HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT PT.II

Feet!

I really pushed myself at the gym yesterday. I did 3 and a half miles. It pretty much kicked my tush, but mostly my feet. I got new shoes that I love so much, but I think it was my socks that were the culprits this time. I got some pretty heinous blisties on the front pads of my feet. It is feeling better today but I gotta tell you by the time work was over last night, I felt like I had been punished. The torture begins again tomorrow at the gym so hopefully I will feel better by then. I gotta sneak in an extra workout on Thursday before class, so that means early to bed, early to rise. Which I will be honest, is totally not my thing. But I gotta reach my goal, and BFFH will be checking on me so I gotta do it!

Oh October

October got a little bit away from me! Eeek! I started my class and I got a little bogged down trying to figure out how to make my life work. I think I got it now! Today I went to the gym. I think its been almost a month since I went and that is NOT GOOD! I had to start over. A month ago I was walk/running 4 miles in an hour and today I got over two miles in 35 minutes. One thing I have learned in this journey is that your body, unfortunately does not like it when you take time off and will make you rework up to where you were before. So that was a sweaty mess today. But I got it done! The video I posted last week is such an inspirational thing for me. I put it on my playlist that I made last night. If you have a second go listen to it. It hits it right on the head. So I am hoping to get my tush out of bed every morning because I want this bad! "As bad as I want to breath"

How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) HD

Best Friends

I had a mini melt down early this week and luckily for me BFFH was there to talk me down from my crazy. Every once in a while I start to question my life. I am sure everybody does it, but when I do it., I go mental. I am pretty good at shaking things off. Maybe those who really know me don't agree, but honestly I have to keep going, keep pushing or else I feel like this gift of life is wasted. My roommate and I have a running joke of becoming shut-ins. We would balloon up to 750lbs and have to have the firefighters cut a hole in the wall to get us out when we die. I gotta tell you, sometimes the thought staying home and doing nothing but watching tv and eating pizza sounds A-MA-Zing! But those days are few and far between. Plus I gotta live my life yo!
Anyway back to what I was saying. BFFH is helping me with my goals. I have a really good support system anyway, but BFFH is the best friend that everybody needs. She is somebody that pushes you to be better than yourself. I think I am the best friend who tells you what I think, even though you didn't ask me. Rude... I am working on it. So for the last couple days H has been sending me texts and emails reminding me of my goals. Bless her heart. Sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky in my life to have such amazing friends. I am serious. They rock, be jealous.

 I set a goal, but I am not telling anybody that goal except for BFFH and I am really going to work on achieving it. Because as much as they are a support to me, letting friends down is not cool. So that is a good motivator.

Sometimes I need to find my motivation, even if is silly.

Dream Specific

I gave myself a little break this week. I was lazy sick. Honestly I lost a little momentum. I will not reach my goal of 60 miles this September month but I am hoping to get another 8/10 done by Sunday. I am over my little self indulgent week, and ready to get back on track. I had this amazing dream last night. It ended with me running a marathon and weighing a lot less! Like 110lbs. I don't know why that dream was so specific, but I liked it a lot. It gave me motivation to keep going. I have next summer in my head for me for sure but also for BFFE. Its going to be a fun summer and it will be nice to feel good and look good in my own skin. specific

Chub Rub

Uggg, So here is a super fun topic to talk about today. I am rubbing the skin off underneath my boobs. Its one of those kinds of days people. I have had the same sports bra for ever and I need a new one real bad. I guess it decided it didn't want to work for me anymore because no I have two very painful marks underneath both boobs. I have band-aids on, but still I am not having fun. Most of you people know that I have huge jugs. They started growing around 3rd grade and today draw many an eye. I used to hate them, especially when I was in high school and Jr. high. But now I have embraced the bodaciousness of these gigantic tatas. They fit my body don't get me wrong, I am not going to topple over but still they are pretty big.

