So here comes the story…

Once I was a normal girl. Tall, good figure, normal boobs, flat abs, no big thighs or bum or nothing out of the ordinary, unless you want to count my extremely broad shoulders, which makes it very hard to buy a decent coat or jacket. At this point I must mention as well, that my two favorite body parts are my shoulders and my back. (God, I find them stunning – don’t laugh, it’s called healthy self confidence in my dictionary)

So anyway. Years passed, I got married and had my first child. For my healthy 70 kilos and 182cms I was in my perfect BMI and look and feel good state. What happened after was, that I got pregnant and started eating.  A LOT.  Put on probably 40 kilos so if you have basic math skills or a calculator that will make out 110 kilos for the end of the pregnancy. The doctor didn’t even ask me to stand on the scale for the last few check ups, since it was useless. I simply had to eat.

Long story cut short, I had my beautiful Daniel in January, and by November the same year I was 68 kilos. That means that I lost around 42 kilos in 10 months.

I was in around this weight, the perfect was 70-72 kilos until I got pregnant with Sara. I gained the same 40 kilos.

The issue here is, that she is 17 months old and I am still 80 kilos. It must be the age but I can’t seem to getReid of that silly ten kilos.

My grand plan is that I lose the weight the exact same way I did with Dani. It’s not the first 20 which is hard to lose. It’s the last few….

Decision time: I AM GOING TO LOSE 10 KILOS BY THE FIRST OF MARCH.

And since it’s very late now and I need to work tomorrow, I’m gonna tell you how in my next post…

Today’s weight was 79.9 kilos in the morning.

Xx

Now let’s see how much is true from all the tales:

(this is my favourite) Dark chocolate is better for you then milk chocolate: NO! The kcals are nearly the same. From here on it depends on you. If you want to consume more fat, chose the dark chocolate, if you prefer more sugar, get the milk chocolate. The milk chocolate also has calcium – after all, it’s called “milk” chocolate…

Too much chocolate will cause you migrene: Yes, if you can eat a truckload of it, literally, because of the fenetil-amin and tiramin.

Calories vs Darkness: people say that “the good chocolate has a lot of cocoa. Depends on what angle are you looking at it. More expensive if it’s darker because of the amount of cocoa, but at the same time, the darker it is, the more fat it has. (to keep it together :) ) If it has less cocoa, it will be sweeter. (I personally opt for sweetness) Sometimes people confuse quality with price… (dark choc – expensive – must be excellent: NO!!)

Chocolate troubles digestion and ruins your liver: oh my. What a lie. Everything causes digestive problems if you eat too much of it. In reality, chocolate only stays in your stomach for 1 hour, so there is no way that it’s troubling your stomach. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the liver whatsoever.

Chocolate makes you fat: no. SOME chocolate won’t make you fat. Lots of chocolate and lots of food will. Don’t blame sweeties only.

Eating chocolate will protect your heart and circulation: Besides sugar and fat, chocolate has more ingredients as well, such as lots of antioxidants which protects you – like tannin, vitamin E, beta-carotene. Also you can find Kalium in chocolate which has blood pressure lowering effect and at last the healthy amount of chocolate could even lower your colesterol.

Chocolate has low GI index: absolutely true.

So go ahead and eat a healthy amount of chocolate when you feel like, it not only will make you happy, but contribute to your overall health.

Where I think the problem lies is: the brain.

Your body is going to be tired until you wake up your brain!

Tonight I didn’t sleep great. My husband is sick, he was snoring too much and kicking and  pushing in the bed, so after a while I moved to my son’s room, who is basically the spit image of hubby with exact same behaviour – even with the snoring and kicking and pushing in the bed…

Anyhow.. I did have more space near my son, but the sleep was restless – still here I am, it’s only 7.39am, I’m up since 7, haven’t had a shower (yeah, I know, disgusting, but let me be disgusting for another hour…) or a coffee yet and my brain is fresh as a morning rose since the moment I’m up!

What’s the secret?

Very simple… You have to WANT to get up. If you think you would rather be in bed and miss most of the beautiful morning, it’s not gonna work. I always WANT IT!!! The morning air on the street, the smell of the coffee, the view for another beautiful day, the time I can spend with people I love.. (or if you have to work and don’t particularly like it, think about the money you earn that day!)

Most “specialists” say that you have to move your body before you fully get out of bed. This may be true, but I don’t need it – I’m repeating myself: I only and exclusively need the THOUGHT that I must get up now, another lovely day is to start and I’m missing it!

There is another reason why I love getting up early. If I do that, I have the house (at least the living room, bathroom and kitchen) all for myself. I can enjoy the quietness, I can relax, have my coffee in peace and get ready for the day.

Don’t forget, morning hours are vital for a woman who wants to look great throughout the day. This is the time you can physically prepare yourself to be fresh, beautiful and pretty. This is the time you can “magic” your eyes to have that sparkle in your eyes and keep it all day long!

You can avoid messy hair, lack of make-up, outfit which you have become bored already because that’s the one you put on when you are rushing, and you can avoid being grumpy and achieve being in a good mood all day long!

Girls! Try it and you won’t regret it!