getting stronger

allright, for this week, my target is to start working on a routine for my abs and buttocks. Why? Well, on a few weeks I'll be back to Spain for the Eastern Holidays, and I actually NEED a flat stomach by that date. So I'm gonna work on abs tuedays, thursdays and sundays and on buttocks on mondays, wednesdays and fridays.

LAST WEEK'S TARGET:
it actually went pretty cool. I was gone for the weekend to dublin to visit my aun who camed from spain, and I had St. Paddy's day today, so I ended up skiping the videos on friday, saturday and sunday. Sorry! I had such a busy weekend.
 But anyways, that's because those days went out of the routine, as all the other days I did it perfectly and with no problem at all.

This week's target: A little bit of extra exercise.

Allright... So, as spring break is coming and I'm fatter than ever, for this week I'm going to make an extra 20 minutes of exercise everyday by following these videos I found on youtube. I'm going to do this everyday this week but tuesdays, as I go to the swimmingo pool, I get showered there and I don't want to come back home and start to sweat again.

The videos are in spanish, but even if you can't follow exactly this account, this post may have inspired you to do something similar. 

Well, I hope you like this as I guess you're all making every effort to get skinny for the spring break (So am I, right now I'm putting all my efforts on getting in a good shape, as I'm coming back to spain for eastern and I want to blow everyone's mind!)

C'mon guys, just imagine having this body on a few months from now...

What do you do to ultimate your operation transformation?

xoxo

Elisa.

Ready, set... DIET!

Allright, this last week I've been keeping it pretty fine, I'm already sticked on my old-good-habits routine (more or less), So, the other day I was thinking and... I realised I eat SO much. So I started a drastic diet that is going to last 3 weeks (the time where your body and mind get sticked into a routine). The diet pretty much consists of eating 700 calories on 5 meals a day (because I don't want to ralentise too much my metabolism). So, more or less this is my day:
-Breakfast: Apple + Yogurt (more or less 80 calories)
-Morning snack: Mandarin Orange (45 calories)
-Lunch: 1/2 margarin and ham sandwich (more or less 120 calories)
-Afternoon snack: Tea or coffee with milk and sugar (60 calories)
-Dinner: whatever my hostfamily has cooked for me.
 Ok, so dinner is my biggest deal because is obviously so bad for my health and metabolism to eat that much when I'm eating that little the rest of the day. But I've nothing to do with it because as you know my hostparents cook the dinner and also serve it. And I don't want to say things like "I'm on a diet" because I don't want to worry them. So all I can do it's to try to eat as little as I can during the dinner.
 I actually started this diet on saturday and since that everyday I feel less and less hungry. And I've also lost more than 1kg! So yes, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm supposed to be making some exercise- to boost my metabolism because the fast is ralentising it- but as this week I'm on my work experience and I finish everyday at 6 o'clock in the evening, I'm not able to go to the gym- any day. So all I can do it's to look for some video-home-workouts and things like that. Wich I find pretty boring- but I don't have any other chance!
 To fight hunger and craving I'm drinking loads (and when I say loads I mean loads) of water, green tea as much as I can, looking at my phone's thinspo wallpaper or reading motivational texts.
This is my first time in such a drastic diet. Have you been in any diets? Did they worked? Did you regained everything after them?
xoxo
Elisa
PS. Alright, I'm not a doctor, and I've NO IDEA if what I'm doing is healthy or not. So please, PLEASE, if you follow me at this diet, you have to be responsable of the changes that it will produce at your body. I don't want anyone to sue me!!

This week's target: come back to my new year's resolutions

All right... Before anything, I'm TERRIBLY SORRY about this. I know I haven't posted anything for weeks, and I can't say anything because I don't have any excuses, so I can just apologize.
 I don't know what has happened with me lately, I just don't know... But here I am, with the firm resolution of coming back to my routine. So from now you'll have a new post everyday (but saturdays).
 I'm not going to start a new target after all this time without doing anything, so for this week I just have the resolutions I was already on:
 -Eating clean and healthy

-Doing exercise 

 Right now my goal is to get a b s ♥

-Studying, being good at school and stuff...

