Hola everyone!
So I have been doing some deep thinking about "the dream body". The whole concept is a bit bizar for me. I mean when you really think about it, everyone has their own opinion and taste what is "the dream body". Of course media is molding our minds with certain " stereotypical and ideological dream bodies" which every women should have. However I believe that As long a you  think that you have the dream body and you are/feel healthy, it does not matter what size you are.

However.... since my "opinion" about " dream body" does not match with my current figure I am working very hard towards the kind of body I day dream about! So long story short & since 1 picture tells more than 1000 words... here are some pictures which are close to my idea of having the " the dream/perfect body".

victoria secret... talk about having amazing figure!.... and I do not know many people who would disagree with me!

            source: from various fit/ weight loss tumblers & blogs ( I do not own the pictures)


So here you can see what sort of body I would love to have in the future. Some muscles yes, not only bone and skin. However I want to still be slim and not too muscular (though this, is once again a matter of opinion). But now I am off to drink some water and tan myself because the weather could not be more perfect! Adiooos my lovelies!

ps. Check out my food & work out sections... have been updating those a bit!

-fitforme

Sun & Spaaaaain!

Hello my lovelies!
Sorry for being absent. I have had a crazy last week and therefore I have not been updating my blog. I want to tell you a bit about what´s going on in my life and  how my goals and eatings may change a bit in the future. So I am now in Spain ( crazy ha??) I am working here around 6 weeks as au pair for two children who are 8 & 10 years old. My host family lives in Madrid and this is now my 3rd day in Spain and I am simply loving the warm weather.

Since I am in Spain and living with my host family, I obviously have to  get used to their life rhythm and their ways of eating and dining. This was/ still slightly is a scary thing for me because Spanish people eat lot of paella, pasta, meat and fried food without forgetting pastries & ice cream! I am not able to cook my dinner by myself so I have to eat basically whatever my host mom / family prepares, ( which is a bit tricky when loosing weight). However I have told her that I like to eat yoghurt and fruits for breakfast (so my breakfast has been and continues being healthy and nutritious). Also what I have eaten as a snack has been cherries or other fruits with big cup of water (which is also a healthy option). However sometimes the family has wanted me to taste a spanish chips or their homemade fries so I have then usually tasted one or couple just to be polite. Luckily they also like to make sallads and I have eaten small portions during lunch and dinner ( and by now my host family knows that "I do not eat that big portions") so I am starting to feel more reliefed about my eating plan here in Spain.


When it comes to exercising, going to gym 4 times a week is not an option. This is because 1 time at the gym costs 6 euros! ( crazy prices!). However they have nice running tracks/paths  here ( from 4 km-8km) so I  am planning on running/jogging  3-4 times a week 4km-8km. My host family also has some weights ( 4 kg & 5kg) and gymnastic mat so I have been doing & I am able to continue doing my strength working out and jumping jacks. I also found out yesterday that there is body pump classes 2 times a week and it would cost 48 euros/per month. So I am now considering about starting those classes in the beginning of July. In this way I would get more cardio workout ( in a fun way).  My weight increased during/after graduation and it´s now around 57 kg and my aim is to be 50 kg by the time I go back to Sweden ( beginning of August). So I have to loose 1 kg per a week, which means that my phase will be pretty doable.


So now some motivation to keep me and you guys going! do not stop till you are there where you want to be!

                         from : http://befit-behealthy-beyou.tumblr.com/tagged/motivation
 Lets keep going fellows! 6 weeks to gooo!

-fitforme

Guests & candy!

Hello my fellows!

So yes, as you can see from the headline, I ate  little/some candy today among 1 portion of ice cream and 30g of popcorn.... so lets say that I did not eat healthy today! We had quests and movie night and felt rude "not to eat" so I ate... However my total calorie intake was around 1300-1400kcal... which is relatively okay right? I did not exceed my daily calorie limit ( though I feel very full atm cause I usually eat less) but I did not binge.

Sooooo perhaps next time I shall pass all the treats. But at least one comforting part is that I should not gain weight from this "slip" or "unhealthy evening snack choice".

Now however I have to sleep because I am planning on going for a morning run ( 9.00 am yall) in order to consume those "extra calories gained from junk"plus I am furthermore planning on doing my normal 1, 3h to 2,3h normal work out so that I can "balance up" my unhealthy choice. However though I feel guilty about this, I am not going to beat myself up .... I controlled my eating, I did not exceed my daily intake and feeling awful about my choices wont result in a change.... working my butt off tomorrow however will.... so with these thoughts.... I wish all you a pleasant Saturday evening!
and people DO NOT FORGET THIS....

