Our 2019 Progress So Far
In January 2019 James and I made the decision to switch things up. Instead of coasting through our days, and having one day blend into another, we decided to live intentionally. We’ve already talked about this before, but our 3 main goals for 2019 was to:
- Improve our health
- Improve our relationships with each other (marriage), our kids, our family, friends and God
- Improve our finances
Since I’m currently writing this at the end of October (almost 11 months later) we’ve actually made quite a bit of progress. It will be a gazillion paragraphs long to try to update all 3 categories in one post so we’ll start with our main priority in 2019 – Our health.
Health Progress So Far
We started our health journey by making a goal to workout 5 times a week, something we haven’t really done consistently… ever.
Adding Exercise
In January we started to improve our health by adding exercise into our daily routine. Every night we loosely followed the Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit program, doing the beginner workouts. The workouts varied but generally took twenty – forty-five minutes per workout. We liked it because it didn’t require going to the gym, which was more convenient for us in the middle of winter in Idaho. Since we didn’t have much experience exercising, the beginning was a little rough. I remember having to run with a throw-up bucket because I got so nauseous and winded running stairs. Eventually, things got better and we finished the program.
In May we decided to switch up our workout routine. We started doing the P90x3 workout challenge. We started working out 6x a week and depending on the week incorporated double workout days as well. We again really liked that it didn’t require a lot of equipment, and we could do the workouts at home. We completed the 90 days challenge the day before we left for our amazing Caribbean cruise.
When we came back for our cruise we began the P90x challenge. The main difference with the program is it’s an older program than P90x3, the workouts last 1hr – 1.5 hrs long, and it is kicking our trash in a different way. We are currently in the middle of our 90-day at-home-workout challenge. At first, it felt like it was taking up a lot of our personal time because the workouts were twice as long, but we are really liking it.
Nutrition
In January James started his health journey by working out daily (something he hadn’t done really ever) and started following the keto diet. The keto diet is a high fat, moderate protein, low carb diet. We saw weight loss results pretty quickly. We decided in June to transition off the keto diet because we knew we were going to be traveling a lot in the summer and that it would be hard to stick to the low carb diet.
We haven’t gone back to a “diet” since transitioning off keto (June – October). We did gain some weight back initially, which we were expecting after moving from a low-carb diet to a higher-carb one.
Body Transformation So Far:
James
Starting weight – 233.5 lbs
Current weight – 194 lbs
Goal weight – 170 lbs
Pounds to go: 24 lbs
Michelle
Starting weight – 143 lbs
Current weight – 129 lbs
Health goal – feel strong, energized, and strengthen my core to help my chronic back pain
What Now?
Exercise: We plan on finishing off our P90x challenge. After that we may stick with those same workouts until Christmas, or we may switch it up to another exercise routine.
Diet: We know our body transformation has stalled slightly due to our lack of structure with our diet, so we are hoping to get back on a diet in November.
How about you? Are you working on anything right now to get healthier?
