A little motivation

Sometimes when I don't feel like working out, or I think I just need a big ol juicy hamburger. I dig deeper. For some motivation. To remind myself why I am doing what I'm doing. I go look at my before and afters, or find a really cute outfit I want. That's the thing about motivation it can come out of anywhere :)

Don't talk about it, be about it.

Put on your big girl panties

Join my Team

Officially decided that I have something to offer, and I can help people.  So I have joined team beachbody as a coach.  I try most of their workouts at Amarillo Fit Club. I'll link my coach site at the bottom. I'd love to be your coach :)

I hated this before picture.  I sent it once to my friend and then deleted it because I couldn't even bare to think I looked like that.  She kept it and sent it back to me today.  It was her idea for me to share with y'all today that I am a coach now :) Thanks Erica!!!

Coach Danger

Insanity Love you ...hate you

Oh Insanity a workout I love and hate all at the same time.  When I first started doing it I was overwhelmed. I did the fit test and thought 0.o how am I ever going to make it through a workout.  It sucked, It was just like it says insane. When I first started Insanity I did it for less than a week and gave up. It was hard and I was so sore even sitting down hurt. So giving up was easy. Bye Insanity, hello gym.  After a few months of going to the gym I decided to give it a second shot.  i thought I would do insanity when i woke up before work then keep my regular gym schedule.  I was wrong.  After doing insanity I went to the gym and my muscles were just to tired.  I couldn't even do half of my work out.  That just seemed counterproductive to me, and yet again I quit. A few months later I decide to try again...3rd times a charm? Hell yeah it is.  I start Insanity again, but this time even though I feel the burn I'm into it the whole time.  I don't feel like I am about to die either. woot woot!! I get through my first week and think wow! I can actually do this. Is it easy? hell no. I have gotten use to it though. I am proud to report that the sore stage went away pretty quickly this go around, and after the first week I was good to go. I'm not a beast or anything so Sunday's are my favorite because they are my day off :)  As I said before in one of my other posts I am not to the point where I want to post those pictures yet.  Though my friend Erica thinks I should, and is convinced I would win something. In my mind I have won alot already by sticking to something. I must admit I feel off the Insanity train during the holidays, but I am back on it. That is the thing, If you fall off just get back on.  No one can work out one day and lose 30 lbs.  So not working out one day isn't the worst thing you could do either.

Goals Goals Goals

I've always been the type of person that sets the bar high.  My mindset is basically set the bar high and go even higher. Well when I started this new venture I quickly realized that was just not the way to go about it.  So....I came up with a new plan.  I have an overall goal, which I don't focus on everyday. Every once in a while I take  a look back and think damn I have come pretty far :) I set more obtainable goals for myself though so I feel more accomplished.  i don't like to  toot my own horn, but every time i meet or exceed my own expectations and goals toot toot!! Last January my goal was to lose 40 lbs before my yearly vacation in June.  I lost 90. Nothing can explain the feeling I got when I was shopping for new vacation clothes. That amazing feeling every time I saw another one of my family members I hadn't seen in over a year, and they were shocked.  After that I set a new goal for myself for our Glow Run in August. It rocked btw but I think I'll save that story for another time. Then I set a goal for Halloween, and finally for my birthday in December. Basically, what I'm getting at is make your short term goals obtainable, but not easy.  Make yourself work. Then reward yourself.  My usual reward is shopping, which I have found myself doing alot especially since none of my old clothes fit anymore :) Bye

Danger

Do it for...

Until it clicked in my head that I was going to do this for ME it never worked. No diet, No plan, Nothing. I had to make up my mind that it was going to do this, and the only thing that could hold me back was me. Most of the time its YOU that talks yourself out of change. So don't do it. Talk yourself into changing. For you. For looking good naked, and feeling good. Anyway I don't have much to say today except that. Keep yourself in your mind Your #1. Bye

Danger

What do I eat?

