I recently gained a few pounds, got a little weird.
I'm not even gonna say lazy.
I was really, really trying and always trying to be very healthy.
I know that my health is so important to me.
It was just the framework and the mindset that I was in.
All of the stress that I had from my career and my thoughts and my anxiety, all of that have just been very hard for me to actually be healthy.
So I decided to kind of make like a, how I get back into my healthy routine video.
I also made a matcha because I'm completely out of coffee, which is insane.
Like didn't really know that that was possible for me.
But whenever I make matcha, Always seems to collect at the bottom.
I put everything through sifter use warm water.
What else do I do?
I'm reacting like I do all these things.
Um, I What else do I do?
Oh, I do.
I use the little whisk, like the matcha whisk, and i go back and forth like this, and then i use the electric whisk and it still goes to the bottom.
So it's like i need to drink it like this.
I feel like I need to start this whole thing with the why.
And I always used to start my like getting back into my health journeys with a why that was kind of just like ambiguous, unclear and kind of forced.
There are so many vague reasons I could give, like I know it's right, or because it's better to be healthy than unhealthy.
When I make my why, for why I'm getting back into my healthy lifestyle, something that I genuinely care about and that is attractive to me right now.
It just makes it feel so much more natural.
What matters to me right now, I feel like would be my energy levels.
Like my energy levels when they're low.
It's like someone who is having like cath cath, cath.
I was gonna say caffeine withdrawals, but I almost said Kathleen withdrawals.
It's almost like having caffeine withdrawals when someone doesn't have their coffee in the morning.
They just feel like they want to just be mean to everyone.
They have no energy or patience to handle anything like.
That's kind of what I feel like when I haven't been sweating at all or taking out some of my bodily stress at all.
Also just having a clear mind.
I'm going to put a YouTube video that I watched up here recently about walking.
I really hope it's up here.
Eight years on YouTube, still don't know where the card button is.
It's probably up there now that I think about it.
I think it's up there.
Yeah, I knew walking was a really good workout, but I just didn't really exactly know why.
There are so many little things about walking that just compound and add up that literally make it such an amazing workout.
I know that a lot of people know that it's good for like your brain function, oxygen your muscles, your energy, like your focus.
And it's not just about losing fat and gaining muscle.
It's all these other things.
He in the video goes really deeply into it.
For example, the act of your body going left to right, left to right, like that pattern of your steps, is actually putting your body in a really safe environment where it's predictable, which lowers your cortisol, resets your nervous system and helps you have better ideas, better focus, like i'm like this is literally so crazy that walking is so good for you and it's like it's better to even do just like 15 minutes of moderate walking than like an hour of really intense walking, so it's honestly easier to.
Another thing is I love to be outside now that it's like getting warmer.
My boyfriend and I will literally just go and play basketball, do literal hopscotch.
Hopscotch is awesome.
Like bring hopscotch back.
Why is hopscotch just like a kid thing?
I wanna play hopscotch.
That's what I feel like.
This whole new mindset that I have about health is basically coming from this whole concept of imperfection.
Before I would get so motivated because I would be like okay, this is going to be my routine.
This is going to be my weekly meals.
And then, when I start falling off of it, all of my motivation and confidence in myself starts falling off as well.
The whole point of grace with yourself when that happens is that you can never mess up, and the fact that you know that you can't ever mess up makes you want to keep trying.
If you just shame yourself every single time you mess up, that's not going to make you want to keep going.
This idea of like compassionate grace to yourself while in this journey is the only thing that's going to make it last for your entire life.
Life oh my gosh.
I'm having a cramp in my calf.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
I like can't move my calf.
My calf is like hard.
What, what?
Oh, it's because i was sitting on my leg this whole time.
Now there's no blood flow to my calf.
I feel like i need to walk at all.
Tips on how to be healthy.
Maybe I can also plug my pump in while I'm here.
Get two birds stoned at once.
The next thing that really helps me stay healthy is setting myself up for success.
