Changing my life in the right places - the importance of optimizing my surroundings

UPDATE:
My energy levels are rising because of the workouts and the biking every morning - it's the best thing that happened to me in a long time! Weather will be good the next days and maybe I'll even hop on my mountainbike and go for a ride outside!

The mealplanning experiences are mixed - I still struggle with planning everything ahead and doing the shopping at the right moment. But I feel that when it's challenging this means that I'll expand my knowledge - next week I will report how it turned out.

AND: there was a huge level up in my life: I bought myself a laptop again so I'll be able to work from everywhere. Especially because I tend to eat when I'm bored and sitting around. Now I have my own workspace with me and can do something else.
It also helps me decrease stress and pressure around my worktime as I'm not longer tied to my desktop PC at home for my freelancing work but I can take most of the things to other places - outside even!

MY QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
On your fitness journey, what changes did you make to your environment be it workspace, gym or household? Were there specific items you purchased that helped you stay on track on the long run?

As always, I would be delighted to read any answers or inspiration on this topic.


Now for last weeks question, where I was asking, how to deal with the expectations of others and the fear of letting them down.

I'm so happy I adressed this question as I was able to reflect on everything and was pointed into the direction. Was it a coincidence that this week I saw a new video of both ModernHealthMonk and ObesetoBeast talking about this topic?

John Glaude from ObesetoBeast mentioned in his video, that his family and friends saw a "beacon of hope" in him, as he was losing weight and that he would stress out about not letting them down too, ordering salad in the Restaurant when he was with them, to show them, that he was eating healthy, even if he would be binging alone at home afterwards. Wow, that was so well described and really struck me but also made me understand, that I'm not alone with my thoughts and that others have been through this and have made it and so he'S some kind of "Beacon of Hope" also for me.

And then there was the nice reply of lynneta in the Nerdfitness forums that I will cite here:

Thank you so much for this! I will see if I can get that book!

This made me realize that all of this comes down to one thing: SELF CONFIDENCE and this is something I have to work on on my own. If I don't trust myself and if I permit myself to let myself down, I will of course be afraid of being judged.

Alexander Heyne of ModernHealthMonk opened his video in saying that

and it really makes the point I think. How should others look up to you or me when we don't even have faith in ourselves and in what we are doing? If we aren't strong enough to stand up for our beliefs and are not proud to talk to someone else about it?

We should look forward to those bullys and want our journey to be challenging and not too much straight forward!

But to walk ahead, we have to train and know where on the path we are standing. Working out, even though it's more cardio I'm doing at the moment, helps me a lot to gain self assurance.

Let's see how this adventure unfolds!

Thank you so much for reading!

Yours,

Elanor

Please excuse my English - I do my best, because I feel at the right place in the English speaking community but I'm no native speaker.

My favourite fitness channels at the moment:
DaveDoesWeightloss https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9gMoTx2EFYRnzWwYADEhRA
ObesetoBeast https://www.youtube.com/user/ObesetoBeast
Nerdfitness https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdFitness
LiveLeanTV https://www.youtube.com/user/bradgouthrofitness
ModernHealthMonk https://www.youtube.com/user/ModernHealthMonk

My social media:
YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUL0Eq7QLwnGwYlUVW_gBog
Blog: http://elanorthefairsjourney.blogspot.fr/
Instagram; @elanorsjourney
Art channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb9po5XOs5n-wYPm0oVurDQ

What others expect of my weight loss? - Update and question of the week

BRITA Waterfilter

I promised an update of my 2 weeks challenge in the Nerdfitness Academy Respawn 2017 and here it comes:

It went really well and I could stick to most of the habits even during my stay at my family's in Germany - it's small steps to get used to drink water again and also the other points I could check off - only 1 workout remains.

I directly went into new goals for this week wich will be to continue mealplanning for 3-4 days ahead. I still struggle with it a little and I don't get the portions well balanced but I'm working on it. I rewarded myself getting a BRITA Waterfilter which is really cool and I love drinking water even more as I prefer water without all the "extras" in form of chlorine, metals etc.

Additionally, I decided to adress 1 question a week here on my blog and also on my YouTube-Channel. There's always so much on my mind and I have no one except my online community I can talk to. At the end of the week I will resume what I've found out.

This week my question is to understand better how to deal with the expectations from others around you regarding weight loss. 

Was it a mistake to speak openly about what I'm doing with others? Now, I have several people on my back always watching out when they meet me to see whether or not I've gained or lost weight. This is really stressful and I start feeling afraid of deceiving them. Of course this is also some kind of motivation for me but it also starts to be of a pressure.

