Amanda Kinney - My Big War With Fat

 Those of you who follow my blog know that I have been fighting with my weight for many years, pretty much since I was a child until late 2017 when I finally started to win. I have summarized all the most important findings in this blog post , if you have not read it already, I strongly suggest that you do. I have always said that I'm not "on diet", my goal never was to lose x pounds and say hooray I won. no I always knew that need permanent lifestyle change and I think now, more than 4 yours since my initial success I can say it works. As you know, I have lost 50 pounds and I was quite happy about my weight. During those 4 years I have few times gained some back, but it was never more than 10 pounds. Well, I never really reached what I considered my ideal weight and that would be -80 pounds of my weight before I started all this. I was happy with 50 pounds I lost, extremely happy, but it was not where I (and doctors) think my ideal weight should be. It was like there was...

 Merry Christmas everyone! I know so many people who does not like Christmas, but for some reason I started to really this time of year few years back. I do not know, maybe it is because I do not stress so much about my body and all the food? Anyway I hope you are having good time and that you also like Christmas time as much as I do. Today I have for you this awesome simple recipe for low fat low carb Christmas cookies. Ingredients ½ cup  water 2 tsp  ground cinnamon 2 tsp  ground ginger 2 tsp  ground cloves 2 oz.  butter 1¼ cups  (5 oz.)  almond flour ¾ cup  (5½ oz.)  erythritol ½ cup  (1 2 ⁄ 3  oz.)   coconut flour 1 tbsp  ground psyllium husk powder 1 tsp   baking soda 1   egg white Instructions Mix the water and spices in a really small saucepan. Bring it to boil. Remove from heat and add the butter. Stir it until it is melted. The cinnamon will make the consistency a bit slimy. Mix all of the dry ingre...

 We live in difficult time which makes it even harder for us who want to stay healthy and maintain healthy weight - many gyms are closed as well as many swimming pools and other places important for staying in shape and it is suggested or sometimes even demanded to stay at home. I have to admit that it negatively impacted my efforts to staying in shape as well and I have gained few pounds, but luckily not that much and since staying healthy and maintaining healthy weight is more about what you eat than how much you actually move I would suggest all of you to simply focus more on your diet and calorie intake. There are also thousands of videos with indoor body weight training on youtube and I'm sure if you will search for some time you will find something what will be ideal for you. So I would like to tell you guys, stay strong, keep fighting and soon this will be behind us.

Hello all, another short update after really long time. I'm writing this because I have been receiving many messages on various social media about my effort and how are things now. Well, I'm happy to say that everything is good. Since last update that I have made many moths ago (almost year actually) I have managed to lose another 5 pounds and I'm maintaining my weight. I cannot say I'm 100% happy with my weight now, I still think I could lose few more pounds, but when I see how much I have lost over last 1 and half year, I'm like 98% happy with my weight. Yes I still use Phen, but only half of the amount I used to take when I was in the hardest part of my transition to healthier lifestyle. This lifestyle change was the best decision of my life and I'm pretty sure now that I will be able to keep it for the rest of my life. It just my new normal state, its not "diet" anymore, its just me and who I am. 

Company Naked Labs introduced their intelligent mirror Naked. This mirror uses 3D scan technology to scan your body shape in detail in 360° so you can see how your body is changing over time. I must say that I absolutely love this idea, I think it something perfect for boosting your motivation to work even harder. So, how does it work? This Naked mirror measures your weight, body fat and muscle but also the shape of your body. It consist of three parts: 1. mobile app for your phone 2. personal scale 3. intelligent mirror woth 3D scenner You turn on measuring in the app, step on scale and in 15 seconds the scale will slowly turn you in 360° so the camera in mirror than scan you and create 360° model of your body and the scale will also create record of your weight, amount of fat and muscles in your body. You can also get your hipline, bustline, wastline how big your arms are etc..more info than you even want. Only limitations are your weight, which cannot be higher than 330 poun...

