Aug
31st

Aug
30th

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 information was addicting and it opened my eyes to a whole new world that I barely knew anything about. I wanted more. I wanted to be part of it. I wanted to know 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?

Aug
30th

Aug
27th

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.

Aug
26th