"Eat your heart out" - Success!!!!! Or was it?

Alright! So.... The last few days were very interesting!

The banana and milk day as i mentioned was very difficult for poor old hubby, but we pushed through it!

Then we moved on to day 6 - chicken and 6 tomatoes with a glass of water for every tomato you eat. 

I have to tell you, i am a big tomato flavour lover! When i make my famous spaghetti bolognaise or my "lazy man's" pasta, it's tomato based. BUT raw tomatoes are not my kind of thing. So hubby ate his tomatoes raw and i fried mine up with salt and pepper. It was good. Not the worst thing i have ever had to eat on a diet, but i wouldn't say i loved it. The chicken too had its ups and downs! What was the most exciting thing ever in the beginning of the day, ended up in sighing and cringing at the end of the day! Knowing that the next day we have to eat chicken again!!! (As we would say in Afrikaans, " ons het met lang tande geeet." ) 

Hubby was feeling drained so he fell asleep on the couch while we were watching movies. I couldn't sleep, so i sat up watching movies way later than i was supposed to. Then at about 1am he woke up and went to the bathroom. The next thing i know he came falling out of the bathroom onto the wall and slid down slowly!! (Like in a dramatic dying scene of an action movie)

MY HEART!!!! In a split second so many thoughts and visions went through my head: "should i call an ambulance? What is their number? It might be easier for me to just throw him in the car and drive like a mad woman to the ER! I know where it is, but how do i get in there? I've never actually looked for the entrance gates! I really should pay more attention to these things! Is he going to die? Is this it? Am i to be a widow at age 27? I should probably see if this really is a heart attack before i go bonkers! "

I tried to speak to him, but he wouldn't reply. I freaked out and ended up screaming at him to answer me!! That caused him to scream back at me. At least i knew then it wasn't a heart attack. " Phew!" He ended up laying down on the ice cold tiles, even though it's really cold here right now. I asked him to try and get up, but he couldn't. As he tried his whole body shook and he just collapsed again. I then got him to turn onto his back and saw that he was sweating like a mad man. I touched his forehead but it was icy cold. I got such a fright because i thought he was burning up, but it was exactly the opposite. Why was he sweating??? 

His face was so white it looked a bit grey and his lips had a blue-ish tint to it. At that moment i had a flashback!

My sister and i were housesitting for some friends a few years back. She was sitting more or less across from me on the couch in the tv room. I don't  know what i was busy saying to her, i just remember realizing that she wasn't listening to me at all. So as I freaked out at her about being rude, she looked up at me and her face was as white as snow and her lips had a blue-ish tint to it! I got such a fright! I jumped up and grabbed the closest thing with lots of sugar in it ( a nice big fat chocolate) and practically forced it down her throat! It was easier for me to realize what was wrong with her because i knew she had always had very low blood pressure, so the first thought in my head was, "i need to get some sugar in her system, it will push her blood pressure up!" 

Now i don't know lots of medicine, but i too suffer from low blood pressure from time to time and my doctor told me something along the lines of ;  "Low blood pressure and low sugar levels kind of work together. When you feel drained and woozy, eat something with lots of sugar. Its an instant fix. Sugar levels pushes blood pressure up" or something like that. 

Now that doesn't make it okay for you to chomp down chocolates every 5 seconds, its just a quick fix, because you really do not want to faint.

If you do suffer from low blood pressure constantly, please go see your doctor and find out what you can do to keep it stable, the healthy way.

Anyway, i jumped up and made my hubby some coffee with sugar in. Three cups in fact. It killed me from the inside out, but i did not have any, not even a sip! Fortunately the colour in hubby's face came back and he was soon his old self again! Thank goodness! Being a widow really didn't appeal to me all that much! 

The chicken and veg day wasn't as bad as i had thought, we made chicken and veg soup and chucked it in a blender which made for a very creamy soup! Who knew you could get soup creamy without using any cream or milk? But that night i was extremely moody, and upset and i was feeling funny and i was just not myself. Hubby made the executive decision to give me a cup of coffee! He told me he needs me to be friendly again. Haha! 

