The Brunette Girl 97

A Girl who is working on herself, inside and out <3 

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day 10 out of 75 of the Hard Challenge

This was me this morning. I was so exhausted and tired I slept right through my alarms and was woken up by my boyfriend leaving for work. My dog even didn’t move when my boyfriend got ready for work, which has never happened.

1. I did follow my diet today very well! 

2. When getting ready for work this morning I filled up my water bottle and then I realized that I forgot to take Luna to the bathroom before leaving. So I packed up my car and took her out quick. Then I went to work. I then realized I left my water jug on the counter...damn it. So I didn’t have my water at work today, and so I have struggled to chug 2 half gallon jugs since I got home. But I have gotten one jug down.

3.again, no daily photos...I swear I will post some...eventually lol

4. I did upper fix today but Luna was not a help. She kept attacking me when I was doing push ups and planks. She just wanted to play, which I don’t blame her because she was home by herself all day but girl come on...we also went on a walk as well which she liked I could tell. 

5. same reading as yesterday...still looking for a personal development book...

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Day 9 out of 75 of the Hard Challenge

1. I have a student who is struggling with eating at work right now. So I am currently trying to make him eat food, so I am eating lunch with him. Other than that I have been doing really well keeping up with my diet. I have not had any fried foods for 9 days...good lord lol

2. Drinking water is going well and becoming slightly easier if I say so myself ;) 

3. no daily pictures again, I keep forgetting to take them.

4. I got in my dirty 30 workout from 21 day fix real time in after work and after our walk. My Luna had a wonderful day at doggy day care and made a new friend, which exhausted her. She was not able to walk for very long due to be so tired, plus the weather is getting warmer so I am thinking she is just over heating unfortunately. So after our walk we played a little in the backyard. 

5. I have returned my personal development book and I am currently rereading the 2nd Harry Potter book for one of the book club classes I have, I need to finish it by tomorrow. But I am now looking for a new personal development book to read...

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Day 8 of the Hard Challenge

1. I did not have breakfast this morning because I want to be able to get back to work after a week and a half of break. I did have my plan lunch, even though I did not have a schedule lunch. Then for dinner I made pasta dinner, and there are plenty of leftovers for the rest of the week to have, which is nice.

2. I WAS ABLE TO GET A GALLON (or 2 of my jugs) IN BEFORE BED!! This may seem like something small to be excited or happy about, but for not drinking ANY water about 2 weeks ago, this is a HUGE milestone! 

3. I did not take any daily photos because I never got a chance to be honest. lol

4. today’s workout for 21 day Fix Real Time was Cardio Fix, which I did not do last week and wanted to completely avoid. I also usual bring my work Chromebook into my workout space in the basement and work since my Roku isn’t working. Well during our afternoon walk I realized I forgot my Chromebook at work. Well then I told myself I will just do my cardio fix tomorrow on top of tomorrows workout. But then I remembered that I an airplay my phone screen on our tv. So I did that but it was struggling and not working so I gave up and just streamed it on my phone. prompt it up and just play music videos on my tv.  Then during my cardio workout I had to play with Luna almost the entire time and every time I turned around she would freeze like she wasn’t trying to get my attention. She is adorable! 

5. Today I did not read my book again, I’m not sure if its the right book for me, I’m just not into it. So I am thinking of trying to return it and get a different book. We will see. 

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Day 7 of the Hard Challenge

1. Daily photo

2. I followed my diet pretty well today. I was even able plan and prep lunches for the coming work week. The meal I made for my lunches these week is “baked” carrots, cauliflower, baby red potatoes, and snap peas with chicken flavored rice a roni. Here are some before and after pictures.

3. I was also able get all of my water in today as well :D

4. I was able to get in my yoga workout today, which felt WONDERFUL. I really didn’t want to workout, but it was yoga and I knew it would be benefice for me to feel a little better/tight. Towards the end of my yoga workout Luna came next to me and gave me some loving. This made me feel so good! We then went on our walk as usual which was amazing because of the weather! 

5. I did not read my traditional personal development but I did pack up and clean up my work space and just go t ready for my work week to come. More about self love, which to me is a part of personal development. 

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Day 6 of the Hard Challenge

Today was a beautiful day outside! So I decided to change a couple of things for today. 

1. daily pictures

2. I am still working on my water intake. It’s been a rough day for drinking but I am going to get my goal before bed! FOR SURE!