We all know that caffeine is usually added in fat burning products, but what we usually do not know is if it works just as stimulant or it can really burn fat directly. It is quite complex issue, but the truth is that caffeine has synergy effect in thermogenic fat burners where it helps to move fatty acids to get faster to working muscles. Well, there are other effects of caffeine that suggest that it is in fact also direct fat burner on its own. There already several studies that suggest it, because in the tests, groups of people who took caffeine instead of placebo before training had much higher level of adrenaline and much more fatty acids in their blood. That means that caffeine works as fut burner in ways we did not know before and there are other studies that suggests that caffeine also helps in sport and that is something we all who are in war with fat really need so if you like coffee do not stop drinking it if you want to lose fat, just please do not drink it with sugar, th...

I really enjoy this summer in "new" body and I really think the biggest reason I have been able to lose more than 70 pounds (yes I have lost another 7 pounds since last update :) is how differently i eat these days. It is truth I eat less, but only a little. More importantly, I eat differently. Very differently. As you already know, I eat much less carbs than I used to and eat much more protein and vegetables. Today I would like to share with you perfect example of such food and my favorite summer salad. Shopsky salat 4 big or 8 smaller tomatoes 1 large cucumber, unpeeled and chopped 4 green or red peppers, roasted or raw, chopped 1 large yellow onion or two smaller black pepper  1/2 cup Bulgarian sirene cheese(Balkan cheese) or feta cheese, crumbled Cut everything into small pieces and in large bowl mix it with sunflower or olive oil. Usually you do not need to add much salt, because there is plenty of it in the balkan cheese.    I'm sure you gonna ...

I guess I'm not only here who can say that I used to hate summer. People who struggle with their weight are usually not fans of hot weather. I don't really remember that I would have ever been looking forward to hitting beach or anything like that. It was always more stress than fun for me, because I used to hate my body so much back then. I'm really happy that this has changed. If you read my blog (which I really neglect I know..) you know, that I have made some big changes in my life and I finally moved in the right direction with my weight and for the first time in my life I have been able to maintain it. So, for the first time in my life, this summer is different. I know I'm no supermodel now, but for the first time in my adult life, I just feel good at beach and not just that, simple everyday life, things like sweating etc.. this all is much better when I do not carry around those 60 pounds more I used to (yep I have lost another 10 pounds since last update :)...

So its about 16 days since wrote last post here and I'm really happy. I have not been running much lately, but I really got used to healthier food. In fact I do not even even feel like it is something what I have to force myself to do. It's almost six months since I started with this and it just feels really natural and normal now. You know that I do not have scale at home and I have not had any opportunity to check my weight lately, but I feel like I have even lost few more pounds even I have not been running much lately. It is great feeling which I just wanted to share with you guy and let you all know that everything is possible and that quality food is the core of all weight problems.

I have finally forced myself to wrap up my findings after almost six months of my war with fat and write it all in single post. First of all I would like to tell you that there is no magic trick, no work for all plan or pill. Everyone is different and everyone has to find they own way how to get fit. This is not my first try, I have tried to lose weight and to get to better shape. I have tried many times before, methods that worked for other people that just have not worked for me. That does not mean those methods were bad, it just mean that everyone is different and everyone needs something different. so even if this does not work for you, do not give up. I strongly believe that anyone can lose weight, you just need to find method that works for you. These are the things that helped me the most: 1. Keeping in mind what my goal really is. Do you think its just losing weight? Wrong. You could lose 30 or even 40 pounds in a month, but that would be no victory. It would...

Here is little update on my effort. It is already several months since I started and i have to say it goes better than expected. I have read huge amount of text all over internet and picked something from all of them. I have also found one really amazing product that I think helps me a lot in my effort. First of all, I will not tell you how much pounds I already lost, because I do not know that. Why? Its because I do not have scale. I used to have one of course, but I threw it away. I'm not interested any more in some short time weight loss. What I'm interested in, is lifelong transformation and for that I do not need scale. I do take pictures though to see how I looked before and I must say I'm very happy with the results so far. If you want to see those picture than I'm sorry, I'm not going to post them here, but I see huge improvement. I will soon make longer post where I will go into details about what helped me the most.

