My journey to Health

Week 1 of Kayla Itsines BBG 1.0 and so excited!

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Day 6

Ahhhh Friday. This week seemed to be never ending. My meals today were very minimal. For breakfast coconut greek yogurt, lunch- watermelon, almonds and a turkey wrap with hummus, tomato and spinach. Worked from 7-6:30 and just got home. I’m trying to convince myself to do my LISS workout that I skipped for the past 2 days.... It’s just so hard to find motivation when you work a 11 or 12 hour day and then have to muster up energy to waste energy working out. Ugh. On the bright side I can already tell a huge difference in my waist just from eating and working out and it hasn’t even been a week!!!! I’m so happy!!!! It’s so motivating to see changes in such short time (and I’m even on my period so I’m bloated and still feel skinnier!!) lol. Anyway, I’m gonna drag myself to the gym. I really want to make the curry chicken stir fry for dinner, but I just don’t want to go get the chicken for it at the store. I’m so lazyyyyy. Ill figure out something to eat though. :) Hope you lovelies (aka no one still lol) had a gr8 day. :) 

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Amazing🙌 I miss Acai bowls 😭 anyone know anywhere that makes amazing ones?! www.kaylaitsines.com/guides

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Day 6

Not so proud of today. My alarm didn’t go off so I missed work this morning. After class I had to stay late and work until 4:30 when I could’ve gone home after class. :/ 

For breakfast I had 2 slices of Ezekiel bread, a sunny side up egg and on one of the pieces of toast I put almond butter on it because my avocado was bad. :( I also made a sugar free vanilla iced coffee with almond milk. I didn’t have anything for lunch. When I got home I had some grapes and me and Lukas ordered a pizza.... Oops.... After eating that I had an apple with sugar free caramel and cut up a watermelon. I didn’t even do my workout today.... It was just an off day. We all have those. Ugh. Getting paid tomorrow and going to buy some more food. :) Hopefully tomorrow will be better. 

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Day 5

Hello people (AKA no one bc no one follows me lol) last night my legs kept me up. They were so sore and I could not get into a comfortable position, I fell asleep around 2am, needing to wake up at 5:45, so I went into work late, around 9. I have been working all day since then and I am now going to Wednesday college church. I took yesterday and today off to get onto the right day for the guides, and because I’m exhausted after a 12 hour day. So as for my food today, I had a banana and ice coffee for breakfast, a turkey wrap (w tomatoes, spinach, egg and carrot), hummus w carrots and celery and apples a peanut butter as a snack. When I went to work at Starbucks I had a Venti Soy Caramel Macchiato and that’s it. For dinner I had a spaghetti casserole that my grandma pre made for me, I had about a cup of that which probably wasn’t the best choice for dinner but it was convenient and easy after a long day of work. I also had some grapes (which were amazing i love grapes) and I will probably have a little snack at church. :) Tomorrow is a short work day (done after class at 1:20) so I will definitely be back on track for the guides tomorrow, it’s just a LISS day. 

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In other news: My new Nike Free’s should be here on Thursday!!!!! Eeeep I’m excited. And I don’t have work so I can wait for them to get here and workout in them! :) These are the one’s I ordered

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Day 3/4

Day 3′s workout was nice because it was a mix of abs and arms. I needed that leg break because even on day 4 I’m still feeling the day 1 leg workout!!!! For dinner I had turkey lasagna, not a HELP recipe but it was certainly made thinking lean! 

