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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

If I could RE-DO my interview



In late October A Fab U asked me to be on her radio on show.. If you missed it here’s the link..

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/urbanlasvegas/2012/10/27/a-fab-u-with-guest-a-monique-hunt-weight-loss-coach#.UIrEDHBhjXE.facebook

I went into more detail about some of the question I was asked below.. it was my first radio show and I was so scared I forgot to say a lot of things I wanted to say... So below are the things I wish I would have said or could have said…

Radio show question

1)  Explain to those that may not know what it is that you do exactly?

I call myself a life coach. I have certification in Personal training, weight
loss nutrition, and I'm currently working on a sport nutrition certification. I
also create pre-pack juicing bags. I want to give anyone the power to get
healthy. On my weight loss journey I started out with a trainer. My family had a
dramatic financial issue and I could no longer afford a trainer. I could not
find anyone to help me or even give me guidance for free, so I knew the only person that
would train me for free was Me. So I got educated. So now I want to be that
person for the next person. If someone needs help I can be there for them.

2)  What do you charge for your services?

To personal train I charge 5 dollars. To teach a person how to create a meal
plan I charge 10. And to create a 1 a day pre-pack juice bag for 7 day its
starts at $60. But always willing to help for free.

3)  How important do you think it is to be healthy body wise?

I think its very important. When you are mentally physically and emotionally healthy I think
it will help you balance out every aspect of your life.

4)  Your weight loss journey was  a rollercoaster in the beginning. Why do you
think it was hard for you to stick to it?  And, what advice would you give to
listeners that are struggling with losing & gaining back weight?

I was going about it all wrong!! Is the biggest thing. I wasn't educate going in
to any of my dieting phase. I wanted something quick and fast. So I would go to
the diet doctor the weight loss program. I was not teaching myself smart
planning discipline. I wasn’t teaching myself a lifestyle change, just a for the
moment change.

I would tell anyone out there you have to find a connection with the reason why
you need to get healthy. Teach yourself that this will have to be a life long
decision . Know that the road is tough and it will never end. You have to get
out of the I need to loss weight mind frame. And say I want to get healthy. When
you get healthy, and active the weight will come off.

5)  How important would you say it is to have a plan and not to just wing it?

Being prepare is the number one key to being successful in any journey in your
life. If you have a plan of attack in place its less likely to make poor choice.

6)  Do you think a person’s weight affects their self-esteem or is it all
mental?

I think it plays a role with some not all. But that's the first thing I tell
people. You have to love and except you just the way to are at your starting
weight because if you don't you will see that same person at your goal weight.
Always wanting to lose more always finding flaws in yourself.

7)  What inspired and motivated you to want to reach out and help others?

Like I said I was a person that need and wanted to lose weight I didn't have
anyone to help and motivate me. I see a lot of friends that needed what I had to
offer. But I couldn't get them to join. So I extended my services to other and I
fell in love with helping others.

8)  What is your ultimate goal with @Home with A. Hunt, what would you like to
see it become?

I want to teach families to get healthy at home! This is where it all starts. If
You’re a women or man with a family on the road to get healthy if the whole family
is not on board you will not be as successful. I want to change the family trees
of African Americans. I want the next generation to have a different idea of
soul food. Food that can help the soul and not block your heart. I want to teach
our youth how to be healthy how to create there own school lunch show them a
work out routine to do before or after school to create mental clarity. The gym
doesn't create a healthy happy person. It all starts at home. And I want to be
apart of a family success.

9)  Did you have a lot of people supporting you on your journey?  How did that
help or hinder you?

No I didn't but that was my personal preference. The first 3 month of my healthy
journey. I did it on my own with only my husband and kids backing me. I didn't
have any friend that were mentally were I was. And to avoid making bad choices I
stayed away until I was strong enough to hang out with out ruining my progress..

10)  What advice would you give someone who’s having a hard time getting
starting with their goal to lose weight?

Evaluate the importance of what you’re doing. Find passion in journey. You have to
find your why (the reason need to make a change) and remind yourself every day.
Take the steps..step one find your why. Step two evaluate the roads: road a if
you continue to live the way u are now what's at the end of the road? Road b if
u make this change what's at the end of that road? Step 3 take action with the
road you choose and find happiness with it, and create a plan of attack. And always be
open to reevaluate. Know that with any road you choose it will be tough but you
are tougher, SO fight until u get to the next fork in the road. Because
there’s no finish line..

