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Since I last blogged, I have generally been pretty good with my intake of food. Recently, my friends and I also started to snapchat each other of all our meals, snacks, and indulgments to help motivate each other. The idea of not dieting alone and kind of making this a team effort, help make healthy eating more enjoyable instead of being a sacrificing task hahah. But there have been a couple of days when I had some drinks and ate not so healthy according to my diet plan. I think realistically, I'll be having close to 4 cheat days in a span of 20 days. That's 80% healthy eating hmm.. "Going up on a Tueday," and feeling like a rebel.. lol 👵👵👵 A photo posted by D e a d l i f t s🍩D o n u t s (@rawrdianasaur) on May 17, 2016 at 6:39pm PDT Oh well, for each cheat day/meal, I've had great conversations and memories making every day worthwhile & meaningful <3 You have to give permission to yourself to be nice to yourself. Then you continue along...

You know how sometimes you have a goal-dream-ambition & then you let go of it for a while and forget about it? But then like an intuition the drive comes back full force to you when your soul, mind, and body  are ready for it again.. Past couple of days I've been wanting to blog again. Nothing different has changes or occurred in my days (which I am thankful for because I am very satisfied & happy with the course and pace it is going at currently). I think I want to challenge myself creatively  a little bit and do a little passion project for myself. Maybe it's the spring forward daylight saving time change & my body somehow knows the days will be longer to get more shit done! hooray Maybe it's because I've been listening to podcasts on my commutes, and it has opened up my mind to other areas of growth again and Maybe it's because spring is here now and summer is upon us again soon. Which means, summer bodies right? and this is a fitness-lifestyl...

#sweatwithLA The night before, I estimated that commute would take 40-45 mins, locating parking and walking to the meetup would take 15 mins. What I didn't account for was me snoozing the alarm and oversleeping for almost an hour. Luckily my timeline previously was to be at Grand Park by 8am; the workouts would start promptly at 8:45 am. I pick up my friend, and of course it takes us more than 10 mins to actually find parking. Then we speed-walk to the original location of the meetup, but there's another event happening, so we speed-walk to another area of the park. We made it right when they were finishing up the yoga warmup. This was my first BBG meetup and also the first time doing the workouts in a group/workout buddy setting. Although my friend and I whined occasionally: "omgg my abs are on fire; wehh; what, still 2 more mins??" It was a great experience to see so many other girls working out and pushing themselves - that truly motivated me to work hard...

Sunday, Jan 17 Ended up cultivating mass|bulking from all the eating adventures - Not even mad 😏😏. BUT, how to not lose the boobies & booty when leaning down 😟?? #cardio#nikela#vans#iifym#bulking#operationbuildabooty#asiangirl#bbg#diet#eatforabs#kaylasarmy#fitfam#gymapparel#fitness#fitspiration#fitspo#girlsthatlift#girlswholift#healthy#selfie#instafit#kaylaitsines#liftheavy#shelifts#workout#abs#squat#stairmaster#belfie#foodie A photo posted by D e a d l i f t s🍩D o n u t s (@rawrdianasaur) on Jan 15, 2016 at 9:09am PST ok, confession : I ate so tremendously much during the past month. December is my birthday month! and also, winter is the season for bulking.. right? (I totally gained some fat in my glutes & chest area however! along with the belly, of course) Honestly, I really don't know how my appetite grew so much and my stomach was actually able to house almost all the things I saw with my hungry eyes. Pretty much, your girl ate very well, and my ...

Yes Yes, I am a bit late for the hello 2016 party. I've been relatively MIA from social media the past 2 weeks because I tried to stay in the present and embrace every moment spent with my manfriend & friends! While with him, I've hardly had any time to peruse through social media; I've realized how much time I have spent just browsing through instagram, fb, etc - but it's because I had so much independent time for myself. Now that I'm back from the 2 week vacation of visiting my manfriend, I want to continue not being so compulsively addicted to social media - skimming through the feeds a bit more than I'd like to admit. It was quite liberating not being on social media as often. I think I'd like to spend more time reading, listening to podcasts, and generally being better with time-management & efficiency. We'll see though! It's a work in progress and I still want to continue blogging & documenting my progress and adventures :) ...

