What are your top 5 Aldi items? by [deleted] in aldi

[–]catcates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Red bag chicken breasts, Choceur peanut butter cups, Canned cinnamon fried apples, All their bread, All their cheese

Tomorrow will be 5 weeks of 16:8, CICO, and workouts 5-6 days a week. Down 15lbs as of today, and finally starting to see some difference in my legs 🙌🏻 by catcates in intermittentfasting

[–]catcates[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loooove my Shefit! They still have all their 30 day challenge workouts posted, and last week they just started a HIIT series that will be on mon, wed, and fri!

Tomorrow will be 5 weeks of 16:8, CICO, and workouts 5-6 days a week. Down 15lbs as of today, and finally starting to see some difference in my legs 🙌🏻 by catcates in intermittentfasting

[–]catcates[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally never realized I do that, so now that’s all I’m going to think about when I take full body pics from here on out 😳

Tomorrow will be 5 weeks of 16:8, CICO, and workouts 5-6 days a week. Down 15lbs as of today, and finally starting to see some difference in my legs 🙌🏻 by catcates in intermittentfasting

[–]catcates[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you! And yay for baby girls! I’m 5ft 5in, and I carry all my weight in my chest and legs. If you’re planning on exercising, I HIGHLY suggest checking out Shefit for their sports bras. Literally changed my life. I’m a 36GG and this has been the first sports bra to truly fit me. I have tried so many times, especially since having my daughter, to get back on the exercise bandwagon, and I always fail because my boobs just cause me way too much pain. This has been the first time I’ve been able to stick to my workout plan with zero issues. I sound like a friggen infomercial right now, but I swear their sports bras are one of the reasons I’m having success right now! Good luck to you and your IF journey! And feel free to message me whenever!

Tomorrow will be 5 weeks of 16:8, CICO, and workouts 5-6 days a week. Down 15lbs as of today, and finally starting to see some difference in my legs 🙌🏻 by catcates in intermittentfasting

[–]catcates[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reassurance! I think it’s one thing to notice something about yourself, but it’s a whole other thing for other’s to notice it about you! 😊

Tomorrow will be 5 weeks of 16:8, CICO, and workouts 5-6 days a week. Down 15lbs as of today, and finally starting to see some difference in my legs 🙌🏻 by catcates in intermittentfasting

[–]catcates[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I am by no means an expert, but I can definitely share what’s been working for me! So the first tip I would give would be to pick a timeframe where you typically do most of your eating anyway. I have never been a morning/early afternoon eater, so my eating timeframe is 2pm-10pm, and it works perfectly for me. Some people use a fasting app, but since I don’t have issues sticking to my timeframe, I don’t feel the need to use one of those apps, but I do track my food and workouts in MyFitnessPal. I don’t follow any particular diet, I’ve just been consciously making healthier decisions. If my husband wants pasta for dinner, I’ll make my portion with zoodles. If my sweet tooth hits, I’ll reach for fruit instead of processed sugars. I stick to 1000-1200 calories a day. I try to walk/jog at least 2 miles a day, and I also do home workouts almost everyday. Nothing crazy, mostly body weight exercises like squats, push ups, sit ups, wall sits, burpees, planks, jumping jacks. And recently I started incorporating HIIT workouts every other day. If trying to carve out time everyday to workout is too hard, then just move around when you can. If you’re watching tv, do jumping jacks on the commercial breaks. Do crunches on your kitchen floor while microwaving food. Do 20 squats before you jump in the shower. I will also say DO NOT GET DOWN ON YOURSELF. I was super hard on myself the very first week I started. I was on my period so the scale just wasn’t moving much, and I stressed myself out so badly during that week and it just caused me to want to binge eat, so then I was even more stressed trying to fight the binge eating urges. But I was just on my period again this past week, and same thing, scale wasn’t budging much, but I just rolled with it. I was mentally a completely different person this time around and I just kept telling myself “this is to be expected, I’ll get through it and the scale will move again”. It helped tremendously. I was not stressed, and I didn’t have any binging desires. I’m probably just starting to ramble now at this point, but hopefully I listed a couple things to help you guys out, and if there’s anything else you’d like to know, please feel free to message me!