hey babes welcome back to my channel today is a Q&A video on health fitness
weight loss everything that whole massive subject it's such a large
subject to talk about and I asked you guys to send me a bunch of questions on
snapchat so I'm gonna be answering all of those today I did serve like a part
one where I took my weight loss video on how I lost 30 pounds and that was just
kind of me talking about my journey how I started all the things that I've kind
of learned along the way so I remember me having a ton of
questions when I first started so I thought I wanted to do a Q&A video where
I answer your questions and things that you guys might be confused about today
I'm having such a dry morning when I was applying my foundation it did not want
to go on so if I look a little bit patchy that is one I just loved winter
in Canada it's just beautiful so I'm gonna go ahead and answer the first
question okay so first question is from Alisha hi
Alicia so your question is how do you keep yourself motivated to eat healthy
every day and not deprive yourself this question is actually really good because
one thing I really really talk about so much in my last video is not depriving
yourself not putting too much pressure on yourself
so to me I think that that's something that's very important when you're trying
to lose weight in general depriving yourself is a very short term solution
to what you actually want in the long term so if I say to myself okay well I
want to lose 30 pounds in six months I'm gonna be eating 600 calories a day
you're depriving yourself what happens is you're going to lose the weight very
quickly you have an unrealistic lifestyle and an unrealistic solution to
week 2 your long-term goal the problem with that is is it doesn't last and
that's what I did in the beginning I was depriving myself I was constantly
starving if you are to the point where you are starving that's telling me that
your body is asking you for more it's just not working for your understanding
to not deprive yourself while you're trying to lose weight I think is a very
very important lesson that I think everybody needs to kind of follow
because when you deprive yourself and you get your goal so quickly
basically literally that's what they are they're quick fixes and I think that we
need to keep reminding ourselves we are looking for a long-term lifestyle
solution we're not looking for a quick solution that's not what we're looking
for because in the past when I have had quick solutions or these quick fixes
that made me lose all these pounds I wasn't happy so that's what that that
was the result that I got from depriving myself so what happened was I did that
again so the next time I did I deprived myself again and I got the exact same
result so you have to think to yourself okay so depriving myself is not the
solution it didn't really help me it didn't get it to where I wanted to be so
that's when we had to do a lot more research you know Amy Amy Amy learned a
lot about how it works how the body works how you really lose weight the
better way to lose weight the more realistic way to lose weight and then
you realize that the new solution is long-term it's going to take much longer
but you're not going to be depriving yourself so to me depriving equals
short-term solutions and you're going to go back all the way again long-term
solutions you don't deprive yourself you create a realistic plan for yourself
that works and guess what you're going to have a longer-term solution and in
the end you're gonna save yourself I want to keep going in with I'm where I'm
not and I'm happy where I'm at but I want to keep going but the person who
deprives themselves they're gonna be like I feel so defeated like oh my god I
just want to give up you know like I've ran on the treadmill like an hour every
single day I'm eating like a thousand calories a day I feel extremely
exhausted do you think that person is going to make in the long run or do you
think the person that created a realistic solution for themselves is
going to be there in the long run still standing that's where I'm kind of at the
way that I see motivated again I talked about this in my last one
but again motivation is something it's it's so hard because I actually don't
really believe in motivation I think I wait what motivated me in the beginning
to start is definitely health it's I guess I would say this 50 percent my
body 50% health reasons but I mentioned a lot of people of my family were
getting extremely ill and I watched a ton of documentaries on health and what
we put into our bodies is basically what we would come and I mean how much more
simple can you get than that literally what you were putting it like if you put
poison into your body do you think your body is going to be like smiling and
happy inside it's not but if you put something full of nutrients and vitamins
antioxidants all these things that your body loves to consume if you put that
into your body don't you think your body's gonna be happy and smile I know
it sounds crazy saying that but think about it in a way your body inside
smiles when you when you are feeding it the things that it really needs it
doesn't know how to consume all these other like extra process things it just
doesn't understand so what I guess what motivated me in the beginning was do I
want to be sick in the long run like I'm 27 years old do I wanna have health
issues because I want to be able to travel the world I want to be able to
enjoy marriage I want to be able to enjoy kids my family I don't want to be
sick and in a hospital the reason why I don't like to put so much weight on
motivation is because I think that a lot of people want that thing that makes
them jump off the couch and get into the gym it's so much more empowering when
it's you that gets yourself to the gym what is you that says to yourself you
know what step get up go to the gym it's good for you like just get there and
then when you're done you're gonna feel amazing I always tell it to myself when
you go and you do your workout you're gonna feel amazing okay just focus on
that and it does it makes me feel amazing I definitely don't feel good
when I stay at home five days in a row now for the gym I feel good when I go
there I workout and I just feel good about myself I feel accomplished and I
feel like I have created a bowl for myself and you can't wait for this
motivation thing you can't make it a thing and say okay well
I think hasn't pushed me so I'm not gonna get up that's the only thing I
don't like about motivation so it's fine to have that thing to push you to go but
just don't don't put so much pressure on yourself to wait for this motivation if
you're waiting for something and you're just not moving it just means that
you're just not ready it's just not for you it's not your time right now maybe
you need to do a bit more research and maybe you need to look within yourself
and find you know why is it that I want to even lose weight you know Namie
because I think that you need to ask yourself and really have a true
understanding of why you want to start losing weight instead of just waiting
for that thing that's going to push you because again we're talking about the
long run we're not talking about a short fix so next question is I never know
whether to buy clothes before or after and lose weight I have the let me buy
