A Journey to A Healthier Me

Please follow me on my 2017 weight loss journey. I need all the encouragement I can get.

[xoxoxshay]

I ATE CHEETOS! Diet Fail (NOPE)

So, I ate 20 pieces of flaming hot cheetos today, and today is the second day of my second round on the military diet... damn. My bad. But, I do not see this as a failure, but as a minor bump in the road. The military diet is a stiffer when it comes to sticking to the plan in order for it to work, so if I do not lose weight this time around I know where I went “wrong” and where I need to improve. 

On the more bright side, I have been working my booty and my core oh so hard this past week!!!!!! I feel so sore and so amazing! I had gotten eBooks from Shredz, and follow their workout plans, which are amazing! My sister is creating me an upper body workout that I plan on doing on Sundays and Fridays to start getting some of the chub off my arms and building back up my muscles. 

I have been on it for the past two weeks and feel like a champ! Even those cheetos cannot bring me down, just have to work at discipline a little bit more. Love ya’ll and thanks for reading :) PLEASE SEND ME SOME ENCOURAGEMENT AND TIPS ON BEING MORE DISCIPLINED WHILE TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS GOALS.

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Usually, Saturday and Sunday are my rest days! Saturday, definitely was. I did nothing but watch Hulu with my partner, cleaned house, and relaxed. It was absolutely amazing! Rest days are important guys! Working towards your goals should not feel like a punishment. 

By Sunday evening, I could not sit still! I was feeling anxious and just wanted to workout! So I decided to do a short half mile jog/walk. Once I got home, I realized that I could keep going so I did my ab and butt daily challenges! (I feel it good today). Usually when I do my workouts at home I blast youtube on the TV and just go for it. my workout turned into a solo dance part! which my FitBit automatically picked up and recorded as a Aerobic exercise, which i thought was pretty cool! All my stats are in the photos above. I wasn’t going to post my random weekend workout but I thought it’d be important to tell people that working out can be fun, exercising can be fun and neither has to be in the gym or in the conventional form. HAVE A SOLO DANCE PARTY! It will make your body and heart happy! 

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Fat Burning Hike!!  This two mile trail in Trinidad Ca. led to one of the most beautiful spots once you hit the top. I had already did cardio this morning, and was dreading having to walk up these hills but it was worth it! I not only got to see this beautiful sunny site, but got to spend time with my sister along the way. It was truly a great day. If you are having a hard time hitting the gym, or get bored just walking/running in the pavement jungle, I suggest you go off road and give that a shot! 

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Day 3 Weigh In (Jan 06, 2017)

Three days ago I weighed myself at 197.6 pounds. That same day was the beginning of the first round of the military diet, where I eat foods that would chemically change my body and boost my metabolism for three days! I weighed in this morning at 192.4, a total of 5.2 pounds down in three days!!!! I am so happy I stuck to this plan! Although I looked at a lot of peoples stories on youtube who tried this diet and they seemed to have all lost some weight, I was so worried that I would be someone who could not lose weight on this plan! I am ecstatic. 

Now comes the hard part, keeping the weight off until I do the next round of the military diet which will be Tuesday, January 10. I have a plan to eat healthy at a 1500 calorie count a day as well a going to the gym. HIGH PROTEIN LOW CARB! I Hope this will do the trick! I do not plan to weigh myself until the morning I begin my second round in order to keep myself from being discouraged. OMG!!!!!!! SUPER STOKED!

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Day 3- Military Diet

So, today concludes my first round of the military diet. I am so happy! I will be weighing myself in the morning to see if it had worked. 

Todays meals were:

Breakfast:

5 saltine crackers

1 slice of cheddar cheese

1 small apple

Lunch:

1 Egg (Cook how you want, I went with scrambled)

1 slice of whole wheat bread

Dinner:

1 cup tuna

1/2 cup vanilla ice cream

1/2 banana 

As you can see, the meals got smaller today! (or was it just me?) I felt like I was eating like a bird! I definitely am not too hungry today though, I think I may have finally accepted my fate. 

I also went to the gym this morning for 2 miles (30 mins) of HIIT cardio! Felt AMAZING!!!!!

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Day 3: Morning Cardio!!!!!

OMG! I HATE running!! I’ve always struggled with my endurance and it always has been a big paranoia of mine. I hate running with other people whether they can or cannot run, I hate the way my stomach bounces with every step, and I hate how my breathing sounds as if I’m about to die at any minute. 

These past few months, I had been forcing myself to hit the treadmill. I did quite a bit of research on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and it has worked wonders. Not only hast it helped with my endurance, but always allowed me to be okay with running. 

My HIIT routine usually lasts about 30 mins. 

