Anonymous asked: would you rather have 20/10 vision or be able to pee standing up?
20/10 vision!!!! I don’t see the appeal in peeing while standing up because peeing while sitting down is really not a hinderance.
30 Day Shred - DO IT!
I’m legitimately surprised at how well the 30 Day Shred works. I’ve never done the full 30 days but I haven’t been trying to make any drastic changes, just gradually geting into shape. So if I get lazy and don’t Shred for a few days, I don’t feel too badly about it. However, I’ve Shredded every day this week and I can honestly tell a difference already.
Now I’m not one of those people who can eat whatever they want and still stay thin (curse you eternal skinnies!). If my intake increases, I’ll start gaining weight right away. But that, of course, is in conjunction with a pretty sedentary lifestyle. Recently though, with regular Shredding, I haven’t gained any weight and I have seriously been pigging out all week. Let’s just say I have gone out to eat three times this week, two of those times I had a crème brûlée for dessert, and I’ve eaten a bunch of white chocolate, lol.
Just to be clear though, I don’t eat junk food and I try to avoid processed foods. I drink a lot of water and tea. I love carbs, I can’t help it. I don’t drink soda or alcoholic beverages. I think that if you adhere to some good food rules for the most part, then it’s totally fine to indulge in rich foods/desserts (provided they are made from real/good ingredients) and the very occasional junk food. None of this “if I eat a chocolate bar I’ll skip a meal” crap.
Having healthy habits and getting into shape should be a lifelong thing, not just a fad diet or a few months spent at the gym. This means that we can’t be too hard on ourselves! Start small and make manageable changes. Everything you do needs to be sustainable for the long-run, otherwise you’ll just revert to old habits and get unhealthy again. Be good for the most part and then TREAT YO’SELF once in a while!
Just fed my cats a heaping plate of raw meat, bones, and organs… and now helping myself to a gargantuan salad. No processed junk in this house!
Shred and George Weasley
The hardest part of working out is definitely getting over the mental hump of laziness and deciding “yes I am doing this today.” I guess another part of why it’s hard for me to stay motivated is because I don’t have a goal weight or an idea of what I want to look like, because I don’t care about weight and I think I look fine. I just want to be fit and healthy but there’s no way to really quantify it. Jillian Michaels talks about going jean and/or bikini shopping as motivation to keep pushing, but meh. Maybe I need a gym membership cause I am so lazy at home…
I did just treat myself to this though.
fragments-andfictions asked: you're attitude is so positive, it's refreshing. btw you have such great legs! keep it up, you're inspirational! :)
Thanks! That means a lot. Working out and getting healthy should be fun, not about negativity and depriving oneself of chocolate malts. ;)
I see myself in the mirror at home so often that I really have no idea what I actually look like. It’s weird because in public places when I randomly catch a glance of my own reflection, I look a lot skinnier than I do at home. Does that happen to anyone else?
Also I have no access to a scale but I’m guessing I’m still in the 120-122 lb range as usual.
I celebrated my relaunch of the Shred yesterday by buying stuff for homemade chocolate malts. I’m going to have one after today’s workout as well, lol.
Shreddie Prinze Jr.
This was actually the first time I’ve been able to complete a whole level since I got sick late November/early December. I hadn’t tried in a few weeks but I was pretty discouraged by my failed attempts before. At least now I have my strength back so I’m feeling pretty good! Hopefully this time I can actually do the full thirty days.
I will have to borrow someone’s scale but maybe a weigh-in and a progress photo soon.
30 Day Shred: Restarting Pt. 2 - Level 1
So today I did two of the three circuits and stopped there… I figure it is important to get back to where I was before getting sick. Tomorrow I will have to do the whole thing!!
Now to have some chai tea and head to Whole Foods for gingerbread scones, mmmm.
30 Day Shred: Restarting - Level 1
Holy. Crap. That was freaky. So I took a few weeks off from the Shred because I got really sick and then had a huge test to take… started again tonight, and wow it was extremely difficult. I couldn’t even finish Level 1! And to think that last month I was doing all three levels fairly easily! I guess being sick/bedridden for two weeks and then not working out at all really took it out of me. BAH. It wasn’t even a matter of feeling tired; I felt completely drained and like I was going to pass out if I went any further. My legs are still shaking right now. I guess I just got really weak? Well whatever, I’m going to do Level 1 again tomorrow and hopefully get back into the routine. I seriously feel like my head is going to implode right now. So weird.
Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
I’ve started using extra virgin coconut oil in lieu of butter or other oils for cooking. I read the other day about all these health benefits and how it supposedly helps you lose weight, but I don’t think there’s actually any scientific evidence for that… what seems to be true though is that it’s way better than a lot of other oils, and it’s pretty tasty, so I’m gonna keep using it. Bah to butter!
