30 Day Weight Loss Challenge, Day 2

I’m going for a walk instead of run today.

Only two miles, too.

I wish summer would come so that I can have loads of time to burn calories.

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the...

I had one today.  It was amazing.  I just realized a few things:

1. Obviously I can’t control everything in life.
   What I mean is: I can’t control that my parents have financial problems.  Technically, they don’t have money problems.  I was not, however, aware that there is a difference.  There is, though.  My parents have money.  It’s locked up in CDs right now, though, and they are unable to use it.  They have a lot of money they can’t touch until August of this year.  I can’t control this.  I, however, can control what I use of theirs.  For instance: electricity, water, food, beverage, etc.  I can control all of these and put myself on a $20 budget for food and drink.  I can control the 20 minute shower I take, or for how long I let the water run.  I can control what I leave plugged in or what light I leave on.
2. Stress management is key in my life.
   I can’t stress over every single, tiny, little thing.  That is so not healthy.  I’m really bad about it, though.  I need to learn to be logical and just not freak out before I know I have to.  And, even then, you never really should freak out about something.  For instance: food and exercise.  I always beat myself up so much for not walking that extra minute or mile.  I always beat myself up if I don’t workout.  I guilt myself out of eating what I really want which will only hurt me in the long run.  If I eat something that I think I shouldn’t have, then I stress about it.  Stress actually causes weight gain.  I need to learn how to manage it.  Ideas anyone??
3. Food is food, calories are calories, working out is good, and water is key.
   Some of you do not agree with me.  That’s fine.  I have my own mottos.  I don’t always have the patience to let the tea heat up, and I have found no alternatives to hot tea.  I’ve heard that the instant powder tea is bad for you so I don’t drink it.  Instead I opt for water with a little lemon in it.  Food, no matter what, is food.  If I’m craving something, okay.  Well, I’m probably going to have a little of that something and get over it.  I can’t feel bad about going over my calorie count anymore.  I’m eating healthier, exercising a lot more, drinking a lot of water, and I’m good.  I’m happy.  Some days I hit the slump of, ‘why do I bother.’ But I pretty quickly get over it.
4. Moderation is your best friend.
   I come from a binging type of ordeal.  I’d deprive myself so much that I’d eventually just cave and eat a shit ton of whatever I wasn’t allowing myself.  Bad.  This is so bad.  I think what a lot of people who take the weight-loss ‘plunge’ (if you will) forget is you can’t cut yourself off completely.  I have so many vices.  For instance: I absolutely LOVE pasta.  I eat it at least once a month.  It doesn’t matter when, I just do.  I love ranch potato chips (not a good example since I gave them up ‘cold turkey’ and never looked back).  It’s OKAY to treat yourself guys!  In fact, most people encourage you to!  Just keep it light.  Usually once you have a tiny amount of whatever you’re craving, you’re good to go.
5. Live freely.
   You cannot spend your life counting calories, staring at the numbers on the scale, or wasting away.  I haven’t gotten to the point in my life where I don’t count calories anymore.  I haven’t gotten to the point in my life where I don’t weigh myself anymore.  I still fret over small things.  I realize, though, that I don’t always want to be this person.  I gave up drinking because it’s a lot of extra calories.  I won’t always not drink.  I will some day learn to incorporate it into my diet (hopefully by my 21st birthday).  I want to be able to incorporate it in at least 2-4 days a month and be okay with that.  i want to know I’m okay drinking a six pack of light beer.  I won’t let somebody tell me that isn’t okay.  I enjoy drinking.  I aspire to be the girl who can go to the gym, not count calories, and live a somewhat guilt-free, stress-free life.

While I haven’t found cures for all of these things, I’m working on it.  That’s really all I can do.  I still have my days where I’m a complete jerk to myself.  I’m going to slowly ease myself from this attitude, though.

ways to de-bloat with simple food swapping:

it’s basically a give & take. a lot of the foods mention are what i have to eat because i’m anemic & need all the iron-based foods i can get. but you can always go around it, i believe. eitherway, the best way to de-bloat, diet, & maintain a healthy body is to drink lots & lots of water!

