And I lost enough bloat to notice. 🙂 What I did was get back to the basics and implemented practices that worked best. I removed things I know I shouldn’t be eating, cleaned up my lifestyle with a new routine, and started nourishing my mind every morning like I nourish my body. Below I detail what I did to lose 6 pounds in 5 days. Put myself back on a routine A good routine helps me stick to healthy habits like my daily self-care practices, fasting schedule, and turning off electronics an hour before bed. I also meal prep, grocery shop, wash clothes, and do other chores on a routine…

Not to say that this advice will totally eliminate all sugar withdrawals, BUT it will sure ’nuff make sugar withdrawals less of a pain in the arsh by getting you fat-adapted BEFORE getting into a fat-burning routine. A lot of times, the reason why people give up on a low-carb diet, or any diet for that matter, is because they go in thinking willpower will get them through. Or they think all they need is willpower and self-discipline. They find that their willpower is no match to the hunger headaches, hunger pains, intense cravings, mood swings, and symptoms that happen when your body is getting less carbs and adjusting your…

Simple tips for natural weight loss. Not easy. At my highest weight, I weighed 245 pounds. I was 14-years-old. I lost down to 170 by senior year. Then I regained a lot of weight during my first few years of college and went back up to 235-lbs just 10 pounds shy of my heaviest. These are the steps I took to get into “onederland” at around 198 until I lost even more weight down to 170. They’re simple steps, but might not be as easy to work them at first. But before I get into the steps, I’ve got to share what I learned about weight gain you might find…

There are a few things to consider when choosing an intermittent fasting method besides thinking about which one works the best for weight loss. Choosing an intermittent fasting method that doesn’t work for you is like suffering unnecessarily and making intermittent fasting way harder than it has to be. You might choose to fast for 20 hours a day because the weight loss results you’ve seen look fantastic, but you started out KNOWING you struggle to go from meal to meal without snacking. That’s a set up for failure, girl. Jumping from eating a total of 6 times a day to eating once will hurt. And it is an unnecessary…

Weight loss is already challenging enough. When a plan stops working, it becomes even more challenging and frustrating. Keto is no exception especially considering how restrictive a ketogenic diet can seem. For some, this diet is the best thing since Kerry’s Gold butter. For others, it’s limiting and if there aren’t any weight loss results, keto appears to be not worth the effort. If you’ve started experiencing a weight loss plateau with the ketogenic diet, don’t toss out the keto approach just yet. Give these tips a try if you’re looking to stick with keto. But if you’re totally over keto, by all means, give it up. There are other…

Not exactly week 1, but I’m calling it week 1 because it’s the first week I’m challenging myself to do 30 days straight, no cheating. Realized I haven’t gone more than a couple of weeks clean in months. (That’s part of why I’ve gained 20 pounds, I’m sure.) I also feel really good and energized with the clean diet. And not hungry enough to eat outside of my fasting window, so I know things are moving in the right direction. Each week, I’m going to give updates of what I did, what I ate, what worked, what didn’t work, and what I’ll do the following week. I think I’ll also…

Over the last 8 months or so, I’ve gained over 20 pounds. It seems like one month I was celebrating getting back down to the 160’s and then the weight started creeping up to where I’m just 6 pounds shy of being back in the 200’s club. I struggled with binge eating, food addiction, and feeling controlled by parties, dates, and event. It usually started with an event, now that I think about it. It would start with an event (party, date, special occasion). Then my cravings would be through the roof and I’d continue to eat sugary, processed foods. This would go on for weeks until I finally gained…

Through my own experience, and from watching intermittent fasting channels on YouTube, I found out there is a hard and an easy way to getting started with intermittent fasting. You could jump right in and deal with the sugar withdrawals and cravings on top of adjusting to eating one to two times a day. Or, you could prepare your body and experience a much easier transition to the intermittent fasting lifestyle. Jumping right into intermittent fasting makes it harder to stick to and incorporate as part of a healthy lifestyle. Being prepared for intermittent fasting makes it easier for the body to transition without having to suffer through sugar withdrawals…