2 YEAR UPDATE | How I Changed My Life In 6 Months

millions of you followed my journey where I changed my life in a 6-month period And so it's no surprise that this has become my most requested update video how are you doing since you completed your 6-month Journey it's been over 2 years and in that time frame a lot has changed for me my 20-year relationship ended and I got divorced I moved and all of this has really been in the last few months so many big changes in my life have happened but I'm happy to say that checklist I started 2 years ago has in a lot of ways been my Northstar through the toughest year of my life I didn't realize how important having these daily checkpoints to keep me on track would be for my future but because I stuck with this for a 6-month period these daily habits really became ingrained in me and although I don't stick to them perfectly I really have for the most part stayed on this path since I started back in November of 2022 I will sit down and chat with you in a bit about this more but my mornings really look the same besides some mornings I don't have my kids with with me and on this particular morning that was the case when I do have my kids I usually start this routine after I have sent them off to school I'll brush my teeth and then I have added yoga flows to my mornings it's just about 10 minutes of deep stretches and they really help wake up my body and get me in a good mental space my friend Bobby is a master yoga instructor so I love doing hers [Music] I've recently started challenging myself again to get 10,000 steps a day and I don't always do this but I made it a goal for for the month of February to make that non-negotiable so I noticed if I add a 30 minute walk to my workouts each day that usually gets me to my 10,000 steps no problem I'll check myself around 8:00 p.m. and sometimes I'll need to add another walk to get there again this is just something I've been doing recently and I notice when I incorporate walks to my days I just feel better all around so I've been loving this challenge next I'll do my workout and these don't take me much time I've really still been pretty much doing the same workouts I was doing years ago I actually recently created videos to go along with my six-month plan but I will get into that here in just a [Music] minute on this morning I had quite a bit of editing I needed to do so I'm going to make a smoothie for breakfast and get to work this looks like a lot of stuff but what I am going to be putting in my smoothie is I usually do just like a handful of Frozen fruit I'll do a scoop of protein almond milk some yogurt and I'm also going to add some greens and collagen in today I don't do that all the time but I'm going to do it today and then a handful of spinach I really just want a protein smoothie and so that's how I'm going to make sure to get my protein and I'm just craving something fruity [Music] so I do have a discount for for this protein well this company clean simple eats that's where I get my protein and greens collagen so I will have that code linked below if I'm just doing a smoothie like this I'll do the vanilla but my favorite protein is their cake butter and their brownie butter and I still to this day like that's my favorite I talked about it in my last video years ago that's still my go-to [Music] [Music] [Music] before I get into editing I wanted to journal and I have been going strong in the journaling Department apartment really since the beginning of last year but in the last 2 months I have not missed a single day of journaling and it has been life-changing the word I picked for this year was intention and so each morning before I really start my day I journal what my intentions are for the day I just realized how easily distracted I get or a lot of the time lazy and before I know it the entire day has gotten away from me and I don't really have anything to show for it so I like to start my morning with this I'll set my intentions for the day and then in the evening I'll check back and do doent if I completed my task that I had intended to that day like I mentioned earlier I have a lot of editing I need to do me and my friend Bobby have created something I've been really excited to share this has been months and months of work behind the scenes and I'm going to show you what that is in just a minute all right I'm going to make lunch so I'm using just an extreme Wellness wrap some turkey cheese shredded lettuce I like some tomatoes on there bacon I always cook bacon for the week and then I just heat it up and then some light mayo [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I wanted to sit down and talk with you guys a little bit about just like an update I know the main question everybody's going to have is were you able to keep the weight off that is why everybody's clicking on this video is to see an update with that so as far as that goes I pretty much stayed the exact same the last two years and that is without going on one single diet now the thing is with me a typical year for me is me going on about four or five diets which is actually insane it's because in the past I've always constantly lost weight and then I've put it back on and then I've lost it and I put it back on the average woman will go on 136 diets in her lifetime obviously there's a problem obviously something is missing and the reason is because once we lose that weight we go right back to our old habits so the whole point of me doing this six-month challenge was I wanted to become this person permanently I wanted to be the person that just did this stuff every