My Healthy Mental Health
Mental health
Healthy Lifestyle
I am definitely not a health connoisseur, and I’m not big on dieting and I’m not a fan of exercising. I have dealt with my weight and it fluctuating since I was a child. At the age of 13 is when I had my first weight loss journey by joining my school’s track and field team. Although I was never a strong competitor, I was able to condition my body and get in shape. I maintained my weight loss until getting pregnant with my first child. I gained only baby weight while pregnant but gained more weight after my pregnancy; putting me back where I started.
I had my next weight loss after graduating from high school, losing weight from dieting with dancing and walking. I never been a huge fan of cardio and knowing dance has always been a love, I started doing different dance workouts programs from home or I would just turn on the music and dance like it’s no tomorrow. I lost all my weight again and kept it off until I had my second child. With that pregnancy I gained close to eighty pounds, which is sad to say. And the weight definitely required more work to lose, I danced, walked and jogged and diet taking close to a year to lose correctly . I stayed consistent with my weight again up until my last pregnancy and that was four years ago. Getting the weight off this last time took me a lot longer and I had to work a lot harder.
Three years later, a year ago on my 30th birthday I told myself that it is time to get healthier and make it a lifestyle. I did my usual at home dance workouts, walked and even changed my eating habits. I found a YouTuber and stayed consistent doing at least an hour a day. I also walked as much as possible around the house, up and down the stairs; I even started parking further at appointments and stores and take the steps instead of the elevator. These are habits I try to instill in my day, even now. I also started to drink as much water as possible cutting back on juices and teas, not ever really being a soda drinker. As far as eating habits I cut out all junk food because it was my weakness. And I also started intermittent fasting, only eating within a 12 hour frame, which is 6pm until 6 am. I am a night eater naturally so it wasn’t hard to get use, plus I work overnight so I knew those are the hours I eat the most. I haven’t really changed my diet, other than doing everything in moderation. That’s eating smaller portions and having the bad only once in a while. I feel the healthiest I ever felt in life, realizing I have been overeating almost all of my life.
I have not finished my weight loss journey and this time I'm wanting to implement this as my lifestyle. My next focus is toning and building muscle, I don't necessarily want to loose more weight but tighten and critique the weight I have lost.
Stay tuned for progress and updates!
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Looking Healthy
Looking Healthy
Time and Focus
I tend to get tunnel vision when I have a goal in mind, I completely loose focus on everything else. I feel it’s a good and bad thing most days I have to stop myself from focusing on what I’m trying to accomplish and live in the moment. I do complete what I’m trying to accomplish a lot faster than anticipated most times, but I realize other things fall on the back burner. And I feel most days when I’m focused I’m on autopilot with everything else in my life. Thankfully my kids are never affected by this for they are always my number one priority. As I make this self evaluation at this moment, I have came to the conclusion that I should relax more and let life happen and my goals will be conquered I just have to be consistent and think too hard about it.
Deliverance and Healing
The last three months of my life has taught me so much and I have healed from a lot that I was facing for far too long. I was able to find myself again and learn that my peace is the most valuable asset of life. I have been going through a phase of solitude and focusing on my self love. I learned that a lot of my trauma and anxiety was not from within but from the people I was attached to and trusted the most. This gave me comfort knowing that I could detach and I would be able to become the person God and I intend on being. I have been delivered from habits I had since I was just eighteen years old. And I feel the best I have ever felt mentally and physically! Definitely have more healing and growing to do but I can feel the change.
Weight Transition Again
Of course I over did pregnancy again and gained a ridiculous amount of weight. After my last weight loss and feeling completely healthy and strong I was a bit disappointed in myself. I gained over a hundred pounds with my last pregnancy and needless to say it has been a journey to get it off. I did not start my weight loss journey immediately being that I was focusing on balancing being a mother to two dependent children at once. But on my 33rd birthday this year I set my goal to start this weight loss journey once again. I changed my diet to avoid as much junk food as possible, that always being my weakness. And I try to be as active as possible doing at home routines or going for walks at least three to four days a week. So far I have lost eighty of the hundred pounds and I have made a promise to myself to lose these last twenty pounds the coming new year and to never gain that much weight again. I am getting older and I do not want to get any health issues; I really want to enjoy my latter days happy and healthy.
Me vs Me
I am now the age of thirty three and just now realizing how much I have always just needed myself to rely on. Me being independent and helping others since my childhood, I never understood that if I gave to myself as much as I gave to others I would never need anyone else. In these last few months of my life I have learned so much about my strength and me being such a loving person I always felt that I needed to share it with others to receive the same. However the key has always been to pour all that love into myself and I will be able have all the love I need. I spent my life trying to please everyone just to learn that it has always been no one that will have my back like I do. I am so grateful for my loving heart for I have four beautiful children that I am able to pour all my love into. For a brief moment I was feeling like it is me vs the world, because of everything that was coming at me, but I learned that it is me vs me. Because as long as I have the love of my sweet children and the love I have for myself I have all the love I need in life.