The TRUTH about drinking ALCOHOL :/

Drinking alcohol can put the brakes on a weight loss program in more ways than one. In the first place, you've got to consider the excess calories you're taking in. There are seven calories per gram of alcohol. A single glass of white wine or an ounce and half of hard liquor provides about 90 calories; a regular beer gives you 150 (a light beer provides about 110). You can almost double the calories in hard liquor if you add a mixer such as fruit juice or tonic water.  When you're trying to lose weight, alcohol also works against you because the calories it supplies are "empty" - they provide you with no beneficial nutrients.


Another consideration: alcohol can also slow the process by which your body burns fat. The alcohol calories you consume aren't stored. Instead, they're converted to acetate, a type of fuel that the body burns quickly. As a result, you burn off your alcohol calories before you burn the fat you are trying to eliminate by increasing your exercise and cutting back on your food intake.

One snickers

+ half of another snickers bar

= one cherry vodka sour

I ONLY BURN ABOUT 200 something calories running/walking for 30 min. Can you imagine how long it would take to run off liquor!!

Lets see how many Snickers Bars we "DRINK" (1 snickers has 273 calories) 


MMM House parties and pool party drinks :) 
Lets just say this was a cherry vodka sour .... 
426 CALORIES PER DRINK!!! And we all know were going to have 4-6 of these...
YOU JUST CONSUMED: 1704-2556 calories in a few hours!! MOST PEOPLE are not even supposed to consume that in a day!!! You just doubled your intake!!

Sitting at home and having a glass of wine
White table wine: 84 calories a glass
White port: 175 a glass... 
Lets just say you have 2 glasses... YOU JUST CONSUMED..  168-350 POINTLESS CALORIES...
Lets be honest 2 glasses of wine isnt going to get you tipsy or drunk so why even drink it???

  Red wine : 88 calories per glass
Red port wine: 185 calories per glass

As for that little shot there on the side...
Depending on what your shot is you are looking at AT LEAST 150 calories a shot!! We all know that we have 2 or three of those a night there goes AT LEAST 450 calories.

 MMMmmm... A Bloody Mary one of my favorites!!
There are 25 Calories in 1/4 cup green olives.. I have about 25-50 calories of olives already...
Drink is between 143 -168 calories. 





Heres a list of other popular drinks:
Alcohol Gin: 70 Calories
Wine Cooler: 270 Calories
Bacardi Rum and Diet Coke: 65 Calories (remember your only getting a splash of coke is why it has less calories)
Cocktail mix - Non-alcoholic, concentrated, frozen: 103 Calories
Jack Daniels: 65
Jagermeister: 103
Kahlua Alcohol: 113
Margarita: 453 CALORIES OMGG!!
Martini: 413 EEK
Peppermint Schnapps: 125
Pina Colada: 297
Screwdriver: 200
Vodka: 70 

Beers
Bud Light: 110
Corona: 148
Dos Equis: 149
Heineken: 150
Keystone: 110






All this being said.. do I still drink.. Yes, and despite my fb uploads I really dont drink that often. When I do drink I only drink VODKA (NOT FLAVORED) with water and lime.  No flavored water, no cokes, no club soda. Just straight vodka, water, and lime. 
Doesnt mean add vodka to a sugary drink such as a shot, orange juice, cranberry, or sugary liquors.

Im not saying its okay to drink... it all still has calories and doesnt benefit you in anyway at all. 











 

What I didnt know about abs...By: Cort Arthur

Contact Info:
Cort Arthurarthur.cort@gmail.com
Facebook: Cort Arthur  

Twitter: @CortArthur

If you want to have the lean body, the big muscles, and the awesome booty, you have to WORK AT IT! There is no excuses allowed, only excuses made!!!

