Why I stopped blogging/ I’m back!!

IMG_5216Hello my dear readers!

As you noticed the last 8-9 months I wasn’t really active on my blog, here is the reason why! As you guessed in July of 2016 we found out I’m expecting a little baby boy! It was the most amazing feeling I could ever imagine to be able to carry my baby. Pregnancy wasn’t a fairytale for me, especially the first 4 months. I was really sick, I had nausea and morning sickness every single day, I had no appetite, I hated everything healthy, like salads, greens, juices, all I could eat was bread and butter. We could not go in restaurants or places where smelled like food, cause I felt like throwing up. After the 4th month I started to be a little bit better. After 4 months of no exercise or gym, I started to be a little more active, going to the gym 2-3 times a week. I started to eat again a little bit healthier and feeling myself again.

Throughout my pregnancy I gained a total of 12 kg (26 lbs). Everybody kept telling me I don’t have a big belly, but at the end of my journey I felt really huge!

Here is a picture I took one day before giving birth

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Around week 35 I totally stopped exercising, I wanted to play safe and to be careful so baby doesn’t come to early.

Long story short, I had my little boy on march 24th, giving birth wasn’t a piece of cake either. After one day of labor I ended up in the surgery room, and had my baby with a c-section.

As we know a c-section is a major surgery, a scar I’m so proud of and feel so blessed that I can be the mommy of this gorgeous little soul, I can’t even find words to express myself.

Because it is a major surgery, my body needs to heal, so for at least 3 months I should avoid any physical effort and exercise 😦

Now that I have everything I need in life, I promise I will start blogging again and I’m working on a body transformation program, so stay tuned and fallow my own transformation.

Have a great day!

 

Where to eat healthy when on vacation in Barcelona

wpid-img_20150630_152601.jpgHello everybody! I did not post an article since a long time, I was away for a little while, but now I am back for good 🙂

As you can tell from the title of this article, I was for a little while in Barcelona (Spain). I have to tell you this city doesn’t just have gorgeous beaches, wonderful views and buildings, but the food there is absolutely amazing. In this article I will tell you about the best places to eat healthy and delicious food. Believe me we tried them all!

If you are planning a trip to Barcelona, you should be aware that time passes so fast, because of all the things you can do and visit, or just chill at a beach bar drinking some freshly made pina colada from fresh coconut milk and pineapple.

So let’s see which restaurants you should definitely try out if you are around.

montjuic1. The first place you need to visit is El Xalet de Montjuïc.This place is pure luxury because of its ambiance and fantastic views. The restaurant has a large panoramic terrace and a beautiful dining room from where the view is just spectacular. The dishes are mostly Mediterranean and Catalan, respecting the traditional flavours and fresh produce. I ate here a delicious appetizer: Hummus with crunchy vegetables, sesame seeds and crunchy king-prawns skewer. Than a Creamy rice with assorted mushrooms and we shared a delicious dessert called Lukewarm banana cake, foam of cheese and coconut, “toffee” syrup and a scoop of chocolate. Highly recommended 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Montju%C3%AFc-El-Xalet/184997014849150?fref=ts

2. The second restaurant I recommend is Veg world India, a small Indian vegetarian restaurant. It’s not as luxurious as the first one, but the food is just amazing. If you are interested in eating healthy, tasty and spicy in a nice Indian ambiance, than you are in the perfect place. You must try the mango lassi drink, made of chilled full fat fresh curd/yoghurt, fresh chopped mango and a dash of ground cardamom. You also need to try the garlic or cheese nan and obviously some of their special indian dishes served with a delicious saffron rice. Their desserts are simple and fresh which is perfect after a spicy meal. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Veg-World-India/119904694714707?fref=ts

wpid-img_20150607_170942.jpg3. The third place I recommend for you to visit is the WET pool and terrace. It’s a gorgeous and luxury place inside of the W hotel on the beach. This place is perfect to talk, sunbath and to eat and drink something delicious. We tried out some super tasty smoothies like the strawberry & banana, the mango & passion fruit but also some cocktails like the pineapple & ginger mojito. The food here really amazed us, we liked it so much, that the next day we went back and ordered the same things. I highly recommend the hot quinoa balls with a special spicy eggplant cream. We also ate some focaccia bread with 3 different kind of dips: guacamole, sour cream & cheddar cheese. Very highly recommended! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wet-Bar-W-Barcelona-Pool/220260974661567

