Transformation Thursday

                                      

Here is my official video pod cast, called Carmen Guzman's Transformation Thursday. Please Comment below and let me know what you think. Hopefully Carmen's story inspires you guys too. A special thank you to Carmen Guzman xoxoxo! Enjoy!

~Sade

Preview of Transformation Thursday

Happy Thursday guys! Before I start I just want to apologize for not being able to post my video pod cast that I worked so hard on. I promise I will be post it after it is done exporting into a movie. I didn't want to leave you guys with anything so here is a little preview of what’s to expect from Carmen's Transformation Thursday. Thank you all for being so patient. Also I want to give a huge thank you to my wonderful Carmen for allowing me to share her story on my blog. Hugs and Kisses to you Carmen!  Below is a picture of Carmen's before and after.

                                                             
                                                           Carmen Guzman

P.S. Hey guys please stay tuned I will post the video soon! Thanks :)

~Sade

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.

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.

About Me

I am strong,

I am worthy,

I am beautiful,

I am imperfect,

I AM ME.

-Unknown

Sometimes I think we get so caught up in what society wants us to look like instead of the image we were created to be, ourselves.  I will not be like everyone else, I will be different.

My journey first started when I became depressed and decided to comfort myself with food. I started to gain weight in my stomach, couldn't fit my favorite pair of jeans and was completely stressed. I started to stare at myself in the mirror and cry. I was treating my body like I didn't care about myself.  I had the impression that it was okay to eat everything even if I knew it was bad for me. I became self-conscious and had low self-esteem to where I would try not to take photos of myself. The more I became depressed the more I took it out on myself. I would eat at 2 or 3 in the morning just so I could make myself feel comfortable but all I was doing was letting myself go by not caring. I would walk around school or work and feel like everyone is staring at me because I was gaining weight. It got so bad that people started asking if I was pregnant because I gained so much weight.

But today is the beginning of transforming myself to live a better life for me. Food can either help you or break you. Being healthy is not just an easier way to live but also a lifestyle that will help you live years from now. Making that change isn't easy but just know that in life there will always be trials and tribulations but with faith anything is possible.

My name is Sade Gonzalez, I am beautiful and being healthy makes me happy.