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  • hi guys welcome back to my channel today I wanted to create a video talking a

  • little bit about my fitness transformation I wanted to kind of do a

  • recap of every month but it was just too much to follow so a little background I

  • had Maximus in October 2000 2018 he is my third baby boy I had a pretty

  • good pregnancy I wasn't as active gym wise with Max as I was with the other

  • two but I was very active because I mean I already had two boys that are big and

  • just require you to move all the time and also I was working so I was pretty

  • active I would say after I gave birth to Jake I was so like I have to get back to

  • pre-baby body and it was like this whole process to just like me motivating

  • myself but like not in a positive way so I definitely made sure that I didn't

  • experience the same type of pressure that I put on myself with Benjamin and

  • then especially with max I was breastfeeding max until he was three

  • months and then I stopped just because supply and schedule and then my other

  • kids schedule was just it was a lot for me so I decided for the benefit of my

  • mental health it was enough and he actually was the longest breastfed of

  • them all so I'm pretty proud of myself for that with breastfeeding of course

  • you lose away much faster just because your body burns so much energy with

  • breastfeeding but you also consume a lot of food I didn't even care to think

  • about weight loss at all until I stopped breastfeeding I was very active before I

  • got pregnant with Max I was working out quite a bit probably between like three

  • to four times a week I had a pretty healthy pregnancy I gained about between

  • 30 to 35 pounds which is actually what I gained with all three of them I wasn't

  • concerned at all about weight loss I actually haven't weighed myself that I

  • gave birth no maybe I weighed myself once but I don't look at the numbers

  • just look at the way my body feels and how my clothes fit me so that's where I

  • know you know where I need to lose weight or get toned or just if

  • everything is back to normal so once I stop breastfeeding that's when I kind of

  • went back to a more balanced diet the way I eat is kind of what works for me

  • in my schedule so I'll have actually small meals every two to three hours so

  • if I wake up in the morning I'll have a glass of water or lemon water and then

  • I'll wait a little bit of brush my teeth and then I'll go and I'll have something

  • before I drop off the kids so usually now it's like my go-to I have a

  • grapefruit just a bunch of walnuts and pecans and then mold berries and some

  • pumpkin seeds and then I have my either matcha latte or coffee then I drop them

  • off I'll come back and then I usually get hungry again after about an hour and

  • a half or so then I'll have like a breakfast and maybe eggs and avocado

  • that will be around like 10 ish and then I'll eat again at around 12:30 1:00 and

  • then I'll have a snack at around 4 maybe and then I'll have dinner at about 7:30

  • or so so that's kind of how I eat usually and with snacks or if I feel

  • hungry during the day I will have a smoothie or a protein shake or something

  • to kind of fill me up I try to focus to eat a lot of lands a lot of vegetables

  • and everything that I put on my plate if you watched any of my nutrition videos

  • you kind of see how I go with food for me I truly believe that the quantities

  • of how much we eat is so huge these days especially in North America I always

  • talk about filling up a full plate but just a smaller plate rather than the big

  • plates that a lot of us have at home I'll always fill it up with half my

  • plate will be veggies and then I'll have my plant-based protein or protein like

  • chicken or anything like that and then I'll have

  • kind of my healthy carbs or like five source of fiber as well I always think

  • about making sure that I have fiber healthy fat and protein and every meal

  • that's kind of also my train of thought when I either order at restaurants or

  • when I cook something at home I'm petite so I actually tend to lose weight which

  • I mean I guess doesn't sound so bad but it's not great I mean I'm trying to

  • build kind of muscle and structure and feel stronger I've always kind of

  • battled this like skinny fat type of body it's very important for me to make

  • sure that I eat enough because otherwise I just become like really really skinny

  • and really really weak also during my pregnancy with Max I did eat a lot of

  • sweets so I'm trying to cut on that just because it's not healthy at all I've

  • been really impressed with my body just how it didn't bounce back but how it has

  • the kind of memory still of everything that I did before

  • regarding the working out I decided to get a trainer I didn't have a trainer

  • before this pregnancy I actually used to just go to different classes and work

  • out on my own but this time I decided to get a trainer just because I wanted to

  • make sure that I'm not gonna get injured I think that what happens a lot with

  • postpartum women is that our body is still healing it takes about a year or

  • 18 months for our body to heal after such a traumatic experience so I really

  • wanted to make sure that I'm not injuring myself or causing any damage I

  • definitely decided at this time I'm not gonna take a chance on this and I'm

  • gonna make sure that I'm doing everything properly so I did get a

  • trainer I also do Pilates Pilates has always been such an amazing way for me

  • to tone my body and feel strong it's a very great way to elongate yourself and

  • learn how to carry yourself more elegantly that makes sense

  • you really see a difference with tawny so I'm doing a weight training and I do

  • Pilates I don't do really any cardio because I

  • just I don't like it my heart rate is

  • actually like going even from like small little movements so I'm not a big

  • believer in like cardio for me for myself for my body type this is all me

  • talking about my personal experience this is by no means any expertise

  • whatsoever about the way it should work out I highly recommend people to really

  • learn more about their own bodies I know there's a lot of fitness gurus out there

  • and doing a lot of different things but I've learned that what works for me

  • won't work for someone else I'm still kind of tweaking and learning how my

  • body should feel and move and when I'm doing something if it's wrong or right

  • form is extremely important I prefer to go slower with things but to make sure

  • that my form is perfect a lot of you guys kept damning me ask me about my

  • goal weight I don't have one I don't care about numbers whatsoever I really

  • want to get stronger and I want to build a booty that was never there before

  • which is a really really difficult thing to do just really kind of follow the way

  • my clothes fit me and that's when I know when things are changing in my body

  • I don't care to see results for at least 18 months

  • I'm being serious like again it takes so much time to change things up I mean for

  • me after childbirth I'm just giving my body the time and freedom to figure

  • itself out and heal I truly know that consistency is everything and just being

  • in tune with your body and treat it like a temple that's kind of the rule of

  • thumb that I follow with food and my workout and I feel like I definitely see

  • a difference I'm so proud of my body I see things are changing and moving and

  • I'm just really excited to keep getting stronger and I'm not interested in

  • getting back in my pre-baby body I want my new body post three children strong

  • badass body that's what I want so good luck for me so we're gonna do this again

  • when max gonna turn one year to see the progress

  • and I'm super excited for you guys to follow me on this journey thank you guys

  • so much for watching I'll see you guys next time

hi guys welcome back to my channel today I wanted to create a video talking a

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