BODY AFTER BABY SERIES: WEEK 2

Just want to show you guys what I'm having for breakfast this morning. So I'm starting out with two protein pancakes. We've got some oats, half a cup of oats in there. And then these are amazing. Really, really good for you. 20 grams of protein in a serving and this is a serving. So great way to start Friday morning. So I want to share with you guys this morning what I take every single morning with my breakfast. These are the three supplements I take. So I start with my It's Vital Core Nutrition. This is basically all the vitamins that you need in your day. And something that sets this one apart than any other vitamins really that I've ever taken is it actually has time-release technology in it. So you're getting a little bit of vitamins throughout the day. So you don't have like this crash of like, oh, I don't have any energy. These are awesome. And these also I've noticed really help curb my appetite. You want to be taking three of these every day and you will notice a difference right away in your pee. It might be bright green or bright yellow. So don't be alarmed if that happens. The second one is NuYou. So I take one of these in the morning and then I take two of them at night. What this is going to do is it simulates the release of your human growth hormone, which basically runs your entire body. So you're going to feel all over just a lot better. You're going to recover faster. You're going to have way more endurance when you're at the gym. It helps with memory, with focus. It helps brain quality. And the reason I love taking them at night is because it helps your sleep quality so much better. So you're going to notice a huge difference with how deep of a sleep you get into. I like to take it 30 minutes to an hour before I go to bed, the two at night. And it really just helps me unwind and really fall into a good deep sleep. And then our probiotic is the third one I take in the morning. This is support for your digestive health. You should be taking a probiotic. If you're not taking one, this is something you need to start doing right away, but I really love our probiotic. It actually has prebiotic in them as well, which basically feeds the good bacteria that probiotics are. We are on our way to the gym. Yeah, getting it. We're going to go get some. I'm going to do legs today. So we're going to run through a whole workout. I think for these videos, I'm just going to stick with like showing you guys one full workout instead of like little parts of like a bunch of workouts. So that way like we'll do a full leg one and I'll put it in this video and then next time we'll do a full like upper body, whatever. I want to share with you guys one of my tips that helps me stay on track when I'm out and about which is like 24-7. So I always make sure that I don't leave the house without some type of snack because I get hungry and you never know when you might start starving. You never know when you're about to start craving bad food. So I always grab, of course, a protein bar, the yummiest kind of all the Power Crunch peanut butter one, an apple and a little sack of nuts. These nuts right here. Got them. All right. I'm going to show you guys what I'm having for lunch today. Got about six ounces of chicken, some rice, a cup of rice and got some strawberries. We're at the grocery store here getting some stuff for dinner because we're out of a lot of stuff. So here's what we got. We're going to have some ground turkey. That is definitely not for me. Yuck. Barf. Some potatoes. Are those avocados? Yep. Asparagus, chicken, and tuna. And what are those? These are 100% beef patties. Actually, no, I like those sometimes too. I'm going to do like lettuce wrap. We just need to get a head of lettuce also, by the way. Oh, yeah. You know what I did last time? Last time you sent me to the store for a head of lettuce, I bought cabbage and it was disgusting. She couldn't tell. It looks the same. It actually does look very similar. Yeah, it doesn't. Like I was telling you, I'm like, why does it look like this? Well, Simon and Cole wanted pizza for lunch. So we went down and grabbed a Little Caesars and Ashley opened it up because I was like, hey, open it up. Let's cool it off for them, you know, so they can eat it right when we get home. And she looks down at it and it's like the best looking Little Caesars pizza I've ever seen. The best. You know how like when you just open them and you're like, man, finally I got a good one because typically it's a $5 pizza. They don't look too hot. This one looks so good and I look at her and she goes, wow, that looks so good. And I'm like, yeah, and I'm thinking, okay, maybe we'll each get like a slice, you know, she goes, well, not today and shuts it. This is like, okay. Can I just tell you guys? This is not the Ashley that I know. The Ashley I know would have snatched at least two pizzas before we got home. And seriously, like I have not seen her cheat since she started this and it's like, she's holding me accountable. Like my nieces and my nieces came with me to the grocery store and I was going to buy some like treats for myself. And Ashley, they were like, you're on a diet. Aren't you? I'm like, well, no, Ashley is, but I like felt guilty eating bad too. So apparently I'm on a diet now too, but I am very impressed. Like seriously, I don't know what happened or what she did, but she needs to share whatever happened to make her do this with you guys. This is the pizza. I am now. And you tell me, cause I love cheese. Look at that. Like, it's like, it's like all cheese and I love, yeah. When it's a little bit like crispy on the outside. These are crispy. Oh my goodness. I can eat that entire pizza and I wouldn't feel bad. But since you won't eat it. And if you guys could smell it, this is straight up torture. We are getting some dinner cooking and I just want to show you guys what we're going to have to be having tonight. I am going to be boiling some hard boiled. Eggs probably this whole carton so that I have them to go, but I'm also going to have, I think two tonight in my meal. All right. And then we also got some ground Turkey cooking zucchini. There's a dozen eggs asparagus goes next and then yes, we'll be cooking asparagus. So I'm so excited for this meal. Yummy. You guys, this is so good. Don't laugh at me. Don't you laugh at me? We got some potatoes, some hard boiled eggs. We got some, a few zucchini back here, asparagus and ground Turkey. Hey guys. So I just wanted to close out week twos body after baby vlog and just kind of share some of my struggles and then some of the positive things that I have noticed coming into week two of clean eating and working out baby number four. So I would