My Thoughts On Fitness / Little Fitness Chat
Fitness is a difficult one for me. I always try and stay as fit and healthy as I possibly can, but sometimes I manage to go off track, and that completely changes my whole mindset.
I'm going to speak to you about all things fitness. I'm not well educated about this topic, but I'm going to share with you my thoughts and basically just whatever is going through my mind that I feel like is something worth sharing.
I was never into PE in school. It'd always be something that I'd have wanted to get myself out of. I was always so embarrassed of my figure, so I'd never want to just be wearing a pair of leggings or a pair of shorts. As soon as I left school, my mindset kind of changed a bit. I'd been in a relationship for about 7 months prior to leaving school, and my boyfriend (whom I'm still with now, thank god) is very much into his fitness, which inspired me to start wanting to improve how I look and to better myself, so that's exactly what I tried to do.
He always told me everything he knew and helped me out as much as he could, but at that time, I just had the absolute worst mindset when it came to working out, which led to me just stopping all the time and never being fully motivated. I'd workout for a few days, following workout routines on Youtube, and then i'd end up not eating straight after, not getting a reasonable amount or protein, or i'd end up looking at myself the next day and thinking whatttt because nothing had changed, so it'd completely throw me off working out. That couldn't be further from what I should have been thinking, and I still sometimes get like that now, which is something I'm really trying to just get over.
I used to eat nowhere near the amount I eat nowadays, and I was never doing the right workouts for what I wanted to achieve. I always thought that if i'm working out then that's perfect, that's all that matters, but that was completely silly of me to think, because since then, I've been educated so much more from my boyfriend, and YouTube, and just things I've read up online. I'd been doing cardio all this time when I first started working out, until I then finally realised that I didn't even want to be losing weight, all I wanted was to gain weight, so I wanted to gain muscle in my legs and my booty to make them look a lot thicker. That's when I was chatting to my boyfriend again and he was helping me out a lot and telling me whats good etc. He's always super helpful and super motivating :)
Bearing in mind throughout all this time I was constantly stopping and starting with working out. A few months ago now, I actually purchased my own set of weights from Argos. It's only 15kg but I had to start somewhere (In the photo below, isn't the full set of weights as I couldn't put together the full set as I'm not at home, but that's what I managed to put together as part of the set you get on Argos). I thought getting them weights would motivate me so much more to workout and get myself into fitness, considering I finally knew what I needed to be doing to achieve what I wanted to achieve. I have to say that yeah, it did help, but working out had never been something permanent in my life, so I knew it wasn't going to be easy to get straight into some sort of routine. I'd also remotely put it down to what I'd been eating, which is a whole different situation.
My eating never used to be good. I never used to eat the right amount. Don't take my word on this, but I think the average woman needs to eat 2,000 calories per day, and I can definitely tell you that I wasn't eating that. I was never getting the right foods inside me and the right nutrients, but I learnt quite a bit, and learnt about what foods were good and high in calories, which was what I wanted. I started eating a lot more healthier, yet higher calorie foods, much more fruit than usual, and drinking a lot of water (which definitely was doing me very good, it completely cleared my skin and made me feel a lot healthier just that in itself). I also started drinking protein shakes, which I felt helped quite a lot. I used the Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey Powder Strawberry. (If you're planning on getting this protein then i'd recommend either buying this from Discount Supplements where you can usually get it for around £28, but always check Holland and Barrett first as sometimes they have a half price sale, where its normally £44.99 but you can get for £22.49. That would be for the 908g tub). I used to have the chocolate one not long before that but I wasn't too fond on the taste of that, so I switched up and changed to strawberry, which tastes amazing with water.
With all them changes, despite the fact they're not drastic, it made me feel a lot more healthy and energised. I felt in a much better mood while I was eating better, to the point where if I had something unhealthy, then I'd feel like I'd failed the whole eating healthy situation, which was again, where I was completely wrong.
