Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Fat loss
I decided to do it. I'm going to run the Marine Corps Marathon. I paid my 94 dollars. I'm in. No turning back now.
I've spent a lot of time recently planning out my training schedule. I'll finish One Hour Runner in the first week of June. Then I'm going to run a 5K and a 10K. After those are over I'm gonna take a week off and then start my marathon training.
I'm going to follow
I'm going to change things up just a little bit though. I intend to lift two days a week in addition to the four runs. I'll take my rest day the day before my long run.
This should be interesting to say the least. If a marathon is too much for me I'll know well before the race. Worst case I can defer until '09. I hope I don't have to though. I'm excited about having a challenge that has nothing to do with weight loss.
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Losing weight
Like most of America, I had a New Year's Resolution. Well, I've this NYR for about four years now. 2008 will be the year that it happens, and so far I haven't been on a totally horrible weight loss journey. (Weight Loss is my NYR. Among other things, LOL.) I actually have a weight loss blog on VOX: www.divatemple.vox.com. I posted this letter to Junk Food, or, J.F., there, and I wanted to post it here too....for some reason....LOL Here goes.
Dear J.F.,
I must apologize. I have been taking advantage of you for so long - and blaming you for my problems. You know, my severely expanding waistline, my rapid depletion of breath and energy, my thereisnojoyinshoppinganymore-itis... among other things. After a long, hard day I'd race into the grocery store for no other reason than to find you - in any form I felt like having you. I'd wait for minutes in a fast food line just for the satisfaction you bring to my mouth, my tastebuds, my soul.
I've tried to avoid you, but my efforts to avoid you haven't been successful. You're simply unavoidable, and I can't take it anymore. Why is it that everywhere I look, there you are, looking back at me? I can't even drive without seeing the bright flashing lights of one of your numerous fast food chains. In the grocery store, I can't even check my items out without you gawking at me. I might have a cart filled with healthy choices, but once I lay eyes on you, I'm immediately reminded of all the day's problems, all my life's current stresses, and all of a sudden I'm telling myself how much I need you. All of a sudden I'm back to browsing down the aisles. This time, I'm looking for something to calm me down, relieve my stress, and make me happy - and I usually find it in you.
I've been treating you like you're some kind of therapist. You're not a shrink, J.F., you're junk food. You're sugary, fattening, calorie infested, greasy....and oddly and unfortunately, great tasting. You're not a form of therapy. You're not a substitution for loving relationships, a remedy for a hard day at work, and you're not a solution for all of life's problems. But that's how myself and others have been using you, either now, or at some point in our lives.
Maybe it's my lack of decent self-control and will power. My lack of 'doing the right thing' maturity. In a perfect world, I'd be able to handle you. But this is no perfect world, and I'm no perfect woman - so I know it's me with the problem. I just can't seem to control myself when I'm around you and it's crazy!
What I should have done is taken more time to get to know you and see what you're really worth. If I had taken the time to notice your nutritional value - or even care for that matter - then perhaps I wouldn't have been so committed to this dysfunctional relationship. I've been looking for love and peace in all the wrong places, and I don't think you were put on this earth to live up to my high standards. You were created to be a pleasant, tasty treat, for every once in a while. But I've used you, abused you, cursed you, and ignored you. You don't deserve all that negativity and stress. You're too good for that.
I mean, it's not like you can talk, but you still manage to tell people what they're getting into as soon as they pick you up. But like me; most people who abuse you only want you for one reason - to relive themselves of stress. We've all failed to take a deeper look and see what's really inside you, and what you really have to offer.
J.F., I am seeking to find healing for the disorders listed in the beginning, and there's only one thing holding me back. J.F., that thing is you. The sad part is, you don't even know it. You can't put up a fight when I pick you up off the shelf. You can't jump out of the french-fry pit, land on the windshield of my Saturn and start screaming, "Please! Don't do this to yourself!" A big juicy cheeseburger doesn't remind me how much fat and how many calories are contained in each bite. Sodas don't remind me how many pounds I'll save myself from if I avoid them altogether (any guesses on what I'm eating right now?).
My point is, I've been mistreating you, and overworking you. Hell, I'm practically putting you through slavery! You should be charging me for all the services you provide for me. I work my anger out on you, my frustration, my stress, even my happiness. Got a raise at work? Let me treat myself to a box of HoHo's or something.......
J.F., I'm sorry for all of that. This whole time I've hated you for what you have done/have been doing to my body and I'm sorry. You're not my enemy; I am my own enemy. I am overweight, unhealthy and can't fit into my clothes because of me - not you. Yes; it's me, not you.
So J.F., I wish I could say this is the end of our friendship; but knowing me and my uncontrollable taste buds, will and emotions......and knowing you and your irresistible (and therapeutic) taste........I'm just going to keep hope alive and pray for the best. I'm glad I've had this opportunity to get this down in writing, though.
J.F., you and I can have an amazing relationship; one that is stable and healthy at that. But if it seems like I am distancing myself, it's because I am! I need to, in order to make the relationship between us better. Please, don't get offended, but understand that if our relationship doesn't get better; it might just cost me my life.
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Fat loss
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Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet
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Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet
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Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet
Courtsey of Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
What every human seeks is companionship, the feeling that among all the billions of people on this planet of ours there is at least one person that can see you for who you are and shares common beliefs.
I am not alone.
The New York Times journalist, Henry Alford, has ventured into the world of 99 cent store dining. His aim was to create a meal a night using only ingredients from the dollar store and then end this experiment with a dinner party for some poor souls .... or friends as we like to call them.
