If it’s a severed head, I’m going to be very upset.

I went grocery shopping today!! YAY.

And can I just tell you, that so far, I actually love being vegan! I feel alot healthier and feel better about what I eat, because I now know why dairy and meat are not actually good for me.

All these veggies I’m eating (I should probably eat more fruit tho) are TOTALLY helping my digestive system and regulating me so much better. Anyways, here’s what I ate today… now mind you, I didn’t go grocery shopping until late tonight (8pm) so everything I ate today was still concoctions of junk that I had in the fridge & cupboards.

WHAT I ATE TODAY:
– breakfast: glass of orange juice (I should really actually EAT something at breakfast, I know).
– lunch: lo mein w/veggies and pineapple w/soy sauce and raspberry sauce, & glass of water.
– dinner: a layered mini-mexican dish I made up which was a layer of rice & orzo, next layer was refried beans, next layer was salsa. It was super yummy!! glass of water to drink.
– after dinner snack: Ryan was a bad influence today and got me some Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies and I couldn’t F-in resist! It probably is technically cheating from my vegan ways, but I don’t care. They were good. And then I also had a Luna Smore bar. DAMMIT!

Today was not a good day. It was stressful. Therefore, I was not a good example of healthy eating. I didn’t eat anything BAD, but I didn’t eat anything good, and not enough to suffice proper nutrition.

So right when I was supposed to leave for work today, on one of our busiest days of the year, my car battery decides to die completely. I was in disbelief. It threw off my whole day (of good eating, that is) and pissed me off entirely. So that is why my eating situation today was not the best. Anyways, here it is…..

WHAT I ATE TODAY:
– breakfast: glass of orange juice
– lunch: pasta w/marinara & raspberry sauce (I’m in LOVE with this raspberry sauce and want to put it on everything!!) and glass of water.
– dinner I guess? (car-ride to work, lol): diet mountain dew, and whole-grain bagel.
– late night snack: bran-flakes cereal dry (actually tastey).

Looking back, I should have definitely eaten more veggies today. And I WOULD have, during my dinner break at work, but since I was late to work bc of my car situation, I didn’t get a break at work. Good lord, I can’t wait to go grocery shopping on Friday when I get paid, lol.

I WANT A COOKIE MORE THAN EVER IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!

But I will not have one. I will suck it up and spend the GD $1.50 for a frickin Luna bar (vegan-safe). I LOVE these things, but they’re expensive so hopefully I can un-justify buying them and wasting $1.50 on something I eat under 3 minutes, lol.

Anyways, my friend at work today gave me the book “Skinny Bitch.” I’ve heard about this book and heard that it was not that good, and that it was all negative and eliminates pretty much every kind of food to eat and says its bad. It slightly DOES do that, but it’s nothing that isn’t true! It’s pretty much a book that encourages you to become vegan. So, right now, it’s perfect for me! :)

AND it’s actually FUN to read, because it’s a “no-nonsense” book and gives it to you straight. For example, here is how the chapter about how dairy is actually not good for you, starts off, entitled, “THE DAIRY DISASTER”:
“Go suck your mother’s tits. Go on. Suck your mother’s tits. You think this is ridiculous? It is. Get ready to use your head.”
In another chapter, it talks about different foods and why they’re good for you, explaining:
“Yeah eating onions and garlic makes your breath smell like someone took a shit down your throat. But they fight cancer and detoxify your liver. So eat ’em.”

A very interesting, informative, and captivating read!

WHAT I ATE TODAY:
– breakfast: glass of orange juice
– lunch: lo mein and mixed vegetables from restaurant
– dinner: vegetarian sub from Chocolate Factory w/honey mustard. I thought this was gonna be frickin dry and nasty bc it was all veggies and no meat. But it was actually REALLY good!! It included sprouts, peppers, onions, tomatoes, and carrots.
– after dinner snack: graham crackers w/apple butter (not like actual butter)

So…. this vegan thing, it’s really “cleansing” me, if you know what I mean. Well, Idk if it is in fact because I’m not eating meat or dairy that I’m having an overly-healthy digestive system, but it’s the only reason I can attribute to the change in my body.

Anyways, on today’s menu, I ate:
– breakfast: none. I know this is not the best thing, but right now I don’t have any breakfast foods.
– lunch: vegetable stir-fry I found deep in my freezer. I made it with 1/2 of the soy-ish sauce that came with it, and have raspberry vinaigrette. It was quite delicious!
– dinner: broccoli mixed with stuffing, topped off with some honey (to make it sweet) and some garlic (for a tang). it was quite yum-taters!
– after dinner snack: I always have a huge sweet-tooth after a meal. so Ryan and I walked to Walgreens by our house and I bought 2 Luna (vegan-safe) Smore bars and ate them BOTH. AHH. its ok tho, they’re 70% organic and not uber-bad for you. I probably could have just stuck with having only 1 tho… oh well. :)

OH PS – I also went for a run today! First day back to running since November. EEK.