The whole goal of this is just to make it as easy as possible.
The first thing is that I am, in fact, type 1 diabetic, so I literally can't reach my fitness goals while having bad blood sugars.
It's just not possible.
I need to make sure that my blood sugars are as in control as possible.
That means having a regular routine waking up at similar times, going to bed at similar times, eating at similar times and working out at similar times.
Also not having and not being constantly surrounded by food that makes my blood sugars go crazy.
I used to just like have a bunch of food and snacks in the pantry for like a rainy day or even like a low snack.
I'm like, oh, I'm just gonna eat this if I'm low.
Not true at all.
Gaslighting myself every single time I would eat it and I wouldn't even be low.
So then I wouldn't even have it for a low snack.
The things that I need to do to keep my blood sugars in check are also just the things that anyone can do to make themselves healthier.
So even if you don't have type 1 diabetes, these are also things that will just make your routine healthier.
I feel like it's really easy when you make a list for groceries, because it just makes it so much easier.
And you just know like, okay, this wasn't on my list.
I don't need it.
It's like a junk thing that I don't even want to eat.
So I make my grocery list on my reminders app.
I created a grocery list template.
So every time I'm going to get groceries, I don't have to rethink of everything from scratch.
Templates on reminders are like the biggest hack ever.
I'm going to go get groceries today with my sister.
I'm gonna do a haul of everything that I got.
New pasta, which is basically 30 calorie for the whole package pasta.
And it's made out of konjac, six grams of carbs.
We were out of instant coffee.
So I got this Nescafe rich, like super huge instant coffee.
I got two raspberries and two blackberries, low fat rice crackers.
I got mini cucumbers because I love making Greek salads.
And I got this huge pack of chicken breasts which I'm going to freeze some of these, but this is actually pretty good.
Extra lean ground chicken grape tomatoes bananas hummus, unsweetened almond milk, mixed beans with no salt added, popcorn kernels romaine edamame, baby carrots and 85 dark chocolate.
The other thing is sleep.
I have noticed the importance of sleep so much this past year.
Also, I feel like it in turn affects my blood sugars and then it's like a cycle of my blood sugars affecting my sleep, my sleep affecting my blood sugars, and it's... cute little cycle that we love you can go into your phone settings and you can change the wake-up time that you want so I normally do like 7 15 for wake up and then bedtime will be like 11 and at the bottom it'll be 8 hours and 15 minutes this schedule meets your sleep goal and if you change your bedtime it's going to change and tell you if you're gonna meet your sleep goal again.
So this is just a really good thing just to keep your bedtime in check.
And it also can send you sleep reminders and wind down reminders.
So it can be like at 10 PM, remind me to start winding down.
The next thing is water.
I always have water beside my bed.
So I'll literally just wake up, start chugging water.
Then I will have breakfast and make sure I eat before I have coffee.
With my breakfast, I take my supplements.
After that, I finally will allow myself to have my caffeine.
And actually if you have caffeine like an hour to an hour and a half after you wake up, the caffeine kick you get is actually higher.
So you stop building as much of a tolerance to caffeine, which is actually really great.
You don't feel as Addicted to it or headachy in the morning if you don't have it the next day.
And then you also have hydration that is kind of balancing out the dehydration from the caffeine.
I will one second.
I have this water bottle which I carry around with me everywhere.
This actually makes me drink a lot more water, so now i get a lot more water, and there are some days where i think i need another coffee or another boost of caffeine.
Then i chug water and that's literally all i needed.
It's like my muscles and my brain were just craving water.
It's as if water's like made to make us feel good.
The other thing that I want to encourage you to do is just making fitness enjoyable and making health enjoyable.
Whatever makes you feel happy in life, like whatever gives you joy.
I feel like you should integrate that into your workout routine.
For me, it would be the outfits that I'm wearing like feeling clean, feeling put together, like something matches.
Here are some of the outfits that I've worn recently at the gym.
Even if it's just as simple as having really clean shoes and then an all black outfit makes me feel good.
