Just like Clockwork...

I went grocery shopping that night. I stocked up on Zero Impact Bars as suggested by Matt for when I couldn’t get my meals in. I scheduled 2 sessions a week with Rochelle. This was a new surge at fitness after I had tried countless times on my own. I had always been a bigger girl and it was depressing. I gave 100% effort to see if this body really was a genetic dysfunction or if I was in control.

We started out slow. I would walk 2 sets of bleachers and be extremely winded and my legs would be killing. Rochelle said this was normal for the first few weeks. She even said I’d be able to do 8 sets within about 6 weeks. Yeah right, I thought. Let’s see her use these legs!

On our third workout, she introduced boxing to me. Wow, what a rush. I never knew how empowering hitting something could be. Ok, so it totally drained my body and left me sitting in my car afterwards with noodle arms, unable to lift my hands to the steering wheel. Yet, it was totally satisfying. Who needs a therapist when you can just take out all your aggression on some punching mitts. I was in love!

I started realizing my road rage disappeared. I no longer had the energy to get mad at other drivers. It made a lot of sense. I wish all those LA drivers would take up boxing!

I was also interested in learning the boxing better to take it out on Matt. This diet was definitely not a walk in the park. He had me eating every 3 hours like clockwork. Sometimes I wasn’t even hungry, other times I felt like I was starved even after I just ate. The first few weeks were very annoying with all the pain and the confusion from Matt telling me when to eat when my stomach totally didn’t agree. It might’ve been worth it if the scales were going down, but they hovered at my usual weight. I was not happy.

So why did I continue? ...