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wpid-img_20150630_154002.jpg4. The next restaurant you really need to try is the Wave. It’s also a luxurious place, with a great atmosphere and wonderful food. I really enjoyed this place, we tried out lots of great dishes and had a great night. From the starters menu I highly recommend the hummus and falafel with assorted vegetables, yoghurt, cucumber and lemon sauce. Served with pita bread. We also tried the strawberry gazpacho and the spinach ravioli with smoked vegetables sauce, pecorino cheese and tomato oil. And of course as I am on a vacation I like to try out new things, so I tried the delicious apple and cinnamon tatin, served with crumbled almonds and fresh cheese ice cream. Near the dinner we obviously drink sangria, the special Spanish drink. https://www.facebook.com/wbarcelonahotel

 

wpid-img_20150630_152632.jpg5. Another great place to eat if you really want something healthy and fast, Teresa Carles’s place is the best choice. They have so amazing fresh cold pressed juices, great appetizers, soups, main dishes and raw desserts. Yes it is like paradise. Everything is freshly made, you can choose between raw, raw vegan, vegan, gluten free or vegetarian. The waiters are super-fast, they take the orders fast and bring the food in no time. We actually came back to this place twice. We tried out a lots of food, so I leave you the online menu to decide for yourself. The vegan cheese and carrot cake though it was like heaven. http://www.teresacarles.com/tc/webroot/library/files/carta-oi14-15-eng.pdf

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wpid-img_20150630_154603.jpgI could go on and on recommending nice and good restaurants where you can eat in Barcelona, because honestly there are lots of them, so I’ll stop here. If you want to stick to your diet and eat healthy you definitely can do that even if you are on a vacation.

I hope you enjoyed this article, see you very soon! 🙂

 

 

 

My interview with Musclemunch.net

wpid-img_20150121_232249.jpgHello my dears!

If you are interested to see a short interview with me, check out, musclemunch.net. There are some questions and answers with me.

Hope you like it, see you soon! :*

Here is the link: http://www.musclemunch.net/622/female-interviews/aspiring-fitness-model-bea-talks-with-musclemunch

One year blog anniversary + Giveaway!!!

Hello everybody!

Hope you are ok, and having a great day. I was a little sick lately, but now I’m back!

I am very happy to announce that this weekend (April 26) it is my Blogs official Birthday!

So I want to thank you all of you for supporting me by reading my articles, commenting and giving me so many nice feedbacks. It makes me so happy to help and inform you with my articles, so I decided to show YOU, my appreciation!

I am organizing a GIVEAWAY! Open worldwide!

The prizes will be sponsored by Myprotein and BodyEnergyAction.

Here is what you can win:

L carnitine tablets (180 tablets): http://tidd.ly/dea96cdd

Blender bottle: http://tidd.ly/49cc2ba5

Aqua slim diet water: http://tidd.ly/f7d956a8

Pulse V4 Muscle & Strength: http://tidd.ly/f04917ca

Milk protein smooth: http://tidd.ly/aa85020d

Commit to be fit top from Body Energy Action 🙂

IMG_20140424_034338Now, here is what you have to do to WIN:

1.) Like Bodyenergyaction Facebook page

2.) Like Myprotein page

3.) Share this photo on your page

4.) Subscribe to my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaXlC-eF3ME-4Aw0pj608zw

5.) Comment: What would you like to read/ see more on my blog? Healthy recipes? Healthy desserts? Workout videos? Workout tips? Fitness tips? Fashion posts? Travel posts? Just let me know in the comments! 🙂

Good Luck!

