Size Zero: Meine Woche 3 & 4

Hey meine Lieben,

es tut mir Leid, dass so lange kein Blogpost mehr kam. Uni, privater Stress, Haushalt, Weihnachten und Silvester haben mich komplett im Thema Time-Management aus der Bahn geworfen. Weil viele von euch mich danach gefragt haben, möchte ich meine Erfahrungen zu Size Zero fortführen. Also wie sah meine Woche 3 und 4 aus? Wenn ihr mehr Bilder sehen wollt, dann folgt mir auf INSTAGRAM   

Wie ich bereits in meinem vorherigen Post (Link) erzählt habe, geht es nicht um "Size 0" zu erreichen, sondern innerhalb von 70 Tagen seine Topform mit Hilfe einer low Carb Diät zu erreichen. Das heißt Gewichtsabnahme, Muskelaufbau, Definition und nicht Kleidungsgröße 32. Schaut mal bei ihrer offiziellen Seite vorbei :) (Link)

Training:
Der große Muskelkater von Woche 1&2 blieb aus, obwohl das Training an sich weiterhin kurz (ca. 45 Minuten) aber sehr intensiv blieb. Meine Lieblingseinheit war eindeutig die Pusheinheit. Aber auch das Bauchtraining war sehr anspruchsvoll, wohingegen ich das Gefühl habe, mein Beintraining sei von mir intensiver gewesen.

Essen:
Meine geliebten Kohlenhydrate fielen nun mittags und abends komplett weg, daher begann die verzweifelte Suche eines Nudel und Reissüchtigen nach einem Ersatz. Von Thunfischpizza bis Oopsies wurde alles ausprobiert und nicht alles schmeckte leider :D Ich muss zugeben, dass ich in der ersten Woche eine kleine Pizza auf einem Konzert gegessen habe. Diese Wochen standen keine großen Events an, so dass mir die Ernährung trotz des vielen Experimentieren relativ leicht viel.

Mein Lieblingsessen: Meine Quarkkuchen
Meine Stimmung: euphorisch, sehr experimentierfreudig

Quarkkuchen mit Nektarinen

Social Life:
Wenn man nur einmal Kohlenhydrate, also morgens, essen kann, dann stresst das schon ein wenig mit Freunden weg zu gehen oder wenn ich zusammen mit meinem Freund kochen will. Man will sich ja nicht komplett isolieren und am ende findet man auch Kompromisse, aber ich muss trotzdem sagen, dass private Treffen nicht stressfrei sind. Man macht sich einfach so viele Gedanken, obwohl die Treffen dann doch gut ablaufen.

Wenn ihr mehr Rezeptinspirationen oder generell Fitnessmotivation braucht, dann schaut mal bei mir in Insta vorbei! :)    


Alles Liebe,

Size Zero - Deine Topform in 10 Wochen

Hallo meine Lieben!
Wie geht es euch?

Ich habe mich lange nicht mehr gemeldet, auch weil ich mein Leben sortieren musste. Ein Teil davon war und ist meine Ernährung. Seit ich alleine lebe, habe ich noch nicht das richtige Gefühl für eine Portionsgröße bekommen. Die Folge war trotz meines Fitnessprogramms GEWICHTSZUNAHME. Nach meinem 21. Geburtstag dachte ich mir, jetzt reichte. Meine Fitnessbemühungen sollen sich zeigen, ich will endlich zu meiner Topform gelangen und wirkliche Erfolge zielen. Ich entschloss mich kurzerhand für das Size Zero Programm von Julian Zietlow und seiner Verlobten Alina (link).

Was ist Size Zero?
Hinter Size Zero verbirgt sich nicht die Kleidergröße. Es handelt sich vielmehr um ein 10 Wochenprogramm, um seine persönliche Topform zu erreichen. Es beinhaltet sowohl einen Ernährungs-, als auch einen Fitnessplan, der sich alle zwei Wochen variiert. Das ganze kostet stolze 300€.

Warum keine normale Diät?
300€ ist nicht gerade wenig und gerade im Vergleich dazu erscheint eine gesunde Ernährung oder eine günstigere, wenn nicht sogar kostenlose Diät als sinnvoller. Jedoch spornt mich gerade der Preis verbunden mit der reißen Unterstützung vom Team und den Girls auf Facebook gerade an dem Programm zu folgen. Wo bekommt man noch so viel tolle Motivation?

Was nun?
Ich werde für euch wöchentliche Updates geben und von meinem Erfahrungen in der Woche berichten. Zudem werde ich ein Endfazit ziehen, sodass ihr euch ein eigens Bild über das Ganze machen könnt.

