Get It Right, Get It Tight: Make It A Part Of The Day

For everyone noticing my weightloss its been from a combination of several things.  This post is to show what I am doing and how often I'm doing it to help you ladies jump start you fitness goals.  One of my fitness goals have been to work out at least three times a week.  As we all know goals are to be attainable and to be met.  Often at times, goals are not reached because of the lack of planning into our busy schedules.  Anything worth doing will be worked into your day.   

First, start by choosing a time of day you would actually be up and moving.  For me is at 10-11pm or 7-8am.  I am not a morning person so I choose the evening workout time but these are the times my body is already up and going and I am not sleepy and therefore I am more likely to actually workout and give it my all.

Second, I do workouts that get my heart rate going.  Cardiovascular workouts are great to burn the calories you eat during the day and help condition your body for over all weight loss.  One of the machines I HATE is the same machine I get on first when I get to the gym because it makes me burn the most calories, the Arc Trainer -___-

Lastly, I do not limit my workouts to the gym...if I cannot make it out the house (usually when its cold, rainy, or anything else I can fathom an excuse for lack of a babysitter) I do my workouts to home DVDs or home exercises.  My favorite exercises at home includes jumping rope, doing squats, and working out to Hip Hop Abs because Sean T is so fine and fun.

So far these things have worked for me and I've been pretty slack on being consistent but I am not going to give up.  Any workouts you ladies love?  If so let me now so I can try them!

Get It Right, Get It Tight: Snacks To The Rescue

80% of weightloss success is from the food you eat... 20% from working out.  

That is the fact that shocked me to the core.  For years I've been focused on going to the gym, or jumping around my living room to work out with videos,  and even invested in personal trainers to lose weight.  During this time I had no clue that eating once or twice a day, skipping breakfast, or not getting enough water was doing more damage to my weightloss goals than the exercising did to help.

By visiting a nutritionist and also by doing research online I've learned it is imperative to increase your metabolism by eating more food. Crazy I know!  Eating more helps you lose weight..who would of thought it??  Getting healthy is a big part of my vision for 2014 so I've decided to share a few tips here and there with you Dolls because we need to be fabulous and fit!  This series: Get It Right, Get It Tight will be 5 segments of videos and posts talking about what I'm doing to get fit.

By eating small meals every couple of hours during my day I am able to speed up my metabolism and stay fueled throughout my day.    It's a good idea to preplan your meals so you can grab pack your food on the go.  By pre-packing food, its less likely you will make poor food choices during the day.  Try ziplock bags or visit your local dollar store for inexpensive tupperware. To help me remember to eat I've set alarms on my iPhone.  I do not starve myself and I find it less likely to pig out on a meal because I am no longer famished by end of the day.

My favorite snacks of the moment:

1. Apples and Peanut Butter

2. White chicken salad and crackers

3. Avocado, turkey slices, and cheese roll ups

4. Fage cherry greek yogurt

5. GNC Lean Shake Chocolate

*all photos are from Pintrest