Herbal life journey

So, I bet all you are wondering how my life with this new lifestyle change is going. I will admit I am loving the results and I have been doing it for about three months now.

 This is me before I gained all the weight. During this time I took a lot of picture of me and my body because I was so proud. 

Before starting this journey I had gained about 30-35 pounds, this was due to multiple things going on in my life. I was taking a medication that definitely made my body gain weight, but I can't just blame it all on that. I will also admit that I wasn't eating the best and definitely wasn't exercising.

This is me at my worst.  Though you may not be able to tell the difference, it is definitely there.  I barely took pictures of my whole body  or just in general because of how I felt about my self.

So now lets fast forward to June. At this point my life I was really just disheartened with my body. I hated wearing clothes that didn't stretch and had like no energy to change  my body with exercising. Finally,  after shopping for a skirt and just being discouraged by how I looked in the fitting room I made the choice that I really needed to change my body. The week before this happened my mom had mentioned Herbal life and doing that, but I was set that I could do it myself. This was not the case, I couldn't do it myself.

I set one foot in front of the other and made the necessary actions for me to get in touch with someone who worked with Herbal Life. We talked and instantly I knew that I would love it and could make the sacrifice for it. My coach and I set up a meal plan that would work for me and developed a great way to communicate between each other. That next week I started what was the best thing that has happened to my body since my sophomore year of high school.

My first week with Herbal Life I dropped 5 pounds!! Every part of my body was showing this change. It was amazing!!

 Second week in I had lost another 5 pounds!! As you can imagine I was on top of the world. I was so happy! Everyone around me was complimenting me and asking what program I was doing. My clothes fit better and overall I loved the way I was looking.

This is me two weeks after I started Herbal Life. Even in this picture you can tell I was gaining my confidence back and had energy to do a lot more than before.

Now everyday or even every week wasn't easy.  There were times I just wanted to give up and enjoy eating the non-healthy whenever I wanted. Losing weight is a such a mental game and it takes more than just eating right and exercising.

Some may say that dieting is bad and that it can be hard to stick with it, but I disagree. I get to eat 6 times  a day and I am learning eating habits that I know will last a lifetime. Herbal Life was not just a a diet or some meal plans I did. It is my healthy eating lifestyle. I am so proud of myself.

Over the course of about 4 months I have lost 31 pounds. I am still on this journey to getting my body. Don't give up! If you are on the same journey keep going! You can do it!! As I continue this journey I have more and more reasons to ....
Love life! <3

A little about me...

I actually haven't told a lot of people this because I don't want it to become an excuse for me. When I was in high school I was diagnosed with a condition called PCOS, or otherwise known as Poly-cystic Ovary Syndrome. Basically what this means is that my body is having horomonal issues and I have what are like little cysts on my ovaries.
If you know anything about the body, you would know that having little cysts on your ovaries isn't a good thing. This condition has left it's mark on me:

I am 20 years old and I still have acne.
Over the past couple of years I have gained weight.
I don't get normal/regular periods.

Often days I feel like there is no hope in curing myself. I will admit, I blame my condition for the state I am in. I often think that you know what it doesn't even matter anymore, I don't care how I look or if I will ever be able to have children. That is just the depressed me talking though. I care how I look because I want to be confident again. I want to not get sucked into this condition. Most importantly I want to have children and I want to have many!!!

So what do I do? What do I do when I have a condition that makes it 10x harder to loose weight? What do I do when I have a condition that makes it harder for me to have babies? 

I  am going to have to work for it!   
That is really the only option for  any of us that want greatness or results. We have to work for it in return we get results of the end product we want.

I am finally setting my mind to it. I am going to exercise and eat right, because honestly that is the only way to fight this condition. As much as birth control helps and keeping my hormones in balance those things don't last forever. I am going to start my journey with a Herbal life.  If you don't know what that is, just ask me. I would love to tell you all about and get  you toward your goal. 

I challenge any of you to join with me. I need your support!  Challenge yourself to eat healthy and exercise daily for at least 30 minutes.

