Health & Happiness

Alongside exciting life events happening.. I am also on another quest of sorts. The quest to lose weight.
I have written many posts about my views on healthy eating changing lifestyles and dieting, and nothing seemed to hold my motivation for long; shakes are dull and have too many limitations, healthy eating and exercise just didn't seem to shift any weight. So i went back to my original tactics that helped me lose weight many years ago for my prom!

As a side note; can i say that I am sharing these with a little bit of discomfort; its hard to look at for me so please don't be too negative. 

 In the left photo (Dec 2014) I weighed by heaviest at 213lb, however it has been been almost 6 months of relatively clean eating (with some set backs; pizza is a dangerous enemy) and I have gone back to the lifestyle and food plan that helped me in my younger days to shed some pounds; Slimming World.
The photo on the right is what I took about 5 days ago; weighing my lightest at 189lbs! By no means am I done on my journey but it is a large step in the right direction which has made me unbelievably happy.
Clothes are beginning to fit again! I can wear dresses without worrying too much about a bulgy belly and I feel slightly sexier in nice things! Its a work in progress and hopefully i'm going to start running, 2 days a week at first and work my way up in the coming months to spur on my healthy diet.
One of my personal goals when I hit my Stone and a Half award at Slimming world (getting my half a stone this week hopefully!) is that I want to go out and buy some proper jeans! Not Jeggings but Jeans! I find them hideous to wear at the moment and am always wearing tops which are slightly baggy so I'm working on my confidence and then my wardrobe!

Finally, I'm keeping my motivation. Matt goes away for 3 months in the beginning of June and when he comes back I want one of those American sitcom-esque moments where i'm revealed as the ugly duckling into the swan with shiny lights and looking fabulous.
Obviously I know he love me now as I am, and I am not doing this for him, instead I want to start my life in my Twenties completely comfortable with myself and get myself ready for all of the important events that will be happening within this decade and when is a better time than to start now!

If you do want any information about Slimming World please get in touch; I am not an ambassador but I can help with questions about what it is like, what it requires and how to join yourself! Once you make the choice, you understand why you never go back!

Ten things rocking my world

Thats right, just a  quick update to tell you about ten things rocking my world right now! I'm trying to be more positive as a person and open myself up to new experiences so!!!
1) I spent far too much money yet now own burgundy Converse, an oversized orange jumper and a little blue skirt.. I COULD LOOK LIKE AMELIA POND IN 5 MINS. (Also, wait for my next haul post.... it's mega!)
2) I Have wonderful friends right now. After a good life clear out it's always nice to revaluate friendships, and realise just how many you have!
3) The Boyf/Bae/SillyMan/Cuddlemonster... and i'm sure he will appreciate reading that. You rock baby!
4) SWEET POTATO... PUMPKIN.....AUTUMNAL FOODS! I love autumn, especially the foods that become available.
5) Possibility of working for Wild Packs next summer... (again... wait for the blog post!)
6) Biting of Nails has decreased! Although weak as hell, my nails are slowly getting there, my biting has almost stop... unless I get a cheeky grabby bit...
7) Christmas! It's getting closer... I'm excited... let me get my tinsel out and sparkle up all of your lives!
8) Uni Work! Despite a slight panic attack the middle of last week, I have a renewed love fr my subject and I am going to smash it this year! I can just feel it!
9) Cooking! I swear I should write down some of my recipes because they are so freaking good I love cooking, I love tasting and quite frankly its such a massive stress reliever for me!
10) The Office US. Because I still love it.... And yet I have watched series 1-7 a billion times (love you netflix....)
MORE UPDATES SOON!
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Office Day

DISCLAIMER: I have not been taken over by a droid, I am a certified Juice Plus Distributor, I have used the product & truly have 100% trust in it! So please don't think I'm just trying to mug people off!

  

At the beginning of summer, I began my juice Plus trial, pretty skeptical about the whole thing, considering I thought the price was wayyyyy to high! HOWEVER, my eczema on my elbows has got better, my hair is growing better than it has in years, my nails are stronger and yes I have lost a whole stone in a few months.

I am completely envious of people who can have a hard mentality and just smash it out in a weight loss bid. However, I also know there are people like me all over the place who genuinely can't just get into that mentality.

This is why I loved Juice plus. It is so overly strict but more of a realisation of all the shit we put through our bodies. I used the Juice Plus Complete Shakes, after my 10 day detox, I already found that I'd lost a few pounds, but bearing in mind water weight I didn't think anything of it. Instead after I started the shakes (Vanilla, Almond Milk & Peach FTW) I found that I felt more energised, happier and the loving result that my leggings got that little bit looser.

I am have been a lazy juice plus user as well, due to my work commitments this summer I haven't been able to get to the gym & my only exercise has been working & walking everywhere, However  have still seen AMAZING results! As I go back to Uni in little under a week I still saved myself two of my pouches left so that once I get my exercise bike in my room, I will be able to add exercise to my everyday routine and absolutely smash out the last of my target (another stone please!!!!)

