Geez Life!

Well it has been too long since I last posted... :( Life took some unexpected turns for me recently, but that will not deter my drive to lose weight and get healthy!! Over this past weekend I spent it in Washington with my family visiting my grandparents! It was a blast and I surprisingly stayed on my diet as much as physically possible (I wasn't about to make demands to my grandmother about what to prepare for dinners and such.) I decided to take a small break from my hard work outs to give my body some time to catch up to all the torture I was putting it through, but I didn't become a couch potato! My grandparents have a big huge farm and I spent most of the weekend running all over hells half acre showing Jesse all my childhood craziness! So I have officially decided to move to Washington... JK but seriously. I love Washington so much and everything was so perfect this weekend that I didn't want to come home. But of course I did.... :)

I went to the gym Monday night when we got back, but didn't dare get on the scale, because I did cheat a few times while in Washington and I was scared... ha ha. But I finally braved it and got on the scale last night. I have lost 5 lbs since starting! So now I am down to 170! I know that doesn't seem like much, but for someone who hasn't lost any weight since high school that was amazing to me!

The best advice I can give right now is always take it slow and listen to your body! This isn't a sprint so you need to take the time and be patient with what is happening. For example, the last two days my body has been really sore, I'm not sure if it is from my workouts or something else, but I listened to my body and didn't go to the gym. My body was yelling for rest and that is what I gave it. I did a lot of stretching to loosen the sore muscles and of course drank plenty of water to help everything relax. So always, always listen to your body!

--Angela

Bored

     The last week has been really boring for me... I am getting into more of a routine and I stopped working out in the mornings because I am going to the gym at night. The gym is amazing for my workouts and I feel like it will really help me tone and trim all my flabby areas! Woo Hoo! Other than that I have been fairly bored.... ha ha. But I did want to share one recipe with you that I have almost every morning for breakfast. It is the yummiest breakfast shake!!

1 cup milk (Skim or 1%, of course)
1/2 cup plain yogurt
2 Tbsp vanilla protein powder (You can get at any regular grocery store.)
1/2-1 cup of your desired fruit. (Depending on the fruit you want depends on the quantity. Refer to the Zone Diet food chart I posted earlier for the measurements for particular fruit.)

Add all ingredients to a blender or magic bullet. Blend until smooth and enjoy!! Very yummy and actually very filling! :)

--Angela

My Family LOOOOVED this. I boiled shrimp almost to cooked, and then set it in a sautee pan. In a large bowl I cut up about 2tbs cilantro, heated 3tbs cream cheese, diced two tomatoes, a can of olives, added salt and pepper to taste, and stirred it all until well combinded. On another pan I had Aaron fry up about 6 pieces of bacon, while I sauteed the shrimp. We cut the meat into the bowl and added about a tsp veggie seasoning, the juice from two limes,  and mixed it well. I served it over shredded lettuce. I told my husband I would write it down because I make things he enjoys, and then never remember how I did it. Woops. 

Instant Gratification Your Instant Has Passed

132.0! What! That's 1.2lbs in 2 weeks! That's horrible! My husband gains that with a glass of water, and loses 5lbs when he uses the restroom! Come on. I want immediate results, instant gratification, reward without effort - what is this? I want people to see me and know about all the healthy choices I am making because of my totally trim and thin physic, I want them to envy my long and lean body, to want to be healthier just at the site of me; how am I supposed to accomplish this with an average of .6 lb. lost a week? 

Yes, that really is how I feel. I do know it's just an emotion and it's not a logical expectation; but having gone a whole two weeks without a chocolate chip cookie - my heart wants the world to know about my discipline at the site of me. Good thing I'm not doing this for what the world might think of the site of me, or I might give up. 

This past week has been a hard one. I started this diet as means of detoxing mold from my body, I originally started about 5 weeks ago. My first week I was so sick I could hardly get out of bed. So I lessoned the rules a bit, and a bit swiftly turned into, "what's a little mold going to do to me, bring on the McD's." Two weeks ago Angela and I talked about doing our health goals together, and so I started again. I was surprised the first week doing it with Angela that I didn't get sick, I thought it was a positive, maybe I had been sick enough the first go at it . But then this week (the second week) hit, and nope, apparently I hadn't been quite sick enough. It comes in bouts, hours of nauseating body and headaches where I want nothing more than to take two Ambian and wake up when the mold is gone (no I don't really have Ambian). Bouts are better than the first week (which was constant sickness) so I can do bouts - and I'm bound and determined to stick it through. As a family we're headed out to Arizona to see a Doctor who is well experienced in mold poisoning, I am looking forward to the help he can give (hopefully some ideas about how to kill the mold while not wanting to kill yourself). No, I don't want to kill myself, see Ambian example. 

This next week, I'm sticking the same to the anti-fungal diet, I will continue to experiment with recipes, posting them when I get a smile from my Fam. As far as the exercise, I'm dividing it into upper body and lower body, focusing on one every other day. After having had Aaron take some pictures of me, it is apparent the best thing I could do is probably run, and run a lot - but I don't have the mental energy to make myself do something I hate to do. One step at a time. So it will be about 45 minutes daily of toning, and then do some cardio at parks chasing kids, and such, and we'll reassess the cardio next week. 

Jennica