-Fitforme

Is this suppose to be summer?

Yaayyy it´s shining... aah.. uups ... it´s raining W*F...?

I am having a strong attitude problem towards Swedish weather... it rains and then it´s suddenly warm and then it rains again! .... Since when the Swedish weather became comparable to English weather? .... Well anyways, since the weather has been sucky my running plans were once again collapsing. My throat was also hurting this morning, so I am not doing any working out today, just to make sure that I won´t get ill or make it worse. I also thought that 2 resting days a week can´t be necessary that bad thing, especially since yesterday´s work out was VERY intense.

So since the weather has been a bit unstable I have been reading about fashion history, movies and without forgetting my countless Spain travel guides. I have been eating pretty healthy and actually relatively small amount today, so my eatings have been good!

Now.... I am off to read more about Chanel´s bags and later today I am gonna be continuing my 90210 marathon...  ( which actually was not suppose to be a marathon... but I randomly saw couple 1 season episodes and since it´s been raining... it turned sort of into a marathon...) Hahah sorry guys for kinda posting about beside my blogs purpose today....  but since this post is my lazy Friday evening post... lets try to put some motivational stuff here a bit so that I will feel a bit better;)....

                                 source of pictures: http://sweatyfitness.tumblr.com/

( this phrase.... should become my motto!)

So here is some Friday night motivation for everyone! Hopefully you will have more work out rich Friday than I have!

- Fitforme

The frustration

Hello lovelies!

My day can be summed up into one feeling, frustration. I feel like I am working my butt of and eating healthy, but I am just getting fatter and fatter. It´s a long way to go and change does not happen during one night, but I am a sort of person who would like the change to happen over one night... ( can anyone relate to this feeling!?).  Furthermore my studentloan problem and part time job... ( or rather lack of it)... are bothering and causing frustration as  well which the lovely rainy and cold weather were like a cherry on top of the already crappy and sappy day.

Hopefully tomorrow my day will be better and the weather would get warmer so I would be able to run outside during the weekend!

One of the few good things today was my strawberry banana smoothie I made for lunch... here are some pictures of my eatings today and easy recipe for a smoothie which contains only app. 100 kcal per a glass!

Easy strawberry banana smoothie:
100 g strawberries ( frozen)
1/2 banana
0,25 dl skimmed milk
0.75-2.5 dl water ( depending on how thick you want your smoothie to be)
stevia ( according to your preferences)

Basically what you do is that you just mix everything with a blender & then ENJOY THE DELICIOUS SMOOTHIE!

                                                    1/2 banana, 2/3 apple & raisins


Now  a quick shower and off to bed! Sorry for the rather short post. My bed and blog were fighting... and gonna let u know a secret...this time... my bed wins! Night xx

-Fitforme

Temptation evening number 1

The world of temptations we live in!

My day has been super productive and I have been going to store, doing zumba flat abs 3 times, cleaning kitchen and my room and cooked dinner for my family. Since I have barely been eating anything yesterday and day before, today I got really hungry during the evening, especially because I did not finish my dinner ( I only ate perhaps 2/3 of it). My mom had gone to chinese restaurant to get food so I took couple forks of rice with chicken and veggies and it tasted good! ( probably because I was very hungry and my stomach was making serious noises!). I do not want to starve my self so I thought that eating a bit warm food around 20.00 is okay for this once. For everyone who do not know I tend to stop eating solid food after 7 pm, but as mentioned earlier, I do not want to starve my self, especially since I am going to do some jumping jacks tonight and I will need energy in order to finish my workout. 

After eating the chinese food, I felt very lousy about "breaking" my after 7pm rule. I furthermore started thinking about a bag of chocolate candy and finnish "salmiakki mix" ( finnish candy) from my graduation... and I was VERY TEMPTED TO EAT ALL THE CANDY! However I controlled myself and reminded myself about why I am doing this ( oh the gorgeous body  here I come <3). But the thing which actually stopped me from eating candy was the fact that there´s simply zero nutrients or good things for my body in it. Sugars, processed ingredients and bad fats. I had to ask my self " Do you really want to mistreat your body?" "Is a moment of joy and rest of the evening of misery truly worth it?" ... And after a battle inside my head...( which felt like forever) I ditched the candy, took a glass of water and gum and walked away from the temptation. ( YAYYY winner feeling!).

Herb carrotsticks and a piece of dark bread with 1 tea spoon of ketchup, green pepper,tomato,turkey & 5 g of cheese ( one of my absolute fav lunches, so easy so delicious!)