Ich freue mich auf die 10 Wochen und die Veränderungen :)

Alles Liebe,
Marie

How BenjimanTV saved my life

Hello everyone!

How are you? This blog post will be different from my other posts. This will be a personal message to Benji, also known as Benjimantv who is Judy's husband and also has his own youtube channel (Link) and uploads great food pictures on his Instagram account (Link). I am not silly, I know that he probably will never read this, but I really have to thank him. If you want to know why, then keep on reading.

Dear Benji,

firstly, congratulations on birth of your lovely girls Keira and Miya. Also with having your sweet daughter Julianna and the wonderful Judy, you are having such a beautiful family!
You are not only a great father and inspiring considering your regular workout routine, but also an amazing cook. And that's actually the point of this post. You are focusing on cooking healthy with lots of vegetables while keeping it tasty. Additionally, you are combining Japanese food with international recipes. I love the excitement that you put into buying groceries and preparing the recipes and in the end, sharing that all with us.

Because of you, I have rediscovered my passion for healthy cooking, enjoying cooking and actually carrying about what I put into my body.
The thing is that I have a rather hard relationship with food. 4 years ago I became anorexic. The cause were personal problems in school including bullying. It took me a long time to find a way out of this illness and only stopped therapy 1 1/2 years ago. Since then my relationship to food stayed pretty difficult as I swapped between an incredible healthy lifestyle to eating total crap.
It was never that bad that I only ate fast food because I always stayed an athletic person and never wanted to ruin my body totally. However, I stopped carrying about food, I didn't enjoy eating and didn't want to eat any veggies explicitly.
You not only pushed myself back into my old fitness level, but also revived the conscience of eating healthy and actually carrying about what I put into my body. I am also not talking about a temporary change as I already changed my whole eating habits for one month now and I am not even thinking about changing this any soon. As everyone says, fitness and health is made in the kitchen and I can totally confirm this.
So thank you so so much, Benji! By sharing your healthy and tasty recipes with the world, you have changed my life completely. You helped me to come back on track and to actually build up a healthy relationship to food.
Thank you very much for this!!!


All the best,

Marie

Life Update: Abitur, Study, Moving Out, Boyfriend,...

Hello everybody!

I hope you are doing well!
I wanted to give you a little update of my life, what is going on, what happened and what are my plan for the future as I haven't done such a post for a really long. Or have I ever done such a post? Anyway.
As some of you might have heard, I have finished my final exams which means that I still have to pass my oral exams in June and obviously have to pass both tests and then I am done. But let's say that the written part was the toughest one and after months of learning I am finally relieved. The problem is that I seriously don't know what I have to do in my free time. I had to set aside most of my hobbies or any deep pleasures and reading a normal book made me feel that I forget everything that I have learned. So now, I actually could do everything, but still can't enjoy the hobbies as I still have the longing to do something efficient or effective.

The next huge step is that I am going to move into my own flat. Okay, it's not going to happen before September, but this step, which also includes starting to study, opens up a complete new chapter in my life resp. is a complete new life. This step gives me more freedom and independence, but also means that I have more responsibilities, tasks and have to do more serious decisions and stand for them. I think you call this growing up or maturity and I am excited and a bit scared of this new chapter in the same time. However, this may allow me to become more self-confident and to do what I want.

Another step is to incorporate a healthy and well-balanced diet into my eating plan when I live alone. I already eat quite healthy and I even think that this will become a bit easier as I decide what I buy and I usually don't buy sweets for my own, thus, there will be only "clean food" in my fridge. Hopefully ;)
And I assume a really clean and controlled eating plan will also push my fitness level to a next level. So I think about starting the ZCUT Program created by Zuzka Light once it is released in Europe while I am living a home and really get in the best shape I have ever been.

I also still want to change my attitude towards the life. Basically, I want to enjoy the life more, be more spontaneous, live the moment and not worry so much about everything and everyone. Just to be my own individual with my own personality, my own dreams and own longings -  just to be authentic. I started with this project last year and I did a lot of progresses and learned to enjoy my life with all senses. The only step that is missing is finding a proper and serious relationship. I don't want to talk about my past relationships, I want to look forward and the thing is that I was so busy because of my Abitur and was a bit too focused on school in the past. So yes, I am ready to love someone as I learned to love myself! ;)

Okay, before I start to talk about god and the world, I just stop here, but I hope you liked this little life update. Tell me what has been going on in your life and what had been your experiences when you were moving out?

Wish you a wonderful day! Love,

My New Blog Design - The Official Guide!

Hey guys!
As you might have probably seen when you visited my blog, my blog design has changed. After 2 hours of experimenting and trying out different designs, I finally created this one. I know that my last blog design change is not that far away and I really loved this one, but I always thought that something is missing. So I added a few more colour accents and changed the fonts to a more straight less cursive version with straight lines.