single day like that's just who I am and the only way to see consistent results is to be doing things every single day that are going to keep those results for those of you who maybe clicked on this video and you don't even know what I'm talking about I will link the original video below but let's go over the checklist so in the checklist what I did on my phone is I just had some bullet points and it was just a bunch of tasks that I would do every single day so this is this is what was part of the challenge that I did for myself the first one was to wake up early I would say waking up early and going to bed early are probably the things that I'm struggling with the most and what I'm not the most consistent with I've noticed when I don't have my kids I do end up staying up so flipping L and I don't know why like I just struggle going to bed when I don't have my kids which also makes me sleep in and I don't like doing that so that is something I think I need to work on again the next one was Hydrate with water and I also have on here mineral water so I like to add things to my water and I didn't have an amount there wasn't a specific amount that I wanted to drink every day but as long as this was on my checklist I was more aware of making sure that I drink water because there are days that I wouldn't even drink any water the next one is meal plans and then I put in here macro so just to stay on the macro challenge that I had so I wanted to stick to a certain amount of macros every single day the next one was go on a walk outside I do have a dog so obviously I have to go on walks every day but I was doing this I started this challenge in November I live in Utah my 6mon journey was literally through the winter and I was outside every single day I made sure that I went on some kind of walk oh my gosh I want to say this is like one of the most important things you guys if you can just get outside every day and just go for a walk there's something about the fresh air there's something about movement it just gets that negative I don't know if you're going through hard things in life like it just lifts your mood I always came back from a walk much happier than when I left the next one was exercise four to five times a week so this was not every day and I didn't do a specific amount of time it was just lift some weights four to five times a week that was my challenge the next one was read write and meditate daily still doing that every single day the next one is get 8 hours of sleep again the reason I put this in here is because I was struggling at the time with getting enough sleep I was going to bed way too late I was waking up way too late or like right at the last minute I feel like it threw me off for the entire day so because this was part of my checklist I was just more intentional about it and the last one is to cut out negativity all right I would say without checking these things off every day because that's not what I do anymore I would say just who I am as a person 90% of this I have stuck with since I started November 1st of 2022 now we are in the year 2025 so we're coming up on well this November would be 3 years this is just who I am now and again it's because you do something for a long enough period of time it becomes a habit where you're not having to think about it anymore it's just who you are again I would say like Reading Writing meditating I a must every day I don't even think about it it's just something that I do exercising 4 to5 times a week something I do no matter what going on walks something I do again right now I'm doing my challenge where I get at least 10,000 steps in a day it's just what I do cutting out negativity this is something I had to work so hard on because naturally I think we all are just negative like are we get on these negative mind loops and so when I'm aware of my thoughts I will notice like a change in my physical body when I'm thinking negative thoughts and so I'll catch my myself and I will redirect the thought to something positive that one thing alone is lifechanging why I think this is such an important thing I think everybody at some point in their life needs to go on a 6month journey now you can create your own you can have your own checklist you can be putting tasks or things that you specifically need or want I'm not saying do this exact thing but why it was so crucial is because at least for me I noticed you know my day would just be crazy I'd get to the end of the day and I really wouldn't have much I like didn't really know what I got done that day I also felt like I was in a bad mood I felt like my life was just kind of happening and I felt like I was not in control of it by me doing this it keeps me on task and I knew if I just focused on the day that I had I'm not worried about in 2 months or 3 months or in 6 months I'm only focused on today I'd clear my list every morning and I just focused on one thing at a time but it also kept me intentional throughout the entire day because it was something I was crossing off all day long so there was something about doing that for a 6-month period that truly transformed me I used to struggle severely with binge eating and I think that's why it was so easy for me to put the weight back on after I had lost the weight I truly never believed I could beat it because I tried everything I'd read every book nothing helped me when I finished the six months of this another month went by another month went by honestly another year it wasn't until the end of 2024 where suddenly the thought came to me you don't binge anymore and I remember when that thought