this now and all those weight to fit into it mentally - she says I'm a hot
mess please help what do you do so this
question is very very good it's something that I had to think about when
I was losing weight for sure I got rid of I only got rid of a ton of clothes
when I lost the 30 pounds so here's what I would suggest
I would keep when you're first starting your weight I would definitely keep a
couple of clothes that you need to wear right now the ones that fits you right
now I do want to touch your wardrobe when you are first starting leave your
wardrobe as is and I would suggest not to buy do not buy clothes in I would say
the first three three months that you're starting to lose weight just don't buy
clothes not right now because the first three months is when you're starting
right and then fourth and fifth month you see all this progress and you think
oh my god now I'm a size four handsome good watch the size for stuff but the
problem is going to get a bunch of size four stuff is now you get a bunch of
size four and then you end up being the size two and you have to buy an entire
new wardrobe again so what I did was I left my wardrobe in the very
I did not do anything with that I left it a couple stuff I wanted to get rid of
but it wasn't because the sides I just wanted to get rid of them so I did that
and then after a couple months I saw so much progress and I'm like oh this shirt
is so loose I'm like but you know what maybe I'll buy like one one or two pairs
assurance wanted to present pants because of course nobody wants to wear
loose clothing like let's just be real so you can do that goodbye a couple of
pieces but when I made a couple doesn't mean like go buy 10 t-shirts and 10 new
pants and renew your wardrobe I would suggest that if it's so bad especially
pants I think shirts can last you a long time because I mean the trend is to do
oversized everything these days with to something matter if they're loose but
pants of course nobody wants pants or them you know falling down there or
walking during the day so nobody one side so I did find that I had to buy
like smaller tights I was a medium before in tights now I'm a small in
tights so when it became too much like when I saw that I was losing too much
weight and now my pants were just not fitting me at all I would go and buy it
you know two periods of small tights and stuff like that but when it came to tops
and body suits and dresses I stayed away from it I said to myself you know why
wait until you have lost a ton of weight like six months after I would say that's
when you've lost a lot of pounds right so you're kind of like this new person
you're not like you're not the same person that you started before I mean
six months has passed down so then I would say to buy a couple more things if
you're still at a stage where you're like no I still need like 20 pounds to
go again only by like a couple of items don't do too many I personally I know
you mentioned I do this before - you're not the only one where you bought the
clothes where you're like okay well I'm gonna buy these pants because that's my
goal pants that's fine I had gold pants but I wanted to fit into I bought a pair
of jeans from sirens that were size five and I'm like I am like wow I'm gonna get
into these fans like that's crazy because I got one when I tried them on
and I'm like they don't fit so you know what that's fine it was a lesson to me I
put them in my closet I said I will fit into you though one day I will and guess
what I wore those pants and my hole at your lookbook and I fit into those
so it feels good but imagine if you had like five of those pants not all of them
are gonna fit you the exact same so I kind of regretted that I bought those
pants a little bit too soon but you know what I said to myself that's the one
pair of pants I'm going it's going to be my goal it's gonna stay there in my
closet until I fit into them and I did I accomplished that goal so I felt good
but I just I did the same thing where I bought a ton of clothes that I was going
to fit into at the end but the thing is you don't know where this journeys gonna
lead you you don't know what you're gonna look like at the end of this
journey so for example if I bought a size three pair of jeans guess what
after seven eight months I still wouldn't fit into this ice through
because my legs are still big so you you can't really do that I would suggest to
not buy the future weight loss clothes when you're starting and I would just
keep what you have right now that you fit into and then as you lose weight
maybe buy like one or two pieces but just know that those one or two pieces
you're gonna have to throw it again at the end because they're still not gonna
fit you so overall my advice is try not to buy a lot of clothes when you were
losing weight try to just stay with what you're at right now try not to waste a
lot of money because in the end you're just you're just spending money for
absolutely nothing because weight loss is it's something that's up and down and
I would suggest you buy clothing after you have lost all your weight how do you
deal with soreness I have started CrossFit a few months back and I love it
but I noticed that when I go very hard after a workout it takes me a few days
to recuperate and go back to working out I really hate this because I feel like I
should be working out every day if possible so my take on that is soreness
is completely normal and what I have learned is soreness doesn't necessarily
mean like a lot of people think oh yeah I'm sore you know like I said such a
workout this is awesome yes soreness can be a sign of that but soreness can also
be a sign if you're doing something wrong
so be very cautious with that make sure your forms are right especially if you
guys are doing weight lifting because soreness can be different things just
because your muscles are so or you know especially if your bones are
story you need to you need to be careful with that I I've had problems with my
lower back I think it's because in the past certain exercises I wasn't keeping
it fully straight and I was kind of crunching over or I was dipping it too
much at the back and it really caused a lot of back problems for me but now I'm
okay I always make sure that when I'm sitting down and has like I really
actually bought a really firm pillow to sit behind me because it's very
important to keep your back straight in your posture nice and straight it's not
good to be stiff like you shouldn't be like sitting like this but allow your
back to be nice and straight so with the soreness and doing it's amazing that
you're doing Crossfit CrossFit is very very like it's amazing it's like a wide
exercise where it works a lot of parts of your body you can actually consider
an intense hip workout so it's because it's so intense though I would say to
not be doing this like I know you mentioned you should be doing it every
day I don't think that there's any workout in the entire world that you
should be doing every single day I just I don't believe in then I I actually
struggle with balance I really do in my life in general I'm not a balance person
I'm either this or on this so but when it has come to weight loss it has forced
me to become a balanced person you need to have balance so if your body is so
sore and you're doing crossfit CrossFit is very very overall body intense it is