The next day, and the LAST day was the miracle soup......

Now here's where i fell terribly short.. It's embarrassing to tell.

I was sitting, looking at all the ingredients and i realized, i hate leeks and i hate green pepper, and they are going to be so overwhelming in this soup. I couldn't get myself to make it. So i didn't. Yesterday i starved myself. I was literally going to have nothing before I have that soup!!!

Im not sure why i didn't think of that when i read this diet, maybe i was just too keen to drop some weight. Or maybe after being on this torture ride for a week, eating things that i dislike (nay) HATE, was just no longer an option for me. 

So last night at about 8 or so, we decided that we are now officially calling this detox quits, we think we have done well enough and we needed to eat. So hubby went and bought Mc Donalds! Oops!!!

Here's the thing though; he bought each of us a double cheeseburger (you know, those tiny ones) and six nuggets with jalapeño sauce (i would die for that sauce) and usually i can finish it without even blinking an eye. I ate my nuggets and got half way through that burger and i was full. I could not take another bite! So my stomach shrank! Yay!!!!

We weighed ourselves this morning and with the Mc donalds and everything, i lost a whopping 3.7kg's! And hubby lost an unbelievable 4.7kg's!!!! 

Now think how much we would've lost if we actually ate that soup, haha!!

It doesn't really seem like a lot when you look at it, but that amount in 6 days (we decided not to count yesterday's major flop) is a lot! 

So YES, this detox does work and you do drop really fast! If you do decide to do it, Be careful!!!!! Listen to your body! We really don't want anyone else dropping on the floor! 

 What an awesome experience!!! This was hard and fun and motivating (most of the time) all at the same time. I really had so much fun doing this challenge and blogging about it! And even with all may failures, i still feel so proud of myself and so thankful that you guys are reading this and helping me along the way! 

Now, my hubby has been overseas a few times and every time he has gone he has had BURGER KING!! he's forever telling me how amazing it is and how he is craving it etc etc?

Good news is they have just opened up a BURGER KING in South Africa!!!! Best news is, it's in CAPE TOWN!!!!!  So i finally get to know what all the fuss is about! I'm very excited to go and try it and maybe have a glimpse of what his overseas travels were like. I have never been overseas :( but after Burger King, i will be a good girl again! :)

My next blog will be about my next challenge. I will have all of the information and links on there, as well as when i'm starting it. I'm hoping by giving everyone a head start on the information that some of you would start it with me and tell me about your experiences too. I cannot wait to post it! I'll give you a little hint, *** this one is a lot easier and it is more about correcting your hormones then losing weight, although you really lose a lot of weight anyway!**** 

Can anyone guess what it is?

(To my sister: if you are reading this, you cannot answer that question as i have already given the answer to you. It would be called cheating! ;) )

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to every reader!!!!!!    You have helped me more than i could have ever imagined!!!! Please keep on reading! You can either click on the follow me button or subscribe via email to receive all of my post as they come in. :) 

Eat your heart out - continued (day 3,4&5)

Hey all my PHAT ladies! :)

Just an update on the "eat your heart out detox" challenge:

Day 3 was the fruit and veggie day! It became fairly easy to cope with. The headaches started going, i didn't have much energy, but i didn't feel like the dead walking either. I was still craving, especially desserts, any thing sweet and chocolaty really and COFFEE!!!!! For those that do not know, "Hi, my name is Leandi and i am a hardcore coffee addict!" Living without coffee is not worth living at all. But somehow i have made it to my third day, coffee FREE, and i am still alive and kicking! Its a MIRACLE!!!

Honestly day 3 was easier than i thought it would be. We had our veggie soup and since we could have all the fruit we wanted, and we had  so many left, keeping in mind that after day 3 fruit is off the table (apart from bananas), we decided to blend them all with ice and make a nice smoothie. Worked out GREAT!! So apart from the cravings, it was a fairly easy day.