Yo kids.

I’m performing an experiment. As some know, in the past year or so I have been getting into healthy eating, certain diets, learning about supplements/vitamins, food-healing, blah blah. Well, during Nov-Jan, I have not been so healthy and all that jazz. I kinda gave myself a break during the holiday season(s) because I just can’t resist all the frickin pumpkin deserts and the damn gravy!! AHH!!!!
In order to get back into my healthy groove that I’m normally in, I decided to try to go vegan for a little while. Why, you ask? Here’s a few reasons:
1) just to be healthy and give myself a little mini-cleanse(ish).
2) I watched an uber-sad video about crazy animal breeding and the treatment of animals who supply the meat/dairy products for many popular food brands and/or restaurants.
3) just trying something new.
This will certainly not be a permanent thing. Lord knows if I’ll even last longer than a week. I would LIKE to last 2 weeks. That is my goal. And even here, at day 1, it’s frickin hard.
In order to keep myself on track and to minimize the desire to cheat, I decided to track on here what I’m eating during my vegan venture.
Be forewarned tho that this week I am quite short on $$ so my meals will probably not be the greatest as far as daily nutritional value & less than ideal. lol. I’m poor at the current moment, and payday is Friday, so after Friday, I should have better food choices.

TODAY I ATE: (not much)
– breakfast: nothing. HA.
– lunch: fried rice and plain vegetables from a Stir Fry restaurant, diet coke
– dinner: a ramen-esk type noodle-thing (i checked the package to make sure what it was made with, nothing violating vegan rules :), glass of water
– after dinner snack: popcorn w/sea salt

SUPER EXCITING HUH?!? We’ll see what I can dig up in my cupboards tomorrow until I get paid on Friday… haha……..

Holy crapola it’s been way too long since I’ve last blogged. And I have no idea why. Sometimes on my days off of work I’m here at home and wonder to myself, “wtf should I do.” Dammit, I could BLOG! HELLO. Sometimes on my days off I have many options of “lazy” things I can do, and sometimes I just can’t decide, so I do none of them. God, that’s lame.

This blog is going to be random since I haven’t been on here in a while.

Oh, on a first note, I am back to my paleo diet, and doing well I think. My paleo diet is essentially the “caveman diet” where you literally have to think of what a caveman could have eaten back then. Pretty much meat, veggies, fruit, rice, eggs, and nuts. This was the diet that jump-started my “big” (not really that big, almost 20lbs) weight-loss last summer. I have really only started it this week (haha) but I have been wanting to cheat SOO bad, and haven’t! I do bend the rules a little bit so that I stay somewhat sane, in the way that I do 100% strict paleo 5 days out of the week, and the other 2 days I eat whatever I want. But it’s interesting because even on my days off of my diet, you would think that I would want to gorge and eat a ton of straight-up shit. But I don’t really. I mean, I DO have the cravings, but I think about the 5 days I was super good and I don’t want to spoil that. But dammit I could go for a cookie right now!

I have finally started watching Arrested Development. There are only 3 seasons total, and I’m only on episode 5 of season 1, but so far, it’s definitely my kind of show :) I recommend it highly.

I CANNOT get thru the damn last Twilight book!! I should probably include the 3rd one on there too. Ok, first of all, the third one was my least favorite, THAT’S why it took me balls forever to get thru it. It’s all boring backstory, leading up to the climax of the story of this big battle at the end, which you never get to see/read. BAHHH. Lamesauce. And I have no idea why I can’t get through the fourth one. It’s really good. But this is what I’m saying, sometimes I’m too lazy to even decide which lazy activity I should do… like reading!

Lindsay Finn is in Spain. For, what seems like, 6 years. Really only 2.5 weeks. Ughhh…. but I got her some bomb-ass bday presents for when she comes back, which I am excited to give her.

LOST started again in January…. holy mind-fuck batman. Loving it. And Jack. Yum.

OH, you know what? A few weeks ago I thought of a really good blog to do, but yet again, was STILL too lazy to even blog about it. And I was super opinionated about this one too, lol. Maybe another day.

Last night I downloaded the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack. It makes me feel a little bit gangster-bollywood. I listen to it f-in loud as can be in my car. And I love it.

Woot.com had a woot-off last week and I was bummed that nothing really good came up. A “bag o crap” came up at one point while I was watching and I tried really hard to get it… but yet again, server crashed for a little while.

I made an easy recipe of spinach lasagna which I have been making way too much lately. Ryan doesn’t complain tho.

Ok that might be it for today. NITE!!

