Find your more (late) Introduction

I am Miranda.  I’m a 20 year old college student living it up in a beautiful Northern Vermont Hippie College.  I have a boyfriend, two wonderful personal dogs plus my parents two love bug dogs, a cat, and my boyfriends menagerie as well.  (I really like animals) I’ve recently become more interested in fitness, healthy food, and Witchcraft…a bit odd but it’s me currently. 

I am an art student who is in love with sketching and photography.  

I am joining the find your more challenge/project because I feel that I lost the weight (xx pounds of it)  but I didn’t really lean how to eat healthy or how to feel ok with myself, mostly because I did it though cutting my calories to xxxx which allowed me to eat cruddy and still lose weight though I was hungry a lot.  

I have recently ditched the calorie counting and started to eat to satisfy both my hunger and my taste buds again.  Which has led to maintaining my weight. Since doing that I’ve found that my workouts are easier to get through and more fun than they were before! I think the find your more challenge will help keep me interested in living a healthy life free of obsessive calorie counting or weighing.  

I’m Ready.

Beautiful! <3

Find Your More

Find your more - Introduction

Hi guys. I was scrolling through my dash today and the Find Your More “challenge” came up. After reading about it I realized that its principles are pretty spot on with what I have been trying to do this past month. So I decided to join in.

So, hello again. My name is Hannah and I’m 17. I am kind of a nerd and am currently in my senior year of college. I homeschooled the last few couple years of high school and I’m currently taking courses through the online branch of my university. When I attended “real” school, I was fairly active. I played varsity volleyball and basketball and I enjoyed them immensely. I never changed my diet though so even with rigorous exercise my body never got where I wished it would be.

Fast forward a little bit, and at the end of the school year I found out I was pregnant. It pretty much shattered everything I knew about the world and my plans and dreams all seemed to go down the drain. I was told to leave the school (hence homeschooling) and I pretty much lost all my friends and everything that was normal and comforting to me.

Moving forward a few months, post partum (post baby) recovery was pretty easy and I returned to my old size immediately (props to basketball for keeping me fit when, unbeknownst to me, I was pregnant).

Its been two years since all of that..but these past two years I have struggled so much with myself. I wasn’t overweight or underweight, but I was still so incredibly unhappy with my body and with myself in general. My self confidence has always been low but I had been hitting lower than before. I think a lot of it was just out of loneliness. (No one really knows how to talk to the teen mom it seems. I’m a regular person, I swear lol.) On Facebook a friend of mine posted a challenge at the beginning of August for a work out program that focused heavily on clean eating and portion control with a 30 minute work out. It seemed easy enough, and I joined.

I have tried to get fit before but life got in the way. I work jobs at odd hours and I have a munchkin and college. But something in me snapped. I needed health to work this time. There are a lot of things I can be sad about and a lot of things I miss out on, but my body is my responsibility and I can, in fact, change it. And I succeeded with the program. I lost four pounds and a couple inches off my waist (note: I don’t need to lose very much so I wasn’t expecting massive results).

And let me tell you: I. Feel. Great. I feel empowered, confident, strong, and beautiful. I don’t know if I have ever been able to think that about myself. I truly feel like I can do or be anything as long as I practice. Being fit isn’t for the “naturally athletic” or “fitness obsessed” anymore. I began thinking why NOT me? Why not now? I’m working on solidifying this healthy lifestyle and fitness is a growing passion of mine now.

I started this blog to keep me and others motivated and to track my progress. It’s helping me find “more” out of life. I’m discovering I don’t need to cower behind insecurities and that failing doesn’t mean you’re a failure. I’m a recovering perfectionist with a beautiful son and a growing passion for life. I want to continue to find my “more”.

Lovely intro and beautiful pic! <3

Find your more

I’m jumping into this. Forgive me if I don’t post an intro, but I’m just not into that. I do want to make a daily conscious effort to better myself mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Please feel free to participate in any way you like, of course. :) Thanks for the post!

FIND YOUR MORE WEEK 1: Introduction

My name is Danni and I live in rural Shropshire. Half of the time I live with my parents, brother and a wonderful rescue dog called Eddie, the other half of my time spent at my boyfriends house with his parents, his brother and a little menagerie including chickens, ducks, miniature ponies and loads of wild birds that frequent the garden which I love to photograph. They too have an adorable dog called Ellie.