3. For today’s workouts I decided instead of staying inside and doing another workout, I took Luna to High Cliff State Park for a 2.77 mile hike. We also did some yard work in the backyard and we had a doggie play date. So we are both exhausted to say the least. Now towards the end of the walk I was not paying attention to where I was walking and I misstepped and twisted my right ankle. I felt fine until about 2 hours ago. My ankle is definitely sore and a little hard to walk on, but it isn’t swollen and is tolerable. So something I will keep an eye of.

4. I have been reading my personal development book and one of the things that has been on my mind lately and something I am trying to wrap my mind around is, making sure you have the right people around you. Now I’ve heard this before, but the problem with this is I am not much of a people person. I am comfortable meeting new people and being social when necessary. But I prefer to be more independent and by myself. I’ve always struggled making friends and connecting with others. But I know that having positive, like minded people around you with similar goals will help you stay focused on your goals. Now with that being said I do have a tribe of wonderful women that I can share my goals with, and I have been thinking about how as a group we could all get together online and share our stories and our future goals over zoom or something. I am definitely going to keep giving it more thought. But this doesn’t just mean the people in your life, you should also follow, ask and listen to experts or other successful people in the field or area of your goals, and learn as much as you can from them. I kind of do this already, but I can do MUCH better with this.

5. diet is still going well. I have not had any fried food at all this week, which has not happened in a LONG time. I did go shopping yesterday for more whole foods. I plan on meal prepping tomorrow after our Easter lunch with my dad. I plan on making like a veggie stir fry but not stir frying it, instead like steaming it...I don’t know...I am still working on it. but with going back to work I am going to really focus on making my lunches for the week and then mainly eating what is left in the house for dinner all week, expect for a pizza night lol 

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Day 4 and 5 of the Hard Challenge

So first I want to apologize for not posting the past couple of days. I was struggling with my mental health. I had to take a huge test yesterday in order to keep my teaching job and I haven’t been able to sleep much because of it on top of me now getting ready to go back to work, on top of being really sore from leg day still. Day 4 and 5 of this challenge I am going to say I did not complete everything. I did not do my workouts for the 21 day fix program, but I did take Luna for at least a 30 minute walk both days. I did keep up with not having any fried food in my diet those days as well. I did struggle to get my second jug of water in both days. I was able to at least get in one jug both days. I was also able to get in my personal development in on both days because I usually listen to it when I go for walks with Luna.

But according to the 75 hard day challenge rules, if you done complete one of the steps each day you start over. To be honest, if I did that I don’t think I would ever get through one phase of the 75 days. So I’ve come up with some RULES for MYSELF during these 75 Hard Challenge days:

1. I am allowed 5 “flex” days in one 75 day phase, these allows me to not meet some of the requirements of the challenge and not have to start over. I have currently used 2 for days 5 and 6 due to not drinking all my water or do my planned workouts.

2. Learn from the mistakes. Take a step back and think what went wrong during the day that kept you from completing all steps.

3. You DO NOT have to make up workouts, or drink extra water that you may have not completed on the “flex” days.

4. DO NOT go 3 days without doing a workout. If you go more than 3 days without working out you MUST start the 75 day challenge over!

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Looks like my workout buddy wants to get buff! 

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Day 3 out of 75 of the Hard Challenge

Day 3 was a little better than yesterday but just as difficult as yesterday because yesterday was leg day...

1. Today’s daily photos:

2. It took me a lot longer to get through both jugs today. I still have my 2nd jug to finish but my goal is going to be finished before I go to bed. I also want to drink some recovery mix to see if that if helps my legs feel any better because MY LEGS HURT! 

3. So my diet. I have come to 2 realizations today about that. 1. I am pretty much fasting from 10:00 pm till 12:00 pm (the next day). While on spring break I just can’t seem to get up early enough to eat breakfast, which is okay with me. However, with going back to work next week I am planning ahead for that. I had some rolls for lunch, then I had half of my Olive Garden (lunch for tomorrow!). But I am really starting to think I am really going to have to spend some time over the next couple of days meal planning for next week and prepping then so that I can make these meals quickly and easily often without getting bored of them.

4. My 2 workouts for the day went some what well, besides being incredibly sore. I had upper fix and 10 min abs. which again my Luna did not approve of my ab workout and sat on my the entire time. any time I rolled over to a new spot she would plop herself right back on me lol. I love her but STOP lol

Lately WI weather has been incredibly windy and has made it much more difficult to go out for walks and much colder than it really is. And I am pretty sure I wont be the only one who is happy when this wind is gone, and the warm weather is here. This weekend is suppose to be nice and I hope to get some yard work done and possibly introduce Luna to High Cliff State park which is where I want to go as much as possible this summer with her. Nonetheless, with it being so windy we still went out on our walk she is such a beautiful girl, I love her so much. While we are on our walks I practice training things with her. We learned ‘heal’ last class and she is getting really good at it (sometimes). She really loves chasing all the blowing leaves (even if they are in the street) so it’s still a work in progress. But we are currently practicing heal at each intersection. 

