Good day to you.
Since it is summer, everyone is trying to get in shape for the bathing suit/bikini.
Including me.
This means: more exercise and watching what I eat. Sometimes, literally looking at it, and asking myself if I should eat it. Am I really hungry? What good will eating this do? Does it have good nutrients? Etc.
However, I have never, and don't plan on dieting. I hate that word: diet. It's so dumb. Why stick to a food plan when you can just have a change of lifestyle. I like the sound of that a lot more.
Lifestyle Change.
I have recently done this. As of... today.
So therefore, I am obviously an expert.
The lifestyle change I have taken on is called the "Bikini Bootcamp Plan". I am using Lauren Conrad's plan on her blog. Link below:
http://www.laurenconrad.com/post/shape-up-lauren-conrad-bikini-boot-camp-fitness-plan
Basically, this is a way of living in order to get healthy and in shape (and ready for a bikini).
Now I am not fat, but I need to get in shape and lose a few pounds. Therefore, this is perfect for me.
I have gone through the meal ideas and snacks and love the ideas. It sounds like something I can do and the meals seem easy to play around with too. I like healthy foods, believe it or not. I feel better when I eat them than when I eat junk food. Plus it gives you a self esteem boost.
The exercise plan is a choice of yours. Not if you do it or not, but what exercise you do. And I love that. It gives you two exercises to do every day, morning and night, then a selection of exercise you pick from 6 out of 7 days a week. ONE REST DAY. That'll probably be my favorite day, and will probably be Saturday. Maybe Sunday. Not sure yet.
I am excited. This is going to be a good thing. For me now, and for the long run. I feel like I will get into the habbit of this lifestyle.
Maybe I can get my best friend on board. :)
Stay healthy,
~Q
Friday, June 29, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Bro's before Hoes/Chick's before D*ck's
What's up buttercup?
I have a very serious topic today. Well... it's really a questions so leave a comment and tell me what you think.
Do you believe that these two theories should be practiced?
1. "Bro's before Hoes"
2. "Chick's before D*ck's"
Now, of course, I must put my opinion in here.
NO.
I do not believe that this is accurate. I think that in certain circumstances you must bail on your significant other for friends, however... not all of the time.
Remember those movies where the guy is totally infatuated and in love with his girlfriend that he bails on his friends and they tell him.. "dude, bro's before hoes. c'mon."? Yeah.. it's called LOVING YOUR BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND SO MUCH YOU WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH THEM.
Goodness.
Now I also believe that your significant other should be not only your lover, but your best friend. Otherwise, you will not have fun together for the rest of your relationship. This is why, you are not bailing all the time to be with your friends. You can be with your friend(s) while being with your S/O. Usually, that is what people in a relationship do. They have a social life together.
Look at my parents. Today, during happy hour, they randomly called up a few friends and had them over for a few drinks. They had a blast. And they didn't have to go their separate ways to do so. It makes it more fun if you have your loved one there.
On the other hand... I think that there is a time and place for "bro night" and "girl's night (out)". I know that if I do not get away with my girls (and sometime even my guy friends) I go crazy! You cannot spend your whole life with one person. That is why you have a circle of friends. It is healthy and normal to want to get away from your S/O for a few hours and hang out with your buds.
So in closing, my friends... Don't bail your S/O and use the dumb excuses listed above. Just plan a night a week, or every two weeks, etc. to go out separately with your friends. But make sure to do social things together as well. After all, you are dating this person for a reason, right?
Stay loving,
~Q
I have a very serious topic today. Well... it's really a questions so leave a comment and tell me what you think.
Do you believe that these two theories should be practiced?
1. "Bro's before Hoes"
2. "Chick's before D*ck's"
Now, of course, I must put my opinion in here.
NO.
I do not believe that this is accurate. I think that in certain circumstances you must bail on your significant other for friends, however... not all of the time.
Remember those movies where the guy is totally infatuated and in love with his girlfriend that he bails on his friends and they tell him.. "dude, bro's before hoes. c'mon."? Yeah.. it's called LOVING YOUR BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND SO MUCH YOU WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH THEM.
Goodness.
Now I also believe that your significant other should be not only your lover, but your best friend. Otherwise, you will not have fun together for the rest of your relationship. This is why, you are not bailing all the time to be with your friends. You can be with your friend(s) while being with your S/O. Usually, that is what people in a relationship do. They have a social life together.
