Day 350: Body Health and Beyonce

The summer before I was a freshman in college, Beyonce came out with "Crazy in Love" wearing that orange outfit (my fav color) and showing off her new slim figure.* She had rumored to diet until she got to 136-140lbs on her 5 ft. 6inch frame. It coincided with my lightest weight as an adult ever 140lbs, due to an 100+ degree Tidewater VA summer and miles of walking around campus. "Oh cool,: I thought, "I am the same size as Beyonce." My 2nd lightest weight was after I returned from Honduras and was a svelte 143 lbs existing only because I threw up whenever I ate processed food the first month after I returned to the states. Beyonce was around 130-140lbs at that time. She doesn't fluctuate like I do (especially cause she has a nutritionist, trainer, and used to have diets consisting of syrup.)

And then I was thinking yesterday as I was on my way to workout, I bet I weigh the same as Beyonce again. I mean with her added baby weight, but knowing her after she popped the baby out, she went immediately back to normal size. Sometimes, I can't eat a whole baguette from Panera without not being able to drop the added weight. Lol, just things I think about.

I have always been health conscious (I will go into my food details one post soon), but more so when I met  my boyfriend. He was a fanatic. He worked out or took classes in Krav Maga everyday. Sometimes, he would go during lunch and after work, it was his form of relief. At the time, I worked with 3-5 year olds so my release involved laying motionless on the floor with a pillow over my head. But with his pushing and my competitive nature, we began jogging everyday together. I kept exercise part of my life to this very day, (even when he wasn't around) and now I am in the middle of a ridiculously great work out spree. My weight usually easily fluctuates up if I don't exercise or eat well, down if I do. For some reason at 26, it's just a hair harder than usual. Can't imagine what it will be like at 30 or 35. LOVE YOUR BODY, no matter the size or the weight, but do treat it right. Water and exercise!

 Be like me and work-out tonight! Everything on me aches but that is a good sign!



* I remember this clearly mostly because one of my camp counselors used to stare wide-eyed, grunting when Beyonce should to do the "Oh-oh, Oh-oh, uh-uh-oh...part."