this is my life

Well it's been 8 weeks now and what a journey it has been ! Not just a journey of weight loss and being healthy, but a journey of discovery and learning to be aware of your body and how it works! I strongly believe that other people can teach you, train you and help to transform your body but it all has to begin with you and your desire and willingness to change your life style. 
Im a huge believer in personal trainers, meal plans and education but everyone is different and every body's lifestyle is different. It is unrealistic for some people to be able to train every day, prepare every meal and stick to a strong diet, you have to do what works for you!!

• It's definitely true that all your motivation will be there at the start for the first few weeks and slowly start to die down as the time goes on.
• Your results in the beginning will be drastic and then you can become too comfortable with the little bits of change
• my food diary began to lack consistency
• my exercise died down because my attitude began to be "I'm eating well, i dont need to exercise"

MY DESIRE IS STILL THERE THOUGH!

• I dont want to be skinny
• i want to be strong
• my goals are realistic
• i know it will take time

On that note, i dont want my results to happen over night!!! If theres one major thing that these past two months have taught me, its that results DO happen and they DO take time, but by taking time...you'll be able to 

DEVELOP A LIFESTYLE that ENABLES YOU TO KEEP YOUR RESULTS

SO FAR:

so far there has been a 6kg weight loss, i have easily managed to keep this weight off over the last 2 months because of my changes to my diet that have been realistic and consistent. Dont make changes you cant keep forever! I'm so happy with these results!

WHAT IVE GOT TO GO:

By SUMMER which is 7 months away....i dont have a weight loss goal...my goal...

STRONG, FIT, HEALTHY, HAPPY!!

3 steps forward, 1 step back..

3 steps forward, 1 step back

there comes a time with any journey...where you hit a spot where you look back on the past (for me the past two weeks) and wonder when things started going down hill. I cant put a time frame on when this happened to me but i have found it is VERY easy to slip back into old unhealthy habits.. looking back on the past two weeks ive been SLACK!

I DONT SEE THIS AS FAILURE THOUGH..FAILURE WOULD BE RECOGNISING THE DRAWBACK AND NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT

i have recognised that becoming weak in an area of your life can snowball very subtly, but very quickly!...
When i say drawback i am not talking putting o lost weight, or indulging in a block of chocolate..
im talking..easter is not an easy thing when it comes to temptation..
a little bit too much chocolate here and there
a little too much comfort food on those cold days
not quite enough of the good stuff..

now COME ON CHELS!!..GET YOR BUTT BACK INTO GEAR AND SUCCEED!!

it IS a slow process and it is SUPPOSED to be a slow process, that's how you create a LIFESTYLE and HABITS..not fads..thats how you keep the weight off and your life where you want it to be.

IVE NOTICED: the past two weeks when my diet hasn't been as clean as it had been, im unhappy..junk food doesn't make me happy, fresh healthy food does!

Feeding the sugar cravings is not worth the sick feeling that you walk away with 

:)

getting control

it's time to open up your eyes to the life that you've always wanted..


Five weeks later and its incredible the realisations you come to when you're achieving something for yourself, proving a point to yourself and being stronger than you ever thought you could be. For me this has been about taking control of my health and my shape..but this applies to everyone.


I have spent a long, long time obsessing over the size that I was..it isn't until i look back now though and realise that all that stress, worry and anxiety about what I looked like, was for no reason at all. I had no reason to be unhappy about this! I look back now on old photos and even photos of just a year ago and I don't see what i was so stressed about. Don't get me wrong i know i'm no 6ft tall supermodel, but i was still someone who was fit and healthy...what was the problem then?

I WAS SO INCREDIBLY OUT OF CONTROL

I felt these emotions because i was out of control of my emotions, I felt overweight because i had no control over what i was eating, i felt unhappy because I always thought i was failing..when really i was just out of control.
I am now at a place where I am so happy, I feel like there are a million less worries in my life! I'm not stressed about my days or my future. I'm not anxious about assignments or relationships and im not OBSESSING about what i look like!

INSIDE MY EMOTIONAL SUCCESS

1. I realised where my problems were and why i was unhappy

I didn't have structure in my diet and i wasn't knowledge about what i was eating. This left me feeling like i was eating a lot worse than i was and sometimes I felt i was eating a lot better than i was..(no wonder i was confused!)

2. I took a few baby steps to start gaining some control

The first thing i did was make a food diary. Recording everything I ate made me more aware of my bad and good eating habits and when in the say i needed to be more careful

3. I took action where i was falling

I realised my bad 'snacking' was happening between lunch and dinner so i replaced the snacks with more fruit and made conscious decissions of what i ate at those 'hard times'

I STILL DO THIS EVERY WEEK!
Once i was improving on my first issue i worked on another one!
- drink more water
- exercise 4-5 times weekly
- smaller portions
- RECORD RESULTS


I wish i could explain to you the feeling that comes with feeling IN CONTROL of your body. If you have a lack of control in your life (in any area) it takes a toll on your entire life. Examine what's making you stressed, anxious or unhappy and take baby steps to fix it :)

where am i now?

WHERE AM I 3.5 WEEKS ON!!!!

so it has now been 3 and a half weeks and heres my complete honesty to all you readers. I feel the need to be honest because you have all taken to time to be reading this blog

HERE IT IS!!!

