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                                                                    Nelly & I

The difference between want and need is self-control.

Eating healthy can be challenging because our "wants" outweighs our "needs".

That's the challenge and where bodies are change for Good or the bad. Choose what your body needs to achieve its goal. Have your wants on Saturday or Sunday lol.

-Olympic Trainer

Have you made a lifestyle change yet? Are you interested in making a lifestyle change? Do you know what Juicing is? Do you know how it can help? Come check it out! Please listen to my audio podcast with one of my friends who decided to make a lifestyle change, that not only benefit her but influence her loved ones.

Are you willing to make a lifestyle change that can make you feel and become healthier then you ever been? Please check out what juicing can do for you and you never know if it can help anything your body is trying to fight.

Make a lifestyle change that is worth living for today!

~Sade G.                             

Rest days

REST DAY,

a day where

I stay home

and read

about

working out.

-Unknown

While, enjoying

 the beauty

 of life :)

How many of you take a rest day? What do rest days mean to you? 

Rest days are a day to motivate yourself to continue to strive for your goal in living for a better you. You have learned and are still learning so much about your body. It is important to achieve but still receive and give back to your body. Rest days are peaceful moments that many of us don't take advantage of. Make sure you go take a walk on the beach, let you mind, body, and soul enjoy the beauty of peace and quiet.

Rest days are about giving you time to relax and enjoy life. Oprah Winfrey said, "I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself." Your body knows that today you shall rest, but it doesn't mean that you can eat whatever you want. You have to show your body that you love yourself by continuing to eat healthy and clean.

"The body must be nourished, physically emotionally and spiritually. We're spiritually starved in this culture not underfed but undernourished." -Carol Hornig

Make sure you give your body a day to rest but fill your body with natural satisfying healthy foods to enjoy :)

~Sade G.

We all have Doubters! It's up to you to prove them wrong!!!!

THE HARDEST

LIFT OF ALL IS

LIFTING YOUR

BUTT OFF THE

COUCH.

Did you work out today? How many of you got off the couch? Don't let your doubters get to you.

"Remember there will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes but with hard work there is no limit." -Unknown

When I decided to change my life around, I started to take control over my body by exercising and eating healthier. Everyone doubted me! They would say, "You love food to much, you can't do it." They didn't doubt me because they didn't have faith in me but because they thought I wasn't ready for the commitment.

No matter what you do in life you will always have doubters. But what people don't tell you is that you have to prove them wrong. You have to let me know that, "Today is my tomorrow. It is up to me to shape it, to take control and seize every opportunity. The power is in the choices I make each day. I eat well, I live well. I shape me :)." - I shape Tumblr

As of today, I can say with a big smile on my face, I did it! I won the challenge! I lost 6 pounds because I took control of my body. Food does not own me. "Remember the food you eat can either be the safest and the most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison." -Unknown

Take control of your body today before it’s too late. Remember the only way to prove doubters wrong is my doing what they say you couldn't do!

~Sade G.

Motivation

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. -Unknown Author

What is motivation? What wakes you up in the morning for work or school? Why are you so motivated about living your dream? "Motivation is an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way." -Dictionary.com. When you wake up in the morning just know it’s for a reason. You have a purpose to fulfill. Without having a purpose you won't go to school and without school you wouldn't have a career. Without school you wouldn't have job and without a job you wouldn't be able to pay your bills.  You are motivated to fulfill your dream because it’s your purpose in life. Everything has a purpose. Your purpose is what motivated you to be who you are today.

Today my purpose is to become healthy and fit. So by becoming healthy and fit, I motivate myself to eat better as well as workout. Not to sound cocky or anything but with fulfilling your purpose there are lots of trail and errors.  But what has been working for me not to say this might work for you is that I learned you could be successful when you eat or do the things you love. What I mean is that you don't necessarily have to go to the gym for it to be a workout. You can simply just do an exercise that you love at home. For example, I love Zumba so instead of paying someone to instruct me I just subscribe to a Zumba fitness instructor on YouTube and do Zumba for an hour and a half.

I am not sure if I told you guys this, but since I gain weight in college I became less and less confident in myself. I have been more cautious about the way my body looks. Sometimes I am afraid to change clothes in front of people.  Or even take a group photo with people. I didn't realize it until I became depressed with myself. People will tell me what's wrong with you, you look great. But what people don't understand is that I want to be able to say that to myself and feel confident. If I am not happy with the way I look I am going to fix it so I can to give myself complements.

As of today, I can tell you guys that I have gain more confidence than I had these past couple of months. In the photo above this is what I look like since I have been eating healthier and working out. If you know me you know I am not a salad kind of girl but I have become a salad freak. I make my salad at home with all the ingredients I like. For dinner I decided to have a salad instead of a shake. Just to remind you guys I am also using a product called Herbal Life in my journey to becoming fit.  So in my salad I used organic romaine lettuces, organic cucumbers and grilled or backed chicken with a little fat free or organic dressing. Sometimes I do add other ingredients like tomatoes.  Now I am in love with salads.

Just to let you guys known about Herbal Life. I am using their aloe, tea and shakes products in my journey to becoming fit. I am going to give you a brief description about each product but just to let you know, Herbal Life is a natural product company that helps people loses weight and gain muscles as well as living a healthier lifestyle. Herbal Life is a lifestyle. It helps you transform into the person you always wanted to be. So the aloe helps clean out your colon, the tea burns your fat and the shake is used to replace a meal. Just make sure you truly want to do this because it is a commitment that will change your life as long as you are motivated.

~Sade G.

The Results

EXERCISE

to be fit, not skinny.

EAT

to nourish

your body

AND ALWAYS...

IGNORE

the haters, doubters &

unhealthy examples that

were once feeding you.