I FEEL GREAT! 

My diet was decent today:

• Fiber bar in the morning
• Pizza roll for lunch (horrible.. I know)
• Apple for a snack
• Small portion of wheat noodles and Alfredo 
• A ton of water

Now I am going to make something small for my post workout meal. 

Today was my first day of the biggest loser. 

At the first station, we walked up and down a hill ten times. Then we ran around it, when the whistle blew, we ran up it, down it, and then around it again. Then we ran up and down it five more times. 

At the second station, we went around a track and each light post had a different exercise (sit ups, push ups, squats, lunges, etc.)

Then at the final station, we sprinted to a fence, jogged back, did twenty push ups and sit ups and repeated four times. Then we stepped up on a bench, fifteen on each leg. And then worked with weights. 

I am tired… But feel GOOOOOOD.

someone give me homemade cookies!!

Inner thighs workout, via POP Pilates :) only ten minutes and works magically. 

“Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.”

- Martin H. Fischer

How tall are you? Do you like your height?

On my state ID, it says 5’5” and when I get my drivers’ license, it will say 5’4” because that’s what it says on my permit.

In reality, I’m 5 fee, 4 and a half inches. Have been for a while, so I better get used to it!

I wish I was taller because that way maybe I would be a little thinner, but I also love being able to feel tall when I wear heels.

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EATING FRUIT BY: Dr. Oz
 

We all think eating fruit means just buying fruit, cutting it up and popping it into our mouths. It’s not that easy. It’s important to know how and when to eat fruit. 

What’s the correct way to eat fruit? 

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUIT AFTER A MEAL!  FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH. 

Eating fruit like that plays a major role in detoxifying your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities. 

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.Let’s say you eat two slices of bread, then a slice of fruit.

The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it’s prevented from doing so. 

In the meantime, the whole meal rots and ferments, and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach, and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil. 
Eat your fruit on an empty stomach, or before your meal! You’ve heard people complain: Every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc. This will not happen if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach.

Fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas. Hence, you bloat! 
 
 
There’s no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruit becomes alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruit, you have the Secret of Beauty, Longevity, Health, Energy, Happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT the concentrated juice from the cans. Don’t drink juice that has been heated. Don’t eat cooked fruit; you don’t get the nutrients at all. You get only the taste. Cooking destroys all of the vitamins. 

Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit-fast to cleanse your body. Eat fruit and drink fruit juice for just 3 days, and you will be surprised when your friends say how radiant you look! 

KIWI: Tiny but mighty, and a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E and fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange! 

AN APPLE a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants and flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C, thereby helping to lower the risk of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke. 

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits and protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals. 
 
EATING 2 - 4 ORANGES a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent and dissolve kidney stones, and reduce the risk of colon cancer. 

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of  92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. Also a key source of lycopene, the cancer-fighting oxidant. Also found in watermelon: Vitamin C and Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, good for your eyes. 

Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer!Can you believe this? For those who like to drink cold water, this applies to you. It’s nice to have a cold drink after a meal, however, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you’ve just consumed, which slows digestion. Once this ‘sludge’ reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the

intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. 

A serious note about heart attacks.HEART ATTACK PROCEDUREWomen should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they’re asleep

do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Be careful, and be aware. The more we know, the better our chance to survive. 
 
A cardiologist said if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we’ll save at least one life.It  can even be your life!

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1. Summer class is an oxymoron. Nobody should ever be indoors in the summer unless it’s a fun place.