5. I did some more listening to the audiobook The Future You and answered some questions that I just posted right before this. Go take a look and answer the same questions for yourself, let me know what you come up with!

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Everything you’ve been Told About the Future is Wrong

Quick Questions Exercise 1:

1. What are your biggest fears about the future?

- never going to get married

- never going to have a family

- never going to be happy with myself

-  I will never get my license for being a teacher

- that I will never have the body I want or had.

2. what is the most recent prediction you’ve heard about the future?

- chaos - riot's, angry parents, everyone feeling entitled without putting the work in.  Makes me feel annoyed and anxious

3.What is the furthers possible moment in the future you can see?

- that I will have a family, be married. I will be thin, healthy, and happy. I will be happy with my profession as a teacher. I am financially stable and don’t have to worry about my bank account. 

What are your answers to these questions??

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Day 2 out of 75 of the Hard Challenge

Day 2 was much more difficult than yesterday. I had to really commit to making sure I got all 5 items done today! 

1. today’s daily photos 

2 & 4. I got a late start with my water drinking today, but I, yet again drank 2 of my Hydro Jugs! Today’s workout was Lower fix for the 21 Day Fix Real Time program through Beachbody. I used 6lbs again today just more focusing on my form on anything especially with my my lower body. I have been experiencing an injury with my feet, knees, hips, pretty much my legs lol. So I made sure I was standing with my feet point straight. I did okay I thought. After I finished my workout I definitely felt the workout. For my second workout outside, I took Luna for another walk, she was pretty tired already from being at doggie day care, and staying up late last night with Nick. But we both go through it :) 

3. For today’s diet, I had a toasted bagel that is called an ‘Everything’ bagel. No butter or sour cream on it just toasted. For lunch I had leftovers of my mashed potato bowl (which had pre-made mashed potato, chicken bites, and shredded marble cheese). Then because it’s Tuesday, I have made it in my diet to have it as pizza day. So today I had some pizza for dinner. 

5. Today’s personal development reading was the book I mentioned yesterday called, The Future You. Something I took from today’s reading was that the future is not fixed. Our future is not going to be anything that we see in the movies. But our futures often tend to be something our past selves would be like unlike what our future selves would want. It was pretty confusing to be honest, but it probably didn’t help that I stopped listening in the middle lol. But nonetheless it has started to capture my interested. 

day 2 in the books!

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Day 1 of 75 of the Hard Challenge

Today is day 1 of my 75 day journey. I have decided to do the 75 day Hard Challenge. This challenge entails: 

with that being said I’m going to go through this list of things that I need to do off this list:

1. take a picture of myself daily

2. Drink a gallon of water. So I found Hydro jug and I love it! They have half gallons you can purchase along with other toys to go with the jugs. I have to drink 2 of these a day and I am so proud that I did drink 2 of these! This is something that is extremely difficult for me. I usually drink Mtn Dew, and only that, NOTHING else. So it’s a great start! 

3. Sticking to a diet. This is a little more complicated. I don’t really have a set diet (YET). My goal for the first week is to eat more veggies and not eat out anywhere (unless it’s a healthy sub/sandwich or have a healthier choice rather than a fried choice if I am eating out). I did pretty well today. I did over sleep and not have breakfast, and my lunch was more a bowl of oyster crackers and for dinner I had a subway sandwich.

4. Exercise 2x a day for at least 30-45 minutes (with one being outside). I walked my lovely puppy Luna this morning on our longer path. 

my second workout for today was starting Beachbody’s fitness program 21 Day Fix Real Time. Today’s workout was Total Body Cardio. My dog however took this workout to be play time. She would always try to bit and catch my 6lb weights every time I would use them in the air in any way. It was adorable and funny not going to lie, but it also made the workout difficult to finish lol

5. read 10 pages of a personal development book. Now for me I am not reading 10 pages but I am listening to audiobooks. The book that I started reading for this journey is by: Brian David Johnson called  The Future You: Break Through the Fear and Build the Life You Want. I hope this book brings me new perspective and insight on what my future could look like.

Day 1 DONE!