Bad Week

I thought my Monday was bad but nope today tops it. I normally love Wednesdays because I have that day off, but today I went in for a few hours. I was on my way home for lunch when the car in front of me stopped suddenly, I stopped in time but watched in the rear view mirror the huge SUV flying toward me and NOT stopping, needless to say he hit me going about 40 m.p.h. He did start to swerve so he hit more of the side on the back than full on. So Treven came down because I couldn't think I was staring at my insurance card but freaking out that I couldn't find it and I was shaking pretty bad to where I couldn't write. Luckily, I work for a chiropractor office and after getting everything squared away I went back to the office so Tyler could do an exam on me.

I hit my head and have a bump on the side of my head

I've been having back and neck spasms

My back is very sore

I have a headache

But thankfully there is nothing seriously wrong the pics are hard to see all the damage but you get the gist. I think the rest of the week I should hide in the corner and not come out. With my luck I'll be the first to get swine flu in Colorado.

Yes another post

I know lots of posts lately BUT my friend Kristy has started a side business and is putting her crafty skills to work!!! So check it out she just posted it today so there will be more to come!

http://thevintageclothespin.blogspot.com/

Monday

I hate Mondays in general, but today I think takes the cake. I woke up late and when I looked out the window expecting rain instead there's several inches of snow on the ground and more accumulating. So I'm already mad because I overslept and it's snowing, when I walk out to my car and immediately see there is a problem, my car door is partially open. I look inside to see my car trashed; my glove box and middle consul are open, there are papers everywhere, I had a game in my car and there were a million pieces thrown all over my car, and they broke my trunk opener (it was already broke but they basically ripped it off trying to get my trunk open which you can't do without a key). I take a few minutes to clean up my car and looking to see if they took anything, luckily nothing worth taking was in the car and I call Treven,turns out he forgot to lock my car when he drove it on Saturday. Ironically I was just thinking last night how grateful I am that we can afford to live in a safe area and a safe apartment complex. I guess it could have been worse as far as I can tell nothing was taken but it does shatter the safe image I had.

Baseball Game

Even though it was a cold night we had a lot of fun, we sat on the 3rd baseline and watched the Rockies lose to the LA Dodgers..... Stupid Dodgers


Manny in left field

Jimenez getting ready to pitch

Joe and Treven

Treven and me

Article

So I was looking at msn and an article caught my eye, when I clicked on it I got a suprise. The article is about a woman in Payette, my hometown. More than that it described where she lived and I knew it exacly, she lives in the trailer park of an ex-boyfriend. Sometimes when you least expect it your tiny hometown is in national news.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30390801/?gt1=43001

It's over!

Well three weeks has come and gone! The first day I was on the diet I had this freak out because I felt like it was going to be forever. Well now it's over and to celebrate Treven and I went out to breakfast this morning, waffles and hashbrowns! YUM! I thought so much about having chocolate and sugar the first day I was off and now I'm not in the mood for it, go figure. All in all I lost seven pounds which I am so happy about, I started at 134.5 and I am down to 127.5, my overall goal is to get back down between 115-120. So here are my food goals;

Breakfast needs to be something other than sugary cereal. A breakfast I discovered long ago was plain Greek yogurt with some honey and berries. I need to get back to things like that.

Lunches need to be more than a pb&j. That's where using the foods I ate in my diet will be key, like stir fries and big salads with lots of veggies.

Dinners again just keeping more veggies on the plate than things like boxed pastas.

More water, less soda. And sticking with my gym routine, now it's time to get serious about the tri-athalon that's coming up the end of June.
I'm glad I did this, I feel like it's really helped to change my eating habits for the better and made me realize I don't have to go out to eat and get appetizers, and desserts. And my main incentive for keeping it off? Not doing this cleanse/diet again!

Take 2

So 2 weeks down on my 3 week extreme diet. I've had some up's and down's this past week. I think it was like day 8 when I was just about to quite I was so tired of the strict diet and it didn't seem like I could do it for two more weeks. Well I kept going, and I'm happy that I did. I have lost a total of 5.5 pounds in two weeks and I am very happy about that and I am back in the 120's!!! Everyone who has done this diet kept saying that I would start to feel awesome, I think once I was over thinking about all the foods I couldn't eat that's when the change started. The first week in a half I think I was going through a food detox and I was always thinking about what foods I would eat if I wasn't on the diet. Now that's over and it's just routine. My goal for my last week of this diet is to really decide on how I am going to incorporate my new eating habits into my normal life.

This is an example of what I eat everyday;

Breakfast: A fruit smoothie with whey protein and this other diet supplement
Snacks: grapes, apples, sugar snap peas, or oranges
Lunch: Stir fry with 1/2 cup brown rice or I might bake chicken and have veggies with it
Afternoon snack: Another fruit smoothie like at breakfast
Dinner: Baked fish with salad and veggies

Tree Sap

Funny story....
I took Charlie, our little Italian greyhound, outside and I guess he rubbed up against some pine tree branches. We got inside and I was putting in a movie and I heard him behind me acting crazy, I thought he was playing with his toy, when I turned around it was quite the scene. He was frantically scooting his whole left side of his body across our carpet, couch, blankets, anything. He kept going getting more frantic so I grabbed him and could smell something funny but didn't see anything, then I felt it, tree sap on his coat. Putting him in the bath did nothing now he was wet and had tree sap on him. Now he was rolling over doing backflips while scooting on our carpet. I ran to target and the only thing I could find was adhesive remover. When I got back he was still being crazy so it was hard to keep him still, but amazingly enough it worked. Try explaining to a target associate that you are looking for some kind of remover to get the tree sap off of your dog that has probably torn up your apartment by now, see what kind of looks you get.

The Diet

I have been frustrated that I cannot lose weight and its for one reason, my eating is really really bad. So a week ago I started this 21 day diet. It's pretty restrictive on what you can have, no grains, dairy, processed foods, salts, etc. You can have all the fruits and veggies that you want, couple of servings of protein, lentils, rice, supplements, and lots of water. Our massage therapist at work did it back in Jan and she lost a lot of weight plus it changed her eating habits. So I decided to do it, to lose some weight but mainly to break my bad eating habits of eating out and lots of sweets. I started to splurge every time we went out. So one week down, two more to go and this is what I have discovered;

There are TOO many food commercials on T.V. ( I hate you red lobster, carls jr, and papa johns)
I don't miss sweets as much as I thought I would
What I miss more than sweets is seasonings like salt
I had to go out to eat when Trev's parents came to town, that was hard
I have learned I like things like arugula, kale, and bok choy
I don't like lentils
I've had several dreams about food, one I went to take a big bite out of chocolate cake and it was all plastic inside. The second I was at in-n-out burger and my food just disappeared. (coincidence? I think not)

My goal is to break my bad eating habits more than weight loss. If I break the bad habits the weight loss will follow. So after one week I have lost 2.5 pounds, I wanted a little more but that's ok. More to follow!