Things are good!! But three weeks on its really time to up my game..this has been my 3 weeks

1. a consistant breakfast, lunch and dinner
2. fruit for snacks
3. no skipping meals
4. not too much naughty snacking
5. frequent exercise

MORE CHANGES TO FOCUS ON TO SEE MORE RESULTS

1. smaller portions

2. more water

3. more intense exercise

Don't get me wrong i have seen results and i am GLAD that they are happening slowly because i really have found a healthy lifestyle that i can maintain but deep down inside of me i KNOW i can be doing more! i now KNOW i am a lot stronger than i think. I KNOW that my self control has done a big 360 turn and i KNOW i've got more to lose and can do it!!

TALK ABOUT MEASUREMENT

THESE ARE AMAZING!!!

in 3 weeks i have lost 4 kilos and im happy with that BUT we all know how much weight goes up and down but here is something that won't lie to you...measurements!!! i have lost of 35cm and thats what makes the hard work pay off!!

I feel i am at a bit of a plateau so time to up the game even more and see some more results..lets kick this in the but!!!

LIFESTYLE CHANGES

"I'LL LOOK LIKE THAT ONE DAY"

GUESS WHAT? A BLOCK OF CHOCOLATE WON'T GET YOU THERE

EATING HEALTHY FOR A WEEK WONT GET YOU THERE

ONE MORE APPLE A DAT WON'T GET YOU THERE

AND GIVING IN WON'T GET YOU THERE!

A lot of you will agree with me when i tell you that I've always known these things but kind of hoped, in my heart of hearts..that i would be the exception to these rules...20 years on, it still hasn't worked..

ONLY one and a half weeks into this journey small changes have happened..my clothes hang that little bit nicer, the love handles dont hang over quite as much and I'm down a hole in my belt 

BUT

I have now realised that this is not something I (or anyone else) can put a time limit on..if you want to change your body, your weight or your health there changes have to be for LIFE!

Don't be ridiculous
> I'm not going to eat chocolate for two months 
WHY? so then it will be not as bad to indulge in after the two months??
> I'm never going to eat bad food again
LIES LIES LIES
> I'm going to exercise every day from now on..
Guess what? no you wont...

HERE ARE SOME OF MY LIFESTYLE CHANGES IN JUST 1.5 WEEKS

- I can no longer eat half as much as i used to

- I can now tell what my body needs instead of wants

- I will exercise at least 3 times per week

- I will always drink at least 3L of water daily

- I will continue to portion meals and its ok to not eat everything on the plate

- junk food is ok!!!..rarely and in small doses!

MAKE YOUR LIFE STYLE CHANGES TODAY..CHANGES FOR LIFE

A NEW LIFE

THANK GOODNESS FOR THE WEEKENDS

there are SO man pros to the weekend but this weekend i found one very major CON

A LOT MORE HAPPENS ON WEEKNDS

a lot more that revolves around food.

- lets go to the movies
- lets go out for lunch
- we have a party
- 'finger food provided'

all i can say though, is that a week of CLEAN EATING can really change your life..i was not even tempted this weekend with all of the above problems. I proved to myself that you can socialise and you dont have to miss out just because you're on a health kick!..or changing your life...

this weekend i have taught myself a lot about balance.
my body is rejecting bad foods and craving the good stuff..its amazing!
i notice a change in the mirror now, not just on the inside! They are small changes that probably only i can see, but theyre there!
i now know that the hardest part is over and i'm never going back to how i used to eat!


I love that i can only eat half a meal and then I physically cant eat anymore
I love that i have trained myself to eat slower
I love that I can detect what my body needs and not what my mouth wants
I love that i have proven to myself that i can do this

REMEMBER: if you start tomorrow, in one week you could have these changes and this new love for yourself too!

THIS I JUST THE BEGINNING, BUT IT IS ALREADY A POSITIVE BEGINNING WHICH HAS CREATED A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR A SUCCESSFUL JOURNEY!

RESIST TEMPTATIONS

THE DREADED TEMPTATIONS...


The weekend is finally here and like most Friday nights, this means a nice chilled out night with my man after a busy week..why not go to the movies!! We ALL know that feeling when you walk into a cinema and the first of your 5 senses that starts working is your sense of smell..

There it is YOU SMELL THAT POPCORN..

all of a sudden it doesnt matter what movie you're seeing, how much money you have to spend or who you are with..the popcorn will draw you in every time!!
You allllllll know what Im talking about yeh?
Well this is my piece of advice for tonight

TOUGHEN UP!!!!

I am living proof that you CAN go to the movies and not be sucked into the smells, the food that has made your hips that bit bigger and hidden your muscle under flab....it's about time we all (including myself) used a bit off will power, a bit of inner strength and stop CAVING into the temptations that got us where we are in the first place!! hard word tonight i know....

Aside from this positive note or not eating popcorn at the movies, i have ANOTHER positive note yay!!!...This positive note is so simple....6 days on, and i almost have nothing to write about! This is becoming a lifestyle to me already and it's one where
I NO LONGER
- find it hard
- get hungry
- eat as much as i used to
- crave sugars and bad foods
- want to go back to the way i used to eat

if you're out there reading this and trying to lose weight i want you to take this on board.

THE BEGINNING IS HARD...

THEN ITS EASY!!!!