YOU

are worth more

than you realize.

-Unknown Author

After almost finishing my first week of sacrificing my favorite foods I can honestly say I am happy but temptation will tempt you. I just want to eat again but I know that this challenge has a purpose. Being Hispanic and not being able to eat rice and bread is extremely stressful. I just want to cry, I feel like I lost a part of me. Although my doubters are alive the only way to be successful in the not eating challenge is that you have to reward yourself no matter what. For example, if you are training your dog to sit and every time he does it you reward him with a treat he is going to continue to do it because he knows he will get a rewarded. That is exactly what you have to do.

On day one of my challenge it was extremely hard. All I wanted to do is eat fries and a big juicy burger. But instead I enjoyed my cookie and cream shake while dreaming it was fries and burger blended, although that image may seem gross. The day finally ended when I forced myself to sleep. Your mind can play funny tricks on you. When I woke up I dreamt that I was eating spaghetti and meatballs, but when I got up I was just dreaming of the food. I realized that in life the hardest things you want you have to work for. In order for me to be fit I need to want it and work hard for it so it can happen.

Sometimes having a light and smaller portioned meal is better than over eating and feeling like you’re gonna die. The picture above is a simply grilled chicken wrap with spinach, lettuce and dressing of your choice that I enjoy when I am not really hungry but need to eat dinner. Although, I am on a non-eating diet this week. This is a simple and fast meal you can make if you don't want to eat anything heavy.

Herbal Life has been my meal for the past five days. At first it was very hard but you get the hang of it. Although you have friends who are eating chicken tenders and French fries next to you and all you want to do is eat her food for her, but you can’t let yourself do it. In the first three days I have lost three pounds. When I saw the scale I was so happy and motivated that I started to workout. I decided if my body is showing me it wants change; why not give it a chance too. Sometimes you can't work out for an hour or two but you can at least do crunches and squats before you go to bed so you continue to see progress in the little things you do.

“Remember it's gonna get harder before it gets easier. But it will get better; you just gotta make it through the hard stuff first.” –Unknown

~Sade G.

Day one of my challenge

My body will represent my strength not my weakness.

-Unknown

Today was the start of my challenge. Sometimes you don't realize what you get yourself into until you actually have to do it. I know I am the biggest procrastinator and tell myself that I am going to do something but most of the time I never stick to what I say. I can honestly say that I have broken that curse. Today I started my herbal life product at 6:30 am. First I had to drink a tsp. of aloe and 8 oz. of water. Then I had to drink a tsp. of tea and another 8 oz. glass of hot water. Right after I drank the tea, I had to drink a cookie and cream shake with 8 oz. of water. But that’s not all then I had to drink two cups of water.

As tempting as my day was I manage to pull through. Sometimes you get tempted to get things when you allow your mind to have control. I think the reason I survive through today was because I trained myself to avoid getting to the point when I was hungry. I made sure that I eat a protein bar or fruit if I was actually hungry and lots of water as well as my shake.

During today I almost broke my challenge without realizing that I was in one. As funny as that sounds it actually almost happened. Since I am interning at HBO Latin America they decided to start screening shows and their series at the office. While they were screening they provided snacks such as popcorn and potato chips. As the person in charged offered me some, without thinking I reached my hand out to grab a plate. I immediately stopped and pause with an ashamed look on my face. I couldn't believe that I haven't even fully begun my challenge and almost broke it at the same time.

What I realized during my first day of my challenge is that the devil is very busy. He disguises himself in many forms. I believe that he knows I was a bit unsure and he tempted me to want to eat the chips but I didn't let him. When you want something make sure you really want it because there is always someone watching and ready to see you fall down.

"It's gonna get harder before it gets easier. But it will get better; you just gotta make it through the hard stuff first."- Unknown

~Sade G.

Finally Living for me

FITNESS IS NOT

ABOUT BEING

BETTER THAN

SOMEONE ELSE ... IT'S

ABOUT BEING

BETTER THAN YOU

USED TO BE.

-Unknown

I can finally say that change is going to be good. I have been telling myself as well as others that I was going to change my life around because I wasn't happy with myself. But I guess you don't start to realize that complaining gets you nowhere. I keep pushing back the date to when I will start my diet. But there are no more excuses, I have purchased Herbal Life and I will start my diet.

I am starting a diet challenge with a product called Herbal Life. During the challenge I will not be allowed to eat the way I used to. I will have to detox my body to get used to the product by not eating food for an entire week.  Although that might sound horrible its actually not so bad. I am just allowing my body to get used to the new product by detoxing it.

Many of you might be thinking why is she doing this? She looks good. As much as you guys may say I do its not just about looking good it’s about feeling great and being healthy to live a longer healthy life. I am tired of people saying you look great when I don't feel great. I want to do this for myself, I want to look in the mirror or scale and be like yes finally I am satisfied.

When I received this picture this afternoon, I began to tell myself "OMG you’re gonna die." All weekend I have been trying to prepare myself knowing that this challenge might be the hardest thing I have to deal with. I think you don't realize how hard it is until it’s actually about to happen. As I was telling everyone that I was going to do it, I started to panic like dude how are you going to do this? Look who you hang out with everyone eats the things you like and cannot eat anymore. So I started thinking of ways to back out in my challenge but none of it made sense.

As I sent a text to my friend "I told her I am going to die." She goes why? "I told her I don't know if I can do this she said I am going to do it with you."  I started to text her "Thank you baby Jesus" but then I told her "I gotta eat my last greasy meal." I wanted my last meal to be the most amazing food I had in a while so I thought why not Popeye’s. After all my dreaming of Popeye’s, my last real meal I ate was a burger from Elevation and fries. I guess that was considered greasy being that it’s an organic burger, not.

~Sade G.