Changing your food habits is tough and to me I think its a process a diet that
works for one person might not work for another. I wouldn’t be successful on a no carb
diet and someone else maybe they would be everyone is different. I have to ask
so many question when I create a meal plan and then take it week by week. You
just have to find what food make you happy and healthy.

11)  Would you say that losing weight is something that you need to do for
yourself and not to please others?

Of course any change you make if its not a change your making for you it will
not make you happy and you will not stick to it.

12)  Do you ever have a cheat day?

Yes ma'am I do!! And I enjoy those moments. But I cheat smart and in moderation.
And I plan for my cheat day. And continue to work hard after it.


14)  How can people get in touch with you or find out more about what you do? I
have a facebook page. Facebook.com/homewithahunt. Follow me on twitter
homewithahunt follow me on instagram athomeahunt. I have a blog that has my story if you want to check it out.
Homesweethunt.blogspot.com or just shoot me an email athomewithahunt@yahoo.com I
post recipes, workout, information on juicing, motivation quotes and all kinds
of stuff.

15)  Any closing words?

Just remember happiness is key to a healthier you. Slow down and listen to your
body it has a lot to say if you just take a moment to listen. And always smile
its good for your health! Thank u!!

So there you go!! :)

Until I write again until you read again
Kisses and misses

sex and INTIMACY



I was having a VERY interesting convo with a fitness friend of mine that I wanted to share with you all..
I have told you all that I have had counseling to open some closed doors in my mind to help me with my total mission to be mentally, physically, and emotionally happy, RIGHT? 

Making that change, changed my marriage… we were always friends but finding out where my issues came from. Change me and fixed me, and made my marriage stronger and made us a lot closer..  Which brings me to my point… My fitness friend asked me why I was so tried this morning… I told her I was up all night talking to my husband.. She said watching TV? I said no talking… She said what like 20, 30 mins? I said no all night? Maybe like 3 or 4 hours.. She just looked at me puzzled.. I’m like what. She said I couldn’t talk to anyone that long. LOL

I just feel like I can take a million small conversation and put it to a whole night of pillow talk.. In my opinion.. That is where the intimacy is, its in the long conversation.  Its in the long lasting hugs, the good bye kisses that starts with one peck and end up lasting longer. A lot of people confuse sex with love.. Can you go day with out having sex as a married couple and still laugh, kiss, talk, and cuddle with out feeling that something is missing? Or the black flag of death is hovering over your marriage? 

I feel like the satisfaction of being pulled in close and having 1000s of words whispered in my ear that could make me surprised, happy, shocked, silly, and or laugh has more gratification than sex any day..  I feel way more loved that he can share his inner most everything with me and I can do the same with him without being judge, or loved any differently. Sex is easy it can be done with anyone. But intimacy is difficult. It requires honesty, openness, self-disclosure, confiding concerns, fears, sadnesses as well as hopes and dreams.

Again its just my opinion, I know that getting to the point where my husband and I are now was not easy, but worth it. He is my best friend and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way. It makes me so mad to think about the time we wasted when everyday could have been this amazing.. But I enjoy it and look forward to each and everyday I have with him.

Until I write again, until you read again 
Kisses and Misses

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

3 years and standing STRONG



Yesterday made 3 years from the day I decide to no longer be a victim to my weight.

 

I was taking some pictures and later that day I viewed them on the computer and for the first time I no longer saw me! It was a stranger. My face my body... that was not me. I could no longer tell my self that it was just a little weight. It was out of control, I was unhappy and unhealthy… All bad! So I asked my hubby if he would help me.. He agreed like ALWAYS.. Lol.. 

 

I started at the gym.. I had a membership but never used it… I started just doing cardio, classes , watching my diet.. I got down 25 pounds and I was ready to up my training!! I asked about the one on one training. I found a trainer that was amazing.. His name was Tony, he was GREAT he made me laugh the whole session I would forget I was working out.. I loved it!! 

 

But then I hit a bump in the road I ended up getting sick… DAMN KIDNEY STONES and messed up my gym time process, then I had another Bump in my road I could no longer afford to pay for training... I was on my own.. But I did!!!

 

Everyday I have to remind myself to stick with and never give up!!

Saturday, November 3, 2012

On a new adventure

Hey blog watchers and followers. I have decided to take a different road on my journey of finding my way. I wanted to share it with you all. I was doing an 8 week challenge and I got to week 4 and I let a stressful situation take my focus off my goal and I failed to complete it. I have not been working out on a constant basis like I normally do. 

