Update time!

Woahh!! Its really been forever since I wrote on here. I didnt even realize that its been that long. School has just been occupying mine time and leaving barely any room for excitement. I have barely been reading blogs as well.

As an update: I currently have gained back about 12 pounds which does not make me happy. I stopped watched the amount of food that ive been eating. I used to keep track of every single calorie that I put into my mouth, but a few months ago ive stopped. I guess ive lost that sense of self control and have been letting my cravings take over. Its not good for my weight. I feel so bad about myself and hate the extra weight that ive put on.
This weekend im celebrating my 22nd birthday with my friends. My actual birthday was on March 4 but im only going to be celebrating this weekend. Im excited and have my perfect outfit planned.
After my party, im going to try to get back to eating less and healthier foods. I also need to stop going out to eat and going back to cooking my own stuff more.
So thats pretty much what has been going on these past few months. Theres lots of motivation going forward and hopefully I can achieve my goals. Also planning on updating this blog more and more.

Love ya guys! :)

What I've been eating lately....

Lately I've been so random in what I've been eating. I've been trying to eat a whole bunch of different things yet trying to stay within my calorie limits. I find that tracking my calories is what work for me and for my body so that's what I do. I've been trying to remain eating healthy and yet trying new delicious foods. 

Here are some pics of what I've been eating these past few weeks: 

I've been lovinggg panera. I find that their food isn't crazy high on calories and yet it tastes so good. This picture is thier garden vegetable soup with the Asian chicken salad and a multigrain roll on the side. This is my favorite salad that they make and I like always get it. The soups I change up depending on my mood. Usually I tend to like all thier soups and find them all tasty. 

I've turned back to eating flavored chobani yogurts. Last year I cut out most of the flavored ones and would eat the plain one a lot of the time. Recently I've been seeing all the new flavors come out and been wanting to try them. They do have a lot of sugar but they are still a better option than eating junk. I love eating them for breakfast and find them quick and easy. My life is usually on the go and these are a perfect fit for that. This particular flavor was the limited edition watermelon one. I really liked it but found it a bit too sweet. I probably would buy it again but haven't yet. I've been trying the oat ones lately and I like those a lot. Still need to try the pumpkin one :) 

Last week I went to Applebee's with my friends. I was really hungry and craving something very filling. I wasn't in the mood for a salad which is what I would usually get. I decided to try the veggie burger with the side of seasonal vegetables. I ended up taking off the bottom piece of bread because I try not too eat too much bread. I ended up really liking the veggie burger. It was delicious and filled me up for most of the day. The side vegetables were delicious too and I'm glad I made the decision to get this plate :)

This is a breakfast I had at school a few days ago. As I've said, my days are really busy and it's hard for my to find time in between my schedule to eat a lot. So this is another yogurt that I've tried. It's another limited edition flavor but it's by dannon a light and fit line. This is the caramel apple pie flavor and it was really good. I liked the pieces of apple that were in it. Yet it was another one that was overly sweet so I probably won't purchase this again. Still have another one in my fridge of this that I need to eat. Also since school started I've been back to drinking along of coffee. Since I'm not a morning person, I need something to wake me up and give me a kick. This starbucks drink was a plain tall coffee with sugar free hazelnut. It was super good and definatly woke me up for the rest of the day. Yay for coffee lol. 

But anyway these are just a few examples of what I've been eating. Hoping to get more on track with this blog because it really feels good to share my opinions. Byee guys ❤️

Update:)

Hey guyysss:) sorry for not posting in forever again. I kind of got very absorbed into summer and enjoying a break from school. I was also enjoying life and taking time to relax. I'm hopefully going to try to blog a lot more now. I want to make this blog more relatable and more focused on my daily life. I want this blog to be an outlet of my life. My college semester starts in a few days and I want to be able to blog to express myself and to just share. Also an update on my weight loss. I think I have gained about 4 or 5 pounds this summer. I went away on vacation for a week in the summer and didn't track what I ate at all. I basically ate ice cream and cookies everyday and just enjoyed myself. I was pretty strict with my diet all year so I decided to just let lose and enjoy the summer. It's ok because I'm starting got get back into eating healthy again. Hasn't been an easy journey  but I'm not stopping. I never want to go back to the weight I was before. I wasn't happy or anything. Now I'm not a hundred percent happy, but I'm a lot happier with my appearance than I was before. Here is a comparison picture of exactly a year ago to a week ago when I was at a party. 

