Breakfast
Coffee. Lemon Water. Tea
Lunch
Chips and Salsa and a Tomato (boring, I know)
Dinner
Veggie Smoothie
Workout
1 Mile at the gym, feeling a little under the weather today…my body was telling me to lay low. I have been working out hard lately and I think my body was trying to tell me something. That is one thing I have learned, when your body talks LISTEN. I have had small injuries last for WAY too ling because I did not listen.
Here’s to a better day tomorrow,
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
What a beautiful Monday this was(now, that is saying a lot coming from me…I HATE Mondays)
Breakfast
Coffee Time! I used to always drink disgusting poison creme in my coffee, but I finally found a clean solution for my occasional cup of coffee: a dash of Almond Milk and a couple of drops of Blue Agave sweetener. Yum, Yum, Yum.
Running late this morning and did not have time for my green smoothie so I am making up for it by drinking a few extra cups of herbal tea today!
Lunch
Veggie Sandwich:
Avocado, Tomato, Onion, Cucumber, Pickles, Mustard, Sea Salt and Pepper…on Whole Wheat Bread.
Dinner
Homemade Veggie Tacos:
Black Beans, Romaine, Tomato, Avocado, and Onion
Simple and so filling!
Workout
A nice long and heated session of Anusara Yoga focused on arm strength. Half way accomplished my first reverse wall climb, Ill post a pic when I can do it without falling a million times! Then finished off my workout with a 15-minute weight session focusing on arms. Early dinner, late workout=a beautiful night.
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
Well, again I have showed…those of you paying attention, that I am not perfect and am completely capable of failing. I am talking of course about my blatant lack of motivation and consistency. If you read my two previous posts I vowed to re-dedicate myself and get back on track and clearly that did not happen. I am on day 128 of this journey and I think I skipped about 50 days(exaggerating) of my accountability plan of posting DAILY to this blog to track my progress.
I tend to be the type of person that is really hard on myself and if I slack at all I feel so guilty and then the infamous ‘snowball’ effect occurs and before I know it I am buried. I feel like I have been that person my whole life and I am completely sick of it! I always feel like I am finally in a good rhythm in my life and them BAM! Back to square one, just like that! I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way…right? I have had people tell me they understand and feel the same way and most often these people tell me that that is just the way life is. Well I am not willing to except that answer. Life is too short to just let it pass me by like that and I am bound and determined to find a way to accomplish consistency and growth. Now I am not expecting to be perfect by any means, but I am expecting to change my course and stay consistent.
Now you may be wondering exactly what I am referring to and I have a long list…this is not just about losing weight, getting fit and eating right, it’s about everything…staying consistent with my work flow at work, actually finishing the tons of books that I have started reading and never finished, reading my bible on a consistent basis, my daily yoga practice, that has now turned into a once a week thing…starting projects at home and never finishing them. Starting potential business ideas and never seeing them through…the list just goes on and on. I’ll spare you the other half of my list of self-disappointments. My point is simply this: Life is not allowed to take over. We are humans who are capable of doing phenomenal things with our time on earth. I think a lot of the problem is that we think…or at least I think things happen overnight and that just isn’t true. Things take time to master.
So I make a pledge to you. Today I start a new phase of my self-discovery journey. I have done these many times before, but this time I will stay the course and keep my head up no matter how many times I may temporarily slack.
Life is meant to be experienced and I am thankful for the opportunity.
Here goes nothing.
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
Hello beautiful people. I know in my last post I said I was going to do weekly posts rather than daily posts and I would like to retract that post. Last week was a MAJOR cheat week. I think when I don’t have any accountability I just do whatever I want. I’m slightly over reacting cause I did have mostly hearty and healthy meals, but I over snacked and ate out more than normal. I still exercised daily, but because of my fairly bad eating I just didn’t have my normal energy. I have tossed the scale(figuratively) so I have no way of knowing if I gained 10 pounds, but I don’t feel like I have, my clothes fit way better and I still feel thinner. My point here is I am back at it to daily posts, I need the constant accountability and I love being able to skim through my progress and see what I did daily. So here we go I am back to cramming your inbox’s with my daily food and workout regimen. Woo Hoo!
Here’s to health and clean living.
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
Well health world, I apologize for my absence, I have had a crazy couple of weeks. Work has been insane and since I am so exhausted by the time I get home and work out I really didn’t feel like posting. Plus I was terrible at taking pictures…I was seriously busy. Too busy.
So in my time away, I lost 12 pounds! Yayy! My 2-week cleanse really helped jump start my weighloss. Also, not drinking alcohol seems to really have a huge effect on my weight. It was sobering(no pun intended) to go 14 days with no alcohol at all. I realized that although I love the occasional drink or two, life sober is beautiful. I got so much done and I was super motivated and energized. I don’t think this means I’m gonna quit drinking forever, (last night I had a glass of champagne…okay two!) but I do realize that I drink way too much way too often. Alcohol is a depressant and I am not a depressed person so why drink so much? Here’s to a new semi-sober me.
Paired with the ‘no drinking’ rule I had NO dairy and NO meat, now this is pretty easy for me because I already do not eat those things, but I did notice through this cleanse that I was getting a little more experimentive with different raw and natural foods. It’s exciting, now if only I could get my husband to eat the same way, it’s annoying sometimes to make two different versions of the same dinner. Although we make it work, it would be nice to eat the same!
So to sum up the last two weeks…after I finished my cleanse on August 5th, I kept up with my healthy eating, I did have some wine on Thursday and there were a few cheat days mixed in, but fairly clean eating and working out still ensued so I am still on may way to being the healthiest version of myself. Have not given up yet.
I am considering doing weekly posts instead of daily posts, I never wanted this blog to become stressful and the daily posts are really stressing me out, I feel so guilty when I don’t post. So I say weekly posts might be better.
Thanks to those of you that continue to support this blog, you inspire me.
Till next time,
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
I know this is an extremely late post, but life has been insane for me! This was the post from my last day of the ‘Toxic Health Challenge’ I beg all of you to eat as clean as possible, there is a better lifestyle out there and it’s for you to grab hold of! Today is the day to change the rest of your life!
DON’T DRINK THE WATER.
Breakfast
Hot Lemon Water. Detox Tea. Super Smoothie
Lunch
A medley of veggies and some lemon/cucumber water.
Workout
Day 2/Level 3 of Nikki Sharp’s Workout Plan=TIRED.
Then did a bunch of ab workouts!
Dinner
Vegan Chili. So easy and so yummy!
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
Breakfast
Hot Lemon Water. Detox Tea. Super Smoothie
Lunch
Spinach Salad
Workout
Day 1 of Nikki Sharp’s Workout Plan
And then a little yoga, needed some therapy and a good way to forcefully stretch my pinched nerve
Dinner
I know that is is so bad, but I have just not been hungry at dinner time lately. I snacked on some chips and guac before my workout and then snacked on a cucumber after yoga…and I was content.
justagirlwhoknowsnothing
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