FitMai

Some food for thought. Summer is approaching and many girls feel added pressure to be thin, lose weight, cut calories, engage in crazy cardio sessions, etc.

The left is me a couple summers ago. I was doing all of the above. I ate very little, and what I did eat was fruit or veggies or occasionally some fish or a protein shake. I dropped 15lbs, my friends and family were concerned, and I was miserable. But I couldn’t. stop. I wanted to weigh less, I tried doing more cardio, I thought I was a shining example of health and fitness and that I SHOULD be this dedicated. I was missing out on life.

The right is me a few months ago. Eating around 2100 calories daily, well rounded meals of protein and fats and carbs (actually enjoying what I’m eating lol), weight training several times a week and ENJOYING my workouts, and most importantly loving myself.

I realized that being a 00 is attainable, but not maintainable. My mentality is stronger, my body is stronger, yes I gained back more than I lost but helllooooo check out that booty 🍑🍑😂 like the difference in my quad circumference is insane, and I couldn’t be happier.

Headstand #1 and Headstand #365

FINAL HEADSTAND OF MY 365 DAY CHALLENGE!  WHOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!! I STUCK IT OUT!!! 

So, you think you can’t do something? You think you suck at it? Well, I truly sucked at headstands when I started, and now I can do them almost anywhere with control. 

I still want to improve, but compared to where I started, it’s night and day! 

It’s amazing what consistent practice will do for you! Don’t be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try!

You are so welcome, I’m happy that my blog can be helpful! 

Your “friend” doesn’t sound very friendly. If she’s going to treat you like that, stop inviting her to exercise with you or whatever else. There’s no sense in letting her bring you down! Some people really have some jealousy issues they have to work through when they see others doing positive things for themselves. I know because I was once like that – when you feel that you don’t have the strength or motivation to make healthy changes for yourself, you react by putting others down who ARE doing it. 

DO NOT DO THIS.

This makes me so angry.

If you work in a movie theater and you do this I have no respect for you.

My younger brother is Type 1 Diabetic.

When we go to a movie theater, we always get him diet soda. If he were to get regular when we asked for diet, we would not give him the insulin he would need for it. If that happens, his blood sugar level could go so high he could go into a coma, go blind, or even die.

If somebody gave him regular soda instead of diet without telling us, that person could be responsible for a nine-year-old being killed or blinded.

Just thinking about that makes me so angry. I get scared every time we take him to a movie in case the people working there saw this picture and decide to do the same thing.

I am very sensitive to lactose, not Lactose intolerant but because of stomach ulcers that are still healing. A couple years ago I went to Starbucks right after my classes with some friends and asked for a green tea latte with soy milk. The barista, for some reason out of malice and/or hate for her life so she took it out on me, gave me whole milk in my latte.

5 minutes after my first sip of latte, my stomach cramped BAD. Not the “Oh! time to poop!” kind of cramp but it felt like someone had stabbed me with a knife and twisted it. Now I’ve had this happen before so I knew the cause of it. I went up to the barista clutching my gut screaming at her that she put dairy in my latte rather than soy LIKE I REQUESTED. She denied it and called me a “pretentious white girl for wanting soy”and so my friends got the manager. I had to explain that I had stomach ulcers that were still healing and if I were to go to the hospital for this incident, they would be responsible for it.

Manager flipped his shit and the barista was terrified out of her mind. Pretty sure both thought i was gonna sue. Manager actually fired her on the spot because of the negligence. My friends managed to get me home in one piece while I stayed home for 3 days in absolute agony and missed my midterm.