Look of the day - showing off the legs!

Since I'm beginning to loose some noticeable weight I have started to experiment with some more revieling pieces.
I'ts awesome to gain confidence!!!

So in season with the pumpkin haha!:-P

The plum colored sweater has a zipper on the right shoulder wich I think gives it a cooler look.
My hat I absolutely adore! I wear it almost daily:-)

Don't you just love thigh high socks?

 You can't really tell from the pictures (damn flash!) but the shorts have the American flag logo on them on the left thigh.
The right side is stone washed demin.
You know...when I first got these shorts I could barely fit into them! Now I don't even have to hold my breath to button them:-)

What do you guys think of my new (thrifted) bag; boho or buhu?:-)

I have to go and do my workout now so I can start my day (it's almost noon and I'm still in my bathrope!....I love vacation:-P).
Hope you'll toon in tomorrow where I will be posting a brand new video:-)
Have a great day!
Hugz
Maja

3rd week of INSANITY finished...and survived!

I did it! I've completed week 3:-) HURRA
I feel so much stronger and energized than before INSANITY it's amazing!

I mark off every day that passes:-)

I keep taking pictures every two weeks of my progress but I'll first post them all when I'm finished with the 60 days program:-)
Hopefully you're gonna see a dramatic change!

In order to reward my self I got this awesome parfume!

I thing it's important to reward your self when you're doing a good job:-)


We're having some friends over for pumking soup today (we carved our first halloween pumpkin yesterday) so I'd better get going.

Hope you guys have a great sunday!
Bugs
Maja

I can't wait to make more heads!

Our pumpkin head

What is INSANITY 60 days challenge?

...As some of you guys know I've started the INSANITY 60 days challenge programme last week and I'm now currently in the middle of week 2:-)

Before I start explaining how awesome this workout is I've found a little documentary that I would like you to watch:-)

Facts:

• During the 60 days programme you exercise 6 days a week.

• The workouts are between 30-55 minutes a day.

• You already feel stronger and more fit after the first week

Now as for me the first week was pure agony! I had to start eating carbs again in order to do the workouts but since my body wasn't used to eating carbs I litterary blew up like a balloon!

Now I'm in week 2 and I'm finally beginning to loose ll that acces water in my body:-)
I feel stronger (I can do push up's now) and leaner already!

As for cravings - I haven't had any!
I'm fully commited to this programme and the only way I can complete it is by eating things that are good for me and my body.
INSANITY forces you to think of food as fuel - which is a very good thing, especially if you (like me) have a tendency of overeating.

If you have any questions regarding this programme just comment/mail me and I'll get back to you asap:-)

I'm all done with my workout for the day so now there's only rest and  relaxation left! ^^

Hugs
Maja

My weight loss journey with LCHF and INSANITY ^^

It's been very crazy over here in "Maja-land" ao I really haven't had the time and energy to make a video in time - so sorry!:-/

I'm at day 3 now in my 60 days INSANITY challenge and I'm really in a lot of pain due to all those crazy things we're doing in these dvd's!

In order to keep up I've had to increase my carb intage to approx 30% of my daily intake so that sucks a bit because my body isn't all thrilled about it. but I just hope this is gonna transform my body as all the other participants in the video:-)

Anyway, here's som,e links for you if you want to look in to the INSANITY workout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTEDDmCjd1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmKQEVJdh5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_y2piHkS0

Hugs
Maja

Insanity

I'm taking on a new challenge...the 60 days insanity excercise programme!

My hubby just got it for him self but when I saw some of the results that people have with this programme I just knew I had to do it with him!

Basically Insanity is a 6 days a week programme where you do crazy hard cardio and muscle toning rutines. You can try and google insanity or simply watch some of the awesome videos on YoTube if you want to know a bit more about it:-)

We start TODAY so you'll be hearing a bit more about it as I (hopefully) progress and I'll probably talk about it in my weekly weight loss videos every sunday/monday either here or on my YouTube channel:-) 

Allright I'm off! Have a great Sunday and see you all tomorrow!
Hugs
Maja

My weight loss journey with LCHF week 5

Since I've been sick all last week I don't really have that much to update on this week.
...I ate soup, drank a lot of tea with honey, saw a bunch of bad quality soap ope's and leaked with mucus while praying for a mercyful death....

I'm up and running again though! And this week I'm gonna try to eat as much high protein foods as possible and see if this can help speed the weight loss up a bit.....kinda nice to have your own little guineapig in the LCHF department isn't it? ^^

Well....I'm off to do my 100000 squats and lunges now!:-)
Have a super duper absolutely fabulous day!

What I eat during 1 week on LCHF:)

Okay so this blog post is ment as an inspo for you guys:-)
Maby you're on LCHF and need some ideas for dinner or you're in search of a diet where you're never hungry and just want to see what it's all about.