 

I asked my friend Cort Arthur to write a blog over belly fat... I actually had no clue that some of the exercises mentioned would get you abs...  Def. try to read the whole thing... when I first started reading it I was expecting to read all these cool tricks but honestly... I'm glad to read that its stuff I'm already doing that is helping build my core which is AWESOME bc that's a few less things I would have had to add to my work out. THANKS AGAIN CORT :))OH AND I LOVE HOW he bluntly tells you towards the END of the blog that if your not going to work for it then dont complain!! :)) A healthy body doesnt come for free and easy. (thank you Cort)
If you read this blog you will truly understand weight loss more. Its a little hard to read if your not familiar with some of it but if you can wrap your head around it, I honestly think it will help, and its important to understand this stuff anyway!!

Performance Goals and Weight Loss
Hello everyone! My name is Cort Arthur. I am a friend of Belle’s who all but begged her to let me write a guest blog post on her magnificent forum. She has done an amazing job with 1) Her Journey in weight loss and body transformation, and 2) in telling people the truth about how truly hard it is and how much it sucks. She often gets praise from people both on the blog, and also on her Facebook page…I’m telling you now, she deserves more praise than she gets. Her results are fantastic, and her honesty is amazing. There is little doubt in my mind as to why she has been so successful, the previous sentence states the exact reason.
 
