Category: The Vault

Healthy plus fitness is how you define what that looks like, not others. If you feel like you should change your bad habits to lose weight, bulk up, or maintain it’s on your terms and how you want to take action. You have to be willing to make it a lifestyle change, or you’ll struggle for longer.

Since I was young, I’ve always struggled with how my body was getting bigger each passing year. At the end of last year, I became the biggest I’ve ever grown. In the past, when I did decide to slim down, I’d change my eating habits and exercise more. For the first few weeks maybe more would I do great, but then I would quit from any excuse. Now to the present moment, thing changed some health concerns I fear if I continue down this unhealthy path may come forth. So this year I decided to change my lifestyle to become healthier.

In the last few years did I realize why I wasn’t reaching my goal before, which means that it is a lifestyle change. You can’t just do it for a little while and expect the results to stay. It’s a skill and will power you have to develop through this change for life, not just for a few months of dieting and exercising.

I found that you can achieve a goal, but it’s easier to create small task goals that line up with the big one. When January of this year started, I buckled down and written out my break down plan each month that will help me lose the extra weight. I want to change my lifestyle in a much gentle way for a better future. I know there will be times where I want to quit, and that is just a reminder to look upon my progress and monthly goals again.

My first goals from January did I not reach until the month of April. Where I finally locked down my goal of drinking eight cups of water a day. For tips to how I reached that many cups keep an eye out for water does the body good. Also doing simple morning stretches. Then for the month of May, I upped it to nine and added easy yoga poses to the end of stretching. As of now, I can drink up to eight glasses on weekdays, sometimes nine and the stretches help wonders. I’m more upbeat and not getting so down on myself if a don’t stick to them some days I don’t reach my daily goals.

The only question I’ll ask is, are you ready to take that chance now? Here is how first, sit down with the big goal to have the body you want. Second, break that goal into small ones to make it easier. Third, set a time limit of a month or however long to reach that task. Expect set back, struggling times, but that is part of the journey. Every day all you have to do is start over as many times as you want. Remember you’re doing this for a lifestyle change, because once you get to that curvy or muscular body you want, you can’t go back to the way you were eating and little to no exercising.

P.S. Keep a look out for a monthly update of my mini goals.

Ever feel like your cruising through life by just going through the day to day motions. Struggling with day to day life and you want more out of this life, but don’t know how. Life is like trying out for a sport in school, and you may or may not make it one year. Then after not getting selected, we are either the type of person who goes back to practicing to be better the next year, or we just quit. What type of person are you the one who keeps trying or the one that doesn’t?

Upon looking at how life has been for the past eleven years, I’d have to say most of the time, I quit. I either lose interest or get lazy and not do it. It is a bad habit that I have created from a long time ago. I have always wanted my life to be a great one and that I want to live to the full compacity of life experiences. Having a family, traveling, living in a house I bought, and many other things.

Through my twenties, I realized that staying comfortable and going through the motions of working at my part-time job since I was eighteen and live with my parents for too long. I have watched many people leave to do better things and for me, I couldn’t because I loved my job, but also I didn’t think I could be good at anything else.

Now at my age, it’s time to become a big girl and make an effort every day to create the life I’ve always wanted. Can’t sit and wait for opportunities to come, and we all should never settle or forget about our dreams. So if you find yourself struggling or stuck in life and want more, remember you can change at any time, day or night. Begin and never stop going for what it is you want most in this life.