~*~nutrition, Exercise And Water For Hair Growth Challenge 2018~*~

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Just came across this article on hair growth when investigating seed/been sprouts and hair growth. Hope this helps.

https://allremedies.com/how-to-grow-thick-hair/

More specifically, I've read that mung bean sprouts, ground flax seeds, and alfalfa sprouts are tops for promoting hair health/growth.

How to grow sprouts? I now have a machine, but I started with this:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WqA_Wp8NuIs
 
Reached my personal goal of 3 times a week and worked out 4 times. I try to keep the workouts at 30 minutes. This keeps me motivated because its difficult to talk myself out of it. It will also be feasible after I'm off of break from this Accelerated Nursing Program and it takes away all my time again. I do 20 minutes of cardio. That gives me 1.5 miles on the treadmill and elliptical and 2 miles on the bicycle depending on what I'm feeling that day. Hoping to see these numbers increase with time. I then do 10 min of strength. I alternate between 1-3 arm, ab, and butt workouts daily. If the area is sore that day I skip it.

I drank at least 2 of my 32 oz water-bottles and only reached my goal of 3 one day this week. This is what I want to focus on during the weeks to follow.

I wont weigh myself until next week (really need a digital scale before then) and I wont take measurements until the end of the month but I can definitely tell my arms are thinning and more toned and my cottage cheese thighs are a little less cheesy :rolleyes:
 
Been doing my insanity workouts......did 5 sessions last week after the new year, also did one session today! I have also been eating the keto way and i'm actually loving it, as i am learning new healthy recipes each day. I have also been drinking 3 litres a day, sometimes more.
I've actually dropped some weight as my boyfriend noted this and my clothes fit better.....My belly has reduced and is flatter in my clothes. I refuse to weigh myself though until the end of the month as the scale has a way of sabotaging me or making me feel comfortable to indulge.
I'm loving feeling healthier plus the slight weight loss boost!
 
I've been eating much cleaner than before. I'm learning how to plan our meals so that dinner isn't a rushed chaos that turns into ordering out.
I've been taking my daily multivitamin but I have only reached about a quarter of my daily water goal.
I haven't been working out but I did purchase a yoga DVD that I intend to start tonight provided that my minions give me an hour of solitude.
I lost 4 pounds seemingly overnight because I was sick a few days ago. Not a recommended way to tighten up but I'll take it.
I'm going to measure myself when I get home and update my stats because I forgot to do it at the start of the challenge.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow and I'm hoping it melts up some of this snow so I can start jogging again.
 
I completed 6 miles on Monday, 4 miles on Tuesday, but couldn’t bring myself to do anything but stretch today. I think I overdid it by putting too many miles in at once. I haven’t ran that many miles at once in a long time. I will start back up tomorrow, but I think I will only shoot for 3 miles until my body gets use to the load. My water intake has been hit or miss, but I have been doing great with my food intake. I have already lost a few pounds since New Year’s, so I’m feeling positive that I’m moving in the right direction.
 
Really nice work, everyone!

Over the holidays I was away from home for two weeks. That made following my nutrition, exercise, and water plan challenging. Throughout our vacation I tried to eat well and kept thinking, "I wonder how much weight I will have gained over the holidays?"

0.6 pounds! :clap: That works! :yep:

Right after I returned from vacation, my cycle hit. When I'm on top of it with my iron and when I'm very healthy, it's severely, severely heavy. (I've been to the doctor for all of this.) I always have to do intense iron recup after. Exercising is extremely difficult with this heavy a cycle. In fact, everything is a challenge.

I have felt really sidelined by it all, this time. Instead of feeling down about basically losing half a month of "progress," I'm trying to calmly stay the course and just know that soon I'll be able to dive back in full force.
 
YvetteWithJoy said:
Really nice work, everyone!