Green Chicken sallad with cottage cheese

Right now I have to just admit that damn ...I am happy for not eating candy. I would have felt very lousy and would have been more likely to do this again in the future. But I believe that this is how the process is and should go. It is suppose to be hard at first but every time you say no to something, you say yes for something else ( in this case I am saying yes to healthier lifestyles and  hotter body). Above you can see some food pictures of my eatings today. Now I am off to do some serious jumping have a great wednesday evening!


- Fitforme

Getting Back On Track!

Okay......today I have been eating healthy and doing my work out, so it´s finally official! I am back on track and it feels good. Of course I have lot of making up to do and catching up if I want to achieve my goals on time. However I have a feeling that I will be able to do it and my motivation is surprisingly high! Today I met my friend and we had a looong chat about our graduation party which was crazy! One of the most event rich evenings of my life. NO JOKE.  Everyone were hooking up or getting waisted or doing something crazy and I think that I was one of the few people who did not get drunk (and therefore it´s so funny now how no one remembers anything about the party.... except me;))... but don´t you guys worry! I had  pleeenty of fun ;) ... and okay maybe that sounded a bit wrong... but lets just say it was a HELLUVA PARTY and definitely a night to remember!

Aaaaand noooow..... from a topic to another.... I am super pumped up about Pretty Little Liars episode which is coming up tonight! ( anyone else getting goose pumps?) So I am gonna hit the shower so I can get good night of sleep before tomorrow morning ( cause that´s the earliest when I will be able to find the newest PLL episode here in Sweden)! So now little bit motivation to keep me & you guys going....

photo source:http://weheartit.com/tag/thinspiration?page=3&pgx=stemmed_tag_page

Now I am off to shower... sleep tight my lovelies! 

- Fitforme

Graduation is over &....

Hey peeps!
Sorry for not being active here in couple last days.... I am blaming it on my graduation! So my graduation was simply awesome! I had a big party, around 75 guests. The whole day was a day to remember from the pre party we had at my school, to an actual graduation party.  I had  also a huuuuge after party which was amazing. Now most of my relatives have returned back to Finland and for the first time I had time to take up my computer, blog &make a quick post.

So now.... even though my graduation was amazing.... my eatings were the opposite. My "lets eat 1 piece of cake" did not work at all. Since we had my relatives over my place, we had a massive amount of cakes, candy, chips, salt sticks, pop corn, ice cream, cookies and all the junk and crap food one can come up with. I ended up eating unhealthy food from Friday to Sunday! 3 DAYS pure crap!!! Candy after chips and then top that with tortillas, cheesecake and ice cream... sure the first piece of cake was delicious... but after Friday the food hangover on Saturday was awful. However I was too tired  & felt awful about eating crap that I decided to eat  junk the whole Saturday as well ( God I am blaming on punching my head to wall because of that!). Furthermore on Sunday I was too tired and unmotivated to get my ass up from the cheer and go to gym and work out, since I had unsuccessfully got back on track on Saturday. So long story short I failed my 1 piece of cake goal and now I feel like shit.

May I just say that it feels awful! Your body does not feel good and you feel simply awful, tired passive and fat. I haven´t stepped on scale since my last post and I am not planning on doing my weighting before next Monday ( and by then I hope that my weight will be 45.5 kg-55kg) so that I can  hopefully (so to speak) " undo my3 bad eating days by being healthy this week and working out my butt off". Today I shook myself up and told my self that that´s sick what I do and I have to learn moderation when it comes to eating junk food. So today I have eaten a piece of dark bread  & 1 tiny dark cracker with 1 /4 avocado, cucumber, 2 cherry tomatoes & 10 g of low fat turkey on it. I am planning on eating only watermelon and cucumber today among tons and tons of tea, water and   lemon water ( in order to boost my metabolism) so that tomorrow I could have so called " first normal day without feeling this food hangover".

I haven´t been doing any exercise either so today I am going to do a workout, run or something anything cause I feel like during my graduation I just left all my good work to go. I want to get it back. No more "graduation" excuses. My sisters and relatives went to mc donalds to eat, and I said no to that crap today, and though it feels simply like nothing because of my 3 days of self harm....it´s a step towards healthier life.

I hope that my mistake I made can be a good lesson for all of you, so that you wont make the same mistake which I did! The awful, unpleasant, blowy and fatty feeling after binging is not simply worth of eating junk. You and most importantly your body won´t feel good. I am not doing this ever again. I was thinking that this may happen during my graduation and  besides  special occasions like this, I am able to keep my eatings on track very well. So luckily now I wont be having graduations or birthdays or anything before the end of July so I should NO. I WILL GET BACK ON TRACK! AND even my hard effort of loosing those 4,5 kg may be party gone I will get them back... it´s a process a lifestyle change, one mistake is is natural, almost inevitable, an as long as it stays in that one mistake your life is not ruined.  So now I am making sure that its what it is... one single mistake! So it´s a new week, a new day... I will make it count!

