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Cardio or Weight training is best for sustainable weight loss?

As you see in this picture, my trip to Vegas was not absent of yummy foods loaded with sat, butter, oils, etc. With that said, cardio is a great SHORT TERM workout plan to reduce water weight, bloating, or to kick start your fitness lifestyle change 🏃🏼‍♀️ As I struggle to buckle my pants, cardio workouts will be my focus the next 4 days 😂

Weight training is the best LONG TERM with muscles requiring more energy stimulating your metabolism (can eat MORE) and maintaining weight loss. There’s many more benefits to weight lifting like improved posture, increase bone density, better sleep, etc. but I won’t touch on the rest in depth.

Overall a good balance between Cardio and Weight training is undoubtedly the best! If you are starting a consistent workout schedule with “weight loss” as your goal, leaning more towards cardio is a good start. Eventually, you do want to incorporate weights to help sustain your goal weight.

Side note: weights WILL NOT make you bulky ladies! If you do put more weight on from weights, you may need to look at your food portions.

Post workout munch 🍱 prepared these lunch preps Sunday making life SO much easier (:

I’ve got ground turkey, red potatoes, butternut squash, and I’m sure you can tell the rest! Yummy filling lunch 🤸🏻‍♂️

So so so happy to start weight lifting! That’s what a week of pure running will do to you ☺️ Incorporating Weights to my exercises will surely take care of the “fluff” put on the past 2 months 🙃

Plus, one of the beauties to gaining muscle is the fact that your body burns more calories compared to someone who has higher body fat. So lifting light weights is the way to go in my opinion if you want to be stronger, fitter, and EAT MORE

1st 📸 Base: chopped greens, purple onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, & avocados

If you keep GOOD FOOD in your fridge, you will eat GOOD FOOD

Meal planning makes this possible during the busy week!

Finishing off the last of my meals with a Taco salad bowl 🥙 + veggie soup due to the frigid weather

What is your favorite meal prep meal?!

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Starting my morning off with some good ole fashion oatmeal + everything else you see 🥰

J A N I N T E N S I O N S ❄️

Heading back from winter vacation so I managed to organize my focuses for the month of Janurary. Setting these intentions for a month at a time allows me to stay consistent + motivated

H A P P Y 2020

A new year always brings me a sense of change and spontaneous drive to start/try something new. As 2019 comes to a close, my 2020 intentions relating to fitness are 1️⃣ develop a better relationship with food (the calorie counting phase of weight loss can be a tough one to break) 2️⃣ push myself harder in the gym by incorporating weights.

Instead of focusing on these two over the course of 365 days, I’m going to take a month at a time to practice both while keeping in mind habits take 21 days to stick. “Micro-goals” is what some call it 🗒 So by February, it should be second nature!

Quick but not without a challenge, Bench ABS 😊

Circuit under 10minutes - repeat each exercise x3

🔹 leg lifts 🔹single leg lifts🔹straight leg knee tuck

🔹 crunches 🔹 Scissors

As 2019 comes to a close, I want to recap on this wonderful month of Decemeber. Creating micro-goals what I call “intentions” was the best way to get myself re-motivated to take care of myself. I chose 5 daily intension this month:

1. Increase flexibility 2. Read 30mins 3. study 4 hours 4. Workout (5 days a week) 5. Write