Relax Babe

Relax Babe, You've Got This. Not a very powerful statement by itself, potentially even disrupting to a feminist who views "babe" in a negative connotation that perhaps 80% of the general public understand it to mean, but it is my mantra. Yes, I have a mantra. Yes, I mean it when I say it. And actually yes, yoga was the avenue for its development. And yes, actually, I went to yoga in the shallow attempt to deepen my squat. Did it work? Yes. Did it help me achieve more than I imagined? Yes. Here's why. I didn't have a mantra before yoga. It's silly, 5 (technically 6) words that I say while practicing mediation through breathing. "Relax babe" during inhalation, "you've got this" through exhalation. With slight pauses in between to feel the air in my lungs. To connect my mind with my body. To accept absolute control of everything that I was, am, and will be. It is so empowering. It's so empowering I still go to yoga just f...

    If I haven’t preached enough about self-care and self-love, I think it’s time for me to delve into priorities. See, the struggle with priorities is that only you can define them for yourself and they change like the wind.     One year ago, I would’ve told you that my priority was getting through the holidays will enough self-will to not completely destroy the mental mindset and body I had created over 12 months. This year, that is not a priority. While I still hope to not destroy myself, I know that I have spent the past 12 months gaining a new perspective wherein I have discovered and empowered my self-love to take precedence over whatever emotions of comfort I perceive holiday junk food to provide. It is not a critical action because it is now a habit.     Wow. That took 24 months. But the time passed no matter if I had created that goal and achieved it or not. Remember that.     But priorities shift and that’s an amazing...

I am still in the process of making my diet work for me with 1st Phorm. Unfortunately it was so easy for me to copy and paste almost 2 years of myfitnesspal that I'm struggling to keep up and maintain sanity while changing everything in my diet. Did you know that 56 grams of tuna is 14 grams of protein and really only 54 calories?! But chicken is like, 130 calories for 24 grams of protein. I'm guestimating. And it makes sense. But in the moment I feel like I could only eat 56 grams of tuna even though 4 oz of chicken is sometimes not enough. Now I get it, why people laugh when I ask if they count macros. If every day is different, there's a little bit more time involved. I'm still on myfitnesspal, but as school takes up time and work and meal prep clash, all of my social media time is eaten up just when I want it to take off. So please, if you're so interested in my struggle: myfitnesspal maryanderson01  snapchat maanderson9 (body/booty ...