Ketones, Glucose, and Belly Fat
Today, I want to talk a little bit about Performance Goals. Belle asked me to talk about belly fat, and I promise that I am, but it’s going to be a bit indirectly related to the post as a whole.
The great thing about the human body is that it is, in fact, not that different from person to person. I often hear, “Oh, eating that way won’t work for me,” or “I can’t lose weight because my parents were always heavy, and it’s in my genetics.” While I don’t have a hard time listening to people who tell me these lines, I do have a very hard time taking them seriously. Here’s the scoop: the human body is designed to smash certain foods into an energy efficient, body fueling oblivion, other types of food is creates into somewhat unusable, definitely unsustainable bits of badness and deposits them in places that no one wants to talk about, much less see. (Love handles, saddle bags, Yeah I dont like seeing those either Cort LOL)
In its ultimate state, the human body does what it is supposed to do, it helps the soul it carries until the ever present expiration date move from Point A to Point B without getting itself smashed by a dinosaur, mountain lion, or the ever present alligator/crocodile (perhaps the scariest animals to ever live!). How do you reach that ultimate state? Well, I tell you that it has to do more with food than anything else.
Ok, quickly to the bottom line: If you want to lose BELLY FAT, look no further than the word ketosis. Ketosis, not to be confused with Ketoacidosis (that’s bad), is the state of being in which the body in which  the human machine uses STORED FATS as energy! How sweet that sounds, right?!? What happens in Ketosis, or a ketogenic state is the body makes ketones to use as a primary energy source instead of using glucose. Ketones are simply a bi-product of fat metabolism, a water soluble bit of energy that most of the tissue in our body can use for energy. Now, what’s crazy about Ketones is the simple fact that the heart, kidneys, and intestines work BETTER on ketones than they do glucose (sugar). (NO MORE DONUTS, CANDY, COKES, ALCOHOL ETC...)
Now, with out getting too sciency, I will just say that the difference between the two forms of energy is how the body uses them. Glucose/glycogen stores are consumed very rapidly throughout the body, to the point that you have to constantly replenish them as you use them (eating a crap load of carbohydrates). Now, ketones, even in a Belle Parham-esque lean body are there for the taking, because no matter how lean you get you still have stored fat to use as energy.
So, with all of this said, what am I really trying to say? Basically, a low carb diet (preferably a diet with zero grains, and carbohydrates only coming from fruits and veggies) is how your body wants to function. I won’t lie, it takes a bit of time to get used to... but think of it this way, you get to eat more bacon and steak!
Now, I want to talk about Performance Goals. As someone who works with teenagers on a daily basis, I completely understand why people want to be lean, and why they HAVE TO HAVE abs! I hope I don’t offend anyone with this, but I think that abs are the stupidest muscle ever invented (mostly because I don’t have them, I think...). I will say that, with every athlete I have worked with, abs have shown up pretty quickly when they stopped thinking about abs.
I have a phenomenal athlete named Levi. He is 17 years old, he has a 550ish backsquat, a 350ish bench press, and a 500ish deadlift. He runs a sub 4.7 40 yard dash, can do 25-30 strict pull ups on a single serving, and can jump vertically close to 38 inches. He is amongst the top powerlifters in the state of Texas, and I think will have a fantastic football season this year as a junior.
Levi has completely sold out to what I have told him. He comes and works out with me every single day, he eats pretty well (doesn’t avoid soy as much as I would like him to) and looks like he was chiseled out of marble by Michelangelo. He used to work and work and work for abs. Crunches daily, contraptions galore (ab wheels, funny looking hangy things from chin-up bars, etc). When I finally got him to quit worrying about his “core” (another stupid word in my opinion) his abs showed up!
What we did with Levi is we started to work on performance goals. We know that if he puts the time and the effort into the gym, he will get what he wants. He doesn’t need to do HOURS and HOURS of cardio, to the point of complete muscle break down. Nah, instead he squats houses, bench presses cars, and deadlifts trains off of damsels in distress (as chivalrous as that may sound, it’s still messy).
How we program for our athletes
Levi isnt the only one who looks like he came from a museum. I have several boys and girls both that look very lean, very strong, and super fit. I can say that my girls summer program is completely fascinating. This summer I’ve had 12-or-so girls come in and completely busted their asses on (they are squatting heavy, so that is the opposite of making them go away). They have lines in their quads, in their arms and shoulders, it’s amazing! The best part for me, as their coach/trainer, today I heard one of them say “I love to squat now, I used to hate it because it hurt my knees so badly, but now it doesn’t hurt at all, and I love to move heavy weight.” She’s a sophomore, she will squat 200lbs plus for a set of five before the summer is out, maybe even 225.
Anyways, we program our athletes to do several things: be able to move under heavy loads in various positions, be explosive, and have a motor that can last. That’s broad, I know. Often times I see that people have different solutions, or starting places for new lifters/fitness goers. I tend to fall in line with the Mark Rippetoe (excellent strength coach, maybe the best ever?) line of thinking. It all starts with strength. As a human, when your strength goes, you start to see many other things go. Flexability, mobility (the scariest one), creativity, etc. So, how do you get strong?
Well, the easiest thing I can tell you to do is to learn how to squat properly (deep). The back squat is, without a doubt, the single most important exercise in any weight room. I absolutely HATE going to a gym and seeing no squat rack, or hack squats/smith machines instead. It’s a disservice to humanity. The awesome part of squatting is that it creates more change throughout your entire body than any other lift, reason being is it uses more muscles to complete the movement than any other lift. Your calves have to stabilize your ankles, your hammies, quads, and glutes have to lower, then raise you up; your abs (both front and back) are supreme stabilizers so you don’t crash through the floor, your chest, shoulders, biceps, triceps, traps, and delts are used to control the weight. I challenge another exercise that uses every part of your human system to move an object. My email address will be in this somewhere, you can contact me to debate if you want. Bring sources.
Why should you train like an athlete?
I know that most, if not all of you are not necessarily athletes. When I say that I’m not coming down on you, I am merely saying that your competitive days may well be behind you. Nothing wrong with that at all. You should still train like one.
Guys tell me all the time, “I want to look like I did in high school.” Well, no shit, dude! (for the record, I don’t want to look that way, I weighed about 130lbs as a graduating senior, a full 100lbs less than I do presently). My response to these men is typically, “dude, then train like you did when you were in high school.”  SO TRUE!!!!
“Cort, that’s too hard.”
“I understand, then be satisfied with how you look.” (love that Cort said this!!)
Bottom-bottom line is this, and I think that Belle states this clearly (both indirectly and directly) in her posts: If you want to have the lean body, the big muscles, and the awesome booty, you have to WORK AT IT! There is no excuses allowed, only excuses made. OH CORT!! LOVE THIS WHOLE PART OF YOUR BLOG!!
In closing, I hope you enjoyed this post. I know that it was long winded and possibly confusing. So, if you have questions, feel free to email me at arthur.cort@gmail.com. I will answer as quickly as I can. I may not know every answer to every question, but I have spent the better part of the last 10 years trying to be smarter at this. In the last 5 years I have made some good strides. This summer I will complete my CSCS training and be an official Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach through the NSCA (www.nsca-lift.org). I am a certified CrossfitFootball Trainer (and more-so, a junky), and a Robb Wolf enthusiast (www.robbwolf.com). If you want to see old workouts of mine, feel free to look at my blog (I don’t keep up with it much any more, because I see my students on a more regular basis than I used to). It’s address is www.bearcatgymwise.blogspot.com. We have changed several things about our programming since I last posted there, but the concepts are the same. Again, ask me questions if you have any, and keep up the good fight, I have zero doubt that you can do it for yourself... Now you need to think the same way.
Contact Info:
Cort Arthur
arthur.cort@gmail.com
Facebook: Cort Arthur
Twitter: @CortArthur

