Revolt! Fitness - Week 1

I'm finishing the tail end of my first week using Nichole Huntsman's Revolt! fitness program and meal plans...and I am loving it!!!  I am down 3.5lbs my friends!  That's from Monday til Friday.....woohoo!!!  I really just want to loose the flab and get toned and fit! 

Ok so here's how it works:  Nichole has put together this incredible program that is super streamlined and easy to follow.  Meals change weekly (same thing for bfast all week long, next week it's a different menu, etc), as do the workouts.  I LOVE the meal thing because I do all the prep work ONE day and throw everything together so that the work is pretty much done for the rest of the week!  I freeze what I can and voila!  Life is simple.  Worrying about what and what not to eat is a thing of the past for me!  Plus, when I get hungry I know exactly what's on the menu so I don't get tempted to eat something I'm not supposed to have.  

The workouts are fantastic.  3 intensity levels.  6 days a week.  Everything is spelled out for you.  The best thing is that the workouts are only 20-30 minutes each day.  So by the time I leave the house, go to the gym (you can totally do the workouts at home but I LOVE doing them at the gym) do my workout and come home it's almost exactly an hour.  Perfect!  The best part about it is Nichole posts videos of not only herself doing the workout so that you can do it with her at home, but she also breaks it down and does a quick blurb in the begining and shows you what each move is.  This is perfect for me because it's quick, to the point, and I can take what she shows us in the 5 min segment to the gym and do my entire workout there (she also provides a worksheet to follow so you don't get lost!).  Like I said, everything is spelled out for you.  

               For a chick who has been able to transform herself from this

to this? ..........

I'll listen to anything she tells me to do!!!!

So excited for my Revolt! journey : )

Make it work! {Santa Clarita Valencia 91355 Portrait Photographer}

Being a natural light photographer, I do what I can to avoid artificial light if possible.  In MY perfect world the sun would stay just above the horizon and I'd have gorgeous light alllllll day long.  Lovely.  Clearly that's just not reality and sometimes when you are having so much fun photographing your beautiful sisters you don't want to stop....even if the sun decides to call it quits on your photo shoot!  

So where did we go?  The mater bathroom!  Granted, this bathroom was huge and beautiful and clean : )  Lights, camera, action!  We grabbed a couch cushion and away we went.  One lace-y top.  One setup.  Two beauties.  I think we made it work quite well, don't you think?  In cases like these it's best to open the aperture (f/stop) of the camera as wide as you can.  In other words, the lower the number, the better!  This will help blur your background and allow you to shoot in areas that you don't want to showcase.

I love these girls.  They let me do whatever I thought we needed to do, even when it came to laying on the bathroom floor!  Make it work!  You can do it!

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LOVE pt. 2 {Santa Clarita Valencia Portrait Photographer 91355}

As a tribute to Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to highlight a quote of his (Jr.) that really stuck out to me... 

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

-Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. 

  

Well actually, pretty much everything that came out of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mouth is quite inspirational and motivating, to say the least.  However, I love how this reminds me to always have love in my heart!  I don't consider myself a hateful kind of person, but I know that everyone has their bad days, or weeks, or months!  I love how MLK Jr. contrasts hate and love and the power that they each have in our lives.   

It's easy to get caught up in all of our problems, or to see where our lives lack.  Don't focus on the negative, because that is all that will continue to come your way!  Why waste your energy on something you hate or don't like?  Think of what you have and how much more of a person you can become and what you can do with your life if you just love a little more?  

Illuminate your life with LOVE.  My challenge to you and is to find one way to add a little more love into your day, everyday until Valentine's Day!  I am going to do this and report back on what has changed in my life, but I hope you can too. 

If you have 5 minutes to spare, I recommend you read through some more of MLK Jr's quotes.  He truly was a great man.

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