SELouisiana's Journal, 25 August 2013

It's a cloudy morning but still very beautiful! Feeling thankful.

I'm gonna start experimenting with *slowly* increasing my caloric intake to maybe 2200-2500 calories per day with different HIIT workouts. I eventually want to really tone up and lean out to look a lot more fit after I reach my goal weight which will hopefully be in a couple months. I will have to prepare my body for that training starting now. I dont want to shock my body so I will take a couple months to teach my body over time to operate on a high calorie diet. I need the calories for the type of fitness result I want with the type of major weight training im gonna eventually start doing after hitting my goal of 155 pounds. Im not using a trainer at the moment...I'm just gonna rely on all the information I can remember my former strength and conditioning coaches relaying to me when I participated in sports. I also know very well how my own body develops in a very fit and healthy state so it will be really fun to revisit that again. I'll see what results I get over time. I gain muscle *very* quickly which is why I wanted to really watch how my body truly reacted in an overweight status while losing weight. I really wanted to watch and document my body bc it is such a new experience watching how my body would go from obese to overweight to healthy weight. I figured this might be helpful intel on losing weight for when I eventually remarry and have children in the future. So killing 2 birds with 1 stone I guess lol! Being fat is like being in totally different world. I wasn't myself, I thought differently, felt differently, I saw the world differently, and the world saw me differently. Really strange how gaining weight can cause so many changes on so many different levels. It's fascinating actually.

Anywho, I need to skeedaddle to Mass. It's gonna be an amazing Sunday! :D :D :D