so intense so if you're doing that every single day and your body is sore your
body is telling you you need to take it and I did CrossFit I'll just tell you
what I would do if I did CrossFit today I would not be doing crossfit tomorrow I
just would not you need to give your body a rest again long-term goal
short-term goal the short-term goal makes you stay over here the long-term
goal makes you keep climbing up and up and up that's the long-term goal so if I
were to do CrossFit every single day right by the end of the week my body
would be like oh my god like I literally would feel dead how would you have the
energy to enjoy some part of you how would you have energy to work how
would you have the energy to want to cook like it is it's sowing I don't
think a lot people know across that like it's very intense that I fully
understand why you were experiencing sort of I don't do CrossFit but I know
what it takes and it is really really intense so I personally don't think that
you need to be doing it every single day this soreness is completely normal
you can look up a couple revenues when you have muscle soreness but it is it is
normal but again you might be so sore because you have been doing it leg back
to back to back to back and what you shouldn't be doing I really don't think
you should be that's just my advice in my opinion and
I don't work my arms let's say for a couple days and then I go back and
really work them out my my muscles are so in the next day but that's completely
normal but it's like especially when you're starting and you haven't done
weightlifting you will get some intense soreness do not be afraid about that but
it's when you are when you keep doing the same exercise a week at the weekend
you're experiencing a weird soreness that's very abnormal you definitely need
to ask yourself am i doing the form right and everything so I think my
overall advice about the whole soreness and the CrossFit is try not to tell
yourself you need to do every single day because it sounds like you're pressuring
yourself and if you love it great it's awesome that you love it but doing it
every single day there's just no balance there I think you need to take a break
from it and maybe put something else into your workout because I just think
it's too many times for someone I wouldn't even say to do weightlifting
every single day and I would not say to do CrossFit every single day so
hopefully that helps a little bit so the second part of this question is I have a
full-time job and two kids and my only time to work out is 5:30 a.m.
how do you stay committed so early love love your videos as well I just keep
doing more thank you so with the kids and the job so obviously I'm not a mom
so I can't I can't really say you know my my view on that because I don't know
what it's like I have in the past after going to a
nine-to-five in coming home and going to the gym and then coming home again up to
the gym and having to cook I applied to myself many times like you moms out
there that have kids go to work and me turn to the gym I just want to take a
couple of seconds to just let you guys know I have much respect for you like
much much respect for you because I said to myself many times how would I do this
with a child like it is it's it's a lot of work but honestly I I give it to you
women seriously like because I don't know how I am exhausted when I had a
night to fire oh my god I would go to the gym I would be there at 5:30 and
then you come home it's like no actually I was leave around like six something
seven you get home it's almost 8 o'clock if I didn't have my meal cooked I would
have to cook my meal and then after cooking your meal by the time you sit
down in front of a cute computer trying to watch my show
it'd be like 9 something and and I'm like ok and in between that well first
before cooking I would shower and then I would go cook and I'm just like oh my
god like if I'm eating at 9:00 and I'm single and I don't have children these
mothers like wow like you guys have to prepare everything before so honestly
kudos to you guys I haven't much respect to you guys for that
but if I had kids from what I'm thinking about what I went through being single
and not having them I honestly think it's all about time management you have
to have a plan you have to suck if your only time is 5:30 a.m. it sounds like I
don't know if you can I don't know if you can make it to the gym at 5:30 a.m.
but if you can only do it at home then you can only do it at home I mean at the
end of the day let's just be completely realistic here if you want to lose
weight you have to find the time to work out no matter how many kids you have or
how crazy your life is you have to make the time so I'm actually really proud
that you're asking the question because that means that you do want to make the
time and you're just trying to figure out how so that's really good um but I
think that if your only time to work out is 5:38 me
you can do with at home workout before you go off to work and maybe pre pack
everything and fix everything for the kids to make before maybe and I don't
know how busy I'm pretty sure weekends are busy but maybe you know if you have
a husband or someone that can help you a friend or a family member can just take
them for an hour on the weekend and you can go to the gym take that hour to
yourself and that kind of should be your time to just get a break from the kids
too and just focus on yourself for that hour that's all you need you need an
hour I don't want you guys to think that you guys need to like you know do two to
three hours at one time try not to put that all into one day because I think
that's just overwhelming yourself meal prepping is amazing especially if you
have a family again I'm single and it helps me a lot I can only imagine if I
the family I'd be like kids are meal prep kids mom prep pizza it's awesome
meal prep is awesome like mom what do we have in today pasta I'm you about that I
think meal prepping will help you a lot because meal prepping once it's done
that that will take away the type of you having to cook dinner all the time so
hopefully maybe you can slot in that time there too to kind of get a workout
in and there's a lot of things like after dinner if the kids are playing or
something if you have like a TV room or a place where you could maybe even just
watch like a Zumba video or you get a couple of weights and just do a little
bit of like weights there maybe the kids can join you in something that maybe you
can turn into like a family thing so I mean again that's probably my best
advice especially when it comes to kids in our really crazy lifestyle for me it
was all about time management and trying to just find that little slot that you
can just stick in that workout okay this question is very very good so it says
how do you resist sugary cravings when trying to be healthy so sugary cravings
funny enough I'm not really a sugary kind of girl but I do have to have my
sugary stuff so definitely when it's the time in the month I
I am a sugary mess at that point and always I've always been actually very
mindful of a more healthier option even when I was younger I'm like what is a
healthier option of that when I would go to school like my sister would take like
fruit roll-up to school bunch of bulls bologna sandwiches and I'm just like I