came to me I was like what the heck I never thought I would beat it and there was not like a moment where I realized like oh I'm just over binging I believe it was the day to day today decisions of sticking with this that before I knew it that was no longer a part of my story and so again I cannot stress to you enough how important it is I think for everyone at some point in their life to challenge themselves to 6 months and you can start today you don't need to wait for the first of the month I started November 1st that is like the most random time to start a challenge but looking back it was the best thing I think I could have ever done for myself because it did so much more than just help me lose weight mentally spiritually emotionally I improved drastically like I was unrecognizable truly by the time that 6-month Journey was over now I wanted to bring up something that I have been working on with my friend Bobby I know I think I already mentioned this earlier today but we have been working on this program and we called it master myself because it's really all-encompassing we're doing spiritual physical mental emotional work in this program that's just going to help you become the best version of you it really does coincide with the six-month Journey that I did it's very very similar but the content that we're creating for it is consistent it's never ending so we are uploading things to it weekly um we did start a podcast and that is something that's also going to be on this and we are uploading again content weekly on this platform she is actually almost here and we are going to film a podcast that we need to upload onto this because this is is going to be live in fact if you're watching this video master myself is live and you can access this right now it's linked Below in the description I will also have it pinned in the top comment um I've also included all of my workouts that I did throughout the 6-month journey and it's me actually doing the workout so it's like a video of each day Monday through Friday if you like to follow along with those workouts rather than in my PDF that I had included it was just pictur showing you the movements but this is me actually doing it and then it's like there's a 30second break you're just following along the workouts Bobby also has a bunch of yoga flows and meditations those you guys have completely transformed my life mentally and spiritually I would say Bobby's yoga classes and her meditations and she does kind of like a meditation while you're doing your yoga it's unlike anything I've ever done before and I would say anyone that's ever gone to any of her classes leaves in tears like that is a normal thing to happen in her yoga classes I'm just excited for you guys to have access to this so I do want to thank anyone in advance that subscribes to our patreon because as we've been going back and forth and deciding how we are going to put this out here for everyone this is what we felt the most right about and you know we're splitting this and so it's a couple dollars a month for a subscription I again just want to thank you guys any of you who subscribe this is for anyone looking to improve themselves physically emotionally spiritually mentally if that's something you're looking to do and just honestly become the highest version of your yourself I would highly suggest at least checking it out check it out we have a ton of videos and content and they're right now ready to go but on a weekly basis there will be new content so we are just excited to get started I'm pretty sure she's almost here so we do have a podcast we need to sit down and film in fact the one that we are filming today and it will be up when this is all live is creating Your Life vision now Bobby is a wellness and life coach I did this with her at the end of last year and I felt like it was the road map I had been needing to finally figure out what did what do I even want with my life it's literally about every topic in your life The Way She lays this out is amazing and that is actually the topic that we are going to be covering today so I am so excited to film this again this will be live up on our website so if you want to access out right now we'll finish this video and then you can access it through the link [Music] below one of our former podcasts we talked a little bit how if you don't decide for yourself who you are life is going to happen to you but if you get clear and conscious on what direction that you want to take in life then you can decide for yourself who you are and what your life means our road B bump's going to come as you try to seek out your destination totally it's no different than when you plug into the map you're driving from Utah to California to go to Disney World if you were driving there you're going to put that destination in the Google Maps or whatever it is you're using you're taking that direction and guess what there could be ROW construction and you might have to take a little detour but it's going to reroute you and still get you there this is the same as a Life vision creation you are going to begin to create your Reality by using the power of your words to set a destination in your mind so your actions thoughts and behaviors can follow so good I'm so excited it's way more simple than you realize and it's one of my favorite topics to talk about it's what I do personal coaching on all the time if you can create that meditation you're going to change your neural Pathways the way you think the way you perceive the world your circumstances that you're going through it really changes you from