say struggle wise. So this week was my twins birthday. They happen to have, um, they kind of have like two separate parties. So it was like back to back cake and ice cream, pizza, um, candy. I mean everything at once. And I have gone a full week without cheating at all. So it was pretty hard to say no. Um, you know, I was, I remember the first birthday party. I was kind of like getting like uptight. Like I feel like I'm missing out. I feel like I'm not having fun, but I really just kept my eye on the bigger goal here and I've never been able to do that before, but I feel like this time, um, I'm coming into this with a whole different mentality. Um, I will share one of the books that I would say helps me a lot. I read this when I was pregnant with Ezra, um, the compound effect. I've read it a few times and I have it downloaded on audio, but that book really helps me understand the importance of every choice. And so when I'm saying no to that one, you know, slice of cake, it's actually, I'm doing way more than just saying no to it right then. Um, because I know what happens when I, when I give in and I say yes. Um, it's like this whole, everything that I worked hard on, I just let it all go. I can't, I'm one of those people that just have to go a hundred percent or not at all. And so, you know, when I make those choices of I'm going to say no to that cake, it's, it impacts my life in such a bigger way than just that temporary moment. And I know that that temporary satisfaction is just that it's temporary and I'll regret it. And I'm going to feel like crap. And I haven't had sugar in like 15 days now. And I've never had this much energy in my lifetime. I don't know when I felt this good and you guys in five weeks postpartum right now. And normally I feel like complete crap, especially right after having a baby. Um, after Milo, I really didn't care about losing weight. I was already, I remember starting my pregnancy with him. Um, already like 15 pounds from what I was before overweight. And so got pregnant after that. And I really just didn't care. I didn't care to lose the weight. And so I didn't. So getting pregnant with Ezra, I had like 20 extra pounds on top of me and I'm just ready to see it go. And I just have way bigger goals. I really want to see what's, um, what I can do, what I can accomplish if I just stick with it. So this week I have not really lost that much weight. Surprisingly, like looking at what my body has done this week, I thought for sure I probably lost like five pounds. No, I think I've lost, um, one, if that one pound, but my body looks completely different and I measure each week and I measured yesterday and I am actually down four and a half inches from the week before overall everywhere. I lost a full inch on my waist. I lost an inch and a quarter on my hips. I lost a half an inch around my thighs. You guys, that's crazy. The scale can totally fool you. Do not weigh yourself every day. I had to stop doing that. I know I'm just going to weigh myself once a week and I bought a scale that shows the body percent fat. That's really what I want to be measuring anyway, but it is, it's difficult. It's hard to lose body fat. So it takes a while. You're not going to notice something like every week, you know, it probably won't be going down at all, but that's why I'm doing everything. I'm taking pictures. I'm measuring, I'm weighing myself and I'm checking my body percent fat. So all of that, I'm seeing results somewhere. And so it's just motivating me and encouraging me to keep going. So two tips that I have for you is one, make sure you always leave the house with a healthy snack because that has been my biggest, like downfall in the past. Anytime I started like a diet or I started eating good, um, and I really don't want to call this a diet because I'm not, it's just clean eating and I'm just being smart and, um, you know, kind of my macros, I'm just being smart about my food. I'm not on a specific diet. I haven't cut out carbs or anything like that, but I want to do something that I can stick to this forever. And then when I want to have a snack here and there, I can, or I want to have a cheat meal. I can, and it's not going to mess up my body, but leaving the house with something. And I showed you guys that in the vlog today, that is a really big tip and do it. Don't just say you're going to do it and like, don't, because then you're going to end up somewhere hungry. And then you know what happens when you're hungry, you end up buying the whole store of crap. The other tip I have for you is to pray. I have been praying like 50 times a day because you guys losing weight and sticking to clean eating is all mental. It's all in your head. You know, I can go to the gym for, I don't care how long I'll be there for hours a day if I needed to, but this sticking to the eating clean and not cheating when no one's watching that is all super mental and all in your head. And so, so you need to be headstrong. And honestly, I feel like the only way that's helped for me is to pray. So that's what I've been doing. Um, the other tip I'm going to throw this one in here too, is anytime I start to like lose focus or start to get discouraged, I watch YouTube videos. That's why I make YouTube videos because those are what encouraged me and inspire me the most personally. So, um, you know, I'll watch some fitness person that I love to follow. I'll watch some of the things they eat and I get ideas that way, or I watch them in their workouts, but I love following other YouTubers. I watch at least one every single day, regardless if I'm feeling defeated or not, but really I feel like my head has been in such a different place this time that I really have had like a great time doing this. I haven't been upset really, or struggled too bad. Um, honestly, because I haven't given in, that's how I know that I'm, I'm definitely doing things better this time. And I really would give credit to that compound effect book. So if you haven't read it yet, I bought it for my business, which it's helped me a lot with that, but it's helped me with like every aspect of my life. So definitely recommend that. And I just want to share a few of my thoughts in this vlog, but thank you guys so much for watching and following along. I'm so excited to see what the next 10 weeks have in store for me. Make sure that you are subscribed. Just click the subscribe button below if you want to follow along. And if you click the bell, you'll be notified anytime that I upload a video, I should be uploading at least one a week. Um, I'm going to try to do maybe two and just give other tips in there as well. But again, thank you guys so much for following along. And we'll see you next week.