Once again back in diet land!

Long time no see/read right?  I know, but like for most people my life is crazy all the time!  My little guy has hit terrible twos and he is not even two yet.  He doesn't say much, but man is he smart!  He has his little hands in everything and I spend most of my days going crazy making sure he doesn't kill himself!  You would think with all this running I would not be fat.... but I am!  So I have been going to the gym everyday and low carbing it for the last 31 days!  I have been doing very well.  However, I have an egg allergy and they are a big part of low carb diet so what to do?  Yeah you can do the drinks (shakes) from Atkins (or others like them) but they are kinda gross.  Well I have only tried one type because they are also very expensive.  I would love to be able to try all of these different drinks and low carb things to tell you about them but its hard because I don't have much money to test them all out being a full time student and all.   However, as I do try them I will start adding info about what I think about them.  I think I am also going to add some recipes I try and let you know what I think of them too.  That way you can have the best of whats out there!  One thing so far that I love are Breyers carb smart chocolate covered ice cream bars.  Man they are so yummy!  They have 7 carbs (5 if you don't count sugar alcohol, but I do) they are a nice treat though when you up your carbs a bit.  I am going to post at least weekly now because I feel like it would be nice to have something like this all in one place.  The best of the best and so fourth.  Of course you can try things for your self but I hate going to sites and seeing a recipe and then "I didn't like this" or "really hard to make"  and so fourth.

So far for this month I have lost 18lbs and 16 (total) inches.  I expect that to slow down drastically but I am still on what they call induction level carbs.  I don't do atkins the way it was intended so I will not be calling this the atkins diet or anything like that.  I use their products at times but I am just living a low carb lifestyle.  Happy healthy living! 

Are you freaking kidding me?

Ok so if you know me even a little bit then you know I tend to not have much of a filter when it comes to certain things.  Well I am going to apologize now for that lack of filter.  

I was just reading another persons blog and they just called being fat a disease!  Ok now I dont totaly disagree with that but damn it you didnt catch fat, you didnt get it off the street, and you sure didnt get it though osmosis!  Now yes you may have been unlucky enough to have had it passed down to you from your family.  However, most of us who are fat got that way all on our own!  For me the kick start to gaining weight was pregnancy.  Now mind you that is not by any means my childrens  fault or the reason I am fat today.  we will blame that on eating snickers and taco bell almost daily.  Do that three times for 9 months and presto changeo your FAT!  Now can being fat kill you?  Why yes it can!  Does that mean you should run out and get it fixed by a doctor. NO it doesnt!  That was the other thing she said .... "well yes I may not have been able to contol my self but if I had diabites I wouldnt be able to control that either"  ARE YOU SERIOUS???  You most certainly can control your self, you sure can go eat a salad.  BEING FAT is NOT the same as being DIABETIC!  And to compare the two is utterly rediculouse!  

The thing that bothered me the most is she threw out some stat on how only a small % of fat people can actually loose the weight and even fewer can keep it off.  BS!!!  Loosing weight is no easy task but BS if your going to tell me only a few out of all the people in the world who are fat are actually going to lose weight with out surgery.   Now please don't get me wrong if you want to have or have had WLS (weight loss surgery) then I hope it worked for you and if it did congrats.  But I believe that should be the LAST resort.  If you actually went a year with out binging, you stayed on a healthy diet, and exercised but didn't drop hardly any weight well then by all means.  But you go 2 wks and then say this isn't working and have WLS and then try to get me to believe you didn't take the easy way out again BS!  This shit isn't for wimps let me tell you that but it sure can be done and it sure can be kept off!  This just inspires me more to not give up and keep on a truckin. 

My life My life my freaking crazy life!