don't want to you need that stuff like I honestly if that stuff just made me want
to like vomit would take like the veggies was like dip and stuff my valet
I don't know I've always just had like health at the back of my mind like
always a healthier option so even when it comes to sugar yeah sometimes I want
that cake and I just don't care if it's like a healthy you know vegan cake or if
it's you know gluten-free or if it doesn't have this and doesn't have that
sometimes I don't care I just want that cake like or I want that Baskin Robbins
sugary craving is very important again this goes back to not depriving yourself
you are in a weight loss journey like I am I
rarely like rate as I I don't even think I do deprive myself I don't deprive
myself I really don't because I realized very quickly that like I think about it
if the times before when I die in it and I'd all his weight loss things it might
deprive myself then and I do get a quarter of the progress I had this time
around when I didn't define myself why would I deprive myself like it just
sometimes you have to sit down and ask yourself like even if you might have to
use me as an example honestly do that like say to yourself ok well this stuff
ever have like sugary sides yeah she does and she's lost 30 pounds so I think
we can do this like it's don't think that if you have that sugary thing that
your thirty pounds is gonna go from 30 pounds to 20 it is not going to make any
difference in your progress like what so guess what it didn't do anything it's
not going to do a single thing because you have consumed what you need to lose
weight based on how much you're working on like a lot of people don't understand
it and I know the reason why they don't get it is
because it sounds too good to be true let's say I want like a piece of
chocolate or something I'm not really a chocolate fan and for me when it comes
to sugar I don't I can't consume too much of it because I don't like that
overwhelming sugary sort of taste so it bothers me but for those of you who are
sugar lovers because Amy is a sugar lover and I would suggest to have that
thing that you were craving but if you want to you can look for a healthier
alternative so all fine like protein snacks that are super sweet like those
cake ones that I showed you guys I could link a couple below for you guys to give
you best some suggestions for example for me a healthier alternative that I
eat are quinoa cookies i buy these double chocolate quinoa cookies and
they're 80 calories each so from me they're like a little bit high in
calorie but for me one is enough because they're so rich so something like that
it's a more healthier alternative and for me it kills my sugar cravings the
quinoa cookies all have the kind bars I love with bars to thir another really
good sure sort of treat for yourself but when it comes to like the bad sugary
stuff I would say to half of every once in a while I love a good peanut butter
cookie and sometimes I will go get you know I guess the thought version you can
say of peanut butter cookies actually I buy peanut butter cookies from from the
grocery store and they're also a healthier alternative but again if
you're looking for like the I like to call them the dirty sugar sweets if you
are craving some of them honestly I would say half of them keep it within
your calorie so if you are supposed to be having 50 metric iies in a day keep
it within the 1,500 calories if you are to go over sometimes honestly again
don't deprive yourself don't punish yourself for doing that it's fine your
progress is gonna go down by like point one sometimes my progress is not even
affected when I overeat some days so with the sugary sweets if you are a
sugar person what I would suggest is if you're gonna have them option find
healthier alternatives because you don't want to be having too much of the dirty
sure sweet but sometimes like I said like I
tara misu I love a good peanut butter cookie I love cheesecake if I'm gonna
have those I'm gonna have the dirty one so you know they mean so and I do that
every once in a while I'm not doing that every single week every two weeks every
three weeks like I'm doing that maybe I don't know I would say like every
sometimes once a month sometimes every couple months I'll really depends like
if I'm going out for dinner and we'll have that dessert like enjoy your L for
dinner don't deprive yourself this next question is from Gabrielle Thank You
Brielle so the question says I was wondering how do you stay on track and
motivated with weight loss and what are your favorite fat burning sweated out
workouts I'm currently trying to loose a hundred pounds and I think I'm already
10 pounds down whoo I really want to put in the effort and push for my goal xoxo
thank you very very good question so it kind of goes back to the whole motivated
thing but the way that I stay on track is to I like to ask myself okay so what
is going to be like this example this is for someone who's starting off their
journey I like to kind of pre plan I've always been a planner so I kind of tell
myself okay am I going to go to the gym you know Monday Tuesday Wednesday or am
I going to go Monday Wednesday Friday or I like to think I find in the winter I'm
doing like two times a week because number one it's a lot harder to go to
the gym in the winter I'm not going to sit here and lie to you it is a lot
harder it's been a lot harder for me but I definitely would say to have a plan
when you're going to work out it helps you stay on track because you know on
that day you're going to go to the gym so fat burning and sweat it out workouts
so fat burning funny enough a lot of people a lot of women especially again
like I mentioned in my last video they think that weight lifting is going to
bulk you up weight lifting is actually going to shed a ton of fat I have done
in my entire weight loss journey so much more weight lifting than any other
workout any any any other workout people think that when you're weightlifting all
you're doing is like pumping so they think that you're actually like rowing
you don't I'm saying well over time muscles gonna grow but especially if
you're on a calorie deficit to lose weight it's actually very very hard to
bulb like it's just science you can't build a muscle when you're not eating
enough for it to bulk up and especially as women it's not it's not possible for
us to like bulk up like that it's just not it's science it's in our DNA it's
just not possible so if that's your fear regarding weight lifting just erase that
fear cuz it's not no matter how much you weigh it doesn't matter if you weigh 100
200 300 400 pounds it doesn't matter weightlifting I would recommend for
everybody and I'm not talking like weight lifting where you have like a
barbell and you're doing like 300 you're pushing 300 pounds but I'm talking about
any weight lifting grabbing a pair of 10 weeks and leg lifting your arms like
this like starting off slow you don't have to don't think of weightlifting as
something where you see this massive guy with like bulging muscles and he's
lifting up 200 pounds don't think of it just think of starting off slowly even
if you're starting off with 5 pounds and you know working your way up slowly
that's what it's about it's just about progress so another good fat burning is
hip workouts so using a lot of resistance bands doing a lot of Sprint's