I'm quite strongly inspired by Carys Gray (aka Busybee Carys). She has an Instagram page and she also has a YouTube Channel. I would say I've followed her for quite a while now and I find that she's one of the most motivating and inspiring people, she talks so much sense and it's so good to hear particular things that maybe you'd never thought of yourself. It's kind of hard to explain. She's taught me quite a bit about fitness, despite the fact I still wouldn't say I'm educated in the topic, I've not stepped foot in a gym before, but I'm more than happy doing whatever I wanted to do at home with what I have. She talks a lot about being positive, and that's something that inspires me the most about her. It made me realise that it is okay to go off track sometimes, it's okay to eat unhealthy foods sometimes, it's okay to stuff my face with chocolate when I fancy it (when do I not though??). I'm so lame at explaining things oh my goodness, but you'll have to bare with, this post is getting extremely long and I'm trying to pack in as many of my thoughts as possible. She's just one of them people where you watch a video or read a post and think wow why have I never thought of it that way before? I'd definitely recommend giving her a follow or checking our her channel.
I'm not saying that this is an educational post, it's definitely not, but I want you to kinda get what goes on in my mind with all things fitness. Ever since starting all the fitnessy shenanigans, I still get completely off track, I have breaks for weeks on end at a time, and I don't follow proper routines, I make stuff up myself on what I feel like I can do that'll still push me a little bit and still be effective at the same time.
If I could give a few small tips for if you have even the slightest mindset like mine, I'd say:
If there's one thing I don't want you to take from this post, it's that I'm by absolutely no means any form of fitness fanatic, it's something I'd love to be, but that's just my thoughts as of now. I know I've said it a few times in this post, but I want you to just be aware. I haven't worked out in probably atleast over a month now, maybe even more. I'm not super well educated on it, and wouldn't be able to tell you whats good and whats not. Everyone has completely different bodies so everything will work different on different people, but I've learnt things for myself that have worked for me, and that's just what I wanted to share with you in this post!
I hope you've enjoyed it though. Maybe at some point in the future when my eating is back on track, I'll consider maybe doing a 'What I Eat In A Day' video for you if that's something people are going to want to see!
Thank you so much if you've read this far, this is quite a long post but I really hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again in my next post!
From,
Elisa :)
p.s. Happy Easter! This post has absolutely no relation to Easter whatsoever, but I hope you're having a great day :)
I'm going to speak to you about all things fitness. I'm not well educated about this topic, but I'm going to share with you my thoughts and basically just whatever is going through my mind that I feel like is something worth sharing.
I was never into PE in school. It'd always be something that I'd have wanted to get myself out of. I was always so embarrassed of my figure, so I'd never want to just be wearing a pair of leggings or a pair of shorts. As soon as I left school, my mindset kind of changed a bit. I'd been in a relationship for about 7 months prior to leaving school, and my boyfriend (whom I'm still with now, thank god) is very much into his fitness, which inspired me to start wanting to improve how I look and to better myself, so that's exactly what I tried to do.
He always told me everything he knew and helped me out as much as he could, but at that time, I just had the absolute worst mindset when it came to working out, which led to me just stopping all the time and never being fully motivated. I'd workout for a few days, following workout routines on Youtube, and then i'd end up not eating straight after, not getting a reasonable amount or protein, or i'd end up looking at myself the next day and thinking whatttt because nothing had changed, so it'd completely throw me off working out. That couldn't be further from what I should have been thinking, and I still sometimes get like that now, which is something I'm really trying to just get over.