Look at my parents. Today, during happy hour, they randomly called up a few friends and had them over for a few drinks. They had a blast. And they didn't have to go their separate ways to do so. It makes it more fun if you have your loved one there.
On the other hand... I think that there is a time and place for "bro night" and "girl's night (out)". I know that if I do not get away with my girls (and sometime even my guy friends) I go crazy! You cannot spend your whole life with one person. That is why you have a circle of friends. It is healthy and normal to want to get away from your S/O for a few hours and hang out with your buds.
So in closing, my friends... Don't bail your S/O and use the dumb excuses listed above. Just plan a night a week, or every two weeks, etc. to go out separately with your friends. But make sure to do social things together as well. After all, you are dating this person for a reason, right?
Stay loving,
~Q
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Photo-shop
Hi Dolls!
It's my first blog on this new site, and I am very excited to start! Bear with me...
I'm going to start sprinting out of the gate.
Today I got thinking... I wonder if celebrities choose to be photo-shopped for magazine covers, ads, etc. Do they sign a waver saying they agree to it? Do they ask for it because they are insecure about something? Or are they surprised by how good they were looking that day when they see the cover?
Whether or not they know and/or choose to be touched up for their public pics, there is always the space for judgement for doing so. Do these men and women think about how it will make others perceive them? I know when I look at a magazine and see someone that I know to be usually overweight, look totally in shape in the pictures, I get confused and feel insecure. When I take pictures, I look bigger, just like every other person in the world does. Helloo! The camera adds ten pounds! Literally though... If you look at yourself in a picture, your going to feel bigger than you really are. Pictures do not always reflect what someone really looks like. If you don't believe me, look at half the girls on Facebook, then meet them in real life. Just saying.
My point is: do these people realize that they are putting an inaccurate image out into the public?
These pictures not only are a false image of what is attractive, but are inaccurate to what these people look like. Have you seen some of these people off covers of magazines? Try it. Hold up a picture of (insert celebrity here) on a magazine, then a picture of that same person taken by a paparazzi on the beach in a bikini. Not. The. Same.
Honestly, this makes me upset. And since we are being honest here, as we always will be, I will say that for a while it made me self conscious. I felt like that is what people really looked like normally and that is what I'm supposed to look like. However after realizing that photo-shop is a real thing that happens to all professional celebrity photos, I got over that. I realized that they fake it for a reason. To appear perfect.
And perfection is fake because it is impossible.
Stay healthy people, and stay happy:)
-Q
It's my first blog on this new site, and I am very excited to start! Bear with me...
I'm going to start sprinting out of the gate.
Today I got thinking... I wonder if celebrities choose to be photo-shopped for magazine covers, ads, etc. Do they sign a waver saying they agree to it? Do they ask for it because they are insecure about something? Or are they surprised by how good they were looking that day when they see the cover?
Whether or not they know and/or choose to be touched up for their public pics, there is always the space for judgement for doing so. Do these men and women think about how it will make others perceive them? I know when I look at a magazine and see someone that I know to be usually overweight, look totally in shape in the pictures, I get confused and feel insecure. When I take pictures, I look bigger, just like every other person in the world does. Helloo! The camera adds ten pounds! Literally though... If you look at yourself in a picture, your going to feel bigger than you really are. Pictures do not always reflect what someone really looks like. If you don't believe me, look at half the girls on Facebook, then meet them in real life. Just saying.
My point is: do these people realize that they are putting an inaccurate image out into the public?
These pictures not only are a false image of what is attractive, but are inaccurate to what these people look like. Have you seen some of these people off covers of magazines? Try it. Hold up a picture of (insert celebrity here) on a magazine, then a picture of that same person taken by a paparazzi on the beach in a bikini. Not. The. Same.
Honestly, this makes me upset. And since we are being honest here, as we always will be, I will say that for a while it made me self conscious. I felt like that is what people really looked like normally and that is what I'm supposed to look like. However after realizing that photo-shop is a real thing that happens to all professional celebrity photos, I got over that. I realized that they fake it for a reason. To appear perfect.
And perfection is fake because it is impossible.
Stay healthy people, and stay happy:)
-Q
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