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My Name is Jess and i started this blog recently to live a healthier lifestyle. In the past few months i have gained weight and hopefully this blog will motivate me to exercise and eat well. I am not a professional but i am more than happy to give advice on anything health/beauty/fitness related

Height: 177cm
CW: 141lbs
GW: 110lbs
miss-adriennej: growingupyogi: AAAAAAh i love this idea That’s actually pretty cool. Great visual.
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healthysexyhappy: Write down your goals.  Create a fitness action plan.  Devise a desirable reward.  Set a completion date. Enter a competition. Enter a competition amongst your friends. Plaster motivational quotes all over your house. Write “Every Day is a New Battle” on your bathroom mirror. Post your favorite fitness role model on your refrigerator. Post your favorite fat picture on your refrigerator. Type “Your Character is your Destiny” on your screen saver. Type “Get off your Fat Butt” on your screen saver. Practice core strength by using a stability ball for a chair. Rollover and do some crunches in-between emails on your stability ball chair. Buy a nice wardrobe that will fit you in two months. Donate all your fat clothes to Salvation Army. Moderate your strict eating with a fat meal once a week. When eating your fat meal, look at the body type of other people who eat fat meals daily. Buy some fitness magazines. Read some “how to” fitness articles. Join a fitness web blog. Read transformation stories. Pray and thank God for the amount of weight you’ve already lost. Make a supportive fitness group. Hang around fit friends. Surround yourself with people and things that promote a healthy lifestyle. Find a running partner. Inspire your own partner to run with you. Create fitness goals with your partner. Make a workout and diet log. Personalize your journal by adding inspirational quotes and pictures. Document your progress: weight, body fat, and blood pressure. Attend a bodybuilding/fitness show. Talk to competitors and pros that live for fitness. Ask your role models what motivates them. Take a chance and email your role model off their web site. Take a supplement for physical gains as well as a mental ‘placebo’ effect. Drink some coffee. Drink more coffee. Date someone more fit than you. Date someone who inspires you. Date someone you want to look really good naked for. Shave your body so you can see all your muscles. Tan your body so you can see all the lines and contours of your muscles. Tan your body at the beach so that people with really nice bodies can inspire you. Hire a trainer. Become a trainer. Humble a trainer by knowing more stuff than him/her. Look like a trainer. Buy new athletic shoes. Buy a new workout outfit. Buy clean, new, and comfortable socks. Wear really bright colors to the gym. Take a group exercise class. Take a spinning class for really intense cardio. Take Yoga or Pilates class for variety and core strength. Drink an energy drink. Plan a vacation where you have to wear a swimsuit. Read Lance Armstrong’s biography. Envision your workout during your warm-up. Focus on the workout, one set at a time. Beat yourself up with weights for even getting de-motivated. Conquer your negative thoughts by pushing your body into painful consciousness. Experiment on how much you can make yourself sweat. Make it a goal to be the fittest person in the weight room - or any room for that matter. Test your max on pushups and pullups. Post the Krispy Kreme’s calendar on your wall. Post Monica Brant’s calendar on your wall. Watch Ronnie Coleman videos. Read articles by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Buy a home exercise bike or treadmill. Become the inspiration amongst your friends. Help someone who is very overweight or wants to gain muscle. Visit my web site: http://www.mariakang.com/. Place your alarm clock across your bedroom so that you have to get up to turn it off in the morning. Place your athletic shoes right next to your alarm clock. Place a quote right next to your alarm clock that says: “Today you are closer to the person you were meant to become.” Alarm your cell phone to give you daily reminders to eat, work out, and give gratitude. Volunteer your time with people who don’t have full function of their bodies. Volunteer your passion for fitness at a YMCA. Look up new, healthy recipes to cook. Search for new, healthy restaurants to eat at. Observe the body type of the people at restaurants you shouldn’t eat at. Read one of Mike Mahler’s Aggressive Strength Training Articles on Bodybuilding.com. Learn a new exercise technique like Kettlebell training. Turn off your TV and run. Buy a new MP3 player or iPod and put some high energy workout songs on it. Buy new workout devices like a heart rate monitor or pedometer. Work out at a different gym. Work out at a different time of day. Work out using all new exercises. Vary your cardio by incorporating High Intensity Training. Say a prayer for power right before you train. Say a prayer for performance right before your set. Say a prayer for pain during your set. Say a prayer for persistence after your set. Say a prayer for positive action after you train. Action After You Train. Read articles on Bodybuilding.com. Shop for supplements, videos, and books on Bodybuilding.com. Get passionate enough to write an article for Bodybuilding.com. You know what motivates you. Quit reading and make it happen. I found this great list of things you can do to motivate yourself. And yeah, I use some of those strategies as well! ☺ Check it out… experiment, try out different strategies and see what works best for you! ;) 
