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DAY 1

Green peas, a protein bar and a black coffee for breakfast. Was on a cleaning spree so not super hungry. My partner ate chips and chocolate for breakfast, but I wasn’t tempted.

Made pulse pasta (healthier, and gluten free) with tomato and tuna for lunch. My partner ate a pie and chips. They smelled good, but I was okay!

Dinner I almost forgot to eat, uncharacteristically. It’s odd but having made the decision to cut junk food out of my diet, I’m suddenly somehow thinking about food a lot less? I tried moderation all last year, but it’s impossible for me. Somehow, simply cutting all of it out has lifted a weight off my shoulders. So I made scrambled eggs and had a lemon and ginger tea with them. My partner annoyingly ate some of my healthy pasta! I made that for me 😤

Definitely a very light day, owing to the fact that I ate everything under the sun yesterday and still felt full when I woke up today! But off to good start for sure. Annoyingly there are no spin classes on tomorrow since it’s a public holiday, but I’ll go back Tuesday.

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It’s been a rough couple of weeks over the holidays, falling back into old BED habits and not being able to attend exercise classes due to them being off and/or being busy with family stuff.

Junk food is my biggest downfall, and I have failed spectacularly to limit my consumption of it this year, in no small part thanks to having a partner who is naturally very thin but lives on cheeseburgers and cheese wheels.

So I’m taking drastic action! I am going to try to quit junk food completely. I am setting three goal posts for myself - 30 days, 60 days, and finally 90 days, which will take me to my 30th birthday!

If I can even just do 30 days, I’ll be proud of myself!

It’s a big NYE blowout tonight and I’m gonna let my hair down, recover tomorrow, then the grind starts Jan 2! I’m going to try to post here every single day to keep myself accountable, even if I only have 2 followers, haha!

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Madonna by Patrick Demarchelier for Glamour Magazine; 1990

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Madonna in Gianfranco Ferré Jeweled Bodice for Vogue Italia, 1991 - Ph. Steven Meisel

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A good day yesterday!

Breakfast: a quest protein bar on the run after cycling

Lunch: chickpea, tomato, jalapeño, pine nut and spinach salad

Dinner: baked salmon, spinach and egg with a bowl of broccoli, pea and mushroom soup

Snacks: an apple and some almonds

Lunch and dinner included olive oil and the MyFitnessPal app said I had too much fat for the day but it’s healthy fat and I only clocked 1500 calories total with a 674 calorie burn for the day so I think it’s okay. If anything I maybe should have eaten more, but I felt full at the end of the day and listening to my body is the most important thing.

Tonight is a bit of a challenge, my friends are going to an all you can eat chicken wings night and I am so tempted but I think I need to not go and stay home to avoid overeating :(

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Had a bad day yesterday, ended up binging :( but at least this happened! The cycle calorie amount is incorrect because my Apple Watch randomly paused for 10 minutes, it would have been more. I have no trouble getting motivated to work out, I’ll happily work out every single day - it’s the eating I really have a hard time getting under control :( on my way to spin class again now, today will be better!

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Had a very off weekend due to attending a big boat party on Saturday (although I did cycle that morning) and a Christmas party followed by the F1 finale yesterday! But that’s ok, I’m not in the mindset of restricting myself to the point I can’t enjoy socialising with friends and family - that’s just miserable and I’ve been there far too many times over the years!

Back on to it today - cycling at midday and healthy eating for the rest of this week. Feel a bit worse for wear and need to put something green into my body, stat!

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Went hard this morning! The arm workout section of the class had my arms on fire, which is so good!

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Super annoyed to have awoken to a kilo GAINED!? I’ve been eating so healthily so it had better be a kilo of muscle. Just so ready to see that number start going down after watching it go up for a year :(

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Had to skip CycleBar this morning due to total lack of sleep, but I’ll be going tomorrow morning! Can’t wait for the dumbbells I ordered to arrive so I can do my arm workouts.

3 scrambled eggs, a banana and a coffee for breakfast. I should mention another key factor in my recent weight gain - my partner! She’s one of those rare people who can eat thousands upon thousands of calories and still have a perfect body. She ordered McDonalds for breakfast, and usually I’d cave and have at least a hash brown, but I didn’t! I told her to get me a Diet Coke and that’s it. She even ASKED if I’d like a hash brown and I said no! So not only do I have to have the willpower and self-discipline to control what I choose to eat, I also have to be around someone who offers me junk food every day and never gains weight when she eats it herself. It’s rough, and this past year I’ve just continuously caved in with her - but no more!

Had a tuna and spinach wrap, and a whole mango for lunch. I’ve been using MyFitnessPal to track my calories (it’s been helpful over the years) and apparently having a banana and a mango today means I’ve had too much sugar, which I think is dumb. I try not to pay too much attention to it, it’s just good to know what’s going in and what works best for my energy and satiation levels.