the inside out tonight and tomorrow I don't have my kids so usually on these nights I will cook up something one time and I'll have it for two nights in a row if that makes sense so these chicken guys from Walmart are so good it's like four bucks and so I'll eat one tonight and one tomorrow but they're covered with car sauce and they're so freaking good I have this and I'll mix it with one of the rice I have an avocado and I'll just steam up some veggies and I just make a little chicken rice veggie bowl and it is so good always have my [Music] [Applause] speaker what you say I believe [Music] [Music] [Music] when it's just me and I'm alone here at night time without kids my nights are really really calm obviously when I have my kids my night look completely different they're really busy you know we do dinner bass homework my twins love language is watching Marvel movies with them and so for the past let's see we're on the 26th Marvel movie and we watch about 30 minutes to an hour every single night most nights it takes us a few nights to watch one but yeah we're on number 26 did you know there's not many Marvel movies by the way I feel like we're just getting started because now there's going to be a million like Seasons or series of different movies anyway my nights are just busy with kids but no matter if my kids are here or they're not here I do the same thing I always end my night with my journal again so I will start my day with my journal with my intentions and I set my intentions for the day and what I like to do at night time is I'll go back and I'll read what my intentions are and because I know I'm going to do this at night I'm like aund times more likely to get the things done that I wanted to that I wrote out like this is my intention for the day and usually when I'm setting my intentions for the day it's more than just like a checklist of like I want get this done and this done and this done I'm also writing out I want to be intentional with my thoughts I don't want to let my thoughts be negative if I have negative thoughts I want to redirect and I will say this year I have been not this year but the past year I've gotten really good at redirecting my thoughts because I don't want to be negative I know when you have consistent negative thoughts it leads to a negative day which leads to a negative life so how we combat that is focusing on being intentional with even the thoughts you're having each day so every day I write my intentions are every single day I I will write that I will be positive and that I will redirect those thoughts it just helps me be aware of what I'm thinking and if you're aware of what you're thinking you're going to be aware of what you're doing you guys your whole entire life can change just based off of that alone if you can harness your thoughts you can change your entire life because everything starts with that so I will come back at night time and I will write down how my day went or if there's any really great things that happen that day I'll write down all of that in my journal and I just kind of reflect on the day and I love ending my nights like this and I've been so consistent with this since I've started journaling every single day I've been really good at it the last 2 months I have not missed one day where before when I would Journal it would just be like those little entries I have my six minute Journal I have a 5-minute journal and I did a six-minute journal they're basically the same thing where I would just write like three things I wanted to do that day I positive affirmations that is a great place to start and that was all the journaling I was doing before now I like to actually write out what's going on in my life because it's really been therapeutic for me and I've loved it if you're not good at journaling that's a great place to start is with one of those journals but for me anyway this is what I'm doing this has been life-changing and I look forward to these moments at night time usually by the time I sit down and journal my youngest sleeps with me and so my 4-year-old will be right here next to me while I'm journaling and as he's like falling asleep so I'll read to him get him ready for bed and then I will Journal so this is how I like to end my night every night I do need to go wash my face I haven't done that yet you can tell um this is also where I will track since I've been doing my 10,000 steps I'm like yes I got those in I make sure that's like a non-negotiable if I set out to do that it's non-negotiable for me and so I said every day in February I'm going to do it and each day I just make sure that that is something that happens and so today I just took my watch off and put it on the charger I'm going to go grab it and see I know I passed 10,000 barely I barely hit 10,000 today I did have to get a few more steps in on the treadmill tonight some days that's just how it goes and some days I hit 13,000 like no problem so I just never know how my days are that is what a typical day looks like for me um again this is me without kids if I have my kids it's a lot busier but I did feel like since I don't have them it's easier for me to film and talk and explain things better so I thought that this would be a good day for me to do that so thanks for keeping me company today because I didn't have my kids and days like this do get kind of lonely so thank you guys so much for watching if you guys are interested in more videos like this let me know because I enjoy making videos like this so I would be happy to get more out for you guys so thanks again I'll see you guys in the next video