2. French 300 is such a waste.

3. My college sent me a letter about how I already graduated.

4. My job is taking forever to get going.

5. Consistently broke = lots of uphappiness

6. Need to get serious about studying for the GRE’s.

7. Need to stop dicking around in general.

8. Boyfriend says he loves me on the daily.

9. I’m still getting used to that.

10. Sundays are the worst, because I know I have to do homework.

11. I love watching the Miami Heat.

12. I’ve stopped hating LeBron James, even though he’s kind of a slack ass.

13. I have accepted my PCOS symptoms.

14. However, I’m going to start kicking their ass on Monday.

15. My sister moved into her new apartment with her boyfriend.

16. They seem insanely happy.

17. I hope Adrean and I are like that.

18. Sometimes I still don’t know how we got together.

19. My friend Natalie has become my top favorite person, because we always have fun.

20. I’ve got a tan and my hair has gong naturally blond.

21. I finally am a size 14, after 6 years of PCOS weight coming off.

22. Still have 45 lbs to drop.

23. Going to be a long hard road at the gym.

24. I’m ready to move to Tampa.

25. I’m even more ready to work with the morgue.

There you have it. The things going through my head at warped speed. It’s hard to be around when you work and workout and have to entertain a boy all the time. But, I miss you all. And, will try to be back more often than not. Hope every freaking one of you is well.

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40x chest press machine (40lbs).

30x fly machine (30lbs).

40x row machine (30lbs).

20x bicep curl (15lbs).

20x bicep curl (10lbs).

2 miles HIIT treadmill (25min).

3 miles stationary bike, random level 7 (15min).

50x right glute plank lifts.

50x left glute plank lifts.

100x butterfly crunch.

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10. Quinoa

Never heard of it? Pronounced KEEN-wah, this whole grain contains 5 grams of fiber and 11 grams of protein per half cup. Cook it as you would any other grain (although some brands require rinsing). Quinoa’s nutty flavor and crunchy-yet-chewy texture are like a cross between whole-wheat couscous and short-grain brown rice.

Try for: At least one half-cup serving (a third of your whole-grain requirements) per day. Try substituting AltiPlano Gold brand instant quinoa hot cereal (160 to 210 calories per packet), in Chai Almond and Spiced Apple Raisin, for oatmeal. Look for it in health-food stores.

Originally published in Fitness magazine, June 2006.

Learn more about the Paleo Diet.

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I know I whine a lot and it frequently comes off as high-horse but it isn’t intended and most of the time is genuinely confused so bear with me. When my mother came to visit with us a few months ago, she was here for a week. When we went to Whole Foods to get dinner and any groceries she might need, she bought herself dinner and a mango that looked yummy. Michael’s sister is here for a week. Thus far, we’re looking at $46 on food. I just don’t understand that.

I know plenty of people have the money to do - that’s cool. But I just don’t get how you spend $46 on things that don’t combine to form a meal. Of course, I know what Michael and his family considers a meal is vastly different from how I was raised so that might be one of the differences right there. 

This one isn’t about my family or Michael’s, however. This one is about being confused as to how people eat certain ways. Let’s face it, we’ve all eaten crappy before in ours lives. Everyone has had that week they said fuck it to anything but cheese fries, that semester of binge drinking or chain smoking (or both!), that buffet line that got the best of them. No human being (even those who BS well) can say they always eat healthy or even close to it everyday in their life. I’m pretty darn close nowadays but sometimes get taken hold of by the Too Much Popcorn Monster. 

I just don’t get how one could choose to eat really, really poorly and really, really expensive everyday. Surely someone has mentioned to you that Doritios are not a healthy snack or lunch. Surely someone has told you or you’ve read it somewhere that there is this thing called “sodium” and that having 5,000mg+ of it in a day is bad. I know so many people who turn a blind eye to this crap and yes, it’s fine once in a while but let’s not pretend that eating like crap daily every meal daily doesn’t catch up with someone. 

I don’t know, maybe I’m on edge and looking forward to a healthy life or something. 

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Tomorrow's plan

• ab exercies & sun salutations
• 30DS Level 1 - day 4. 
• perhaps a quick (about 2 miles) jog if the heat and time permits. 

Abs abs abs abs

Yesterday I went to the gym with Mailguy to do abs once again. He is obsessed.

We ran 2 miles for a warm up - then went downstairs to do abs. We were working on the captain’s chair - doing leg lifts, but holding a sit up ball between our feet when a trainer walked by and said you know that is working hip flexors right? We were like what?!

