After I got "The Female Body Breakthrough", I tweaked the program. It motivated me to get started with fitness and seriously check out my eating habits, but I haven't followed the workout plan much - I got into kettlebells, it's just way easier to practice at home! I got "Get in the best shape of your life" by Lisa Shaffer and have been doing workouts based on that book 5 days a week, if possible, for the past couple of weeks now. I have lost weight, not much, but got back to weight I've always had trouble getting to before (60.x right now), but what's more important - I feel really strong, my arms are getting definition, and I hope my tummy and legs too :). It will probably take some more months for me to really see muscles, but I love the kettlebells and the fact that workouts take no longer than 20 minutes.

I had thought that with eating clean most of the time (several cheat meals on weekends excluded) and doing exercise so often, I would have no more trouble with food. Having stumbled upon Skwigg's blog, the journal of a very fit and healthy lady who's now an intuitive eater after having tried what seems like every weird diet and fitness program on the planet, and researching intermittent fasting, which ranges from skipping one or two meals up to 24 hours without food, and managing to skip breakfast a couple of times, I thought that I had found the silver bullet for weight loss. However, when my little boy got sick and had some really bad days where he only wanted to be held and I had very little time for myself, I found out that I couldn't deal with a craving for ice cream and chocolate and other unhealthy stuff. Emotional eating is something I haven't mastered yet, apparently :). So I'm now turning to The Beck diet solution to equip myself with the tools to stick to a diet and not end up face down in a tub of ice cream whenever I have stress. Let's hope that works out!