My SILD said that Boise had a really good place where you could get a good sports bra but when I called they didn't go up to the size I needed. Story of my life! I have one more place that I am going to try before I hit up the google, but freak they are expensive. Like 50 bucks expensive. I personally think a sports bra should pay me to hold these suckers, but hey... in a perfect world. Tomorrow is my off day at the gym and I am hoping my boobs have time to heal, because I cant stop working out and I cant afford a new one yet.

Crazy Gym Day

So I made my way to the gym today. I knew I was going to push for those 4 miles today. And guess what, I totally did it. Not without some weirdness. So I step on the treadmill and get my music started and I start getting into my groove, and then maybe 1 minute into the song my ipod dies! EEEK! It actually just ran down on the battery but I had just started. I laughed and kinda started to panic. I had 4 miles to go and I needed some beats to get me through it. So I finally found MTV after a few minutes and when I looked down I had already knocked out 1.30 of my 4 miles! Woohoo!  I have to have music, I cant just watch tv shows on the cool monitors on the tread because I push myself to the songs. For example. I would start off at a 3.7 mph and walk until that song is over and then the next song I go to a 3.9 and so on and so on. Then I go back down and come back up. I read somewhere that intervals like that actually are more effective at burning fat. I don't know. All I know is it makes myself push harder and sometimes when that long ass We the Kings song comes on with I am pushing my 4.1 I want to die. So without my music today I was freaked out until I realized MTV sometimes still plays music, and especially in the mornings. So Win for me today.

Also I sweat like a freaking pig. Its pretty much amazing. I leave with my shirt completely wet. There is a nice ring around my collar that may or may not reach my boobs. I am kind of embarrassed of it, but then also I think its kickass that I sweat so much. I know that means I am working suppa hard. I hate those girls that wear tiny outfits to the gym and come in with makeup on and kinda work out. But mostly not. Give me a break.

Chubby Bunny

There is no way that I am not going to reach my 60 mile goal this month. I refuse to lose. Also I decided since that post about wanting praise or not that I in fact DO want praise. Mostly I want praise because when you accomplish a goal its nice to get a little pat on the back. FYI.
 Sometimes I wonder how long it will be before I start noticing physically how much work I am doing. Its easy to get antsy and then give up when you don't immediately see the results you want. I am not giving up this time. I have BFFE's wedding next summer. I gotta look fab. I am already thinking about my October goals. Its going to amazing! In the mean time I keep going and going. I am like the energizer bunny's chubby older sister.

Done and Done

I finished the lazy chicks marathon today. It felt pretty awesome. Mostly because I am sure I kicked everybody's trash and also because I like to finish a goal. Although I am done with one goal. I still gotta get in almost 33 miles in 14 days! Eeek! I can do it though. I got this.

Letting myself off the hook

So this morning I had a argument with myself for a good 10 minutes on whether I should go to the gym or roll over and go back to sleep. Guess who won... I did! Its awesome when you fight with yourself because you always win. But the ultimate decision I made was to go to the gym. I just kept telling myself, its one hour out of the whole day. I can do it. So I did.  I am almost done with my goal of the lazy chicks marathon as you can tell from my ticker and I feel pretty awesome. My goal for the month of September is to run/walk 60 miles. I think 8 of those 26.2 miles were done in August, so I stepped up my 2 miles a day to 3 miles a day.  By the end of next Thursday I want to be walking/running at least 4. I am not going to lie, its hard and I swear sweat a lot. But I truly believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for. I am in the fight for my life and it feels pretty good to know that every day it will get easier and every day I will get stronger. I want so many things in my life. And not really things like objects but I want to live a full happy life. I am going to get there.