Dinner will be baked chicken breast and lots of broccoli! I’m watching Australian Ultimate Beastmaster and feeling very inspired to eventually get back to my athletic training once I’m fitter and stronger from cycling. I enjoyed F45 a LOT when I was doing it!

Looking forward to CycleBar tomorrow morning - it’s a 30 minute walk there and back and I love power walking there with my headphones to warm up and then slowly walking home to cool down, I think it’s helping with my muscle recovery / staving off the DOMS a lot!

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2 years difference

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This was my body before injury! I won’t post current photos until I have an ‘after’ photo to include, as I can’t deal with the sight of my currently unfit self. The goal is to get back here and beyond, with more muscle tone and bigger arms. According my Apple Watch I burned 1054 calories today between my high intensity spin class and about 1.5 hours of power walking, and my intake is currently at 1722 calories - I will probably try to get some lean protein in before bed. My basal metabolic rate is around 1400 calories, so that would put my amount of calories to play with at around 2400 for today, so a current deficit of about 600/700. Hoping to keep up deficits every day now through tracking. 

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Hello! I’m not really sure how all this works but I’d love to join tumblr’s fitness community as I get back on track with working out after an injury. 

At the start of this year, I was doing F45, Xtend Barre, Ashtanga Yoga, Running, Weightlifting, Lap Swimming, Rock Climbing, Pole Dancing classes, Contemporary Dance classes... probably something more I’m forgetting! I was an absolute fitness junkie, you name it, I was probably doing it. 

I grew up struggling with binge eating disorder and resulting obesity, and was not consistently physically active until I was about 21. Between the age of about 17 and 21 I lost most of the weight I had been carrying as a teenager, but my weight has always fluctuated since. My fitness journey began with yoga and running, and at around 25 I started doing more intense exercise and absolutely fell in love with the happy feelings that come with completing a high intensity workout, and the results I saw in my physique. 

I’m 5′3″, naturally stocky, and put on muscle (and fat) very easily. My weight is always quite high for my height no matter what I do. The lowest weight I ever reached was 58 kilos / 127 pounds and I was stacked with muscle, had visible abs (difficult for a woman - especially me - to achieve) and the arms of my dreams. I’ve always been really inspired by Madonna’s physique and being 29, would love to achieve the physique she had around the same age. 

Unfortunately, around the start of 2021 I had been consistently restricting to 1200 calories or lower over a period of about 4 years, between spells of relapsing into binge eating disorder, and working out 9 - 12 times per week - my calorie output so often considerably outweighed my input, and I ended up with three herniated discs in my spine from overexertion. The pain was unbelievable - if you’ve had a herniated disc, you’ll understand! It kept me up through the night. I couldn’t focus on anything but the pain through the day, and the only painkillers that worked would make me so foggy. It was an awful time! At first, I saw a physiotherapist in January, who told me I was just stressed and needed to roll it out and keep exercising. The pain worsened over months, and in May I saw my doctor who sent me for a CT scan, an ultrasound and an MRI, all of which confirmed I had three herniated discs. I was ordered to rest for at least three months, but the healing ended up taking six. Six months! I was devastated. Exercise was what kept me sane and happy, and my mental health took a dive this year with the forced rest. I tried gentle walks but they didn’t help. Of course, I turned to the only other thing that makes me feel better - food. I overate consistently, and my body was also probably in a re-feeding state due to my continuous restriction over the years. So, I gained a lot of weight, to the point that my body became unrecognisable to me, and it made me miserable. 

In mid November 2021, I was finally given the all clear to start working out again, but nothing high impact. So I’ve become a devout CycleBar attendee, and I’ve also ordered some dumbbells and found a ‘Madonna arms’ video workout that I’m planning to do daily once they arrive! 

CycleBar is incredible! The classes are high intensity, the music is great, and they have an arm workout section with weighted bars as well. My mental health has improved so much over the past few weeks of working out again - but of course, my weight has gone up rather than down, because I’m gaining muscle, but the fat isn’t going anywhere yet, as I’m still recalibrating my diet and slowly getting rid of the junk food. 

I want my old body back, and I know that diet is 80% of it. So I’m tracking my calories again, but this time my calorie limit is 1700 rather than 1200, and I’m paying attention to my logged workouts and making sure I eat extra when I’ve burned extra calories too. I don’t want to end up in the same position I was in at the start of this year - injured from overexertion and undernourishment! I want to be fit and healthy and strong, and nourished. 

I’m here to keep myself accountable, track my journey back to myself, and be inspired by others - I’ll be on the hunt for similar tumblrs to follow so give me your recommendations!

This ended up being longer than I intended, haha! Whoops!