Dee'Stress

08/04/2021

Why we do what we do ❤ Bestie and Me
Repost from my ever so gorgeous 👯‍♀️BFF

Can't be explained any better 💯

LOW CARB LIFE or LOAD OF BS?!⁠⁠
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There hasn’t been a single diet created that I haven’t tried and “failed” at, because it was never about nourishment and always about “fitting in” and “proving” to others that I was trying to get healthy. ⁠⁠
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Nobody other than yourself needs to make a decision about what food you eat, how much you exercise, how your body should look, what clothes you wear. That’s super personal and needs to stay that way. ⁠⁠
Personally, my mind and body thrive when I am not overloading my system with sugar and starch. For me, it’s about all the other goodness that comes with using food as fuel and not as reward/punishment.⁠⁠
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Some of the benefits I have experienced are:⁠⁠
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⚖️No calorie counting, weighing, measuring or portion control - YAY!⁠⁠
💥High, sustained energy and focus during the day⁠⁠
Improved sleep and restfulness (I am insomniac thanks to my meds)⁠⁠
🥰Satiety: No cravings, No feelings of being deprived⁠⁠
Improvements in my skin (we know that’s a big one for my recovery)⁠⁠
💆🏻‍♀️Not obsessively thinking of food all day⁠⁠
🤓No urges to “cheat” or have “days off” from my routine.⁠⁠
💃🏻Highly adaptable when I am socialising or out for meals⁠⁠
👨‍👩‍👦Super family friendly - yay for one pot meals.⁠⁠
🤝Changing my relationship with food for the best⁠⁠
👟Motivation to exercise regularly⁠⁠
💉Keeping diabetes at bay⁠⁠
🥒Eating much more greens, cruciferous vegetables.⁠⁠
🥬🎣🥩Can be just as effective for a vegetarian, pescatarian or meat lover⁠⁠
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By no means am I a nutritionist, I am purely taking you along my journey. ⁠⁠
Comment on her post
if you would like to her recipes for meals under 15 mins with only 5-6 ingredients. Easy Peasy! ⁠⁠

12/27/2020

Not only this year but even the last 1 month has made it clear that " Life may not work as per your plans and resolutions" ✍

🏃‍♀️If you all remember, end of November, I decided to take the 31k steps challenge and committed to walking 10k steps daily to walk out of COVID-year 2020 .
Little did I know that on day one of my challenge, the Herpes infection will meet me on the way and derail me from my goal.

🎯 I had finally done well in the last 3 months of this not so pleasant year with my health and fitness and I was so upset that the in the last month, I fell sick.

It's was a sign that the body needs rest to restore and reinstate in order to function further. We usually don't read the signs. Stress , both physical ,emotional and mental can put pressure on our bodies.

I was advised to stay home and not exercise ,exert or even walk 😒 and suddenly I saw myself slipping into the unhealthy stress eating trap as the activity stopped, antibiotics were a very high dose and infection made me sleepless for nights, that increased food cravings.

🙋‍♀️Let me be honest, no one told me to eat unhealthy and binge but I let myself loose and so its only me who needs to take responsibility for my actions.

In the past I have been in similar situations but what is differed this time is that even though I have put on 6kgs ( no jokes ) in less than a month , I don't hate myself , instead I am ready to take full control of myself from the last week of 2020.
I am not happy with what I have put my body through for years - but I am grateful that it puts up with my moods and emotions and handles me well.

I will not wait for 1st Jan 2021 and I am not doing this from Monday.
I do not want my mind to belive these start dates tricks !

Sugar is an addiction and the journey ahead will not be easy, but this girl's gotta do it -
"Clean the Clutter"

My plan :

🗓 I start on Tuesday 29th December 2020

🧘‍♀️ Meditate & train my subconscious mind

🏋‍♀️ Weight train atleast 4-5 times a week

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️🚴‍♀️ Cardio 15k 2-3 times a week & gradually increase it .

🤷‍♀️Most importantly, eat clean and
❌ Quit sugar

🥦🫑🥒🍄🍅🧄🧅🥥🍳🍗🦐🥗☕🧈🧀

2021 -Year of Self-love 💜

09/22/2020

Exercise should be a celebration of what your body can do, instead of being a punishment for what you eat.

09/14/2020

Keeps me focussed !!

10/25/2019

Stay Healthy and Happy, to enjoy a great time this festive season!!

09/22/2019

And it suddenly dawned on me, that the last time i wore these pants was in Aug/Sept 2017.
A major emotional setback due to multiple reasons led to me undermining myself once again and I gave up all my strength and resorted to food as a feel good factor.
I knew I had to work on myself but I also knew that I had been my fittest in 2016 and I daily told myself " Its Ok to eat today and from tomorrow I will focus" . This became a trap for 1.5 yrs. I went on from 5kgs and a few inches ⬆️ from my 2016 results to a staggering 20kgs 🔝 in no time. Sometimes you start ignoring the signs, sometimes you are so let down or emotionally drained that nothing, I mean nothing can ring the bell.
At my biggest, my weight was 106 kgs in 2012 and I knew what that felt like and over the years I stopped relating to how I could have been that person.
In Dec 2018, being back to 96kg was an alarm ⏰ or a red flag 🚩to bounce back.
I had to address the demons on the inside, fix my mindset and build my body image and self esteem from scratch but I am glad I did. It took a long time and I don't even look at the weighing scale anymore so I dunno what's my weight for a few weeks but these pants tell me that I am in a much better place at the moment.
It's not as rosy as it looks, you have to face all phases. Now I don't let anything or anyone ruin the progress.

🌟 ⏳

09/17/2019

09/13/2019

Always take photos of yourself, not for the world, but for the days that you doubt yourself, your progress and feel nothing has changed.
Photos can always help you assess how much you have progressed.
I found this 6 month old photo where the jacket never zipped up and the one on the right from last month.
When I look in the mirror, just like everyone else, I had little belief that I have progressed much. I have put my body through many experiments in the last 19 yrs to loose weight, but that was a mistake. The number on the scale will always demotive if it doesn't change as quickly as you want.
But comparing me with me from 6 months ago, is a good competitive analysis to know and see how far I have come. Everyone has setbacks and I have had mine. Keep going strong and positive mentally and physically, inside and out.
Take help if you need from external resources or have a long internal conversation and list things that pull you down and lift you up.
Keep your mental and physical health first priority. It's not about reaching a certain size for everyone.
🔜 🌟 💜

08/20/2019

You can choose healthy, no matter where you are !! Can you guess the ingredients??