25 yr old female of healthy weight wanting to do better

Fuity_Pebbles
Fuity_Pebbles Posts: 1
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I'm moderately active, 5'3'', 130 lbs. I don't necessarily want or need to loose weight. I do want to loose fat and add muscle. I also know that when I eat better and exercise more, I feel much happier and more content. I have been making an effort to go weekday vegetarian, and am interested in recipes, and tips for such. I am a cocktail waitress with a blue heeler so I do lots and lots of walking daily, but not really much else in the way of physical activity. I have bought some weights that I intend to start doing some workout videos with, and have an interest in taking yoga and belly dancing classes. I live in Portland Oregon so they are on just about every corner along with numerous estatic dance events and meditation and movement workshops. There are a lot of things I have thought about doing for a long time, and I feel now as I am getting beyond my early twenties, that there is no time like the present to start doing what makes me feel healthy and happy. I don't want to put off being at my best any longer. Suck the nectar of life so to speak. My loving partner is 39 years old, and so I am thinking ahead about how over the coming years I will see more changes in my life and health, and I want to do what I can now so that I can continue to feel strong and sexy at every stage of my life. I also am an artist and model so my body is very important to me as a tool of my trade, and temple of my heart and soul. I want to honor it, and learn to truly love myself so that I may then fully embrace my love and treatment of others. I feel that the greatest beauty is natural, from within.

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  • poliver319
    poliver319 Posts: 11 Member
    Stay active. I read once that our metabolisms slow down a bit every 7 years. I know for me my body started changing from what it was in my early 20's right around the 27-30 year mark. I also recognize that my level of activity also slowed, something I am now changing about myself. So simply my advice is to stay active, eat well and you should be happy with yourself. Its very easy to become complacent with work schedules and life in general so you really have to consciously make yourself maintain the level of fitness and health that you are talking about.

    OH....also remember that its not all about weight loss. If you start building muscle you will gain weight, so focus on whether or not you are happy with the way you look rather than a number.

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