There is about a 30 pound difference in these pictures and I think you can really tell the difference. Anyway I'm going to be sharing my life and hopefully this blog helps keep me on track and towards a better healthier version of me:) 

Talk to you later guys :) 

Love,olya 

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Updateee

I know I haven't written a blog in a few weeks but I've just been so busy with school and life in general. I have still been trying to eat pretty healthy for the most part and workout at least twice a week. This week I already worked out at home once on a free morning that I had. Then tomorrow I'm hopefully going to go to the gym and do a Zumba and then some treadmill and elliptical. Hopefully those plans don't get ruined. 

Today I've eaten pretty healthy. In the morning before class I had like 8 oz of water. Then after my first class I decided to have breakfast. Sorry I didn't take pictures but I had a Greek chobani fat free yogurt and then it added a trader joes trek mix which are in individual packets already and are 170 calories each. In the packet there is almonds, dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, and pecans. I love this mix because it's so filling and yet portion controlled. Nuts are so easy to overeat and are high in calories so the fact that it's portions controlled makes it a lot easier. Plus it's good to just grab and go.

Then I had another class and then I came home for lunch. So I had a breaded chicken breast stuffed with broccoli and mozzerella cheese. I used a skinnytastte recipe to make them a few days ago and they are so good. They are also very filling. So I had one of those with a yellow bell pepper sliced up on the side. I had that with some black coffee because I've been craving coffee all day. So yea that's pretty much what I've eaten so far today. For dinner ill probably have some steamed string beans with some other veggies. Hope you all have a great day 

Down 21 pounds and not stopping :) live life healthy :) 

What I ate Wednesday

ThHey guys 

So I've officially lost a total of 19 pounds since I've started in November of 2013. 

Here is what I've eaten so far today in my weight loss journey: 

Breakfast 

So today for breakfast I had plain 2 percent yogurt a small container of it, on top I put about 1/3 cup of trader joes multigrain o's cereal. Then on top I cut up a whole banana and a little slice of pineapple cut into smaller pieces.and on top I sprinkled some cinnamon. This turned out so good because both the banana and pineapple were super sweet goving the whole bowl such a yummy taste. This was super filling too. On the side I just had a cup of plain black coffee. 

For lunch I had this: 

This is some green bell pepper cut up.this is about 2/3 of the pepper. The the mix is sautéed brown rice with ground turkey, celery, carrot and cabbage. I had about a cup of the rice mix.it was super good and filling as well. On the side I just had plain water. 

Then as a snack for work I brought this with me : 

This is 2 celery hearts chopped up .6 baby carrot and the rest of the green bell pepper that I had for lunch. I figured this would be a nice healthy snack to bring with me. With me I also brought tazo zen green tea which has some lemongrass and spearmint in it. One of my favorite teas.

And for dinner ill probably have some mixed bean soup and an apple as a dessert after. 

So that is what I ateWednesday. Hope you guys enjoyed this :) 

What my day was like today

Today was a pretty good day. For breakfast I had oat bran pancakes that had egg, oat bran, reduced fat milk and a little bit of sugar. I ate them with plain Greek yogurt mixed with a little honey and cinnamon. Definatly was a really good breakfast and very filling.  I also had plain black coffee with that. 

I also worked out at the gym today. This was my progress: 

I did the elliptical for a little and the treadmill. Was a really good workout and I'm all worn out. 

After that for lunch I had stir fry with egg, kale,spinach,  red onion, beef cutlet chopped up and a few baby tomatoes.i had that all in a bowl with some hot sauce and it was really good 

And for dinner I'm just going to have an apple with some almond butter because I'm not that hungry. 

That's all for today:) 

Bye guys<3