Update

Its been a while since I posted anything. This last week has been crazy busy. The good news is that I am done the 21 day challenge and the the first month of 2015 eating healthy. from January 1st to February 1st I lost 20 pounds!! I couldn't be more happy about it :) life is good

I will keep posting updates on how I am doing, I would like to lose about 15 pounds a month in the next two months. hopefully I can keep up my healthy eating ways.

I have been working out as much as possible along with drinking tons of water, some detox water and lemon water in there too for verity. I have been drinking detox tea too which I love the taste of.

hope everyone else's goals are going well

Day 21 and 22

Ah I give up trying to write everyday. I keep trying and I think of it then I get distracted.

Yesterday was a good day, I went to spin class which is always fun. Did you know you burn around 1500 calories in a spin class! crazy! I also ate pretty healthy other than the butter on my popcorn that I had last night.

I have started to add in cinnamon to my morning smoothies, sooo good. It is good to help kick start your materialism as well.

I have also downloaded some really cool apps on my phone that I love, one is a 7 minute work out app, they give you different workouts to do everyday. You can make it so it is longer than 7 mins as well. The other one I got is a Jillian Micheals one, it has a meal planner (for extra so I didn't do that), a journal, where you write in your exercise and what you eat and some exercises you can do at home. I love it, it makes you accountable for what you are eating. It also tells you how many carbs, calories, fat and protein and sugar you are taking in with what your eating.

I tried cucumber water yesterday and didn't like it, I think i put in to many cucumbers for my water bottle. So now i am back to lemon water :)

Day 14

Today has been a good day so far. I have decided that I need to stop checking the scale everyday, that is not healthy at all! I am really sore today. I walked 4km in 40 mins last night with my group that I work with, me and one of the members just went off and walked and a little bit of running. We also did a few laps with weights, swinging them and doing reps as we walked.

I only drank 3 liters of water yesterday like I thought I would.

Today my goal is 4 liters again, we will see how it goes. I did some stretching on my lunch break today because I am so sore so that was really nice. Tonight I have spin then I am going to do some arm work at home.

Nothing else is really new in the way of my healthy life change

Days 9, 10, 11, 12

I am not used to writing on a blog everyday, hopefully I can get better.

The last few days have been great, and in the past 11 days I have lost 8 pounds! (What!!!!!)

I left my essential oil pills where I was house sitting so I just got them back today so I couldn't take them over the weekend but took one as soon as I got them.

I went to spin on the 10th and went to the track for an hour and went to bubble ball soccer on the 11th (bubble ball is this awesome thing where you are in this big blow up ball and you can do flips and stuff, we have a drop in game of soccer in them in Yellowknife and definitely going to have to go again, when you fall and have to get your self back up its so hard, my legs are so sore today :) ).

Today also marks the first day of a 21 day challenge I am doing that a friend is putting on. She makes this big spreed sheet and you get points for doing stuff like going to the gym or get points taken away if you drink pop or eat sweets.

I have also been doing my at home workouts but changing it up a bit, I do a verity of stuff from my original plan and the other challenge that I posted and also have been doing some arm work with weights because I do no weight training which is bad.

I also have been drinking water with lemon in it for the most part. I find my mouth gets mucus in it more when I have lemon water so I have regular water when I am working out or else I feel like I can't breath sometimes.

I am back at home now for a week and a half so before my next house sitting job so I eat pretty healthy at home because my mom makes sure the dinner is healthy and I have been making sure to have a good lunch. Still having an egg and toast for breakfast but I need to add back in my smoothie to take to work. It means I have to get up a few minutes earlier and I just love my sleep so much that it is hard.

I hope everyone is doing well with their new year resolutions.

Day 3

Today was a bit of a hard day, I didn't have breakfast cauae I didn't get up till 11 due to the fact I couldn't get to sleep till 5am. Because I didn't have much sleep I had no intention of going to spin but I did do my at home workout. 

I had quinoa with veggies for lunch and some popcorn at the movie I went and saw this afternoon then had a sandwich with a bit of mayo, bacon, cucumber, tomatoes, mushrooms, and lettuce in it for dinner and had 3  peanut balls covered in dark chocolate for desert. 

I also made a detox drink, 

jillian michaels detox drink: 

60 oz of water

1 Tbsp cranberry juice (only PURE cranberry juice not the juice cocktail!)

1 organic dandelion root teabag

2 Tbsp lemon juice

There are so many variations of this and I couldn't find real cranberry juice so used diet stuff, and couldn't find dandelion root tea so I added in David's tea detox tea and squeezed in a whole lemon. (Love living in yellowknife, can never get anything special). 

It will be interesting to see if it works. I will look for cranberry juice and dandelion tea at the crazy expensive whole food store next pay cheque. 

So I am drinking that right now and using an it works body wrap