If you're looking for Lululemon Aritzia, Gymshark stuff, go to Plato's Closet if you have one near you.
Plato's has like dedicated Lululemon sections.
I can't justify spending $200 on leggings when they're $20. at Plato's Closet.
These are the shorts that I found at Plato's Closet.
Like what?
And they're always in such perfect condition because they don't really accept things that aren't in great condition.
Can anyone relate where I wouldn't want to work out in the middle of the day or a time after I had already gotten ready, Because I don't want to ruin all of my makeup?
And I don't want to get my hair all oily.
And then I don't want to change my outfit.
Like it's almost like too much work.
And then you have to clean yourself off.
And then get back into the clothes that you are already in.
Touch up your makeup and do your hair again.
Like that just seems like so much work.
What I did is I made it really easy for myself.
I started doing face self tan.
Just having that on my face makes me feel like I don't need to wear as much face makeup, like I'm just wearing mascara right now, so I can just get up and be ready to go to the gym.
This one is a new one that I found.
It's the sunnah medium to dark gradual tanning lotion.
I really like gradual tanning lotions more than the foams.
Cause I can literally just put this straight onto my body.
Like it's like a moisturizer.
I just put it on my hand and do that, mix it into my moisturizer.
And my favorite one, I think it would be the beauty by earth one.
So I will link that down below.
But it's just like one of my favorite beauty products ever and the ingredients are great.
I also like the tanning drops.
I also just really like dry shampoo, so I will link my favorite non-toxic dry shampoo down below.
Another thing that I really, really like is music.
Whenever I have such a good song that I'm obsessed with, I just give myself full permission to repeat that song over and, over and over while I'm working out.
Working out actually gives me the opportunity to discover new songs.
What I'll normally do is I'll go to a song that I really like on Spotify, then I'll press go to radio and it basically plays all similar songs that are a similar vibe to that one.
And then I just discover so many songs.
But if you're the type of person who really really likes watching Netflix, that can be your thing.
That like motivates you to work out.
So when you work out, you're allowed to watch Netflix.
Doing something that makes you happy and gets you working out.
Like it doesn't all have to be just like discipline and force and just hating it the whole time.
Sorry guys, my camera keeps dying.
So the angle is probably like changing every five minutes.
I've literally been through one, two, three, four, five, six batteries filming this video.
For creating a workout plan, there are some things that I really like to incorporate into the plan.
The first one is just like the basics.
How many times a week do I want to walk?
I'm going to say three times a week.
I wanna at least do some type of walk twice a week minimum.
I will do some type of strength training.
So then that's five days a week that I'm moving my body.
It's not too much.
It's really manageable for me.
And the strength workout can either be Pilates it can be Pilates without weights, with weights or it can be a full gym workout.
If it really helps you to have like a strict schedule, That's awesome.
But for me, I feel like because I sleep at different houses and I'm kind of moving around and I don't have all the same stuff with me, I feel like it's a workout plan that I can actually consistently stick to and it doesn't feel too overwhelming to me.
A life hack that I also have is having workouts in the back of your mind of what you're going to do when you're in those unlucky situations.
So this can be planning workouts or saving them to a playlist on your YouTube account, and a playlist that's just labeled like lazy workouts or workouts under 10 minutes or workouts needing no equipment.
These are some examples of my lazy workouts or like my unlucky situation workouts that I love to do.
Also same thing for meals.
I feel like, for me, the thing that really makes it easy for me to eat consistently, to eat consistently.
Yeah, I do eat every day.
To eat healthy consistently is just to have meals in the back of my head that I don't even need to think.
Right now.
I know that if I have a cooked protein and rice in the fridge and frozen vegetables in the freezer, I'm good.
So it just takes all the thinking power out of.
It is basically going to be my workout, health fitness, mindset philosophy regimen routine for right now.
I hope this gave you some ideas or some inspiration and please let me know what other videos you want me to make down below.
I appreciate you so much and have an amazing day bye.
