Photos from my previous Instagram training selfies 2017-2020
It's probably too early to celebrate these habit changes since I only started a few days ago. But since I had already been doing these methods before summer started and stopped I felt I needed to write about what works for me as an individual.
I have low metabolism, am gluten-sensitive, I lose and gain weight fast. Most of my weight-gaining episodes have been related to pregnancy, nursing, and stress. So I actually lost the pregnancy weight during spring. But managed to gain back half of it again during summer social unhealthy eating and drinking habits plus being stressed as a student mother who has to guggle both daily home responsibilities and homework.
Despite the weight topic, I am much more focused on the overall health part because gaining weight is just a visible sign of what might be going wrong inside the body and mind. In my personal experience, I am following these methods for these particular reasons:
- I get brain fog when I am sitting studying for a couple of hours without moving so training helps me clear that fog and get my blood pumping. I am also trying to generate more brain cells since at age 35 the brain stops making new cells and ONLY! if the person is active physically.
- Fasting for overall health, (reverse cell changes) cancer resistance and improve brain activities performance.
- Ketones work great for me since I am not a big fan of sweets and pastry and I can live without them if I have to only cook for myself. But the challenge is cooking for the family and social eating. I got in shape very fast when I was eating only keto meals, one fat protein-rich meal a day. not only that I was fit and light in my body but I also felt great, energetic, and was very mentally sharp during that period, especially in my memory.
- Supplements are my shopping addiction. I take my omega, multivitamins, D2, and iron daily, except for the iron twice a week. I do my best to eat more leafy greens, less meat, herbal tea, and skip all toxic beverages. I might reward myself with a glass of red wine if I am really sicked to this routine next weekend to not create unhealthy resistance that comes often after straining ones-self too much.
- Improve my sleep and get more deep sleep. I have been tracking my sleep the last few months and I discovered that I only sleep 1 h deep sleep max, maybe a bit more of I had a glass of wine but never made it to 2 hours naturally. So just when I started with this method of fasting, keto and exercise I managed to sleep 2 hours of deep sleep. See the data below... unbelievable!
My training besides fasting is quite simple, not to the point where I get stressed because stress and guilt are the number one cause of going back to unhealthy foods and habits because it triggers the reward system in the brain. I try to reach my 10000 steps daily. And my workout routine is a 30 minutes jog, sometimes I take a 5-minute fast walk in between if I felt some discomfort which is very common at the beginning when back to training. I also like to hike and go for long walks.
The study routine ( sitting still ) is what really destroyed my old active habits because I usually walk almost to all places, rarely drive or use transportations. And my lifestyle as a mom requires being on my feet up and going all day from one thing to the other.
Today since I am home alone with Alicia I do not need to cook for anyone, I am planning to do 24 hours fast, drink only coffee, vinegar water, and do my 30 minutes jog in our home gym with Alicia in the stroller watching :-). I hope these routine changes pay off when I get to do my next cell scanning test. Positive vibes, please !!!!
* Cell changes are not cancer. The cells often go back to normal by themselves. But in some people, if not treated, these changes could develop into cancer in the future.
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