This is only short post about food you really need to have in your diet of you want to transform your body. I guess everyone knows that if you want to stay healthy and fit, you need to eat lot of vegetables. That is absolutely true, but what many people does not know is that you should eat lot of proteins also. Why protein? You need to eat plenty of protein because your muscles need it and if you do not want to be overweight than you need as much muslcles as you can get. Muscles needs plenty of energy and fat is a way how human body storage energy. Go and find list of high protein foods, here are some of my favorites: Fish - most of people does not eat fish and that is very stupid, because fish is just amazing food. It is great source of protein and omega acids. Especially tuna and salmon. Eggs - eggs are superfood, I suggest to eat them every day, its great breakfast food. Meat - many people think that they should not eat meat if they want to to lose weight. huge mistake of cou...

I don't like the word diet, because I do not think any diet that really make you lose weight permanently and that is of course goal of us all. We do not want to lose weight for few weeks or even months, we want to make permanent change that will last t othe end of our lives. If this is something you want to achieve, than I strongly believe that you need to start with your change from the inside. When you are different person inside, it will over time make permanent changes of your body as well. There are very often some deep psychological issues that are the real reason why we do not live healthy and why we are overweight. You need to make change in your life because you love yourself and want something better for yourself, not because you hate yourself. When you achieve this, than actually process of weight loss is the easy part. Merry X-mass everyone and do not forget about your goals. Good luck in next year, we are gonna make it!

Everyone feels stressed sometimes and if you are trying to change your life and lose few pounds than you know it is sometimes extremely stressful. Well, you need to know that stress can be very dangerous and it can damage your fight with weight heavily. Find something that works for you agains stress (except food of course :). When we feel stressed out, it becomes much more difficult for our bodies to burn fat. Find something to relieve stress such as boxing, yoga, thai-chi, writing, reading, hot bath or any sport you like. I would strongly suggest some kind of sport, because it will not only make you feel relaxed, but will of course also burn some calories. Basically anything that will help you relieve pent-up tension and energy is very important. When you are relaxed, you will be happy and losing weight will be much easier.

Today i had first big crisis. For whole day I felt like I do not have any energy and I also craved something to eat that is sweet and fatty. This day so far was really the hardest in my ongoing war with fat, but I can proudly write here that I won the battle. Not only that I did not eat anything bad, but I have also went out and run for solid hour, so I'm really proud about myself. I start think that this whole thing is really about strong will and nothing else. If you have the will, you will achieve your goals. All eventual mistakes you will overcome, so they are not that important, if you have the will, you gonna make it.

I have been walking almost every day for past few days and I have to admit that I really like it. It is simply not that hard for me to persuade myself to go out and move than it was before and I think everyone who tried running or any other workout knows that this part is really the most difficult one. Well, I have been wlaking for several days now so now its time to start running. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

I wanted to start running again for really long time, but i have to admit that I have been really lazy. I hate running! I have read some some articles on the web about running when you are overweight and i have found some very interesting. It is actually better to start walking for certain time before running. It works like this: few times a week you go walking for one hour and you are slowly increasing the pace. After some time you will be walking so fast that it becomes easier for you to start running. I'm gonna try this and I will let you know how it is working for me.

Hello, so its two days after I started my big war with fat and I feel actually very good. I have decided not to do anything drastic as I usually did in my previous attempts, so I have just started with few minor changes. First, I have completely stopped drinking any sweet drinks like sodas, milkshakes and similar stuff. I have also stopped drinking all those zer calories sweet drinks, because I have info that shocked me. Did you know, that these "zero" drinks can actually make you fat? They really do not have almost any calories, but when your body that is used to sugar senses that sweet taste, it expects to receive those calories and when it does not get, it craves sugar and it will make you feel extreme desire to anything what is sweet - that is something what most of us is not able to resist and eats or drinks something with ton of sugar. Big thanks to everyone who is in this with me and i hope you will achieve your goals also, the war just started!

I really hate being fat.  I have been fat since I was kid and I'm really done with that. Its not one thing that persuade me to make this decision, it is more like series of little things that together are just too much for me. Like everyone who has problems with weight, even I have tried many times before, but this time I'm really 100% prepared to do to everything what is necessary to achieve my goals. That is the reason why I have decided to create this blog, because I do not want to let myself down and also i do not want to let down all people who will read this and who eventually supports me.