What do you do in your day when maintaining a healthy lifestyle? What’s your favorite diet and special fitness program? Any advice for fellow beginners?
My current goals are just weightloss and gaining muscle, not quite an easy task 😢. I’ve managed to lose 20 lbs in the past 2 - 3 months by accident almost. For the most part, I don’t have any strict diet, but! I do try to eat for a calorie deficit. It’s can be annoying to try to count everything you eat, but it really helps for me. I used a scale for about 1 - 2 months, and you really get a sense of how much is in whatever you’re eating. From there, I just eyeballed everything and it’s worked for me I’d say.
As far as working out goes, I used to do yoga pretty often, I try to go to the gym 3 times a week and just do a basic 3 day split. Hiking is occasionally in there, rock-climbing and swimming on rare occasion.
I’m also on the goal of cutting and gaining at the same time, but it hasn’t been quite comfortable for me, so I switched to mostly cutting and gaining a little whilst maintaining. I noticed that I’ve been bulking more than cutting, (sometimes I have a tendency to focus on more than the other.) Luckily this went on for two months so I’m gonna start over with cutting.
I usually don’t focus on weight until I see some visual changes, like if certain places of fat disappeared or if I see a difference in muscle. It is quite annoying seeing your weight change and then go back to the way it was.
Yoga? How was it? I hear about it quite often and tried it once. It felt really relieving doing that session. I never knew how good breathing felt until I did that yoga exercise.
The last three hobbies you mentioned are very interesting. There’s a video where pole dancers do what rock climbers do, and rock climbers do what pole dancers do. It’s really interesting, you should check it out! :)) There’s also other videos where people of similar hobbies do what other hobbies do. Like gymnastics and parkour.
I’ve certainly had to be more aware when it comes to eating. I’ve been good about thinking about why I’m overeating at that moment (though I of course have my moments…a late night shitty burrito). I managed to lose uhhh something close to 20 lbs in a the past few months! I was shocked!
Yoga helps alot with going to the gym and staying limber! I feel like it also prompts me to be aware of my mind! A mindfulness of my physical body chills my mind in a way. I feel different, comfortable :). I was never originally into it, but someone I knew introduced me…Yoga with Adrienne has a 30 day series! I think the farthest I’ve gotten was like day 17? (the Home series)
I recently went climbing again!! I’ll see if I can find it!
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I go on a walk every day. I can feel the mental illness creep back if I don’t. It’s, uhh, hard to work out when you’re agoraphobic. I recommend it, very easy to do and good for the mind.
Late to the party but intermittent daily fasting is my primary goal. Low carb is a secondary goal. These things serve one main goal which is to keep insulin levels low. High insulin levels is the key that locks your bodies ability to burn fat stores and also promotes your body to store fat. Complex carbs are not as bad and fibre slows down insulin impact even moreso (beans lol). But simple carbs I avoid like the plague up until I have a failure and eat like trash for a day.
You don’t have to do super low carb if you are fasting for at least 16 hours a day which is basically just eating dinner 3-4 hours before bed then not eating again till lunch (4-5 hours after waking up). This is enough time to reset your insulin levels to base line and promote the body beginning to pull from fat stores without affecting metabolism in a negative way. And it’s easy. You don’t actually have to DO anything. It’s the absence of doing something. It’s just not eating. Most days I have a 20 hour fasting time. I have also done extended day fasting in excess of 5-6 days. Longest time was 6 hours shy of 7 full days. One day I’d like to go 10+. It sounds scary but it’s exhilarating to me. The clarity of mind and alertness. It’s like becoming a whole different person. ALSO if you go 5+ days I discovered that whatever you eat when you come back, your body is going to CRAVE a lot. I came back with some lacto fermented foods I made myself (pickles, peppers, and sauerkraut), some plain Greek yogurt, and salads. So like, ALL the probiotics and a ton of fibrous vegetables. Had salads for a couple days. Then… It’s all I wanted to eat for about 3 months. Like I just wanted salad. I made my own ranch with plain Greek yogurt for extra protein and also had a good amount of eggs.
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I’m somewhat into the SOS-free diet. However with me it’s more of SOS limited. Due to having eczema, I limit my sugar and salt intake. When I was in an unhealthy diet, I would itch all over my legs, ever since I changed my diet, never had an outbreak on my legs ever since.
I catch myself slipping as well. I still eat chips, sometimes it’s hard to break old things when you don’t replace them fully. Whenever I’m hungry on the road, I grab a bag of chips because in rural areas, we don’t have convenience stores where they sell healthy foods. Only fried foods. Have you tried 85% dark chocolate? It’s REAAALLLYY bitter at first but trust me after a while it tastes really sweet once you get used to it! :))
