Coffee enema?

 Really??? I didn't even know such a thing existed. I found out about it a couple of days ago so I'm going to try it today. I also did a salt water flush this morning. I had no time to eat anything before I went to work yesterday (BAD! Do not do this!) and then I went to a drum circle which also happened to be a potluck.
 Well, as my luck would have it, there was a chocolate lignonberry cheesecake there. Holy mother....it was amazing. I may or may not have had a couple pieces.
 I kind of put myself in that bad situation. Don't starve yourself and then binge eat. Please. It's one of the absolute worst things you can do, as far as your diet goes. And by diet I don't mean a special plan that helps you lose weight. ANYTHING you put in your mouth IS your diet.
  So, before I head off to California for a week, here, and am only able to eat what is available to me, I am going to do a pretty intensive detoxification to my system here. Supposedly the salt water flush (found in the Master Cleanse) cleans out your entire digestion tract, and the coffee enema targets the liver and gall bladder not the colon. I guess it stimulates the release of toxins, but I don't really understand how it can not target the colon, as well. I mean, it's warm water up your wazoo, so.................

 Bleh...this salt water makes me feel like I'm gonna puke. I hope it passes quickly.
 I will let you all know how the coffee enema goes.

Holy mother of all that is holy

Sorry it's been awhile. I decided to be naughty this weekend and totally ignore all my nutrition plan and exercise. So yesterday I got back on track with my eating and today I decided to make up for not working out for 3 days with a workout that completely snockered me. Yeah, I dunno if it's a word, but it is, now.
 I want to take a moment and talk about "cheating" or missing a day or not eating perfectly or whatever. My sister said something the other day that totally caught me off guard and gave me a feeling that it was not quite right. I couldn't put my finger on exactly why, but I thought about it for a little while and this is what I came up with.
 She said, "Every food is ok as long as you don't go overboard."
 This is what I've heard my entire life and I've never agreed with it, but I can't put my finger on why I don't agree with it. After all, throughout the New Testament there are verses on how all food has been made clean, and the food you eat has no effect on the things that really matter, that is, the things of the Spirit and heart.
 So I started thinking. And this is the conclusion I've come to. Part of this applies only to Christians, but the food part applies to everyone.
  Just as you are supposed to live a holy life to please Jesus and strive to be like him in every way, you will fall short sometimes because we are humans. We fell out of perfection with Adam and Eve when they sinned and so in every situation we have a decision to make on whether we're going to follow a heart of love, or a heart of selfishness. You're never going to be perfect, even though there is a path of perfection laid out for you to follow, until Christ comes and throws all evil back into the pit of hell.
 This same principle applies to your diet. You're never going to follow it perfectly because you're human and there are things that you will eat sometimes because you have to, sometimes because you simply want to. There is such a thing as perfect nutrition, but you would have to do some major searching as well as finding someone who could coach you and teach you everything you need to know. That doesn't change the fact that we should try our hardest to eat perfectly and get rid of all the junk food in our cupboards. Junk food is never good. It is never ok. You're not going to get fat if you eat a cookie. You're not going to be sent to biggest loser if you eat some hot wings, but if you completely fall off track and begin to fill your life with food that isn't good for you, you will be fat again. It's as simple as that.
 
 I apologize if this is disjointed, but I'm still sweating and shaking from my workout, and I'm pretty sure my brain is running short on blood and oxygen. haha
 So here's the workout and I'll post the link to the tabata timer, again.

http://www.bodyrock.tv/2010/05/29/kiss-my-tight-ass-workout/
http://www.beach-fitness.com/tabata/

Happy workout, everyone.

Let's get back on track

So I've been pretty bad up to this morning with my diet. I've done pretty well with actually working out, but last night at work I was sooooooo hungry and the fried chicken was just sitting there begging to be eaten. I love fried  chicken. Yummy yum yum! So....yeah, 'nuff said.
 So today I woke up, had my fiber shake, had an egg/veggie scramble, a fiber shake for lunch, some raw almonds, and a lettuce salad for dinner along with the fiber shake. I feel so much better when I eat healthy food: light, full of energy, clean. It's a wonderful feeling.
 No workout today. I was too busy getting groceries and we had church tonight, too, so between all that and spending time with the kids and taking care of business I just didn't have time.
 I am hoping to get in a pretty intense lower body workout tomorrow morning. Hopefully I don't get called into work.
 

  As you know by now, I'm headed to the dream center in a couple weeks and there are some dress code rules and such, so I had to go buy some new pants and longer t shirts today. Well, all the pants I tried on were size 9 and they all fit. Some were even a little too big in the waist! That's really saying a lot for me, since I haven't comfortable fit into a size 9 since I was probably 14 or 15. Wow! I can't believe the clothes I'm wearing lately! I finally get to buy all the stuff that looks cute, and I'm actually starting to look and feel so good I can hardly wait to work out again so I can keep seeing this wonderful progress.
  When I really get my body fat down to where I can see some muscle tone in my abs and arms even when I'm not flexing I'd like to go do a water displacement test to see what my body fat percentage is. Body fat calipers are highly unreliable, but the water test is usually kind of expensive. So I dunno. Just being able to see some muscle may just be enough for me! I'm so excited to really know and have proof that getting fit IS possible even after having two kids and living a super duper busy life.
 So there's your encouragement for the day. IT'S POSSIBLE!!!

Happy birthday to me...I decided to kill myself

...With my workout! Calm down, people. I love life!!!!
 So, yes, I'm twenty-three years old today and I'm in better shape than I've ever been. I know, to a lot of you who are older you're thinking, "Oh my gosh. She's still got three-quarters of her life to live and she's talking about being in the best shape ever! K, dummy."

