I cut out most junk food and worked out everyday for 20 days and this is what’s happening...
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I’m almost done with the 28 junk food reset! Orlando and I gave up junk food (minus two or three controlled cheat days)! I’m proud of us. Before I go into more details, I wanted to share my workout for the day!
Friday’s are my “rest” days, but I don’t like not moving my body at all. I’ve found that yoga is a nice balance of making my body work, but in a more relaxing way if that makes sense. I mean, yoga isn’t easy by any means! Yoga does make it easy to not overwork or over exert your body! This one included some nice little pushups that caught me off guard. It was fun though.
It’s also easy for me to continue not working out if I miss a day so continuing to move my body is important. I have to stay disciplined, but have fun while doing it. I recently changed the way I had been working out for years because I was bored of it.
I’m also excited because I’ll be watching “The Confession of Lily Dare” tonight. I love watching shows and movies no matter how bad they are. Thankfully most of the ones we end up watching are good! We’re also blessed that both jobs offer tickets because that’s the only way we’ve been able to watch as much as we have!
Now onto what you’re here for! We gave up processed food, fast food, sugary drinks and in Orlando’s case alcohol for 28 days. There are still a few days left for the reset to be officially over, but I wanted to give a quick update. If we had to put bad things into our body (sometimes there were limited food options and we had to eat), we tried to choose the most healthy of the bad options. We also snuck in a few cheat treats or meals here and there, but overall we accomplished our goal.
Obviously we love junk food, but we had been eating way too much and I wanted to change that.
We also worked out everyday in order to complete the 2020 challenge. On top of the moves in the 2020 challenge, I would usually do an additional workout. I’m at a point in my fitness level, where the challenge wasn’t too difficult for me so I needed something on top of that to make my workouts feel complete.
Overall, I’m not seeing much physical difference in my body! Maybe once I post the before and after pictures when the reset is over I’ll see it, but looking in the mirror in my day to day life I don’t. My goal was never to lose weight, but I am slightly disappointed that I haven’t seen a physical difference.
I wanted to have a better relationship with my body and overall I think I do. It can still be improved, but compared to what it was before it is better.
I will say that my lack in physical change may come from the amount of sleep I’ve been getting this month. I usually sleep pretty well, but this month hasn’t been great. The days leading up to the audition and the days of the actual auditions, my nerves got the best of me and I would wake up in the middle of the night and have have a hard time falling asleep. I also had other stressful factors on top of that. Lack of sleep and stress do nothing for you. If anything these factors hindered any positive changes my body might have made.
On the major plus side, my face is clearing up. My face started breaking out with the drop in temperatures which is standard, but usually it starts clearing up as my skin gets used to the new temperatures. This time my forehead and chin broke out and they were not clearing up.
Maybe I should have taken before and after pictures of my face. It’s looking so much better. My nails are also growing stronger and faster and not breaking. I noticed after Williamstown that this was a good way to determine whether or not I was putting the right things into my body. I should have done before pictures of those, too!
I’m obviously self conscious of break outs so it’s nice to see them finally clearing up. I’m still having smaller pimples appear, but nothing too bad.
In terms of digestion I haven’t noticed anything different. Orlando says he’s noticed positive changes in his digestive patterns. I don’t know if mine should have changed too, but I haven’t noticed any changes. I guess that’s a good thing.
My goal with these challenges was to improve my relationship with my body. It has for the better.
Like I said, it can still be better, but it has improved. I haven’t weighed myself since my last OB/GYN visit so at the moment I don’t know what my current weight is. Between my first gynecologist visit and my latest I gained a lot of weight. That started my downward spiral. I let those numbers affect my mood.
I even let them stop me from feeling beautiful on my wedding day.
The negative feelings only got worse as the year progressed! I wanted a better relationship with my body, but I was doing nothing to change that. It was easy to workout and then put a lot of bad food into myself and blame my lack of progress on my workouts. I wanted to see physical changes instantly, but did nothing to make those changes a possibility. I figured the start of the new year was a great time to start fresh and to hopefully keep that mentality going strong the rest of the year.
So, here’s what I’ve learned so far:
1. I can survive without eating junk food on a regular basis.
2. The times I did treat myself I treated is as such: a treat and not a reward or something I was entitled to.
3. My body is strong. It may not look it, but it is. I wouldn’t mind if some definition, started poking through, but I won’t beat myself up if it doesn’t.
4. When taking on something like this it helps to have someone on your side. Orlando committed fully and did better than me in some ways. His commitment made me want to keep pushing.
I think everyone should challenge themselves in some way! It’s great the things you’ll learn about yourself. I’m looking forward to eating junk food again as some hot Cheetos have been calling my name! I actually only started craving them recently, and I think it’s because my mind knows the challenge is almost over. I’m mostly looking forward to eating my favorite junk food in actual moderation. This challenge reminded me that I have the ability and willpower to do that!
Alright everyone! That’s all for today! I hope you didn’t mind reading a long post today. I will update with after pictures soon.
