I really like this site and their ideas..
http://www.younghouselove.com/
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
so I am going to try this.. Day 1
Recently, Dr. Oz revealed his 10 Commandments for Weight Loss, and I thought I'd give his diet rules a try for myself. After a 10-day trial, I look back and realize how little things make a big difference. Dr. Oz's diet was by no means depriving or complicated, in fact it was just the opposite. He banned everyday habits we take for granted that are detrimental to our health. Did you know that grazing can add over 1000 calories to your daily intake? Here's a look Dr. Oz's 10 Commandments, and my experience.
Day 1: Thou Shall Not Wear Pants That Stretch
What Dr. Oz says:
"When you wear stretchy clothes, it's difficult to tell if you are gaining weight because you gain weight without realizing it. When you wear clothes that fit with a set size you let clothes be your gauge. They alert your body if something is getting a little tight so you can correct the course early on."
Day 2: Thou Shall Not Keep "Fat Clothes" in Your Closet
What Dr. Oz says:
"I don't want anybody out there who's losing their weight thinking, 'it's okay if I overeat a little bit, it's not a problem because I can still wear these clothes.'"
Day 3: Thou Shall Not Eat Meat That Walks on Four Legs More Than One Time A Week
What Dr. Oz says:
"The reason is that there's less saturated fat in animals that walk on two legs like chickens, or don't have any legs like fish. Additionally, women who eat large amounts of red meat more than once a week actually have 50 percent higher chance of dying of heart disease. They also have higher cancer rates, so there are double benefits from the third commandment."
Day 4: Thou Shall Not Graze or Browse in Search of Prey
What Dr. Oz says:
"You need to plan your meals before you go to the fridge. Too many times we're wandering like reptiles foraging for food. We make food decisions. You want to create the plate that you're going to eat using your brain rather than impulses that lead you to naturally overeat, which is what happens when you're hungry and going in there five to seven times a day."
Day 5: Thou Shall Not Eat After 7:30 PM
What Dr. Oz says:
"The average American goes to bed around 10:00 p.m. You need to have two hours of time between when you eat your dinner and when you go to bed. When you eat late at night, a couple of things happen. First of all, you're more likely to be eating in front of the TV, which means you're distracted and likely to eat more. You also tend to get high-calorie snacks in the late night hours. Try to move your meals up a tiny little bit whatever way you can to make 7:30 p.m. your ideal cut off time."
Day 6: Thou Shall Not Pile On Food On a Plate More Than One Inch High or Two Inches to the Edge of the Plate
What Dr. Oz says:
"Larger portions mean a lot more calories."
Day 7: Thou Shall Not Chew Less Than 20 Bites
What Dr. Oz says:
"When you're chewing, your body is beginning to process the reality that you're putting food in it. It takes awhile for those hormones to circle back. The perception of fullness depends completely on back and forth chemistry between your stomach and your brain. As you chew, you give yourself several minutes for that processing to occur. So you're helping your biology of blubber take you to a weight that you could be happy at."
Day 8: Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbors Plate
What Dr. Oz says:
"These snacks, these little bites from someone else's sandwich, these little sweets, whatever it is, it adds up. It adds up, on average, to over 1,000 calories a day. That's why grazers, believe it or not, are getting into trouble. These calories count with all the other calories you already eat."
Day 9: Thou Shall Not Carry Small Bills
What Dr. Oz says:
"The reason, vending machines. Vending machines love small bills, and human beings like putting small bills in vending machines. With this temptation it's too easy to get 100 or 200 extra calories of food. Most people buy more because they're not going to pocket the extra change. The result is you feed there over and over again. I want you to leave the house without small bills in your pocket. You won't want to break a $20 bill in order to buy junk foods in a vending machine."
Day 10: Thou Shall Not Eat Standing Up or in a Car
What Dr. Oz says:
"Eat a preplanned meal while you're stationary, and eat it while you're sitting down. You will actually know what you're doing. You are aware, you're not distracted and you're not rushing; most important, you are not overeating."
So, I think I can do this. I mean I really need to stick to this. I don't like my body and I know that I have gained some weight from last year but really its not ok because I am becoming very self conscious and I just don't like it. and honestly its affecting my sex life too. so yeah.. we need to work on this. Day1-- HERE WE GO!
Day 1: Thou Shall Not Wear Pants That Stretch
What Dr. Oz says:
"When you wear stretchy clothes, it's difficult to tell if you are gaining weight because you gain weight without realizing it. When you wear clothes that fit with a set size you let clothes be your gauge. They alert your body if something is getting a little tight so you can correct the course early on."
Day 2: Thou Shall Not Keep "Fat Clothes" in Your Closet
What Dr. Oz says:
"I don't want anybody out there who's losing their weight thinking, 'it's okay if I overeat a little bit, it's not a problem because I can still wear these clothes.'"
Day 3: Thou Shall Not Eat Meat That Walks on Four Legs More Than One Time A Week
What Dr. Oz says:
"The reason is that there's less saturated fat in animals that walk on two legs like chickens, or don't have any legs like fish. Additionally, women who eat large amounts of red meat more than once a week actually have 50 percent higher chance of dying of heart disease. They also have higher cancer rates, so there are double benefits from the third commandment."
Day 4: Thou Shall Not Graze or Browse in Search of Prey
What Dr. Oz says:
"You need to plan your meals before you go to the fridge. Too many times we're wandering like reptiles foraging for food. We make food decisions. You want to create the plate that you're going to eat using your brain rather than impulses that lead you to naturally overeat, which is what happens when you're hungry and going in there five to seven times a day."