So it’s been a while since I’ve blogged. So long I guess that they’ve changed the home page (once you log in) on wordpress. I logged in and was all… what the…? Today I am going to address any and every random frickin thing that I want to write about, since I have ALL day because Ryan and I are trapped in our apt due to the awesome snow storm.

On Sunday I get my effin IPHONE. Finally, sheesh. And best of all… I don’t have to pay for it, HA! Ryan’s getting it for me for xmas. I’m totally stoked and have already looked online at the apps I’m going to download. How nerdy, huh. Here’s my list so far, lemme know if there’s anything else I should DL: (most of them are free apps bc I’m a cheap motherfucker)
bubble wrap
scribble
peanut butter jelly time
balance
pandora radio
gasbag
steadycam
facebook
myspace mobile
aim
night stand
weatherbug
urbanspoon

For all of you folks that I didn’t think were important enough for me to send a Christmas card to, here’s your free interweb version….

We like to take the whole Christmas card thing to quite a sarcastic extreme only for the fact that some people take it WAY too seriously… for instance, MY MOTHER. She practically thinks about it all year like “what is my theme going to be this year” and all that BS. It’s like how some people get nutso about scrapbooking and it has to be FUCKING PERFECT and have to have THE perfect stickers and ribbon…. that’s how she is about xmas cards. And she ALWAYS sends them out the day BEFORE Thanksgiving so that people will recieve them directly the day after Thanksgiving because she says that’s “technically” when xmas season starts. Can we say crazy? For instance, this was our card last year (2007), and might I say, our FIRST card :)

ohhh, my god. I found THE funniest thing on the internet, ever. It’s called Tourette’s Guy. And I know it’s bad to think it’s funny and laugh my ass off, but the people who put this shit online, obviously put it on there for pure amusement. There are tons of videos of it on youtube, but here’s a good compilation I found that pretty much sums it up:

Today since there’s nothing to effin do, I made Ryan download the Sex and the City movie, and another comparable chick-flick The Women. I’ll probably watch them here in a little bit while he’s taking a nap, and won’t subject him to the torture.

Oh, by the way, did I mention I’m a total nerd and completely into the Twilight series?? The movie fucking sucked ass, but the books are totally addicting. UGH! And they’re an easy read because they’re supposed to be for teenagers, HA. Usually I’m very against any book fad that comes along, for instance, Harry Potter. Fuck that. But then a few of my older friends at work told me that these books were actually good and that if I starting reading the first one, I wouldn’t be able to stop because I would fall in LOVE with the main dude character Edward, and that nobody in life would ever compare to him. Hahaha. So therefore I bought the first book for only like $8… so who cares. But now, it’s like crack. I’m totally addicted. I CANNOT put these books down. And instead of being insane like Harry Potter and having like 8 books, there are only 4, which is good for me, because I don’t read a WHOLE lot. And I was super excited for the movie, you have no idea. Then I saw it. BUMMER. That Kristen Stewart can’t act to save her skinny little life. And the director just did not flow things together so the movie was not cohesive at all. Ryan saw it with me and I think he was lost at some parts because there were key elements missing. But you know what? Like a week after I saw the terribly disappointing movie, I had a crazy urge to see it again! Why?? I think it was because I was still reading the books and was still totally into everything and just wanted to see the romance between Edward and Bella. So instead of paying another ten fuckin dollars to see it, I just had Ryan DL it… and now I’ve watched it about 4 times now, as shitty as it is. :)

Ok well that’s all for now I spose…. I’m gonna watch The Women, maybeeeee do some picture editing. WHO KNOWS.

Shirlena? AHHWWW SHIT! (watch the vid)

So … fuck that lemonade cleansing. That was just wrong.

I have found a new love. It’s a book called “You Are What You Eat,” by Gillian McKeith.

Not even kidding, this book has made me want to change my life. Which sounds so stupid. And I am the type that totally does not buy into the whole health-book-reading thing. Because it’s like, you read one of them, you might as well read them all, and which ones are right and which ones are just BS… blah blah blah. But this book is different.

It is written by a doctor/nutritionalist/naturalist lady, who is very, very cool. To super-summarize the book, it’s all about how foods can cure any ailment, and which foods give you the best nutrition for daily life, and overall how to live healther. IT IS NOT A DIET BOOK. She tells you foods that will cure practically ANYthing… for instance: gas, waxy ears, dry skin, low energy, dark circles under eyes, PMS, bladder infections, making hair grow faster, etc.

If you really wanna get into a healthier lifestyle she goes into detail about which foods are bad for you (basically anything processed) and which are essential for everyday and how to food combine properly (eat certain types of digestively compatable foods together). She even gives mini-detoxes (unlike my crazy lemonade detox crap). For instance, an easy & small way to detox everyday, is to drink a small 8oz glass of warm water right when you wake up in the morning. It get’s your digestive process going with a nice small flush of warm water. Who’da thunk? She also gives recipes for her favorite healthy crap that she likes to make.