Fat Burners

This blog is over the Fat Burners I have taken ... I have only tried three and I liked 2 out of the three.
Jadera, Lean System 7, and Lipo6 Black.

How I would rate them scale 1-10
Jadera: 8 (I would have said a 10 but now that I have taken Lipo6black it blows Jadera out of the water but it really is a great pill I do like it still)
Lean System: 1 - I just didnt care for it
Lipo6 Black: 10 + + + this pill is just awesome :)))) LOVE IT

Above is Jadera:
I have always been a fan of this. When I went from a size 8-4 this is what I took while doing my 1 hour of intense cardio. I only took it for 1.5 months then I quit for 2 weeks then took it for another month. I did not take it the entire time.
My Experience:
- Take ONE a day ... TAKE WHEN YOU WAKE UP do not take late you will never sleep.
-I was losing 1-2 lbs a week it seemed like... There was maybe one week that I lost more than 2 lbs. -This pill made me not want to eat.
- You feel dehydrated have dry mouth
- Others have said this as well: First 2 weeks your sleeping is very off, and whole time your taking pills you have crazy dreams. I def felt that way. But the great thing about this pill is even if you only got a little bit of sleep your still not TIRED AT ALL the next day. Crazy but true.
-Feel very energized.
- Did I gain weight after I quit taking it? NO because I kept working out. Idk what happens when you quit and dont work out. I have heard from others they never gained it back.
In general I would recommend this I really did like it. It says its an all natural pill.
Where can you get this?
I have ordered this several times within the past 2 years and twice I have gotten FAKE PILLS!! So.. I only buy from this one guy now. I have never received fake ones from him. He ships super fast and his prices are way cheaper than others.100% trust worthy.
His Name: Paul Martin
Email: wolfmerchant@hotmail.com
Link: http://www.atomicmall.com/seller.php?id=134995
(I always just emailed him)
How much is it:
1 Bottle - $15.99
2 Bottles - $31.50

3 Bottles - $45.00 - On Sale 4 Bottles - $61.50

5 Bottles - $75.00 - Buy 5-8 bottles - AND - get a Free Pack of Meizitang Soft Gels 

6 Bottles - $89.00

8 Bottles - $115.00 - On Sale10 Bottles - $139.99 - Buy 10 -20 bottles get 1 bottle of Jadera free - AND - 1 Pack of Meizitang Soft Gels

12 Bottles - $165.00

15 Bottles - $200.00 - On Sale20 Bottles - $264.99
25 Bottles - $318.75 - Buy 25-49 bottles - get 5 bottles of Jadera free - AND - 1 Pack of Meizitang Soft Gels

50 Bottles - $435.00 - New Wholesale Special Pricing - $8.70 each - best for Jadera Resale - Take Advantang of this oppurtunity while it lasts! Easily Double Your Money - Sell to Beauty Salons, Friends, Family Etc!
100 Bottles - $850.00 - New Wholesale Special Pricing - $8.50 each - best for Jadera Resale - Take Advantang of this oppurtunity while it lasts! Easily Double Your Money - Sell to Beauty Salons, Friends, Family Etc!

