Diet is going great!
So my diet for the past 5 days has been clean sailing. I’m really quite miserable about this but I feel really good and I lost 1 1/2 lbs so that makes me happy. I keep saying to myself when am I more miserable, when I’m eating what I want and feeling like a fat cow or when I’m eating clean and feel really good about myself…duhhhhhh…so suck it up…you’re not dying of starvation for crying out loud!
I didn’t make it to the gym tonight and I’m not going to freak out about it I’ll just go on Sunday instead. I’ve been waiting for my replacement router so we can all have wireless internet and it came today and I only have 2 days to return my defective one or they’re going to charge my visa for the cost of it. I thought I could just quickly set it up so I got ready for the gym and starting working on it…no such luck. Nothing but problems and frustration so I just said forget the gym I have to get this done. So I was on the phone with tech support for almost 2 hours but we’re all connected except one laptop and I’m not going to worry about it because it wasn’t connecting before anyhow.
I’ve been learning alot from Jay in the past few weeks. He explained to me why carb blockers don’t work. Well they actually do work by blocking carbs but you still have all the calories that you ate. Apparently they just don’t disappear magically. So I still haven’t found the magic pill. I’m still not understanding how all that works but I’m sure going to school is going to help me figure it all out.
I’m taking nutrition right now and I’m learning alot about vitamins, minerals and all that good stuff. I find that people in the medical field (doctors and nurses) really don’t believe in vitamins and that you can get it all from your food but that’s only if you eat a balanced diet and seriously, how many Americans do that??? We had to do an exercise for the past two weeks of submitting our fat and protein intake and figuring out our percentages. That was easy for me because I do it everyday. Well she says she worried about me. She says I’m not getting enough fat, yadda, yadda, yadda. I explained to her what my goals are and she says it’s not healthy. Well I look around at my classmates and what do I see….they are all overweight, have bad skin, falling asleep during class, need I say more. So who’s the unhealthy one. I just don’t understand how they think. I think they follow everything by the book and they don’t stray from it at all. If you’re not doing what the book says, then you’re doing it wrong.
March 4, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Oh, my friend. Welcome to the world in where the unhealthy try to give the healthy ones advise. Just pray for them and do what works for you. You are correct. We will never get all the minerals and multis our body needs from "american" food. Why?????Because now days everythiong have preservatives and growth hormones. In the old times, you could get something to eat from the "jungle" and it was healthier than what we eat now days. The more you learn the better it will be. Stay with it.
March 5, 2009 at 6:08 am
Isn’t it sad how people in the medical field really just don’t have a clue?
March 5, 2009 at 7:50 am
I agree, being able to consistently eat 5-6 servings of different vegetables a day is pretty hard. Not to mention expensive. Just wondering was the person that said you weren’t getting enough fat a general practionist or a nutritionist?