Day 4 is the darn banana and milk day! Now luckily for me i love milk and i adore bananas. For those that are not so fortunate, this will probably be the worst day of the this detox for you. My hubby thought it was a good idea to warm the milk up, it would create the illusion of drinking coffee i suppose? FAIL!!! It wasn't really good at all. Im guessing full cream milk warmed up could probably taste really good. But skim milk warmed up, tastes like someone milked the cow while giving it a bath! Cold skim milk and bananas were tasty. I liked it. I never really got the feeling of being full and satisfied completely. You only have up to 8 bananas to get by with. So you have to stretch it out. I wasn't ever feeling crazy hungry though. Poor hubby had a very hard time. He said it felt like he was hungry the whole day through. I gave him some of my bananas to help him out, but i would say this was his toughest day so far. I believe in detoxing, i think its great to eat less and all that, but if you are experiencing hunger pains, thats where i draw the line. I told him to eat as many bananas as he needed. There is a point when you know your body better than the people who created the detox. When you suffer, draw the line. I was fine, but my hubby is a big  built man. Not fat, just big built. And he needs more food than i do to keep from being hungry. He uses more energy than i do, just by being alive. He needed more than 8 bananas to get through the day. Don't punish yourself by not eating when you are experiencing physical hunger pains! You do not need to push it that far. Listen to your body and give it what it needs. (Not your mind or your heart, because my mind and hearts need chocolate, ribs and coffee right now!!!!) I was feeling a little sniffly yesterday, i had hay fever and my head felt like it got dropped into a pressure cooker. So by all means, my heart, mind, body and soul was praying for hubby to say he is done with the detox at times. its terrible, but i didn't want to be the one who disappoints, but if he stopped, i would've stopped.  Only at certain times though, and it was mostly brief. The one thing that kept us going though,  was the fact that we already successfully reached day 4! Giving up now is pointless! Especially if day 5 is CHICKEN!! So we pushed through! It wasn't  so bad. Day one was WAY worse for me! That dreaded fruit night. It haunts me still!

So this morning, day 5 (eat as much chicken and turkey as you like, and six tomatoes with a glass of water for each tomato), hubby was up and showered and ducked out to the shops and was back by 8:30 with rotisserie chicken shame he was probably so hungry!!! (This detox says, eat as many chicken as you want. It doesn't say which kind. Logic tells me it can't be fried, so i decided rotisserie is probably the best bet)   Oh my is it yum! And my body is thanking me for the meat! Its a great feeling! But we still have the whole day in front of us. We might change our minds when we get sick of it, haha.

But so far, so good! And only 2 more days left after today! Yay!!!

**Please remember to take a vitamin supplement every day when you do this detox. Your body really needs it!**

You ARE good enough!! Be PHAT, Be FABULOUS!!

I want to tell you a story today…

The story is about a woman in her early 20’s.  Her name is Maya.

All through Maya’s life she has been a very beautiful woman. She never really thought of it that way, but she had a beautiful face, gorgeous eyes and smile and her body was beautiful! Men were drooling over her like you cannot believe. She could have just about any guy she wanted, but she never actually realized it herself. All she knew was that life was fairly easy. She didn’t have to worry about what to wear, or how she looks in something. Really almost everything used to sit nice on her, and that was good enough. She was a vibrant person, with a bubbly personality, she was confident in herself and loved life and all the adventures that came with it.

Maya went through some ups and very tough downs in her life and she started turning to food for comfort. She didn’t really think about the fact that she would gain weight, because she’s always been able to eat whatever she wanted and her weight was fine. But what she didn’t realize is eating whatever you want and comfort eating are two different things.