The details of the Juice Plus are as follows....

Juice Plus Shakes £32.50 a month, or one standoff payment of £123.75, this is FOUR MONTHS worth of shakes and could possibly be the best decision ever! especially as it works out as costing just under a £1 a day!!!!!

Please email me : georgiamae@me.com  for more info & i will be more than willing to answer your questions!!!

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Happy Health!

Hello everyone! Sorry about the lack of writing on this blog at the moment, however I have been quite busy but in the best possible way!

I've lost albs which to me is a mega achievement because i very very very rarely lose weight whenever I try any change of lifestyle... however I have found one.

Juice plus has been superbly helpful to me, it helped me start up my new lifestyle into healthy eating, and genuinely made me more energetic & feel better! I work a 9-5 5 days a week job so finding a suitable lifestyle changer like this which i can fit around my working life is a life saver!

Its all very simple, I wake up in the morning, have a bowl of my own made clean granola, a chocolate  shake mixed with strawberries & a pint of water! At lunch, Another shake with some fruit with (full fat) greek yoghurt then at dinner whatever meal i like, They call them 'clean meals' but some of the meals I have made have been superb even though they are considered clean!

People are sceptical about 'diets' but i really haven't used this as a diet, i've used it to make my life easier, because i don't always have time to prepare myself a huge lunch! and i prepare all my dinners for the week on a sunday!

I have seen so many amazing changes now I am not only part of the distributor team but also a user of the product, people loosing albs a week by merely detoxing and then moving forward with a healthier and better lifestyle!

if you want to know about the payment for Juice Plus then I am a distributor!  please get in contact by email! georgiamae@me.com to find out more everyone!!!!

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Home for valentines

 quite enjoy valentines day, even if I spend it alone, this year consisted of a mystery card, a Terry's chocolate orange & a Chinese with my dad! My lion is away this year, still I'm 19 I have plenty more valentines days left :) 

The mystery card freaked me a little bit! I've never seen myself and desirable, so I've only had a handful of boyfriends so it basically leaves the options that my mother has most likely sent it to me. however I can't get my head around the writing inside. 

"Who doesn't deserve recognition on valentines day" 

I have no idea what that even means, maybe I'm reading far to much into it, but it had kisses at the end... And the address had my middle name (spelt correctly) but not my postcode!!! Madness. 

Moving on, I'm actually at home at the moment, which is awesome, some kick back time, so I can chill out and do a few things with my dad who is turning old next week at the ripe old age of 51!! Aha! 

I made him a Dorset Apple cake for his birthday... Of which he has already eaten half!! Hopefully I'll be uploading a new YouTube video soon, no idea what on, but I'm half tempted to get some asks on tumblr or even messages on here so people can offer some suggestions. 

Happily I've stuck to my two New Years resolutions this year( I made some in the end!) and I've started reading more and I'm slowly getting Healthy and beginning to lose weight! For anyone whose anytime if there are two books you should read this year, please make it The Fault In Our Stars ( John Green) and Divergent ( Veronica Roth) two books which are being made into what I can already see as being big blockbuster films this year!!!! 

Anyway, this was merely a stop in I'll get back to writing my fanfiction soon hopefully!!! 

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Society's Flaws. (This is not because I'm not a size 8)

Since I was a young girl, I have always been happy. I like food, I enjoy the amazing things it can do, the sense of accomplishment you get when you've cooked an amazing meal. I also know that the culture I have been raised into has shown the biggest increase in people eating fast food, and showing the ever expanding waistlines, especially in the UK and our cousins across the pond.

I'm more than happy to admit that I am 'over weight' and this isn't some fat girl crying about being thin, I believe that girls who are naturally very skinny deal wight he same anger at wanting to achieve this 'Perfect' Body.  So i just want to state that again, THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON SKINNY/LARGER/MEDIUM/ANY TYPE of girl. Or guy.

I was scrolling through my Facebook this morning and I came across a video called Instagrams Most Famous Butt. And it actually made me feel really sad, this woman stated about how she felt that she was trying to make the world healthy, that it 'touched' her that she saw girls went to the gym every day for a mont just to look like her. This made me feel physically ill, she's an attractive lady, no doubt a very lovely person, however what i am not down with is how they explained she got to the place she has.

Jen works out every morning/day for a hard work out, including eating loads of small meals a day to keep her metabolism up. 

 Not everyone can do that, some of us have other commitments be it 9-5 jobs, apprenticeships, university, or even home commitments, most of us can't afford the gym every single day or afford to do the type of shopping for food which allows women like her to get like that. Though honestly, the thing that upset me the most is that Rihanna is one of her followers. She's practically endorsing this sort of body image which led many men in the video to say Why can't there be more woman like her?

Maybe its my very small feminist voice shouting, or maybe I'm moaning about nothing, but every woman should be seen as beautiful, granted, we all have preferences to what we want in our eventual life partners, however it is wrong to suggest that everyone should look the same.

Finally. She got her fame through posting pictures of her bum, to me... thats not exactly a dignified way to shoot towards stardom.

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