Lluvia
I’m almost done with the 28 junk food reset! Orlando and I gave up junk food (minus two or three controlled cheat days)! I’m proud of us. Before I go into more details, I wanted to share my workout for the day!
Friday’s are my “rest” days, but I don’t like not moving my body at all. I’ve found that yoga is a nice balance of making my body work, but in a more relaxing way if that makes sense. I mean, yoga isn’t easy by any means! Yoga does make it easy to not overwork or over exert your body! This one included some nice little pushups that caught me off guard. It was fun though.
It’s also easy for me to continue not working out if I miss a day so continuing to move my body is important. I have to stay disciplined, but have fun while doing it. I recently changed the way I had been working out for years because I was bored of it.
I’m also excited because I’ll be watching “The Confession of Lily Dare” tonight. I love watching shows and movies no matter how bad they are. Thankfully most of the ones we end up watching are good! We’re also blessed that both jobs offer tickets because that’s the only way we’ve been able to watch as much as we have!
Now onto what you’re here for! We gave up processed food, fast food, sugary drinks and in Orlando’s case alcohol for 28 days. There are still a few days left for the reset to be officially over, but I wanted to give a quick update. If we had to put bad things into our body (sometimes there were limited food options and we had to eat), we tried to choose the most healthy of the bad options. We also snuck in a few cheat treats or meals here and there, but overall we accomplished our goal.
Obviously we love junk food, but we had been eating way too much and I wanted to change that.
We also worked out everyday in order to complete the 2020 challenge. On top of the moves in the 2020 challenge, I would usually do an additional workout. I’m at a point in my fitness level, where the challenge wasn’t too difficult for me so I needed something on top of that to make my workouts feel complete.
Overall, I’m not seeing much physical difference in my body! Maybe once I post the before and after pictures when the reset is over I’ll see it, but looking in the mirror in my day to day life I don’t. My goal was never to lose weight, but I am slightly disappointed that I haven’t seen a physical difference.
I wanted to have a better relationship with my body and overall I think I do. It can still be improved, but compared to what it was before it is better.
I will say that my lack in physical change may come from the amount of sleep I’ve been getting this month. I usually sleep pretty well, but this month hasn’t been great. The days leading up to the audition and the days of the actual auditions, my nerves got the best of me and I would wake up in the middle of the night and have have a hard time falling asleep. I also had other stressful factors on top of that. Lack of sleep and stress do nothing for you. If anything these factors hindered any positive changes my body might have made.
On the major plus side, my face is clearing up. My face started breaking out with the drop in temperatures which is standard, but usually it starts clearing up as my skin gets used to the new temperatures. This time my forehead and chin broke out and they were not clearing up.
Maybe I should have taken before and after pictures of my face. It’s looking so much better. My nails are also growing stronger and faster and not breaking. I noticed after Williamstown that this was a good way to determine whether or not I was putting the right things into my body. I should have done before pictures of those, too!
I’m obviously self conscious of break outs so it’s nice to see them finally clearing up. I’m still having smaller pimples appear, but nothing too bad.
In terms of digestion I haven’t noticed anything different. Orlando says he’s noticed positive changes in his digestive patterns. I don’t know if mine should have changed too, but I haven’t noticed any changes. I guess that’s a good thing.
My goal with these challenges was to improve my relationship with my body. It has for the better.
Like I said, it can still be better, but it has improved. I haven’t weighed myself since my last OB/GYN visit so at the moment I don’t know what my current weight is. Between my first gynecologist visit and my latest I gained a lot of weight. That started my downward spiral. I let those numbers affect my mood.
I even let them stop me from feeling beautiful on my wedding day.
The negative feelings only got worse as the year progressed! I wanted a better relationship with my body, but I was doing nothing to change that. It was easy to workout and then put a lot of bad food into myself and blame my lack of progress on my workouts. I wanted to see physical changes instantly, but did nothing to make those changes a possibility. I figured the start of the new year was a great time to start fresh and to hopefully keep that mentality going strong the rest of the year.
So, here’s what I’ve learned so far:
1. I can survive without eating junk food on a regular basis.
2. The times I did treat myself I treated is as such: a treat and not a reward or something I was entitled to.
3. My body is strong. It may not look it, but it is. I wouldn’t mind if some definition, started poking through, but I won’t beat myself up if it doesn’t.
4. When taking on something like this it helps to have someone on your side. Orlando committed fully and did better than me in some ways. His commitment made me want to keep pushing.
I think everyone should challenge themselves in some way! It’s great the things you’ll learn about yourself. I’m looking forward to eating junk food again as some hot Cheetos have been calling my name! I actually only started craving them recently, and I think it’s because my mind knows the challenge is almost over. I’m mostly looking forward to eating my favorite junk food in actual moderation. This challenge reminded me that I have the ability and willpower to do that!
Alright everyone! That’s all for today! I hope you didn’t mind reading a long post today. I will update with after pictures soon.
Lluvia
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