Update

Wow
It has been a while. I have been really busy with work, volunteering, and going to the gym.

I am very excited to announce though that I have lost 40 pounds since January 1st. Just from working out and eating healthy. I try and go to the gym as many times in the week as possible, sometimes it is 5 days, sometimes it is 2 days.

I hope that any goals you have set have been coming together!

My next goal is to lose 20 more pounds before I move half way though June. It is going to be hard but I think I can do it. Or at least get close to it. I am house sitting somewhere that has a treadmill so I will be able to use that the days I can not get to the gym and I find I eat healthier when I am house sitting.

I have hit a rock

All last week I didn't gain anything but I didn't lose anything, I was so busy that I didn't get a chance to go to the gym. It was a hard week. I didn't realize how much going to the gym was helping me. Even my mood. I went to spin last night and I let out all the anger and frustration and stress of last week and it felt great!!!

Hopefully I can get to the gym tomorrow night, we will see how I feel, I woke up this morning and felt dead with a cold. hopefully an early night tonight will help as I am not going to my other job feeling like this and passing it on to clients who don't have the best immune systems anyways.

Oh also I came in 3rd for that challenge I was doing YAY!!!! Now I still have to keep up with drinking lots of water and not eating after 9.

I also need to get back to using the it works body wraps. Maybe tomorrow I don't think I should use them if  I am feeling this crappy.

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 :)

Days 17, 18, 19, and 20

I really need to start posting on the weekends, I have the app on my phone. Its not like it is a hard thing to do.
Anyways, this weekend wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, I drank 4 liters of water ever day and even got in a bit of exercise at the conference. The food we had was pretty healthy and there was always some fruit and veggies.

The bad part was I had McDonald's on  Sunday for the first time in almost 6 months. It was so good but not what I remembered. Sunday night I then woke up in the middle of the night sick and spent most of the night and most of Monday with a touch of food poisoning. Not fun.

Good news is that I lost 6 pounds on week one of this challenge I am doing through my moms Co-Worker so I hope I can keep that up.

Because I was sick yesterday I didn't make it to the gym :( but hope to get to the track tonight, we will see how I feel after my 12 hour work day.

I would also like to point out that it is day 20 without pop :)

Keep at those resolutions and remember if you slip up just start again, its okay :)  

Day 15 and 16

Work has been crazy busy the last two days so I didn't get to write yesterday. With being so busy it it hard tie to take care of one's self but I think I have been doing a pretty good job. I only got one negative point so far and that was for a cupcake today, I will get another one because I am going to have a mocha after work but I need something before I go to my Guide training. This weekend is just going to be bad for food, we are having dinner tonight and lunch and dinner out tomorrow. I am going to try and eat as healthy as possible but I think tonight is just pizza so I will have to have lots of veggies and fruit with one slice. Tomorrow will be easier cause we will be going to a restaurant and can have salads and stuff like that.

I have been drinking tons of water! for every liter I drink I get a point so it is a pretty easy four points so why not, plus it is good for you. I couldn't get to the gym yesterday, or today or tomorrow (going bowling on Sunday, does that count? lol) so I have been and will keep doing home workouts,

I hope everyone has a good weekend :)

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

Day 13

Yesterday was a great day!
I went to spin and barre! (I wont be going back to barre though cause all the squatting hurt my back to much) Since I did that bubble soccer on Sunday my legs are like jelly now! Very proud of myself for doing two classes though.
Also yesterday I got 11 points for the challenge I am doing,
1 for eating 5 servings of veggies
2 for making my lunch and dinner
4 for drinking 4 liters of water
4 points for doing 2 hours of workout
0 because I had breakfast
0 because I talked to someone about non work related stuff for over 5 mins
0 because I had 3 solid meals
0 because I slept for over 5 hours
(these last 4 things are all things you should be doing so you get a minus point for not doing them)
0 because I didn't eat after 9 pm (that was a custom one I switched with pop since I am not drinking pop anyways) (if I did -1 point)
0 because I didn't have any fast food (if I did -1 point for each part of the meal ie fries, burger)
0 because I didn't have any sweets or treats ( If I did -1 point for each thing eaten)
0 because I didn't have over two alcoholic drinks

Today I am just really tired but its been a good day in the way of eating healthy, I did some workout during lunch and the group that I work with on Tuesdays nights is going to the track for our activity tonight  Today I will only get 8 points cause I will only drink 3 liters of water and be doing an hour of workout all together

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 8

Today has been a good day, had breakfast, had a salad for lunch, going to go home and do my workout but skip the gym because I have to get all my stuff together because the person I have been house sitting for gets home tomorrow. I am going to make a wrap for dinner. I wish I had drank more water during the day than I did but I will try and make up for some of it this evening.

Day 5,6 and 7

So I have been really busy the last few days so here is an update.
With being so busy I haven't stuck to my menu at all other than breakfast. But I have been eating as healthy as I can. I have had a few slips but I am not beating myself up over that.
I realized that the last thing I want to do when I get home from a 12 hour work day on Tuesday is work out.... So we will see how next Tuesday goes but I may just call that a day off from working out. (Next Tuesday my group I work with on Tuesday nights is going to the track anyways so there is my workout).