skip rope a lot of like box jump stuff like that like a lot of hit workouts are
very good for fat burning as well but in order to tone and stay nice and tight as
possible you do want to do mostly weight lifting I will I will never sit here and
say to you guys cardio is the way to go for weight like for weight loss I'm just
never gonna sit here and say that to you guys I'm always gonna be Pro you know
weightlifting and pro hit and yell a little bit of cardio is fine I just want
to say congratulations on losing the 10 pounds cuz I know although you're
thinking yourself well I have a long way to go yeah but that long way has already
started you've already progressed you have
already touched that goal a little bit next question is how do you continue to
work out and avoid those cravings on those tired days or even weeks
so cravings kind of go a little bit of with the sugary question that I answer
for you guys cravings are something so here's my view on cravings when I'm
creating something I ask myself number one how bad is my craving because
sometimes it's just your mind playing with you honestly like sometimes just
sipping some water and you'll get over it and that's just my honest opinion but
sometimes I have that craving I can't stop thinking about for maybe one or two
days when I had that craving very simple I have it I eat it i devour it I have
the entire thing you know why because again you do not want to deprive
yourself as soon as you took pride yourself that's when you're creating an
issue because you don't want to have a pattern of depriving yourself all the
time but when you're having those cravings you just don't want to save
yourself no no no no I can't have it I can't because it's bad I cannot have
that thing what you're doing is you're creating a baaad relationship between
you and those cravings and now you're creating a bad relationship between you
and food and when you start to do that today it's the small but that problem
starts to grow and grow and grow and it becomes a massive massive problem and
what happens is let's say so let's think about what's worse okay you're craving
I'm just gonna use an example something I crave like put away crave to be honest
yeah here's a good example I've been craving a poutine for a long time from 1
to 10 the craving I would say is like a - like I'm able to deal with it so I
haven't had the poutine but if I didn't stop thinking about that poutine I would
have a poutine and maybe I'll have it in the next month maybe I'm gonna have it
tomorrow I don't know but I'm only going to have it when it's worth it
let's just say my craving was a poutine ok I really want this poutine so tell me
what's worse so I have this craving and I'm like no no no no let's just hide
that craving we don't want it so this is what's gonna happen
that craving let's just say it's not gonna go away because we're talking
about little real cravings so the cravings not going away right so it's
still there tomorrow this is the poutine you're like no no no no no no you throw
it away the next day I want that poutine you know what happens you're like I'm
gonna have to cookie because I can't have the poutine
with the cookies only 200 calories okay an hour passes by I'm gonna have a
couple of those chips because those chips are better than the poutine by the
time you do that three or four times you could have just had the poutine or
there's the second scenario there's there's the other we're gonna call it
the B person so option B is you don't have anything at all so let's say you
don't even have that chocolate chip cookie or you don't even have those
chips you completely ignore the cream in a couple days passed by and you're like
oh my god like you're starting to go nuts you were starting to go nuts and
now your creamy has like but comes and bigger and bigger and bigger now you're
causing issues for yourself when you could have just had a poutine like it's
fine to have food in it and it's fine if you go over that one day out of your
journey or those couple days that have a couple months it's honestly not going to
kill you you have just have to tell yourself okay today I'm going over so my
progress is gonna be maybe like 0.1 backed-up or maybe my progress is not
even gonna be affected but my invoice on cravings is if it's a very very strong
craving and you wanted my advice have it absolutely have it I know that's like
your dream answer but it's the truth it's not just the dream answer is the
honest truth you want a couple of slices of pizza have a couple of size of the
pieces tonight like it's not going to kill you but you know you can't have it
next week right and you know you can't have it tomorrow again no you can't have
it three days from now again you've had your craving so it's again
it's all about balance and it's all about disciplining yourself because
that's what this entire weight loss progress has been for me as discipline
and balance okay so the next question is it's a hi Stephanie I love your videos
thank you you are so beautiful my question is what exercise should I do
with the gym that mainly focuses on losing belly fat
I have lost 54 pounds in the past 9:1 so far you go girl and I'm still
working towards my goal love you thank you so much so this is a very good
question because I touched it in my last video the truth about doing specific
workouts to target certain areas of your body so for example she's opting to
target her belly fat you can't target weight loss in a certain part of your
body it is impossible it doesn't exist and I know that that's so hard for
people to understand because I was doing like crunches all the time before this
weight loss journey not this one before I was doing it ton of crunches I was
doing a ton of leg sit-ups it's doing a ton of leg push-ups in all this ab
workouts because I thought I would get like a sick back after them but I never
got a six-pack the truth the reason why I'm never got a six-pack was because you
need to lose the fat in order to the six-pack to come out so it's like a
current okay I'm the stomach alright so here's the curtain the curtain is the
fact over the stomach if this is not lost okay let's say you lose it
magically you open the curtain and the six-pack is there so that is why I know
that's like a weird example but that's the only way I can describe it so
basically if you do not lose the fat in front of your stomach
we all have ads like believe it or not we all have asked for those of you who
think you do not have abs you have abs the reason why like a lot of you are
saying oh my god your abs are coming through the reason why mine are coming
through is not because I'm doing belly worker's I kid you not I rarely do
stomach workouts I like I never say to myself today I'm gonna do those and I'm
gonna do this never do this for my stomach never I never say that to myself
so I rarely do them so if you guys think I have them it's not because I'm doing
focused belly workouts it's just not when me as you are working out as you're
a weightlifting regardless if you're doing cardio weight lifting hip workouts
CrossFit whatever you are doing to lose weight I'm tell
that fact from so until that curtain in front of your abs like behind behind by
your summit until you lose this front part you will never see apps coming
through no matter what workout so unfortunately my answer to your question