 

Now this has put me behind in my training schedule. I have a Facebook fitness friend from a different state and she noticed that I have not been posting about my works or that I have been to the gym. She was concerned with my progress. I told her that my boss was out for a week and things at work have been over the top stressful. I felt lost and was trying to find my balance to find my happy place. I have been deep in meditation and prayer. I have talked with my counselor and she has expressed to me the impact that a negative situation can have on my life and I have really been feeling it over past few months. After a serious fitness talk with my friend the weight my world was lifted. I have decided to make a huge change in my life.

 

Let me tell you about my fitness friend. About a month ago when my fitness friend can out of the dark and showed herself to me she said she wanted to help me get fitness model ready the best she could from a distance. She sent me some books and emailed me a lot of information that was SO helpful. She couldn’t believe that I couldn’t find anyone in my home town to get me any type of help or support without asking for payment. I explain to her that Vegas is a mixing pot full of people who are only out for themselves. It is rare that you will find a person that wants to help you without getting anything in return.  Which is the main reason I started iSweat@home to help others get to their goal.

I haven’t stopped working out, but I haven’t been giving it my all getting down and dirty with it. I’ve worked out maybe 3 times a week and I haven’t been hitting the weight.  I will be doing a training session at 6:30 in the am.  Starting Monday morning, so I think this is just what I need! To get myself back together!

 

Sunday the “workout wagon” will be picking me up and taking me where I need to be. My fitness friend sent me a book “The new rules of lifting for women” it’s a very complicated book. I had to read it a few times to understand the training schedule but I finally figured it out. So I will be starting out the phase one of the training session..  This is the perfect start for a weight training routine if you don’t know where to start.  So I’m going to walk you through this program with me so if you get the book you don’t have to read it 5 times like I did..

 


Phase One:

 
16 work outs

 
Monday- Work out 1
Tuesday- cardio, Abs
Wednesday- Work out 2
Thursday- Cardio, Abs
Friday-Work out 1
Saturday- Cardio, Abs
Sunday- Off

So this first week will be a total of 3 work outs

Repeat this for 14 work outs

 
Work out details…

 
Workout 1:

Squat - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Squat - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Pushups - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Seated Row - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Pushups - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Seated Row - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Stepups - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Prone JacKnife - 1 set of 15 reps, Rest 60 seconds
StepUps - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Prone Jacknife - 1 set of 15 reps, Rest 60 seconds


Workout 2:

Deadlift - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Deadlift - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Dumbbell shoulder press - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Wide-grip lat pulldown - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Dumbbell shoulder press - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Wide-grip lat pulldown - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Lunge - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Swiss-ball crunch - 1 set of 15 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Lunge - 1 set of 8 reps, Rest 60 seconds
Swiss-ball crunch - 1 set of 15 reps, Rest 60 seconds

Now on day 15 and 16 you do work out A and B AMRAP (as many reps as possible)



Day 15, Workout A:

Squat – 1 min AMRAP
Pushups - 1 min AMRAP
Seated Row - 1 min AMRAP
Stepups - 1 min AMRAP
Prone JacKnife - 1 min AMRAP

Which will total 10 mins

Repeat

Repeat like day 15

Day 16, Workout B:

Deadlift - 1 min AMRAP
Dumbbell shoulder press - 1 min AMRAP
Wide-grip lat pulldown - 1 min AMRAP
Lunge - 1 min AMRAP
Swiss-ball crunch - 1 min AMRAP

Repeat

So this is what I will be doing for the first phase of my work out.. Pics of me and work out log will follow.. Check out my facebook page..

Facebook.com/homewithahunt



Until I write again, until you read again

Kisses and misses

Monday, September 17, 2012

Let me explain.. (repost)

A tad bit CONFUSING
 
So, I have a few blog readers a tad bit confused.. I just want to clear something up.. LOL.. If you are one of my blog reader and the last post you read was from December and I was on the 8th day of my second 30 day challenge and now I’m giving hair tips, protein tips and fitness quote, maybe I should do some EXPLAINING!! LOL..

So let me tell you about way weight loss ROLLER COASTER..
I started out my journey some years after I had my son (2002 or so) at 160ish.. I wasn’t the prettiest thing and was STRUGGLING with some self esteem issues and thought that if I was skinny everything would be better.. So I found out about this office you can go get B12 shots, Diet pills and you can lose weight fast! So I did that and went to the gym.. I got down to 146ish (I think) and then the office closed and I stopped with the pills and shot and guess what…. YUP I gained the weight back..