I love simple pleasures, the feeling of sleeping in late, wearing wellies, watching TV marathons with my boyfriend, trying a variety of different teas; my favourites being different flavours of black tea (vanilla all the way) and looking out of the window studying the simple movements in nature, birds fluttering about their day, leaves swaying in the breeze, watching spiders (within a good distance) making their webs and catching prey.

If you hadn’t noticed, I love wildlife and hope to become a wildlife conservationist one day. Currently I study Natural Sciences at the Open University and alongside this when I can I volunteer at my local wildlife trust. Other activities I am into are walks in the countryside, yoga and I am a teeny tiny bit obsessed with clean eating. I’ve been trying to follow a paleo lifestyle and I am currently taking part in the whole30 challenge to help wean myself of sugar and promote healthier eating habits in general. I am also trying to be more environmentally friendly in all aspects of life, especially with my food and the sourcing and materials of products that I buy. 

My dislikes include early mornings ( I am a night owl and love to watch the stars), spiders in my personal space, reality TV, to be honest I’m not too fond of children xD I can’t think of many more dislikes….but seeing as this is a positive challenge there’s no need to try and unearth them anyway :)

I think this challenge could be really important to me, too often do I put myself down about not being able to manage much during any workouts I do, or put myself on a guilt trip for eating a piece of cake which I “should not have eaten and now I’m going to get fat”. It is such a negative attitude to have and one I hate, and one that needs to change. 

Hopefully during this challenge I’ll be able to promote new daily healthy habits into my life as well as develop a more positive attitude to myself, and there will be cake, and I will not feel guilty about it! (After the whole30 of course!)

Thank you for the lovely intro and such a beautiful pic! 

Find Your More - Introduction

I’m Lina (and that is my dog Macs, and I’m using this picture because I just really like it). I was a little iffy about participating in this project - mainly because I’m not really good at the whole being healthy thing - but I figured this was a nice incentive to be healthier without having to deal with any calorie counting/weight tracking/etc features.

Anyways, I’m a pretty unhealthy person who’s trying to put more effort into taking care of myself. I’m currently taking a gap year (and I picked two really awesome places to work - a music studio right beside a salad place and an organic food store) and I’m trying to focus on developing healthy habits. I’m doing my best to eat something every three hours (preferably healthy, although at this point I’m still just trying to eat something every three hours), and right now I’m trying to do yoga as often as possible.

I have pizza every Friday and I’ve been craving juice a lot this week and I’m not quite sure why. The other day I tried quince juice and it was really weird. I order half of the available toppings at that salad place because it’s worth the extra 2 dollars. I have a weakness for olives. I’m not really sure what else to say, so yeah. Thanks!

Great intro! I love that you decided to participate. Do so in any way that you like. :) I created this challenge especially with that hesitance in mind - not wanting to deal with calories and weights and stuff. Health is an emotional and mental thing too, and physical health doesn’t need to be about weight either. And I love your pic too. Welcome! <3

Find Your More: Week 1 Intro

(Take 2 not sure where the first is)

I’m a 24 year old female who is ready to find my more, again. Years ago I was a varsity athlete. I managed to maintain my strength, flexibility, healthy eating habits, and my unstoppable confidence through my first two years of college. Moving 2000 miles east back to my small rural hometown after being a western city girl for 17 years was my undoing. This area is socially and economically depressed and it lacks the opportunities, recreation, shopping (health food/organic), and general vibes I’m used to. I did not adjust well and I slowly sank into a deep depression. Over the last year I read numerous invaluable titles, began meditating, and sought help from a counselor in order to refresh my mind and spirit. My next step is to bring my body back into alignment with my True Self. I don’t hate my body for the sheer fact that is larger than it once was. In fact I don’t really hate my body at all. I hate that I can no longer move comfortably in my own skin. My movements are labored, I have lost nearly all of my flexibility, I get stiff and sore easily. Plain and simple I am out of shape because I neglected myself, as a whole, for too long. I am dealing with the consequences. I AM READY TO FIND MY MORE!

I have a wonderful boyfriend who loves me and my body as I am. We have a gorgeous pitbull furbaby that I love to pieces. My passion is helping others. My dream is to complete my training to become a Naturopathic Nutrition and Wellness Counselor, to relocate to the Pacific Northwest, settle down with the love of my life, and bring our first child into the world.

Thank you thedragonflywarrior for providing this awesome challenge!

I love your approach! :)