Motivate Me Monday

I find Instagram to be such a great source of inspiration for my Motivate Me Monday. I follow loads of fitness accounts and find myself just scrolling through their images whenever I get a craving for naughty food or need something to motivate me to exercise. 

Incorporating health and fitness into what would be my usual social media time, really does help to get the message across. Here are a few of my favourite images from browsing on instagram this morning.

Motivate Me Monday

I'm feeling really motivated at the moment. I really want to get fit before Christmas and that is now my goal. I'm going to go for a run tonight and not binge when I get in. 

I've had yoghurt and blueberries for my breakfast, which is lovely. It doesn't leave me feeling heavy and I'm just having a plain salad for my lunch. Really feeling good today and I hope you do too. 

Motivate Me Monday

Is everyone else loving that the sun is out again today?

I have had SUCH a lazy weekend. But I've loved it, I was eating well last week so felt I deserved to just nap and chill all weekend. As you do. 

So my fitspiration today is a warm welcome to the week I feel. I'm ready to eat well again and now that the sun is back out, might even be tempted to start up my walking/running again. 

Motivate Me Monday

This week is a new start! I've already started it pretty well by switching my wholemeal toast breakfast for half a grapefruit. Salad for lunch and probably something equally as healthy for dinner. It's a new day and I am ready for some fitspo!

Motivate Me Monday

This week I've needed a little bit more inspiration than most to get eating healthy. I did make a vegetable soup with my new blender (which was amazing) but then I got a bit ill with a sore throat; and we all know what happens when you're feeling under the weather... binging happens. 

So my pillar of inspiration today came from the Daily Mail. I kind of love Vicky from Geordie Shore. Her transformation is fabulous and she's stunning. I also love her attitude towards life, she's a girl that will speak her mind and she's definitely somebody I'd get on with. So this week, love her or hate her, Vicky Pattison is my Motivate Me Monday inspiration. Her 7 Day Slim has been on my wish list for a while now, the more pictures I see of her on Instagram, the more I want it. I think I'll be purchasing this soon.

Motivate Me Monday

This week's Motivate Me Monday is a little different to the usual. I just thought that rather than having some fitspo up, I would let you in on a fitness trick that you will not only enjoy but see great results from. 

You might have seen some blog posts on dog walking I do with Elliot's two bichon frises', so when I went up to his last week I decided to switch on my MapMyRun app and take a look at just how much you can get from such an enjoyable task. 

After walking, running and playing along the beach for an hour, we had travelled 2.2 miles and burned 371 kcal's, which I'm sure will have been a lot more considering we were walking on sand. How amazing is that?

So before you think that fitness is a drag, get yourself out this Bank Holiday doing fun activities like beach walks. With or without a dog, you'll still be getting the benefits. Even better, when I'm out burning these calories, I can get some great shots of the dogs to feed my photography needs.