THE OLD DESIGN

THE NEW DESIGN

The header

I can not promise that the header will stay that way, but I am definitely more pleased with the new version than with the old one. Here you can see the straight lines in the font and I wanted to enhance the word play in the word "How 2(to) look pretty" which I intended right from the beginning when I started this blog. So I hope that with this header this becomes more obvious for new people.

The page tabs

My pages existed somewhere on the side hidden between thousands other things. However, I discovered how I can organize my blog posts much better. So I put them right underneath my header and now you can search directly blog posts under its topic.

Social networks

I still like the idea from having pictures on the side that link to my social network pages. I just updated it with my whole straighter design.

Just click yourself through the whole blog. I changed the font here and there and did some other changes in general. Do you like the new blog design or do you prefer the older more cursive version?

Wish you a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

I Got A New Haircut!!!

Since a really long time I wanted to change my hairstyle, but I was to scared of cutting my hair off and I wasn't sure which hairstyle suits me. In the picture above you can see Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's hair which shows my hair in the exact same situation. I have long hair for two years now and two years ago I was one of the first in school who had these long, wavy hair. However, during the last year the Hollywood trend finally arrived in school and everyone started to grow his hair. Now even in university, everyone has these long hair which are seen as the ideal, perfect hairstyle. And when everyone wears a trend, I am the first one who changes his style in order not to suit into the mainstream. 

By the way, I have light to medium curly hair, I have medium thick, but a lot of hair. My hair colour is, like in the picture, medium to dark, red blonde and I get blonde highlights in the summertime. Because I have so many hair, you just saw hair and I was nearly able to go out topless, because I had like a fur over my breast :)

Inspired by Scarlett Johansson's totally glamourous appearance and her fresher hairstyle, the idea of changing my hairstyle was set. After searching a long time in the internet I found this incredible Virtual Hair Makeover by Instyle which you can find here.

I really tested a lot of Virtual Hair Tester, but this is the best one. So I started testing all the 160 hairstyles and I found the one I was searching for.

Because I was still to scared of cutting my hair off above my shoulders, I finally cutted my hair like this:

Elizabeth Olsen has exactly my hair colour, so this picture shows my actual hairstyle quiet well.

The funny thing was that I wasn't scared of cutting my hair off when I was sitting in the seat of my hairdresser at all. I really felt that this was the right thing what I was doing and I actually longed for this look. 

I really love my new hairstyle. I feel more matured, sophisticated, glamourous and more neat. Now with less hair in my face, you can see my face, my jewelry and my clothes much better, I can also wear totally different make-up. Thus, I can totally recommend to try out the Instyle Hair Makeover and to change your hairstyle. A blogger wrote: "Every woman should cut her hair short once in her life." and I totally agree with this and maybe next time I am brave enough to cut my hair off above the shoulders.

What do you think about shorter hair?

All the best,

Change Is Good

Source: dimlitdaylight.tumblr.com

As you might probably realised, I have completely changed the layout of my blog. I know that this is a tough decision because a new layout doesn't only mean a different background, it also has certain effects on the viewers. And the last thing that I wanted to achieve was to lose some of my followers because they didn't feel "connected" with the blog anymore.

However, my style and my whole lifestyle have changed quiet a lot during the last months. I don't know whether you can call this "growing up" but as much as I loved my last layout and as much work I invested into it, it didn't represented me anymore. I wanted to create a simple, minimalist and classy layout which is in the same sophisticated, elegant and posh. About three hours later, I created a new layout and I have to say that I am quiet happy with the result.

I know that this is a quiet dramatic change from the more fun, girly and vintage layout to this simple, white layout but this change was necessary. Also, I think that this layout might be a bit more marketable worldwide.

Nevertheless, I am still concerned about your opinion because, as I have already mentioned above, I don't want to lose any regular readers!

So, please tell me what do you think about this new layout? Do you like it or do you prefer the older one?

Wish you a wonderful holiday!

All the best,

New Concept: English - Deutsch (German) ?

As you might probably know I live in Germany and therefore, I also buy products that are not available worldwide, however, they are so good that I want to share them with you, especially for my german readers.

Thus, I came across two options:

(a) Reviewing all the products in english even though some Germans wouldn't be able to understand this. Nevertheless, everyone else could understand it.

(b) Reviewing international products in English and German products in German and writing any other posts in English as I already did before. 

It is really important that you tell me, English-speaking and German-speaking readers, your opinion!

I want to create my blog in the way you want to read it!

Of course, if I decided to go for solution (b), then I would give my best to keep English and German posts in balance.

So, please tell me what you thing about this concept!

All the best,