Frances Anza Fit 4U!: Week # 8, Reconnect with the process, old friends your muscles and during the journey with yourself, then it means you're in the right path!

This journey has taking a few twist and turns that are really interesting, remember when I mentioned keep the eye on the goal but learn to enjoy the road because there’s where the lessons are learned and you rediscover who you are and what you’re made of.

This week was my depletion week, everyone who’s ever done it knows it’s not very easy, because of the absence or low carbs in the diet; “Carbohydrates provide the body with a ready source of energy, although other forms of food such as fats and proteins can also be used for this. When absorbed from the gut and metabolized they provide the glucose that cells convert to energy. The greatest consumer of glucose in the body is the brain”.

Knowing this once we lower them or eliminate them for diet purpose our body and mind completely feels it, such as lack of energy, tiredness, hard time to focus, and mood swings (crankiness). But somehow this week I did experience some of these effects except the crankiness and that was a bit of a good surprise.

I wanted to search deep inside me to try figure out why I wasn’t cranky at all, and I discovered a few good reasons: this time around I’m enjoying the journey, the process and the changes that my body are having, seeing again little by little every morning when I wake up more definition, my skin getting thinner making it easy to see my veins and I know that means the my body fat is lowering, and overall being more tight and smaller and that’s the purpose of a Depletion diet.

Besides these physical changes, I also have the support of my PITA (pain in the ass) special and great friend, but the most important thing of all these process is that I know I’m in the right path because I feel great, every day I wake up with a smile in my face thanking God for His Blessing in my life.

Also this week I reconnected with an old friend, and she’s also getting ready to compete this summer, she went through her own process last year and now she’s on top of her game too; talking and training with her helped me reconnect again with the whole process, and one of the things I missed from competing: the good memories that we gain from meeting new people and sharing stories with different competitor with all kinds of background. Bibiana Delgado kudos to you girl!!!! God bless you and never forget that His in charge of every little detail in our lives you’re going to be okay, thank you for calling me!

So its funny how one thing lead to another, like a domino chain effect: enjoying the process, my friends and along the way I finally found again Frances reconnected with myself, my mind, and my body!!! It doesn’t matter the outcome but for just having this amazing experience this right there is my prize, thank you God!!!

Ok my tip for this week:

To shred that stubborn fat lower (carefully) your intake of carb
Increase your amount of time of cardio workout
Try new exercise that you normally won’t do, give them a chance personally I loved the results after doing Wood Chop upward and downward Cable twist for our oblique’s and intercostals abs.
After finishing your cardio add a few sets of walking lunges and kickbacks you will feel the burn.

Keep up the good work, feel free to comment, see you next week, until then.

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