True Life: I'm a Healthy Living Blogger ... sort of

I am teaming up yet again with fabulousbutevil and Mrs Monologues for their TRUE LIFE series. 

This time it is True Life: I'm a Healthy Living Blogger! to be fair though i think my title should read

 True Life: I'm TRYING TO BE a Healthy Living Blogger.

I am in the process of trying to shed 70lbs from my 5"2 frame, through eating healthy and exercising regularly.

 My journey has just begun started many times over, often i go full throttle for a few weeks or even months, before i get distracted, it happens in most areas of my life, so i am doing my best to learn to stick with something! 

One of the techniques i have started to use is short term goals, medium term goals and long term goals. In order to encourage myself to reach those goals i have worked out some incentives in which i can treat myself. because who doesn't like to spoil themselves once in a while? and how much better does it feel when you know you have worked for it?

Here's an example of how my goals and rewards work...

Short term goals

Goal -10lbs  Reward - membership at the local gym

Goal  -15lbs Reward - buy a M.A.C foundation

Goal  -20lbs Reward - new rain boots

For every 10lbs i lose i will reward myself with a larger/more expensive treat and for the 5's in between something smaller but to keep me motivated 

Medium term goals

I have set myself a goal to lose at least 2lbs a week, every week until Christmas, you can see that post here!

Now instead of focusing on my far far away goal of a 70lb loss, i focus on my weekly 2lb loss.

Long term goals

everyone has that ideal weight they would like to be right? mine is 120lbs, whenever i think about giving up on this i look at the dress i bought a few years ago when i was losing weight but never got into, or i log onto MyFitnessPal and look at what i have done so far, or i visit Pinterest and look at all of the amazing weight loss/ exercise inspiration that is floating around! it really keeps me going!

now to break up this word heavy post...

Not that any of my readers are fat! but i sure as hell am ;)

If you would like to follow my journey or even better join me in it you can keep up with what i am doing my clicking the tab that says weightloss at the top of my blog!

Getting back on track with MyFitnessPal

After last weeks disappointing results i was determined to get my ass back on track. After seeing fellow bloggers MrsMonologues and FabulousButEvil discussing the MyFitnessPal app on twitter i decided to check it out. My new android phone has not yet arrived (grr more on that another time) so i just had a snoop around the website. and i really liked what i saw.

The site begins by taking your height, weight, activity level and goal weight and giving you a reasonable weekly weight loss goal (1.9lbs for me) it also gives you a recommended daily calorie allowance (1200cals for me).

I especially love the food diary aspect as i tend to snack and forget what i have eaten but when i have this as an app i will be able to enter it right there, also the database has so many different brands including Norwegian ones! something that i have never experienced before and has always made online food diarying hard!

It also takes into account how much exercise you log and adds that to your calorie allowance which is a good way of doing it as some of us (ahem me) sometimes forget that if you work out like a crazy person and don't eat enough, you will get tired and sick and although you may lose weight at first it will come piling back on eventually!

if any of you are already on MFP or knida wanna check it out now, come by and be my friend yay! My MFP Profile!


also i am on track with my weekly goal of 2lbs! mainly because i lost 2lbs and hopefully can keep them off yay!

I will try and keep my WL postings down to a once a week minimum as i don't want to just turn this into a weight loss blog!

also on a side note you can view my weight loss ticker over on the weight loss journey page!

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True Life: I'm a rambling blogger

Happy Friday people today i am linking up with Mrs Monologues and Fabulous but evil to take part in their link up series true life: I'm a _______ blogger!

I thought it would be nice to re introduce myself here with some lists.

Me

1. I am 23

2. I live in Bergen, Norway with my lovely boyfriend and hopefully soon a cat yay!

3. I blog about tons of different random stuff anything from long rambles about my day to place/product reviews

4. I am currently unemployed (boo!) so i spend most of my day on the computer! or crafting (yay!)

5.  Hopefully soon i will finally be done with my BA TEFL degree and can get a job as a teacher!

Like/Loves

1. Lists! i love lists i write them all the time usually detailing all the things i have to do, before i promptly forget to do them and move on to writing another list about something

2. My boyfriend, I know aww (puke puke) but he really is wonderful and is always looking after me!

3. Cats, seriously i would love to be a cat lady as long as i had a huuuge house with lots of windows so i wouldn't smell like one.

4. food, nomz i loves it. could possibly be the reason i never succeed in losing weight but meh sometimes you just gotta have that slice of pizza!

5. crafting, especially at the moment when my head is filled with money/school/life worries i find that sitting down and making something really puts me in a good mood, plus it maks my boyfriend happy as i forget to nag him about things ;)

Dislikes

1. Hangovers (i have one right now and it is threatening to send me back to bed with no supper! which would be terrible *sob*)

2. mean people - i know everyone says that but its because it's so true if you're in a bad mood don't take it out on me just go and have an ice cream, they make everything better!

3. Writing essays/revising for exams and school in general! i just want it all to be over.

4. not having the body of Scarlett Johansson and being too lazy to get it.

5. not having my best friends living close by :( 

So there you have it, now you know some interesting ish facts about me and hopefully you will have come to inevitable conclusion that i am awesome and should be your new BFF!

Me and the Bf on our recent holiday <3

Off to go and wallow in my hangover now.

Happy Weekend!