I used to eat nowhere near the amount I eat nowadays, and I was never doing the right workouts for what I wanted to achieve. I always thought that if i'm working out then that's perfect, that's all that matters, but that was completely silly of me to think, because since then, I've been educated so much more from my boyfriend, and YouTube, and just things I've read up online. I'd been doing cardio all this time when I first started working out, until I then finally realised that I didn't even want to be losing weight, all I wanted was to gain weight, so I wanted to gain muscle in my legs and my booty to make them look a lot thicker. That's when I was chatting to my boyfriend again and he was helping me out a lot and telling me whats good etc. He's always super helpful and super motivating :)
Bearing in mind throughout all this time I was constantly stopping and starting with working out. A few months ago now, I actually purchased my own set of weights from Argos. It's only 15kg but I had to start somewhere (In the photo below, isn't the full set of weights as I couldn't put together the full set as I'm not at home, but that's what I managed to put together as part of the set you get on Argos). I thought getting them weights would motivate me so much more to workout and get myself into fitness, considering I finally knew what I needed to be doing to achieve what I wanted to achieve. I have to say that yeah, it did help, but working out had never been something permanent in my life, so I knew it wasn't going to be easy to get straight into some sort of routine. I'd also remotely put it down to what I'd been eating, which is a whole different situation.
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| Dumbbells - Argos - £29.99 |
With all them changes, despite the fact they're not drastic, it made me feel a lot more healthy and energised. I felt in a much better mood while I was eating better, to the point where if I had something unhealthy, then I'd feel like I'd failed the whole eating healthy situation, which was again, where I was completely wrong.
I'm quite strongly inspired by Carys Gray (aka Busybee Carys). She has an Instagram page and she also has a YouTube Channel. I would say I've followed her for quite a while now and I find that she's one of the most motivating and inspiring people, she talks so much sense and it's so good to hear particular things that maybe you'd never thought of yourself. It's kind of hard to explain. She's taught me quite a bit about fitness, despite the fact I still wouldn't say I'm educated in the topic, I've not stepped foot in a gym before, but I'm more than happy doing whatever I wanted to do at home with what I have. She talks a lot about being positive, and that's something that inspires me the most about her. It made me realise that it is okay to go off track sometimes, it's okay to eat unhealthy foods sometimes, it's okay to stuff my face with chocolate when I fancy it (when do I not though??). I'm so lame at explaining things oh my goodness, but you'll have to bare with, this post is getting extremely long and I'm trying to pack in as many of my thoughts as possible. She's just one of them people where you watch a video or read a post and think wow why have I never thought of it that way before? I'd definitely recommend giving her a follow or checking our her channel.
I'm not saying that this is an educational post, it's definitely not, but I want you to kinda get what goes on in my mind with all things fitness. Ever since starting all the fitnessy shenanigans, I still get completely off track, I have breaks for weeks on end at a time, and I don't follow proper routines, I make stuff up myself on what I feel like I can do that'll still push me a little bit and still be effective at the same time.
If I could give a few small tips for if you have even the slightest mindset like mine, I'd say:
- Going off track is okay, eat cake if you fancy it.
- Don't cut out the things you enjoy. If you're going out for an occasion, don't hold yourself back. Enjoy yourself! You can always get back on track if you have the right mindset.
- Drink a lot of water. It works wonders. I know you hear it left, right, and centre, but it's true.
- Last but not least, 'doing something is always better than doing nothing'...so to do a small workout is always going to be better than me doing absolutely nothing, even if it were only 5 minutes. That's something that my boyfriend has told me time and time again, and something that pushes me quite a bit, it's a quote that I kinda live by when I'm thinking about working out.
If there's one thing I don't want you to take from this post, it's that I'm by absolutely no means any form of fitness fanatic, it's something I'd love to be, but that's just my thoughts as of now. I know I've said it a few times in this post, but I want you to just be aware. I haven't worked out in probably atleast over a month now, maybe even more. I'm not super well educated on it, and wouldn't be able to tell you whats good and whats not. Everyone has completely different bodies so everything will work different on different people, but I've learnt things for myself that have worked for me, and that's just what I wanted to share with you in this post!
I hope you've enjoyed it though. Maybe at some point in the future when my eating is back on track, I'll consider maybe doing a 'What I Eat In A Day' video for you if that's something people are going to want to see!
Thank you so much if you've read this far, this is quite a long post but I really hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again in my next post!
From,
Elisa :)
p.s. Happy Easter! This post has absolutely no relation to Easter whatsoever, but I hope you're having a great day :)
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