Then in 2004 or so.. I was back at it again I wanted to be pretty and feel better about me and I thought weight lost would fix it all.. So I started a program called LA Weight loss.. and I was on magic bars and a strict eating plan,had people to weigh and measures me and keep on track and I lost the WEIGHT again.. I got down to a nice 130ish.. (2005) Met the love of my life got married and got happy, went though up and downs of that and so did my weight..

(2009)I got up to a about 190 if not a little more.. So here is when I tried a little bit of everything… OTC diet stuff.. a little work out here and there.. not eating all that kinda stuff.. and I tried ONE final thing.. and I lost 40 pounds and for some reason my body didn’t like it and I gained it back.. So here I was December 2009 187 pound .. OMG!! I hate to even see the number and compare it to me.. Its so UNREAL that in 2005 I was about 130 pds just sexy.. Then over 6 years I put on 60+ pounds of happiness, love, stress, worry, and GOOD OL’ FOOD?! How could I let it happen.. I saw it, but I kept saying its just a few pounds “its water”, “I had to many drinks” BLAH BLAH LIES.. I had to find my WHY (the real reason I needed to lose the weight) and I did..

So I got in the gym had a trainer and worked my butt off planned out my meals and lost some weight then I couldn’t afford my trainer, so I had to finish it up on my own.. I lost 54 pds (at 133ish March 2010) with nothing but trial and error it was so HARD! And I know weight loss can happen if you have a plan in place and that is something I did not HAVE the first go around..

Another December breakdown (2011) I was back up 25ish pounds due to stress… I made up my mind I was tired of it all.. I was tired of letting the stress take over my body and not able to do anything about it!! Which my blog readers read my ups and downs.. So I this is where the you guys might have can in.. I was on my 2nd 30 day challenge and I was doing good but still fighting with my stress and depression.. I had a few people joining me in my quest for health, but I didn’t feel totally ready for it myself.. I had to figure some things out before I really got serious and made change. I knew I was not mentally strong enough to lose the weight and keep it off for good.. And I love the way I was helping people.. I wanted to be a better role model and truly MAKE A DIFFERENCE..
I knew that total wellness, and balance was mental, physical and spiritual. I need to get all those thing in line.. I started out with a counseling session in order to get to the root of my personal issues.. I took a Mediation class and loved it. So I decided to take a course so I can teach others.. It was amazing! I’ve never felt a inter peace like that before! I renew my nutrition certification and I was already a certified personal trainer so it was time for me to train myself and lose this weight the right way.. I started back in the gym and home training.. really stuck to a eating plan that work for me and the weight started to come back off.. no count calories or starving… I started to train a few people in their homes for free just to help them and give them some help to start a home exercise program.. I really started to educate myself on my health I wanted to go “Clean” and I started to read up on Juicing the amazing affects of this.. I watched “Fat sick and nearly dead” and that was it.. I was sold.. I wanted juicing a part of my life. I wanted it apart of everyone’s life that I knew! I started juicing 1 time a day for about 2 weeks and I loved it but it wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do.. again I was feeling the need to short cut it.. But I went to my Doctor and I told him about what I was going thru.. He sat and talked to me for about a hour.. Really shaking me up.. about pills and shot and other things I have tried and was thinking of trying.. He told me that juicing was a great idea and I should just do a juice fast.. He told me to do a 15 day and he would monitor me.. But I told him I wanted to do a 30 day.. So I did!!

I finished my 30 day juice fast and I have been a different women since then.. I dropped that 25 pounds and then some.. I weighed in not to long ago at 120 pounds and I am HEALTHY and in shape.. I’m happy, and mentally, physically changed.. I am able to deal with stress and problems with out falling apart or sleep it away.. I am STRONGER.. My marriage is better, my family is better.. We are all getting health.. I have change my families food choices and activity level..
I started a Outdoor workout class and I am making a difference.. One person at a time!!
Check me out on Facebook, I’m working on a new goal, so come see what I am up too.. :)






This is only the beginning!

Until I write again, until you read again
Kisses and misses

Grocery Shopping again! Grrrr!!!


Its so crazy to think a few months I ago I would not be so upset at this moment.. Planning out the week of groceries.. Why am I upset you might be thinking.. Because it is SO expensive to be HEALTHY and to have a family of 4 eating a healthy lifestyle SHEESH is crazy.. Educating myself was the best and worst thing I think.. I am no longer brainwashed into thinking that food is just food get what you can afford and make the best of it!!