 

Second One I tried was the Lean System 7 

I took this recently. I took it for about a month. I honestly didnt see any changes or differences in my weight AT ALL...
- How much: $49.99

I just dont have anything to say about this one to be honest.... Sorry :/ 

 

 

THIS I AM BEYOND EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT!!! LIPO 6 Black

Chris Ferguson thank you so much for telling me about this!!!
I have only been taking this pill for 2 weeks and it is AMAZING... Im in LOVE with this pill!!
My Experience: OKAY I'm a dumas and I took it at 6pm because I was so excited about it HUGE MISTAKE! I was up all NIGHT LONG!
- I was super jittery first day and beyond hyper... So hyper I was annoying myself.  I am not jittery anymore. I can feel that Im taking the pill but I dont feel jittery.
- I sweat more than I EVER HAVE in my entire life during work outs. THIS PILL.. I just cant say enough about it. I mean, I am DRIPPING SWEAT w/ this pill and before I had a hard time even breaking a sweat during a work out!!

- Price: Ive seen all kinds of prices
https://www.google.com/#q=lipo+6+black&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=703rT65J6YzaBavt2NgB&ved=0CHEQrQQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=d1c8892415c6336&biw=1138&bih=509

 

-I paid $39.99 and there are 60 capsules per bottle I only take one pill a day so this will last me for 2 months. So $20 bucks a month to sweat like this!! TOTALLY WORTH IT

- I  am not having a hard time sleeping now that I'm on schedule with it.. I always take this before 10 am 

- I DO have crazy dreams haha!! BUT SO WORTH IT

- This has my vote 100% and beyond!

My Workout and what makes me Sweat

Took this pic yesterday at the gym

Today I do a more intense work out because I am trying to build a lot of muscle... you can still do this work out if you would like I choose to lift the heaviest I can...
I get my work out from bodybuilding.com
Step 1. bodybuilding.com
Step 2: top left find a plan
Step 3: (scroll to middle of page) Choose if your a male or female
Step 4: choose fat loss or muscle building ( I choose muscle building)
Step 5: choose your age

I have not looked at the program for weight loss only muscle building... But its there.

I chose this work out and meal plan for 5 weeks:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/felicia-romero-muscle-building-program.html

I am now doing:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/laura-bailey-muscle-building-program.html(I am not currently doing the meal plan on this one because I have not got the chance to look at it and go shopping for it. I am still doing meal plan for above work out that I did for 5 weeks.)

For the first 4 weeks of my work out I was doing 30 minutes of cardio with each work out. I was working out for 5 days a week and two days off. There are times I would work out and feel too tired afterwards to do cardio so I would use one of my days off for cardio. 

NOW: I  do an hour of cardio instead of 30 minutes. I use the couch to 5k app for the first 35 minutes of my cardio, then I do the elliptical for 25 minutes at 100% incline and level 15. I kind of try to make it like a stair master in a way. I JUST started doing jump rope this past week and I do it between lifting weights. I will do three sets of weights then go jump rope for one full song off my ipod and its SO HARD!! I die every time, and I have to stop at times but I try not to stop for more than 10-15seconds. I only do that 2-3 times throughout my work out. Maybe one day I will be able to do more than one song at a time :)) Also, I work out 6 days a week now and one off.

MY SHOUT OUT: I have a friend named Chris Ferguson and I ask him a ton of questions about working out.. so he has helped me a lot.  Thank you.. I know I drive you crazy because I ask you 50 million questions but its SO HELPFUL!! 

What was I doing then? How did I get started?
Failure #1: When I first started working out I tried Insanity, I never lost one single pound. Why didnt I lose one single pound? B/c I still ate like crap!! I DID notice my body would tone but I was still thick and was not getting any smaller.