What I eat has changed from when I started this to now.  When I first started I knew that I in a sense needed to shrink my stomach.  This didn't mean being hungry all the time, but it meant knowing when I really was hungry and when I was just bored.  So when I started my meal plan was easy.  A protein bar or shake for breakfast, salad for lunch, and tons of water.  No carbonated drinks...ever. I stayed away from alcohol as much as I could, but what can I say I love to party.  So I try to drink cranberry and vodka. My usual day goes like this...

Breakfast

I usually eat half a whole wheat bagel with a little bit of cream cheese, bananas, strawberries, and blue berries.  Blue berries are a negative calorie food so I try to eat as many of them as I can :)

Snack

I try to make myself eat healthy snacks that way I don't get hungry and eat other stuff. Usally it's greek yogurt which I love!! If I do get hungy I grab a few almonds and drink water. If it's later at night I usually eat a cucumber. Anyway greek yogurt isn't very sweet and it's mostly protein, but this kinda isn't bad..

Lunch

I try to do lunch later in the afternoon like start getting it together at 3.  This is mainly because I dont want to get hungry later in the evening.  I try to do 80% veggies or salad and 20% protein.  If I have really really been craving some kind of carb this is when I eat it.  You want a taco? eat one. Just eat alot of salad too :) I eat mixed greens that pretty much look like leaves because they have almost no calories, and I mix them with baby spinach because I love it plus its negative calorie also.  I don't really use salad dressing because the fat free taste like poop and the regular has way to many calories.  I love lime juice anyway so that my best friend :) In the pic above it's taco salad which is greens mixed with chicken, pico, a few crunched tortilla chips, and a few bits of cream cheese. It was orgasmic!!

I try to eat these as much as I can instead of other foods.  Plus berries and an apple every single day :)


These are screen shots from my IG btw because I am kind of too lazy to try to take pictures of food all day. Follow me. Dangerleyva

Motivation Picture

So...When I started this some days I have to say I just didn't feel like working out. It is easy to say that you are way to busy and convince yourself that it is ok to skip today. Is it ok to skip one day? Sure. The problem is it usually leads to skipping 2 or 3 and then entire weeks. Once you fall off the horse it's alot harder to get back on and stay on.  Anyway, I have what I call my motivation picture.  I keep it hung in my closet next to my racing metals :) Which weren't there before btw.  This picture is terrible!! I want to die just thinking that at one point in my life I allowed myself to look like that.  It motivates me to never be that person again. My motivation picture is actually an old badge.  I wish I had more pictures to compare to now, but the truth in back then I stayed away from pictures and focused most of them on just my face.  At this point I am not confident enough to post that up, but stay tuned it just might find itself to this page one day. :)

Danger

My "Secret"

Ahhh where to start? Basically...I started this whole weight loss, find myself, be healthy journey last year.  If you know me personally you know I've lost a considerable amount of weight.  Which means I have people going up to me constantly asking....

What's your secret? Oh, the oh so mysterious secret I must have. Like eating 27 grapefruits in between meals, or drinking 23470437 pills.  What do people want the answer of the question to be? Simple. Easy. They want me to say go buy these magic beans and eat this magic food, along with their regular food of course. Without giving up anything. With little to no effort, and with out any exercise.  

Well sorry to burst that bubble, but here is my secret...I stopped eating all the disgustingly delicious food that I loved and hated at the same time.  I made myself workout. Is it fun? Fuck no. Well maybe a little...on the weekends.  It's worked for me and that's about all I can say. 

I guess I plan on posting my workouts and such even though I'm not a trainer.  I'm going to post food that I think is stupid delicious even though it's healthy.  I'm going to post whatever random race me and Erica decide we have to do to stay motivated.  I'll probably post a bazillion pictures. I think this will help me hold myself accountable too. Cheers!

~Danger Leyva

Yeah I call myself that :)


The picture: On the left is me on my my birthday last year and this year :)