Need help getting up to exercise?
Maybe you don't exercise regularly but you know you should. Or maybe you're having a low day and not feeling the energy.
If you want to feel amazing, a healthy glow, a flat stomach, skinnier legs, and awesome energy you have to exercise and eat healthy.
Forget about diets, they hardly work, get a lifestyle that will last.
CONTROL YOUR HEALTH, DO NOT LET YOUR HEALTH CONTROL YOU.
SO EXERCISING? Just get it done. Find some inspiring videos if you have to, read more blogs or medical studies, but nothing will make up for getting up and exercising. It may not be easy, but it will become easier, as it becomes a habit.
Our society is totally unhealthy and unfortunately I am on that end of the spectrum. I have decided to make a change. I have definitely tried before to start a healthy journey, but I get sidetracked because It seemed so hard. Finding healthy food is tough around where I live, and they are expensive. For exercise? I consider my travel to school on the NYC transit system a exercise. I'm usually going out early in the morning so I have no time for a jog, and when I come home it's too late to go out plus I am tired.
But what I have learned is that when you really want to do something, you find a way. So..
Find a way.
The desire has to come from within, and we have to be our own motivation to start and continue a healthy journey.
We have unlimited amounts of fast foods, but then the healthy foods are hard to find -_- . hmmm I wonder why most of the population is overweight.
HAVE SOME SELF CONTROL PLEASE.
We need to start taking control of our own bodies, and taking matters into our own hands. THAT'S HOW WE ACHIEVE ANYTHING IN LIFE.
These are a couple of videos that motivated me soooo much. I just have to get it done.
My goal: Get fit, stay fit. The healthy way.
My steps to health?
1) I have joined a dance club at my college. They are pretty awesome, non judgmental, and I feel great dancing with them. I have have a family that loves to dance, so I have danced at parties, and I have taken dance lessons before when I was younger so I am okay at dancing. I have two issues though, I have a hard time remembering the moves right away. While everyone is already doing them, I have to go home and practice them so that I can come next practice ready to move. But I know with practice it will get easier, And I need to be confident in the moves, adding some attitude.
2) Eating smaller portions. Our stomach is only as big as a balled up fist. So a lot of the things we eat are too much for us, and we don't even know it. Of course our bodies are going to stretch if we feed it more than enough. Eat the amount you need, other than that, It becomes gluttony.
3) Incorporated Jogging again. I will take up jogging again, I love the way it feels after you have been jogging consistently for a few days. just starting, it is a pain, but over time, it becomes an obsession, and I can't wait. I have gone out already with my nephew and niece, and just jogged around a large court at a park about 10 times.
4) Health isn't only about your weight, there is also inner, and outer health.
Inner health: I am reading the Bible, praying more frequently, spending time with God. I am also learning to love myself the way I am, to accept everything about myself, including defaults. I am trying to have more self control, self motivation, and self love, and acceptance. Following the commandment " Love thy neighbor" It isn't easy, but it is one of the most important ones! God says so.
Outer health: Also translated as outer beauty. Taking care of my appearance, my body, skin, and hair. I have developed a new hobby, Make up. I am loving it. I don't use make up, I hardly wear lip gloss, but I have become fascinated with make up and the colors, and variations. I bought make up brushes, eyeliners, mascara, lipstick, and eye shadows. And I have been playing around with make up :).
I also just got bangs. They frame my face beautifully, but I am still not used to them. They make my forehead itch, and they feel like curtains. I got a relaxer on m hair, IDK why but I did. I like the way it looks, but I miss my curls, and I have to be extra careful with relaxed hair. I am even afraid to get into a pool this summer.
As I start felling better, I start to look better. I went shopping for shoes and clothing, and think I have been looking real cute these past few days.
One thing I had to realize was that I have to be healthy, for me, not for anyone else, and I have to love myself for me, and what I wear doesn't have to look good to anyone but me. If I like it, then I wear it. If I have something to say, then say it because my words matter. They matter to me. Confidence ;)
Love on others xD Believe in Yourself.