Twisted

So I am conflicted. I want people to tell me that I am awesome, because lets face it I totally am. Maybe I should start this whole thing over. I am doing this blog for me. Totally me. But I would really like at least my friends to comment on blog posts. But alas that has not happened in a while. So instead of being all ass hurt about it, I changed my attitude and decided that this is a diary of my journey and who cares if nobody reads it besides me. Okay let me be honest, I would like people to read it, but its just not happening. So I decided who cares. Me, just a little. I want people to praise me and tell me I rock. But at the same time I think that kind of attention is kind of condescending. I don't need to to tell me good job. I don't need you to tell me that I rock. I freaking know I do. So what do I want? to be praised or ignored.? I don't freaking know! I want it all. Don't get me wrong, most of my friends are so supportive in a good way. But there are some that when they go to tell me that they believe in me I want to punch them in the stomach and tell them, I don't need you to believe in me because I believe in myself. Rude right?  I guess bitches be crazy. That is all I can find for an answer. And no, dudes and other chicks better not be calling me a bitch. But I think its okay if I call myself a crazy bitch, because lets face it. Sometimes I am.

Fad Diets

So I am annoyed. I have GBK who I have mentioned in a few posts and she is really smart. She just finished her masters degree, and she is just a smarty smart smart. However we were texting back and forth and she said she had lost 8lbs which is supper exciting! So I asked her how she did it, and she goes on to tell me about this diet that tells her not to eat breakfast and to take 5 drops of whatever this crap is before a meal. I know I am not an expert but I am pretty sure that is a bad idea. So I asked her if she was planning on making this her food plan for life. She still has not answered me. I love GBK just so everybody knows but... she also told me that right before she got married she lost about 50lbs. She was going to the gym 2 times a day and restricting her calories crazy like.
But for some reason, she gained it all back. I know the reason, and smart people know the reason, but for some reason GBK doesn't get it. Fad diet are stupid people. Sure they work, for a while, and then when you go back to eating like a human... all the weight comes back. Duh! The only way to lose weight and keep it off is to eat a healthy whole food diet. FOR LIFE. Lots of fruits, lots of veggies, lots of whole grains, and protein,(plant or animal). That is it. There is no magic pill, or magic surgery or magic drops that will help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.
I know this, I have know it for years. The hard part is though, keeping out the junk on a regular basis and only allowing yourself those naughty items once in a while. Its hard. Its really hard. Thus the basis of this blog. I don't know all the answers, heck I don't even know half the answers, but I know what wont work. Fad Diets!

Pain

So I have been walk/running full time for 7 days. I am pretty proud of myself. So is my mom. Anyway I have noticed that I have been in pain the first two miles of my training. I don't know if its because I set a time goal and I am pushing so hard to get that, but then after my two miles everything feels better. The last couple days I kept wondering if it was all in my head and then it happened again today. So I don't know what to think. Its in my ankles and shins mostly. So I will hop of the treadmill and do some stretching but it doesn't seem to help much. I read this article about how you are not suppose to stretch cold. Meaning in high school when our coaches made us stretch out before we ran laps they were doing it wrong. You are suppose to warm up your muscles before you stretch. So usually I walk for a few minutes and then get off and do some stretching and then jump back on. I am sure my method has helped me with fewer aches and pains but this new pain is down right annoying. I really have to fight for those two miles and then after I get them I guess my body is telling me to keep going. Stupid Body. If anybody has any suggestions I would love to hear.

In the mean time I just keep chugging along.

The Push

 I think that somewhere inside you have to push yourself to accomplish whatever goals you have in life. I have learned that nobody is going to do it for you. It was so nice having GBK at the beginning of the summer, but now that school started and I realized out that she wasn't going to be there to get me to the gym, I would have to push myself. My goal for now is to be able to run the mesa marathon 5k next year in a faster time, and to run the whole thing. and maybe secretly beat all my family members. I have been trying to do a little more running with my run/walk training. Its really hard dang it. But I am determined to push myself more every day. Today I ran about half a mile in my 2.75 training. I wanted to stop at the 2 mile mark but I just kept pushing and pushing. My health is important to me. I want to be around for a long long time, and I want to keep all my limbs doing it. I am not going to quit. Even if I mess up one day. I refuse to give up. When I reach this goal, I will make more goals. I don't ever want to rest on my laurels. I never want to stop living and striving for a better life.

September....and go!

