Just Elizabeth Ashe
Health and Fitness

Motivation For Getting In Shape: Part One

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You know there are a lot of ways to get healthy and being a mom of four and able to keep a decent figure. I think I tend to know a little bit about what it takes to stay fit and get in shape in the quickest amount of time. getting in shape fastHowever what gets me is that many people are always about the quick fix and the shortest way possible it takes to lose weight, but don’t think about what it takes to keep it off.

Almost 10 years ago, I use to be a personal trainer; I worked in golds gym at the front desk and would train my friends and family from time to time. Since I was small I could remember all I ever thought about was health and fitness and eating the best things that were good for my body.

That is why I here on my site I will discuss very frequently what it takes to get in shape, how to stay in shape and the mental attitude that goes along with it. Losing weight is not something that is only done to look good, becoming a better you is all about a lifestyle change that should be taken into consideration. With the country in state of obesity shouldn’t we take some time to care about ourselves, and that begins with small steps, step by step. But the first thing we could all start with is our eating habits.

Everything that we take in goes into our body and affects us physically, mentally and believe it or not emotionally, I believe our bodies are centered around our center whole being and when anything upsets that natural rhythm it can affect our bodies In a lot different ways. This can show in

• Obesity

• Stress on our bodies and skin

• Energy levels

• Hormones especially in women

Our bodies when not taken care of properly will show off in a great many ways alerting us to the dangers that we need to take. To change how we are taking care of ourselves.

My motto is and always is:

“Living Healthy and Losing Weight is more of a lifestyle change than anything else”. ~ Lilly Ashe

So What Are some ways that you can start changing your habits and kicking into high gear to start being a better you more mentally, physically, and yes even emotionally.

Click Here For Part Two : Motivations For Getting In Shape!

Would Love to here your thoughts on what is your biggest challenge when it comes to losing weight and staying in shape,  let me know so we can help each other.

Fashion Trends

Pastry shoes by Vanessa and Angela Simmons

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As we all know the daughters of rap mogul Ron from Ron's house, has been living it up big in the music world for quite some time now, over a couple of decades. Now he has a wonderful family and his two daughters are stretching their wings and doing it big with their line of kicks called Pastry Shoes.

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Pastry shoes by Vanessa and Angela Simmons have their own appeal of childish charm with an allure of sex appeal and glam. There is for sure something for everyone, with all the mixture of color combination there should be no fear of boredom with these funky shoes.

Bringing the street to the fashion runway in the form of shoes these two young divas are changing the landscape when it comes to young black women in the fashion industry. They are bringing the spunk and the pzazz with all that good stuff.

I have posted a video here for you guys to look at of the new line of pastry shoes that just came out but don't worry pastry shoes are affordable just like they are cute, and not they just don't have kicks to wear but they have their own line of pumps to go with.

If you want to check out all the pastry shoes on sale the click here!

Otherwise checkout the Video below to get a feel to what I am talking about. I'm sure you will not be disappointed.

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Do you Know Who You Are?

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I ran across this video a while back and still down to this day it continues to run through my head, and since I am starting this blog to bring to light, the true beauty that is within each and everyone on of us.  Coming from a  town that I grew up in at the time my neighborhood was mostly white, my friends were all of another race and now my husband and that of my family is mostly mixed race. Although I do not look it, we all have some sort of mixed gene pool in us somewhere down the line.

Which leads to the question do you really know who you are?

After much self discovery and years of being called black white girl, and I have to admit I even struggled sometimes when it came to having relationships with people of the same race as me. At the time I was here this black girl that liked rock music, listened to classical and despised rap, but could pop drop and lock it out of this world.

So who am is the question that I dealt with for years and now my question has been answered. But I feel that even though now in a time where the mainstream is more socially acceptable  and to like rock music is okay (even though you are black). And even with a black president we can see times a changing…..

However, many of our young black youths particularly women still deal with the issue of inferiority to those of another race when it comes down to our hair. Yeah my hair is kinky, yeah it takes longer to do the rest and requires extra attention. But that is only because it is extra special.

I am not saying that to relax  your hair is bad, but to each his own and I did so for years off and on. But whenever my hair was in its natural state, it grew quicker and longer faster. (because I was retaining length.)

But many of us our not embracing our true self's, we keep turning to the creamy crack for a quick fix or the over counter medicine of luxurious length. Hiding behind or masking what we want to achieve and many have achieved that.

This blog is not down our culture but to bring to light the under talked about complex that lies in our hair, the curls and kinks that hinder us doing the one thing we all have thought about or trying to do. Embrace who we truly are kinks, curls, coily and all.

Come with me on my Journey as I go Back to My natural State and achieve lengths I only thought  I could in a dream………………..

Health and Fitness

Getting In Shape Goals

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As you may or not know yet,  I had planned on this month getting into high swing with the body boot camp challenge.  I even made a video on it on all that I planned to do. Well life happened and I ended up having a aunt that passed away a family friend and two cousins with two weeks of each other. So that Sort of slowed things down a bit, and I had to get my thought processes together.

Well I did that,  and now I am ready to head back into this full swing with a fresh start and a new outlook on getting my legs and things a lot toner. Being a mom of four boys in which I was pregnant for three years straight with the last ones, things have changes up a little bit on my body and need some re-adjusting lol……

Anyhow I know a lot about fitness and health and use to be a personal trainer before I had any kids  and was certified in personal training.  I worked in a gym for a short while and still workout the most that I can day to day…..when I can.  I eat a lot of healthy food and tend to shop at whole foods  and very picky about the items that I get from publix.

With that being said with the posts to come I plan on  sharing healthy recipes and workout programs here as I develop then and find them.  Who's says that just because if we have kids we can not stay in shape.

I would love to here your comments below about how you feel when it comes to staying healthy and getting in shape!!!

P.S. If you did not have a chance to see the video I made about getting in shape and working out you can do so here.