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Lately – I’m Back!

Hello Internet!

I’m back from what we’ll call…a “mini-vacation” from work. Truth be told I wasn’t on vacation, I just needed time to get away and not have to focus on work. Lots of family events happening, a quick trip to Vegas for my brother-in-law’s wedding, my dad came in to town for about a month…Luckily I was able to take time off to put my focus on my family. Now I’m back and ready to get to work!

My wheels have been turning while I was “away” and I’m excited to share with you! Today is the first day I’m sitting in my home office in over a month. I’ve been working on some product updates and development to the #COfitnessjournals as well as designing some cards. I’ll be releasing a new version of the journals hopefully by the end of the month. 🙂

On the fitness end I’ve also started my 2nd round of the 5 week challenge! Follow us on Snapchat and Instagram (@cartel_co) to see our daily and weekly progress! My goal is to lose 15 lbs. in 5 weeks! I’ll give you an update of my first round soon 🙂

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In the mean time, take care friends!

xoxo,

Kissa

 

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5 Week Challenge Update – Week 3 and 4

I can’t believe that I’m completing week 4 of my 5 week fitness challenge! That flew by so quickly, I felt like I just blinked and next thing I know the challenge is practically over.

So just an update, since my last post. Week 3 and 4 were actually great! I’ve been using my #COfitnessjournal ever day since I started the challenge and this is what I noticed.

  1. I eat better quality food and food that is good for me because I don’t want to write something bad in my journal. 😛
  2. The journal forces me to set small goals every day which helps me to accomplish the bigger picture.
  3. It’s not that I can’t have something. It’s about when and how much you have of it.

My weigh in is tomorrow for week 4, but by the end of week 3 I’ve lost 6.1 pounds (a little over 2 lbs a week). Woot woot! I know I’m nowhere near the goal I set for myself in 5 weeks, but I’ve learned a few things since my week 2 post.

  1. Progress is better than perfection. To improve even just a little bit is a bigger accomplishment than we give ourselves credit for.
  2. Sticking with something is definitely worth it. If you put your mind to it, see it through to the end!
  3. Things might not turn out the way you plan, but you’ll definitely learn something along the way.

For those of you that have been following along, I’m going to do this 5 week challenge again starting Monday, July 4th! Who’s with me?!

xoxo,

Kissa

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5 Week Challenge Status Update – Week 2

Hi everyone!

I am now venturing onto week 3 of my personal goal to lose 15 lbs in 5 weeks (3 lbs a week). Here’s a status update on how I’ve been doing…

So week 1 went by without a hitch. I shared with you my personal diet plan last week and it worked well for me. I lost 3 lbs. within 5 days. I was eating well, keeping track of my food in my #COfitnessjournal, and exercising regularly. Then comes week 2. Oh week 2, why did you forsake me?!

I was still on the same diet and exercise plan, but when I weighed in on Monday how much did I lose? 0.4 lbs. Zero. Point. Four. WHAT?! Arghhhhh! I wanted to scream! I was extremely discouraged. I started to think wtf is the point of doing this if nothing is going to happen? Why not have french fries and chips then?! Why not stuff my face?

I threw myself a pity party for the morning. I allowed myself to feel frustrated and then just said to myself, “Kissa, it doesn’t matter. The scale doesn’t define your success here. Your diet and exercise do. The number on the scale is the product of your determination at having a healthy lifestyle. So screw what the scale says today. It will say something different next time as long as you keep at it.”

So I am. I’m choosing to keep at it. I’m on week 3 now and decided to make some updates to my diet:

  1. I lowered my carb intake to 55g of carbs instead of 75g
  2. I am going to keep my workout plan the same (coming soon)
  3. Although I shouldn’t have weighed myself until Monday I did. And you know what, the scale showed me a different number. 🙂 I’m down 3 lbs. since I weighed in 3 days ago! Woot woot! This means I’m now 5.1 lbs. down in a span of 2.5 weeks. I have every intention of still losing a total of 15 lbs. in 5 weeks so I’m going to make up for the lack of weight loss by adding the 3.3 I didn’t lose to the rest of my remaining weeks. This means I need to now lose about 3.96 lbs. per week (let’s just say 4 lbs.) to stay on goal.

Moral of the story kids, don’t give up just because you might have had a bad day (in my case a bad weigh in). As long as you keep at it and work hard change will happen. The number on the scale will eventually show it. 🙂

xoxo,

Kissa