She started gaining weight, little by little. She noticed her pants are a bit tight, and she thought, “oh well, it’s time for some new jeans anyway.” The thought of laying off the “comfort eating” didn’t even cross her mind. And why would it? Comfort eating was created to numb all negative thoughts and to soothe ones soul. It was never something “negative” in her mind, Only good. And this went on and on, untreated. And one day she woke up and looked in the mirror. And what she saw was someone completely different standing in front of her. Someone she didn’t recognize.

She suddenly saw the fat rolls, the big stomach, the wide thighs and the cellulite. She looked at her face and started crying. What was once a beautiful face is now a round one with a double chin. She looked completely different. She realized in that moment that she went 4 sizes up in clothes without her even really noticing. She has numbed herself so much; she didn’t realize what she had done to herself until it was too late. She lifted her nighty up and saw the stretch marks over her stomach. And it all was just too much for her to handle.

So what happened?

She stopped being confident. Suddenly all her overwhelming insecurities from that morning has swept in and taken over her life. Every time she’s in public, she wonders what people are thinking when they look at her. She wonders if any of her fat rolls are showing and she pulls-pulls-pulls on her shirts. She goes to the clothing store to buy clothes and hates everything she sees and buys clothes that do not look good, but she decides that it’s good enough because it at least hides all the fat rolls and embarrassing marks.

She goes home after her traumatic day at the shops and she feels miserable. And she grabs on to the only thing she knows brings her comfort and soothes her soul. She comfort eats…. Except afterwards she realizes that this is the reason she has become so overweight, so she hates herself for just eating all of the wrong stuff. And vows that tomorrow will be different. That tomorrow, come hell or high-water, she will not comfort eat. She will be healthy.

So the next day she starts becoming obsessed with eating healthy and losing weight. She starts looking up all sorts of different diets. And she decides to start her chosen diet the next day. But before she starts, she should get her “fix” and she goes home feeling happy about her decision and comfort eats. This time with no guilt, because she made the decision to start a diet tomorrow.

So the next day arrives and she starts her diet. She absolutely hates it and all she wants is to eat a big fat slab of chocolate. At this point she is so sensitive and emotional that anything could set her over the edge, and it did.

When she got home she grabbed the big slab of chocolate she stashed away (to forget about it) and ate it without even thinking twice. When it was done she looked at the rapper and realized that she didn’t even savour it, she just gulped down the chocolate as quickly as she could. She couldn’t even really remember what it tasted like.

At that point she realized that she had failed her attempt at losing weight. She felt depressed, fed up and just wanted to cry. She realized that losing weight was going to be much harder than she thought it would be and she gives in to comfort food for the rest of the night, vowing that she will start again tomorrow.

And so this went on and on, one failed attempt after another. And every time she fails, the comfort eating seems to get worse. And afterwards she hates herself for failing, for comfort eating and the fact that she couldn’t stop herself. It seemed impossible. It affected her life. She started thinking that she is a failure. That she couldn’t do anything, that she didn’t have the will power to achieve any goal. She looked in the mirror every day and hated what she saw. She was never happy about it all. All her confidence was lost. She went from being bubbly to being so self conscious, like she didn’t have a right to be confident. She wanted to be unseen. It changed her way of thinking and it infected her whole life, from the way she dresses and looks after herself, to her love life, even her goals and dreams were infected by this negativity.

Do you feel like Maya does? Has your weight changed your outlook on life? Or your personality? Has your confidence dropped ten thousand miles? Have you already made up your mind what other people think of you? Have you lost out on life and all of the dreams and goals you wanted to achieve? Have you lost out on fun times you could be spending with your kids or your husband/fiancé/boyfriend?

Well we are going to change this all! NOT because we are going to lose weight, BUT BECAUSE (OVERWEIGHT OR NOT) we are all beautiful and we are all unique! We are so much more than just our weight!! Looking at yourself in a negative way and allowing any negative thoughts to filter into the rest of your life just because you are overweight is a very one dimensional way to look at yourself, don’t you think?

