Eleven Pounds Lighter

Well after one month of eating 2000 cals a day (more or less depending on the time of the month..if you get my meaning) I have lost 11 pounds in 26 days. I think that is pretty awesome. My clothes are fitting better, I am in better spirits, and I must admit, I am getting excited to see at what point my English Skinny jeans will fit once again. I don't have some master goal weight in mind. I caught a few minutes of the Biggest Loser last night and it is astonishing to think that at this moment in time there is someone in the World who is starving to death and there is someone else eating themselves to death. How such extremes can exist is unimaginable. I didn't think this post would get all philosophical but oh well! I have been craving an adventure (oh my..this is quite a tangent now). I feel like packing my bags and heading abroad. I have traveled more than most in my young life but wanderlust doesn't get less over time, it increases in strength. Well, like all creatures of this planet, I am a work in progress. As they say in Bikram, be kind to others, be kind to yourself, Namaste. Good night folks. Imagine my body with eleven one pound bags of twizzlers strapped on the side...crazy! No wonder running has been easier, I threw out eleven one pound bags of twizzlers on the side of the road before I took off!! haha.

Portion Control and Organic Living

It's not rocket science. In fact, it's pretty easy once you get yourself a handy dandy measuring cup set. The truth of the matter is food packs a punch when you aren't practicing good portion control. I have now almost lost ten pounds (my official weigh in is tomorrow morning). I haven't starved myself once. I have eaten a variety of foods and to be completely honest, when I am on the rag, even Culver's kid sized custard finds its way into my food journal. The key is variety. The key is measuring that granola you want to put on top of your yogurt. It's about knowing exactly what it is you are putting inside of your body. I could go into the ins and outs of organic foods, but consider this, if your body is our car, and garbage can make it run but so can clean foods, why wouldn't you pick clean foods? (cost. unavailable where I live. maybe someday.) The truth is THERE IS NO EXCUSE. I am sorry, but I will say no to going out to dinner, I will say no to getting drinks after work, I will wait for movies to come to Netflix, and I will pass on all non-essential purchase (with the occasional splurge here and there) but the one item that I refuse to negotiate on is eating organic produce, organic dairy, and organic meats. When I look around me and see the high rates of mental illness, of autism, of countless other diseases, I must ask myself, perhaps it's the food we are eating. I am no scientist, in fact, I truly can't support any of the statements I have made (unless I did some research..but I am just to lazy after work and yoga). But what I do have is my woman's intuition, and it tells me that what I eat is important, what I put in as my fuel matters, and that chemicals, corn, and sugars were not meant to be the primary ingredients in my food, rather products forced into everything to make big business (corn and sugar) make more money by putting it into everything we eat. It's ignorant to not research food. Ok, I will get off my soapbox now. I can't change what you put in your mouth, but hopefully through example, you will begin to question what you put into your body, and start to ask questions like "why does my bread have corn syrup in it?"