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how to actually be motivated to workout, eat healthy and wake up early I tips to be consistent
Feb 24, 2024
Today i want to share some tips on how to be motivated to workout, eat healthy and to wake up earlier.
Sometimes it can seem like some people are just always motivated to workout and to go to thy gym. But the reality is no one is motivated to workout all the time. So i'm sharing my best tips on how you can stay consistent with working out, eating healthy and also waking up early.
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When you see other people, especially online, I feel like a lot of people ask themselves like
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how are they so motivated all the time? How are they motivated to go to the gym
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Nobody's motivated to go to the gym all the time. Nobody. Nobody. If they say they are
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they're lying. There is no secret. There is no magic formula to be consistent with the gym
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If someone asks me, how do you wake up at 5 a.m and go to the gym? I just do. I just wake up at
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5 a.m and go to the gym. Is it hard? Yes, absolutely. I question all of my life choices
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when my alarm goes off at 5 a.m, especially now in the winter days because it is dark outside
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it is cold outside. You don't want to leave your bed, it's very comfy. Find a why. Why do you want
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to work out at 5 a.m in the morning? Or it doesn't have to be 5 a.m. Maybe you go after work, maybe
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you go in the middle of the day. I don't know when you go work out, but I feel like you need a why
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because every time you don't want to go and you're like why am I doing this? I have these moments
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I have these moments where I'm like why am I doing this? Why am I going to the gym at 5 a.m in the
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morning? And then I remind myself, going to the gym number one makes me feel better, okay? I do
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struggle mentally a lot, especially now in winter. Going to the gym really, really helps me with my
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mental health. I also feel better if I go. I feel stronger, I feel fitter and it helps me reach my
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goals. Not only in a way to reach my physical goals, because we all have physical goals if we
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want to go to the gym I assume, but also to reach my other goals, because when I go to the gym I feel
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like I have more energy, I feel better afterwards, I feel like I want to do more, I feel like I can
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take on the world after I'm going to the gym. Not all the time, sometimes, okay? Have something to
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look forward to in the morning, whatever that is. This can be your morning coffee. For me personally
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it sounds very dumb, but it is sitting down on my vanity, doing my makeup while watching a YouTube
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video, because I love nothing more than sitting here watching a YouTube video. It feels like I'm
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getting ready with a friend and I really do enjoy it, I really do enjoy it. Has anyone else been
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very, very emotional the past week? Because I feel like the past week all I did was pretty much cry
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Make going to the gym cute, make it aesthetic, make it a vibe, romanticize it, however you want to say
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it. So for me personally that always means wearing a cute gym outfit. It sounds very stupid, but it's
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one of my greatest choices. I love wearing a cute gym outfit. Nothing makes me feel better than
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wearing a cute gym outfit. Have a good playlist, have something, I don't know, your cute water
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bottle, gym bag, whatever it is. That helps me, it helps me to be kind of like motivated. Have a good
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night routine. Your night routine will make or break it if you want to wake up at 5 a.m. I have an
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entire video about my night routine and where I'm showing you how I prepare the night before to make
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sure that I'm having a smooth morning, because let's be honest I don't have a brain at 5 a.m. in the
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morning. I can think, I cannot make any decisions when I wake up at 5 a.m. So I have to be super
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well prepared from the night before I get ready to grab my stuff and then leave. This is not so much
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about how to stay motivated to work out. This is only how to stay motivated to work out if you want
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to work out in the morning, right? Honestly, I thought I would never be that person. Like I remember when I
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started working in October, I was like I cannot go to the gym at 6 a.m. because I cannot go to bed
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that early, I can't wake up that early, I'm gonna be so tired all day, but I also don't want to go in the
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afternoon because then it's busy and I want to be home and blah blah. And then I just tried it. Now I've
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been sticking with it ever since. Even if you think you're not the person who can wake up at 5 a.m. and
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go to the gym, maybe you can. You just need to try it. Tip number five is to switch up things if you can
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Maybe you want to switch up the time of day where you work out, maybe you want to switch out the
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days where you want to work out. I personally like to switch up my training style. Like I do
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different exercises, I maybe don't do a pull and push day, maybe I switch to upper body again
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implement some different cardio. Switching up your routine a little bit is what helps me a lot