Hot cheetos. More specifically lime hot cheetos.. Don't even offer to share a bag with me, I will hog the bag and eat the majority of it and you will low-key be annoyed with me (I'm sorryyy, I will buy you a bag ^_^).  Whenever I have a bag of hot cheetos in my hands, in my mind I'm thinking, "oooh you better stop now, or else you'll feel it tomorrow. Ok, just three more chips to satisfy my mouth.. wait, I lied ok a handful. hmm, the bag is almost done I should save it for tomorrow. Nah, a few pieces would just be teasing me tomorrow, just finish it." No self restraint at all . The best form of preventing this is to not even LOOK at the bag. Don't even acknowledge it. Needless to say, I munched on hot cheetos with glorious satisfaction, on my bed. The next day, the scale told me I gained two-three pounds. Hey, I'm sure it's mostly water weight but I also did have an awesome legs day the day before! *excuses* It's crazy how I wor...

As a kid I was always afraid of hurting myself or getting stuck in a position that I wouldn't be able to get out of (ie: putting leg behind head and not being able to return leg back to normal). I'd go on monkey bars and traverse across it, but I'd never go upside down on it. And at the pullup bars on the playground, I'd just hang on it and pretend to be a monkey, but I never attempted to do twirls on it.. haha I wonder why I had this fear, while I watched my childhood friends spin around? Ok anyways, I guess I gave that little intro to state that I have never conquered a handstand (unless you count handstands in a swimming pool.. but I think that's cheating). So I want to make handstands one of my goals this year. I have tried to be inverted and honestly, I think the head rush was just too intense and I had a headache for the longest time. I think I don't have the best circulation and maybe with gravity added to that, the oxygen and blood that could've ...

Haha this morning I decided to flex a little in front of the mirror just for fun. Hey.. seems like the pullups, chin ups and dips are working (still doing assisted ones) I kind of convinced myself that since I gain weight quickly, like when I look at a picture of a glazed donut I gain 5 lbs, I must also be able to lose weight and gain muscles well too. Definitely optimistic thinking and I have no idea if it's true or reasonable. However, I haven't been able to workout in a week and half since I was ill, therefore this process is so random to me. Nevertheless, it planted a seed of more motivation and glee at the proof of process. And I need that. The past couple of weeks, I have been sick with a sore throat, congested nose, slight fever, and muffled-ears. It was frustrating because I felt like speaking was difficult and hearing was impaired, my senses were all so muddled. My eyes were hot from fever and my head was dull with congestion and I had a seemingly-dense head...

I think I have a pretty amazing data collection of food inspirations if I say so myself o:). OOh may I add a healthy  collection. One that I think could be so delicious, nutritious, appealing, and still not be calorically dense. However the con about that is that I forget what I have accumulated over time. I want to try to knock some off (at least one a week) my virtual to-do list. So I'm kind of having a sweet tooth yet I am too lazy to attempt the other ones that I have: I shall try to recreate a Raw banana split, so maybe watch out for that in a future post. I'm not sure the source of this picture but if it is yours and you'd like it removed please let me know. thank you. But here's how I might try to accomplish my version - soak chia seeds overnight in milk, cut a banana, and slice fruits, sprinkle granola & nuts, and if I had chocolate protein powder I'd mix that with milk or water and kind of use it like chocolate syrup. I also want to work on...

to improve myself and enjoy myself Basically I want this time to set a lifestyle that I can continue to follow even when I'm the busiest I can be later. It takes two weeks to form a habit or break one :) Ways I'd like to improve myself: Definitely try to go gym everyday to lift weights and do HIIT cycling or reading a book while cycling? hahaI want to really establish a habit to be better at my time management and efficiency with my life and the gym. I've actually finally worked out one week straight, I haven't done that in a long minute.. read self-improvement books Relearn Korean again. Actually I feel like I should relearn Spanish too.. dang it, I thought I lived in America. (at the hospital I was at, 95% were Spanish speakers. This kind of handicaps me because of the language barrier) Volunteer  do yoga with mom blog more consistently Enjoyment : spend time with friends and family. Reconnect with friends because everyone is busy and I'm also n...