I already did damage my metabolism and also my menstrual cycle in the past just by pushing to hard and starving myself. Now is time for doing things slowly but steadily and accepting myself, getting the proper mindset and starting again. But I have no way explaining all of this to everyone - of course, in my close family, everything is ok - I'm really glad about that. But my boss at work for example, really expects me to lose weight ...

Do you have any ideas or experiences about this issue? I'm glad for anything!

Thank you for reading or watching!

My next goals are to hop on my hometrainer bike every morning for 2 weeks and continue mealplanning.

I'll check in with you soon!

Regards,
Elanor

Please excuse my English - I do my best, because I feel at the right place in the English speaking community but I'm no native speaker.

My favourite fitness channels at the moment:
DaveDoesWeightloss https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9gMoTx2EFYRnzWwYADEhRA
ObesetoBeast https://www.youtube.com/user/ObesetoBeast
Nerdfitness https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdFitness
LiveLeanTV https://www.youtube.com/user/bradgouthrofitness
ModernHealthMonk https://www.youtube.com/user/ModernHealthMonk

My social media:
YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUL0Eq7QLwnGwYlUVW_gBog
Blog: http://elanorthefairsjourney.blogspot.fr/
Instagram; @elanorsjourney
Art channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb9po5XOs5n-wYPm0oVurDQ

Questions About Weight loss #1: Medical Check, Thyroid, Hormones, Low Impact Workouts? EJ #13

Thank you for inspiring me to revive my weight loss YouTube-Channel as it felt so good to talk so openly to the camera and knowing my questions out there now. Thank to the videos of Davedoesweightloss, Obesetobeast, Nerdfitness, LiveLeanTV, ModernHealthMonk and many more (see the links below) for inspiring me and guiding.

With this video I want to start to get answers to questions that are going through my mind. Please feel free to answer and/or give me your opinions to the questions. I will definetely get back to you. To remember, here are my questions shortened in written format:

1. What would you advise me to get tested at the doctors especially thyroid related - which hormones are to betested? What other exams can be helpful?

2. If you yourself went to the doctor to get checked for similar reasons, what were the symptoms which got you to think that something was wrong with your hormones?

3. Eating more to weigh less? What's going on with the TDEE, reverse dieting, and to low calory diets? Any experiences welcome!!!

4. Meanwhile I love working out but it seems that I'm always pushing to hard - is there any helpful advice to know when to stop? Do you know any workouts that have low impact on the legs? Would biking help?

5. Do you want to see guitar covers?

Please, when responding to any of the health related questions, precise, what background you have with those topics. I'm really interested in feedback and suggestions of any sort, but I need to know whether a doctor is writing or someone with own experience. Thank you so much!!!

Keep me accountable in subscribing and checking in with me next week.

And please excuse my English - I do my best, because I feel at the right place in the English speaking community but I'm no native speaker.

My favourite fitness channels at the moment:
DaveDoesWeightloss https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9gMoTx2EFYRnzWwYADEhRA
ObesetoBeast https://www.youtube.com/user/ObesetoBeast
Nerdfitness https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdFitness
LiveLeanTV https://www.youtube.com/user/bradgouthrofitness
ModernHealthMonk https://www.youtube.com/user/ModernHealthMonk

My social media:
YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUL0Eq7QLwnGwYlUVW_gBog
Blog: http://elanorthefairsjourney.blogspot.fr/
Instagram; @elanorsjourney
Art channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb9po5XOs5n-wYPm0oVurDQ

Finding my BIG WHY - Nerdfitness Academy Respawn

With beginning of march 2017 I'm respawning my fitness journey in the Nerdfitness Academy - taking time to go through everything again - looking for what I missed and where I didn't pay attention in the first time.

3 years ago, around this time of the year, I started my fitness journey and started to get seriuos about it! I want to write down what my motivation is today ... so many things have changed ...

• I want to be able to do and enjoy the things I LOVE: horseriding, biking, dancing, hiking, running ... I miss all of this so much
• I want to live and do what I can to preserve my body and not die because I neglected it. I love life so much.
• I want to look and feel good and not always stress because of fear of being judged as lazy and unhealthy - because that'S not true!
• I want to celebrate life and also show others that the world is a beautiful place and everything is possible.
• I want to be able to have children and be there for them, give them a home and see them grow up. The same for my husband and my horses.

Wow, it was tougher writing this down than I expected. 

I need some emotional break right now ...