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Obviously also buying new stuff like new workout clothes and stuff like that, it always helps. But
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let's be real, most of us probably don't have the money to do that all the time. So I personally
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just like to switch some things up from time to time if I can. Tip number six is accepting that
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you won't always be motivated to work out. It's a part of life, you're not gonna go to the gym and
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be motivated all the time, you're not gonna love it every time you go there, and you're also not
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gonna have a good workout every time you go to the gym. It is so rough on the days where you go to
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the gym and you just have the worst workout ever and you're like, oh my gosh why am I even here
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Sometimes, I don't know, when it's busy and you have a bad day or when the weights are extra heavy
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that day, it's not always a joy to go to the gym. By accepting that you are not always motivated
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it kind of takes off some pressure. The most important part is that you went anyways. Like
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you went to the gym, I mean that's amazing. You didn't have the best workout, whatever, next one
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is gonna be better again, you know? Tip number seven is to take a break. I feel like taking a
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break sometimes can really, really help, especially if you have been going to the gym for a few weeks
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So this is when I usually take a break and then I just need a week off or a few days, depending on
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however you feel. But then I just need some off time. I need off time. I'm gonna finish my makeup
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off of camera. Something I wanted to say because of the being emotional the last week is that I've
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been really struggling, especially yesterday, to get up and go to the gym, which I didn't really
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have until now. So obviously if you're feeling sick, if you're really not feeling well, please
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don't feel any pressure to go to the gym. Or if you have other things in your life. For example, I have
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a busy work week this week. I don't know if I can make it to the gym four times a week. Probably not
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It's fine, it's fine and next week is gonna be better. And I also couldn't work out yesterday
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because I was feeling so bad mentally. I know I say the gym makes me feel better, but yesterday I
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couldn't even bring myself up to go to the gym. Like I knew it would have been just horrible, I would have
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hated every second. So I decided to stay home because I was really not feeling well mentally
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I finished my makeup and today I am training legs. And I'm gonna show you the best glute workout ever
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Like ever, ever, ever, ever. I love this so much. This is my favorite, favorite glute workout of all time
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It's glutes and hamstring focus and you will absolutely feel the burn and it's gonna give you
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such a good pump. And I absolutely, I love it. I love it, I love it so much. By the way, I'm wearing
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the Gymshark Vando Sports Bra and the Honor Active Effortless Leggings. They make such nice curves, I love them
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The sun is just beaming. I actually forgot what it's like to just be out and about and try finding
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a parking space where the lighting is good when you want to film. How to stay motivated to eat
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healthy? For me personally, eating healthy is the hardest part about being fit, losing weight, whatever
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your goal is. Food is so much more work than your workout because you go to the gym for one or two
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hours and then it's done. But food is like pretty much the entire day. My first tip and probably the
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most important tip is to plan your meals. I personally love to meal prep but you don't have to
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if you don't want to. But I just feel like when I meal prep, I already have all of my meals for the
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entire week. Especially now when I'm at work, I have my breakfast and my lunch so I can just, you know
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take it with me and eat it at work. So when I'm super hungry, lunchtime hits, I have already my
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meal. I don't have to think about what I want to eat and I also don't make any bad decisions
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Because usually when I'm, you know, very hungry, starving, you know, I don't make the best
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decisions. I don't make the best choices. This cannot happen if it's already prepped. Same for dinner
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I'm hungry, I'm starving, I don't want to think about what I want to eat, I don't want to start
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cooking when I'm starving so I already have my meals prepped and ready for the week. If you do
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not want to meal prep, you can also try flexible meal prepping, which means you cook all the
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ingredients for the week and then you can mix and match so you don't have to eat the same thing the
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entire week. Or you don't meal prep at all because you just don't want to meal prep. At least make
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sure that you plan your meals for the week. Like, what do you want to eat for breakfast? What do you
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want to eat for lunch? What do you want to eat for dinner? And especially also plan in some snacks
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for if you're hungry. Because sometimes you're more hungry or, you know, there comes a day when