If I am who I am, based purely on my weight, and then yes, call me a LOSER! Or a GAINER, whichever way you want to look at it. :)

I think it is time we put our foot down, not just for the society out there that put absolute ridiculous pressures on woman of today (we are not models, we are every day woman, with lots to do and very little time and money), but we should also put our foot down to our own negative thoughts! We are beautiful woman; we are funny, quirky, intelligent, smart, witty, bitchy, emotional, caring, and loving! A woman is one of the most fascinating things in this world! We are able to take the world on our shoulders and still be able to give to others. (men just shut down and crawl into a deep dark corner, ha-ha)  we are able to take the world of pain just to bear a child, because you already love it so much, you will give your everything for it without blinking an eye! We are determined, and passionate! We are able to sacrifice in silence, when we need to. We will give our everything for a cause we believe in. we have a soft touch and we are BEAUTIFUL!

Why should we think that our weight determines whether we are all those things or not? Just because you have a few flabs doesn’t change ANYTHING else about you! You are still all of those things above! And don’t allow your thoughts or anyone else to tell you any different!

Go outside, smell those roses, life is really beautiful and we are sitting here, missing it because our weight issues consume our lives! NONSENSE!!! Go be your beautiful, unique self! Go be who you are meant to be! You have a God-given purpose in life! Focus on that! Focus on the good things and the beauty in your world, in your day and in yourself!!

And you will see, the comfort food, won’t be all that necessary anymore. You will see that you won’t want to punish and poison yourself  anymore.

LET’S BREAK FREE OF THESE CHAINS!! Grab your friends and tell them they are beautiful, tell them what you love most about them! Uplift each other! We have too much negativity and people bringing each other down in this world. We don’t need it!

I have a little proposition for you:

Every night, before you go to bed (or whenever is more convenient for you, but do it at the same time every day) think of 3 things that went right on that day. Just 3 things that went right. It could be that you had a beautiful dinner with your family or something bigger like you weighed in and lost a few kg’s. It can be that you got saved from a near death experience. It could be anything. Just think of 3 things that went well. You will see your spirits will lift up and you will actually become more thankful and less negative!

Also think of 3 things everyday that you love about yourself, or 3 things that you achieved or did right that day. We need to be kinder on ourselves as woman. We can sometimes be our own worst enemies! So think of 3 good things about yourself or what you have achieved or done, every day.

Ladies, you are awesome! Now go show the world just how PHAT you really are!!

Eat your heart out! Day #2

Wow!!! I am literally dreaming about coffee the whole day long!!! This is excruciating!!!

But first let me tell you about last night! Oh yes, the day of the juicy fruits!! All we could have for dinner was fruit!! (Kill me now!!)  this was close to impossible! Honestly, i was sitting on the couch last night, wishing i could have some comfort food, because i was feeling weak and i had a MASSIVE headache!

I had the good, same old same old thoughts; " why am I doing this? What is the point of depriving myself of what i want? Being fat is not so bad... Maybe i could start some other time, i feel like i rushed into this, and this might be the worst time ever to do this detox!" 

Let me tell you, its natural to have those thoughts. When your body is going through a detox, it naturally starts craving all of the bad things its used to. And when you are hungry, it makes it worse! And when you are hungry and all you can it is fruit on a cold night, it makes it near impossible!

But.... Your success is up to YOU! So when those thoughts come to mind, you have to keep telling yourself why you wanted to start this detox in the first place. To make it easier for yourself, why don't you make a list for yourself about all the reasons why you want to do this detox? Write it down and keep it. When these "convincing thoughts to stop the detox" start knocking on your door, grab your list and read all the reasons why you wanted to start in the first place! Maybe this will help keep you motivated enough to push through the tough times. If it isn't, find the solution!

So i ate the ridiculous fruit and tried to keep my mind off of food for the rest of the night. And in the morning when i woke up, i felt SO proud of myself!! :)

But oh my goodness, today was hard!!! (Today was the vegetable day. Nothing else but vegetables! And a little treat was that we could have a baked potato with butter! NOM!!) It was better then yesterday, and worse,all at the same time!

