Rubriik: LCHF

1 year of healthy lifestyle + GIVEAWAY (CLOSED)

Published on by Margit Partei14 kommentaari

Let’s go back in time, shall we?

16th of February 2013. Exactly one year ago. An unhappy girl has finally made a decision that this is it. She has had enough of this body that is nothing she wants to look like. Tired of being obese, tired, heavy. Yesterday she weighed herself and got numbers she never thought she would see: 85,5 kilograms. BMI of 30,7. Tears, self-pity, despair…

The plan called LCHF starts from that day along with 3 workouts per week. In the first week she loses 5,5 kilograms. Amazing! The first 3 months go in a similar pace: losing or zero (or nearly zero) weeks. Everything is easy and 13 kilograms go in 12 weeks.

First bigger weightgain week comes in June 2013. But this doesn’t stop her. She has her obstacles and mistakes and bad moments but no matter what: she keeps going. She falls but gets up every single time.

In the meanwhile, she has started to work out 5 times a week and gotten stronger and healthier.

My weight throughout one year. Easy beginning, rough end.
My weight throughout one year. Easy beginning, rough end.

 

Gains and losses
Gains and losses

 

Cumulative change
Cumulative change

And today is the day that this girl, ME, celebrates her one year anniversary of living a healthy lifestyle. I have lost quite a bit of weight and am working out 7 times a week. And I have a lot of goals that are ready to be accomplished. I’m not at my ultimate goal weight of 63 kg yet but I’m more than sure that I will get there. One day! I can and I will!

And while being on my journey I decided to create this blog. And I cannot express what a great decision this has been for me! I’m happier and more positive and finally have a place to express my thoughts considering workouts and nutrition. Most people who read my blog are so supportive and give  great advice. Thanks to my blog I’ve met people who I otherwise would have never met. I have found people who share my interest in food and sports. What more could you ask for? Great opportunities are flying on me all the time. Thank you all for that! 🙂

 And to thank all of my wonderful readers I’m hosting a giveaway right here on my blog!

The winner will receive 2 prizes: 500 ml jar of organic extra virgin coconut oil and a motivational jar filled with great quotes courtesy of müüü.ee (thank you, Marelle!).

From müüü.ee
From müüü.ee

In order to win, you have to do the following:

  1. Like my blog’s FaceBook page here.
  2. Share my blog’s FaceBook page with your friends on your timeline. To share, click the little wheel on the same row as the Like button and choose Share.
  3. Comment under this blog post telling me a short and catchy title for my blog (and add your name). Right now it’s a rather long and unattractive title. The title shouldn’t directly include the words LCHF or workouts in it. It should have something to do with healthy and/or active lifestyle and/or sports and/or my name. Short, simple and catchy! 🙂
  4. If you really can’t think of anything, well, just comment with some thoughts about my blog and your name.

NB! Make sure you don’t comment anonymously! That way I can’t check if you have completed all terms of participation. Add your first and last name to the comment please 🙂

The giveaway is open internationally: I will send the prizes out to the winner no matter where he/she lives. Estonia or any other country: I will find a way to get this prize out to you 🙂

 The giveaway ends on the 27th of February 2014 at 4 PM Eastern European time. The winner will be the person who offers the best title for my blog OR chosen by random if I can’t find a blog title I really like.

Good luck! 🙂

To end this important post, here are some before and after pictures. Or actually, on the “before” I’m not my heaviest and the “after” is actually “on my way”.

To read my full story click here and here. To see more about results, click here.

2009 vs 2014. From my Instagram
2009 vs 2014. From my Instagram
2012 vs 2014. From my Instagram
2012 vs 2014. From my Instagram

I’m ready for new adventures and accomplishments! Are you? 🙂 

Food Friday 14.02.2014 + a new nutrition plan

Published on by Margit Partei1 kommentaar

On Food Fridays I will tell you about everything I ate that day. No matter if it is a good day or not: you will see it all. 

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Happy Valentine’s day! Whether you spend it with a special someone, friends, at work, in the gym or whereever: make the most of it! And don’t feel bad for indulging a little 🙂 Just get back to your healthy lifestyle from tomorrow and you’re fine.

 

1st meal: 10.30 AM

  

  • 3 eggs

  • 2 slices of bacon

  • 2 slices of cheese

  • 10 grams of flax seeds

  • 100 grams of sauerkraut

 

2nd meal: 6 PM

 

  • 130 grams of frozen carrot-cauliflower-broccoli mix

  • 165 grams of minced meat

  • 35 grams of plain yogurt

  • 30 grams of grated cheese

 

Post-workout meal: 9.15 PM

My instructor Maris often emphasizes the importance of eating some protein and carbs after BodyPump. Today we had all new Valentine’s Day special tracks and one extra squat track so I must have lost a serious amount of energy. I had a late dinner at 6 PM but was still actually kind of hungry after my workout. So I ate 🙂 Reasonably.

  • about 200 grams of cauliflower

  • 50 grams of cheese

  • 100 grams of 17% Russian yogurt

  • a dash of cinnamon

  • 1 teaspoon of dark cocoa

  • 1 teaspoon of flax seeds

 

Nutritional information

 

In total just under 1800 kcal and normal macros. But there is a but… My eating habits are messed up! Food Friday helps me stay on track and portion control myself because I don’t want make a blog post about failing. But I don’t feel it’s right to only show you my good days aka Food Fridays. I have to be honest. This week has been all low carb, no cheats or semi-cheats at all BUT: I’m just eating too much. I have no problem sitting down and eating a small head of cauliflower (like… 600 grams?!) in one go. Too much food! This is messed up and not healthy. Somehow I’m lacking control. I acknowledge it’s a problem. 

In the beginning of this year I wanted to stop keeping a food diary, stress and obsess less about food, stay healthy and lose weight. I’m beginning to see that I can’t do it all at once. So this is my plan.

Nutrition:

  • not over 2000 kcal a day

  • about 10% carbs, 20–30% protein and 60–70% fat

  • 5 days with food tracking from Monday to Friday

  • 2 days without tracking my food but still sticking to 2000 kcal and the macros above

  • if need be, track my food 7 days a week

  • no binge-eating

I also bought another weighing scale so that I can still weigh myself every Saturday even when I’m here in Tartu. I didn’t have a scale in my dorm before so sometimes I went weeks without weighing myself. Now I have one just to help me stay on track. 

I’ve been “playing” with my nutrition a lot since Christmas: cheating and overeating during the holidays, then low-carbing and calorie restricting for a couple of weeks, then eating lots of carbs and lots of calories in Thailand, then having a horrible chaos-overeat-cheat week, now going back to LCHF but failing with portion control… My body must be so confused with my decisions. 

So now I’m going to stick to this plan for atleast 3 months. After 12 weeks – on the 10th of May – I’m going to analyze my results and see if my plan works. If it does: good, continue on; if it doesn’t, then think about what needs to be changed and keep going. No matter what happens: I’m not going to switch everything up again after one weight-gain week (for example). A similar plan has worked for me before (last year when I started) and it should work again. 

Keep your fingers crossed for me! 🙂

 

Oh, and what did you eat today?