Question 16. How do I Know What Diet Is Best For Me?

I absolutely love this question, Y'all if you notice in my disclaimer I tell you in every post that I am NOT an expert and this question will help u understand more why I say this.
All people are different and that's the beauty of the world.  With that being said when you feel like it's time to take the step into diet world first things first.. Talk to your doctor.. Make an appointment with your family doctor if you have one. It's very important to get some imput from a professional. If you don't have a doctor then I am going to suggest research,  research. Don't be afraid to read everything about what intereast you and read all reviews.  Read what people have said about it that have tried it just like this blog you're reading right now.
I haven't been lucky enough to have a family doctor over the last 6 years so I picked back up on a diet I did about 8 years ago that I know works. I did this as well as I added a treadmill to the house. I literally took my kitchen table out of the house and replaced it with a treadmill. 
Every day I have made it mandatory to walk no less than one mile. Now I have kept that up but I have been very slack in the food area.  I will post of that in another post for 2017..
Please just keep in mind that before you do anything at all please if it is possible, consult your doctor.

Question 15.. How Often Should I Work Out?

Working out was at first something I hated doing.. I hated it so bad.. However I also knew it was something that had to be done.. I started out honest to gosh with the minimum of just walking.  I walked three miles and I did it at least two times a week. Now I workout every day. Now to answer this question.  Ideally we should do some kind of exercise every day but that may not be possible for every one so I recommend you set yourself to a schedule that works best for you. Three days a week is where most people are comfortable.  If you have any kind of cardio equipment in your house then u have no excuse..  If you don't and you rely on going to a gym then this is when u work out a schedule that best fits you..
Please know that I am no expert I am simply sharing with you what has and is working for me...if you have any questions or comments about the blog please send them to divatammy93@gmail.com..

Question 8~ Will U Share Your Fritata Recipe.

I got an email asking me about another recipe.. My fritata recipe.. well it's funny because I honestly just threw this together as a trial and error just looking for things that were high in protein and healthy..
You can pretty much do this to suit your taste but this is the final recipe I came up with.
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 small red onions, diced
1 1/2 pounds sliced mixed mushrooms (about 8 cups)
2 pints grape tomatoes, halved
1 pound spinach leaves, torn into 1-inch pieces I used frozen and squeezed out all the water
3 1/2 cups egg whites
8 ounces creamy goat cheese
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup fresh basil, chopped
2 large green peppers diced
This recipe yields me enough to get 24 1 to 1.5 cup servings..
I am in no way an expert, I am simply sharing with you what is working and has worked for me..
If you have any questions or a success story u would like to share please shoot me an email
divatammy93@gmail.com
I look forward to hearing from you

Setbacks, Frustration. Don't Dare Give Up.

How many of us start things and then just stop?? How many new years resolutions have been just dropped. Forgotten. Trust me when I tell u I have been there. I have done it. 
I have stopped and started diets so many times I loose count. One thing u couldn't call me was follow through.. well, in the last 9 months or so I have gotten better at it . No not anywhere near where I want to be. But I am definitely getting better. I have made myself commit to a stricter diet and I have also made myself commit to a 2 mile walk and a 30 min circuit of exercises that I do daily... Please know that this in no way is or has been easy because I will be the first to stay in bed and think no.. I watched a pretty cool chick the other day though that said.  "If you have time to sit and think about how not to do it, You could have done it already ". So please y'all..Don't Dare stop. You got this... Get up and move.. anything is better than nothing.
I am in no way a professional and don't claim to be. Just sharing what has,worked and is working or isn't working for me and maybe touch someone somewhere...

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I Keep A Strict Schedule . 📆🗓

The biggest thing for me in the very beginning was timing myself of when you eat. I wasn't used to sitting down, stopping what I was doing to actually pay attention to my eating. I was a grab and go, some sort of junk snack and maybe actually eat a real meal for supper. That would be meal of some kind of fried, Southern casserole, drowned in butter fatty something. Well this is a whole new lifestyle change for me and now that I was set to a 1200 calorie a day diet, I had to plan meals, snacks, prep times and all of this. I was excited and couldn't wait to try. My OCD makes me a chart maker and a timer setter so that is exactly what I did. I have stated in a previous blog that if you are going to be a breakfast eater it needs to be within the first 3 hours of getting up in the morning. I chose a protein shake for breakfast and for lunch so that makes those two areas easy.
Check this out. Now I'm not saying that these are times you should use, these are just the ones that work best for me.
6am- breakfast shake
9am-high protein snack
12pm-lunch shake
3pm-afternoon high protein snack
6pm- high protein supper.
Now here is where I usually stopped. Ideally three hours later you're supposed to have one more snack that is high in protein. I'm usually early to bed so I don't eat that late. I've had people ask me what I use for snacks. Well that's a good question. I keep them higher in protein than carbs so I am always carrying something like beef jerkey, almonds, quest bar. Things of that nature. And I always have water with me.
I hope this is useful. Please feel free to leave comments on my blogs I love your feed back. I also appreciate the questions I have received so far. Please if you have something you want to know shoot me an email.
divatammy93@gmail.com. 

Question 5. When You Began Your Journey What Was a the Hardest Thing To Cut Back On

This next question is awesome because so many things came to mind. But the one thing I kept coming back to was my diet coke. I was a hard core diet coke drinker. Well to me I was anyway, considering that now I might have 1 a week if that... It was hard at first I won't lie. I had done some research on diet coke, it's ingredients and just all the caffeine.i had to take it slow to keep down the withdraw headaches. I had also been doing research on water intake and how much your body should have. Well I found that there are a couple of ideas on this. One being 8, 8 ounce glasses a day. The other is to drink half your body weight in water. Well, for whatever the reason at the time I was so disgusted with my weight that this would mean I would have to have 110 ounces of water in a day.. This literally was how I saw this. That number was huge just like me so I was gonna do it because it was going to help me get my other number down.. Now every day, I drink at least 150 ounces of water a day. I don't even put anything in it anymore. I use to have to add things like crystal lite packs to it because I wasn't a fan of just plane water. But the more I drank the more I just began to leave it plane. And just recently I began to notice I haven't drank quite as much cofee as I have in the past.. I am usually now just walking with a water bottle. And I have also noticed the change in my skin and that is also a good thing. It's just all around healthier for your body not to contain the chemicals of a diet drink and the caffeine in coffee..
Thank you guys again so much for your questions. If you would like so send a question you can do so to divatammy93@gmail.com.  Thank you all so much for your support.

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