Over the holidays I was away from home for two weeks. That made following my nutrition, exercise, and water plan challenging. Throughout our vacation I tried to eat well and kept thinking, "I wonder how much weight I will have gained over the holidays?"

0.6 pounds! :clap: That works! :yep:

Right after I returned from vacation, my cycle hit. When I'm on top of it with my iron and when I'm very healthy, it's severely, severely heavy. (I've been to the doctor for all of this.) I always have to do intense iron recup after. Exercising is extremely difficult with this heavy a cycle. In fact, everything is a challenge.

I have felt really sidelined by it all, this time. Instead of feeling down about basically losing half a month of "progress," I'm trying to calmly stay the course and just know that soon I'll be able to dive back in full force.
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i feel you with the cycle story but im pushing through to get my exercise in. Did my 3 workouts last week with FitnessBlender. this week i'm doing 3 days jump rope. Did 200 yesterday, 300 today and will do 400 tomorrow. Next week i'll be going back to weights. Haven't met my water intake mark as yet but im drinking more now than before.
 
I posted somewhere that I rolled over (new year's eve weekend), noticed the scalp massager I purchased this time last year, and have been using it daily ever since. I swear, I have 2 more weeks before my next re-ti and it feels like I already have the total amount of growth I usually have by the time I reach my re-ti appt. It isn't slippage, no random locs w/considerably more growth than others. The growth is consistent and all over. I'm pretty darn excited over here.
 
Evallusion said:
It's not too late. It's rolling admissions up in here! Welcome to the challenge!
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Thank you!

Hair Goals
Current Length: WL
2018 Goal Length: HL
Relaxed, natural, texlaxed: Natural
How you will achieve goal: Lots of protective styling and moisture

Exercise Goals
Current Weight: 30" around my waist
Height: (for those looking for body buddies) 5'2.5"
Goal Weight and/or Inches to lose: 26" around my waist
How will you achieve this goal?: Focusing on core and ab exercises

Water Goals
Daily Intake Goal: 1858ml/day

Nutrition Goals
What are your Nutrition Goals?: Cleaner eating: minimize intake of wheat/wheat products, white sugar products (i.e. CHOCOLATE, store-bought deserts), increase vegetables and healthy fats
How will you achieve them?: Hope and prayer Bake/create more snacks myself rather than relying on store-bought snacks
 
Stepped on the digital scale I bought last week and it said 170 lbs :eek:. Freaked out that I gained 10 lbs until I stepped on my old dial scale and it said 160 lb o_O. Whatever. Its crazy because my bf was trying to say it was wrong months ago but it was easier to believe he was 10 lbs lighter than he is usually than me 10 lbs heavier :crybaby:. Just means I have a lot more work to do. I also want to change my goal to 140 lbs. I was looking at photos from freshman year of undergrad and I liked the weight on me.

I drank my goal of 96 oz of water a day 5 out of 7 days last week and worked out 4 days. Want to continue to work on water intake this week especially with school starting back up.
 
Have been sticking to my eating plan and my vitamins and supplements. I have been doing yoga at least every other day. Saturday I got back on my bike and rode for 45 minutes. It was slow and it was tough but I finished. I wanted to ride again today but between Saturday's ride and my yoga yesterday, my upper body is too tired to hold me up through an entire workout :sad: So I got in 15 minutes and then had to call it quits.

I will start doing wall pushups each time I hit the restroom so help gradually build up some more strength.

My SO's scale saide my weight was 151.8 this morning which is a really good loss for a week but I need to see what my scale says before I make it official.
 
I forget all about GreenBeauty (YouTube and IG). She gets down to the science of growing healthy black hair and is incredibly informative. She did a few videos on using onion juice (she posted both a raw and cooked method), and most recently did an update video. I think I'm gonna try it. Because I've gotten so much growth from 3 wks of daily scalp massages, I feel I haven't been hitting my growth potential. Do look her up. ALL of her videos are very informative.

