✨Glow Up With Me✨

Documenting my journey to becoming my own dream girl

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10.7.25

A recipe database, a salad, and a hot girl walk.

Wasn’t able to take pics of everything for the past few days, but I’ve been eating balanced food for my health needs and building consistency with my walks. Yesterday was a recovery day since I was dead af.

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10.4.25

Steps from October 2nd and 4th. I wanna double it! Maybe I’ll try for two walks spaced out.

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10.2.25

Hi guys, so long story short my health has been all out of whack. My gut-brain axis has me all the way effed up.

So I want to try winter arc again, but I am so dysregulated overall that my main focus and theme this year will be to: ✨Regulate✨

The result will point me in the direction of a glow up, but the main goal and angle will be to regulate nervous system and gut, and stabilize hormones and other bodily processes. I know, not very sexy😂.

I used AI to come up with an entirely new set of recipes for my diet that meet all of my health concerns/needs, then I put them into an aesthetically pleasing database to encourage myself to actually try them. I also made myself a weekly skincare schedule. I won’t be so intense this year. I have a tendency to have a long list of goals, so I’m going to simplify it and add on as I go for sustainability.

So here are my rules going in:

🌟Exercise everyday

(aiming for daily walk, and adding on calisthenics and baby weights on certain days)

🌟Cooking meals at home

🌟Following my meal plan

🌟Taking my supplements and doing my treatments

🌟Following my skincare schedule

🌟Whitening teeth

🌟No coffee

For meals, I had

Cinnamon flaxseed oatmeal lightly sweetened with maple syrup with a lion’s mane and rhodiola latte

Chocolate chia pudding

Umami noodle soup

I prepped vanilla and matcha chia puddings for the next few days, walked for an hour on the treadmill, and hit the sauna. More details on my plans and focuses in future posts.

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6.11.25

An update:

Hi guys, it’s been a minute. Since my last post, I’ve really had to dial it back. I’ve been trying to mitigate stress and recently, trying to seek more in-depth answers about my health. I have a lot of dysfunction, imbalance, and theories.

The precursor to a glow up era is really just getting your health back to baseline, and I realize mine isn’t . I haven’t abandoned this blog or glowing up, just dealing with a lot and seeking answers. Not much glow up info to document, just research and blood tests. The traditional healthcare system is so effing inefficient. I might go see a functional medicine doctor.

They say weight loss is an insulin game, and I think mine is out of whack. Among other hormones being out of whack. Current plan of attack is to stabilize my hormones, but I need someone to just fully assess me and find all the root causes for my overall dysfunction and prescribe me with things.

🌟2025 is about finding answers.

🌟2026 will be about execution.

🌟2027 I will be glowing.

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2.11.25

I really just need some effing TLC. I’ve had gut issues my whole life. It runs in my family. I come from a long line of people ignoring their gut health and slapping on a bandaid (laxative abuse) when they get debilitating flare ups. Time for some root cause analysis. And this will be so worth it when I’m NOT bloated the majority of the time. And I deserve optimal health. Plus the bioindicators of good health translate to looking radiant😂.

As for progress, I might have a sensitivity to nightshades. Currently taking 1 capsule of nutrafol a day and NOTHING else until my body gets used to it. I’m so ready for this. I just want hair lol.

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2.10.25

Been MIA lately. I put my glow up journey on the back burner at the end of last year to set and prepare for my new year goals.

I decided to approach my glow up this year from an angle/focus on health. Basically, I’m starting from the ground up. No more building a house on unstable foundation.

Instead of ignoring my issues, I need to find all my issues, fix them, and THEN fine tune. Glowing up is fine tuning. My current focuses will be:

🌟Heal my gut

🌟Treat deficiencies

🌟Stress management

🌟Treat hair loss

🌟Consistent skincare

🌟Go to all of my checkups

Currently taking Nutrafol and on day 5. Starting a low FODMAP diet and finally starting a journey of figuring out what the hell is wrong with my gut so I can fix it. I’m also limiting inflammatory foods. This is going to give me structure and set me up for success on my glow up journey. My main focuses will be gut health and stress management.

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11.1.24

Bumped up my usual treadmill workout by one level and started using this cream for strawberry legs. Also just found out I have low vitamin D, so I started supplementing.

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10.18.24

Really making progress with my steps. 5k more than usual at 11am. Hitting the gym + getting in some micros with salad and coconut water. Ya girl was exhausted this week.

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10.16.24

🌟Weigh-in at 135.4 lbs

🌟45 min on treadmill hills

🌟Gut-healthy meals

🌟Made a winter arc inspo for my Pinterest board

Lol you can’t read the treadmill, but overall did almost 17k steps for the whole day. Steamed egg with spinach, mushroom, and green onion on top of quinoa for a high protein, gut-healthy breakfast. Old fashioned oatmeal with cinnamon, vanilla extract, chopped almonds, flaxseed, pumpkin seeds, and blueberries. Meal prepped sautéed bok choy, tofu, and shiitake mushrooms topped with hemp hearts and a side of quinoa for extra protein.

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10.13.24

I’m obsessed with winter arc.

My goals:

🌟Consistent fitness

🌟Gut-healthy diet

🌟Lose 10 lbs

🌟Consistent skincare

Simple, achievable. I’m feeling motivated.

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9.23.24

🌟Veggie curry

🌟Curry and quinoa meal preps

🌟Carrots and hummus

🌟Vanilla chia pudding w blueberries

Veggie curry with chickpeas and mushrooms for protein, lots of gut-healthy stuff that also makes your skin glow. Plus quinoa for additional protein. I might be an eater of baby carrots now haha, we’ll see😆. And vanilla chia pudding with vanilla Greek yogurt and blueberries.

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8.31.24

🌟Decaf green tea

🌟Banana, berry, and mango smoothie with coconut water and aloe vera juice

🌟Cold pressed juices

🌟Hot girl walk✅✅✅

Caffeine is the exception, not the rule. And never coffee unless it’s decaf. Antioxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory smoothie. And it’s hydrating. All amazing for skin. Cold pressed juices, one with beets, the other with carrots and oranges. Also very good for skin.

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8.29.24

🌟Washing and nourishing my hair with fresh aloe vera

🌟Stimulating hair growth with my scalp massager

🌟Protective hairstyle to prevent breakage

Next time I’ll blend the aloe gel, pieces were everywhere lol

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8.28.24

First half of this week…

🌟Narrowing down staple foods to meet my health goals

🌟Tofu bokchoy shiitake mushroom stew, quinoa, and broccoli

🌟Spring salad with mustard greens, tomatoes, and variety of seeds

Giving my body nourishing foods this week, focusing on hormonal balance, decreasing bloating/inflammation, and prebiotics.

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8.23.24

🌟The gang (tonight’s skincare)

🌟Crest White Strips

🌟Finally trying gua sha

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8.22.24

🌟Turmeric lemon lentil soup with hemp seeds

🌟Lemon water and coconut water

Attempting to lower my cortisol by cutting out all forms of caffeine, introducing nutrients that are being depleted by stress, hydrating, and improving sleep quality.