Today I wanted to do another video all about my diet experience

Because you guys love these videos

And today I was actually browsing through some of my old photos on facebook

Because my friend was like I can never imagine you like, you're tiny

I could never imagine you any bigger than you are now

And also I swear I was bigger

So I went and looked through my old Facebook photos and I found this one

And I'll pop it up on the screen right now

And it just like super surprised me because I realized how far I have come

For those of you guys that are still, you know, going through your life-style changes

And if you're trying to lose weight

Just, basically don't worry because I think it's definitely a time thing

And it's really well known that habits take 60 to 90 days to kick

And if your habits take 90 days to kick then you got to wait at least 3 months

For you to see any kind of change that you want to see

I mean there are fad diets when you do do something extremely different for a short period of time

But I don't feel like that's the right way to go about losing weight. It doesn't last

If you want to change how you weight or how you look it needs to be sort of like a routine that you work in

And it's like a habit that you develop and it needs to change your old habits as well

And I just feel like fad diets don't do that

I feel like it's really important to share with you guys that weight gain it doesn't just happen to you

There might be a moment in time when you realise that it has happened

But it actually is a build-up of all your habits put together that led you to that moment

And you may not know what these habits are or you probably don't even realise you're doing it

But a lot of the time weight gain or even weight loss as well is just a result of a change in habits

So, I mean there's a lot of research that goes into looking at people habits and how to change them

But one thing that's in common with all of them is just time

You need to give it enough time for you to get used to it

You need sort of like self-control because that's a huge thing

I mean if you always, you know, don't control yourself you will find that you will never stick to any habit

It's that 90 days is so painful because it's like kicking in old habit and old habits die hard

So if you don't change it permanently you actually revert back quite quickly

And looking at my like eating habits now they have changed dramatically

So I'm going to pop another photo up for you right now. This is what I look like at the time

And these where my eating habits at the time

I had supper every night at twelve o'clock

For supper I would actually dip potato chips in avocado and that would be my supper a lot of the time

And that would be sort of like my dessert after supper

I would also have maybe like a pasta or maybe like frozen dinner or something like that

And then I finished off with chips

So that would be my habit, like I would do that almost every single day without fail

In addition, I started drinking soft drinks which I never drank for a long time

And I cut soft drinks out for a very long time but I started drinking soft drinks

'Cause my boyfriend at the time, who I lived with

And that's like going to be a huge influence on what kind of habits you develop

He loved soft drinks, so I started buying them from the supermarket

And when they're there in the fridge you just drink them because it's easy

And when you eat chips, I mean, nothing goes better with chips than some soft drink, right?

So then, I did that

And then, on top of that I ate out a lot 'cause I used to go dancing a lot

And I used to go really late and then you wouldn't have time to cook

So we'd all be out and we all have like a social dinner out after class or something

So I always ate out and because when you eat out the portions are big and you don't want to waste the food

And yeah, because you've just eaten sort of three quarters of it and there's like a quarter left

You don't want to take it home so you kind of just finish it 'cause you don't want to waste food

So that's another habit I did. I ate out like three or four times a week with friends after dance

So it was pretty much those two or three habits, it wasn't a lot of habits

But they...oh another habit I had was, my boyfriend at the time ate a lot, I started cooking more food

So, I would never cook that much for myself but because there was a hungry boy eating I cooked more food

And I didn't want to waste it and it wasn't enough to kind of portion out for a second meal

So I just put the whole portion in my plate in my plate and his plate and I kind of would portion it similar

Because you know, at the time I just thought why don't I eat almost the same amount as him?

Why not like I just cooked a double portion?

'Cause in my head times 2 is easier than 1 and a half and me eating half and him eating one, that makes sense

But yeah, so I had bigger meals as well

Those four habits, like it wasn't a lot, it was only those four habits over a period of time of like a year

Had a huge dramatic effect on how much weight I put on

And yeah, I had a lot of extra weight and now that I think about it I still vaguely remember it but I don't actually

When I sat down my belly would hang over my pants

I would do a lot more slimming photoshoping on my photos for my blog

And there were just a lot of factors that led to me going like OMG and having that 'aha moment'

So yeah, I just wanted to share that with you guys because I think it's really important

For you guys to be realistic about how long it takes for you to lose weight and to change your habits

And that's the most important thing

I do not recommend any sort of fad diets

Detoxes are fine, but don't rely on them for weight loss. If you want to detox yourself, that's fine

But you can't really expect a long time change when you just detox for a month

And then go back to your old eating habits

And I also don't condone starving yourself because you can actually eat a lot of healthy food

And still lose weight as long as you choose the right food

So that's like super important

And don't think that the only way to lose weight is actually to not eat

Because that's incredibly wrong and incredibly harmful for your body

And I can't really emphasise that enough

I actually developed this book which is like my 7 day eating plan

And you guys have always asked what I eat on a daily basis

And what you guys should eat on a daily basis if you want to lose weight

Like what you should cook and everything

So I put together this ebook and it has 7 days worth of meals for you guys

It's very easy to cook with very easy ingredients

And it's kind of like a fusion between western food and Japanese, Korean and Chinese food

So it's a fusion of those kind of styles of food

And the great thing about this ebook is that $1 of it goes to charity

So at the end of the year I'll donate $1 from each book to charity which would be awesome

And I think a lot of you guys would benefit from this

So if you're interested, I've got the link down below. You can find it on my blog as well

There's quite of few girls doing it and you know

I'm really excited to see the feedback 'cause I love seeing people kind of log their journeys

If you guy get this book and decide to follow it, please log your journey for me and please give me feedback

'Cause I really want to improve it and help you guys stick to a sort of diet plan

That's healthy, that means you get all your nutrients and that you also lose weight and get to your goal as well

That is my ultimate aim for this book

And I'm happy to change it and adapt it and improve it according to your feedback

So I'd really love to hear from you guys

I'm going to be posting like a few like healthy recipes as well on my channel

'Cause you guys have been asking for cooking videos for so long and I haven't got around to filming one of them

But I'm definitely going to film a few for you guys and put them on my channel as well

So please stay tuned for that

I hope you guys enjoy this video

I just thought I'd do a video for you guys

That, you know, just motivate you guys on your healthy life style change journey

It's very, very hard. It's not easy, the times where I sat there and I would crave chips

I still crave chips and Maccas, like to this day. I just don't eat it as often

Whereas before I would kind of buckle to my cravings like every day or every other day

Now I only do it like once a month or when I feel like I've eaten really well for the day I would reward myself

And that's okay, as long as you keep track of

Like how many calories on what you're eating and whether you're doing well

That's changed a lot for me and you'll find that once you start eating healthy you won't crave junk food as much

It's kind of like a downward spiral, once you start eating junk food you just keep craving it and craving it

And it's just like a bad, bad...it's like a stone rolling downhill

I'm really bad with my example today, I'm really sorry

But yeah, anyway, that's off on a tangent; I was going to end this video

Yeah, I wanted to create this video to encourage you guys

So leave your comments below and let me know if you guys are on this healthy eating journey

How you're going, any tips to motivate other people

Because I think it's good as a community to share with everyone and help everyone in the comment section

So, do that!

I can't wait to see you guys in my next video!

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For today I'm going to start up with this Widriff top, this cute pair of denim shorts, these white platforms sneakers

And I'm going to show how to turn this basic outfit into three different looks

Just by adding different pieces on top

So let's get started