Failure #2:  I did try random jogs but I would not keep up with it and I would NOT CHANGE MY DIET!! I had friends that I would go walking with every single night as well and we would walk for an hour sometimes longer and I still didnt lose weight.. WHY?? Bc you cant eat a snow cone and exercise at the same time and think its going to be ok. ITS NOT!! You also cant do this then afterwards go eat out at a fast food restaurant or eat other unhealthy foods and expect change. I will probably say this a million times: We have our own ways of talking ourselves into thinking its okay to eat things when its really not ok!! We convince ourselves its ok... BREAK THAT HABIT! For example: This past saturday I ate a donut (guilty and I regret it but... I DID IT ) well, I ended up throwing up later that night because of drinking and I said ... see that donut didnt count I ended up throwing it up!! NEGATIVE!! Keep telling yourself things like this and see how far you DONT GET!!! Its NOT OK!!

Failure #3: I even tried the Jillian Michale's shred dvd's and Im 100% convinced ALL of these DVD's work but why did I fail?? I DIDNT CHANGE MY DIET!!

Success:
This is where I really started seeing a difference.. When I moved to Dallas from San Angelo (I started out at a size 8) I did continue a little bit with the Insanity and the Jillian Michale's DVD. But what REALLY REALLY REALLY made me see a difference was ONE HOUR OF PURE CARDIO>> NO STOPPING! 1 hour of hard cardio straight through.

What did I do?
EVERY SINGLE DAY for 3-4 months I did cardio! I made time for it NO MATTER WHAT!! I'm NOT EVEN KIDDING! I dont care how tired I was.. How busy my schedule was I MADE TIME FOR IT... (I lost friends, guys got tired of me saying oh I have to get this done etc. but who cares)

I was registered for 12 hours and still had a job and found time to do 1 hour of cardio. If you want to use your kids as an excuse, or your job, or school, or whatever else thats fine... But I'm telling you that I didnt let any excuses get in the way and thats how I got results. You find time for what you want to find time for. If you have to wake up an hour before your kids then do it! Figure out how important this really is to you. I remember walking in the snow to my gym, running in the rain to the gym... ONLY YOU CAN DO IT FOR YOURSELF!!

My Workout:
Elliptical: 30 minutes = 5 minute warm up,
                                      next for 2.5 minutes go as fast as you possible can for the entire 2.5 minutes
                                      next 2.5 minutes you slow way down and just do it normal at your own pace
so how will this go for the whole 30 min?
                                      5 min warm up
                                      2.5 min as fast as you possibly can
                                      2.5 min at a normal pace
                                      2.5 min as fast as you possibly can
                                      2.5 min at a normal pace
                                      2.5 min as fast as you possibly can
                                      2.5 min at a normal pace
                                      2.5 min as fast as you possibly can
                                      2.5 min at a normal pace
                                      2.5 min as fast as you possibly can
                                      2.5 min at a normal pace
______________________________________________________________________________
=30 min (this actually goes by way faster if you do it this way than just lolly gagging on it, that's actually why I started doing it that way was because I was getting bored... You wont be bored doing it this way...)

my feet would go numb after 30 min and feel tingly so for 10 min I would either walk/jog on treadmill or ride the bike.

You should have 20 minutes left of cardio. Get back on that elliptical and do the something over again. EXCEPT you do not get a 5 min warm up... Jump right back into
2.5 min at a normal pace
2.5 min as fast as you possible can ... ETC do this for remainder of time... If you want last 5 min you can do elliptical at a normal pace just to get your heart rate back down.

Theres your 60 minutes of cardio TOTAL

THIS IS EXACTLY how I went from a size 8 to a size 4. I would say it took me between 3-4 months. Closer to 4 months. I also wore a sweat shirt and sweat pants even when it was hot. I have been told not to do this but I did anyway and I'm still alive :)

This is me at a size 8 ....