I've been taking pictures of my meals every day for 7 days form monday to sunday to show you what I eat while loosing weight;-)

MONDAY:
In the morning I enjoyed a can of tuna with creme fraiche, salt, pepper and a bit of lemon.

For dinner we took a picnic basket to a nice park and had a lovely squashta with homemade pesto and bacon - yummy!!

TUESDAY:
Morning - Scrambled eggs from 2 eggs with onion and a smoked sausage - soooo good!

Dinner - Creemy mushroom sauce with small pieces of chicken breast with italian baked aubergine/tomato/garlic and fresh parsley from our own herb garden:-)

WEDNESDAY:
Morning -A can of mackerel in tomato sauce, to linseed coockies and an egg

Dinner - Oopsie pepperoni pizza (who said fastfood is all bad?:-P)

THURSDAY
Morning - a can of tuna with 2 tbs creme fraiche 18 %

Dinner - Chicken curry with spicy coliflower rice

FRIDAY
Morning - 2 oopsies with some slices of yellow, hard cheese

Dinner - squashta (pasta from a squash) with homemade beef/tomato sauce I love Italian food^^

SATURDAY
Morning - Scrabled eggs with onion and bacon

Dinner - well...we went out with some friends so we didn't really have time to cook...so dinner cosisted of some linseed bisquites with homemade tuna salad and spring onions.

SUNDAY 
Morning - A can of tuna with 2 tbs creme fraiche 18 % (I like my proteins in the morning:-P)

Dinner - went out on a mushroom hunt in a nearby forrest and decided to make a lovely mushroom stew with lean wok beef and fresh onions...yummy!

So there you go! A very realistic 1 week meal scedule on LCHF:-)
Some of the recipes you can find here on my blog but if you would like to know how to make one of the dishes that I haven't posted yet just comment below:-)

Have a great day and see you tomorrow!

My weight loss journey with LCHF week 4

Hey guys!
First of all sorry for the delay of this video:-S I just didn't have the time to make it in time and I really strive to make these updates on the same day as I post them so the updates are fresh and 100% honest:-)

The "dividing my food into several meals a day" apporach backfired tremendously so no weight loss this week:-/
Next weeks approach: high protein level and back to two large meals a day.
Fingers crossed that something will finally start to happen as I'm feeling a bit down over the effort I'm putting into loosing weight when nothing seems to happen.

Hope you guys have a great week!
Big hugs
Maja

Why is yoga so hard?!!??

I'm writing this while my body aches like it's been run over by a train or something!
*sigh*...so I wanted to try this yoga thing that everyone is talking so fondly about....BIGGEST mistake ever!

While everyone talks about how it "relaxes" your body and "helps" you get in "ballace" I did not have that experience at all!
Most of the poses we did I just kept thinking that "my body just broke" and often I seriously didn't know how on earth I would get out of the poses again- without calling the ambulance that is!:-/
...So after the most fear strucking yoga lesson ever my body seriously just felt like crying...

I guess that my body just isn't made for all those wierd poses. My arms are too short and my torso too long and my legs just not flexible ennough:S The only peace I felt during this "relaxing" hour was when it all ended and I could literary crawl out to shower the pain away:-P
So yeah...no yoga for me thank you!

Note: This is not a relaxing pose...no matter how pretty de damn sunrise is and how freakin smooth the background music plays!

What about you guys, do you have any experience with yoga?

My weight loss journey with LCHF week 3

Time for another video!
300 grams down this week - that's quite okay:-)

Next week I'm gonna try something new:
Instead of eating only two large meals a day I'm gonna try to divide my daily food amount into 3-4 smaller meals a day to see if this will increase my weight loss:-)

Have a great week and see you next sunday!
Hugs
Maja

Eating Mongolian bbq the LCHF way:-)

We'we been so good the last couple of weeks with our diets and now exercise that we decided to go out:-)
Our favorite restaurant is a mongolian bbq buffet where you can eat as much as you want and there are a lot of different choises:-)

Since we didn't want to compromise our diets we just ate 90% beef with garlic, soya and chilli and then some onions, leaks and mushrooms - it was sooooo good! And the amazing thing is that I'm not soore in my muscles as I was before - the proteins in the meet must have helped! 

Exercise wise I'm currently working on body toning with elastic bands.
I train 2x weekly 30minutes for the upper body including arms and
2x weekly 30 minutes for the legs and booty;-)

 

Tomorrow we're going out to swim - it's been a while since last time so I'm a bit excited about how I'm gonna look in my bikini:-/...oh well, it's not gonna get better unless I just go and do it!