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maybe the time between your lunch and your dinner is going to be a little bit longer and you don't
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want to ruin your goals by, I don't know, grabbing McDonald's or something like that. My favorite
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snacks are fruit, which is not very filling and when I'm more hungry you can also have some protein
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bars. I like to buy these protein puddings. I know they're not the healthiest but I'd rather have one
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of these puddings than, you know, something else very unhealthy. You can also have like an apple
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with peanut butter or something that fills you up a little bit. Rice waffles. I also really like
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rice waffles. Make sure that you have something to grab for when getting hungry. Tip number two
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try to find a why and try to make it deeper than just losing weight. So for me personally, I go to
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the gym a lot and I feel like when I don't eat right, I feel like it's a waste of time that I'm
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going to the gym in the first place. Also, food makes me feel better. Healthy food. Like, if I eat garbage
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and I do eat garbage, like, I love McDonald's, I love a pizza, whatever. But after that, I usually don't
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feel my best. I'm usually bloated. My food is also energy, so maybe you need more energy from your food
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There can be so many reasons why you want to eat healthy. Tip number three is to find meals that
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you like and don't be too extreme about it or cut anything out. Because once you're too extreme, once
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you're starving yourself, you will start to binge eat. If you cut out certain food groups, if you cut
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out carbs, you will crave it more. If you cut out chocolate, you will crave it more. So I personally
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try to eat healthy most days and then I have my treats on the weekend. But that doesn't mean that
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I'm eating super clean the entire week. Like, sometimes we're having popcorn in the evening. I mean, not that
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popcorn is something bad, but you know, just... I'm not having a plain yogurt every night. Tip number four
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is to make cooking as easy as possible for you. If that means for you that you have to order, I don't
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know, HelloFresh or if you have to... There are these meal services where you get your meals ready and
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prep, where you don't have to do anything. Please do that. Please do anything that helps you. So for me
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personally, it's like, I don't want to make recipes where I have too many ingredients, where I have to
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do a lot of cutting or maybe make like sauces, dressings... Like, I sometimes make like some sauce or
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some dressing, don't get me wrong, but I don't have the willpower to do this all the time, okay
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So I need to find very, very easy, simple, quick to make recipes. Usually for breakfast, I have my
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overnight oats. This is so easy and quick to make. And then for lunch, I usually have, I don't know, some
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sort of a bowl, just some random ingredients thrown together and then put a sauce, like a
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boiled sauce on top of it. For dinner, I like to make something maybe like a bolognese, where I just
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have like one big pot and I don't really have to do anything, you know? Or I like to make things in
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the oven, where I also don't have to do anything. So I make my cooking as easy as I possibly can
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And the last tip is to make it a long-term goal. Like, you have to make it a lifestyle. If you want to
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especially, lose weight and you want to lose weight in like two months, three months, I don't know, and
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you want to lose a lot of weight, for example, chances are that you're gonna gain it back and
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that you're also gonna gain back more than you were weighing before. My tip is to not be super
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extreme. You can be super healthy, okay? But don't neglect other things. Like, have your cheat meal
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on the weekend, like, have a Saturday where you order pizza and chill at home or go out with a
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friend or, I don't know, visit your grandma. Still do stuff like that and rather have the process take a
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little bit longer and make it more of a relaxed approach. Because at the end of the day, you want
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to be able to stick to it. You want to be able to eat healthy pretty much for the rest of your life
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Before I was committing to this, I would be eating whatever random stuff. Like, the most random stuff
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Now I always make sure that I have my protein, my carbs and my fat in my meals. And I try to eat
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like that most of the time. Of course, not all the time, but I try my best to be pretty consistent with
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my food. There are weeks where I'm not consistent at all, where I only have takeaways. Like, life
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is happening, okay? Life is always happening. We are all not perfect, but we still want to have a healthier
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lifestyle. So, these are my tips for how to stay motivated to work out and to eat healthy. I hope
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you enjoyed it. Please subscribe if you want to see more videos from me and give the video a like
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if you enjoyed it. And other than that, thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you in my next video. Bye
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