I did go to spin on Day 5 and did my at home workout and I am going to do my at home workout on my lunch today, (I guess i could normally do my at home workouts Tuesdays at lunch but I had to run some earns yesterday) and I am going to spin tonight.

I have been drinking tons of water!! like so much. I normally add in real lemon or when I am at work the pre squeezed stuff which probably isn't as good for you but is easier than bringing lemons to work.

As for my New Years resolution, this is day 7 with out pop :D

Day two

Day two is going good so far. I have drank so much water and I already did my workout on my lunch. For lunch today I had a chicken causer wrap and some roasted green beans and broccoli. I also drank two glasses of water with it.

The bad part about today is that my co-worker did buy my chips cause I hadn't had any yet this year (and didn't eat them all last year) I did stop myself before going to far though so I am proud of myself for that.

I just got invited to a family friends for dinner tonight so the quinoa and veggies will have to take a back seat tonight but they people place we are going to are pretty healthy so it should be pretty good.. (honestly I am ready for Monday when the holidays are done and everyone can get back to normal and not going to parties every night).

I am looking at different detox waters now, there is a few I want to try and keep seeing places. I will let you know what one I decide to go with first and if it works. I just don't want to be drinking regular water all the time.

Hope everyone is having a good new year so far

Day one

Today went well, I had my breakfast Of an egg and toast, I didn't have the smoothie cause I didn't wake up until 10:30 and then made enough quinoa and veggies for lunch today and dinner tomorrow. I had a dinner at a family friends house and they had food galor so I did eat a lot but tried to eat the more healthy stuff as much as possible.

I drank a ton of water, probably 3 litres which is good, I was doing that before the holidays so hopefully I can get back to that. 

I also did my workout so I am happy about that :) 

New Years Eve

So today is New Years eve. Not going to lie, I have a 710 ml bottle of ginger ale in front of me right now. Trying to drink all the pop I can before tomorrow. I am only at work for three hours so I did have a bunch of veggies as a lunch/snack thing though so that is good right?

Last night I made 31 of those essential oils pills I wrote about. I was finding it hard to add the oils in by adding two droppers, they would just get different amounts of oil in each time. So instead what I did was put thirty drops of each oil in to a little container (glass) and would use that as my mix of oils. It turned out great! I then put them in the freezer (remember to do this as if they aren't frozen the oils will eat through the plastic pill shell) I had one this morning and I didn't find that it made me feel ill like other pills have, so far so good.

I have to go grocery shopping again and this time I will have time to go to both grocery stores in town. The main one I got to was out of half the things on my grocery list so I still need some staples like frozen veggies and apples (I really only like the green apples). Oh life in the great white north, never know what the grocery stores are going to have.

Essential oils

I thought I would do a quick post on essential oils while I am on a roll of posting.

I meet some women here in Yellowknife a few months ago that sold young living essential oils. At first I didn't even look at the oils. I thought nah that stuff doesn't work! A few craft sales latter ( I make a sell jewelry) I was getting interested, I had been hearing all these people talking to these ladies about how they work so well and this and that. So I went over and talked to the lady I knew best and asked if there was anything good for migraines ( I get them all the time since I moved to Yellowknife). She said there was but they were the more expensive ones and before I spent a bunch of money to try the peppermint, she didn't have a new bottle in stock but i bought a defuser necklace and she put some drops in for me from her bottle.

It was amazing! I would smell the peppermint when i felt a headache coming on and it would stop it right in its tracks. So did some more research on essential oils and I bought the premium starter kit from young living. The amount of things you can use essential oils for is amazing! I don't sleep the best, so I put some ceaderwood in my humidifier and sleep like a baby. I felt a cold coming on so I used some thieves for that on my feet and the next morning was feeling a 100 percent.

Now when I first started researching essential oils I kept coming across oils that help you lose weight. I don't know for sure how well they work, my guess is that they work differently for everyone. I have been using a homemade grapefruit oil with coconut oil lotion I made and I can see a small difference in the way my skin looks. I came across a blog about making a trio of oils pill to help lose weight. It seems like it is kind of like the PGX pill so I ordered some empty pills and I am going to add it in to my routine in January to see how it works.

The recipe for the pills can be found here: http://stuffparentsneed.com/essential-oils-weight-loss/


Along with all this I have also started to make my own lip balm and hand creams. The stuff we put on our bodies that are bought in the store is so bad for us and I find the natural stuff works way better. Yellowknife is a very dry climate and having good lotion and lip balm is key.

I first bought my stuff from Young living and I love their products but about a week ago I found out that a local pharmacy carries another line of oils. While they don't have all the oils I am going to go there first before ordering online. (I also paid for the express shipping and it took about three weeks to get to me so I wasn't to happy with that).