AND, most importantly, (and coming from a graphics standpoint, lol) the book is pretty and she doesn’t speak to you like a doctor – she speaks to you like a normal person. These are probably the 2 things that always steared me away from health books in the first place. The book is graphically pretty, which makes you want to read it. There are bright colors on each page, and each page is organized / bulletted differently than the page before. I never wanted to read boring health books with pages and pages of plain boring text. Who does? This is not like that…. it’s a beautiful book. And she speaks to her readers like a normal freakin person… which is sooo nice. For example, for exercise, all she tells you to do is dance ridiculously for 20 minutes a day to your favorite music. And that’s it. Not your average advice for exercise from a doctor.

If you are into or somewhat getting into eating good, or maybe not even. This book is worth the lame mere $16 it costs for pretty much ANYONE. It’s great advice for your whole life, whether now or later on. SO DO IT. Buy this goddamn book, and you will thank me later ;)

“YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT” by Gillian McKeith —- $16

Yes, that’s right. I quit my lemonade cleansing on day 2. There really isn’t a day 3 (today), but I didn’t post yesterday so… yeah.

I feel like I can confidently state my reasons for quitting without seeming like a ‘quitter’ because I am NOT a quitter. I really am not. I had every ounce of willpower stacked up and ready to go to get through this cleansing, but it was not what I expected.

They say that the first 3 days are the hardest… and I can see why, but I could NOT tough it out. Holy balls. And it wasn’t hunger that got to me. I mean, I was hungry and just wanted a damn rainbow cookie from Starbucks, but that wasn’t the kicker that pushed me to quit. It was the headaches. Wait, no… scratch that. MIGRAINES. Oh, my, lord. Yesterday at work, I couldn’t even think or move my body too fast because my head was pounding so terribly, it was UNbearable. Unlivible is more like it. I could not function in any logical sense. So I broke down, had a diet soda and a sub from Jimmy Johns, haha. It was just too much for me to actually function in life.

And come to think of it… I’m sure that the lemonade cleansing isn’t BAD for you… but a cleansing with NO food whatsoever for a whole week or more??? That doesn’t seem right. At least not in the real world. Maybe if I had a week of not much to do then I could do it and focus on it more. But for people nowadays who have jobs and lives and places to go and things to do… you cannot function normally on this cleansing. It’s not practical.

So my friend at work said she recently did a cleansing that she got from Whole Foods that involved herbs and natural organic foods (much like the paleo caveman diet) and she said it was wonderful. Maybe someday I’ll try that one. But for now… FUCK the lemonade cleansing. I WOULD do it if I wasn’t so busy and could bear the terrible headaches, haha. But not now.

The past 2 weeks I have gotten way off track with my healthy eating. I’ve been majorly lax with things for some reason. Which is not good since I was trying to get down to a size 8 before Ryan’s show this coming Saturday. And I CAN fit into my size 8 stuff… it’s just a little tighter than usual *ahem*.

Therefore I decided to do the famous lemonade cleansing system; actually called “The Master Cleanser”. I have been wanting to do this for a few months ever since I heard about it, but just never did. Mostly because it’s not uber-apealing. This is not a diet. It’s a cleansing to clean out your intestines and detoxify your body. You DO lose weight, and alot at a fast rate. BUT, you gain at least half of what you lost, back when you are done with the cleansing; so you have to know that up front going into it.

What IS the lemonade cleansing…. it’s really very simple actually. For 7-10 days (however much you can bear) you drink a concoction of water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. Yup, for serial. That’s all you do. No eating or drinking or injesting of anything else AT ALL… except water. There are measurements for creating this drink but I won’t get into that. And you have to drink 1/2 to 1 gallon of this a day.

I just made my first glass of this lemonade… and …. idk, it’s ok. I mean it tastes just like regular lemonade, but with a little KICK in it from the pepper. And I didn’t even put that much effing pepper in it! I’m only 1/2 way thru my first glass on day 1 of this shit and I’m already kinda sick of it. Oh well. I AM going to do this for a whole week – I’m gonna make myself. With all the crap I’ve been eating lately I know it’s stuck to my pipes inside and it needs OUT!

I heard about this crazy cleansing system from an old co-worker. It was developed by this nutritionist spiritual guru weirdo man, WITH a PHD, haha. Anyways, my friend did it and she said that she never even got hungry and she lost about 15 pounds… but then about 8 of that came back, but whatev. She said she felt rejuvinated and healthy and she was sleeping better and had more energy. No lie! So… hopefully that will be me in a week, haha. I’m gonna blog about it each day. So progressively you all will be able to see if I am getting healthier, or crabbier. ;)

Onto glass 2… !!