He them proceeded to show us like 5 exercises super quickly that work lower abs - NONE OF WHICH I COULD FULLY DO! So freaking hard!!!!

So even though we spent a large part of the workout talking - since it was learning I still think it was good.

Taking today off since I worked out Sunday, Monday, Tuesday this week - and tomorrow is MFT. Our first session back - I want to me fresh!

Reason #5 to Lift Weights (Adam Campbell)

5. You’ll Build Stronger Bones 
Just like muscle, you lose bone mass as you age, too. This increases the likelihood you’ll one day suffer a debilitating fracture in your hips or vertebrae. That’s even worse than it sounds, since U.K. researchers found that among older women who break a hip during a fall, more than 50 percent will never walk again. In addition, significant bone loss in your spine can result in the dreaded “Dowager’s hump,” a condition that leaves you with a hunchback. The good news: A study in theJournal of Applied Physiology found that 16 weeks of resistance training increased subjects’ hip bone density, and elevated their blood levels of osteocalcin—a marker of bone growth—by 19 percent.

Another bone-related benefit: Researchers in Georgia found that osteoarthritis sufferers who performed leg exercises through a full range of motion three times a week reduced knee pain by up to 58 percent.

so i ate a little bit too much at lunch today…i had a whole wheat everything bagel with tomato...

so i ate a little bit too much at lunch today…i had a whole wheat everything bagel with tomato slices, avocado, and chicken salad spread on separate halves of the bagel. i also had slices of turkey and ham on the side…definitely too much for lunch. i estimated it to be around 600 calories, adding to breakfast to make 900 calories.

i went to the gym with my friend and burned 400 calories in about 45 minutes which made me feel a little better.

for dinner my mom is making chicken fajitas on whole wheat wraps. this dinner will probably be around 400 calories. i also had an apple when i got back to the gym, so my total calories for today will probably be between 1250-1400 calories. that isn’t too bad, considering i went to the gym, but i just wish i ate less for lunch.

tomorrow is a new day!

Fat loss workout: (Credit: My boyfriend)

I’ll be starting this on Monday, June 6, for anyone that wants to cIomplete the workout challenge with me. Duration: 5-6 weeks.

 *Day 1- Upper Body *(3 sets of 10-12 reps)

1). Push-ups- (2 sets of 15 reps)

2). Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown*

3). Dip Machine*

4). Dumbbell Shoulder Press*

5). Seated Cable Rows*

6). Dumbbell Bicep Curl*

7). Hyperextensions*

8). Bicycling, Stationary- (30mins.)

  *Day 2- Lower Body *(3 sets of 10-12 reps)

1). Freehand Jump Squat- (2 sets of 15 reps)

2). Butt Lift*

3). Dumbbell Lunges*

4). Stiff-Legged Dumbbell Deadlift*

5). Seated Leg Curl*

6). Leg Extension*

7). Standing Calf Raises*

8). Stairmaster- (30mins.)

  *Day 3- REST DAY

  *Day 4- Upper Body *(3 sets of 10-12 reps)

1). Push-ups- (2 sets of 15 reps)

2). Dumbbell Bench Press*

3). Lying Triceps Press*

4). Standing Military Press*

5). Bent Over Two-Dumbbell Row*

6). Upright Barbell Row*

7). One-Arm Dumbbell Row*

8). Knee/Hip Raise on Parallel Bars*

9). Running, Treadmill- (30mins.)

  *Day 5- Lower Body *(3 sets of 10-12 reps)

1). Freehand Jump Squat- (2 sets of 15 reps)

2). Split Squats*

3). Plie Dumbbell Squat*

4). Narrow Stance Squats*

5). One-Legged Cable Kickbacks*

6). Leg Press*

7). Calf Press on Leg Press Machine*

8). Elliptical Trainer- (30mins.)

  *Day 6- Cardio

1). Running, Treadmill- (40mins)

  *Day 7- REST DAY

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