It's the beginning of  the 4th week of the month and I wanted to check in with my weight and stats.
Unfortunately the only thing I was able to log at the beginning of the year was my weight which was 158lbs.

I have made a separate page that tracks my progress photos and stats here -> (PROGRESS PAGE) and if you want access to it just contact me here request and request for the password. I'll be more than delighted to share my journey to health 2018 with you!


So I have been doing my best to eat healthy and be a bit ore active. To be honest I'm really just sticking to fixing my eating habits first because i know the gym can wait and working out is really so much easier than eating clean.

So focusing on cooked meals everyday (at least once a day) and staying away from rice and other things that I have mentioned in my post regarding my HEALTH GOALS FOR 2018. I really want to focus on fixing my diet before I go all out in the gym. One thing I have failed to remind myself in the past is to just take it slow.  Sometimes you get super excited and pumped up with your plans and goals that you feel like you can just take on everything in one fell swoop then after a short while, you burn out.

I'm not about to make that same mistake I've done for a few years now. I'm going to do this one section of my life at a time. So far its been almost 4 weeks and things are looking great. Slow yet steady. Progress is progress.

So as of week 4, my current weight is now 153.56bs! That is 5 pounds down from January 1!! And this is just from eating cleaner and being mindful of what I put in my tummy.

This is truely exciting and I cannot WAIT for everything to start getting even better!

Again you can check in at my Progress Page, just Contact me for the password. :)

Previously I wrote about my health goals for 2018 and of course there is always something that goes with health and that is fitness.

I used to have a blog that was solely about fitness but it started out as an eating disordered blog until I found cassey ho and recovered from my E.D. i was happily blogging away until one day Facebok deicided to take my page down even though I was a very much a healthy blogger with a healthy and positive blog.

That kinda demotivated me because all my hard work just got wiped by Facebook.

But that aside. I was still working out and trying my best to keep at it but slowly I was loosing my motivation. But when 3rd year of Business school rolled around, I completely stopped and along with my health, my fitness deteriorated. I gained all my weight back and MORE due to stress eating and bad eating habits.

Now I am the biggest I have ever been and it is time to lasso my fitness back to its prime and better.
So here are my Fitness goals for 2018

1. Endurance

My endurance has sunk so low because of inactivity. I even get breathless just going back the stairs. my aim is to be able to go through a whole spin class without wanting to die. :)

2. Core strength

Cassey Ho's video didnt phase me before because she made my core so strong with my daily pop pilates sessions and muay thai classes, but now... what core? where'd it go? ohhhh wait.. thesis..

3. Flexibility

Now this is something I never really had a full grasp on even before. So my aim this year is to be able to do the splits before my birthday. So that means stetching every single day and even doing some yoga to help with balancing and centering myself.

4. Weight loss

Yes weight loss. I need to lose approximately 50lbs in total. And this isn't going to be a walk in the park.

5. Push up and Pull up

The two things I can never do which I aim on accomplishing this year! Slowly buy surely I will win this race.

So these are the 5 things I want to work on with regards to my fitness this year. Working on it slowly but surely one step at a time.  And in light of this, This blog of mine with mainly be focused on my health and fitness goals while also recording my adventures and passions. :)

Thank you so much for taking time to read this!

Ei! What's up everyone! Its me Lara! And welcome back to my blog! Today I'm going to write about my 2018 HEALTH goals!

2017 was a crazy year for me in almost every aspect of my life and one thing I really let go is my health. That is the number one thing that I failed in last year, mainly because I didn't really set any health goals last year because I was too focused on my academics which was a very wrong move on my part.

My weight ballooned to the highest it has EVER been in FOREVER and my overall health is not very good. I haven't been eating right I haven't been working out and I havent paid any attention to myself at all. All I thought about was THESIS/RESEARCH PAPER.

Now, I am feeling the effects of my prolonged self neglect and I am going to do my best to fix it this year with small measurable steps so not to overwhelm myself with everything.

So here are my health goals for 2018.

1. Cook more



Yes that is right. Cooking has always been a struggle for me last year due to university academics. I would always be out until ungodly hours working on my thesis and other school stuff that brought me to just buy my meals from fast food joints and cafeteria food.

