Small Haul

Hiya,

I bought a few things, like really just a few but I felt like showing them to you, so I did. First of all, I'm sorry for the horrific lightening, but I couldn't arrange it otherwise. 

I saw this fitness mat online and instantly fell in love with it. It has a pinky- red colour and the typical Nike quote Just Do It written on it. I just love this quote, because it's really as simple as that. Just do it. If you want to get fitter, what's holding you back? Just do it. Anyway I didn't want to buy it myself because I thought 35 € were quite a lot for a mat. But as I gave my older one to my brother (He's feeling the fitness vibe, too, right now.) I needed a new one and my mum bought it for me when she was in the city. It's a bit thin for my tast and not that good to do something like push ups on it but it's alright though, I guess. It can be found here.

The other day I saw these in a sports catalogue and I really liked them. I love Nike sports shoes in general, but they're pretty expensive, for example the Nike Frees. These ones were on sale so I ordered them via telephone, since they weren't available over the online shop anymore. The woman told me that they would arrive in about four weeks but they were there after only a week. I ordered two pairs, in different sizes, which was a good decision, since the ones that I thought would fit, didn't fit at all. I already tested them in the gym twice and they're really got. By the way, I got myself a gym membership two weeks ago and I'm there four times a week at the moment. I'm happy that I made the decision to go there. It's a lot of fun and I feel really, really good when I'm finished and know that I did something for my body. I do a lot of courses and have a work out plan. I'm probably going to blog more about it soon.

So when I went into town today to send back the pair of shoes that didn't fit I stopped by at the shops and grabbed a few things. I picked up the latest edition of the German Glamour. The Glamour is my favourite German magazine, among the InStyle. Anyway I like the British Glamour a lot more and buy it everytime I'm overseas. But as I can't get it here I'm buying the German one everytime I feel like it. Then I needed a heat protection spray, since my hair literally feels horrible everytime I blow dry it and I really needed something to protect it from drying out. After walking through the shop for about fifteen minutes I realised they didn't had the one I wanted and I decided to grab the Heatprotection Styling Spray by Syoss for only 3,95 €. Then I went to look for some hair oil or a conditioner or something like that. I decided to pick up the orange Garnier Fructis one for 3,75 €. Then I strolled through the Make Up area of the shop, desperate to buy something. I picked up a Top Coat nail polish by essence, because I needed one and didn't feel like spending a lot of money, It was 1,95 €. After looking a bit more around through the shelves/ stands the essence eye pencil & shadow pen in blazing black caught my eye. I was actually looking out for eyeliners in that moment but as I am really clumsy with them I decided to go for this one. You can basically use it like an eyeline, to draw on your eyelid like you would normally do with an eyeliner. One of my lovely friends (hi Inga) gave me that idea when we were in London together. It's actually a really good alternative for people like me. Normally I'm not a fan of cheap make up like from essence, but I tested the pen and seems to be really good so far. 

I hope everyone's week is going well! 

New Years Resolutions

New Years Resolutions, we do them every year, promising ourselves things things to be a better person- and they most likely don't turn into reality. At least in my case. You all have probably already made your New Year's resolutions, since it's already nearly February, but I just didn't really think about it until now. And now I'm sitting here in my room with a cup of tea and Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend in the background, scribbling down things to be a better person. First of all, I want to get fitter. To be honest that was my goal last year, too, but I really want to turn it into reality this year. I'm not feeling good in my body and I want to change that. I already started working out more again and going for a run from time to time. Since my boxing trainer is an asshole and let our group down I don't have boxing twice a week anymore. I'm currently searching for an alternative. I have a few fitness essentials at home so I can do some things myself but that's not enough for me. I also want to eat more healthy. That's quite complicated with my family but I will try my best. Oh and I started counting calories again. I know that's not the best thing to do and I don't recommend it, but then again it makes me notice how much crap I'm stuffing myself with and how I should decline a bar of chocolate or a piece of cake from time to time. Another one of my New Year's Resolutions is getting better grades, but that's not what I want to talk about in this blog post. And anyway that just makes me think of how I should be doing my English course work instead of blogging right now. 

If you want to get fitter and lose weight this year, as me, I have two Apps to recommend. The first one is Runtastic. Runtastic is a sports app that includes a lot of sport activities to do. It counts for example the time you've been for a run, the kilometers/ miles you ran and calculates your average speed, the average time it took you to run a kilmoter/ mile and all that stuff. It also shows the way you ran on a map. It does the same for biking, inline skating, riding, sailing, surfing, skiing and a lot of other activities. I've got the version that costs some Euros but there's a free version, too. I just really think that it helps you to show the progress you're making and it's a lot of fun.

The second App is Noom Weight Loss. Noom asks after you're age, weight, heigh and how much weight you want to lose, before starting. It then calculates the amount of calories you can eat within a day. Noom includes separate options to add the food you ate and tells you how much calories are left to be possibly eaten. You can add calories that you lost while working out, too by the way. 

Those were probably some really poor explanations for the apps but you should really just check them out yourself. 

Another thing that motivates me for working out are twitter accounts like @BeFitMotivation. Just simply looking at the photos there makes me want to work out in order to get closer to my dream body every day. There are quite a few tumblr blogs too that I look at for inspiration and there are also a lot of cool ones with nice and healthy recipes. What I also love about this whole thing is shopping or just looking for sporty outfits. I've made a collage of a few nice things I found online, maybe you'll find some pieces that you like! :)

Everything is avaible here.

I will probably post a few recipes, fitness motivation, work outs and all this stuff from time to time now, I hope everyone is okay with that. Have a great week :)