Its September 1st so day one of 30 days of changing my life. It Saturday and I had every intention of sleeping in and then going to the gym, but I woke up and watched the Shayloss video and got really inspired. I got my tush to the gym and knocked out my 2 miles in 30 minutes. I forgot to eat a little something before I left so I ran out of energy before I wanted and had to really push through. But I did it! While my goal is to run/walk 60 miles this month I am hoping that buy the end I will want to do more. Like a million!! Also I need a new sports bra bad. These things are out of control!

High on My Own Drama

So I watched this episode of South Park about the town buying Toyota Prisus so they can help the environment. But they all got really smug and judgmental to those who didn't buy one. Well all of there smug formed a cloud of smug smog, and it threatened to destroy the city.  I only tell you this because that is exactly what happens to me when I get my motivation to eat healthy and work out. I tend to get a little (or a lot ) smug. I think I know everything, which clearly I don't. And I start to say rude things to people who are not doing what I am to better their life. This smug smog that is threatening to take over my life IS NOT GOOD!
Yesterday for example I almost caused a fight between friends because in my "expertise" I told one of them that they were not being supportive of the others goal to get healthy.  It was totally not cool, and I felt bad for hours. It did not go along with my goal to stay positive because how can you be positive if you are making other people feel like crap.
Lesson learned and fight avoided. Its only up to me what I do with my body. I don't get to be judgmental about other people and their lifestyles. Mostly because before I got concerned with my health a few years ago, that was me. Maybe I am lucky to have the motivation that I have now, and maybe they will find it on their own and maybe they wont. It shouldn't matter.

Staying Positive

I think its super important to stay positive in life. I will be the first one to admit that is hard to do. I sometimes get into these funks and I have to struggle to pull myself back out of them. I can only imagine a person so depressed that they cant pull themselves back from that mindset.

Something that I do to remind myself that life is really not that bad is I remember the people in my life that make me happy. I remember how much I love them, and how much they love me. I think of funny things and stories that I remember them doing or saying. I also think about my future and what I want to accomplish, and what dreams and goals I have.
Last year for about 6 months I was so unhappy. I had moved into a situation I was not prepared for, and I felt sad and alone all the time. Just when I thought about throwing in the towel and moving home to live off my mother, I was  reminded of how special the people in my life were and how special I was to them. It might have come in the form of a funny phone call or a blog post that made me laugh, it might have been a little person telling me they loved and missed me so much. Whatever it was it helped me get through a hard time in my life.
I feel like staying positive can help you get through anything and accomplish anything. Just say you are going to do something and keep positive and with hard work and determination you will.
In life health related goals especially  people give up if they don't see results right away. I keep learning the hard way that it doesn't happen over night. Its a lesson that I have to keep learning too. But the fact that I have failed so often means that I am not giving up, and I choose to think that is very positive.

Inspiration

Sometimes its hard to find motivation to work out and eat healthy. Its so much easier to stop by Taco Bell and get food for $1.00. It doesn't take any planning or any effort. You just sit in your car and let somebody give you "food". But like everything else in life, easy doesn't always make it worth it. I am in a constant endless cycle of eating good, working out and then something happens and I have to start from scratch again. I guess the fact that I keep starting over means I am never giving up right?
There are lots of reasons why I keep chugging along in this journey. First of all lets just put this out there. Its pure vanity! I would love to walk into any store and find clothes that are cute and don't cost extra because of my size. I would love to be called the hot chick instead of the hot chick's best friend. If you don't think you are in this for the way you want to look, you are crazy. Even if you are skinny, you work out and eat right because you don't want to get fat. Its not a sin to admit it. It is what it is
Second I want to be healthy. I have been lucky and have not had any major health issues. But lets be honest I am not getting any younger and I would still like to have children. I have admitted to myself that If that does happen for me I will be an "older mom" but I can get my body healthy and looking good and be the "hot older mom" right?
Lastly I would like to say I live life to the fullest and I think I am mostly happy. But there are things I don't do because of my size. The water park my nephew wanted to go to this summer was off after I talked him out of it. Water parks are not my thing, but would they be my thing if I felt and looked better?
Anyway the long rant of this whole thing is to get inspired in the month of September.
Shay Carl who is a youtuber actually from Idaho (living in California) lost over 100lbs. He is such an inspiration for me because he lets you know that he understands how you feel and that there is a way out if you just stick to it. So for the month of September he created this "Shaytember" Challenge,30 days to a better life. If its health, if its educational or personal, it doesnt matter. Its about changing your life in 30 days.