healthymeansbeautiful: How to have a good relationship with food Who wants to hate eating?D: It’s one of the best parts of a day:D Here are Izzy’s 10 ways to make your relationship with food as meant to be as Ross and Rachel:’) 1. Stop dieting. Just reading that sentence might have sent you into a panic. Relax — I’m not telling you to forget everything you know about healthy eating, I’m asking you to change your perspective. Diets are temporary (“I want to lose weight for my wedding.”). Diets are about numbers (“I want to lose 10 pounds.”). Diets are a metaphor for what we really want in life (“When I lose weight, I’ll finally be happy.”) Let go of these ideas. Instead, think about the long haul (“I want to be able to play with my grandchildren someday.”). Think about how you feel (“Eating quinoa gave me so much energy!”). Think about what you really want out of life (“I want to run a 10K.”). The tools, tricks, and mentality of dieting won’t fix your life or solve your problems, but thinking about what you want out of life and making decisions based on that will. 2. Change your vocabulary. Can we all just agree that you were not “bad” if you had a piece of cake? That you were not “good” if you resisted seconds? These words are laden with the kind of judgment that’s the last thing you need when you are trying to learn how to approach food from a healthier point of view. You made a choice that either supported your health goals or it didn’t —- but that choice doesn’t make you “bad” or “good.” 3. Think, shop, and eat like a French woman. There’s a reason why French Women Don’t Get Fat became a runaway bestseller, and it’s not because we all wanted to figure out how to be skinny and eat croissants for breakfast. With our focus on restrictive diets and punishing workouts, we’ve completely divorced food from pleasure. On the list of great pleasures in life, food is up there right after sex. So when you’re in the grocery store, really appreciate the sensory aspects of the food on sale: the colors, smells, the feel of the wet spinach leaves between your fingers. Visit a farmer’s market and chat with the growers about how they like to cook their crops. Taste your food and experience the deep delight of eating something delicious. 4. H.A.L.T. Are you Hungry? Or are you Angry, Lonely, or Tired? Try to pinpoint what’s sending you the fridge. Is it a physical hunger or is it just boredom? If it’s hunger, by all means, eat up! But be aware if your desire to munch away is fueled by something else. 5. Sit with a feeling. If find yourself about to cuddle up with a box of chocolate cookies and you know it’s not because you’re hungry, try to just pause for a minute. Whatever the feeling is you’re attempting to eat away, sit with it. Feel all its discomfort. It feels bad doesn’t it? (No wonder we eat to get away from it!) Instead of masking those feelings with a binge, write down how you’re feeling or call an understanding friend. The feeling is still going to be there after a snack attack, but if you confront your emotions head on, you’ll find a better way to ease the pain. 6. Start a food journal. Most of us have no idea what we eat in a day or how much. Start writing down what you eat, not necessarily as a way to lose weight, but just to see how what you eat makes you feel. After each meal or snack, jot down your post-eating sensations: Do you feel like you need a nap? Did you wait too long to eat and then overdo it? By connecting the way you eat with how you feel, you can notice patterns and, if necessary, change them. 7. Ask yourself what you really want. You know when you’re not even hungry anymore, but dinner was good, and the lure of a second plate is right there within reach? You find yourself shrugging and thinking, “Ah, why not?” Instead of going for the second helping of food you don’t really want, ask yourself what you really want. Do you want a piece of dark chocolate? Do you want to get up from the table and go back to your kitting? Do you really, really want a pair of skinny jeans? Let what you actually want inform your decisions. 8. Reconsider “treats.” When your boss tells you your TPS reports weren’t up to snuff and you still made it through the day without tears, it’s tempting to treat yourself to a bag of chocolate-covered pretzels. But is this really a treat? Or is there a chance that deep down, you know you’ll feel worse-off than you did before? Think about treats that will actually make you feel better: a new lipstick, painting your nails, stopping to pet every puppy you pass on the street. 9. Nix peer pressure. Dinner with friends after work is one way to catch up, but there are so many other options that don’t involve food and that annoying dessert tug-of-war. Go to a yoga class, bundle up and take a walk through the park, see that art exhibit that’s about to close, or bond over your embroidery and a cup of tea. 10. Slow down. When I am so hungry that I am literally wolfing down my food, I’ll notice that I’m practically holding my breath. The same mindful breathing that can get you to relax is absent from hurried eating. Slow down. Take a bite. Take a breath. Pay attention to what’s happening right now: the tastes, the smells, the textures, the conversation you’re having over dinner. Take it all in mindfully and slowly…and enjoy! 

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gettingahealthybody: You can be better than what you are now. Not saying that you aren’t good right now, but you know you can achieve so much more if you would just keep going.