I walk/jog for 2 mins at 3.0 mph and then run at 5.8 mph. As the weeks pass and I continue to to this, my speed increases and I can go a little longer (which i love!) At this pace and speed, I hit about 2 miles! (something I thought I’d never be able to do!)

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I Want Top Ramen and Chili

Just finished our second day on the military diet and the struggle is real today! All I want is a big bowl of top ramen mixed with chili (so good!) but that is just not gonna happen. My will power has been diminishing though! ugh!

I forgot to take photos of todays meals, maybe because I was so hungry by the time it was time to eat I dove right in. 

I do not feel as if I am losing weight so right now, my biggest fear is that this is not working. I am worried that if this doesn’t work, I will give up (again). I can already feeling me telling myself this. My boyfriend has been a great support and I am hoping he is able to push me past this point, especially if I do not see any changes soon. 

Breakfast:

1 slice of whole wheat toast

1 Egg (cooked how you like)

1/2 Banana

Lunch:

5 saltine crackers

1 egg (boiled)

200 calories of Ham 

*I substituted a cup of cottage cheese for ham. I could not bring myself to eat cottage cheese. 

Dinner:

1 cup Broccoli

1/2 cup carrots

2 hotdogs (no bun)

1/2 banana

1/2 cup ice cream!

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Day 2 (January 04, 2017)

As I reviewed my posts this morning, I realized I uploaded the wrong weight photo. I posted the photo saying I was 194.8; however, that pic was from a few weeks ago. My weight yesterday was 197.6 pounds. Sorry for the confusion.

I will not be weighing myself until the morning of the fourth day, or the morning after I finish the three day diet. After that, I will maintain a low calorie and low carb diet until next Tuesday when I will do my second round of the military diet. My partner is in the kitchen now, making our day 2 breakfast(:

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Good luck on your new health journey! All the best, you can do this!! Cool blog btw :)

Thank you! ❤💋💕

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Day 01 (Jan 03, 2017): Today was day one of the military diet. My meals consisted of 

Breakfast:

1 Cup Black Coffee (YUCK)

1/2 Grapefruit

1 Slice Whole Wheat Bread (toasted)

2 tablespoons of Peanut Butter

Lunch: 

1. Cup Black coffee

1 Slice Whole Wheat Bread

1/2 Cup of Tuna

Dinner:

1 Cup Green Beans

3 Oz. of Meat (I chose Baked chicken)

1 small apple

1/2 Banana 

1 cup vanilla ice cream (YESSSS!)

Day one was not too bad. I do have to say that I did not get full off of either the breakfast or lunch and felt I could eat another two servings. This made it hard not to snack in between meals! BUT, I was not tempted to eat because I want this to work. So yes, I felt hungry pretty much all day and tried using water to fill my tummy. 

Dinner, was bomb! What diet plan calls for vanilla ice cream!!!?? I just finished it and I feel full and content. 

Normally, I go to the gym on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Unfortunately, I had a mishap at the airport on my way back from Alaska and did not make it back with any of my workout clothes or shoes. They did find my luggage, so hopefully I can get back to it after tomorrow! I will post my workout routines in the next few days. 

Day 2 starts tomorrow. 

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really good at finding the beauty in every thing but myself

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Weight Loss Journey, Here We Go Again (Jan 03, 2017)

I have have been struggling for the last two years to keep my goal of a healthier diet, healthier body and a healthier me. Each time I would change my eating habits, go to the gym, and begin to lose weight; I always tend to quit. Lately; however, my hatred of my body has taken a tole not only myself but on my relationship. I have a hard time allowing my partner to look at my body with no clothes on and feeling confident with our relationship because “there is no way he can only have eyes for me” all of which has been pushing me farther and farther away from my partner. 

It seems that each time I have given up on my goals, I had not been confident in the results. I try one weight loss fab after the next; and quite honestly, they may have worked if I kept at it for more than a few weeks at a time. I also have a very low metabolism, which has been a struggle these past two years. I am hoping in starting this blog, I will feel more responsibility to finish what I start. Not that anyone will read this, but it’s a start. :D

I had just finished my shopping trip for my diet that I will be starting today (it’s midnight). My partner will be joining me in this journey as we try to do this together (not that he needs it, but wants to support me). The research I had did was on a diet called the “Military Diet” which is a strict diet that you do for three days out of the week. This diet’s main focus is to boost your metabolism and therefore boosting your weight loss. A lot of people who did this diet, had lost 7-10 pounds during those three days. How healthy is that, I have no clue! I am not a diet expert or nutritionist, just throwing that out there now. I will post a two minute video after this post that explains generally what this diet is and why they say it works, if you want to research more into it.

So, here we go on this new journey.

[xoxoxshay]

Day number three begins #shakeology #21dayfix

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Day number 2 of the #21dayfix & #shakeology done!!!!! Abs are killing me today! #fitness