is you have to just keep going until your body chooses to loose it back near
your stomach area until that happens it might come off your arms first my arms
I'm like I struggle to lose weight off of my arms I do way more workouts on my
arms that I do my stomach and you guys tell me I have a ton of apps on my
stomach I'm just like think this is just it's proof that it just doesn't work
that way like I swear to God I do a ton of them where I'm pulling up my body
pulling pulling pulling and I'm like all the harms of all this weight like I
still have that in my mind that I think that fast gonna come off which is
completely normal you're human right but I am a living proof example that the fat
will not come off of your stomach by just doing belly exercises it's just
scientifically proven to not be true so unfortunately you just have to keep
going at it I mean you've lost 54 pounds so if you just keep going like you have
done amazing so far like honestly amazing keep going and you will see that
stomach turn into something that you never thought it would be believe me
because I'm going through that right now the next question is who do you watch on
YouTube for weight loss and how often do or the
gym oh we can walk your dog number one I don't walk my dog my dog isn't inside
dog I never walk him not gonna lie to you guys I just I don't want my dog I go
to the gym currently in the winter around two times a week it's a lot
harder to go to the gym in the winter you guys like it's it's much harder to
get yourself clapping to just to go so right now I'm going like twice a week
normally I go three times a week around the spring and summertime I'm going to
watch on YouTube for weight loss to be honest with you guys um I don't watch
too many YouTube videos I get more inspired by so funny because I just
opened up my Instagram to get his name and he popped right up on my thing so
SIA I love him so outside fitness I love
this guy he is everything that I preach about when it comes to weight loss and
everything he posts I'm like it's like payment to you because honestly he just
he does everything so his name is Jordan SIA I'll put his name right here and you
guys just have to listen to the things he has to say because I'm sorry it's
just awesome he actually has a YouTube channel that you guys can watch all his
stuff on there but I just watched him on Instagram but again he gets really
really amazing advice he's all about the realistic way of losing weight and a
realistic lifestyle he's definitely he's a trainer as well
but I just love what he promotes I love what he preaches about and it's just
it's everything that I believe in so make sure you guys check him out this
next question was really good I'm actually really excited to help and talk
about this one I recently lost my job is there any tips that you have on things
that I can buy to bulk and still eat healthy even when I'm cooking and some
cheaper alternatives I love this question because I first off I can only
imagine how hard it is to you know to lose your job because now you think okay
great I'm on this weight-loss journey how am I supposed to do this now
so my tips I even actually do this right now but I suggest is to buy this stuff
that you can make a ton of meals with us actually that's what I do right now to
save money I'll buy maybe two stalks of broccoli and I know I can do a stir-fry
that with that I know I can do my my side for my salmon with that I can do it
as a side of a chicken I know I can do roasted veggies with basically anything
I know I can make a veggie soup you can make a massive pot so that one sees you
a ton of money because it's all based on a lot of canned foods and canned foods
are really really inexpensive to buy I mean I pick up at my grocery store a can
of corn for under a dollar you don't mean if you find it one still
for $0.99 how awesome is that right so that soup is actually very very good
to save a lot of money because you get a massive pot and you just put them into a
bunch of different containers or one big container keep it in the fridge
for me up to one week or put them in different containers and put them in the
freezer and only keep some of them out in the fridge and then remove those from
the freezer so definitely Neill prepping I would say
is my number one meal saving tip the other thing again I will buy a whole
thing of romaine lettuce and I know I can do like six salads with that one
thing of romaine lettuce I buy canned chopped black olives already sliced up I
pour that on top a little bit if you buy one bag of onions you can do so many
different things but you can put those in the soup you can put that inside of
your salads you can use that as a side when you're doing anything basically so
I would say buy a lot of canned foods because you can make a lot of soups
without a lot of size a lot of salads with time buy a lot of veggies that come
in like a stock where you don't want to waste it before it goes bad so you can
use for a different meals try stick to drinking water instead of buying any
fruit drinks or any cans and stuff like that because it's definitely not healthy
to be eating you know any sodas and stuff like that
when it comes to fruits fruits can be super expensive I think that's why a lot
of people say you know eating healthy is very expensive when it honestly I've
actually calculated before I'm like it's not it's actually more expected to go
out and eat all the time it really adds up at the end of the
month I think that fruits are extremely expensive so my suggestion is it's to
get a bag of frozen fruits you can do smoothies with those you can do water
that's infused with fruit with those so those things are really good to buy
because one they're in bulk and you can freeze them into a ton of things with
those when you buy fresh fruits you are definitely spending a lot more money
instead of buying that bag of frozen foods for $6.99 one little case of
blueberries is gonna cost you $4.99 so to me that's sometimes I'm like $4.99
for backup blueberries so those are kind of my tips that you can use for eating
healthy so I hope that helps the next question is what is your goal weight and
she said you look amazing I love in your videos oh thank you so my goal
weight um I don't like to have a goal weight or number but I will answer the
question anyway I think that in my mind my goal weight is going to be around 120
to 125 and I have to say I never ever thought I would have said that let
someone that told me your goal weight it's gonna be 120 to 125
I'd be like Susan are you okay like seriously I would have honestly called
you crazy because when I think of one like I know what I would look like at
120 125 and I'd be like like I I don't I don't want to look like a carrot you
know like I don't wanna I want to have shape I want to have you know Tony I
want to have a little bit of muscle showing so I just never thought I would
see that number but I know what I am now and I can't really say a hundred thirty
pounds cuz that's not far off and what I am now and I'm definitely not where I
want to be right now so I'm not really at my end goal I have a long way to go
so I definitely think like 120 to 125 I don't even think 125 and I do it based
on what I look like right now I say when I'm like really done and I have my body
that I want go on like convenience for a while see how I like living with my body
