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Yesterday I weighed in at 310!!! today Iweighed in at 312.2 *grumbles* thank you Menudo and you million mg’s of sodium. Asshat. I should have known better but it was Menudo!!! damnit! *grumbles*
So this means that my official weigh in for this challenge is 312.2 which is 2.2 lbs bigger than yesterday.
Today was a whole pile of learning lessons!!! I learned that I still hate vitamins, not all shakes taste like ass, and I have a real addiction that came with real withdrawls. Let’s break it down, shall we!?
I love shaker bottles….
1. okay… First shake… chocolate… tastes like… chocolate cardboard. which is better than most shakes I’ve had… which taste like chocolate foot. Or worse, chocolate ass (I’m lookin at you, slimfast). It tastes like a liquid dry bar (Dry Bar – Definition – dry breakfast bar that cannot be eaten without liquid to chase it. Ex: Nutrigrain) and chocolate. it’s not bad. It’s tolerable. I mean we’ve all had horrible protein and meal replacement shakes. Whether it be EAS, Muscle Milk, Slim Fast or that crappy Special K nonsense. we all know just how bad that can be…. these are not nearly as bad as most. I might even venture to say it’s good. Of course not nearly as good as that one shake that is loaded with crazy sugar stuffs… :p (I’m lookin at you In N’ Out) but then I lost no weight with that shake LOL Just so ya know, this stuff is sweetened with fructose extract… look it up. It’s what makes fruit sweet.
2. Oh my god choking down vitamins. Let me just say “THANK YOU ALAN” for messaging me and reminding me to take my vitamins LOL I totally lied to you when I said I did. I was choking them down as you were messaging me. HAHA!! I hate taking vitamins. I’m just so bad with pills! I mean if it were not for google calendar telling me to take my birth control… well it would take a man as well, but you get the point! I know I need to with or without this challenge. I used to take a women’s health pack and hated it so much I just stopped, but damnit I need them, especially with my PCOS! I know that. holy crap tho… eeeww 😦 this has nothing to do with the product it’s just my serious hatred for pills LOL
3. okay… The Oatmeal Raisin bar has a strange spicey taste to it. not like spicey hot but spicey … flavorful. savory. almost middle eastern taste. It’s not bad. I don’t even like oatmeal and this isn’t bad. I’m eatin it! which makes it good. Tonight as my second bar I had the peanut butter crunch bar. HOLY MOLY that thing is good. That’s dangerous because suddenly I realized I had something in my regimen I like, A LOT. I had to stop myself from getting another. And that is just another sign of my damned food addiction.
4. So major lesson #1: be on time with your meals and snacks because if not… you’ll be extremely sad irritable and frustrated if you’re in public surrounded by shitty food everywhere and you’re starving. I drank my late lunch and took a nap.
I know I have a food addiction. Duh! That’s why I created this blog, to face the ridiculousness of my eating habits. Today, it was blatent. Today I went out to get a few things for a project I’m working on and I realized something: Every craft store known to man perpetuates food and sugar addiction. They line their checkout aisles full of snacks. The Kind of snacks that would appeal to a lonely fat woman who’s at home with 6 cats knitting cat sweaters for the winter. I’m talking every type of higher end chocolate known to man plus other major sweets and tiny chip bags right next to stationary and tape. It’s crazy! It’s like hey, you’re standing here, why not eat some more crap!? 😀
I started to feel agitated. Irritable. Angry. I wanted to punch something. Punt a small woodland creature. Shake a baby. I wanted to immediately drive through every single drive thru between Hobby Lobby (I really hate this place by the way) and my house. I almost snapped my best friend’s head off for no reason. I drove like an aggressive asshole in a 1989 Corvette. Except I drive a Toyota Yaris. Which limits my ability to drive like an asshole LOL
I got home, looked at the clock and realized I was way late with my lunch shake. I was coming close to afternoon snack time. Which You would think isn’t a big deal, right!? WRONG! Apparently I’ve reverted back to a child with 6 small meals… 3 “meals” 3 “Snacks” and 1 damned nap. Yes I napped. I drank my VANILLA shake (which was surprisingly reminiscent to cake mix or maybe by this point I was so deliriously hungry that I made myself think it was birthday cake… more on this tomorrow) and crashed, getting fitful crappy sleep until I got up ate the amazing peanut butter crunch bar and actually fell asleep hardcore.
I almost missed gym time!
5. Gym, when drastically changing my diet, my body hates the gym. I ended up walking the treadmill for 50 minutes instead of running the elliptical for a full hour. I burned 500 calories which is my minimum goal and chilled out. It wasn’t bad and I know this week I’m not going to do my insane burns for fear of doing some nutritional damage. Or just being too damned tired from the change.
6. Grocery shopping sucks when you can’t eat anything you’re buying. So I bought myself fruits and veggies and tried not to cry while I passed up everything else. My recommendation, prepare prepare prepare! Grocery shop beforehand especially if you are doing it for more than just yourself. You will want to buy the dumbest foods ever because you become panicky that you’ll never get to eat those foods again. Foods like Beef Jerky. And Cheesecake. it’s not goin anywhere. stop freakin out!
7. Dinner: Hello tasty! So you know how parents say the most racist un-PC things ever sometimes? My mom’s favorite was the starving children in china line. Well… When you’re really hungry, anything tastes good. :p Tonight I decided to use my Veggie and Fruit servings with my dinner shake instead of as an after late night snack. And it was amazing!!!! I cut a pear into 4’s, added some broccoli and cauliflower, squeezed a buttload of lemon over everything and ate it. I ate like a starving Dickens character except I couldn’t say “please sir, may I have some more?”. It was so damned good I raved about it to my mom who then looked at me like I was batshit crazy.
8. Strawberry shake: oh strawberry… LOL this poor flavor has been so abused by so many companies. Look, you’re never gonna get it right so why make it??? it tasted like … crunch berries and gruel. This explains the major suggestions of blending it with my fruit serving LOL now I know. Bleh. Strawberry. HAHAHA oh well it could be worse. It could taste like the Muscle Milk strawberry which literally had a sickly sweet vomit like smell to it and tasted like ass. Swamp ass to be exact. At least it tasted the way I imagined swamp ass to taste like. I’ve never tasted swamp ass.
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All in all, it was a big learning lesson for day one. I’m sure my other blog posts won’t be so isanely long I just had a lot of firsts today. oddly enough, with the very little I’ve eaten today, I’m not hungry. 😀 that’s a good thing. I consider today a Win! 😀
ps. PM pack of vitamins went down so much easier with the shake than with water. Don’t quite know why… but it did. 🙂
NOW for my horrific before shots: these are hands down the worst photos I’ve ever had taken of me. I am wearing the most unflattering thing in my wardrobe. I’m being the fat chick in spandex. LOL legging capris and the ugliest tank top known to man (don’t worry I never wear this in public.) Thank you bestie for taking them. 🙂
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