Healthy Living

I am all about having my life be ever-changing, so recently I have decided to turn that up a notch within my life. I was talking to one of my close friends about what we are somewhat unhappy with in our lives and what we can do to change that. The conclusion to that conversation was that we are going to focus on our health and work on ways to improve it, because we all know as early-mid twenty somethings, it is very easy to fall into a pattern of unhealthy eating. What our health plan consists of is; eating better food with more nutrients and working out more and for a longer duration of time. The one key that sets this apart from a regular diet is that we are not cutting out foods, but more keeping in mind the idea of moderation. I try to resist the warm look of a snickerdoodle, but when that happens I just have to remind myself that for the beginning of this change I need to be strict with myself. This is not about completely changing my lifestyle, but more realizing I can't eat the same as I did when I was 18 years old. So for the first couple of weeks I am sticking with eating healthy and not veering away from my plan. This makes it easier for me personally because I learn healthy options for things I am craving like sweets or salty foods. When I was in high school and early college, I used to workout an insane amount, which is part of the reason I never noticed weight gain when I ate horribly. But now that it is easier to notice (I can thank my new metabolism), I know that I need to workout for longer periods of time and do different workouts to keep myself motivated. Instead of having a goal weight for ourselves in this challenge, we came up with having a target area to work on and measuring it. We gave ourselves a two week deadline to reach this goal, which I think makes it totally doable to get to that goal measurement. What's nice about doing these kinds of challenges with a friend, is that the friend you do it with will hold you accountable and make sure you stay on track. With my friend, I am constantly sending her snapchats of foods I am wanting to eat, but I should be shying away from during this duration of time. But that's what they are supposed to do! They are supposed to be like "hey are you sure you want to be eating that right now just because it looks good?". That is one thing I am really trying to work on is eating when I am hungry instead of eating because something just looks good or emotional eating. But I am slowly learning how to turn that all around! Look forward to follow up posts about my progress and recommendations of meals as well as workouts!

Here is a picture to make us all hungry and remind me of how much I love food!