 I'm on my mid-term break right now, but I have a massive amount of assigments to do, so that's what I'm going to be in to this week.

-Getting prepared for the ADVANCED EXAM of english on may. 

 I've already signed in, so I can't go back, and all I have to do now is to PREPARE MYSELF for it! 

-Keep my diary updated (so as this blog, of course)

So yeah, it's going to be a busy week but I'm motivated again and this time is for real! I swear!

Do you give up easily? 

xoxo

Elisa.

Unplug!

Ok, so this week's challenge is to unplug a little bit from whatsapp, instagram, and all my social networks in general, 'cause they keep distracting me so much! So here are some tips that I'm gonna use:
-When studying, I'm gonna go downstairs and I'm not going to bring my mobile phone with me!
-When I arrive home, I'm not going to check any social network before the shower... I'm gonna to do straight what I have to, and then, I can check my mobile phone.
-Half an hour before going to bed, I'm gonna put on plane mode all my electronic dispositives- so I can fall sleep easier.
-I'm just going to have each app downloaded once. Like, snapchat on the mobile phone, instagram on my tablet, twitter and facebook on the computer... So I just can check one social network at a time.
This doesn't mean that I'm gonna completely stop using the internet, like at all. Because like, ya know, I HAVE TO answer all my whatsapp messages and to read the groups and to see my friends pictures on instagram, and I'm also a bitta stalker and I need to know about what's going on out there. Is just that I need to throw any distractions because I'm already studying so hard for the advanced exam.

This week's taeget: DIET!

Well, I don't know if you do actually remember, but the first target from the year was to do sport often. And even if I've almost did it well with that, my diet is being awfull. I started the year so well, but since I went to Valencia... things have just gone worse and worse. So for this week I'm starting again the diet, and I hope I'll do it! To keep me motivated, I've set a food schedule:

Breakfast: Bowl of bran flakes + Skim milk / 1 toast + 1/2 tbsp spread + 2 fruits / 1 light yogurt + 1 banana + 1 apple.
Morning snack: 2 fruits
Lunch: 1/2 sandwich
Afternoon snack: 1 cereal/protein/whatever bar

As my hostparents cook for me I'm not able to choose what I'm having for dinner, but it's usually just a main dish with veggies and wholegrain stuff and that so I'm happy with it.

For this week I'm also gonna write down everyday how did the challenge went to keep me more motivated and not to give up that easy.

Do you follow any diets? Do they work?
xoxo
Elisa.

This week's target: To improve my english!

As you know I'm studying at Ireland for a year to learn English. And even if my english is not as bad as it could be, I want to improve it even more. And I really can do a bigger effort! Because you know, at the school where I'm going there are loads of spanish people (even if it's supposed to be irish), so it's so easy to end up hanging out with them (Irish people are note very going-out people), so my target for this week is to learn loads of english. Even if at the weekends I go out with spanish guys (I'm not staying at home), I'm gonna try to speak more english during the day, by going at class, etc. always with english-speaking people. And I'm also gonna try to read and listen everything on English, and I'm gonna tell everyone I talk on whatsapp with to talk in english with me.

Last week's target: Not to be a Drama Queen.
Well... the challenge didn't go as I expected. I really didn't think things like "Whoa, I''m doing it so well!", even if I didn't overdramatized some things.

This week target is...

... don't to be a drama queen.
I'm always dramatising everything. At every fight, every bad things that happens to me, I don over dramatise and stress. That's why this week my target is to don't stress about everything, because I think that that would make me a lot happier! Stress is unhealthy and it won't do anything good for you! It actually helps gaining weight, makes your skin and hair unhealthy, and I will only make you feel unhappy, sad, and angry with everyone.

LAST WEEK TARGET: TO MAKE SPORT EVERYDAY:

This past week I've been really, really grand with my target. I've made sport, I've lose weight... Mondays are my cheat day, so I didn't do anyhthing. Now I just have to keep going with it and don't give up on it!