So I woke up late this morning per usual! I have to be at class by 9 and with my typical morning of not eating breakfast I need to get up oh idk around 7ish to shower, take care of the baby, and leave by 8. Well normally I get up at 730 rush and run out the door, and make my old man help me out with feeding sammy, and of course today was no damn different. I woke up at 715 and because Dr Atkins tells me I must eat ALL of my meals I had to hurry and make a protein packed rocket fuel breakfast! Well turns out throwing some eggs and other low carb shit in a pan is not that hard! Didn't leave me much time to get all prettied up and such but I was there on time none the less WITHOUT the typical grizzly bear growling and eating my stomach.
And oh man oh man if you guys could have been there for the conversation I had with a guy trying to figure out the mind of a woman .... (which if you don't already know gentlemen is like trying to fly with out wings.) Totally worth the 320 bucks a credit hr I'm paying! anyway so he comments on this older lady wearing a sweater that shows 90% of her belly. Well she didn't have a muffin top like I tote around as of late so no biggie right? Well of course his first thought was "does she want to get laid?" LMAO all I could think was really its 9am and we are in the most boring frustrating class ever who could be horny right now even if your a dude? But hey ya never know right? So yeah he says "I think the way a woman dresses depicts her mood" So of course I just have to ask like the dumb ass I am from time to time "So what are my clothes saying to you then?" YEAH Real smart there Brook if you don't want to know the answer don't ask the question! So as nice as he can say it ..... "it looks like you don't care your just trying to get through this morning class" Well kids that's all fine and good if this were the only time I wore my jeans and over sized colts sweat shirt but alas I wear it all the time. So now all I could think is crap whats better, looking like your trying to get some or looking like you don't give a shit? Well I think I will be trying to meet a little close to not giving a shit. Yeah I just find it funny that if you have your belly hanging out your trying to get some (or don't have a mirror)(I know you have been to walmart and seen some of the jewels that shop there) and if your wearing a hoody you don't care. I do care just not so much at 9 in the morning after waking up at 730 and rushing, but really Im fat man I dont have a lot of clothes to show the world I care at least a little so give me a break!

Other then that fun convo this morning my day has been pretty darn great! Still doing good even though its only day three this would be the give up day for me a lot. Freaking carbs are evil little bastards but I have to say I am not craving them at all (as of right this second). I am doing really well with just acting like they are toxic and will kill me instantly if I eat them. Exercise; fats evil twin has not been high on my list yet since I am so damn busy with everything else, but I am doing bits here and there. Soon I will be a work out junkie at least that's what I am telling my self. I really didn't think I would be a diet preacher but man oh man I am telling every one that will listen about how great I feel just three days in! I'm sure they will get sick of it soon enough but yeah whatever until then Ill just keep preachin :)

I am going to start a Fit day because I need one more thing to do in my not so free time. I just thought it would be nice to be accountable for what I am eating and doing. That way you can also see what works for me and what doesn't. Well kids its time to leave virtual land and get back to that crazy thing I call life! Cheers!

CARBS CARBS CARBS!!!

MMMM I love them but they are EVIL!!!

OK so I remember back in the day when Atkins became popular I was working at Wendy's and I remember people coming in and ordering a double burger with cheese no bread and it made me roll laughing. I thought these people are so dumb do they really think they can eat all this fat and not be a fat ass??? Well turns out YEP!

Ok so in the past few years in school with out looking into Atkins I have learned that our bodies run off of ATP. Whats that you ask... well ATP is Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) basically it is the way we pay our light bills in our body :P you want the lights to stay on you have to have ATP. Its our energy. So ATP can come from three sources CARBS, FAT, and PROTEIN. If you give your body to many carbs then it will use what it needs and store the rest as fat. BUT if you don't give your body carbs it will use fat to make ATP.  In lay very lay terms :)

Turns out these people weren't crazy at all they actually were on to something amazing. So as of yesterday I started Atkins just as a trial because hell why not I have tried every other diet known to man and turns out I am still fat. However, in just two days I have lost weight, feel amazing, and am in Ketosis. Ooo there's another funny word! whats that you ask well ketosis is...Ketosis is a condition in which levels of ketones (ketone bodies) in the blood are elevated. Ketones are formed when glycogen stores in the liver have run out. The ketones are used for energy. Ketones are small carbon fragments that are the fuel created by the breakdown of fat stores. Please don't confuse this with ketoacidosis which is a dangerous thing for diabetics.

Anyway I am working hard on being the best me I can be! I want to be healthy, fit, and beautiful for once in my life. Oh boy there went the low self esteem but the truth is I haven't felt beautiful or even pretty in oh I don't know maybe 9 years. Which is really a big change from who I was when I was younger.

SO... Here is to being the best we can be no matter what that is no matter how we get there! You will get to see this journey in action including all my successes and failures. I want to inspire some one who feels the way I feel right now to be the best they can be right along with me. I am not there yet but I will be soon enough!!!

3/15/2011 Me at my heaviest And my new little man Sam :)