6/9/15 Day 4

In the morning I had a small cup of pineapple, a banana and some coconut water. I had grapes as a morning snack before my 11:30 class. After class I had my lunch which was rye crisps, tuna, ricotta cheese, cucumber and almonds. I work at Starbucks, so I had a Venti iced coffee with soy milk and sugar free hazelnut. Later on in my shift I had a soy caramel macchiato. Not the best for me but I needed the caffeine. I think a struggle I will face is restraining myself from drinking too much Starbucks since it’s free!! I didn’t eat much of a dinner, I had the rest of my almond and a few more pieces of pineapple, and I can honestly say I’m not hungry! I’m so proud of myself for how I ate today, sticking to it and not giving in to my cravings! I decided not to do my LISS workout since I got home at 8 and my legs were tired. I will just workout on my recovery day instead! I should probably start waking up early and doing my workouts.... Ew. Anyways, I am so excited about my journey! Can’t wait to start seeing results. :)

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Day 2/3

6/7/15

Forgot to blog yesterday because my grandma came up the visit me, and took me shopping got lots of cute new workout clothes. I’m so pumped. I truly believe that having cute clothes to workout in do motivate you to workout because you get to wear your cute gear! Yesterday for Breakfast I had a banana, for lunch my grandma and I went to a healthy place in the mall and got a cranberry turkey wrap and I got an avocado coconut smoothie! So good!! My nikes broke the other day while I was working out so she bought me new Free’s! So excited! I had to order them so they should be in this week!! For dinner I had rosemary chicken that my roommate made, with corn and asparagus. Although this wasn’t a meal from the HELP guide I ate it because it’s still a relatively healthy meal. My biggest struggle is resisting my sweet cravings after a savory meal. So I had apple slices with fat free caramel after dinner. As for my workout, I did a LISS workout (Low Intensity Steady State cardio). This consisted of a 30 minute walk at 4.0 mph. I used the gym at my apartment complex and my boyfriend ran on the other treadmill and the circuit kept blowing >:( it was so maddening. So my 30 min walk was split into 10 min increments since we had to keep stopping when the circuit blew. 

6/8/15

Today I had an egg, 2 pieces of Ezekiel bread and half an avocado for breakfast. Then I went to class, and after getting back I’m still not too hungry so i think i will have a snack before I work out later and then study. I will either eat the rest of my enchiladas or make the curry chicken stir fry from the HELP guide because that sounds freaking delicious!!!! I’ll update you on my workout later, I think it’s arm day! My legs are SOOOOOO  sore from legs on Saturday! I have to literally waddle around because it hurts to walk lol. 

Oh and I weighed myself at then gym, it said 170! AHHH I hope that’s not accurate because thats scary! However it is motivating!!! Hope you’re having a fab day :)

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This looks yummy!

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This is my result from Kayla Itsines H.E.L.P food guide enchiladas. They were delicious, however not very aesthetically appetizing (b/c of me :P). Lukas loved them. He had 2 and half of my second!!!! Took about 1.5 hours to make. Probably won’t make again because I don’t normally have enough time to do that, but I’m glad I tried it! Can’t wait for tomorrow to start day 2! :)

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Improv. didn’t have a medicine ball but I had a watermelon. Weighted squats with a watermelon. Lol!

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(via GF Cardamom & Pistachio Chocolate Tart - The Vegan Cookie Fairy)

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Just finished Day 1 Workout

So I decided that I could skip the 4-week ‘pre-workout’ sessions, since I used to do Insanity I figured I could power through the regular guides without having to do the pre-workouts. I may or may not have been wrong! The first set was brutal but I finished, I took a few sips of water during the 7 minutes but I am still getting over a little sickness so I think that was just because my nose is clogged and my mouth kept getting pretty dry. The next 3 sets I could not do the full 7 minutes. I stopped at 6 minutes. I clearly am very out of shape. I hate it! I have been looking on Youtube and other sites for peoples testimonies for inspiration. I have only found a handful of them with girls my size. Most of them are already skinny or in shape. I guess this gives me a reason to keep going because maybe I can be an inspiration for some other girl looking for a testimony from a ‘thicker’ girl. About to make dinner for me and Lukas using the HELP guide. Making the Enchiladas. I bought all of the food I need for the first week and a half for the guide and i only spent $100! I think thats pretty great. 

Anyways, I’ll post a picture of dinner once it’s done and give a review of how good or bad it is (which would be my fault bc I suck at cooking). 

PS- sorry for all the bad grammar. This is just a place for me to reflect and keep a sort of journal. :)