As much as I Love life, I think I am going to love this new life. <3

Music is my life

Today, I did the hardest thing to my soul that I could do yet. I deleted music( I mean a lot of music) off my itunes. Now you are probably asking the question why would I delete the music if I like it so much that I got?Well, here is why.
I had two random thoughts pop in my head. The first being  about how I don't listen to some of my music and just waste space in my ipod. The second being that one day I will be a mom and I want my future child/ren to not be surrounded around filth in the home. They will get so much of it when they already get into the world, I might as well have a safe haven in my home.
So I started to go through and delete music I didn't listen to and that was just junk. At first it was easy!
But then! 
I was getting to music that had memories and that I so dearly loved. Let me tell you it got hard! I almost didn't want to push the delete button, but knew I needed to. 
I am not even done. I am still in the K's( keep in mind I started from the bottom and going to the top). 
I love music! It truly is how we connect with one another and how we express feelings that can't be spoken in words. Music is how the soul is feed! 
Music also has such an influence on people too. It is how people change, or want to be something they are not. It is how the soul daydreams. 
I am glad I am doing this, but at the same time my soul is hurting. I love music and all types of music! I know that as I continue to finish up deleting music that it is just going to get harder, but the only thing to do is 
Love Life! <3
 

Where did the day go?

Today was pretty exciting! I mean for being in college I don't get many fun opportunities because I am trying to keep up my grades,but today was one of those moment. For a friend's birthday we decided to go hike a mountain and get into a REAL hot spring. Pretty exciting right?!

Well, for one it took about 2 and half hours of driving to get there. 2 AND HALF HOURS!!! Ok, so it wasn't that bad going there at least. Music was playing loud, and everyone was just ready to start our adventure. You know the cool thing about car rides is that great conversation seems to happen during this time. It is truly an enriching experience. If you haven't had it, do it. Take a car ride for more than 2 hours and unplug yourself from technology, I will promise you it will happen.

So going on, we got there and for sure we were ready to hike! Hiking is another great way to make conversation and learn a lot about people. Well this wasn't one of the those hikes. This  hike was pretty intense. I died! Ok, well not really because I am here writing, but it sure did feel like it.

I love hiking. I could do it everyday for the rest of my life, that is how much I love hiking. Have you ever hiked though in a area where the altitude is higher?  It is HARD. I hate hiking. So I don't really hate it, but after today it has made me appreciate hiking in lower altitudes.

So back to my day. we hiked what seemed like forever. When really it was probably only 1 hour and 45 minutes. It was all mostly uphill and there were plenty of muddy spots to ruin a good pair of shoes.

FINALLY! We are at the top! After basically dying, we stripped off our clothes and were ready to head in. Let me say, the water was nice! The perfect temperature. :) To be honest though it  was just nice to sit in a warm pool of water and let my body rest. We talked and laughed,, but most importantly enjoyed the view.

 As one could see, the view was worth the strenuous hike. It was breathtaking! After getting changed into different clothes, we started our journey back down the hill. Let me say, that was just as hard as coming up because going down on a steep hill with shaky knees is scary. P.S. I don't know why I get scared coming down mountains, but I think it has something to do with shaky knees.
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       we went in almost half the time. Again we pile back into the car all sweaty this time, and smelly from the water. Even better! The ride back seemed to last forever. We were all tired and hungry and just wanted to get home. Finally we arrived! Home sweet home. Shower clean shower. Clothes clean clothes. After almost a 12 hour day of driving, hiking, soaking, hiking,and driving I would have to say it was a pretty amazing day. It wasn't a typical Saturday and I am glad it wasn't a typical Saturday.

It was a Saturday to remember. It was my opportunity to ...

Love Life <3

Life of a Gymocholic

I swear I live in gym clothes! For the past month,  all I  have been wear is yoga pants, that is however many days old dirty and big shirts.

I am a gymocholic.

Keep in mind I am not typically like this. I do actually wear other clothes,  but who would want to do that? Yoga pants just get me and understand what my body needs. COMFORT and SHOWING off my body.  They do just that. No matter how much I wear them, they hug me in all the right places.


That is  besides the point. The reason I am a gymocholic is because I am doing a Triathlon. Haha just kidding. I am actually doing a lazy man triathlon. Basically what that means is that for the whole month of February I do what normal people would do in  a day. Sounds pretty cool right?! Get your body in shape and all that right. It is fun, but really it is so much working out. Like no joke, the past couple of days we doubled up on workouts,so that my roommate and I could finish in time.

Here I am almost at the end of the February and I still have lots to do. I don't know what my life will be like after this month,maybe I will still go to the gym or maybe not.

I know that I will continue to live life and enjoy whatever comes my way. Because it is just best to

LOVE LIFE <3