May 20th (3 Months!) Update

Yall my cut is almost OVER!! I'm so ready! Some milestones were hit in the past month and I'm just so ready for my back to be healthy again so I can get back into lifting! Anyways, I've got two weeks left on this cut and here's where I am:

Initial Measurements 2/20/2018:

Weight: 152

Waist: 31.5

Hips: 39.5

Bust: 34.5

Thighs: 24.5

Arms: 12

Measurements 5/20/18

Weight: 141

Waist: 30

Hips: 38
Bust: 32

Thighs: 22.5

Arms: 11

So far I'm really freaking excited about these numbers. Considering that I really hadn't changed much in weight or inches from Feb-Apr (3 pounds, 4.75 inches lost total), I'm extremely proud of myself. If you add it up, I've lost 8 pounds and an additional TEN inches between April and now. So in total, from February to now, I'm down 11 pounds and 14.25 inches. So. Stoked.

I'm going to continue this cut through the end of May, and will be kicking off June 1st with a year long recomp. For those of yall not really acquainted with it, a recomp is where you are trying to maintain your weight, but work on muscle. SO ideally, whatever weight I am June 1st, I want to be the same weight on June 1st next year (a couple of pounds with way will be okay) but I want to look completely different. I'm a little nervous though, because its definitely going to be an adjustment eating at maintenance calories and doing more lifting than I have been, if my back cooperates of course.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to compete in May with the Beastmode games thanks to this wonderful back injury, but I did complete my 5k under my goal which was 36 minutes. 

Anyway, I'm sure some of yall are curios what I've been doing the past 5 weeks to drop the weight. The secret? Cardio, cardio, cardio. And diet, obviously. I aimed to 1200 NET calories a day, so I'd eat around 1500 then do minimum 250-300 cals at the gym 3-4 days a week. I've been doing a lot of running, some biking and a good bit of rowing depending on how my back feels that day. Now keep in mind I loathe running. But, now that I see what kind of results it yields, it will always have a special spot in my training. Once the recomp starts, you don't really focus on cardio as much. I'll plan on 2 strict cardio days a week, the rest will be lifting & crossfit workouts. So that pretty much wrapped up the past 5 weeks, now here's some pictures! I'll post one more round of pics and an update once I start the recomp so that I have something to compare it to.