Giveaway ends Monday night. :*

Dacă ziua ar avea 48 de ore/ If the day had 48 hours

ceas-fossil-cecile-am4510-159488 For English version scroll down 🙂

Bună dragilor!

Astăzi am pentru voi un articol puţin mai diferit decât cu ceea ce v-am obişnuit până acum. Acest articol nu o să aibă ca temă fitness-ul, reţete sănătoase sau tipsuri despre cum să avem o viaţă mai echilibrată şi sănătoasă.  Astăzi veţi avea ocazia să mă cunoaşteţi puțin mai bine 🙂

Acesta este primul meu articol pentru cei de la Orkesta în colaborare cu WarchShop.ro, care au o simplă întrebare şi anume „Ce ai face dacă ziua ar avea 48 de ore”…. interesant, nu?

Nu am stat prea mult pe gânduri, deoarece eu chiar am o problema a „time managementului”, nu pot să îmi împart timpul în aşa fel încât să pot să fac tot ceea ce îmi propun.

Haideţi să vă spun ce aş face eu cu acele extra 24 de ore într-o zi.

  1. În primul rând aş putea să lucrez mai mult. Mulți stiţi deja că sunt antrenor personal, ador profesia mea, iar prin munca mea aş putea ajuta mai multe persoane dacă aș avea mai mult timp, deci, toată lumea ar avea de câştigat 🙂
  2. Aş avea timp să citesc mai mult. Cititul e tot timpul pe ultimul loc în zilele noastre, cel puţin la mine, deoarece tot timpul este altceva de făcut, ceea ce pe moment e mai important. Asta include să fac un plan de antrenament pentru un client, să merg la o întâlnire de afaceri, să mă plimb cu căţelul, să gătesc şi aşa mai departe. Așadar, niște timp pentru citit ar prinde foarte bine. Citit o carte, evident, nu articole pe internet sau Cosmopolitan 🙂
  3. Aş petrece mai mult timp cu persoanele dragi mie. Niciodată nu am suficient de mult timp de stat la poveşti,  de schimb de idei, împărtășit de experiențe.
  4. Aş dori să am mai mult timp pentru gătit, să încerc reţete noi și delicioase la care deseori mă gândesc, dar nu am niciodată timp să le fac. Ador să gătesc, aş putea să stau în bucătărie câteva ore bune în fiecare zi. 🙂
  5. Mi-aş dori să petrec mai mult timp cu căţelul meu,Jimmy, care are 14 anişori şi nu ştiu cât îl voi mai avea aprope. Mai mult timp ar însemna să mă ocup doar de el, sa-l piaptăn, să ne jucăm, să ne plimbăm, să-l duc la vânătoare de iepuri 🙂
  6. Aș dedica acele ore în plus pentru relaxare, aş încerca o oră de meditaţie, ora în care să nu mă gândesc că trebuie să mă grăbesc la dentist, la ora de aerobic, la masă, la întâlnire…etc. Să-mi eliberez mintea complet și să elimin orice stres cotidian.
  7. Dacă fiecare zi ar avea 48 de ore, cu siguranţă aş scrie articole zilnic, pentru că am foarte multe idei pe care vreau să le  împărtăşesc cu voi, dar timpul… e mereu o problemă. De fapt, lipsa lui!

