17 days and 15 pounds later...Day 1

Have you seen this book???

So a coworker has been losing some major inches with this diet. She finally brought in the book so that I can see what it was all about and it of course told me what I already knew. Eat right, no white breads, rice, sugar....blah, blah, blah! I have been doing weight watchers for a while and although it does hold me accountable for what I eat, I am still sabotaging myself. So the idea of losing 10-15 pounds within 17 days appeals to my need for instant gratification and well the Doctor is frickin' gorgeous....so why not! I am normally not a fad diet person, but with reading this book I felt he was genuine and he wrote with that "no nonsense, stop shoving bad food into your mouth and this is why" reasoning!! One of the reason's I loved reading Skinny Bitch...except they use way to much soy products and are complete vegetarians...not happening in my household! Sorry, but the cows I see going to work every day...we call that steak...not Freddy or some other cute pet name!

There are 4 cycles and what I loved the most was that by cycle 4 when you are maintaining the weight loss you do have the option of still having the "naughty" foods, with moderation of course. He doesn't say NEVER eat the scrumptious garlic sourdough bread that you love so much never again...he just says to do it on your off days. 

Cycle 1: Lean Proteins and Cleansing Veggies, Green tea x3 a day, water, 2 servings of certain fruit and 2 servings of a certain probiotic to help with digestion....that pretty much covers it! Oh, and don't eat any carbs after 2pm.

So here is what Day 1 looks like to me...

Breakfast:

2 hard boiled eggs - just ate the egg whites, not the yolk...that's normal for me

1 apple

coffee with sugar free creamer and cinnamon (not giving that up)

Lunch:

Organic Baby Spring Mix, Carrots, Tomato, Bell Pepper, Broccoli, and cauliflower all thrown together with some chicken breast meat and oil and vinegar....this is my normal lunch so no skin off my back

Dinner:

Fish

Veggies

Snack:

Low Fat Greek Yogurt with berries

I have to say I might be a little hungry but that's the point of not stuffing your face!!

He also recommends 17 mins. of activity. The one thing I can say that concerned me is with the first 17 days there won't be any extreme cross training or running. He says that in the book, since carbs are very limited in the first cycle. Well, since my training has been sucking anyways...no biggie. I can definitely do more than 17 minutes....so wish me luck

PS>> Dang it...why can't gummy bears be on the list of good stuff....just sayin'

Look who's having the biggest giveaway ever...

I <3 her blog...

http://skinnyrunner.com/2011/03/28/the-biggest-giveaway-in-the-history-of-the-world/#comment-43794

Scary movies and my "TA DA" list

Let's start with the TA DA list...you know like when you made something awesome as a kid and wanted to present it and went TAAA DAAAAHHHH! So instead of my to do list...it's my ta da list. A co-worker recommended checking out this guys blog because it had an awesome article about being a gamer nerd and comparing that to real life. I work with gamers and because I have no time for them, they like to poke fun at my lack of game nerdiness, which I in turn tell them they have no life! It's all in good fun so don't get your panties in a wad. A couple things I love is that he uses little Lego men to tell his stories **awesome** and that he is traveling around the world on what he calls the Epic Quest. It's absolutely fascinating to me that someone can literally travel with a backpack and 1 pair of shoes....WHAT??? That's not possible you say! Well as I was overlooking his blog and all the craziness of his daily adventures, he mentions his bucket list and the goals he has completed and that totally made me think that should definitely be apart of my blog. But I don't like the phrase "bucket list". I am not sure it's because they made it a movie about 2 old guys getting ready to die or what, but I don't want to wait until I am going to die to actually accomplish stuff...ergo...the "TA DA" list. It's definitely more fashionable and definitely girly!!

The other thing we were talking about today was horror flicks. The kind that are so gruesome you can barely stand to look at the tv without your hands over your eyes, peeking out, as if that would actually make it all better. When yummee and I first started dating, we watched The Hills Have Eyes....yowsers...I was practically climbing the wall trying to get away from the bad guys in this movie.

Yes, I am a total freakazoid...and yes, he still laughs at me to this day about this movie. Other horror flicks of note:

Wolf Creek - loosely based on true events

Wrong Turn - yucky inbred rednecks 

Hostel - never want to travel to a foreign country

Tourista - another one that makes me just go....yep, can't leave my house

Strangeland - so now the crazy person is my neighbor

We also had discussions yesterday about The Ring and The Grudge. Whenever I have to work late, I always think of the scene in The Grudge with the elevator. So I think the stairs are safer...uh no, there is also a scene with stairs. So I run like a crazy schyzophrenic to my car, jump in, and lock the doors....um, keep in mind I am in a secured parking garage. Oh wait, there's a movie about that too...

So what horror flicks make you want to hide your fingers under your butt so no one can snip them off? ...yep, that is in several movies.

PS> I am immediately going home to snuggle with yummee and put on some really horrific stuff on Netflix....of course, that's after the youngin's go to sleep. It just wouldn't be cool to give a 2 year old nightmares to early in life...just sayin'