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Neck: 12'
Chest: 30'
Waist: 25.5'
Hips: 37'
Thigh: 20'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:28%

And this weeks measurements:
 Height: 5'6"
Weight: 126 lbs
Neck: 12'
Chest: 30'
Waist: 25.5'
Hips: 37'
Thigh: 19.5'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:24.5%

That's right friends a 3.5% decrease in body fat! I can't believe it! That means I'm only 4.5% away from my goal in less than 2 weeks. If this doesn't convince you to try Revolt for yourselves I hope that my posts over the next several weeks will. This program works! It's tough but doable. I'm not hungry ever! You get to eat real food. Not just once or twice but 6 times a day!!  I keep telling people that I'm not on a diet I'm on a fitness plan. It gives you the tools you need to be successful for life not just the term of the plan. Make sense? Give Nichole a try. Check out her story.

Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!

Revolt: Week 1

As you may remember from last week I am doing a new fitness program called Revolt. I started on Monday and so far so good. I have to admit that I was pretty sure I wouldn't need this program too much as I'm not overweight at all and I run 3 times a week. That was until I took my measurements, calculated my body fat and took before pictures. Oh boy!! I have decided to post them here with one demand. You cannot laugh or post mean comments!

My stats are as follows as of Monday...

Height: 5'6"
Weight: 129 lbs
Neck: 12'
Chest: 29.5'
Waist: 25.5
Hips: 38
Thigh: 20.5
Calves: 12.5

I kept putting of getting my body fat calculations done so I didn't have them on Monday.

Here is where I am as of yesterday...

Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Neck: 12'
Chest: 30'
Waist: 25.5'
Hips: 37'
Thigh: 20'
Calves: 12'
Body Fat:28%

 I have seen some subtle little differences which is great!! I was supposed to start on the detox diet but had already bought groceries for the following week so I started with that. I also switched dinners around so we weren't eating the same thing every night. We need variety at my house.

I have stuck with the clean eating all week, although it has been rough! I would definitely say it's the hardest part of this program. The workouts are hard but I can do them. I miss junk food so much! Mike isn't helping matters either. Well until I had a meltdown and begged him to stop bringing soda and candy around me. He's been good ever since.

I have big plans for my free day tomorrow. I have a Peanut Butter Snickers hidden and Live Wire Mountain Dew with my name on it.

 Disclaimer: I was chosen as a Revolt Fitness Program blogger and received free membership to try the fitness program out. All opinions expressed are my own. I would totally pay for the program if I wasn't getting it for free!!! Try it you know you want to!