Size 8:

This is what yall have been waiting for :))

OKAY here it goes... this post is going to be long and I really dont want long posts because I dont want to lose readers but there is no way around this...
What is my diet?? What exactly do I eat? How do I do it? (also, ill create a blog about when I eat out, what I eat, and I will post about my cheat meal)
What is my work out? How do I stay motivated?
What diet pills do I take and what supplements do I take...

(this blog actually ended up being long so ill create other blogs about work out, diet pills, and supplements this ended up only being about what I eat) 

OH VERY IMPORTANT my meals are based on a meal for a girl not a guy... IDK if any guys will look at this but you will eat more than this...

I DO NOT SEASON MY VEGGIES BTW.. they taste great without seasoning

Something else I want to put at the beginning.. THIS IS HARD!! It really is.. there's times Ive felt like just crying because I want to give up.. My sister Rachel has been my biggest supporter I txt her all the time complaining! SHOUT OUT TO YA RACH! Anyway... It honestly at first feels like another JOB till you get it down... Its time consuming and its torture but I FEEL its very important to eat on time.
****Another thing that helps me is I prepare 3-4 days worth of meals at once put them in plastic wear and take it out when I need it. I really think this has helped me more than anything!! *******

Theres days I want to say 50 million cuss words, and throw my food against the wall and just CRY!! IT REALLY IS HARD!! So just so you all know... Im right there with you when it comes to frustration!!

First and foremost I dont have a DIET!! I have a life change...
GUESS WHAT?? What I eat SUCKS ASS!! Its miserable and its not fun AT ALL!!
Today Im going to post what I'm doing now.. soon I will post what I did before this diet and I think it will help more than this post will...
Get ready to eat a lot of baby chickens and chickens!! And fish!!
All HONESTY when I eat these foods especially the eggs... I have to ignore it because it gets so old... While I'm eating it I wana puke half the time bc I'm just sick of it but I literally tune it out... I know that makes no sense but I DO!!
Ok Breakfast: I wake up between 6:30-7:30 everyday... My meal plan says to eat 1 egg, 6 egg whites and half a cup of oats. ( i got this off bodybuilding.com its no secret)
I started out doing that to the T!!! For one cracking 5 eggs and draining out the egg whites got old.. so I'd say about week 4 I started just eating 4 whole eggs and 1/2 cup of oats. I also put one tbs of peanut butter in my oats. I started doing that about week 3 bc I was about to go insane w/ all these oats. 

Another thing I have to admit to is.... I'd say about week 4 I also started added ketchup to eggs... Seriously those eggs are terrible I had to do something. One tbs of ketchup is 20 calories. 1 tbs of peanut butter is 105 calories...

10:00 am This is the same  EVERYDAY... I have not gotten tired of it yet so... I still do it
1 scoop of whey and 20 PLAIN almonds. NOT SALTED... yeah I know they taste better but don't do it!!! Id love to eat chocolate covered ones all day if I could :) Sorry but PLAIN IT IS!! NO CHEATING!! If you are a guy you can have 40 almonds

12:00 pm LUNCH
Meats : Chicken, Salmon, or Tilapia
PORTION IS VERY IMPORTANT... Your meat will be measured by the size of your palm.
You need a complex carb 1/3 cup: I normally do sweet potato, oats, etc. I'll post a link that will tell you what kind of carbs and veggies you can eat so you can switch them out.

3pm
Whey drink... 1/3 cut of banana ... and Yes OATs AGAIN 1/3 cup and yes I put peanut butter in it again but NOT 1 tbs a little less bc its less oats... :/ I'm guilty
If I'm on the run I still drink my whey and I will eat a  bar instead these are the two I eat...

These are about $6 a box.. Terrible... AND our society wonders why we cant lose weight bc they make it so DAMN expensive to eat healthy!! NOW... I said healthy... IM NOT saying these bars are healthy... I eat them when Im in a hurry and I need to get my calories in.... DO NOT eat this and your regular snack you can ONLY DO ONE OR THE OTHER!!!! Im serious!! Top one has 140 calories bottom one has 180 calories. Worse than some candy bars but they have protein and stuff in them as well is why I eat them.