I guess I shall address my goal of trying to grow a booty for my 100th post! My hips are quite narrow and although I believe my butt is perky, it just doesn't have a lot of mass to it. Therefore my body is kind of straight and actually closer to being an inverted triangle because I am also blessed with being slightly top-heavy... o:) Furthermore, I used to swim as a child and was on the swim team in high school so needless to say, my shoulders used to be very broad. I never thought I could naturally make a drastic change to my butt (like how people can't enlarge their chests without plastic surgery?..). I mean I knew you can make your butt perkier and have a nicer shape, but did not realize that you can make it buffer and in turn become bigger. So now I understand, squats can help you grow your booty and pushups can make your boobs perkier and also make them a little bigger. GOOD NEWS RIGHT? This picture best shows you that there are three muscles that compose our butt...

I think knowing that I'm going to gorge at a meal gives me one of the best incentives to push myself extremely hard during a workout. Hence today, I knew I must PUSH HARD before I go to ayce sushi 0:) Today's workout: Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance and I added two 5 lb dumbbells in the mix (I held them while doing jumping jacks and whenever possible during the movie). Definitely makes your heart beat faster and works out your arms! This is my current "before" picture. I'm going to try to make the "after" picture drastically obvious? hopefully! I keep yo-yoing in my progress; gaining water weight, gaining fat, shedding fat, gaining muscles. It's so skewed :( My month of August goal is to prioritize my time better, not procrastinate, and workout at least 5-6 days out of the week, and in turn keep this going on for the rest of my life. I'm going to start being extremely busy in about two weeks, but that should not rob me of at least...

What motivates you to go workout? The past month of May was not a very successful one for me in regards to health and fitness >< (I basically pigged out a lot, and then seeing myself 'let go' and just not having the strength and will power to push myself to workout) and I am feeling the retribution of my gorging and inactiveness 0:) I will probably show a picture of the effects later after I work on my "after picture." Too embarrassed right now heh So I pledge myself to workout everyday this month, because I'm going to be a boss: butt, ass, glutes, workout, gym, exercise, cardio, weights, toned, june, goals, motivation, lose weight, fitness, fit,  Sunday, June 2 BUTT & LEGS Front lunge on bosu with dumbbells 3x12 each leg Bulgarian split squat 3x8 each leg dumbbell hip abduction 3x20 each leg hip thrusters with weights 3x20 donkey kicks 3x15 each leg fire hydrants 3x10 and then I cycled for an hour while reading magazines.... my mac...

That I updated most of the days with the workouts I did everyday.. I guess not! But 2.5 weeks of constant working out did my body good, except I totally, unjustifiably, gluttonously fed it with ice cream, beers, fast food, and sushi buffet this past week... I am going to be a hermit and just do me right now! I am selfish like that and absolutely love my own time to complete my personal goals, work by my own schedule, and read/watch/question my mind. Going back to that grow-a-booty and show-the-shy-abs routine. This picture was from last Thursday and I'm happy to say the squats are progressing =) Eating out basically everyday from the 17th to 23rd has really affected my body for the bad :P so the goal for the rest of May is to eat at home and to eat clean :)! Good thing I am no longer going to EDC and do not have to worry about having a 'raver' 'Plur' 'Edm' body which every girl apparently already has ready.. Gotta get that summer bikini bod though! ...