 
I made some fat bombs on the weekend and have been snacking on those in the evening (along with a bowl of ice cream :look:). I'm down another pound. I'll have to check my weight again next week and see what happens.

As for my hair, I haven't washed it since New Year's weekend. I'm normally a weekly washer. I'm trying to decide whether I'm going to wash this weekend or wait for the 4 weeks to be complete. I want to see how my hair reacts to not having been under the water as a result of these deep freezes.
 
This week, I started with a vegetarian chef, who will be making my lunch/dinner meals Sunday - Wednesday & Friday. I will be on my own on Thursdays (which is my family's Daniel's Denial Fasting Day) and Saturdays.

I have been exercising with my church group at least 2 of the 3 days a week, but I have really been falling behind on my water intake. I also need to further reduce my sugar intake and stop eating sweets every night after dinner.

As far as my hair goes, I have not DC'd for the past 2 weeks because I have been trying to preserve my blow out. But I have kept my hair and ends oiled while plaited under my wigs. On the weekends, I unplait my hair to remove the shed hairs, thoroughly oil the length of my hair and re-plait it. On the 2nd week of my blow out, I used a dry shampoo to freshen my scalp. I will keep up this routine as long as I can, but no longer than the end of March.
 
Today went VERY well, largely because DH was like, "Your exercise plans fell through the other day. So now c'mon. Let's get it!"

I worked out hard. I did the elliptical machine full effort while watching epi #4 of Grownish on Hulu. During commercials I got off, walked, drank water, and prepared for the next round. :smile: I worked up a good sweat and worked my legs in addition to my heart.

Afterwards, I drank collagen in apple juice and then ate a healthy TV dinner. Feeling good! :up:

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My weight had jumped up to 154.? for some odd reason. I'm down 3 lbs this week to 151.? I'm happy with that. My goal is to be less than 150 by the end of the month. Then that puts me 5 lbs away from my goal of 145.

I have been doing well with my fruit and vegetable servings. I'm regularly getting in 5 servings. I am working at being more consistent with cooking so I will get that up to 6 servings some time in February.

I'm consistent with my vitamins. And will stay on top of that.

I have eliminated my daily coffee drinking which cuts down on my sugar consumption. I also bought some mason jars to make mason jar oatmeal. Making it myself will help me bring the sugar content down. I buy the packs for convenience but I can just buy them for emergencies. I plan to switch over to steel cut oats when I finish the instant oats I have.

I getting back to my exercise. I can't believe how out of shape I am :nono: Hopefully I am back in full swing by spring. I have been doing yoga 3 to 4 days a week and I'm back to riding my indoor bike trainer 3 days a week. I start a running lab on Monday to start training for a 5 K.

Not doing anything special with my hair. Its up as always. I have switched to shampooing/cowashing/water rinsing every 7 to 8 days and then trying some different methods of moisturizing every 3 to 4 days. I'm focusing more on my scalp to keep it hydrated. Besides that it is just up in my usual flat twist. As I exercise more and get busy I will have even less time to focus on my hair.

The one area I am having issues in is falling asleep. I am hoping the increased physical activity will help. I also need to find a soothing dvd to help calm my mind. I know I have one somewhere. I will look for it this weekend.

I am hoping with all of these changes this will help boost my growth rate and help me get to full APL by the end of the year.
 
Just finished my 3rd exercise for the week. Did upper body and lower body exercises with my DVD "Personal training with Jackie 30 day fast start" and a total body workout with Shawn T on Youtube.

Water intake is getting better and bad snacking is being reduced.

Hair still in crochet braids but I oiled my scalp tonight.
 