because I don't want to make a rush mother's decision and then once I'm off
maintenance for a little bit I'm gonna be going on a mini bulk because I want
to build certain parts of my body definitely wanna build my butt a little
bit more I don't want to be building my arms but again you don't really have
much choice like when you're building you can do you have to be careful
because doing a lot of buck workouts can also build your legs too at the same
time so you have to you have to research at that point but definitely I think my
goal weights gonna be around sort of that range the next question is what is
your biggest struggle during your journey and how come you overcome it so
funny enough a lot of people would probably say like eating less you know
but for me I definitely that was a struggle only I would say for the first
couple weeks in my my weight loss journey but now I'm so used to eating
1,500 calories some days I'm like I'm at 1,100 calories
the next day my 1213 some days I'm 17 you know what I'm saying so I I wouldn't
call that a stroller that's just something everybody's gonna deal with
when they're on a deficit I think my number one struggle has been me being so
hard on myself that's something that I have definitely struggled with I talked
about at my video too I always think I'm never progressing enough I am my biggest
critic with everything when it comes to my work when it comes to the way I dress
when it comes to everything my hair my makeup everything I'm just I've always
been my biggest critic I'm a perfectionist so I think in my
weight-loss journey when I saw that like let's say after four months if I was
losing like a pound and a half a week and now was on the losing one I'm like
oh my god like this bit like it's the end of the world the world's ending like
you know what my progress doesn't matter anymore but you have to again I
mentioned how my sister would help me a lot with that and say like look back at
photos look back at the actual like numbers be logical and say to yourself
are you progressing and I just realized that we love to something it's it's
literally like a roller coaster the ones that go up and down that's exactly what
weight-loss journey is like you if you're expecting weight loss to be like
this and your perfectionist like me because that's exactly what we want more
a professional we want everything to just go perfectly all the time but it's
not that's just not how weight-loss goal is your body is doing so many different
things that you just do not comprehend or understand like you just don't so at
the end of the day I definitely think that that has been my struggle overall
it's something I still struggle with I'm like I might still progressing like
enough you know like and I have to just for me what has helped me overcome it is
like I mentioned take a ton of photos take photos of every single way that you
weigh yourself take photos of your fat percentage how much water you're
drinking take photos of the actual weight and number if your progress is
not what you really were hoping for is it because you worked out less this week
is it because you went over and you ate a little bit too much so my advice is to
not be sore yourself honestly when you're in a
weight loss journey again focus on the highroad the long-term solution never
focus on the sky which is the short-term because this is where it leaves you this
is exactly where leaves you but who wants to be like this you want to be
going up and up and up and up like you want to be progressing you want to reach
goals so I definitely think that that's that's something I definitely have
struggled with but you have to just remember to just pop yourself on the
back and be like you know I have to see myself step you're fine you have
progressed so much you've lost like over 30 pounds like you're doing amazing you
know look at everything you've accomplished you have learned from your
past mistakes you know you've already you've already grown by doing that
you've already learned something new so by overcoming that I just feel much
better and I just have to say to myself you're doing great and just remind
yourself of your progress this next question says my question is what
changes have you experienced in your body after losing 30 pounds you look or
just love you thank you very much um changes that I've experienced in my body
so I guess physically um actually physically and other stuff too like
health-wise so I've always had massive bloating issues like I'm I was always
constantly constant loading I was clearly consuming way too much sugar
before like I was having a ton of those Starbucks matcha latte drinks and those
have once I realized how much sure those had I'm like like step up that's what
your bloated like hello look so definitely my bloating has come down I
would definitely say because I've done a lot of research on it I've learned a lot
from him to the site at Fitness he definitely he posts something about you
know what to avoid when you have bloating issues and why you were
actually bloated so salt is definitely something that makes me blue sugar makes
me glow so as I try to take those out and milk products milk products
definitely they have I've lowered my milk by a lot
I rarely really consume milk only if I'm going on like a breakfast place where
I'm going to dinner and I want a coffee at the end of my meal and like
Franklin's they're gonna give me milk they won't give me you know almond milk
but that's okay that's just like a little bit and I find that I love my
coffee too much to let it go for a little bit of milk so I'll do that but
at home like I've even told my family on the corner we're not considering milk
but I've made this decision for us and we're just not doing it and luckily like
my mom just goes along with it and we're just all consuming almond milk now so
definitely no products have helped me like when I lower them I don't get us
bloated sodium when I avoid it as much as I can I don't get as much bloated
sure when I try to avoid it I don't care as much floated my water has helped me
so much this guy my god is amazing for bloating make me feel skinny physically
wise I've noticed that my arms are one of the last things that are sticking
with me now I lost a ton of weight on them in the beginning but now they're
slowing down my stomach I have lost a ton I had a large amount of love handles
on my two sides those were like one of the first things that went down and I've
noticed that my waist is a lot more cinched a lot more like oh my god when I
don't look at pictures on my stomach I'm just like oh I can't believe that like
wow you see that your body just changes and it's just the most amazing thing and
it's so exciting I've noticed that my legs look a lot more tone they still are
pretty big because I do have big legs but my legs for a longer toned my feet
have shrunk the feet have gone down in entire size all of my shoes in my closet
are sy7 I hope you guys know they do not fit me like they do not fit me my ring
size I was an 8 before on the 7 now like if I put a size 8 you know just whoop
it'll just fly right off my face has slimmed down a ton when I gained weight
this is the first place it goes to like you think it's my stomach it's not it's
my face even like what I am bloated I can feel like underneath here oh my god
I just feel it I'm like all great I'm bloated
