morning no makeup here's semi dirty but that's how close

we are I don't mind today I wanted to make a

video but a realistic one about how to get on that healthy lifestyle train all

of us have these resolutions of getting fitter and healthier and eating cleaner

and I find that whenever I watch those videos on YouTube it's always like such

unrealistic recommendations for someone like me that wakes up multiple times of

night because I have to take care of a baby or it gets up really earlier has

like need to go to work and just like do a lot of a bunch of different things I

wanted to basically compile like suggestions that I'm gonna take you

through with me throughout the day so you see how I'm actually fitting them in

and hopefully inspire you to start implementing those little goals into

your lifestyle for yourself I wanted to say huge thank you to eight fit for

sponsoring and collaborating with me on this video if it is a mobile app that

lets you customize your meals and your workouts now let's get to the tips so

first of the day is workouts you can't avoid it if you want to get healthier if

you want to get in shape you've got to move your body especially the way we

operate today most of us are sitting and not moving as much as we should to me

it's unrealistic to go to the gym every single day and spending two hours with

the commute and change and shower and this endless and and get a workout in

once I wake up in the morning and if I had a rough night or I know that I have

a really busy day I'm thinking about this whole like time investment and

that's my biggest excuse that basically stops me from going and working out so

the hack that I've been using for a while now

is using a set if you guys watch any of my health and fitness videos it fit has

been part of my routine for a while now I love the app and it's a very easy way

to get that workout in for people that don't have the time and want to just get

a workout in at home without any equipment necessary you can customize

your workouts and your meals but that we're going to get to later my workout

today is the time interval full-body and this is perfect because it's nine

minutes along and you will burn 252 calories that's it you can start so

let's get going for me it's really all about getting that effective workout in

that will suit my lifestyle the biggest mistake that a lot of people do is that

they commit to doing with some exercises or classes or start with the doesn't fit

their lifestyle doesn't have room in their schedule and it's just I feel like

stresses you out makes you feel like a failure because you haven't like

achieved what you promised yourself you would so to make sure we avoid all of

that just make sure that you choose a workout and a fitness routine that suits

the way you lead your life it doesn't need to disrupt it so be mindful of that

when planning your fitness goals

it's very important for me to mention that you guys also need to ease into

things I mean you don't need to go hardcore there's obviously more complex

workouts on 8/5 but I'm just getting back into kind of my fitness journey

after the pregnancy and I want to make sure that I don't like tell my body I

want to make sure that I'm being mindful of the way I move so I'm starting slowly

this is an amazing like good workout a quick one did you just squeeze in every

morning and then once I'm gonna feel stronger and more capable I'm gonna keep

pushing kind of my limits and try something that is a little more

challenging for me you have to be mindful of the fact that it's a journey

and try a lot of different things so you can try yoga you can try Tabata you

might hate yoga you might hate something else and you might love habit I like you

never know so you have to keep trying different things to see something that

works for you and that's in general I find that you know some people they go

to like a class and then they hate it and then it kind of drop their whole

resolutions of getting fitter you have to first of all to do three times each

class and police to see if you really hate it or it was just uncomfortable but

it gets better with every time and try a bunch of different classes to see what

works for you what you enjoy you have to find something that you enjoy the reason

why I keep putting myself in ridiculous situations like signing myself up for a

hip hop class and stuff like that is because it's just another way to move my

body and it's something that I don't know I'm gonna enjoy but I wanted to try

to see if I will enjoy and I loved it and I can't wait to do it again so try

different things and fall in love with something that you're actually excited

to do it's always gonna be challenging once you stick to it it becomes like

this fuel for your body so that's definitely

tip that I had to mention and now after my little workout session it's time to

get some food in here because I'm starving

another tip I wanted to mention that's very important is you know how like our

bad habits like eating junk food and all those kind of things are so easy because

you know when you want to let's say eat something and you know they're preparing

a healthy meal is such a big fuss so you opt for kind of the bad habits

so something that's been working for me is making healthy habits just easier so

reducing the amount of steps you need to make to make those happen so let's say

when you want to grab a snack instead of going grabbing those ships having like a

bowl of fruits on your counter it's just an easier way for you just to grab and I

