Slacker...

Well, I kinda forgot about this blog... and that probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have NOT been trying to lose weight. I know I should have... the problem hasn't gone away... but I just stopped caring. I had some problems with my tummy over the last year, and they still don't know what is wrong with me. I know that my weight doesn't help. I am morbidly obese. I need to lose weight. Now something I don't understand is that my doctors are willing to do test over test and all of them come back normal but they pussyfoot around my weight... We both know that it has a lot do with the problem, but for some reason they won't say it. They don't offer advise or suggest I meet with their nutritionist, but you can't meet with the nutritionist without a referral... so explain that! I guess this post is more of a rant about nothing. I am working out a plan in my head. I have to get this situation out of control. The boy and I both know that we need to make significant changes to our eating habits and we need to start being more active. I guess that is the problem, we know what we need to do its just that neither of us want to actually get up and do it.

So, I am going to make more an effort to post on here more often and focus on DOING!

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.