Aş mai putea enumera multe multe lucruri pe care le-aș face dacă ni s-ar dubla timpul: aş face mai multe videoclipuri cu exerciţii, aş încerca un sport nou, aş viziona toate filmele noi care apar la cinema (evident, cele interesante) aş zbura pâna în Roma şi m-aş întoarce in aceeaşi zi 🙂 sau aş sta la plajă câteva ore bune… dacă ar fi o plajă la Cluj 🙂

1382374625Concluzia este faptul că fiecare persoană își face timp pentru ceea ce e cu adevărat important în viaţa sa. E vorba de a-ți stabili niște priorităţi.  E foarte uşor să ne găsim scuze  ca:  nu am timp să merg la sală, nu te-am sunat pentru că nu am avut timp, nu mă îngrijesc pentru că nu am bani, etc.  Dacă îți dorești cu adevărat să faci ceva, cu siguranță poți găsi timp pentru acel ceva. Timpul nostru este proiectul nostru, ne aparţine. Trebuie să preţuim acele 24 de ore pe care le avem în aşa fel încât, atunci când  mergem la culcare să ne simţim mulţumite si împăcate cu noi că am făcut tot ce am putut în acea zi! Și pentru că timpul se măsoară în ore şi minute, un ceas care să ne reflecte personalitatea este absolut necesar.  În acest sens, eu aş alege acest superb ceas Fossil. Voi ce aţi alege din colecţia vastă de pe watchshop.ro?

 

Hello my dears!

Today I’m going to post a different kind of article, something different with what you are used to read on my blog. This article will not include fitness, healthy recipes or healthy lifestyle tips! Today you have the opportunity to know me just a little bit better 🙂

In collaboration with watchshop.ro , who asked me to write down, what would I do if the  day had 48 hours instead of 24, interesting question right?

I did not have to think too much on this subject, because I’m having a really hard time with managing my time. I never have time to do all the things I propose to do in that day.

So let’s see my list, what would I do with those extra 24 hours a day 

  1. First of all I would like to work more. As most of you know, I’m a personal trainer, I love my job, so working more I could help more people to get in shape and have a healthy lifestyle. This would be the best for everybody right? 🙂
  2. I would like to read more. Nowadays people put reading on the last place, other things are always more important. In that moment I feel it’s more important to make a diet plan or an exercise plan for a client, to cook, to go out with the dog etc.  So some extra hours for a relaxing reading would be very welcome.
  3. I would like to spend more time with my loved ones. I feel like I never spend enough time with them, a little more storytelling, just talk about our daily experiences and thoughts would be so good.
  4. I would like to have more time to cook. To try out new healthy and delicious recipes what I have in mind, but I never find the time to actually make them. I really adore cooking, so some more hours in the kitchen would be very nice!
  5. I would like to spend more time with my dog, which is now 14 years old, and I can’t know how much time he will be around. I would like to dedicate much more time just to him, to brush him, to actually play with him, to take him for a long walk or rabbit hunting 🙂
  6. Those extra hours in plus I could use for a good relaxation. I would like to try a real and intense mediation, to clear my mind, and for that one hour not to think about my appointment to the dentist, my clients, my work, meetings… To free my mind completely and release the stress.
  7. If every day would have 48 hours, for sure I would write an article every day, because I have so many ideas to share with you, but time is always a problem….I mean having the time 🙂

I could tell you more about what I would do if we had that extra 24 hours…but I would be dreaming too much I think. I would do much more fitness videos, I would try out a new sport, I would watch all the new good movies from the cinema, I would fly to Rome and back in the same day, I would go sunbathing on the beach…..If Cluj (my home town) would have a beach  🙂

270612The conclusion is that every person makes time for what is really important for them. It’s about priorities! It is very easy to find excuses like: I can’t find the time to go to the gym, I don’t have time to call you, because I’m busy, I can’t go to the hairstylist because I don’t have the money and the list could go on and on. If you really want something you will find the time for it. Our time is our project. We have to cherish those 24 hours we have, and in the night when we go in our bed to feel accomplished and proud that we gave our best to do everything we proposed.

Because time is measured in minutes and hours, a beautiful watch that reflects our personality is a must. In this case I chose this stylish Fossil watch. What would you chose from here watchshop.ro

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Happy Holidays!

PhotoGrid_1387901881317Hello my dear readers!

First of all I’m wishing a Merry Christmas to all of you nice people out there, who read my blog, leave me all those sweet comments, and support me. Thank you so much, you are my biggest motivation to go on.