think about it too much the same goes if you want to start let's

say doing a lemon with water in the morning so before I would just get so

lazy to cut the lemon so now before I go to sleep or even in the morning the

first thing I'll do I'll just like put a lemon and a glass of water so it's just

in front of me and I'm already like doing it or the same thing with lemon

juice or even like celery juicing because I started doing that in the

morning now to kind of test it out like I'll wash all the celery and I'll keep

it in the fridge in a ziploc and then at night I'll just put it out or scary to

put it out and then when I come down it's just in front of me and all I need

to do is put it in the juicer so things like that just minimizes the amount of

steps you need to take to make good decisions it's very good X aim thing

goes to putting out your workout clothes or putting your running shoes at the

front so when you come downstairs you see those running shoes you like ha I

can go for a little walk right now why not get shoes already there palms up

while I'm here holding my phone is something that I started doing and I'm

still practicing I'm by no means mastered this but I think it's such an

important habit to master and it's a digital detox it's very difficult

especially for someone like me we're creating content is my job and content

is everywhere all the time around me so it's very tempting to constantly have

your phone on but honestly I've learned that detaching myself as much as

possible and like looking at it as work or you know making sure that I have the

time for like social scrolling or just keeping in touch with friends through

social media but I do make sure that in the evenings I try to cut it off so

probably around 8 p.m. I put it away at night I started getting into the habit

of putting in a play mode and charging it in the bathroom throughout the day I

sometimes will put my phone away in another room when I'm focusing on doing

a certain job or tasks or shooting a video so I'm trying to find those

pockets throughout the day where I can just take this away from me

food is a crucial part of getting healthier and reaching your goals

whether it's get stronger fitter or lose weight whatever it is because you know

when exercise is super important but it's honestly I have to say 80%

diet 20% movement and it really goes so so well together

so with diet you want to make sure that you try to cook at home

as much as possible I know that it's really tempting to order in or to step

out for restaurants especially for Gary and I because that's basically our only

time to actually spend like quiet time one-on-one but I am trying to be mindful

cooking as many dinners and lunches as you can at home even if it means three

or four times a week that's a good start so if you're like me and you're not a

fan of cooking and don't know your way around the kitchen and don't understand

how to put things together to make them taste good that's why I love using eight

fit to really give me inspiration keep me on track

give me some simple and very basic meals and I'm gonna show you some of the meal

plan that I've built myself so when I go on the meals portion on the meal section

you can customize your meals and today we have breakfast lunch snack dinner and

you can change skip customize it which is amazing so let's say maple chia

overnight oats too late for that so I want to change for something that is

easier for me to do and that I have all the ingredients like this banana

chocolate porridge this is a five minutes it's energy booster it has all

the right things that I want after my workout to give me energy and to fill me

up and that's what I'm gonna do so it's very easy to get inspired and also to

plan your grocery shopping so I'm just doing the grocery shop so once you go to

the store it's so easy to see what you need for the rest of your week and then

once you purchase that item you just take it off and it just makes everything

so much easier and more accurate and again

getting a good healthy habit easier to master so now I'm gonna prepare the

banana chocolate porridge it takes five minutes

which is exactly my kind of recipe

and that's how we do it so it fit has over 700 meals on their app so obviously

your choice is humongous and you can really customize it to the goal that you

want if it's weight loss or it's maintenance which is help if it's

building myself things like that and you can change things so if you don't like

the meal you can customize it for your own liking which is awesome also if

you're vegetarian vegan paleo any of that stuff all of those diets are also

covered in the app so you can build your meal plan on the app take into

consideration that you're on that specific diet which is amazing okay

finished my breakfast do a little stretching because my body will

appreciate it oh that was my bones so just to finish

off with a couple more tips that I think are important to keep in mind one of

them is prioritizing sleep I'm sure you guys know sleep is so so vital for our

bodies and it's not only sleep a source of quality sleep so that means kind of

referring back to having a detox from your phone and other gadgets just

keeping in mind to shut them off an hour - before you go to sleep will help you

to get in that quality sleep help your mind to relax on your body to

relax and you'll be able to actually get the benefits from sleeping it is

recommended to sleep between 7 to 8 hours per night so if you can't achieve

that you do it the best thing you can do is kind of look at yourself as a child

and set yourself at that time there's nothing better than to get into a

routine where you go to sleep and you wake up every morning at the same time

it's so good for your body it's so good for your mental health it's so good for

your energy levels it's really gonna make sure that everything in your body

works properly so please keep in mind sleep is extremely extremely important

the next step is something that I think is very good to people to remember

especially now at a time where we are focusing on introducing more healthy

habits into our lives a lot of people our initial reaction for these New

Year's resolution is going to our cupboard throw out all the junk food

throw out all the chocolates like go really 100% on cutting all the bad stuff

out and I feel like that really never works for me my suggestion is using the

method of crowding out rather than cutting out so crowding out is basically

introducing a new healthy habit every couple of weeks into your life and make

sure that you are consistent with it so keep with that one habit for at least 2

3 4 weeks to make it an actual routine and then start doing that slowly with

other healthy habits what will happen is that those habits will start taking over

your daily routine and those bad habits which are just gonna crab out so instead

of you limiting yourself and saying you can't have this and I can't have that I

can't have that which kind of creates this rebellious spirit inside of us I

feel so someone tells me you can't eat chocolate and you can't eat pizza by

someone I mean myself all I want to do is eat that chocolate and eat that pizza

so I'm all against those restrictions instead the method of crowd

out is a very much a realistic thing that we are able to do and achieve and

it's a much slower process which means that it's going to stick so remember

there any rapid changes that you make it's not necessarily your gonna stick

for the long term and that's what we're looking for we don't want just every