 Well, I recognize that I am very young, but the fact of the matter is, I've lived almost a quarter of my life in a very unhealthy physiological state, and I'm not too happy about that. I could have been getting so much more out of life as far as health goes, and I decided to pshaw the words of my mother and ignore the fact that we need to be conscientious of what we're eating and how active we're being.

 So, as a birthday present to myself I did the hardest workout I think I've ever done. A possible exception would be P90X's plyometrics workout, but it's more than twice as long and the workout I did today worked more parts of my body than just my lower half.
 Once again, I do not consider this site family friendly. I mean, it's not a porn site or anything like that, but there's more than enough cleavage to go around and there is intermittent swearing. So here it is, and once again I hope to have my videos up and running so I can share a family friendly version of these workouts. Of course, it's going to force me to more creative and inventive so as not to plagiarize her WONDERFUL work she's done, but hopefully it will encourage more families to workout together. Here's the link to my birthday workout.


 http://www.bodyrock.tv/2010/06/12/suicidal-sweat-workout/

Please don't be discouraged. There are many ways to simplify these exercises if you're a beginner. It just take a little more thought and remember that you can probably do a lot more than you think you can. PUSH YOURSELF!!!

 And hey, if you wanna send me a birthday present, just leave a comment! That's present enough for me. ;)

Forgot to add my link for workouts and MORE!

Here's the site I've been getting my workouts from.  


 http://www.bodyrock.tv/


NOTE: I don't not consider this a family-friendly site. You may have different opinions, and good for you. This is my opinion and if I had young boys in my house I would make sure my workouts were done away from their eyes that feed their precious minds that are already having a tough enough time maturing properly in today's society.
 When I get my videos done I am hoping to be doing similar workouts for family audiences because it is my opinion that people of ALL ages should exercise their bodies. Babies and toddlers do it naturally because it is an instinct. As they get older and are sedated with tv, computer, and video games, they are weaned from these instincts and then we all wonder why we get fat as we get older.

Zuzana uses a gymboss interval timer, but since I'm cheap and trying to pay off our credit cards so we can live completely debt-free, I use this:

http://www.beach-fitness.com/tabata/

So have fun, start working out and hopefully I can get some before pictures put up here for you all so you don't feel discouraged about starting where you are. Maybe I can find some of right after I had my first daughter and all this madness and mayhem started.

A brief introduction of common sense

 Allow me to take a moment to vent slightly about a lysol commercial I just saw. It's for an in-home automatic soap dispenser, similar to what you would find in a public restroom, but smaller and more decorative for home use. Their rational is that, there are germs all over your soap pump, so why not have something automatic that you don't have to touch? That way, you won't get germs all over your....uh....germy hands that you're about to wash with soap to get all the germs off.
 Ok, if you're not following me by now, I'm a little worried. I'll break it down. Your hands have germs on them, and that's why you're about to wash them. Of course the germs are going to get on the soap pump. It's called cross-contamination. But you're going to put soap on your hands and wash all the germs away and chances are, you aren't going to touch the soap pump again until your hands are germy again and you have to wash them, again. Please, people! This is one of the stupidest, most worthless wastes of money I've ever seen! And yet, so many people are going to think, "Wow! What a great idea!" Derr...........


 Ok, back to health and fitness. I guess that first part could almost pass as a blog on health. lol.

 So the cleanse is going...ok. Yesterday I went to a wedding and had cake. Big no-no. Today we had a bbq fundraiser at my church for our trip to the Dream Center in LA at the end of this month (Wow! August already!), and I was absolutely STARVING so I also cheated a little bit there. Bad. I know I'm going to pay for it, but that doesn't change the fact that what's done is done, and it also does not change my determination to finish this and be a healthier person at the end of it.
 I believe this is another very important point on anyone's journey to better health. Forget about what you've done in the past. It doesn't matter anymore. What matters is what you are going to do RIGHT NOW to make yourself and better, healthier person. It is going to do you absolutely no good whatsoever to wallow in the self-pity of poor choices that you've made. It doesn't matter that you had two, ok maybe three, slices of that decadent chocolate cake that just made your entire brain run with streams of fudgy goodness. What are you going to do about it today? Are you going to get your butt up and do a work out or possibly eat some scrambled eggs with veggies for breakfast, or are you going to moan and whine and say, "Oh! I shouldn't have done that!"
 Of course you shouldn't have. You knew that WHILE you were doing it. But you did. Who cares? Do something today that is going to make you feel better, productive, and healthy tomorrow. Forget about yesterday. Seriously. 
 So that brings me to where I'm at right now. I've drank my fiber shakes, taken my probiotics, I've got my enema water heating on the stove right now...but I still haven't worked out. Annnd...it may or may not be ten o'clock pm. So I really, really don't want to do it, right now. I want to watch S. Darko and go to bed and maybe even have pancakes in the morning.
 But what I want even more than that is to be able to look at myself in the mirror in the morning and smile, and tell myself, "I'm proud of you!"
 I want to go see my husband in October and see his jaw drop and...well...I won't continue that one.
 I want to go buy a pair of size seven jeans, I want amazing abs, and maybe even more than all of that, I want to be able to quit my job as a waitress and go be a personal trainer.
  Which is actually a really good SECOND point you could remember from this particular blog entry. Don't just forget about yesterday. Look forward to tomorrow. Make large goals, but also plan your baby steps to get there. If you don't have baby steps, you're not going to ever reach your goals because they will seem insurmountable and you won't have any direction.
  So that being said, I need to go get ready to work out. I'm glad they're only twelve minutes long. And if you don't believe that can make a difference or that it's just a waste of twelve minutes, stick around for the pictures and I'll show you how wonderful it is to be wrong, sometimes.
 Good night!