First and foremost I want to thank my heavenly Father for bringing me this far. I am very grateful I don't take it for granted.
My birthday is like a New year for me, I reflect on how far I have come, what I have learnt this past year. Goals, dreams, ambitions... etc.
I started the year with one goal, well more than one. I found it easy to focus and achieve one goal at a time. I am very happy to say I have made a lot of progress.
My goal was..... drum roll.... to loose the excess weight I have been carrying for almost 10 years. As a result of child bearing I love my kids... I don't think we truly
appreciate or are aware of the changes our bodies go thru.
It's not just child bearing it's adulting, we have a lot of responsibilities at home and at work. Your life is no longer about you and what you want. I miss being 12 years old, all I worried about is if I was going to get permission to go hang out with my friends, good times. With Adulting comes all kinds of hormonal, chemical imbalances caused by external factors beyond our control. It seems like suddenly our lives are moving at 100 miles per hour. There are too many moving pieces, we take the back seat. The babies come first these helpless adorable little people become the center of everything we do.
Before you know it, your favorite size 12 jeans cant go past, your thighs! How? when? did all this happen, how did my thighs resemble tree trunks? all that jelly.
Then the little people grow bigger became more independent and you don't feel so guilty, leaving them to hit the gym. After several 5am bootcamps, the scale stays on the same spot, the instructor tells you it's because you eat too much! You quit the stupid class and decide to hike, hike for hours... the scale starts to behave. But at a very slow pace. You need to see the numbers moving. You start researching different diets, workouts. So many experts out there. But they don't give you full information, everyone is just selling a their product. Does it work? Not really if it was so easy why are so many people struggling with weight?.
I decided to do it my way. If you tell me not to eat sugar you have to tell me why? I need the chemical facts. (C12H22O11) I need the chemistry and why and what it does to me. You tell me don't eat sugar, I want to eat all of it. And I will eat it, because you told me not to. But if you tell me...
"Sugar is metabolized in your body both as a carbohydrate and as a fat. Once in your digestive tract, sugar hydrolyzes into fructose and glucose. Glucose starts out as a carbohydrate, but is quickly stored as a fat. Fructose is metabolized through your liver, and mostly converted to a fat."
http://www.mynormalweight.com/blog/2013/03/25/how-sugar-metabolized/ Ooohh ok I get that no more sugar no more carbs. In November last year I stopped consuming sugar and carbs and lost 20 POUNDS IN 4 MONTHS"!!!!. All because I understood what it was doing to my body.
Then I hit a huge giant wall, the scale refused to move for months. I was working out, actually doing camp gladiator at 5 am, well I went 3 times. It was hard OMG!
I could have continued if we weren't required to do jumping jacks every 3 mins and crunches or men push-ups. I feel like throwing up every-time I do crunches!. Jumping jacks hurt my hiking knees. I decided maybe swimming would be better. I went up to forty laps. One day I went to the pool, was there alone for a while, then this two dudes came to the pool and just sat in the water at one end, didn't swim. I started getting paranoid, all kinds of thoughts went thru my head,I freaked out and left, right after I left they left too weird!. Haven't been back since I need a swimming buddy. ooohhh then I did Zumba and fell in love, the music and moves shout out to Nadia our amazing instructor I can do Zumba daily if the classes were available.
So what finally helped me loose 10 more pounds? I am down 30 pounds as we speak. Hope to get to my goal weight by November 2018 exactly 12 months since I started this journey, 10 pounds to go. Had to cut back on fruit, it has sugar which is sugar. Meaning it's the same as regular sugar it's not any better because its from fruit and is "natural" its metabolized the same way. I decided to try intermittent fasting simply because I don't have the time or luxury to be at the gym daily. Besides I did it for 7 years while I was in college and it works. As a student going to school full-time and working part time I could not afford 3 square meals on a daily basis. Dinner was a luxury, breakfast consistent of tea, lunch was shared with my other broke college buddies, we split a sandwich or whatever the cafeteria served and what's dinner? That was it! I maintained a weight of 125 pounds effortlessly for years. I just needed to remind myself I don't all the extra calories. I am not a farmer, I am not doing hard labor why do I need to eat every 2 hours? Or why do I need a heavy meal for lunch or dinner. Such a simple truth. Its just that simple. It doesn't need to be so complicated. I found my solution. Its working, effortlessly, it's anti-aging, great for my mind and body and I am sticking with it. Hope you find your simple solution or truth.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
This video set me free on ideas of intermittent fasting.
I love this guy, dr Diet he is amazing. So no you will not go into starvation mode if you fast and no you will not mess up your metabolism by fasting!
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
So inspired Get rid of the unnecessary to get down to basics | Colin Wright | TEDxINSA
This young man is my new muse, such great advice.
Friday, March 9, 2018
LOST 20 POUNDS IN 4 MONTHS!!!
