hi friends!! here’s how my first three weeks of 75 hard has been going – if anyone wants to also challenge themselves and follow along this journey with me, please do!! (and let me know in the comments how it’s going so we can push through & grow together 🤍)
timestamps:
00:00 – intro (why I’m doing 75 hard, goals)
02:09 – day 1 (progress check)
03:19 – sunny side eggs w/ salted veggies
03:45 – tuna with spicy ‘mayo’ yogurt sauce
04:41 – yogurt parfait w/ fresh mango
05:08 – chicken rice bowl w/ hot honey yogurt sauce
05:13 – day 2
07:10 – day 3
07:36 – miso tofu mushroom risotto
09:35 – day 4
10:15 – lentil edamame cucumber salad
10:42 – spicy tofu burrata pasta
11:41 – day 9 (my experience going no alcohol, beginner runner)
17:24 – improved bloating (quick progress check)
17:47 – day 10
18:35 – day 14
20:07 – day 24 (progress check, personal growth)
22:51 – final words of encouragement
23:20 – outro
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hi I’m T and this is my first week of 75 hard I feel like I’m pretty disciplined in most aspects of my life but the one thing that I consistently struggled being disciplined with is my Fitness in my health Journey To be honest I’m just tired of waking up and feeling groggy all the time and just feeling like I’m not prioritizing myself in my health and just for the sake of like Health longevity and taking care of me I just want to be able to Garner that discipline so that I could just be a better version of myself my goal with 75 part is to build a foundation of healthier habits so I can kind of continue this moving forward maybe not as rigorous but still with more structure in my life than I do right now I want to make exercise a regular part of my life and I just want to prove to myself that I can be disciplined and commit to these things long term again just feel like my confidence with my own Fitness is so low now and I just want to build that up and I want to know that that if I commit to something that I’m going to show up for myself since there are rules I think for the most part I will be following them to the best of my ability I think the only thing with a diet I’m more so aiming for 120 to 130 g of protein a day I’m not going to be calorie counting or anything like that I just I personally don’t think that’s in my best interest yeah no eating out and then no alcohol either and then for my exercise I do have a dog so for my outside exercise I’m just going to keep that to walking her and then for my indoor exercise I think I’m going to do a mix of weight training Pilates and yoga I do know that I want to document this process because one it’ll hold me accountable and two if anyone’s going through the same thing or wants to kind of gain back control of their own Fitness and their health if watching me or seeing how I feel or tackle this process helps anyone then that’s great you know yeah I just thought I’d share my journey with everyone and this does feel vulnerable but that’s how you grow right that’s what I’m telling myself I think that’s about it so welcome to my journey of 75 hard hopefully good things come out of it it’s day one of 75 hard I am very very tired today I slept at like 4:00 in the morning I’m hoping that with the double session of exercising today and me just being like already a little sleep deprived starting off the bat that I’ll be able to get some restful sleep tonight yeah let’s go on our 45 minute walk it’s really humid outside and sticky we shall see how this goes first workout is done and I walked 2.67 miles it’s humid and gross outside so I look extra beat red I do get red very easily regardless it doesn’t even matter what the weather is if I walk outside and it’s like 20° I’m still going to be red and sweating um yeah so that’s annoying but I just embrace it and accept it at this point I don’t know how I’m going to get my water intake today and I think moving forward I’m going to have to put like a deadline on when I should finish x amount of water buy I’m feeling kind of brain foggy but I’m hoping that clears up as well with some time [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I just finished lunch and honestly I’m pretty tired right now I don’t know if it’s just cuz of my period but I mean it probably is why I tend to be pretty tired like the first 3 days but I don’t know I have some work that I need to do and I’m going to go ahead and do that but yeah energy feeling low I’m a little crampy right now le I got a nice walk in this morning so I’m pretty happy about that and and I think I’m on track to reach my protein goals so I’m not too worried I’ll go grocery shopping probably tomorrow after work I think that’ll be a better idea so I’m going to do [Music] that I’ve been doing work for the last 4 hours and I’m hungry so I made myself a little parfait I’m definitely feeling um kind of brain fogged right now I’m really tired I think that has more to do with me not sleeping well last night than the routine so far but going to eat this and then lock in again good morning it’s Day 2 for um 75 hard pretty tired this morning I think I forgot to Vlog um more information on my day one I did successfully finish it the ended the day with 126 G of protein and I was able to reach my water goal um definitely starting my water earlier today so I won’t have to chug like that yeah so that turned out okay I am on my period today so it’s just kind of starting out the week a little bit rough I’m hoping week two if the challenge goes a little bit better since I’ll be at a more optimal base I guess but for now so what we’re dealing with this week and I’m just going to keep pushing through so here what it is and right now I’m going to get a walk in before I I have work and then after work I’m going to get some groceries at Trader Joe’s just so I can make some high protein meals all right our sunscreen’s on and very bloated today we’re going to deal with it so I just finished my 45 minute walk I got some packages on the way back and now I’m going to make some breakfast I think I want Savory oats so I’m going to do that I’m feeling good right now I do think I’m going to make an Americano real quick just get some extra energy in for the rest of the day so far so good [Music] going on my walk right now kind of overcast I’m going to go to Trader JS after this