BANG!

I have been researching... well really just reading, a lot about DDP Yoga. My boyfriend is a REALLY big fan of WWE and DDP is a former wrestler, so he found a video of it and showed it to me. We started with just making a salad that DDP had a video for, and we loved it! So I started looking at other stuff... one of the major things you see when looking up DDPYoga is the video of Arthur which is very inspirational! 

There are so many other videos... and I started to get really interested. I looked up the website (http://www.ddpyoga.com/site/index.php/en/) and found that they have a payment plan option so I ordered... 

I started with going through the Diamond Dozen (13 moves that show up everywhere in the workouts) and today I did the ENERGY.... needless to say it kicked my butt! But something that I love so far is that you get what you put into the workout. Its all about engaging your muscles and using your own body to kick your ass. 

I am definitely going to keep doing this and watching what I am eating... wish me luck! 

I Suck...

Well here I am again....

I started this wonderful blog a long time ago. I started and then I quit and got sucked back into my fat, unhealthy, lazy lifestyle. Then I started again, and once again I got sucked in. Something about starting school and going to work just makes me wanna eat a whole lotta junk food.

I know I am making excuses... but I am back. I weigh more then when i originally started and it sucks!

So I am going to try again... try again... and try again.

I have a lot of friends on my Facebook that have also decided to "get healthy" and start working out. Great for them! Their posts are very inspirational! However, I am not going to do that. I know that I am posting on this blog and anyone could read it... but I don't want to fill up peoples walls with everything I am doing. I know I am going to have some trials with this and I don't really want all of those people to know every single time I fall back down.

So all in all... I HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA WHAT I AM DOING!!!! I guess thats kinda the point though, I have to start from the beginning and work from there.

Refocusing

I am convinced that this is the hardest thing I have ever done. I get a good week and then I slip up and then I spiral down, and then I realize how far I have fallen and I climb back up.

THAT IS THE POINT! I climb back up... I have spent my WHOLE life eating bad and enjoying all that "bad" food. My mind frame and the way I have lived is not going to change over night. I am going to have slip up and off weeks, but now I have the ability to realize that I am messing up and that I need to pull myself back on track.

Don't let bad days slow you down, don't let bad weekends slow you down, and don't let bad weeks slow you down!

I CAN DO THIS!

OK, now I am a Believer

This juice has really started to grow on me. I woke up this morning (one of my days off) and CRAVED my morning juice. No coffee, no sugars, nothing but the juice. So I woke up, Friday is my weigh in day... (scary music plays now) and I have decided to measure myself this go around (even scarier), and weighed/measured myself....

7 pounds this week and 9 stinkin inches!!!!!

Now, when I saw how much weight I lost I thought it was just gonna be the usual water weight I lose at the beginning of a diet. But then the 9 inches came into play.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you lost weight, now what? Well, I am going to keep drinking the juice. Maybe not as religiously as I did this week, but really it tastes pretty darn good! I am also going to eat more then a salad for dinner. I love my salad but I need other foods in my life... :) I am really happy right now. If you ever wanna start a new lifestyle, I definitely recommend juicing. I am going to drink it still because it tastes good and I feel so much better... ok this post is more of a rant about how HAPPY I am but its 9 freakin inches I am allowed to celebrate a little.

Hiding Sugar

I have A LOT of time on my hands at work.. so that just gives me more time to look up dieting stuff. I found an article about Sugar that I found pretty interesting. Sugar is hiding in everything! In the article they listed some of the secret names that food companies use to hide the sugar in their food. 

• Sucrose
• Evaporated Cane Juice
• Agave Nectar
• Fruit Juice Concentrate
• 100% Fruit Juice
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• The -oses (sucrose, glucose, and fructose, but did you know galactose, maltose, dextrose, and lactose)
• Blackstrap Molasses
• Organic Brown Rice Syrup
• And Many more... (Barley malt, golden syrup, diastatic malt, diastase, treacle, panocha, sorghum syrup)

On the last page they tell you this... 

"... the key to monitoring your sugar is determining just how much each serving contains. How? Check the nutrition label for total grams of sugar, and divide that by four (each teaspoon of sugar is equal to 4 grams.) That’s how many teaspoons of sugar are really in your cookie, your ketchup, and your no-sugar-added fruit juice."

I did not know that! I thought it was definitely interesting, and a good way to be able to visualize how much sugar you are eating. 

Day 3 Juicing

Yesterday was hard. I think I hit the juice fast wall I think. Its normal, I guess, I did stop caffeine pretty suddenly and I ate like crap for the last 14 years (I am pretty sure my mom fed me pretty well the first 10 years of my life... its when I started choosing what to eat is when the problems started).  There has to be an adjustment period, my body has to get used to be fed, actually fed instead of the crap I have been shoving into it. 

I am going to work out tonight for the first time since I started juicing. I am actually pretty excited I have been missing it the last couple days. 

I'm not creative today...

I am on day 2 of juicing... WooHoo! 

I want to chew. The salad for dinner last night was Great! We did lots of red and green leaf lettuce, spinach, bell peppers, onion, tomato, some sunflower seeds from sprouts, and Chicken! Talk about tasty... and now I am drinking juice again. 

Ok, the juice isn't that bad. This morning I am having Carrot, Apple, Ginger juice. It is really sweet, but  good. I still don't know how I feel about the ginger. It definitely has its own taste... Here are some pretty pictures of my juice this morning. 

Now the Green Juice is a whole different story. Yesterday all I drank was the green juice. (I woke up late and didn't want to have to mess with making two different types of juice) I also did not cut the yellow part of the lemon off, so that made it super bitter. I also learned that I really don't like celery juice, so I cut that in half. 

Here is my juice from yesterday... 

When I went grocery shopping on Sunday I bought 2 bunches of Kale, and used it on yesterday (monday) so I had to buy more after work. But I found purple kale, regular kale, and italian kale. So naturally I bought some of all of them. I tried the purple kale last night when I was juicing, and we found out that purple kale doesn't give much juice when the regular Kale gave a lot more, so I have both in my juice for today. So needless to say my juice today isn't that green today... and actually looks pretty gross, but I think it tastes better then the bright green one.

Well, I feel great so far! I lost 2 pounds last week just doing a normal watch my calories and exercise plan. I wanted to amp it up a little this week before I go back to school. I am really happy I did, I feel great. Yeah, I wanna chew and eat and not drink anymore juice, but energy and just feeling wise I feel pretty good!

Good luck everyone!