So this year I will make it NON NEGOTIABLE that I cook at least 1 HEALTHY meal per day. Im going to do this gradually until I am able to eat all two to three meals a days which I preprared myself. <3

2. Hydrate



One the the things I easily forget is hydration. So in liht of this I have decided to track my daily water intake and make sure that I consume at the bare minimum 8 glasses of water a way. We all know the health benefits of drinking sufficient amount of water daily and so I am going to do just that as well.

3. Supplementation



My friends know that I am one person who is most stubborn when it comes to drinking any kind of medicine or supplement. But this year I am going to make it a must to have my Fish oil, Vitamin c and other vitamins that my body is going to need in order to go on this road of health. <3

4. Sleep more



One of my goals for my health is to sleep at 10pm and wake up at 5am. This only gives me a 7-hour sleep which is more than enough for an adult, this way I can get more things done in that span of time giving me my evenings for my final goal for health this year.

4. Self care



Pampering ones self is crucial for one's mind, body and soul. This is going to tie everything together. Health isn't only for the physical aspect of the body, but also our mental and our spirit. SELF CARE covers a wide range of actions such as baths, skin care, massage, reading a book, aromatherapy and going out in nature.

So those are my health goals for 2018. how about you? what health goals do you have this year?

2018 Goals

It is already half way through the first month of the year and I couldn't be anymore excited about 2018. And of course with every turn of the year there are resolutions and goals that are set. That is what is great about it! Start fresh, a new chapter and new part of  your life waiting to be written.
And this is my favourite part.

So this year of 2018, here are my top 5 Goals.

1. Graduate

I have been studying Marketing Management for the past 4 and a half years (and then some) and I just want this whole college experience to be over because after this hurdle I will be able to finally do what makes me happy, full time! Graduating means so many things to me. Its a chapter of my life I can finally close and people will finally stop bothering me about it.

2.  Health

Beach. Family. Boracay. The three words that best describes my perfect New Year's Celebration.
It has been several years since I last went to Boracay and I was so ecstatic when mom said that she was coming to the Philippines for Christmas and that she wanted to celebrate the New Year in Boracay.

I may not be have my beach body ready but my heart and soul was ready to receive some vitamin sea!

Although the weather was against us during our entire stay there due to the typhoon that made lanfall in that area, we still had some fun. I was unable to take a lot of Photos due to the rains but the memories are seared into my memory on how much fun we had.

Mom, my sister, my boyfriend and I stayed at Blue Dawn Resort. It was a fairly decent place to stay on a budget. It was cheap, the rooms were pretty small but it was adequate enough. I wish I had taken more photos, but I did not intend to blog about it at the time.  (next time I will)

We celebrated New Years at Discovery Shores with our friends. It was so much fun  and that place was so fancy I felt a little under dressed hehehe.

Anyway, I just wanted to preserve the memory into this post.

I promise I will improve my blog writing again. Just give me some time to get back into my blogging groove.

Where or how did you celebrate new year? Let me know in the comment section below.

Lara Novales

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The last time I wrote anything on my own personal blog was back in 2015. I have tried many other blogging endeavors but none of them worked out. I tried having a blog between me and my boyfriend but that didn't fly because my boyfriend wasn't the type to keep blogs like me. So i guess it is back to solo flights. :P
Ever since my weight loss and fitness blog was shut down by facebook due to a huge misunderstanding, I was never really able to regain back the motivation and drive to keep at it. But now its 2018. It is about time I go back to doing things I like and rediscovering my passions which were yanked from under me by people, institution and my own lack of confidence.
This 2018 is going to be the year to bounce back. The year to start getting life back together.
One of the things that is going to keep me on track this year is my bullet journal.

My boyfriend suggested that I keep one and I looked into it and I loved it so much that I now can't live without it. It has been helping me keep my head up, my goals clear, and my life sorted out.

Another thing I have been doing is making videos for my youtube channel. Im nothing special really but I really just enjoy brainstorming, editing, putting ou content and learning so many new things along the way.

There are so many things Im so excited about this 2018 and I think this is definitely going to be my year and I can't wait to share it with everyone! <3

xx

Lara Novales

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