Depression

5 ways to live your life!

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how I changed my life and recovered from depression, here is my answer:I live by 5 simple rules; they helped me change my life, no doctors, no pills and no one but myself!Changing your life can seem an incredibly tough and complicated thing, especially if you’ve failed a great number of times (like I did).
1. Accept CHANGE. Allow yourself to let go of the past to make room for new things to come into your life, meet new people, travel.2. Be BOLD. Stop putting your life on hold, set new goals and reach them! 3. Start to EXERCISE. No explanation needed, it will make you feel better and happier.4. Eat HEALTHY. Food can make you happy, food can make you sad. Eat less processed food, try to eat more vegan, vegetarian food,try raw food, eat more veggies and fruit. Believe it or not it will make you feel better!5. LOVE YOURSELF. You can do all stuff I wrote, but if you don’t appreciate yourself nothing will make you feel better! You can say that last ‘rule’ is the most important way to live your life!* I don’t say this is the best way, but it helped me to overcome depression and start with my weight loss journey. read more..

Swollen Foot

Woke up to a swollen foot so I guess I’ll make the right decision and not jump rope outside on...

Woke up to a swollen foot so I guess I’ll make the right decision and not jump rope outside on this nice day. I could probably do yoga but wouldn’t be able to put much pressure on it during down-dog so maybe I’ll just stretch a little after I work out my abs. I can still walk so I’m good. Could be worse. read more..

Gym Membership

Earlier today I went into a local gym...

To see if the manager was there and had read my application that I turned in the other week and noticed 99% of the people in there were all doing cardio. Treadmills, bikes, whatever else was in there. Then I looked over at the weights areas and didn’t see anyone. I don’t have a Gym Membership and have never even been to a real gym, but I pictured how weird it’d look, me being the little tiny girl pumping iron while everyone else is running. It made me giggle a little on the inside. How cute that’d be.     I missed class today to… go do a job thing which was a one time thing so I made up my lost work out at home for maybe about 40 minutes. I usually feel less motivated to do a lot when I’m at home, but I did the first half in my ugly backyard in the 65 degree warm winter weather, then went inside to finish when my neighbors dogs came out to bark at me. I started with jump rope, did a few workouts like push ups and bicycle crunches, lunges, then back to jump rope, and did that a few times between my other workouts. Did some more work with weights and tried to get in a lot more core workouts since I’ve been neglecting my abs and paying more attention to the little bumps forming on my arms. I tried doing a little bit of yoga but I didn’t feel like it so I did one Sun Salutation, a mix of a and b, with the warrior and without the seated position in b. Then stretched my legs, did camel, and drank the last half of my odwalla mango protein drink. Then I had an accident with my 2 day old expired (which I knew) vanilla chai drink and now I hope I don’t get sick from it (because I freak out over this stuff.)      Just thought I’d share. I don’t know why. Now going to clean up and stuff my face with food and shower in no particular order (but I’ll probably clean first). read more..

Personal Yoga

I’ve been thinking of selling prints of my photos for a while, and now shorts (all of which...

I’ve been thinking of selling prints of my photos for a while, and now shorts (all of which you can read about here) and now I just thought of another good idea. Selling motivational pictures, posters, calendars, and/or other things (maybe cute mugs since I’m obsessed with them). Obviously not just random things like… hey here’s a picture I found on tumblr, buy it from me. But like… I could make a yoga calendar with personal yoga photos and stuff like that… hiking trails and running photos… stuff like that. Just a good way to put all the things I’m good at together and hopefully make a profit of. Then maybe I’ll be able to afford yoga school sooner! You’d all go for that, right? (; read more..

Reverse Crunches-Bicycle Crunches-P90x

Night workout

Started maybe around 10pm. Some of these exercises are kind of hard to explain but here they are.Jump rope for 2 minutes20 dumbbell raises in plank40 bicycle crunchesrest (changed into lighter clothes)20 weight lifts- Arms down, center, above head, repeat.20 boat pose twists with weight10 boat pose weight pass in between legs20 squats with weights in hands20 reverse crunches20 concentration curls (but on knees rather than sitting)20 dumbbell side bend each side10 lunges each side20 leg raised (on chair) crunches25 in and outs (p90x)30 bicycles (p90x)30 wide leg sit ups (p90x)30 second chair (against wall)40 leg open close (lay flat with hands under butt, lift legs, open close)Then I started doing a little bit of yoga and stopped. I’m starving so I’m going to eat and maybe shower if I’m not too lazy. I already showered but it’s cold and warm showers are nice. I need to start working out more at home, here’s some stuff I’m going to try and work into a routine, I’ll probably add more later because that definitely didn’t feel like enough to me. read more..