Alford found that the dollar stores didn't have any butter, good olive oil, flour, fresh vegetables. So far so British pound shop. But it seems that American stores have refrigerated sections. Oh the luxury! So Alford made a chicken dish one night (I've sampled canned meat but I think I would have to draw the line at 99p chicken...) and made soup with frozen peas (yum) and broccoli.
I was interested to know whether the journalists dinner party was of the same, ahem, calibre as my own dinner. As soon as I read that his first course was an antipasto tray consisting of pepperoncini, olives, artichoke hearts, salami and Brie, I knew the answer. Finding artichoke hearts in my pound shop would be like finding a Christmas tree in the Sahara desert. This course was followed by chilled pear soup with a star anise floating on the top for decoration. STAR ANISE?! Artichoke hearts?! What sort of pound shop was this? The gourmet upper east side pound shop? A pound shop in Brunei? My pound shop is in an area of London called Holloway. It would be hard enough to find those ingredients in a local Holloway shop let alone in the pound shop.
To continue to read from Alfords menu would depress me. You can read the results for yourself .
Suffice to say his pecan dessert looked very pretty and tasty though perhaps it lacked the 'creativity' of my . At least thats what I like to tell myself.
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet
I was thinking this morning as I made my shake how much my tastes have changed during this diet. Obviously we have quite a limited range of foods, but I've found that over time I've reacted differently to them. When I first started I adored the Thai chilli soup, as it was spicy and tasty and felt like real food, but by about the third week I couldn't even open the pack without thinking I was going to throw up. So since then I've been on a combination of mushroom, chicken and vegetable soups, albeit all of them mixed with a healthy dose of tabasco and black pepper (our only permitted foodstuffs) to mask the slightly chalky aftertaste. The vegetable and mushroom are fine, but my enjoyment of the chicken one comes and goes in waves. Why? How?
When it comes to the sweet stuff, it's been even more peculiar. I tried a handful of them in the beginning, found out that I loathed the chocolate one (imagine expecting a hot chocolate and getting a dusty, unsatisfying and unsweetened substitute) but found I loved the caramel, vanilla and banana. Now all of these are teeth-curlingly sweet, and it's that really sacchariney, fake sweetness ... like eating a spoonful of Canderel. I don't really have a sweet tooth, but these are delicious, as is the equally overpoweringly sweet raspberry & cranberry bar. There's no way I would ever have eaten anything like this at all before I started the diet ... in fact, they would've made me feel ill. More surprisingly, the fairly innocuous peanut bar, which I thought would be failsafe, took me about a week to get used to as all I could taste was salt. Now I don't even notice that.
Recently my penchant for sweetness has increased. I no longer like the caramel shake, because it's not sweet enough, and am back on the chocolate ones but only if mixed with a spoonful of one of the water flavours (fruits of the forest or orange). To give you an idea of how sweet that is, it's normally quite palatable if you dissolve one spoonful in a litre of water. I now like it when there's a spoonful in one shake, which is about two thirds of a pint. I even enjoyed a strawberry shake last week on a whim, and for my entire life I've actively loathed the taste of strawberry. Why do I like it now? How? What's happening to my tongue?
The upside of this is that it's forcing me to seek out more variety in my diet, which goes some of the way to alleviating the monotony of having the same food week in, week out. The downside is that I'm now a bit nervous about what I'll want to eat when I'm back in the world of normal food. Will I have gone from being a savoury girl to the kind of maniac who sees a tub of cookie dough ice cream and rushes for a spoon? Will all of the foods that I previously loved (and can cook with aplomb) now taste revolting? And, horror of horrors, will I find that mixing sweet and savoury in food (like dried fruit in a salad, or apples with cheese, or raisins in couscous) is delightful rather than absolutely repulsive? It's a scary prospect, I can tell you.
I guess I need to embrace my new journey of food discovery, and be prepared not to take anything for granted. That's very strange, because by my grand old age you tend to be reasonably secure about what you know, what you think and what you do. It's quite revolutionary to think that I may have changed as much on the inside as on the outside ... OK, I know that's probably not bleedin' rocket science but it's slightly daunting nonetheless.
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet
This past weekend was eventful to say the least.
Friday and saturday I was violently ill. Let's not talk about it.
Sunday the SO called me and told me that she'd gotten a free treadmill and all we needed to do was pick it up. So we rented a truck and expected some cheap treadmill. Instead her friend has a gym quality machine in her bedroom. I took one look at it and knew it was going to weigh a ton and I questioned our ability to move it. Luckily for us we were able to move it and get it into the truck without much trouble. we broke a few inconsequential plastic pieces but over all it's here in our basement waiting to be used.
I was queasy all day Sunday so I didn't roast the chicken as I had planned. Instead I ate toast and other blah foods.
Yesterday rolled around and I decided to cook that chicken... First though, I cleaned out the fridge- some unfinished tuna really smelled up the place. I opened the chicken prepared it and complained the whole time about the fish. As I popped it into the oven I thought to myself, "Is that really the fish or am I smelling rotten chicken?" I puttered around the kitchen and then outside with the dogs for about 45 minutes. When I came back inside I could still smell the fish. The SO called me and I told her that I thought the chicken was bad but I wasn't sure, but I think it smelled funny.
When I popped it out of the oven 20 minutes later. It was confirmed the smell was the chicken. I roasted up a rotten bird. Thanks you stuffy sinuses and rotten tuna.
stupid so stupid, worst part- I was really looking forward to that roasted bird.
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet
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Posted by admin on April 30th, 2008 — Posted in Diet pills
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