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
Friday, October 04, 2013
Family Alter
“This family meeting was called for a reason,” said my aunt Mari, ” everyone please take a seat, and quiet down the kids, please”
My aunt never spoke English, not that she could anyways, and I hardly speak Spanish but still I can hear the authority in her words when she spoke to all of my family. Already I was sitting quietly with my cousin Alina, watching as my mom, her two sisters and her older brother followed the orders of their older sister.
My cousin quiet down her younger brother and sister and my aunt started speaking again.
“Now there are some things that we need to clear up in this family, because there are too many rumors and ‘he says, she says’ getting in the way of our relationship-”
“Yes, and now that you’re here we can speak about those rumors” My aunt Luz interrupted. “because I want to get it out there that I didn’t say or do anything to hurt you or your daughter, you know I really loved your daughter and with any situation involving my son, your daughter, and anyone else, I never got involved.-“
“Okay, I’m going to get to that in second.”
“ah, okay, I was just saying.”
“- So as a family we’re supposed to be united. That means we can’t be one over here and one over there to then get together only when there’s drinking involved. Some people do not drink and we need to find time to find each other.”
I agreed with everything she said. Honestly, I had noticed that as well, my mothers’ side of the family likes to drink a lot. I always thought it was a mixture of their hurtful childhood and their stressful adulthood that leads them to their first few drinks, and after a while it just becomes like a sinful habit.
Unfortunately my mom is the youngest of her siblings, and her childhood was probably the worst, little by little I get stories out of her, about her past and so far what I know is that my grandmother had fourteen children and out of those fourteen children she had only abandoned my mother. Even though Mari and her oldest sister, Angelica, took her in, my mother couldn’t help herself but to feel abandoned. Which affects a lot of things in her life still to this day, as an adult, in her social life, in relationships, and even as a mother.
“Me being the way I am, which is a real family person, I have never liked it, and still do not like it, when the family is separated.” Mari said. She spoke with wisdom, my aunt, or so I thought at that moment. I could not have said that any better. And I was actually not expecting to hear something like that come out of my aunt’s mouth.
This aunt, I never really knew. In fact she didn’t even recognize me when my mother and I walked into the small apartment. We were coming from Sunday church service and she asked who was I and my mother had to tell her who my father was for her to remember.
I wasn’t surprised; I’m already used to the family being “separated”, as she said. Most of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, I hardly know. Like many families, we meet up during thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years, and ask many questions about each other’s life, catch up, get some family members addresses and phone numbers, drink, dance and party, and then do the same again next year.
But this aunt I don’t remember meeting, she spoke like if she was the oldest, but she was the middle child, and as soon as I met her though, I smiled, I was amazed at how much she looked like my mother, I mean they are sisters, but the similarities were unexpected. Her eyes, her skin, and her smile even her laughter reminded me of my mother.
“It really hurt me when my daughter was in her dying bed and she wouldn’t forgive her cousins for what they said about her. And I would tell her please, just call them and talk about it but she was so stubborn, angry and hurt that she was holding on to it still in her death bed.” At that point of the conversation I had no idea what she was talking about. I’m a part of the separated. So I had no idea we had family drama in my family. But I was quickly learning that we did, and not everyone was involved but everyone was affected.
“I was praying for my daughter and thank God, she got to speak to them before she died. And things were resolved with them after a while, but there’s still tension in the family and other rumors that need to be addressed.”
For the next half hour, they spoke and apologized to each other about the past and the present. She asked if anyone else had something to bring up, and my uncle, the only male in the room, hadn’t said anything at all, except “yeah, I agree.” They said he’s such a guy; he never has anything to say. They laughed and ate and were a very united family for the rest of the evening. My mother and all her sisters left together and then got on the bus together, something I never witnessed before. I started to see change already.