- fitforme

This week is gonna be crazy!

Hey peeps!
I have been super busy today & I wont be able to update my blog before Sunday. I am having my graduation party on Thursday and we have huge amount of relatives & friends coming from all over the Finland & Sweden... it´s gonna be so much fun & I am so excited. Only thing I am slightly worried about is "What is going to happen to my healthy eating due to all the delicious graduation party food?". Hopefully I wont  entirely ruin my progress! Also working out is not going to be part of my Wednesday ´s or Thursday´s schedule cause I am simply so so busy with baking, preparing for graduation & helping relatives to get to know the city, sleeping and trying to find a dress for a student party! So I am going to have at least 2 day break from working out... ( but hopefully that´s it!)... lets keep out fingers crossed!

Today I went for gym to workout and I had another healthy eating day. Only weird thing I have been wondering about today ...was that my weight is dropping really fast. Because this morning when stepping on the scale the scale showed 54.5 kg (& I have no idea why my weight is dropping this quickly).... but  suppose I should not be complaining, as long as me weight remains to drop! It also came to my realization that wow... I am half way through... 4.5 kg left before my UWG & then I just have to continue embracing myself & healthy lifestyles.


Sorry for the short post, but I have an early morning and sleeping is at least as important for your weight loss as working out and healthy eating so kisses lovelies! I am off to bed.

-Fitforme

-4 KG!?!?

Morning!
Came here to do a quick morning post about my progress! As you know I decided to have my official weigh in every Monday morning. So This morning I stepped on the scale and you can imagine my surprise when the scale was showing  55KG!! ..... - 4 KG!? Really? .... You can only imagine my surprised face! I suppose probably my starting weight was not exactly 59 kg cause I weighted myself during the evening ( after eating those chips...) so perhaps more accurate starting weight would have been 57-58 kg. Anyhow.... I am so so happy this morning & you have no idea how this makes me want to push myself harder and adapt even more to healthier lifestyles!!

I just ate some breakfast & now I am planning on going to store & then off to gym to do a sweaty sweaty work out! Have a great week.

- Fitforme

Summer is heeere!

This morning was so cold and it looked just plain awful... and after the cloudy morning the sun came up and lovely summery weather appeared out of nowhere!! Furthermore could not help noting that almost everyone were wearing shorts..... which leads to my other realization that summer and warm weather itself.... are great motivators! I have also been hanging out & baking today with my dear friend. We ended up baking the best cheese bread ever (no joke) ....so everyone who doubts this....  I will be posting the recipe on the food section later!;) I also did my sweaty sweaty workout today and put lot of emphasis on my stomach which I am little by litte starting to get more happy about.

Sorry for the relatively short post peeps... I am so tired that I just want to go to bed and sleep all my tiredness of right now... so  here is some evening "get fit" motivation for you guys.

http://lovehealthlive.tumblr.com/

Now I am off to my warm bed... goodnight lovelies!

-Fitforme

My Saturdays...

When the time just flies by....
I am making a quick post because I am longing for a warm shower after the busy day I have had. I have been meeting  friends the entire day ( keeping up with ur social-life & all events can be surprisingly hard sometimes!!) I have been so busy that only exercise I have done today, besides walking around the city & from place a to b... was my squat challenge which I started this morning. My saturdays usually tend to be super busy and I always tend to make several plans for one day ... so I sometimes end up feeling like I am totally running out of time. Well at least no one can blame me for being unsocial! Well hopefully tomorrow I will have time to have a loooooong and sweaty workout!

Overall I feel like my eatings have been good though, unfortunately due to my hectic day I did not eat a proper dinner. But this was whatsoever an awesome day! I got to see my friends I haven´t seen in months which was GREAT!

Tomorrow I am planning on putting my main workout emphasis on my stomach. Gonna get those sexy abs no matter what! But now.... little bit  "lets get those sexy abs" motivation!!

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/toned%20stomach

Aaaaaand ooh yes.... motivated? cause I sure AM!....Now I am off to take that warm & relaxing shower I talked about... Kisses peeps....

-Fitforme 

DAAAAAMN DAT ASS!

Busy busy day!
I have been going around the city like a crazy person the entire day. I have been meeting my friends & having ice tea with them, while enjoying the sun which is finally appearing even here in the cold northern side of the globe. I have been also trying to find my graduation dress ( YES. I know... I should have done this ages ago).... and I finally found it. It´s white with several lace layers and I simply adore it.