Copied from my weekly accountable/motivation/momentum response post from the Your Dream Body in 2018 thread:

January 20, 2018
CHECK IN RESPONSES
  1. On a scale from 0 (completely unsuccessful) to 10 (utterly amazing), how well do you feel that what you did with this week contributed to your achieving your dream body?
    7
  2. On a scale from 0 (completely unsuccessful) to 10 (utterly amazing), how did this past week fare EATING-WISE?
    7

    I am starting to get used to eating light and healthy, as I keep eating the same meals regularly. Also, it really helps that I am eating DELICIOUS healthy foods. It cuts down on the sense of deprivation, tremendously. I feel like I could maintain this for "life," ya know. :smile:
    I did have one meal where I ate more than usual before feeling satisfied.
  3. On a scale from 0 (completely unsuccessful) to 10 (utterly amazing), how did this past week fare EXERCISE-WISE?
    7.9

    I upped my exercise game this week, and it felt really, REALLY good! I worked out HARD. I sweated and got that after-workout good feel. :yep: If I keep this up, I will DEFINITELY obtain my dream body. Yeah! :smile:
    One of the ways I'm hoping to make this change a LIFETIME, LIFESTYLE change is to become known as a GYM RAT. I'm starting to think of myself as one, even before I am one. (The "gym" will start out as my home gym. Eventually, though, I hope to also start attending a gym for stuff like Zuumba and swimming.)
  4. On a scale from 0 (completely unsuccessful) to 10 (utterly amazing), how was your water intake this past week?
    3.5

    I didn't prep my water at night and thus didn't reach 32 ounces by noon on any days.
  5. On a scale from 0 (completely unsuccessful) to 10 (utterly amazing), how was your vitamin/supplement intake this past week?
    6.5

    I drank my (Dr. Axe's) ACV drink 3 times this week, on an empty stomach. (NOTE: I did not put the collagen in it. That was a good move. Instead, I drank the collagen AFTERWARDS, in a cup of apple juice. MUCH BETTER.)
    I took a lot of iron pills, but not all. I need to go back to using my pill box. :yep:
    I did not take my multi-vitamin.
    My pine cone pollen came in. I had a 1/2 a teaspoon in some apple juice. This is my first time trying this. I'm really hoping I get the benefits that are reported. :pray:
  6. (Note: Because milestones are supposed to be significant accomplishments, most weeks will not be milestone weeks. :smile:) Was this a week wherein you hit a milestone? If so, which milestone(s), and how was the reward? :smile:
    This week was not a milestone week.
  7. What do you want to change for next week? What do you want to keep doing?
    Keep doing strength training that causes me to sweat (i.e., that is also a cardio workout). :up:
    Keep thinking of myself as a person who is simply an exerciser as a matter of life/course.
    Keep eating low calorie, healthy meals.
    Keep drinking turmeric tea (for anti-inflammation effects, as inflammation is a big deal, according to the literature.)
Set up your targets for next week (please respond only to those that apply to your plan):
  1. How many times do you plan to exercise this upcoming week?
    9

    Monday: Twice. Strength training and abs.
    Tuesday: Once. Cardio.
    Wednesday: Twice. Strength training and abs.
    Thursday: Once. Cardio.
    Friday: Twice. Strength training and abs.
    Saturday: Once. Cardio
    Sunday: Rest.
  2. How many ounces or liters of water do you plan to drink this upcoming week?
    64 x 7 =
    448 ounces
  3. How many healthy meals do you plan to eat this week?
    20 . . . allowing for 1 off-plan "cheat" meal
  4. How many pounds/kilos do you aim to lose this week?
    1.5 lbs
  5. Other targets you have for the upcoming week that you would like to track?
    Fill my pill box with my iron pills and multivitamins for the week. Carry in purse.
    If I do NOTHING else health/fitness -related, at least do my strength training on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday . . . and at least take 7 iron pills this week.
 
Finally made a tea rinse. Instead of the usual gingko biloba, sage, nettle, horsetail, and caffeinated green teas, I steeped chopped yellow onion, garlic,and cayenne in it for a pre-poo. My after-poo rinse will just have gingko biloba, sage, nettle, horsetail, and caffeinated green teas.
 
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