Do you even know how brain washed we are? We live in a world that tells us HEY eat what you want drink what you want.. and live the way you too.. and when you get sick go to the doctor and they will get you a pill that can fix you up.. and if that doesn’t fix it.. they will give you a different one , nope still didn’t do the trick.. Let put you on a combination of pills.. and that will help then just continue with life in the same fashion.. oh no your sick again and it worst the combination of the 4 different meds gave you new problems... ummm pills aren’t working lets do an operation to remove the problem and give you more pills to fix the new issues and you will be good as new.. So we will continue to lower  the cost of foods that are bad for you so can keep eating your life away, and we will spend millions on creating meds to fix the problems…  but we will have to charge you more and more to by the miracle drugs, Wait have you met my friend Mr. medical insurance company he will give you a not so sweet deal to pick up a portion of that cost for you.. because we care about you and want to help you make it through the recession…  REALLY?! (okay it might not be this major, but I’m a little pissed right now)

Its so sad I tell you.. I went in to get my annual stress test because I HAD some heart issues.. I was told I was going to be put on 3 different meds to help and I need to get schedule to have a pacemaker put in just in case.. plus I was already schedule to have a cyst removed!! GOOD LORD!! Enough was enough.. I told myself I was not going to let this happen to me.. Heart disease had taken my dad’s mom, dad, uncle grandpa.. and many more in my family tree and I was not going to allow it to take me too.. I talked to my doctor thinking completely different I want a diet pill that can help me loose the weight quick and then after that I can maintain it.. But he was not that type of doctor.. he knew I was juicing and told to just keep it up.. start to work out again.. and it will happen.. Luckily he wasn’t a doctor that was in bed with a medical weight loss clinic and would have just gave me a card and sent me on my way or there would be no iSweat@home with A. Hunt..

I stand here today with a HEATHLY heart not on any meds.. NO longer struggling to breath.. Shaking while sitting still.. iron, calcium and a (few other) deficient , cranky, depressed, overweight, outta shape,  self esteem issue, mean, hateful, spiritually disconnected… All this because I chose HEALTH… I chose to change..  I made a change prior to this but this time I went DEEP.. and no turning back now.. So I just have to plan smarter and figure this out! But if the can give farmers are this money to produce what they need them to produce to FATTEN up the cattle and pigs.. they can help them produce more fruits and veggies so the cost can come down.. Let me be quiet before I get in trouble… Not trying to offend anyone either..  

I promote a healthy lifestyle and how you go about it is your own choice, just telling you the process I went/going through..   But if your here following my page.. I just want to thank you for taking the time to read my post and comment and like and I hope you learn with me… and that I can help you in some way achieve your goals..  please educate yourself and your family..

Thanks,

A.Hunt  

Thursday, September 13, 2012

I'm JUST a girl


I’m just a girl.. 

I was over weight and consider unattractive to most for more than half my life.. I am not some know it that puts up a lot of words and pictures reply to all the question you may have about them..

I’m just a girl 

I was tired of trying to be other people idea of beautiful.. I final looked in the mirror and knew it was time to get help mental, and physical.. 

I’m just a girl 

I wanted to find out what made me eat, why did I run to food to make me feel better.. Why did I think losing would make me feel like a better person.. I need answer to those question in order to grow and finally make a lasting change..

I’m just a girl.. That DID it.. I found the part of me that I lost long ago, I final answered those question and I was finally able to love me as I was.. and when I became HAPPY, I became HEALTHY.. it was easier to change.. I no longer had the “fall outs”.. On my worst days I find a way to stand tall make it to my class or to the gym.. I fight all the way through and I feel like a new person at the end.. Change is HARD… 

I’m just a girl that wanted to share what I’m learning, and what I have learned with the world… what a healthy lifestyle can feel like and be like.. I have educated myself so I can help myself, and others achieve goals we only thought we could dream of..  So feel free to ask question.. if I have an answer I will give it to you.. if I don’t , I’ll ask someone that know or point you in a direction to find out the answer.. 

I know I say this a lot but having good relationships, a job that doesn’t stress you out, an exercise program that you love, eating healthy, and some sort of spirituality will take you to that point of TOTAL Balance in your life..

I am starting a new journey in my life and I have the HARDEST time getting FREE advice from ANYONE.. It’s crazy… But it constantly reminds why I do what I do.. To help!! So don’t be afraid to comment or ask question..

LET’S GET HEALTHY… What do you think?