Chez FitMercy

On my schedule of living healthy, today is "Tiny Tuesday", hoping to keep it as tiny as possible. I had an early breakfast today and also kept it tiny too. It's fiber (beans) and I believe there are some science behind taking such in the morning too. I will search that out and post later. Tiny Tuesday is about having the lowest daily caloric count for the week. Today (25/08/2015) is one of those days, I already have a fiber-filling breakfast  and I hope nothing else out of proportion comes my way till dinner. I hope to always keep it as tiny as possible all-Tuesday long.  Join me friends (look to the graphics and make that your standard for the day, lmao)

I am truly looking to the stop to this ups and downs and getting under 160lbs before the end of August. My goal for August ending is 155.7lbs, I know I can do it.

We just concluded a program in church and it centred on harvest. As we enter into the half of the year, we prayed into a time of great harvest in every area of life. Seed time done in obedience will surely bring great harvest. I already started seeing great results coming my way and I know a more permanent harvest is coming my way soon.

That has been my watch word for the past weeks and I had been reaping the dividends of this. I just workout without thinking and all I look forward to is getting to the middle of the video, because immediately I get to the middle of it, I know it will soon end and I keep giving it my best. Unfortunately this works best for my workout but not for my diet yet. Still my diet is jeopardizing my efforts, not my faults I think some hormones are just wacky and I possibly do not have anything to calm them down right now. I can only work around them and wait. In view of this I wish to start some multivitamins so that my body is in control of a few things. Not sure if age is catching up lol. I will keep up with the mantra and it can only get better.

I found a new passion. The SuperHero spirit, I love the batman specially and of course the batgirl will be my favorite. Joker is the villian and that makes him " fat, unhealthy foods, sedentary lifestyle ", Batgirl will not stop till Joker is crushed.  Are you with me?  What superhero will you like to be? 

1. We don't care where you came from, only where you are going; 2. When you join, you are in for life; 3. We train as naturally as possible; 4. We understand that you can't outrun your fork; 5. We understand that fat is not the enemy; 6. We train with conviction and intelligence 7. We exercise because it's fun 8. We never leave our wing men; 9. We question everything 10. We take care of business 11. We take pride in ourselves 11 Pillars Nerd Fitness Rebellion One of my best inspirational fitness blogs is Nerd Fitness While reading and searching today, I saw something that I proved this past week, that You can NEVER outdo a bad diet. This statement was tested and proved over the past weekend when I decided to do a last workout of jump rope for 10 minutes (interval training). At the end of it my heart was thumping so hard in my chest but this is all I got on my HRM (data below) Just 91 calories!!! was all I had to show for it (1 hardboiled egg or a s

To all moms out there trying to get fit for life

Hey Friends, I decided to stop the former streak at Day 142 and I am starting a new one, in this month of May. I started with so much energy till TOM stopped me in my tracks but I am most grateful that it was not a really painful experience. Week 1: May 1 - May 7, 2015 Weigh In Wednesday : 165lbs = 74.8kg Nutrition : Food was not in range most part of the week because of TOM and there was a terrible craving for carbs. I ate bread twice within the week (I take bread only on weekends), but I still tried to put myself in check at every point of eating. Fitness :  Friday - 15 minutes Saturday - 74 minutes Monday - 40 minutes Tuesday - 30 minutes = 159 Fitness Minutes NSV: No clothe is snugly on my body this week. I could also kneel down for 30 minutes praying. Above is the guide for my weekly streak. Workout 5-6 days of the week with a minimum of 250 minutes each week.

Hey friends, I had been on a vacation for the past two weeks and thus MIA. I am happy to be back home to everything especially DH and my workouts. During the period of my vacation, I had a workout buddy [a beginner though] who pressed me for a sweaty session for every single day I was in her house. It was truly not convenient because I wanted to just rest, eat and sight-see, I became an instructor instead and sweated on a daily basis. I am eventually grateful for the "push" because my weight was much lower to my surprise and excitement. Well, back to business. I was out to church for a retreat today and on my way back, I bought a slice of watermelon [deciding to eat my water]. As I moved up I saw a cart with carrots and I was thinking I should have bought those instead, but right in my head, I thought "who said losing weight is easy" and the best gift you can give yourself as you lose weight is to tell yourself that 'it is not easy' [just worth

Yess!!!! 12 Weeks Chatter + Challenges = Weight loss. I joined the Biggest Losers Challenge [Online version of the popular Biggest Loser Challenge on TV] sometimes last year and since then I never looked back. Some of my personal benefits: 1. New friends who encourage you to lose weight in a healthy way. 2. It is a closed group, so your privacy is secured. 3. Friends that are closer than your family 4. Positive team mates with so much energy 5. Awesome group leaders who are always present to help out with just about anything 6. Sharing differences and knowing about different cultures and ways of life. 7. Listening ears and a place to rant and scream and still be calmed down 8. Challenging Workouts for 12 whole weeks 9. For my own team [Navy Ninjas] we have a different tracker for the workouts and nutrition. Yay 10. I always lose weight and I maintained till the next round. 11. Other areas of my life are improved. 12. I am addicted to the team [is that a b