If you have time please watch this video and or any shayloss videos.

Epic Fail

Well I did it, I didn't do well but I did it. I felt really disappointed in my 5k on Saturday. I will say first off that the last month before the 5k was me slacking of like crazy. I started to run and I wished I was dead.  I don't even think I ran half a mile through the whole thing. My chest started to burn and I couldn't even run at all. It might be because I slacked off the last month but I think it was more because I had not been running outside and the fires in Idaho took their toll on my lungs. Also my mom pointed out that I might not be used to the altitude. I always made fun of roommates who couldn't handle the altitude and a couple years away and I am one of them? My friends were very kind. They stayed with me, and totally didn't care when we finished. But I cared. SILD did sooooo awesome and finished in the top 50! I had another cousin who finish in the top 15. We were the last 3. That cannot happen again.

I think my gals could see how disheartened I was and came up with a way to get ready for next year... and life. BFFH suggested doing the lazy man's marathon. Where we have until Christmas to run 26.2 miles. If that is a mile a day so be it. At first me and BFFN freaked until she explained the rules. Then after Christmas we set new goals for the 5k. If that is shave a few minutes off our time from last year..... which to be honest wont be hard. Or like I would really like to make that top 50.
Today I started my lazy Marathon. I will have to ask if I have to run the whole thing or if I can count my run/walk mile that I did today.
Okay its confirmed I can run/walk my 26.2. I think by the time I get those done I will be doing more running than walking so I will set another goal to maybe run the whole time next lazy 26.2. Even if its a mile at a time a day at a time.
Anyway I can chalk this up to a learning experience. It was very humbling. We had a great support. My mom and Aunt rang the cowbell at certain stops along the race and had water ready for us. My nephews cheered loudly in their pjs' and little cousins helped bring a smile to my face.
Though I didn't do as good as I would have liked. It gave me motivation to do better next year. After all its my home turf. I cant be embarrassed again.

Lifestyle Chage Yo!

So I stepped on the scale for the first time in about 3 weeks. It didn't go well. Not well at all. So fighting the instinct to curl into a ball with Doritos and chocolate I decided to revamp my food again. So I am going veg/vegan. I am really going to work hard on this goal. I have told you before that I never felt so good as when I went veg for almost 2 years. This time I plan on making sure I am getting enough of the good stuff and staying away from the processed bad stuff. My goal is to go until Christmas and then reevaluate in the new year. If I am feeling great then I continue, if I am feeling yuck and I havent lost weight, I will try another tactic.

I know you are all thinking but what about Turkey Day? Well to be honest the best part about Thanksgiving for me is the sweet potatoes, and the mashed potatoes anyway so I will be just fine. My biggest struggle is when I go out or when I go home. But I will have to remember to be even more diligent. I know in the past my lifestyle was met with annoyance and trepidation. But I am a grown ass woman, I can live my life how I want!
So today I am doing a juice fast for today and half way through tomorrow. Only half way because my mom is coming to Boise and is taking me out to dinner. I am sure I will find some veg options where ever we go, but if not I am not going to kill myself over every little mistake.
Also GBK is back from Ireland. I am so scared about what is going to happen at the gym tonight. I may or may not have only worked out one time while she was gone. Yikes! and my race is only 11 days away!!!

30s?

