Love Your Body Video Check In

It has been forever since I've posted a video check in so I wanted to film one to kick off the Tone It Up Love Your Body Challenge! If you're not already signed up to the challenge I really really recommend it. Like I mention in the video, if you commit to Tone It Up - your life will change!

With love,
Georgie xx

New Year's Fitness Challenge - Love Your Body

Happy New Year!! May I first wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014! 

Secondly, if, like me, one of your New Year's resolution's was to lose some weight, feel better about yourself and love yourself more, then Tone It Up has the perfect challenge to kick start the new year for you! 

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Hydrate Before You Caffeinate! (+ Visualisation!)

Hello lovely people! How are you?! I hope you're all embracing 2013 and feeling positive about what the New Year will bring. I took a little time this afternoon to look back over my instagram pictures (my username is georgieedwards27 if you want to follow me!) from the summer and I am SO excited for this year! I cant wait to be even more confident! 

I'm writing to share with you how I've been achieving one of my 2013 goals/resolutions so far! You'll remember from this post that I was aiming to drink more water this year. Last year, it went in waves (excuse the pun!) some days I would drink a LOT of water, but others I would have one glass. One way I have been becoming more consistent is by Hydrating before Caffeinating! (@ErrickPT on Twitter came up with this saying and if you don't follow him DO IT NOW!! He's a genius!) 

Now, before reaching for the coffee when I wake up, I've been reaching for the water instead! I make sure that I drink at least 20oz of water before having a coffee in the morning. It's really really worked! I've also found that I'm less likely to 'crave' a coffee during the day and that I don't miss it first thing!

Try it! I promise you it will work!

One of my Journaled days this week!

You'll remember that I've been embarking on the Tone It Up Love Your Body challenge this week! The girls have set up a 6 and a half week challenge (finishing on Valentines day!) full of fitness, fun and fabulous nutrition! Part of that challenge, on the first day, was to set out our goals of what we want to achieve throughout 2013 and before, Tone It Up have talked about the importance of vision boards.

Visualisation has become key in anything that I do. It really helps to get me to see what I want to achieve and how I can do it - and how amazeballs I will feel when I've done it! I do this by creating a collage on my Mac and printing it out before hanging it up somewhere prominent! I posted a YouTube video telling you all about it! Check it out!

Things have gotten a little chaotic over the last few days! I'm getting ready to go back to Uni and I've got three assignments and an exam to prepare for. I've spent the last few days finishing off the essays and getting my notes ready to review for the exam! The exam's on Wednesday and after that I have one last week off before getting back into classes! Bear with me - I promise I'll stick with it!

Love and Hugs,

Georgie 

xoxox

Happy New Year! My Resolutions

This is it! Another year is over! It seems crazy that 2012 is done already. I can happily say that 2012 has been a year that I will remember for the rest of my life. Highlights include, meeting more of you!, the Olympics, going to Disneyland and of course, getting into the school of my dreams to do the perfect course for me; against all the odds!

At the Olympic Stadium

Now I'm usually not one for making resolutions, because like most people I forget what they were three months down the line! For years my resolution was "This year I'm going to lose weight" and to be honest that's so broad that realistically it's never going to happen anyway! I like my goals to be specific (see be a SMART SWOT). 

This year I've set myself some resolutions for all aspects of my life!

1) Be an amazeballs friend, daughter, colleague and sister
2) Drink more water (at least 1.5l a day)
3) Give everything I do my all, be it at school, work or fitness
4) Be brave, push through and inspire people as I have been inspired
5) Complete the half marathon
6) Be the change I want to see in my life
7) Continue to see the positive in everything
8) Blog more!! (I know, I'm sorry!)
9) Work harder at getting a better balance between work, school, health and fitness and me-time!
10) Get better at giving myself compliments
11) Let go of all of the negative people or people that don't car about me in my life. 2013 means change. 

There you have it! 

I have a LOT to look forward to during 2013! I'll complete the first year of my degree, I'll celebrate becoming twenty!! (Ahh that seems so old to me haha!) I'll choose and be approved by the American university that I'll be at for the 2014/15 academic year and you can bet I'm going to grow as a person! 

I'm starting my year off in the way that a lot of people do; with a bit of a fitness kick ;) 
Tone It Up are launching the Love Your Body Challenge (this challenge is linked with Victoria's Secret!!!!) on New Year's Day. The challenge runs through to Valentines Day, it's completely free and it will be 6.5 weeks of motivation, emails, vlogs, making new friends and more!! TIU Challenges never disappoint so I can't recommend joining this one enough!

Whilst at the moment I am pleased to see the end of 2012, I will never ever forget this year as being the best of my life. I am so grateful for all of you and it's pretty amazing how much my life has changed in the last year because of each of you!

Have a fantastic New Year and I'll see you in 2013!!

All my love,

Georgie xx