As Told By Steph: Health and Fitness Friday: I'm ON FIRE!

This weeks post is brought to you by my calves, who are officially SORE and ON FIRE!!

(and hopefully soon will be smaller more toned calves)

Here is my workout log for the week:

Sunday:

30 Day Shred workout

1 mile walk/run on treadmill

Monday:

Biked 4.5 miles while pulling bike cart with 2 boys

Short .80 mile walk outside

30 Day Shred workout

Tuesday:

1.85 mile walk back and forth to the park

Biked 4.16 miles

Wednesday:

3 mile walk on track

6 rounds of Bleachers at the track

30 Day Shred workout

Thursday:

2.5 mile run/walk outside

Biked 2 miles while pulling bike cart with 2 kids.

The majority of my working out this week has been outside and I LOVE it! I have been waiting for the weather to get nice and so I have been using every second I can to do some sort of working out! The one thing I have noticed however, is that I suck at running outside. I seem to have gotten so used to the treadmill that my outdoor running has suffered.

I did have a big breakthrough tonight though!

When I first started working out I would walk at our high school track conveniently right down the road. I started by walking and then slowly started pushing myself to jog. I set VERY small goals to get myself started and before I knew it I was jogging for 30 secs at a time, which was the equivalent of like a half of a tenth of a mile. (HUGE victory for someone who is 100lbs+ overweight and has never ran/jogged in their adult life!) Well, today I ran around the whole track one time non-stop before I had to stop to take a breath! I did this twice! Sure I still felt like I was going to die, but that puts me one step closer to my goal of running an entire mile without taking a break or walking!

I wanna talk about a fun topic now. Bathing Suit Shopping!! I can say without a doubt that I am SO excited this year to shop for a new bathing suit! My parents have a swimming pool that we basically move into all summer so bathing suits are one of my main outfits throughout the summer. In the past I have just settled for whatever they had available in my size and price range. The past 2 years I wore my Maternity bathing suit even though I was not pregnant last year! I tried on at least 10 suits last year and nothing fit me. They were all either way too tight everywhere or too small in the bust area or just ugly and expensive! So, I settled yet again for my go to Motherhood Maternity suit!

Well this year I am not going to settle and I can not justify wearing a maternity suit again this year! I have lost 40lbs! Even though I am nowhere near the weight that I want to be and plan to lose more throughout the summer I still think that 40lbs warrants a new swim suit that actually fits me this year! Yes, I will still be wearing the normal "Big Girl Swim Dress" BUT it will be smaller and cuter and New!

Here are some of the ones I have liked so far: