3 Diets in One

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3 Diets in One. I have been on diets before and there are so many different ways to find what works for you. When I started my first figure competition we started off slow. So, I made slow changes to my diet and then added a cardio and weight training routine.

I went from a “balanced” diet of carbs, fats, and protein. So, I made some healthy food swaps but was not even close to a competition diet like the one I was placed on. It takes time and determination to see that change that you are longing for.

My trainer had me provide him with the current diet I was on and we made gradual changes from that. So, he first had me remove all dairy products so that was an easy step for me to make.

Looking back at it I was really doing a keto, intermittent fasting and elimination diet all at the same time. It worked like nothing I could have ever imagined and it happened fast.

My diet was cut down to just a handful (maybe more) of different types of food I could have. We cut the carbs very low (under 25g). So, my last meal was no later than 4pm and I would not eat again until 8:30 or 9am the next day.

Just know that it can be done. Check with your doctor and do what is best for you and your body.

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Sunday Cooking and a Kitchen Workout and Reading a New Book

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Sunday Cooking and a Kitchen Workout and Reading a New Book. It’s been a busy week but that is exactly what I need in my life right now Fitness is at the front of all I’m doing right now and the less time or energy I have to mess up the better it will be.

Greg and I had to stop at Walmart to look for socks for him and to pick up a for sale sign to add to the jeep. I’m not sure if I have mentioned this yet but Greg is buying me a new 2020 Jeep Wrangler and I’m so excited about it! We are working on selling my old one.

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Today was a pasta making day. Last year with bought a food saver and it’s been a lifesaver. Greg and I make as much as we can and save them as separate meals for the future. I love that we can have pasta any day of the week minus the mess.

We make sauce with out own tomatoes from the garden. We peel the skin and place them in a bag to be vacuum sealed and placed in the freezer until ready for use. Once we thaw the tomatoes from the freezer we add it to the pot and start from there. The details are in the vlog below if you want to see how we put this particular sauce together.

One of the dishes we made on this day was a baked ziti dish. I wish you could have smelled the kitchen while we were cooking and baking. Last year when Greg has surgery we fund out how useful doing meal prep like this could really be. I honestly think he will buy another freezer in the next year.

Once everything is baked we place them in containers and seal them to place in the freezer. Each container holds dinner for 2.

We also picked a lot of peppers from the garden. We also freeze them as well as dry them to make our own spices. One important thing to remember about growing your own peppers is to make sure you don’t cut them on anything else you would want to use in the future. The spice does not clean off knives or cutting boards and the spice will stick with it forever (if your peppers are good quality).

I will also have a video up soon to explain why ground turkey smells so bad. I did a video asking why they smell awful and apparently a lot of people had the same questions. It’s a valid question for sure. It really boils down to the quality (or lack of…) in the meat used to make it.

I thought it would be a good idea to get my leg workout done while I was cooking in the kitchen, I mean…why not kill 2 birds with one stone…right?! I just grabbed a pair of dumbbells and went at it. There are other exercises you can do while cooking so no excuses over here!

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Sunday Cooking and a Kitchen Workout and Reading a New Book

Flea Market, Storms and Gym Time

Flea Market, Storms and Gym Time.

Greg mentioned going to the flea market this morning to look around Each time we’ve gone to Morningstar Flea Market we have been a little rushed. He was wanting to take time to look around and see all the things.

It was my choice to take his jeep but I had a little trouble trying to jump in this morning because he parked on a hill. Lol

The drive was nice but we could see storms coming in the direction of the flea market. We were lucky to get there when we did so we could check out a few areas we have never walked through before.

You can tell that tomatoes are plentiful this year. Last year the cost for tomatoes anywhere in the area were rediculous. We have lots of tomatoes this year but I will admit that the ones we saw did look pretty good.

While we were at the market we came across a new landscaping idea. There is a living wall or fence that we can add and it’s also an apple tree. I love something that is multi-purpose. It would be nice to have a living fence and have it produce food at the same time. We are going to look into them further and see if they would work in our yard.

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Stressful Week and Hitting The Gym On My Lunch Break

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Stressful Week and Hitting The Gym On My Lunch Break. When the week starts to stress you out take some time for yourself. This is the life lesson of this week.

My gym offered a great deal for a yearly membership so I jumped on that opportunity this week. I will not let the membership go to waste and I’m even able to go on my lunch break. It’s a huge win for me.

Plan to see a lot more fitness type recipes, blogs, and videos from me in the near future. I really want to take it slower this time and work on building a long-lasting balance between fitness and life. I know they can work together and have a happy marriage. Let’s do this together!

Greg ordered a tarot deck for me weeks ago and it finally came in. I saw the Dark Mansion Tarot deck online and fell in love with it!

I love that I’m starting to vlog again so I can get all my thoughts out. Vlogging is a form of therapy for me so I’m going to keep doing it. If you have a healthy outlet and it does not bring negativity into your life I think you should do it. It’s important to express yourself.

Check out my new Betty Boop collectible figurine. It’s been a little while since we’ve added a new one to the collection.

All the protein was made in advance and Greg and I raided the freezer to look for something I could add with the meat. I’m going with peppers and onions because…YUM!

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Stressful Week and Hitting The Gym On My Lunch Break

Salon Day, Topless Jeep, Tarot and Living Your True Life

I got an early start to the day. When I head to the salon it’s an all-day affair. My goals are in place and I’m going to work hard to make myself healthy and proud again.

I’ve had a change of heart and mind recently and I’m looking at life and all my challenges in a new light. I will go into that a little more in a different post but for now, let’s talk about my busy day.

I packed up my meals for the day and made my favorite side dish of sliced cucumbers. Have you ever tried the Flavor god garlic lovers spice? It’s one of my favorites! I also prefer to use the Texas Pete Sriracha because it’s the perfect amount of spice for the cucumbers.

It was a beautiful day to ride to the other side of town with the top down on the jeep. I love riding around and enjoying the sun even if I do get a little sunburned.

I talked with my stylist and we decided to go back to a lighter color because I think it looks best when I have my hair down and let the waves take over. The curly girl method has changed my way of doing things. I love that I’m embracing the wildness of my hair.

So, while I was on the other side of town I decided to stop at Arundel Mills Mall and pick up a new tarot deck. I’ve added the Santa Muerte deck to the collection and I’m in love with the art on this deck. So, I am working with tarot cards and I really enjoy it all.

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Tornados, Peppers, Fruit, and Processing Tomatoes

Tornados, Peppers, Fruit, and Processing Tomatoes. It was an office workday and Greg was home working on the garden and picking food to be processed later in the day.

It was my first day back at the office and we had a tornado come through. If you follow my Youtube channel you may have seen the live video of us crammed in that hallway for safety.

We were moved to the safety location and stayed there for almost an hour before we were given the ok to get back to work. It also seems like the tornado warnings have become more frequent over the last 5 years but that could also be because we are closer to the mountains now. I remember driving home during a tornado back in 2015.

So, Greg has an obsession with Gordon Ramsay and Greg tried to cut peppers the way he was showing people to do it on TV. Check out the daily vlog below to see how it’s done. It really does work and even with crooked peppers.

So, it’s also that time of year for picking peaches off the trees. This is the first year that we’ve had a lot of peaches to process and it’s pretty cool. We are saving some for sangria mix.

Last year was a terrible year for tomatoes but this year is making up for last year. Greg and I peel the skin off the tomatoes and bag them up using our food saver. I honestly do not know what I would do without it.

I went home at lunchtime. The weather was perfect about while Greg was in the garden picking tomatoes the tornado came through. He was able to get some footage that I was able to share in the daily vlog. Our weather was not supposed to hit until 5 pm but it came through around 2 pm.

So, we were safe and everything was fine. We did have many road closures. At the end of the day it was not as bad as it could have been.

Tornados, Peppers, Fruit, and Processing Tomatoes

How Holding Myself Accountable Is Going To Change My Life

How Holding Myself Accountable Is Going To Change My Life. I know that this journey I’m going to take will not be an easy one. Over the last 6 years I’ve moved further away from the person I want to be. Today I’ve made the decision to share my day-to-day life with you on this blog. It’s easy to take the pictures and write a little something on here to have a written account of what is working or what is not working.

So, here we will start with the weight on July 1st. Ok, deep breath and here we go…176.2lbs this morning.

Now that we have my starting weight documented we can move on to my morning workout. I did not get a sweat going but I was moving so that’s a good start in my book. The goal, for now, is to get in the habit of doing a morning workout.

Once I got to the office I heated up my breakfast. The picture is not pretty but it was really good. This is egg beaters, salsa, avocado, hot sauce and olive oil added after the food was heated up.

My allergies have been acting up and I feel stuffy and I had a bad taste in my mouth so I chewed on some gum to help with that.

Around 10:30 I was getting hungry again so I had 2 scoops of peanut butter. Yeah, I eat from a tablespoon.

Before heading out for lunch I had a few cucumbers that I mixed up last night. They are coming in from the garden and I have to start eating them before they go bad.

I forgot that I was going to meet a friend for lunch. She wanted to go to Panera Bread so I brought my own food along and we ate outside. It was a beautiful day outside and it was nice to catch up with her.

Greg made me some canned chicken and I at it on 2 small rice cakes. I finished off the cucumbers I brought to work with me also. I was so proud of myself for not buying lunch and finally taking responsibility for my actions again.

When I got home Greg made some left over homemade stew from the freezer.

My evening workout was much better than my morning one. I did get a little sweat going on. So, I went light with the weights but I did slow and controlled movements.

I was dancing between sets and enjoying my workout. So, I took my time and was in no rush to finish my workout early. One of the issues I’ve ran into is that I rush to get done. My goal is to work harder at taking my time and putting all my focus into that task at hand.

How Holding Myself Accountable Is Going To Change My Life

I took a screen shot of the stats from my apple watch for the workout I just completed.

Here is a screenshot of the actual workout I did. As you can see the weights I lifted were light but I also don’t want to be so sore tomorrow that I don’t do anything.

It will get better with time.

Upper Body Workouyt

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Cooking Out and Getting Ready for the Week

Cooking Out and Getting Ready for the Week. The lettuce in the raised garden is coming in and today was first picking. I could not think of a better day to start picking than today. Greg made burgers on the grill so they will go on the burgers from this point until they are gone. I’m also planning on making salad all week.

It was a beautiful day for cooking out. We made sure to cook enough to last us all week long. It’s been a long time since we’ve cooked out. When Greg gad his surgeries last year it really made things challenging.

I know that I need to pay closer attention to what I’m eating. Today was a burger day but I’m thinking about going back to keto and fast for 16 hours between dinner and breakfast. I’m curious to see how my body will react to doing this again. It worked wonders for me in the past.

The burger was great. Today was relaxing and wonderful to just spend time at home with Greg and Digger.

I think we have all been a funk lately and we stayed home all weekend long. It feels like we were able to recharge our minds. The past few years have been trying in so many ways. Work and life stresses that I have been dealing with so it was much needed to have a weekend at home.

Heck, we are even talking about moving to a place with more property. I want goats and chickens so we may have some house hunting vlogs coming again soon.

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99lb Loss and Transformation Pictures

99lb Loss and Transformation Pictures Today I wanted to share where my weigh-loss journey started and why I did what I did. The journey was not always easy and it took a few years for me to finally get serious about my goals.

I wanted to share my before photo of when I was 209lbs to show you where I started from. My after picture is from my figure competition when I was 110lbs. This was a total loss of 99lbs. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get there. One of the main things that helped me get started was a change in my attitude.

There are a lot of people in my life that hated my positive attitude (even when I was not truly feeling it). This was a journey I realized that I had to take on my own. It was a hole I dug for myself and I was the only one who could pull myself out of it.

So, I will be very honest here. My calories were very low, I was doing keto and working out twice a day. My main goal was to get on stage and competition prep is strict. Not everyone can get through the process because it’s such a demanding sport but I loved it!

Keep pushing forward. Know that any goal you have can be reached if you put in the work both mentally and physically.

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99lb Loss and Transformation Pictures.

Starting a Tree Garden

Starting a Tree Garden. Just a typical Saturday around the Rambles household. The weekend means it’s time to work in the yard and add fruit trees. Our main goal was to get all the trees in the yard so they can get lots of sun. We spent some time to map out where we want to plan the trees before we got going.

Our yard is full of rocks so as we were digging to plan to the trees we took the rocks and placed them in the truck to be moved to another part of the yard. There are certain parts in the yard that tend to wash out so the rocks should help slow it down or stop it completely.

Greg and I work well as a team. Taking care of this yard and getting it functional is a great workout.

I make sure to take water breaks so I don’t get dehydrated and sick. I can’t be any help to Greg if I end up in the hospital.

Greg mentioned that the trees needed to be in water for 4 hours before planting them. We filled a bucket up with water and placed the trees in them while we finished working on the yard.

Digger misses us when we are outside for long periods of time. We bring him outside with us as much as we can. It’s also a great excuse for a break from all our hard work.

The rock sifter Greg made is working out well. It helps us separate the rocks from the dirt very quickly.

The tiller is a must to help us mix the dirt up and soften the soil so we can dig holes for the trees.

We noticed a bunch of ants while we were working in the yard so we got corn meal to get rid of them. Did you know that cornmeal working on getting rid of ants? It surprised me but it does work.

After a long day in the yard Greg and I went to Chipotle for dinner. I love a good burrito bol. It make me a happy wife 😉

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