and just finally get some groceries that I’ve been waiting in all week but don’t like autograph just walk game that’s how I know I just have let my fitness goes so bad but I’ll check in with you after [Music] [Music] [Music] it’s 8:30 I just finished my pilates at home it’s looking a little disheveled here I’m about to eat dinner um I think I have one more 30 oz of water to drink 10 pages to read and then I think that’s it for for day three yeah that should be it sorry I was going through my mental checklist so far it’s been good I think I should start stretching cuz my hip flexors are feeling a bit tight not the best stretcher I just don’t enjoy stretching I get really bored but part of discipline I’ll probably feel a lot better next week so until then I’m just going to keep pushing through I just like don’t feel up for weight training at all this week so far so it’s been 45 minutes of Pilates and then like 45 50 minutes of walking that’s enough to kind of get me moving get my heart up and feel good but not so much that I’m like in discomfort especially cuz I get pretty pretty bad cramps past few days have been good so far but it is a long haul so going to edit my videos and then hopefully get some rest early today cuz I’m pretty tired so yeah I’m sorry if my energy has felt low these past few days it’s the reality sometime I woke up a little bit late this morning so I’m just going to brush my teeth real quick put on some sunscreen and then get walking before I run out of timee my face seems less bloated today though which is good probably a combination of less salt and more water I presume just finished my first workout we got 49 minutes for 2.45 miles it’s been so humid these last few days going to try working on the water a little bit earlier today so we don’t end up extremely water logged for the rest of the day [Music] okay [Music] [Music] it’s been kind of an emotionally taxing past few days I’ve been keeping up with my 75 hard fortunately I think the other day I was crying and I was just thinking a glass of wine would be really nice right now and then realized nope we’re not doing that and then I went for a run surprisingly and I felt good so I don’t know I mean maybe that’s a normal reaction for a lot of people whenever they’re feeling down or just going through some kind of emotional change but for me it’s not I’m a a little cocktail sounds nice to brighten my mood or things like that so I do think it’s an interesting shift of dynamic for me and that probably contributed to some of my weight gain I would say I mean it did contribute to some of my waking because trying to balance your emotions with alcohol not healthy compared to doing it with Fitness unless you’re doing it in excess and it becomes a disordered issue but I would say it felt good to be in a bad mood and not turn to wanting to drink to subside that and instead exercising I think that was a very good that was a pivotal moment for me and that’s not to say that I will always do that moving forward I’m sure there’s still going to be moments where I just you know I don’t want to run right now and I will have my glass of wine but right now I don’t know I feel like being in a horrible mood and then going on a run getting those endorphins and feeling good at least I felt like I was positively contributing to my situation at the end of the day and moving my body and getting closer to my goal body what could be bad about that you know yeah so that’s how I’ve just been feeling my workout in the past few days haven’t been in the best mood honestly been going through a lot emotionally and this has helped me a lot it’s been very peaceful and at least the one thing I can count to be consistent in my life is my exercise routine and that’s been really nice like I guess that’s one thing that I’m very proud of of myself of picking the option that’s always that’s historically always been harder for me whenever things are difficult so I’m very proud of myself for that and I’m very happy for that now I’m going to go do my outdoor exercise I took Dixie out this morning for our 45 minute walk and I usually do that before work anyways so now I’m going to have extra me time I’ve been getting into running recently granted I cannot do like a sub 18 minute mile right now comfortably AKA like speaking while running but I can run a mile so that’s good I thought that I would have a hard time like just like consistently running through the mile but I’ve been using the Nike run Club I think is what it’s called NRC and just doing the guided runs and that’s been really nice it’s not to say that I’m going to do a 5k or a 10K anything anytime soon maybe I will and I’ll switch my goals in the next few weeks but right now I kind of just want to be able to run and run like a longer duration just cuz running is something I’ve yet to find enjoyable I feel like other avenues of exercise I’ve eventually found like like oh yeah this is why people like it this is why I like it running no running has always been very miserable for me even when I’ve done like a slow paced run it just has never felt great and maybe that just means I wasn’t going slow enough I did a 20-minute run yesterday but I got it done and I actually felt really good I kind of want to keep it up I’m going to continue using the Nike run Club app for the foreseeable future I guess so I’ll kind of keep youall updated on how that goes for me I think today I’m going to do some legs and I’m going to do a treadmill run we’re on Day N of 75 hard water Still Remains the most difficult part and protein protein is like a down to the minute kind of thing like I have to really like pack on by the end of my last meal or throw in like a yogurt bowl or something to usually hit it so and I don’t know if you could tell but I have been significantly less bloated I feel like I am off my period now so that probably does help like especially since I tend to bloat in my midsection when I’m on my period but my face I feel like I’m starting to have more structure to my face right now when I’m usually just like a big moon but when I was skinnier I had a chin I swear a chin in like some more definition and I’m starting to see it again so that’s kind of nice I’m honestly looking forward for like the face transformation after 75 days like I think the body