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IM BACK BABY!

Hey gym, sorry I haven't been around but this time I want to make it long lasting and for reals.

I ALMOST skipped the gym and instead went out with K-star. Thankfully though, she was running late to head to her daughters school to pick her up and it was pissing rain out. Usually when it rains I contemplate for awhile about going to the gym. Constantly thinking of excuses of not to go but not today. I guess I had some fight in me to make it to Good Life.
Today's workout: leg day!! I'm pretty proud of myself today because I tend to stick to the machines with weights. I hardly ever step outside my comfort zone and go to the free weights but I had some woman in my brain telling me to try a sumo squat with a dumb bell - just try something new - anything. Oh shoot I forgot to log I did side lunges too (no weights). Dang it. Well, I'm glad I tried something new. It's always going to be a learning experience :)

Post gym. Literally. I have never been so HANGRY as I was earlier. Today is my second day of my second week of intermittent fasting (not counting my sick week) and so my first meal was a tuna salad sandwich on flax and quinoa bread (roughly 11:30 am) and my second meal - the picture above - wasn't until 7 pm.. Have you ever worked out and not had food immediately after? It's like death! I think my muscles were even yelling at me to eat something, anything! Anywho- I ate all the vegetables, 2/3 of rice and 1/2 chicken (didn't really eat the chicken in sauce - too sweet and tangy) overall good though. 

*winks* yes, I'm hitting on myself. YO SEXY! Check out those lean legs. Okay so the left hand side that's November 2016. Middle = January 2017 and lastly on the right is today. I'm almost positive my calf is getting leaner but I can't really tell with my thigh /quads. I want to say yes but I have a hard time telling a difference there. Either way I feel pretty good about myself. All smiles tonight. Ps: current step count: 11,772 YAY ME! Stay tuned...

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