Journey to Losing Weight 2

So I had decided to work on my portion control and use the app myfitnesspal to help track what I eat.

I wasn't using myfitnesspal as often as I should have but I did use it for quite a while. I have to say that I absolutely love this app. At first I ate what I normally to see where I was lacking in nutrients as well as to see how much calories I was taking in. I was definitely shocked to see the results. I was eating a lot of calories and not enough nutritious food to balance my meals.

I few things that I have noticed are, even though I don't eat a lot of fatty foods, I take in way too much sugar and carbs. I also wasn't getting a lot of vitamins from the foods I ate as well.

After seeing the results, I definitely changed the way I ate. I notice that now my food intake is more balanced and more nutritious. I have also improved in portion control as well. Although I'm still not 100% on the portion control, I am definitely getting better at it. I have started to use smaller plates and eating a healthy snack in between my meals to help me eat less during my meals.

So far this journey is getting better but I still have a long way to go.

Journey to Losing Weight 1

Losing weight has never been an easy thing for me, usually whenever I try to start my journey I always give up around 1-2 months in the journey. One thing I decided to try to keep going was to cut down on the amount of times I workout and the types of workouts I did. I decided to try and workout about 3 times a eek, of course if I worked out for more than 3 days then that's better but 3 days a week was my goal. I did that because I noticed that whenever I would skip a day it would set me back a lot because I started to get lazy. By doing 3 days a week, even if I skip a day I know that I can keep going the next day. I also decided to change the type of workout I did for the same reason. I use to do p90x and Insanity and whenever I skipped a day I would get lazy about completing the rest of the week. I decided to do workouts that don't require some type of schedule to complete it and that is more fun for me. I decided to do workouts by Billy Blanks and just dancing. Although I'm not a professional dancer, dancing is definitely a workout that I can do that is fun. I usually dance for about an hour and the Billy Blanks workout I do is 45+ minutes. These workouts are fun and I sometimes end up doing them for more than 3 times a week because I really enjoy doing it.

One huge problem that I have though is eating. It's not that I eat unhealthy foods, because I've been working on that, but now I'm having a hard time with portion control and having a set time for eating. I don't wake up at the same time everyday so my breakfast is at a different time almost everyday. I have a hard time with setting my eating time. I'm also having a hard time with portion control. I know how much I should be eating but I keep on wanting to eat more then I need to.

So far my journey has been alright, I hope to get better though. I plan on using myfitnesspal, which is an app that helps you count calories as well as how much fat, cholesterol, sugar, etc. that you are eating in one day. I hope that this app will help me not only control my portions but help me to have a more balanced diet as well.

Journey to Waist Length 2

I've finally decided to join a hair challenge. I've always wanted to join some type of hair challenge but have always been to late in trying to sign up. I've decided to join the castor oil challenge done by kinkycurlycoilyme.com. I decided to use cold pressed castor oil that I got from amazon. I plan on using the castor oil as a scalp and edge treatment because my edges need a little TLC. I decided to straighten my hair, even though I had plan on not using heat or any styling tool. I wanted to straighten my hair so that I can see the full length of it and be able to compare with the after shots when the challenge is over. I'm really excited about this and hope that this challenge will help my hair grow a little bit more.
After straighten my hair I ended up trimming a huge amount of my hair because the ends were sooooo horrible, I hadn't trimmed my hair in months. I think I trimmed off about 2 inches of hair and now my hair ends feel pretty good. I plan on combining the castor oil challenge with protective styles to maximize my hair growth.