About Fitroosje

Throughout this period of high school I decided to keep a food diary and eventually began running everyday, as well as keeping up with my regular basketball practices. This worked great! I lost around 10 kilos and I felt really good about myself! After a while, my weight stagnated.
During this period I also met a few guys who were pretty into fitness and one day I decided to tag along. I really enjoyed it! After this I signed myself up to a gym and started working out regularly. Besides attending the gym, I still played basketball and took part in boxing training.  Sometimes I would even work out twice a day, because the more I trained, the better my results would be, right?! I did continue to watch my nutrition, but in retrospect looking back, I had no idea what I was actually doing.

Up until about 2 years ago I took it upon myself to change this, and decided to delve more into nutrition. Firstly, I began following all kinds of ‘Fitgirls’ on Instagram. Doing this helped motivate and inspire me, if they could look like this why couldn’t I too? With this mindset I started with the ‘If it fits your macros’ plan. This plan consists of you keeping track of carbohydrates, fats and proteins of a product. According to this theory it technically doesn’t matter if you eat a hamburger or mince with brown rice.  Your body isn’t affected by what specific product you digest, as it isn’t fully aware of this, however what is important to your body is the products nutritional value. The advantage of this plan is that it really didn’t feel like I was on a diet as I could pretty much consume anything I wanted, although in moderation was key. Despite this, having to weigh all of the carbohydrates, proteins and fats everyday to the specific required amounts was demanding and eventually started to cause me stress. So, I thought it was about time to try something else.