So I have heard this rumor that it is harder to lose weight in your 30s. Well lucky for me, I am not in my 30s...or am I? Either way I  am having a freaking hard time losing weight! Okay Okay I know what you are saying, you cant eat a whole bag of chips and not go to the gym once in two whole weeks and still think you can lose weight. Oh! Well crap. To be real honest my mind is in another universe right now. Lots of things going on up there. I am worried about school, work, life, money. The usual stuff, but for some reason I am having a hard time dealing with life. So I set some goals for myself this week. Hit up the gym 4 times...at least, and concentrate on my diet. I know how true it is when people say abs are made in the kitchen and not the gym. Booooo! I would rather run 10 miles and then go home and eat pizza. But turns out that doesn't really work.
Also I am having a mental dilemma with myself about going full veg again. I freaking rocked that for almost 2 years! I was awesome at it.  Honestly all I want to do right now is move back home and have my mom take care of me. Yep. That is what I want. This grownup stuff is no longer fun!

The one good thing I can say about myself is that when I do get into one of these little funks, its not long and I realize that it shall pass. In the mean time I have this recipe for awesome quinoa salad. It makes a lot of salad. I can eat for a week on it. Which might sound super boring to you, but when you are a single gal, making fabulous meals every night does not sound appealing at all!
I just buy some tortillas and put the salad in a wrap and call it good. Quinoa for those who don't know is power packed with protein. So for somebody like me who doesn't eat a lot of meat anyway it gets the protein into my body. See veg haters, there are other ways besides dead rotting animal carcases to get your protein! Anyway if anybody is interested in the recipe let me know. Also if anybody reads this blog let me know.

Happy Feet

 I was under the impression that shoes don't matter. Who gave me that impression? I think I gave myself that impression. IT WAS WRONG! The first month of training GBK and I were hiking and building our cardio. That was killer but we were not running. I was wearing my 5 year old Nike's. No prob right? NO! When we starting running my shins splinted right up. I was in so much pain I couldn't even hop of the treadmill to stretch it out. I had to slowly walk for a minute before I could even get off the treadmill to stretch. So thinking my 5k career was over I did some research. Turns out good shoes do wonders for you and I talked Tam into buying me an early Christmas present. I think she is just impressed that I actually get off my ass, so she is all about supporting me.  Thanks mom!

I found these amazing shoes and I could not believe the difference it has made. My shin splints are a distant memory and I feel like I am walking on air. I love them. I will never ever go that long inbetween new runners and Saucony is the shoe of choice. Of course there are other amazing running shoes out there, but I found these and they fit my giant feet and they were on sale and they looked supper cute!

Back Baby!

So as you can all see blogging has not been my top priority. However my health has become a very high priority in the last few months. I haven't been posting because I felt like nobody was reading this anyway. But I decided to hold myself accountable here again even if I am the only one who ever sees it.
Lots of changes have been my motivation to really give this a go. First of all my health. I am not getting any younger folks and the days of wishing that I wake up smaller are gone. Am I growing up? Gosh I hope not. But I have realized that is going to take a while and its going to take hard work. Second of all BFFE is getting married next summer! Congrats to her! She has asked me to be a bridesmaid and I really want to not look like the beached whale standing next to the cute bride. I told her it is possible that people will be looking at me because I will be looking so hot. She was totally good with that happening. Even if she decides to forgo the whole bridesmaid thing, I still want to be looking fly. Third and I know I have mentioned it before but I am running the Mesa 5k at the end of August with SILD and a few other people. I have invited everybody but I know for sure SILD is doing it with me. And Lastly but not least I have a really good friend here that is my gym buddy. She is a pusher and its has been what I needed to get motivated again. In the past I have never really liked working out with people but with GBK, we just work.

So I found this thing on pinterest the other day. Its a more fun motivational sister to what I was doing before with the workout rocks. Can I just tell you that pinterest is amazing and I spend way too much time on it. I will continue to put a rock in every time I work out, but what is fun about these new ones is they have pounds on the bigger ones. The bigger stones start from 5lbs and go up to 100lbs, and the smaller stones have cute motivational sayings and cute pictures just to help with the fun. So with a little Mod Podge and a trip to hobby lobby I was in business. It might be a little silly but hey whatever works right?