transformation will still be nice but I feel good when I work out I feel like I’ve been getting stronger I’ve been feeling a lot more more like flexible in general I think just moving my body again has been the biggest blessing and we’re eager for the the face gains I think that’s that’s where I’m the most excited so I was looking back on pictures from like high school and I know you shouldn’t compare your high school body but I started getting like my diagnosis of PCOS and all that came a little like once I started college on top of like my freshman 20 I would call it like right before I started college that was still like the lower end of my weight typically and my face just look different like I don’t know what else to say my nose look smaller my lips look bigger and I think it’s just because my face was smaller so every the features by comparison looked a little bit different and I just had like way less inflammation in my body it looked like I was just less bloated so we’ll see how things go you guys get to see the full transformation but yeah know I’m feeling good so far like look at that if you remember my day one last week and then like me now this is like pretty insanely different in terms of bloating like I was bloated and this is me I already ate today I have water in me so I count that as a win anyways let’s go work out I’m a Mindless [Music] yapper I’m having strawberries I did 32 G of peanut butter and then half a banana on a whole wheat muffin when I eat this I feel pretty good have a good workout and I used to be a girl that just kind of fasts during my morning workouts but I’ve been trying to eat more and make sure I reach my protein intake for the day 9:30 right now I did just finish my walk with Dixie so starting our first bottle right now I think as long as I’m a little more conscientious about my water intake for the day cheers it’s lunch time right now and I’m just cooking up some ground turkey I think I’m going to go ahead and just cook this up very simple like a little salt and pepper and then have it ready to be used so if I want to throw it into pasta a rice bowl whatever I can basically just do that because the 75 hard I’m not going to eat out but that also makes it so the days where like you know you didn’t want to cook and I you have to cook it’s just now a task I don’t want to do despite how much I love cooking it is a chore sometimes so it’s not always fun for me but it’s fun like 80% of the time I’d say I did not eat breakfast yet cuz I’ve been editing all morning but I am having this Muscle Milk it’s 40 g of protein and I just made an ice Americano it’s literally filed to the brim I also did hard boil some eggs easy breakfast for me I usually eat one or two just depending on how I feel one egg is like 8 g of protein so I’m going to add the seasonings now I’m going to do some garlic [Music] powder some onion powder some ground cumin cayenne pepper sh a lot smoked paprika then salt [Music] I’m popping in a little bit late with the Gap in between the days but I was editing my old content you just saw my day 24 body up dat so to speak I’m not going to go into details about like actual measurements and weight or anything like that I’ll probably do that in my next video once I hit the halfway mark for 75 hard honestly I’m feeling good the water’s gotten easier exercise has been consistent and I don’t know I just I’m in such a better head space now I have like finally accepted that I love my body through the process and I just never thought that that would happen for me as silly as that sounds I always wanted to reserve my happiness for once I hit some kind of result that I’m happy with but I think through this process and exercising more and being more active I’ve learned to really just love my body for what it can do and it’s nice that’s been a very pleasant thing for me to kind of come to acceptance and joy with I think that’s it for this video I just kind of wanted to pop in one last time and say thank you for everyone that commented on my last video it just makes my heart so warm Community is really important to me and it’s just it’s nice to know that there are people that can connect to these videos and whether that’s us motivating each other or holding each other accountable that’s just something that’s very important to me so thank you for watching it really does mean everything to me I just really want to create a safe space where we’re all comfortable just kind of sharing our stories and our experiences and growing together it makes being vulnerable a lot more comforting I think for years ever since I gained weight I just felt so uncomfortable in my own skin I guess the irony of just posting it online I don’t know it’s almost like exposure therapy for me but I’m also learning to love myself in the process and I just kind of want to show to you that we all have our own journey and it’s not lineer it’s not as pretty as a lot of people make it out to be but it’s real you have good days you have bad days right now I think I’m in a much better place just for starting this journey and I encourage you to do the same if you’re looking for some kind of change in your life or you feel stuck I think it’s important to challenge yourself and push yourself where you can and try not to go in it with like an All or Nothing mentality as you take each day even if you fail the challenge by breaking some kind of rule pick yourself back up try again improvements are always a result of compounded habits so as long as you’re just trying to improve yourself every day even if it’s just a little bit that’s still better than the alternative so I guess that’s my word of wisdom for the end of the day and for anyone who’s going on a similar journey I just want you to know that I’m so proud of you for taking those first steps in getting out of your comfort zone I I know this process can be very uncomfortable and honestly very exhausting mentally and physically but I’m so proud of you and I just want you to know that I’m here for you and we’re on this journey together so let’s keep pushing ourselves to be better every day but yeah I hope you guys have a good day take care and thank you for watching bye [Music]
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as a fellow pcos girlie i understand the struggle! cheering you on!!