Btw. I lost 300g since last tuesday so yay me!:-D

Okay guys...this a bit of a messy post:-/
Oh well...have a great day!
Hugs
Maja

My weightloss journey with LCHF ep. 2

First of all I'm so sorry for my lack of preparation!
I weigh 76,2 kg - that's 167.5 lb!

Since may where I weighed 77,1kg/170lb I have lost 900g or 2 lb

Have a great week and good luck to all of you who are on a weight loss journey as well:-)
See you in my next update on sunday!
Hugs
Maja

Squash'ta with italian meat sauce

I LOOOOOOOVEEEEE Italian food! :-D
Sadly on this diet pasta is a forbidden fruit so I needed to find a substitute in order to enjoy my favourite italian sauces and dishes:-)
And the winner was.....squash!

You'll need:
1 big squash
500g beef
1 can of tomato paste
1 onion
3 chopped garlic tooths
olive oil for frying
home made basil pesto
paprika spice, salt and pepper

What to do:
 1. Fry the beef and onion in a pan.
2.  Put the tomato paste in the pan aswell.
3. Carv the squash into long spaghetti looking strips. (I use a peeling knife with good results)
4. Put the squash in a bowl and mix with the basil pesto and garlic.
5. Blend the pasta into the sauce in the pan let simmer for another 10-15 minutes. 

...And your'e done! Hope you enjoy!
Hugs Maja

Delicious 2 step chocolate cake - LCHF style!

Mmmm!.....This cake is soo yummy!
Even though there is no flour in it you can't really tell. It just taste and feels like a real cake:-)
It's super easy to make and it has only 122 calories per serving;-)
I serve this for my non LCHF guests with big sucsses!
......Now that's what I call a low carb delight!;-)

Recipe:
2 eggs
1 teespoon baking powder
100 ml cream
100ml oil
1 vanilla pod
2 tabelspoons of soft butter
4 table spoons of stevia/sukrin
2 large tablespoons of almond flour or coconut flour.
A couple of crushed nuts as topping

How to:
1. Blend everything together in a bowl. And place it in a litlle form. Sprinkle the crushed nuts on top.

 












2. Bake for about 35 minutes at 175 celcius or 347 fahrenheit.

HINT:
You can also add some grated organic orange peel  either as topping or directly into the dough.

Hope you enjoy!

My weightloss journey with LCHF - 1.st update

Hope you have a great week!
Enjoy!

My weightloss journey with LCHF - intro

This will be my first weekly video that I'm going to post every sunday entirely dedicated to weightloss and LCHF.

If you would like to know more about this diet please click on the "LCHF" sidebar to your left :-)

Have a great day and good luck to you if you are on a weightloss journey as well!

FAQ video announcemet

I think it could be a lot of fun to make a video where I can anwser some of your qestions.
I've seen a lot of people do it on youtube and I really like that kind of videos because they give you an  opportunity to get to know the person a bit better:-)

Therefor if you have any questions you'd like to ask me please take a minute so write me and I'll try to awser them in my video for you:-)

 You can ask me anything from wigs to weight loss!

I'm gonna set the date to August 1st  so please send in your questions before this date:-)
Looking forward to your questions!
xx
Maja

Introducing the LCHF diet (lov carb high fat)

Some of you have been asking me about my current diet program so I thought I would link you some very informative videoes and websites that you guys can ckeck out:-)

I got pretty tired of the damn diet shakes - as predicted so I was in desperate need of something new.

I've only been on the LCHF since monday but I'm starting to feel some effect already!

Basically LCHF diet is build around the fact that our digestive system hasn't really evolved since the stoneage...therefor we shouldn't stuff our selves with carbs and grain since there was non of that in our diets back then.

I approximately eat 60%fat/25%protein/15%carb during the day.

The ground rule is that you only eat vegetables that grow obove the earth (so no popatoes or carrots).

I will be making a video explaing to you guys how it works and what my experienceses are with it.

Meanwhile please take a closer look at these videos:

http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf (the official website for LCHF in english)

I'm BACK!!!!!:-D

Oh how I missed this! hehe....So happy to finally have the time to make my little videos and writing on my blog:-)

Hope that all of you lovely subscribers/followers/readers are doing okay and that you will all forgive me for taking such a long break from youtube and blogspot.

Anyways now I'm back and I made a little video explaining where the hell I've been all this time and what you lovely people can be expecting from me in the future:-)

As always enjoy!

Hugs

Maja

See you on endomondo.com?

As you guys know I'm training to be able to run a 1ok this summer and a friend of mine told me about this site where  you can share your results, see your stats, make routes and even take it with you on your smartphone and use it as your trainer via gps.....it's brilliant!

   

It has a lot of fun features and it's free:-)

You can add people you know as friends and follow or even challenge them if you like:-)

My name on endomondo.com is Maja Misz Pedersen and if you guys want to follow my progress or better yet challenge me just add me as a friend in there ^^