I am super excited I lost 20 pounds in 4 months! I will let you know how I lost 20 pounds in 4 months. What you don't know about me, I have 2 kids 9 year old son and 4 year old daughter. On my free time I hike, walk, dance, Zumba, swim... when I can. My 8 to 5 however does not allow me to be as active. Last year I spend 3 days at the gym doing intense zumba, it was fun and stress relieving. Spend the summer in the pool, doing up to 40 laps. Didn't loose a single pound, my waistline was still as wide. (Sometimes it's not the weight but how clothes fit)
Exercising with no results is exhausting. Something had to change, I looked at different diets, most of them were not very appealing been there done that with no results. After doing a lot of research I decided on clean eating I modified the Keto diet to fit me, added probiotics, (kimchi, Kombucha and probiotic pills) cut carbs and sugar (researched Glycemic index to figure out which foods are high in sugar). THE MOST AMAZING THING HAPPENED! I started losing 5 pounds per month it doesn't seem like much, but it is to me when I step on the scale weekly. I created a weekly menu that constituted mostly of fruits, green leafy vegetables such as green kale, purple kale, dandelion leaves, protein (Fish, eggs, lamb, shrimp, goat).
For breakfast I ate eggs daily, tried different egg recipes. Lunch - fruit smoothies or fish, chicken and mixed veggies (peas green beans with coconut oil, dinner - my favourite greens, Kale, green beans or dandelion leaves. I used only healthy cooking oils like Coconut and olive oil. At the beginning to curb hunger, I ate peanut butter, a piece of 50% chocolate.
I still have 20 more to go hopefully by my birthday I will reach my pre-pregnancy weight. It's been really cold I lost the weight without going to the gym, I exercise in the house but not as intensely. Changing my lifestyle was really the biggest factor. Clean eating is a lifestyle. I am doing it it's doable. You can do it!!! Do your research, know what you are putting in your body, make healthy choices. Like a wise person once said "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Monday, January 29, 2018
Hundreds of TOXIC ingredients in beauty products to avoid.
Since I am detoxing by eating clean, I might as well make sure that the lotions, make-up and creams I am slathering on my body have no toxins. Thanks to google there are a bunch of articles out there. Here is the initial list and article
Why are there so many unregulated toxins in our beauty products? Maybe it's time to DIY our own with none toxic ingredients.
The dirty list of toxins
- Phthalates
- Parabens
- Fragrance
- Formaldehyde
- Toulene
- Propylene glycol
- Sodium Laurel Sulfate
- Sodium Laureth Sulfate Triclosan
- Triclocarban
- Hydroquinone
- Heavy metals
A LIST OF GREAT DIY RESOURCES
The Dirty 30 – A List Of Toxic Beauty Product Ingredients To Avoid
17 DIY Beauty Products to Whip Up Over the Break
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Challenging negative stereotypes about black hair
Ted talks
This week's inspiring story
Oh my gosh does this resonate with me.
Javascript & CSS Libraries to look into.
Javascript libraries from hackernoon
Particles.js — A library for creating beautiful floating particles on a web page
Three.js — A library for creating 3d objects and spaces on a web page
Fullpage.js — Easy to implement full page scroll feature
Typed.js — Typewriter effect
Waypoints.js — Trigger a function when you scroll to an element
Highlight.js — Syntax highlighting for the web
Chart.js — Make beautiful charts using only javascript
Instantclick — Dramatically speed up your website load time, preloading resources on mouse hover
Chartist — Another chart library
Motio — A library for sprite based animations and panning
Animstion — Jquery plugin for css animated page transitions
Barba.js — Fluid page transitions
TwentyTwenty — A visual diff tool to spot differences
Vivus.js — A library for making drawing animation on SVG
Wow.js — Reveal animations when you scroll
Scrolline.js — See how much you have scrolled until the end of the page
Velocity.js — Very fast and smooth javascript animations
Animate on scroll — Pretty straightforward
Handlebars.js — Javascript templating
jInvertScroll — Parallax scrolling
One page scroll — And again a one page scrolling library
Parallax.js — Parallax Engine that reacts to the orientation of a smart device
Typeahead.js — Search completion
Dragdealer.js — Pretty cool dragging library
Bounce.js — Create cool CSS3 animations
Pagepiling.js — One page scroll
Multiscroll.js — Multi scroll a website into two vertical scrolling panels
Favico.js — Dynamic favicons
Midnight.js — Switch fixed headers on the fly
Anime.js — Animation library
Keycode — Get javascript keycode for a button that is pressed
Sortable — Drag & drop
Flexdatalist — Autocomplete
Slideout.js — Slideout navigation menu for mobile apps
Jquerymy — Two way data bindings using jquery
Cleave.js — Format content while typing
Page — Client side routing for single page applications
Selectize.js — Hybrid select box for adding tags
Nice select — Jquery library for creating beautiful select boxes
Tether — Efficiently attach absolute positioned elements
Shepherd.js — Guide users through your app
Tooltip — Name speaks for itself
Select2 — Jquery replacement for select boxes
IziToast — Easy to implement js notifications
IziModal — Easy to implement js modals
CSS libraries / Design stuff
Animate.css — Animation library
Flat UI Colors — List of simple and effective main colors
Material design lite — Framework based on Google’s material design
Materialui.co — Many resources for Material design framework
Colorrrs — Random color generator
Section separators — Css section dividers
Topcoat — Framework
Create ken burns effect — Ken burns effect using css3 animations
DynCSS — Add functions to css, to make it dynamic
Magic animations — Name speaks for itself
CSSpin — Collection of css spinners
Feather icons — Icons
Ion icons — Icons
Font awesome — Icons
Font generator — Combine multiple fonts and create a mixture
On/Off switch — Create on/off switch in css, good for check or radio buttons
UI Kit — Framework
Bootstrap — Framework
Foundation — Framework
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
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