so I've seen a lot of progress on my stomach my chest has gone down a lot
I believe it or not you guys could used to be a Dean yeah I used to have a
decent stress and now I'm like in a B yeah so we lost a lot in that area I
lost a ton of back fat on the back tournament oh my god I Thomas actually
my point where I was like I've had enough like I've had enough like I would
be walking and I felt it like touch each other I've never had that and I'm like
no no no no like this is this is the sausage stop so I have lost a ton and I
just feel so much lighter and I just feel so much better about myself so
that's something my body fat it was in the high 40s before when I very first
started and now it's at 30% so my body fat has gone down a lot so those would
like the major changes that I have felt in my body for sure how long has your
entire process taken so my progress is definitely not done or the process is
definitely not done I started in January and it is now December so we're almost
into it a year at the end of this January coming up it will be any a year
if I started around 165 and now I'm like 135 so that goes to show you I've lost
like 30 pounds you definitely need to understand that this is a long long
journey it's not something like I did not lose 30 pounds in 3 months I didn't
lose it in six months you know anything like it's taking me a while so I've been
on a deficit for a year and I've heard a lot of stories where girls say that
their entire progress is taken like two and a half years and I'm just like like
in the beginning like no you've got to be kidding me
but guys that's how long it takes like if to be honest people someone said to
me it's gonna take you three years to get your dream body but you'll be good
after that like you we you'll be said you'll be used to
amazing lifestyle you'll be good I'm like okay I'll take that deal I don't
want to take the deal that that's six months and then I just have this amazing
body because that's six months I give it to you is a deprived person it's a
person that has rushed the process which means the body is probably all messed up
by the time she reaches her her dream body but you can't most people that do
get their dream body at six months they've just lost a ton of fat by doing
a lot of cardio but it's not it's not about the short term it is about the
long term amazing journey that you're going through you know what I mean I
would rather a lot of people say you know nothing comes without hard work you
know and nothing comes in a short amount of time it takes a while what was the
turning point that made you decide on this healthy journey so I mentioned a
little bit how I started to see that I was just gaining way too much on my
sides here and I just I couldn't stand that when I was walking they were like
hitting each other like I know it sounds strange but honestly that's what I just
realized like okay you have never had this problem you've never been this bad
like this this is something and it bothers me it just
I had never liked being like that so why would I settle for that you know what I
mean and I think definitely the health issues of my family I was just like you
know like I I don't want to be that you know my family definitely doesn't want
that for me you know so I need to be taking care of myself for sure and I
remember just weighing myself on the scale and being like what happened to
like why are you okay with being at this point you don't even like are you happy
and after asking myself that I was like no like I'm not happy you know to me and
I'm wearing the Schafer's but I can become this skinnier body but when
you're truly happy with yourself why are you wearing shapers okay so the last
question of our Q&A is how did you start exercising did you start off weight
training or did you do cardio at first also what were your meals like in the
beginning you have come so far and looked amazing Paola Paola Paola I hate
when I mispronounce someone's name I really hope I'm pronouncing your name
right is it Paola or Paola so really stuff from the beginning I
would feel like the first maybe two days I was like okay let's do some treadmill
but I quickly realized you know like especially with my sister's journey to
and her being on it I was like no like I just need to try this weightlifting
thing like I need to I need to just get rid of all the myths that are in my mind
about me bulking up or something and I just need to go do it and I am so happy
that I did you guys if I didn't know I do weightlifting you guys and gave it
like an honest chance I would not be sharing with my progress today I just
would not have the same progress hit workouts to me I don't really consider
cardio mostly like going on the treadmill doing jogging walking some
spreads elliptical doing the bike like a lot of that is cardio to me and walking
in general but hip workouts is just more intensified and you actually use more
equipment resistance bands you can rely like box jumps use like a lot of
different things you can even use like weights to actually do a lot of Hill
workouts and jump rope and stuff like that so I like doing some hint as well
because I like that sort of active movement it kind of reminds me of my
Zumba - I need you to start doing them because I really love it and I just like
I feel like I'm always saying to myself you know what's cardio just kind of stay
away from it but I think that you do need to include parts of what you love
even though it's not like the best workout but again you don't want to turn
this into like this this thing where you're like I need to do the best things
for myself you know you need to be enjoying yourself at the end of the day
I'm and with my meals in the beginning they were definitely I would say smaller
in the beginning because you're you know you're fresh into this thing so you're
like okay I need to have that 4 ounce of salmon and that you know one cup of rice
and you know the certain amount of veggies you know and now I'm a little
bit more generous when it comes to my plates because in the very beginning I
wasn't eating the proper amount of house I was supposed to consume I think it was
eating around 1200 and when I researched I was like okay when you weight lifts
you can't be eating like a fat low you know you can
but just don't expect yourself to be like lifting that heavy and you know
week by week keep lifting and happier and heavier just you just can't really
do that your body's not gonna be able to take it so I definitely will say that in
the beginning my portions were a little bit smaller because my calorie intake
and my deficit was a little bit more severe than it is right now definitely
we will say that my meals in the beginning were a lot more like I cannot
have any process stuff I was definitely more harder on myself I wouldn't allow
much room for like those sugary cravings but again because I was at the beginning
of my journey there's so much to learn and I didn't know all the things that I
know today but today I know like when you're creating something habit when you
want something sweet have it you know like there's nothing wrong with that so
hopefully that helps answer your question
ok BAE's so that is the end of our Q&A a thank you to all of you who sent in your
questions and hopefully I helped you guys up a little bit with your weight
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