The Most Effortless Ultimate Fitness Guide
Me 40 pounds overweight
Me at my ideal weight and size
Only in my adolescence I recalled feeling small, but that was short lived once puberty came into the picture. I always felt overdeveloped which in turn made me feel bigger than I should for my age. I had no idea how the foods I ate daily were having an impact on my weight let alone my health. As most American families, most of our diet consisted of strictly convenience, taste and cost.
Because of my unnoticeable high very inflammatory diet, this lead to a series of health issues that made maintaining a healthy weight very difficult. I developed Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome around my early 20’s where I would often sit at a whopping 190 pounds.
This would lead me to try a series of fad diets, that wouldn’t work or I couldn’t sustain. I finally broke my sugar addiction which was huge hinderance to my process. If sugar is a stumbling block for you as well, then you’ll definitely want to download my free Sugar detox guide.
During the pandemic, I started noticing how much I enjoyed being outside. I started riding consistently every weekend with my community bike group. Needless to say, things began to fall in line at this point.
I found a way to move my body that I actually enjoyed. Exercise is always discussed as a nonnegotiable way to retain a healthy weight, but no one talks enough about moving your body in a way that you actually enjoy. If you hate or don’t enjoy what you do for a living, and just all around have a stressful life, you cannot expect to lose weight and you hate what you’re doing to move your body to do so.
Your cortisol level, which is a major stress hormone in your body, runs on stress. Incorporating ashwagnada, which is a natural herbal remedy to help lower cortisol, helped me tremendously. I prefer taking it in a powder form because it aborbs quickly and I feel the difference in my body quicker than pills. Here’s the link for the kind that has helped me.
If you are not careful you could be adding to it by how you move. I ran into this problem often. Feeling like I’m doing so much exercise but seeing very little improvement in my weight. For me bike riding, weight lifting and dancing were things that I really enjoyed and the weight finally began to come off. I stopped focusing on how many calories that I burned and focused more on how I felt during and after my workouts.
Over the years, I’ve seen many athletic people in the gyms I’ve joined, but still had very large midsections. If you do not keep a good balance of things that you enjoy and overdue things, this can happen to you as well.
2. Prioritized quality over quantity.
I started researching the fundamentals of healthy living and sleep was the most underrated way I wasn’t allowing my body to reset. If I had a busy work schedule and I couldn’t get a proper workout but I could get my eight hours of sleep, I prioritized that over the workout.
I did the same thing with my diet. If I could make sure I ate 3 times a day, good quality meals, I wouldn’t beat myself up if I didn’t go for my ride that weekend. The fundamentals support you to do more for seemingly less. Believe it or not, there’s been several seasons where I haven’t been able to exercise no where near as often as I would like but because I stay true to the fundamentals, my body looks as if I do.
There was a an entire 3 months where I couldn’t afford a gym membership and I looked amazing and still maintained my weight loss. I only walked and ate well 80 percent of the time. If you’re having trouble getting quality sleep, try this supplement drink I take nightly before bed. It works wonders.
3. Reduced my stress tremendously.
I understand we live in a society that thrives on us being stressed and busy, but the impact of high and constant stress truly takes a toll on or health more than you know. Reducing my stress allowed me to be more present and took away my desire to overeat to cope or run from my problems.
Don’t miss the very impactful fundamentals trying to overdue things that are very simple for us. I hope that this helps and becomes a way of life for you to create a great foundation to build from.
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