Day 5: Thou Shall Not Eat After 7:30 PM
What Dr. Oz says:
"The average American goes to bed around 10:00 p.m. You need to have two hours of time between when you eat your dinner and when you go to bed. When you eat late at night, a couple of things happen. First of all, you're more likely to be eating in front of the TV, which means you're distracted and likely to eat more. You also tend to get high-calorie snacks in the late night hours. Try to move your meals up a tiny little bit whatever way you can to make 7:30 p.m. your ideal cut off time."
Day 6: Thou Shall Not Pile On Food On a Plate More Than One Inch High or Two Inches to the Edge of the Plate
What Dr. Oz says:
"Larger portions mean a lot more calories."
Day 7: Thou Shall Not Chew Less Than 20 Bites
What Dr. Oz says:
"When you're chewing, your body is beginning to process the reality that you're putting food in it. It takes awhile for those hormones to circle back. The perception of fullness depends completely on back and forth chemistry between your stomach and your brain. As you chew, you give yourself several minutes for that processing to occur. So you're helping your biology of blubber take you to a weight that you could be happy at."
Day 8: Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbors Plate
What Dr. Oz says:
"These snacks, these little bites from someone else's sandwich, these little sweets, whatever it is, it adds up. It adds up, on average, to over 1,000 calories a day. That's why grazers, believe it or not, are getting into trouble. These calories count with all the other calories you already eat."
Day 9: Thou Shall Not Carry Small Bills
What Dr. Oz says:
"The reason, vending machines. Vending machines love small bills, and human beings like putting small bills in vending machines. With this temptation it's too easy to get 100 or 200 extra calories of food. Most people buy more because they're not going to pocket the extra change. The result is you feed there over and over again. I want you to leave the house without small bills in your pocket. You won't want to break a $20 bill in order to buy junk foods in a vending machine."
Day 10: Thou Shall Not Eat Standing Up or in a Car
What Dr. Oz says:
"Eat a preplanned meal while you're stationary, and eat it while you're sitting down. You will actually know what you're doing. You are aware, you're not distracted and you're not rushing; most important, you are not overeating."
So, I think I can do this. I mean I really need to stick to this. I don't like my body and I know that I have gained some weight from last year but really its not ok because I am becoming very self conscious and I just don't like it. and honestly its affecting my sex life too. so yeah.. we need to work on this. Day1-- HERE WE GO!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
for my bestie
So, I just realized you leave me all these cute comments on my blog and they all just brightened my day. thank you for that. Love and miss your face.
<3s.
okfine.. I am just going to admit it.
IM JEALOUS! i want to get married, I am ready to get married and i can;t tell you how people I know are engaged and guess what? I don't even have a ring on my finger. I really want that ring and finally say I am getting married. I don't know what it is because i have never been like this but man now I just want. I have the house I have the man of my dreams. I fall deeper and deeper in love with him each day. I just want it to be final and over with. =(
Saturday, April 10, 2010
oh, hangovers.. how I hate you.
I wouldn't say I have a hangover but yeah I think I have my first. I want to paint some aspect of my house because I am openly working on two areas at once: the basement and the guest room. i think the guest room is a little more important cause well its completely empty right now and all the junk is in my room, which I absolutely hate. I need to paint it floor to sealing with primer or white paint and than paint the color because the previous owners got crazy with the blue paint that I absolutely hate mostly because my room growing up is the same color except I masked it with crazy colorful stars and than half of it with left over white paint and than finally the teal it is today. oh well I think I am going to get this show on the road because I have limited time before work.
Monday, March 15, 2010
a not so productive [SPRING BREAK]
[This is edited.. big time] Lets start out with this picture I found on friends blog, which I find very true and interesting. It makes me think that I never thought I would be living in the midwest. I grew up in California my whole life and thought i was never going to leave, which now i look at it was unrealistic. We moved to the best city in the world, chicago (my opinion.. i love it there) and it didn't work out for us, but i still love it. Than we moved to literally bfe in champaign-urbana, which I hated for a really long time (you can look at earlier posts, especially related to work). Now its not so bad, things are starting to look up and that's a really good feeling. i am nursing school, it's still very weird to say and believe. We have a wonderful house, which I also didn't like at first but now I love. It is amazing at accommodating people when we host parties. We are slowly working on it, painting it, and making it our own. We have not lived here a full year so we don't know what is growing in the back yard but I am so excited to see what it is. We also haven't unpacked everything as well so we are working on that too. But so far so good. I am also looking ahead and where I would want to work when i am done with school. I have an opportunity to sign a 3 year contract with my current employer, but I don't know there are pros and cons to it so we will have to see. Thats the up date so far.
School is the hardest, best thing ever and the craziest, hardest, worst thing ever. I know that if when I make it through this with peter peter pumpkin eater he is right for me because let me tell you, he has already seen me on my best days when I am beaming from ear and ear and on my worst days when I am so disappointed in myself. So thats what its like and bring it on, I am ready. I can't believe how much we have learned already it is so cool.
School is the hardest, best thing ever and the craziest, hardest, worst thing ever. I know that if when I make it through this with peter peter pumpkin eater he is right for me because let me tell you, he has already seen me on my best days when I am beaming from ear and ear and on my worst days when I am so disappointed in myself. So thats what its like and bring it on, I am ready. I can't believe how much we have learned already it is so cool.
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