Hi guys, it's Wengie here
Today I wanted to do another video all about my diet experience
Because you guys love these videos
And today I was actually browsing through some of my old photos on facebook
Because my friend was like I can never imagine you like, you're tiny
I could never imagine you any bigger than you are now
And also I swear I was bigger
So I went and looked through my old Facebook photos and I found this one
And I'll pop it up on the screen right now
And it just like super surprised me because I realized how far I have come
For those of you guys that are still, you know, going through your life-style changes
And if you're trying to lose weight
Just, basically don't worry because I think it's definitely a time thing
And it's really well known that habits take 60 to 90 days to kick
And if your habits take 90 days to kick then you got to wait at least 3 months
For you to see any kind of change that you want to see
I mean there are fad diets when you do do something extremely different for a short period of time
But I don't feel like that's the right way to go about losing weight. It doesn't last
If you want to change how you weight or how you look it needs to be sort of like a routine that you work in
And it's like a habit that you develop and it needs to change your old habits as well
And I just feel like fad diets don't do that
I feel like it's really important to share with you guys that weight gain it doesn't just happen to you
There might be a moment in time when you realise that it has happened
But it actually is a build-up of all your habits put together that led you to that moment
And you may not know what these habits are or you probably don't even realise you're doing it
But a lot of the time weight gain or even weight loss as well is just a result of a change in habits
So, I mean there's a lot of research that goes into looking at people habits and how to change them
But one thing that's in common with all of them is just time
You need to give it enough time for you to get used to it
You need sort of like self-control because that's a huge thing
I mean if you always, you know, don't control yourself you will find that you will never stick to any habit
It's that 90 days is so painful because it's like kicking in old habit and old habits die hard
So if you don't change it permanently you actually revert back quite quickly
And looking at my like eating habits now they have changed dramatically
So I'm going to pop another photo up for you right now. This is what I look like at the time
And these where my eating habits at the time
I had supper every night at twelve o'clock
For supper I would actually dip potato chips in avocado and that would be my supper a lot of the time
And that would be sort of like my dessert after supper
I would also have maybe like a pasta or maybe like frozen dinner or something like that
And then I finished off with chips
So that would be my habit, like I would do that almost every single day without fail
In addition, I started drinking soft drinks which I never drank for a long time
And I cut soft drinks out for a very long time but I started drinking soft drinks
'Cause my boyfriend at the time, who I lived with
And that's like going to be a huge influence on what kind of habits you develop
He loved soft drinks, so I started buying them from the supermarket
And when they're there in the fridge you just drink them because it's easy
And when you eat chips, I mean, nothing goes better with chips than some soft drink, right?
So then, I did that
And then, on top of that I ate out a lot 'cause I used to go dancing a lot
And I used to go really late and then you wouldn't have time to cook
So we'd all be out and we all have like a social dinner out after class or something
So I always ate out and because when you eat out the portions are big and you don't want to waste the food
And yeah, because you've just eaten sort of three quarters of it and there's like a quarter left
You don't want to take it home so you kind of just finish it 'cause you don't want to waste food
So that's another habit I did. I ate out like three or four times a week with friends after dance
So it was pretty much those two or three habits, it wasn't a lot of habits
But they...oh another habit I had was, my boyfriend at the time ate a lot, I started cooking more food
So, I would never cook that much for myself but because there was a hungry boy eating I cooked more food
And I didn't want to waste it and it wasn't enough to kind of portion out for a second meal
So I just put the whole portion in my plate in my plate and his plate and I kind of would portion it similar
Because you know, at the time I just thought why don't I eat almost the same amount as him?
Why not like I just cooked a double portion?
'Cause in my head times 2 is easier than 1 and a half and me eating half and him eating one, that makes sense
But yeah, so I had bigger meals as well
Those four habits, like it wasn't a lot, it was only those four habits over a period of time of like a year
Had a huge dramatic effect on how much weight I put on
And yeah, I had a lot of extra weight and now that I think about it I still vaguely remember it but I don't actually
When I sat down my belly would hang over my pants
I would do a lot more slimming photoshoping on my photos for my blog
And there were just a lot of factors that led to me going like OMG and having that 'aha moment'
So yeah, I just wanted to share that with you guys because I think it's really important
For you guys to be realistic about how long it takes for you to lose weight and to change your habits
And that's the most important thing
I do not recommend any sort of fad diets
Detoxes are fine, but don't rely on them for weight loss. If you want to detox yourself, that's fine
But you can't really expect a long time change when you just detox for a month
And then go back to your old eating habits
And I also don't condone starving yourself because you can actually eat a lot of healthy food
And still lose weight as long as you choose the right food
So that's like super important
And don't think that the only way to lose weight is actually to not eat
Because that's incredibly wrong and incredibly harmful for your body
And I can't really emphasise that enough
I actually developed this book which is like my 7 day eating plan
And you guys have always asked what I eat on a daily basis
And what you guys should eat on a daily basis if you want to lose weight
Like what you should cook and everything
So I put together this ebook and it has 7 days worth of meals for you guys
It's very easy to cook with very easy ingredients
And it's kind of like a fusion between western food and Japanese, Korean and Chinese food
So it's a fusion of those kind of styles of food
And the great thing about this ebook is that $1 of it goes to charity
So at the end of the year I'll donate $1 from each book to charity which would be awesome
And I think a lot of you guys would benefit from this
So if you're interested, I've got the link down below. You can find it on my blog as well
There's quite of few girls doing it and you know
I'm really excited to see the feedback 'cause I love seeing people kind of log their journeys
If you guy get this book and decide to follow it, please log your journey for me and please give me feedback
'Cause I really want to improve it and help you guys stick to a sort of diet plan
That's healthy, that means you get all your nutrients and that you also lose weight and get to your goal as well
That is my ultimate aim for this book
And I'm happy to change it and adapt it and improve it according to your feedback
So I'd really love to hear from you guys
I'm going to be posting like a few like healthy recipes as well on my channel
'Cause you guys have been asking for cooking videos for so long and I haven't got around to filming one of them
But I'm definitely going to film a few for you guys and put them on my channel as well
So please stay tuned for that
I hope you guys enjoy this video
I just thought I'd do a video for you guys
That, you know, just motivate you guys on your healthy life style change journey
It's very, very hard. It's not easy, the times where I sat there and I would crave chips
I still crave chips and Maccas, like to this day. I just don't eat it as often
Whereas before I would kind of buckle to my cravings like every day or every other day
Now I only do it like once a month or when I feel like I've eaten really well for the day I would reward myself
And that's okay, as long as you keep track of
Like how many calories on what you're eating and whether you're doing well
That's changed a lot for me and you'll find that once you start eating healthy you won't crave junk food as much
It's kind of like a downward spiral, once you start eating junk food you just keep craving it and craving it
And it's just like a bad, bad...it's like a stone rolling downhill
I'm really bad with my example today, I'm really sorry
But yeah, anyway, that's off on a tangent; I was going to end this video
Yeah, I wanted to create this video to encourage you guys
So leave your comments below and let me know if you guys are on this healthy eating journey
How you're going, any tips to motivate other people
Because I think it's good as a community to share with everyone and help everyone in the comment section
So, do that!
I can't wait to see you guys in my next video!
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I think her name was Amy
For today I'm going to start up with this Widriff top, this cute pair of denim shorts, these white platforms sneakers
And I'm going to show how to turn this basic outfit into three different looks
Just by adding different pieces on top
So let's get started