Supper:

SAME AS LUNCH


OKAY... thats what I eat.. I will not call this a DIET bc it is a life change... I dont waste all this time counting calories. Bodybuilding.com will tell you that this meal plan has 1311 calories a day. That is not including the peanut butter and ketchup.






Do I get tired of eating this stuff!! HELL YES.. sometimes I do not even feel like eating so....
You can do a meal replacement...

 

****VERY VERY IMPORTANT!! YOU CAN NOT I MEAN CAN NOT drink this and eat a meal!! YOU CAN ONLY HAVE this!! If you chose this for your meal that's it! NO Snacks no nothing... this IS YOUR MEAL! SO make a decision. My experience.. Ive done fine just having this for a meal re-placer... I'm not hungry after having it. **** 

Look, were all going to fail... Its hard... its frustrating and its a very slow process... Make the decision to change and lets do this :))

Big Jeans, Big Boobs, Stretch Marks and Cellulite

I really hope I do not offend anyone w/ these blogs.. I Know there are some perfectly fine with their weight and thats great :)) Im just blogging my weight loss journey is all :)) 

Why do I say big boobs? I dont know about anyone else but mine were way bigger when I weighed more :)  Any woman who has lost weight knows that her boobs are almost first to go seems like. BUT... I think smaller boobs, smaller pants, and a healthy body is better any day.

Im not exactly sure who would be thrilled to look like this...

Size 10 weighing 160
I remember I took these pictures because I was going to start a work out program. I started out doing Insanity I was not committed to it 100% and did not change my diet. therefore I continued to look like this.
I wasn't to the point yet where I was truly just miserable with myself. I knew I didnt look like a Barbie but I also didnt feel that I was "THAT" big. I was not disgusted with myself yet. I kept eating out, drinking, eating at 2 am... Those Grahams late night hot dogs and Dennys and Ihop trips at 2 am will get ya.

I honestly think when someone FINALLY gets disgusted with themselves they will commit to losing weight and eating right. If you don't care about yourself then why should anyone else? IT STARTS WITH YOU!!

I am now permanently stuck with stretch marks from up and down weight gain and loss... Nothing I can do about it... No sense in even getting down about this people! I will say I have tried laser treatment to get rid of them. If your interested in this I used SonaMedSpa in Grapevine.

So what have we learned??
Not to eat at 2 am in the morning, and by not committing yourself you will always be up and down with your weight and wont ever get anywhere. I wish I had the words to get people motivated and understand this really is a life change, its not just a temporary deal. Nobody wants to hear this but its going to take a lot of time but that's all I have to offer is my experience and how it took NOTHING BUT TIME!! I'm first to say I'm impatient and great at giving up on things... Keep your head up.. I promise you can do it. Find it within yourself!! You deserve to be healthy!!
 Hmm.. wonder if my tattoo is smaller now?? HAHA

Starbucks, Chic Fila, Donuts, Burritos, Candy... ETC

I'm creating this blog because I have several people asking me what I'm doing to lose weight, how I eat, what I do during work out, and how I stay motivated.

I'm going to just be honest through out all this and tell you when I fail, how I did it and how I succeed. I don't know everything about nutrition, how to eat 100% correct, or what exercises work best. This blog is ONLY what I feel is best for ME and how I have got to where I am.

When my ex husband and I divorced I weighed 160lbs.  While I lived in San Angelo I never worked out, I tried walking and running at times but would not keep up with it. I ate terrible, donuts, burritos, candy, I was never much of a coke person but I ate terrible foods. Almost every morning a starbucks drink 410 calorie drink alone.
Wana keep drinking Starbucks and continue with out a clean diet, no exercise... this is what you will get... you get to be a size 10!! You decide

These Pics were probably taken in 2010??