Shrinking Violet

Things people don’t tell you about getting healthier:

healthiie:

• You’re going to have to pee every 20 min.
• You’re going to kick your own ass through workouts you kinda (really actually) hate until its sore for days and somehow you’re going to love and adore it?
• You’re going to have this unexplainable, insatiable urge to post pictures of everything you eat on the internet.

(via sarahs-lively-life)

I’m trying to help my brother gain muscle

but I only know the basics because I haven’t focused too much on strength and only do it as supplementary work to my cardio. Any advice on where to start?

Last night I ran 6 miles. Today I did the 30 Day Shred Level 1 and was shocked by how easy it was for me, because it was definitely fairly challenging when I first started it. That was months ago, of course, but my strength is SO much better than it used to be. I have 1 more day to get to the 30 of Ripped in 30, but I wanted to try the Shred with my brother just to see where he’s at. The thing is, he’s so thin and really doesn’t need to focus on burning any calories, he just needs the strength. I know he needs to give his diet a makeover. He barely eats and he doesn’t focus very much on nutrition, but of course his diet would be largely different from mine so I don’t know what to tell him.

I also did Jillian’s Level 1 of 6 week 6 pack today just because I was curious and wanted to try it. 

I think I’ll just clean today and run again tomorrow. I hate cutting down on running, truly, but I know I really should. Maintaining is hard mentally, not so much physically. It’s so hard to find balance when the mentally has always been GO GO GO for weight loss.