Keep checking back I plan on posting everyday on this blog.

Lent

So I know I am not Catholic, or whatever religion started lent. However "during Lent, many of the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxury as a form of penitence". My religion doesn't necessary believe in penitence more like repentance which is kind of the same thing. Anyway for lent this year for the first time ever, I am going to challenge myself to get my body square with my spirituality. So I am giving up meat for lent. Which as a former veg shouldn't be that hard, but have you ever had a burger at Red Robbin? They are amazing.

I have recently put on some lbs and have let myself do whatever I want. That has to change. I cant keep going on this crazy roller coaster. I am not happy or healthy with my body. I have a race to run in less than 8 months and I dont want to not be ready.

Goals Goals Goals

So I have been trying to get back into the swing of things, its been kind of rough. I have set a couple of goals. First I am going to try so hard to not eat after 7pm. What that means for me is getting enough calories in the day so when I get home from work I don't want to eat everything that is not nailed down. This is going to be a very hard goal. I am going to allow myself some wiggle room on the weekends but during the week I am going to really try to stick to this goal.
My second goal is try to take the time to make some good food, I mean cook it myself. Women cannot live on salad alone I am learning. So I have been searching veg and vegan websites to try to come up with some yummy good food that will be easy and nutritious.
I am also trying to be more zen. I know how hippie of me. But my little brother recently got diagnosed with hypertension. He is a stress case (I love you) I tend to be pretty chill about things but I have a short fuse and can be super grumpy (others might say bitchy) at times. So I am trying tea and yoga. Today I went down to Shangri-la Tea room in Boise and had my first bubble tea. At first taste I was hooked, but after a while I wan unhappy. I think I should try a different one. It was a little to sweet for me. (Such an old lady thing to say) But I did order a veggie burger and some kale chips. OMG to die for. I will go back! And if anybody is interested in being a hippie with me, you can go too.
I can totally make the Kale chips by myself, but I have gotta figure out this burger recipe. Best I have ever had.

So yummy!
 Happy Health!

My Workout Jar

I was on pinterest the other day and I saw something really cool. It was a couple of jars and one said pounds lost and the other one said pounds to lose or something to that effect. Well I thought it was a good idea and a good incentive. I liked that you could see the progress as its happening. So I went to hobby lobby on my lunch break and looked around for some cool jars. Well I found one cool jar but not two. So I decided to make my own version of the incentive jar. I got a really cool jar and it is going to be my workout jar. Every time I work out I put one stone in the jar. If I run out of jar before I run out of working outs, then I will just take all the stones out and start over.

One little sad stone, but its a start right?

Also I got a pedometer this weekend. I had one but I lost it, so I got another one. SILD suggested that I set a goal to walk so many steps. I think I am going to start off today with 3,000, and hopefully end the week at about 10,000 steps. I dont know how realistic that is, so this week is going to be about trial and error I guess.

Waterfall Race and One-upmanship

I know I promised that I would take pictures of my juicing process. I had every intention, but then day 7 rolled around and I never got to it. I think the juice week was a good success. I felt amazing. I will do it again in the future if I ever feel like I need a system reboot.
So on to the next goal. Me and SILD are team working out and getting healthy. We want to do this 5k (running) in our hometown in August. So while SILD is in better shape than me, she is not resting on her laurels. We are challenging each other from across the state.

Today she is the winner, she got up and did a morning workout. I decided to sleep in. However yesterday me and my roommate did a couple mile walk...in the freezing cold! So I won. I think this one-upmanship thing is good though. It challenges us to do better than the other person. Not in a bad way. In a good competitive way.