You know this is the best and the most beautiful time of the year, so enjoy it, take a deep breath, inhale the Christmas spirit and take care of your love ones!

As a health and fitness coach I feel that is my duty to tell you to watch out on your diet during the holidays, so tomorrow I will post some tips on how to stay healthy and fit during the winter holidays!

Stay tuned and once again a merry merry Christmas and happy holidays! :*

I’m so happy! Thank you for following me!

PhotoGrid_1380385716542_1Hello my dear followers! 

Today I just noticed that on my Facebook fan-page we reached the number of 1500 likes. This is so awesome, guys! I know 1500 is not a big number, but it has a big value for me.

Thank you guys so much for the support, I really appreciate it a lot.

I hope this little community will grow and we can inspire each-other day by day.

I just started all this a few mounts ago, and today I have more than 1500 people following me, reading my fitness advices, healthy recipes and watching my workout videos, it really feels amazing!

My Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/BodyEnergyAction?ref=hl

I would like a lot if you would interact with me a little more, not just in your personal messages, but here on my blog. You can ask me questions, you can tell your opinions or say anything you like 🙂

Have a great weekend and Thank You again! :*

About my Holiday!

bea1Hi everybody!

I am so so sorry for not posting for such a long time ago, but August for me it was so complicated. I had a lot of stuff on my mind, new projects that I am involved in, my classes at the gym, doing personal training, some personal stuff and finally, at the end of August, I went on a well deserved holiday. I was really out of power, out of strength, but I will not talk about that, I will tell you about my beautiful vacation on a magical island! Those of you guys who are following me on my Facebook page, were able to see some posts from my vacation. I did not have internet connection there, so when me and my friends went to the actual little city centre of the island, in some restaurants or clubs, I always posted something for you 🙂

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This place that I call magical is in Croatia; the Island name is Brač. Me and my friends were located near Bol, a town on the south of the island. We rented a nice apartment house, 70 m from the beach. When we arrived we could not believe how beautiful this place can be, like it was another world. So savage, just nature and the sea, lots of fruit trees like figs, pomegranate, kiwis, orange and lime trees.

When I entered in my room I was just amazed by the view from the window. Here are some photos, so you can see why…

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We spent there almost 2 weeks and we had a lot of fun. One day we rented a boat and went on a boat trip around the island, we made photos, we jumped from the boat in different styles and also we had a birthday party on the boat, with birthday cake and champagne.

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On other days we were just lying on the beach getting some nice tan, or playing in the water and of course making lots of photos 🙂

Usually in the night we went to the centre of the town to try out some restaurants, clubs. For me it was a little difficult because I do not like fish and in Croatia the basic food is fish. They can prepare a fish in 50 different ways, so you can imagine that on the menu was mostly fish, see food and lobster. But Croatian people were very kind all the time; they offered to prepare for me some risotto, grilled vegetables or some pasta.  As some of you may know, I prefer the Italian, Greek or Spanish cuisine, so they made it possible for me.

Brač has the highest island point in the Adriatic Sea, it’s called Vidova Gora. Of course we visited it and I made some push-ups there,  hahahahaha, really! I have proof! The view from the top was breathtaking, for these kinds of moments I like to live!

I only did one or two workouts while I was on vacation, and those I made for you guys. I did a workout on the beach, so be prepared for it 🙂

On the other days we went hiking on the rocky and wild surroundings of the island, we made swimming competitions, we even caught some fishes from the sea and all kind of funny stuff.

Now I feel like in the 6th grade writing a composition about my vacation hahahhahah, but I really wanted to share with you one of my best holidays ever.

Also, I want to make a little promise to myself and to you… well it’s not necessarily a promise, because I don’t really believe in promises :), but I want to post from now on more often, like 2-3 times a week. I hope my spare time will let me accomplish this.

Have a very nice day everybody and I hope to see you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow with a new post  :*