Fully ready to kick 2015’s ass (and my own), I’ll be documenting my #failproof2015 journey every other week. Follow along for motivation, fitspiration and a whole lot of real talk! If you missed part one, catch up here.

Congrats, tribers — you’re halfway through #failproof2015! I hope in the past four weeks you have felt stronger and more devoted to your overall health and happiness like I have. Since my last post, I find myself much more focused in class and really trying to nail my form. I had my second privé2 session with Sarah Hackwith last week, and I’m learning a lot about my body. I feel like I’m “relearning” how to stand properly, where to displace pressure in my feet and how not to hold so much tension in my hands and neck. Sarah is so great at reading your body and insightfully explaining how to make small, but extremely effective changes. I’ve also learned that if I really want to nail my form in group classes, I often need to go slower than the average pace of class, and that’s okay!

On my quest to add more cardio to my routine, I took baridrip with Yin last weekend for the first time. It was so fun! Sarah Levy gave me the best pre-drip advice: “leave your inhibitions at the door, and you’ll be fine.” Lucky for me, that wasn’t difficult for me since I ALWAYS dance like nobody is watching. I have also been trying to take classes with some of the new trainers, and I couldn’t be more impressed. So far I’ve taken AJ’s, Madelaine’s and a ton of Melanie’s classes, and I’ve loved them all.

On the diet front, I don’t think MyFitnessPal is for me. I don’t find myself obsessing over calories as much as the last time I tried using this app, but the more I learn about food, the more I realize I don’t want to track my diet via calories. So, for the remaining three weeks of the challenge I’m going to keep track of my food the old fashioned way with pen and paper and write about how it makes me feel instead.

I want to emulate the intense focus on form that I have been bringing to classes by studying how food makes me feel. Dairy and fried foods definitely don’t work for me (not that fried food “works” for anyone), and I’m going to experiment with cutting out any foods with an unrecognizable ingredient on the nutrition label. I’m also going to work on upping my raw veggie game. On the food-meets-mind front, one of my personal goals is to not get so down on myself when I don’t make the “right” eating choices. Instead, I’m focusing on just making better choices at the next meal and staying connecting to why I care about putting the right foods in my body in the first place. Self loathing is not a hot look. Even if it’s just internally going on, it’s gotta stop. I read this article today and thought, yeah, that would be nice!

By now you all know I love working out with a friend and #failproof2015 has been no different. Some advice for sticking with the next four weeks? Bring your friends! The past few weeks when my friends ask me what I’m doing or if I want to meet for dinner or drinks, I suggest meeting for a bari class first and a healthy meal afterwards. It’s encouraging to have others getting on the healthy train and makes it more of a social outing than just a daily task you want to mark off your to-do list. I even got the boyfriend to try tofu for the first time, and he liked it! (Or pretended to anyway…)

So how am I doing? I’ve been nailing my five workouts a week, and my weekdays have been filled with lots of veggies and lean proteins. Saturday and Sundays still aren’t great on the diet front, but this past weekend wasn’t AS bad as the past couple so I’m focusing on the small progress I’m making! I can feel myself getting stronger, holding planks for longer and actually making it through that last arm rep! Acknowledging these small accomplishments and keeping it positive is really helping me stay motivated, inspired and in it.

I feel ready to take on the next two weeks with more focus and intensity than even before. I would love to hear updates from the rest of the tribe either through the private Facebook group or via the comments below!