Monday, August 30, 2010

Knowledge is Motivation

Health

Health Comic

If you head blindly into a lifestyle change or diet without any knowledge in that area, you are setting yourself on a path to failure.

You aren’t going to see the right results [in the time frame that you want] therefore you will be unmotivated and you will give up.

Do you know these terms? Glycemic Index. HIIT. Basal Metabolic Rate. Glycogen. Lactic acid. Plyometrics. Isometrics. Posture. Core. If not, start doing some research! Okay, well you don’t have to get that obsessive, but it never hurts to know more and it’ll make your path to a healthier lifestyle a lot easier.

You can hire a personal trainer or take classes but one of my biggest motivators that got me to change my lifestyle (that was also FREE) were all the health and fitness blogs I subscribed to. All that addicting information opened my eyes to a whole new world that I barely knew anything about and I wanted more. I wanted to be part of it. I wanted to see if I applied all those tips and methods to my life, would it work for me?

Having knowledge suddenly made me realize how “easy” it was to achieve my goals and it provided me with the motivation that I needed because a clear path suddenly opened up. It seemed like there was no room for failure.

Unfortunately, there was. The only thing that could stop me was myself but luckily for me, one of my biggest fears is failure and I knew if I let that happen, I’m never going to let it go especially with all this knowledge that I now had.

It got me excited.

I was unstoppable.

And I still am. ;)

Are you?

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Misconceptions as Kids

Personal

I have a habit of saying “oh, really?!” after someone tells me something and sometimes I’m usually not listening to what they say… so my boyfriend would say random stuff and laugh at me when I say it. But when I was little, I use to believe everything everyone told me…

That everyone lived to be 100 years old. My sister would always point out the fact that she would live one year longer than me since she was a year younger …and inserts an evil laugh somewhere.

If I didn’t each everything single piece of rice in my bowl during dinner, the rice gods would punish me. But then I was never religious nor really believed in that stuff so there were always leftover rice in my bowl.

That there were little rice gods living in every single grain of rice. I was curious so I’d bite it in half to look for them, thinking, “oh god, I just bit their head off.”

If I swallowed watermelon seeds, watermelons would grow in my stomach. It’s okay… I love watermelon anyway.

That leprechauns existed. Because our teacher played a trick on us when we were 7 and I think I believed it until I was like 10. I use to tell everyone the story and when they told me it was fake, I’d get angry.

That people really live on clouds. Because another teacher told us her plane got stranded on a cloud so she had to live there for weeks. I wish we could really live on clouds!

That we’ve been on mars and all the other cool planets. Imagine my disappointment when I learned we only traveled to the boring, old moon.

Well, at least I’m wasn’t the only stupid kid.

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30 Day Blog Challenge
A photo of the item you last purchased.

Necklace Stand

I bought this necklace stand at Winners while shopping with a girlfriend a couple days ago but there’s nothing on it yet because most of my necklaces are too long. The ring on top was from one of Seoul’s many amazing department stores. The necklace dangling on the bottom-left is my current favorite; I picked it up from a local designer at Stanley Market in Hong Kong (where my dad grew up). The LadurĂ©e Marie Antoinette tea is delicious and straight from Paris. St.Ives leaves my skin buttery smooth. Tresemme’s Heat Tamer Spray is a love affair between my locks and my flat iron. My mirror desperately needs cleaning. What’s in the box? That’s a secret. And yes, I still have my high school grad pictures up. It’s been 5+ years but I’m too lazy to change it.

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30 Day Blog Challenge
A song to match your mood.


No, I’m not missing anyone but I love blasting this song when I’m hitting the cardio hard with some crazy intervals. It’s not the fastest song but I love the beat and always gets me pumped up … and I love M-Flo!!

I use to be one of those people who would hate exercising and would come up with every excuse to NOT go to the gym. I’ve had a gym membership since I was 15 but sometimes I wouldn’t go for months even though they were taking $38 from my bank account monthly.

I didn’t start going regularly until I started to realize that working out had to be a priority. I couldn’t treat it as something that I could do, but it was something that I MUST do just like going to work, sleeping and eating. Unless my body wasn’t physically up for it, I told myself I had no choice but to work out, whether it be at the gym, at home or at 12am. Once you make it a habit and get into that mindset, you’ll learn to love it.

Anyway, this 30 Day Blog Challenge has been a major FAIL! I was so insanely busy the last week that I had no time to update at all… but then blogging isn’t my priority so I’m allowed to say that. ;)

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Friday, August 13, 2010

80

Boyfriend

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