Hi Darlings, Happy Sunday!
Here’s another episode of In Mimi’s Brain, not a lot of people read the previous one but it helped me a lot so I decided to keep doing it.
Week 1 {8/3 – 8/10}
I’m the worst at making these posts, I have so much to tell you but I keep forgetting to write. So I decided that instead of daily chapters you’ll get weeks so I can update you differently let’s start with this past week recap.
MAKEUP
This week I cleaned all my brushes, do you know how freaking good it feels to have all your brushes clean?
It’s like: “YES BITCHES, I GOT MY SHIT TOGETHER!” Tell me I’m not alone in this.
Fitness
If you read my previous post you’d know I’m on a weight loss journey, if you didn’t, now you know.
Long story short 4 years ago I was on a fitness journey too, lost 23kg (50 lbs) then I did some mistakes with my diet, my dad passed away and I fell into a depressive bulimia tunnel. I don’t want to talk about that because I know no one is interested in it and I’m in a much better place now but I have a point with what happened this week.
This new fitness journey feels completely different from the previous one but even if I’m happier now I have be careful and avoid bulimia triggers. Like weighing myself.
I don’t do it at all because if I lose weight I’m happy and if I don’t I go too hard on myself, not only that sometimes the number on the scale doesn’t correspond to the number I have in my head and even if looking at myself I feel great, the number would make me sad because it might not be what I thought and I don’t want my mood to be influenced by a number.
I’m going to share with you a picture with you from 4 years ago to explain this concept better. I love this picture, I think I look super fit, my abs are popping and I felt amazing when I took it.
It was right after a workout so after that I went and took a shower and weighted. In this picture, I weight 64kg (141 lbs) which in my brain was not the weight a skinny person has so I felt incredibly sad afterwards.
So now I want to base how I feel about myself on how I look and feel instead of a number.
I made this story super long. But basically fast forwards to the other day. I checked the weight I lost in that period and on average I was losing 3kg (6,61 lbs)per month.
Now, I don’t want to weight myself but that means that since I started dieting and working out at the end of April till now I lost about 10kg (22,05 lbs) and I’m so freaking happy about that!
And even if the number is not precise, I know that all my clothes are big on me, I feel great, I feel super energized and happy I don’t even care if it’s 10, 8 or 15 kg!
TV Show
I recently started watching the last season of Veronica Mars, the one that came out last year I think. (I’m on episode 3)
I love that show so much, it’s the first show I’ve ever fallen in love with when I was 12 and turns out I still love it.
Veronica and Logan will forever have a special place in my heart.
Today (Thursday), I’ve also started Queer Eye and why didn’t I do that earlier? I’m seriously loving it! So if you haven’t seen it already please watch it.
It’s a show about 5 gays who re-do looks of straight men but they not only redo their look, the re-do their houses, they teach them how to style their hair and they also do some therapy chats.
It’s so funny and quirky.
Cheat Meals
Apparently this week I’m in a MOOD! I normally have a cheat meal on Saturday night or whenever I have something out of program. But it’s normally just one meal and I’m totally ok with it.
But oh this week! On Wednesday, I had ice cream as my mid afternoon snack (it was a pink Magnum, I’ve never even seen a pink Magnum and I couldn’t say no) I mean look at it. I had to try it.
It was ok but it had raspberries inside so I didn’t love it 100% but it was beautiful nonetheless.
Then that evening my ass was CRAVING McDonalds. For reference, last time I had McDonald’s was before lockdown but this was life or death situation apparently and my body wouldn’t accept anything else ahah.
I definitely paid for that though, my body is not ready to accept that amount of unhealthy, fried goodness so yeah, the day after… Let’s leave it at that!
And on top of that tonight I’m having pizza! Can I get an AMEN? I’m meeting with one of my besties for dinner before she leaves to go on holiday so yeah, pizza was a must.
Now why am I telling all of this? Because past me would have felt terrible to have one, let alone two cheat meals especially without an excuse.
I’m not sad, I’m not PMSing and I’m celebrating either. I just craved them. I pride myself on my discipline which makes it easy for me to “follow the rules” especially with food but sometimes, I can crave what I crave without a reason other than just craving it. If that makes sense.
And you know what? I lost a lot of weight already, no one is rushing me to do it as fast as possible and I deserve to balance a good guilt free meal with doing good to my body.
So if you are in my position too, please cut yourself some slacks, you don’t have to do something to deserve food! (and I don’t want to just preach that, I’m telling you and I’m telling myself too).
Queen Gigi Hadid says: “Eat clean to stay fit, eat a burger to stay sane!” Let’s trust her!
I think I’m going to stop here this week, let me know about your week? How are you doing? Let me know how you like the post divided like this instead of using days
Love
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