The Optimist Creed for Weight Loss I promise myself to be so strong that nothing can stop me from losing weight.  To talk health, fitness and weight loss to every person who wants to listen.  To help all my overweight friends feel that they too can lose their extra weight.  To look at the fact that I really can lose weight and to make this fact come true.  To think only of success, to work only for success and to expect only successful weight loss.  To be just as enthusiastic about the weight loss of others as I am about my own.  To forget the failures of the past and press on to the great weight loss achievements of the future. To be motivated to lose weight at all times and to help every overweight person I meet to be motivated, too.  To be so focused on doing things that help me lose weight that I have no time left to do things that make me gain weight. To be too determined to give up, too fit to be unhealthy, too slim to be fat, and too focused on success

Clean Eating  is simply eating clean, lol. I feel clean eating is when your meals are devoid of processed foods. Processed foods are the natural foods that are already manipulated. Some materials are either added or taken away to distort their naturalness either for convenience or preservation. For example you can have rice processed or leave unprocessed, the same way fish can be processed or unprocessed. The bottom line is that, for every processed food, there is an unprocessed version of it. So when you want to eat clean according to ME, it's when you limit to the barest minimum the number of processed foods you take at a given meal. For me, a processed meal could be canned beans taken with bread and a glass of orange juice. hmm yummy! Portion Control is when you serve food within a calorie range that is healthy for you. It is when you keep the proportion of foods taken at a given time within what your body adequately requires. Mark the word "requires" and not &

There are various seasons all over the world and they so differ even as our location differs. Each of the seasons comes with a weather and of course they are useful for different purposes and also act as an indicator for various things to do. For example, some are very good for planting why some indicate the time for harvest. In Nigeria we have 2 major seasons i.e. the dry season and the wet/rainy season. There are still some slight differences between the southern and the northern part of the country, [I am so in-between the two parts, some parts of my state tend more to the north and some part has all the characteristics of the south]. I will do a small analysis: Southern Nigerian Seasons:  - The Long Rainy Season - This starts in March and ends in July with a peak in June and can be excessively wet in some areas deep south - The Short Dry Season - This happens within a short period of 3-4 weeks in the month of August [August Break]. - The Short Rainy Season - This period

Next month (April), it will be exactly one year since I did a relaxer touch to my hair. Right now, I can prove: - the half inch hair growth per month, - the black hair grows, - the black hair responds to treatment - the thickness and volume of the black hair is simply incomparable but... - I could not grow my edges as I desired [so scanty and damaged] - that was the reason I was transitioning in the first place. - I realized the best way to repair my edges is to simply leave and reduce manipulations to the barest minimum. - I have a 4c type hair that cannot be left or combed without a protective style. - *Transitioning had been so difficult and time consuming for me* - The gray hairs [hereditary] seemed to be multiplying by the hour, I know it had always been there but always less emphasized when it is relaxed. - I think black hair is costlier to maintain in its natural state. Yes it is, especially when it is not covered the most part of the day. * The time consumin

I woke up and felt like weighing myself yesterday and voila 162.6lbs = 73kg That is a 15-pounds-loss since 27th December, 2014 when I started to be "different". I had really gone from good to better and I am on my way to "best". I have lost weight and it is looking so evident right now. (I will post my pictures, I am still searching for a good "before") This little success did not come without some "little" challenges. Unfortunately, I was armed and ready for them; I was so surprised that the 'challenges' could spur me to become even more determined to get to my goals. One of them was "it is okay like this you can stop now". An Aunty (fitspiration) who had lost weight had once reacted on Facebook, she said and I paraphrased "Don't tell me to STOP because you never warned me to stop when I was on the unhealthy path".  I agree with those words, people don't warn you to stop growing fat and out of

In my search, I eventually found something I can work with. It is a workout plan that gives enough rest and cardio/strength training in the correct frequency. I need all the discipline to be consistent till month end. I have re-started my streak yesterday [my streak involves only the days I do at least 10 minutes of intentional exercise]. Find below the plan for the remaining part of the month. Do not mind that this is for the month of January but I am using it for March.

Hi everyone, I had not come here in a while [I am truly sorry about this]. I promised to work on my blog in making it better but life got in the way [excuse from the programmer] and here I am with the same design and all. Anyways , Low Morale is what had been happening to me and I am sure I had not done any reasonable workout in a week today. I am not just feeling like it, nothing more... Unlike way back when a rise on the scale is what kills my morale more. Not this time, I just feel bored with exercise and I seemed to always lose strength when I get home every night. I sleep more but my meals are on point and somehow healthy too. I am losing weight nicely and when there is a gain, it is so slight. Par exemple, last Wednesday Weigh In was 164.6lbs, this week it's 165.2lbs [I took bread a day before the weigh in. My bread is only on weekends but I purged on Tuesday and the only thing to eat was dry bread]. I think I will keep posting my blog till the "IT guy"

I am sorry I had not blogged in a while, I am truly sorry. I am trying to improve on this blog and make it better. I hope you can bear with me...