But my mind was stuck and enlightened as soon as she mentioned God. I began to realize why I was so amazed by my family having this meeting, why my aunt seemed to speak with such wisdom and authority. And why it really touched my heart to over here this conversation. I technically just met my aunt Mari, but the more she said the more I loved her. She opened up her heart to her family. She praised and thanked God for her family, and when the meeting was over we hung out for a little, then before we left she asked that we get in a circle and pray.
.. And pray.
Three of my aunts were God fearing women, and my mother and my aunt Luz, I believe, are starting to come around the corner, because their actually accepting to come to church with us on Sundays and not arguing when we want to read the Bible together unlike other times.
I thought about how many times my sisters and I would go to church services that would talk about families being unbreakable, and how the family needs to create a family altar, praying and worshiping together, to stand strong in faith and in our relationship. We prayed for our family a lot, mostly our immediate family though. And God made a promise to us that he was going to save my mother.
Now I feel like we had put limits on God a bit because we weren’t thinking about our entire family when we prayed. But in the bible I remember reading if someone in the family is called, then the entire family is called. And I was stunned and amazed at the fact that I was witnessing God’s promise being fulfilled. We had our first family alter in that living room on that Sunday morning after church. And I’m pretty sure there’s many more to come.
My aunt never spoke English, not that she could anyways, and I hardly speak Spanish but still I can hear the authority in her words when she spoke to all of my family. Already I was sitting quietly with my cousin Alina, watching as my mom, her two sisters and her older brother followed the orders of their older sister.
My cousin quiet down her younger brother and sister and my aunt started speaking again.
“Now there are some things that we need to clear up in this family, because there are too many rumors and ‘he says, she says’ getting in the way of our relationship-”
“Yes, and now that you’re here we can speak about those rumors” My aunt Luz interrupted. “because I want to get it out there that I didn’t say or do anything to hurt you or your daughter, you know I really loved your daughter and with any situation involving my son, your daughter, and anyone else, I never got involved.-“
“Okay, I’m going to get to that in second.”
“ah, okay, I was just saying.”
“- So as a family we’re supposed to be united. That means we can’t be one over here and one over there to then get together only when there’s drinking involved. Some people do not drink and we need to find time to find each other.”
I agreed with everything she said. Honestly, I had noticed that as well, my mothers’ side of the family likes to drink a lot. I always thought it was a mixture of their hurtful childhood and their stressful adulthood that leads them to their first few drinks, and after a while it just becomes like a sinful habit.
Unfortunately my mom is the youngest of her siblings, and her childhood was probably the worst, little by little I get stories out of her, about her past and so far what I know is that my grandmother had fourteen children and out of those fourteen children she had only abandoned my mother. Even though Mari and her oldest sister, Angelica, took her in, my mother couldn’t help herself but to feel abandoned. Which affects a lot of things in her life still to this day, as an adult, in her social life, in relationships, and even as a mother.
“Me being the way I am, which is a real family person, I have never liked it, and still do not like it, when the family is separated.” Mari said. She spoke with wisdom, my aunt, or so I thought at that moment. I could not have said that any better. And I was actually not expecting to hear something like that come out of my aunt’s mouth.
This aunt, I never really knew. In fact she didn’t even recognize me when my mother and I walked into the small apartment. We were coming from Sunday church service and she asked who was I and my mother had to tell her who my father was for her to remember.
I wasn’t surprised; I’m already used to the family being “separated”, as she said. Most of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, I hardly know. Like many families, we meet up during thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years, and ask many questions about each other’s life, catch up, get some family members addresses and phone numbers, drink, dance and party, and then do the same again next year.
But this aunt I don’t remember meeting, she spoke like if she was the oldest, but she was the middle child, and as soon as I met her though, I smiled, I was amazed at how much she looked like my mother, I mean they are sisters, but the similarities were unexpected. Her eyes, her skin, and her smile even her laughter reminded me of my mother.
