One Body

My plan with this blog is not to judge you, not to tell you that I think you need to loose weight or even how to loose weight because what worked for me may not work for you.  I hope to serve as an inspiration to you.  I am here writing this solely to help you with whatever struggles you may be going through by encouraging you.  My way of encouragement may, at times, seem harsh but sometimes that's what people need!! If you don't like it don't read it.
Now, with that being said, Let's talk about your body, my body, the human body.  We are born with everything we need (most of the time) We take it for granted, those that are born perfect.  We have 2 arms, legs, feet, eyes that hear and ears that see. Our body's are a perfectly well oiled machine, our hearts beat to keep us alive and our brains fire like lightning to keep ours thoughts running like wildfires so that our body's can do what they do.  Our brains know what our body's capable of, but the human spirit can be broken so easily if you let it.  It's so easy to talk your self out of what our brain knows is best for our body's. I'm tired, I'm hungry, I just don't want to.
Well, change it.  These are your thoughts that make you choose, your brain, it's yours.  Only you can choose to do what's best for you.  And your body, you only have one for the rest of your life you have one body, one brain.  They are yours, CHANGE THEM!!  It is up to you and only you.
Make the choice to be the best version of you.  The healthiest version of you.  Challenge your body, go for a walk, or jump on a cardio machine at the gym.  You will start slow, maybe 10 minutes the first few times, but push yourself EVERY TIME! Don't over do it, don't be dumb about it.  Just do it till you don't think you can do it anymore, then talk your body into 5 more minutes.  Your body will listen, it's your mind that's the problem here, it's breaking you.  It's lowering your will to move, raise it up keep going and Work it B!
On to another subject, no amount of working out is going to break down the cholesterol in your veins.  You have to change your diet.  And just because you worked out doesn't mean you earned a cheeseburger, or whatever it is that calls your name over and over again.  Yes, working out is going to be better than eating that cheeseburger and not working out, but you can not replace the calories you just worked off with food.  That's not going to help you loose weight, if that is your goal.  Calories in vs calories out. Set a caloric goal for your day and stick to it.  Write everything down, EVERYTHING!!  I set mine very low 1,200/day, did I always stick to it? NO! But I tried very hard to stay close to it.  If you work off 400 cal while working out then you can replace those calories, but don't expect to keep eating whatever you want and replace your calories lost while working out.  You will not loose weight like that.  In vs Out. You must have less in than out to loose weight. I like to use MyfitnessPal.com it has a lot of foods already in it and even foods from restaurants.
Heres an example of one day in my diary.  This just happened to be mommy daughter date night.  I was still on a 1200 cal/day restriction at this time, but it's showing my current calorie allotment now that I'm at my goal weight the calorie allotment went up significantly.  Something to look forward to right?!