How I maintained a sugar-free holiday weekend
Memorial Day weekend is winding down as I write this and I have to say I am pretty proud of myself. I stuck to my food list! No snacking, no sweets, and no nibbling on junk foods. This Memorial Day weekend I went to a two-day concert, visited with my brother, and went out to eat for my mom’s Birthday. All triggers which have sent me into binges in the past. Not this Memorial Day weekend! The big difference has been doing the work to mentally prepare for these triggers. Something I have never given serious work before. Because I mentally prepared myself, I made sure to cook food ahead…
What to do about it: Working Out, Hunger, and Intermittent Fasting
I found out something pretty interesting last week. If I workout, I get hungrier. Duh right? Last week, I called myself jumping right into working out six days a week during my second week of intermittent fasting. I figured since I’ve been eating a primarily low carb diet for a few years, I could handle workouts on an intermittent fasting schedule. Even after a week. I was hella wrong. After my first workout, my hunger increased during my fasting window. By mid week, hunger went from being something I could manage to something that took over my thoughts. Food stayed on my mind and by the second day of working…
5 game-changing habits that helped me lose 45 pounds in 4 months
Being a full-time employee with a side hustle can leave all types of room for excuses to slack on the health and wellness part of life. But it is crucial to implement some type of self-care and health management. A good health and wellness routine can keep your brain sharp, improve information retention, help you maintain good energy levels, remove brain fog, and improve stress management just to name a few. These are routines I’ve found extremely helpful and easier to implement as a full-time employee, working your standard 9-5 (actually 5am-2:30pm), 5 days a week, with a creative side hustle and a desire to improve my health and partake…
The Power of a Mid-Morning Walk
Working in an office for 8 to 9 hours a day, I’ve come to really appreciate my mid-morning walks. They allow me to get under the sun, breath outside air, break up my sedentary work-day, and think alone. The biggest benefit I’ve noticed, however, is how much it has helped me be positive, uplifted, and better at managing the stress of my day. Here are a few other benefits I’ve noticed about mid-morning walks: Lowers stress later in the day – I don’t know why but I do better in traffic if I take a walk in the morning Increases sunlight exposure – Less likely to come home and take a…
How I Make Healthy Eating Simpler
One common idea is how complicated it is to eat healthy. I really do believe this is just another very effective marketing tactic. Eating healthy really isn’t as hard, confusing, and complicated as people make it seem. But thanks to years of bad science, high-paid lobbying, and billion-dollar marketing, we’re perceiving what’s obvious and simple as super complicated and hard to figure out. (That’s life though huh? Anyways…) Here are the rules I’ve learned to implement over the years to make healthy eating more concrete and straightforward in my life. Implement these and I’m sure healthy eating will get super simple for you also. No more confusion. Well, way less…
6 Tips That Actually Worked To Optimize Weight Loss While Sleep
When I first got back to the states, I practiced these things during the day and before bed. I saw noticeable changes in my body quickly. And the scale was doing some good thangs too. My results were so good one night that my waist beads fell off. I stood out of bed and they rolled right off my waist and onto the floor. Kid you not. Not only do the methods listed below help with weight loss during sleep, but they also helped me get the most regenerative, brain power boosting, subconscious connecting, make you wanna type of sleep ever! Fast a few hours before sleep Ok, so what…
Tips for keeping a health and wellness planner
I love scheduling stuff. There’s something about having a calendar of to-do’s, planned projects, checks, and cute doodles that makes me geek out. I have a schedule for work, a schedule for my passion project, so I figured, how cool will it be to have a schedule for the health and wellness “stuff” too? Health and wellness “stuff” being my daily, weekly, and monthly self-care routines and daily practices. This can be workouts, weekly meal plans, check boxes for if I ate clean for the day and if I had enough water, and even my nature walks. Disclaimer: This post may contain links where if you make a purchase or sign…
4 Ways a Clean Diet and Healthy Lifestyle Will Keep You Looking Young
Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed more fifty-or-better people hitting social media to show off their age-defying physiques. Mr. Steal Your Grandma, Ernestine Shepard, and Mimi are only a few that have wowed and inspired plenty. What do they have in common? Healthy diets and healthy lifestyles! They exercise, don’t smoke (to my knowledge), eat healthy, and Mimi even collects her own rainwater for crying out loud. I want to be like them when I grow up. And I already have a good start. People don’t believe I’m 30 when I tell them so that’s cool right? I’m hoping to age like Gabrielle Union and the other black actresses…
5 methods for improving self-discipline on a weight loss routine
I’ve experienced several situations where the pressure seemed like too much to deal with. I gave in. One of them being the pressure of fitting in and “having fun” like everyone else. But what I realized is I was the only one that would have to deal with being unhappy with my decision. I was going to be the only one to have to feel sick from eating a food I shouldn’t have eaten. It was me that would have to put in the work to get back on track. Making a conscious effort to approach social settings mindfully and prepared helps a lot when on a weight loss routine.…
3 ways to change your diet into a lifestyle and improve your weight loss success
As a recovering chronic dieter, I know the struggle. You’re constantly drawn to new diet trends like a moth to the flame. One month you’re doing a master cleanse, the next month you’re drinking powdered meals and eating a salad a day. But nothing seems to really get you to where you want to be: weight loss and weight loss that last. That was me for a while although I didn’t quite see it that way. Being the geeky, science nerd, hippie that I am, I was constantly reading up on and trying new holistic cleansing methods for weight loss. I was a vegetarian after I read somewhere that meat…
