AdvoMER

I was looking in the mirror the other day and noticing my developing traps.  My shoulders are also growing, and if I flex just right I can see some baby traps.  I remember thinking back to when I was losing weight for my wedding.  Just typing that sentence proves this blogs point; it's not about losing weight for an event or seeing a particular bone.  I wanted so desperately to be able to see my collar bones.  That somehow if I could see them I had lost enough weight to be satisfied.  Kinda like the thigh gap.  Lord knows that's never happening with these tree trunks, but eww anyways.  Yet so many people strive for it.  I saw it just the other day on my pinterest .  It makes me sad.  Why do our bodies need to look a certain way to be satisfied?? As I stood in the mirror, I had to laugh at myself and give thanks to the Lofquists .  Here's what they've taught me so far about my body.  It's not about what bones I can see or...

Y'know, one of those people in your life that knows exactly what you need even when you don't even know you need it?  Who knows how you feel about a situation before you even talk with them?   Who doesn't have to be in your every day life to know what's happening in your every day life? I didn't realize I had this person in my life until the summer of 2006.  My friends Calvin and Lorissa were getting married and I had flown in from Florida to celebrate.  This also meant getting to spend time with my college friends whom I hadn't seen since I left town in 2003.  It was a great wedding, filled with so much love and fun and I hated to see it end and have to fly back to Florida.  I was hugging my friend Alie goodbye and I couldn't stop crying.  I didn't want to let her go and I didn't want to fly across the county and be without her again.  That's when I knew.  This woman God placed in my life was my person.  The person I can be 100% myse...

So life has gotten in the way of my training.  Well, I guess I should say I have allowed life to get in the way of my training.  Shit hit the proverbial fan and my last thought was "lets get up at 5am to go workout."  It should have been my first thought as now I've got several weeks of 1 workout/week behind me and a whole new challenge of getting my mojo going again. I've noticed a pattern though.  This is common for me and my crossfit experience.  I'm not sure if it's because workouts can be pretty intense, if I'm fighting 30 year old habits, if I'm lazy; for whatever reason I will get my mojo going and be consistent at the gym for awhile and then I'll drop off for a few weeks.  In some of my reading I've read that this is normal, that people need time off from this "lifestyle" but honestly, I've never completely made it my "lifestyle."  I've worked out.  I've eaten well.  Never both consistently over an e...