Hello everybody,
this is my first blog post ever and I am really excited! On this blog I will talk about clean eating and my daily workouts. To introduce myself: I am 23 years old law student form germany and love fitness, triathlon and healthy eating. As sidejob I am working as fitness insturctur in a few gyms. I teach spinning classes and hot iron classes (like bodybump). Besides I love to lift heavy weights on the machines and with free weights. Another passion of mine is triathlon. Therefore running, swiming and biking are steady part of my TP. To refuel my body after hard training sessions and to get my muscles grow I follow the clean eating concept. I love to cook and bake clean meals. It is just fun to create and invent healthy alternatives to all my favorite foods which are not so healthy.
Just some more informations about myself:
My whole life I was a really sporty girl. I played handball and tennis in school. I was never really fat and had all the time athletic figure but however when i was 15 my picutre of my body changed. I felt uncomfortable in my body. Looking in the mirrow I felt fat and didn' t like my body. I started to eat less and lost weight rapidly. At the end I weight 40 kg and was 166cm tall. I quite all the sport activities ND was scary skinny/boney. At some point I realized I had an eating disorder.
To fight against this problem I started to eat again really healthy and as I reached a weight of 45kg I regsiter at the local gym. My fitness journey started once and I was daily in the gym. I spent almost 2 hours everyday on the eliptical machine or the stepper. I was really lean and toned.
But somehow 1 year later when I was 18 years old I felt in love with man and my life changed. I started to eat unhealthy food and lived the normal life of a young girl with party, fast food and all that stuff. I gained weight and worked out less. On some days I even start with binge eating because I felt so uncomfortable in my body.
But at the same time a started my qualification for my fitness trainer. So it is just a fact that working out cannot balance a bad diet. And a another fact is that cardio is not the right why to lose lasting weight.
I separated form that man.
And just one year later I felt in love again with my current boyfriend who is a pro triathlete and trains over 35 hours per week in high trainings phases. I started to train for a triathlon. Lots of cardio was on my TP and only 2hours of strength training per week.
So the last years I did a lot of cardio and I thought that I ate pretty healthy. )Except of the binge eating days I had one in a while). But I didn't lose weight. I had a weight of 62-64kg interrupted by some starving phases where I reached 57-56kg and gained it all back again.
That is way I started some research about nutrition and effective workouts. I found the clean eating concept which I stick to 90% of my diet and which keeps my away from binge eating, because I feel satisfied with my nutrition. Anyway I have to admit that there are still some days I want to binge and somedays I cannot fight against it. But trough my diet change it is much less than in the past. My clean alternatives to bad food keep me away form sweets and candys.
My workouts also changed. I do a lot more lifting and strength training and less cardio which is more effective.
On this blog i will write about my fitness journey and goals. One goal for 2013 is to get more definition in my abb area, to eat even more cleaner and to try new healthy recipes and products and to documentate this on my blog.
I hope I can inspire other people to take the step in to a healthy and balanced life. I'm looking forward to get feedback and tips from you. If you have questions and ideas feel free to ask me.
So we going to rock 2013!!!!