Day 4

Hello people! Its day 4 and guess what I forgot to do again last night.... TAKE PICTURES! Grrrr! To say that yesterday was a bit of a long day is not an exaggeration. My co-worker is out of town so I (stupidly) volunteered to work the 2 and 1/2 extra hours a night for 4 days. It will be good to have all that comp time, but this week is long long long and its only Tuesday. OK back to the real reason I am here, to talk about day 4 of juicing. Last night when I got home I was very tired and more than a little hungry. I had come up against McDonalds smells and popcorn smells yesterday at work. It was brutal. But I stood firm. I was not sure how juicing would work for such a long day away from my juicer. Turns out I underestimated a bit. So I adjusted today I am positive that I will be better at then end of my night. How am I feeling? I feel actually very good. I have lost 3lbs and everything seems to be ok. I guess I am a bit shocked because I expected this to be much much harder. I however am not a stranger to healthy foods, fruits and veggies. I was a full time Vegetarian for over a year and a half.  So maybe this cleanse might be more extreme for somebody who doesn't eat a lot of healthy food. However at the end of my 7 days I do plan on keeping up the diet of (mostly?) vegetarian trying to cut out dairy and my final goal is to cut out sugar....yesh! I am however not sure if I am going to allow myself to eat meat. I go back and forth about it all the time.
Here is the problem with being full veg. The people you tell wont let you forget it. Trust me everybody from my roommate to my co-worker is always loudly expressing concern that there is nothing for me to eat. I regret telling people. I wish I would have just kept it to myself and secretly avoided the foods. I have been eating meat for a while though and the other day our bosses took us out to lunch. I wanted a freaking cheese burger but my co-worker loudly asked what I was going to eat since I didn't eat meat. I normally like attention but I didn't want that kind of attention. So I settled for a lame grilled cheese. Booo! Anyway more on that later.
I do have a couple of pictures I just snapped at my desk:

So the big one is 32 oz and that will be my lunch, after lunch and whenever I need some food.  It has spinach, carrots, celery, cucumber, apples, pares, oranges, and just a ton of stuff that I can't all remember. It is super yummy!
The little bottle is for dinner. It has tomatoes, celery, cucumber, spinach, carrots. Kind of more hardy. At least in my mind. I think its about 160z ish? The bottle doesnt have a number on it.
Both bottles are not all the way full as you can see, but I doubt I will have the end of the day hungries like I did yesterday with this load. 
Anyway I promise I will get more pictures before the end of this 7 days.

Day 2

I am just finishing up day 2 of my juice cleanse, and to be honest I thought it was going to be much harder? I have had a lazy weekend, so maybe when work starts again tomorrow it will be more tricky. But I feel good. No problems to report. The only thing is that my roommate cooked soup and it smelled amazing, then I went to the movies today and that popcorn never smelled so good. But I am determined to finish this goal. I will take some pictures of the juicing process and post them here in the next day or so. My camera was all the way upstairs.

Oh well hello neglected blog

Well its a New Year and time to take the bull by its horns! Gosh it seems like this blog gets stopped and started a lot. So let me start at the beginning.... Last year I had some health problems that really caused me to have some setbacks. But I am sick to death of that. I already made myself a promise not to go through that stuff again. I am too young for that and It was super not fun.

So there is this movie that pretty much changed my life./http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/. You can get it on Hulu or Netflix. Its about a man on the verge of death and how he changed his life for good by going on a juice fast. At least watch the trailer. Its so good. I told BFFE to watch it and we have been passing around the knowledge ever since. So I have been wanting to get a juicer forever, since I watched this movie a few months ago, but I kept putting it off or spending money on stupid things like bills. Whatever, anyway BFFE got on recently and I was so jealous, but guess what! She got me on for Christmas. So starting on Saturday we are going for the full 7 day juice fast. I know from the movie the first 3 days is going to be hell. But we are doing it together, even from across the state so I think we can make it.

Anyway so there is my first goal. Get through this fast! I am sure I will be blogging about my experience just mainly for my benefit but also for you guys to ask questions and maybe see if this is something you want to try. I am also going to set a goal to not drink anything other than water. I dont like a lot of soda anyway so this wont be to hard, but I do like my occasional coffee. I think those things are ok in moderation. Anyway what goals do you guys have this year? Good luck!