Speaking of which, when I tried the dress on, I got even more motivated about changing my body and I really wanna put some serious effort into working and shaping my butt!! Wanna seriously have a HOT ASS in the end of this summer! While being in the middle of my butt inspiration... I decided to  take on this challenge,which I found in my favorite tumblr´s wall...So gonna get my butt shaped!

                                       http://lovehealthlive.tumblr.com/

Since I took on to this challenge I am gonna take it a one step further by doing 10 squats per every like this post gets. So everyone out there start liking this post ...so that I can get the butt of my dreams!

(I do not own these photos).

My working out today did not include the run I talked about earlier cause it was simply too hot weather for running.... but I did zumba and weight lifting instead. Now I am simply going to relax and watch a good movie with my sister... Have a great Friday night all ! 

-Fitforme  

Day 1 Behind!

Morning everyone! The second day has started with a glass of water and a bowl of rye porridge with berries and raisins. Since I am done with school I am planning on drinking my morning coffee, chilling and  watching an old episode of Pretty Litte Liars ( who else is just dying to see the next out coming episode on June!?). I am going to have a busy evening with some of my friends, so I am planning on going running before lunch so then I can focus on having fun with my lovelies instead of constantly thinking about " what about my workouts ?". Annnnd guuuueeess what!? I just found out yesterday evening that I got a summer job! So I have been smiling the whole entire morning.

                                          source: http://drop-dead-thin.tumblr.com/

Yesterday was great and my motivation is still really high, ( hoping that it will stay that way for good!)  and you can just imagine my surprise when I ended up working out for 2h 30 min in total! I also added some  food pictures from yesterday....

                       Delicious chicken sallad with low fat cottage cheese, pepper & cucumber!

                                                          Veggies & hummus
 
Now I have to run before my morning coffee gets cold! Cya soon, kisses

- Fitforme

NEW BEGINNING

 Starting a blog is entirely a new, a bit out of the blue and exiting thing for me. Firstly I have tell to all the readers that I am not a native speaker (I am originally from finland so I  WILL make mistakes when writing a blog in english!) so I ask you to bare with me :). I have been thinking about starting a fit & healthy lifestyle blog for a long time and now I finally executed my plan. I gave a long hard thought about that "what should my first post be about?" and  I decided to tell my very very shortened life story.

I am turning 19 soon and I have been struggling with my weight ever since the beginning of 8th grade. I remember being a bit chubby child, never overweighted, but chubby. I have always loved exercise and working out, so the main problem has always been the unhealthy food. Due to the fact that I was a bit chubby child, I lost a quite much weight during the 8th grade, which however came back during the 9th grade. Throughout my high school years, I lived in that weight ( around 57-59 kg) which I was great deal " disappointed " about. I felt always chubbier than other girls and I never truly felt confident about my body. However I succeeded to loose around 6 kg during the summer 2012, which came unfortunately back due to the fact that I barely ate anything back then. Thus as soon as I gave some slack and started eating more normally, I gained my weight back to 59 kg. My "new attempt" to loose weight was very successful and healthy during autumn 2012, when I weighted around 51-52 kg, which for the first time in my life, made me feel confident and happy about myself. However I was a senior in high school. When my massive final exams  & stress nocked on the door, I ditched almost all exercise & working out among my healthy eating habits and gave in to junk food from pizza and chips to chocolate and candy. I survived through my final exams, but my weight raised back to the 59 kg. Couple days ago I realized that my JOJO -weight loss system, from healthy to unhealthy and back to starving myself, will not work. It´s not good or healthy way to live my life.  

The final drop was when I had successfully had an healthy eating day but my mother had bought a bag of salt & vinegar chips ( which still are one of my biggest weaknesses) and OFC I ended up eating a small cup of those chips, though I had earlier promised myself that "no more junk food"! After eating that small bowl of chips I realized something, I do not want to chub into my mouth unhealthy & highly processed foods with full of unhealthy fats and sugars. I want to have a long, healthy life and eat foods, vitamins and proteins which my body truly needs and which eating makes me happy. Furthermore I dont want to get the "hot summer body" by starving myself 4 weeks before the summer break.... I want to have" hot body" everyday of every year and embrace it. 

 So my blog is going to be about healthy and clean eating, exercise and healthier & consistant lifestyle changes. I will be posting plenty of good work out tips, inspiration, healthy food recipes, my daily life happenings and ofc about my personal progress! So keep tuned & nighty night! 

           - Fitforme