“It really hurt me when my daughter was in her dying bed and she wouldn’t forgive her cousins for what they said about her. And I would tell her please, just call them and talk about it but she was so stubborn, angry and hurt that she was holding on to it still in her death bed.” At that point of the conversation I had no idea what she was talking about. I’m a part of the separated. So I had no idea we had family drama in my family. But I was quickly learning that we did, and not everyone was involved but everyone was affected.
“I was praying for my daughter and thank God, she got to speak to them before she died. And things were resolved with them after a while, but there’s still tension in the family and other rumors that need to be addressed.”
For the next half hour, they spoke and apologized to each other about the past and the present. She asked if anyone else had something to bring up, and my uncle, the only male in the room, hadn’t said anything at all, except “yeah, I agree.” They said he’s such a guy; he never has anything to say. They laughed and ate and were a very united family for the rest of the evening. My mother and all her sisters left together and then got on the bus together, something I never witnessed before. I started to see change already.
But my mind was stuck and enlightened as soon as she mentioned God. I began to realize why I was so amazed by my family having this meeting, why my aunt seemed to speak with such wisdom and authority. And why it really touched my heart to over here this conversation. I technically just met my aunt Mari, but the more she said the more I loved her. She opened up her heart to her family. She praised and thanked God for her family, and when the meeting was over we hung out for a little, then before we left she asked that we get in a circle and pray.
.. And pray.
Three of my aunts were God fearing women, and my mother and my aunt Luz, I believe, are starting to come around the corner, because their actually accepting to come to church with us on Sundays and not arguing when we want to read the Bible together unlike other times.
I thought about how many times my sisters and I would go to church services that would talk about families being unbreakable, and how the family needs to create a family altar, praying and worshiping together, to stand strong in faith and in our relationship. We prayed for our family a lot, mostly our immediate family though. And God made a promise to us that he was going to save my mother.
Now I feel like we had put limits on God a bit because we weren’t thinking about our entire family when we prayed. But in the bible I remember reading if someone in the family is called, then the entire family is called. And I was stunned and amazed at the fact that I was witnessing God’s promise being fulfilled. We had our first family alter in that living room on that Sunday morning after church. And I’m pretty sure there’s many more to come.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Hillsong NYC Conncet Groups
If you haven't heard of Hillsong nyc church, (Welcome home!), and you live in NYC please look them up, their Sunday services are held on 14st. I really encourage you to go but I you have than I encourage you even more to join a connect group. <3Join a group where you feel comfortable to speak up, to talk about God, to pray freely, and where you feel you can relate to others. I wish you guys could feel how much love I feel when I enter their home, its just amazing.
The connect groups aren't just bible study they're a chance to connect, of course, but also to encouraged you in your faith. You can gain new relationships and friendships and I love the one I go to because it feels like a sisterhood, and a place that I can make some really great girl friends. (even though its in another borough, an hour away) :/.
Connect group meeting tonight was awesome. (Our group in Astoria, Queens is all woman, so I met a lot of great woman). And unfortunately my memory eludes me on some of their names.
I'm so thankful that I can truly say that they're a great set of woman that encourage and motivate me to just be an amazing woman of God. I love the feeling that I get when I'm around them. I feel like I belong there and like Jesus is going to use them to help me brake old habits. While helping me to add good new habits, unfailing faith and so many other things.
This was my second time attending a connect group, I met Kendall in a Hillsong service were they gave us "4 minutes of fellowship" and we connected and she told me about the new connect group that she and her roommate were having. I really liked her right away. I had been trying to go to one by where I live for a long time but I didn't know anyone yet so I didn't want to go on my own.
But since I met Kendall, I took a chance and went, and I'm grateful I did because I got a chance to meet some wonderful woman of GOD! :) I'm excited to see how God moves within us, and how we will be helping each other become strong leaders in our communities embodying God's grace, love, and strength.
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