I could eat lots of veggies, and it was warm and nice, but i needed a cup of coffee So So So bad!! The cravings just got worse today! But at least i am full so it helps keep me sane. At one point this afternoon though, i got so hungry i was shaking! I got quite a fright! But luckily it subsided when i got some soup in me!

YES! I almost forgot! We made some lovely vegetable soup! I was thinking we needed to get some more water in, so i figured making soup would help fill us and hydrate us all at the same time. And it was lovely, especially because it was so cold today! 

My hubby even came up with the brilliant idea of putting the soup in the blender! It ended up with a creamy texture! It was beautiful and oh so tasty!

For dinner we made a salad and the baked potato with butter and chives! YUMMY!!! It was delicious!!

So day two: Excruciating!!! But a roaring success!! :)

Now to go for day three!! Let's hope this gets easier!!

I'm going to drink some headache tablets now and sleep ;)

Please feel free to comment. I would love to hear your stories etc! 

The "eat your heart out" challenge!!

This is my motto today...

Yes, I have started the eat your heart out challenge today! This little detox is designed to flush your body from toxins and to lose a few kg's while you are at it!

This one is going to be a tough one for me!!! I love my warm plate of food at night, it just doesnt feel the same without it! I remember trying out this really intense 14 day diet, where you eat just about nothing and only what is listed in the diet otherwise it won't work. I did very well, I hated every moment, but I did well. It wasnt until the 6th day that I started completely degrading in will power, strength and the ability to think straight! I had to eat fruit and belgium yogurt for dinner!!! DINNER!!! To make matters worse, my lovely husband refused to do it with me and got himself some Mc donalds!!! I told him it was fine and that I can handle it, but the truth is I was dying inside! I watched him take every single bite! I even sniffed his food a couple of times! At one point my dog and I had a bit of a stand off, because we're both sitting there hoping he would give us a bite! Just a bite. Or some scraps, some scraps would do just fine too! I couldnt hide it anymore and I literally bawled my eyes out! Poor hubby has to deal with all of these moodswings! Mwhahaha (evil laugh!) needless to say, the next day I quit that diet! Not just because of the Mc donalds (although we did drive straight to one and bought a double cheeseburger and a cappuccino) but mostly because my system was rejecting the little bit of food that I could eat horribly. And I was HUNGRY!!!!! 

So, much like that diet, our dinner for tonight is........ FRUIT!! 

Infact, our whole day consists of only fruit and water! Yay!!! Im overjoyed!.... Ulgh!  When I opened my eyes this morning and realized that we are actually doing this, all of these memories of my previous fruit 'incident' came flooding back. And I thought, "FRUIT! We meet again! I will not be defeated! I will destroy you!!!" 

So far so good! Besides the fact that the atmosphere is tense in the house and that i'm like a piranha, ready to attack at any time, it's going great!!! :)

See what makes this diet so clever is that they make you look forward to tomorrow! Because tomorrow its veggies and you get to have a jacket potato WITH BUTTER!!!!!!! Beautiful warm filling food! Im dreaming of it already!

So without further ado, I present to you, the "eat your heart out challenge"

                                                  

I dont know how to get that bigger, so I will attach the link: http://pinterest.com/pin/479703797779554484/ 

This is where I came across it. If you click on the link and then on the picture in the link it will take you to the website or blog it was posted on originally. You can read up more about it there if you want, although it is very simple; eat what they tell you to eat, drink a multivitamin and drink plenty of water!

I am so excited to share my experiences with you over the next 7 days albeit good or bad :)

This truly is a great encouragement! To see that some of you already visited my blog just gives me the strength  to push through it all!! :) and I hope someone is starting this detox with me soon (other than my hubby :) so supportive!)

***please note that I am not a doctor, nutritionist or have any qualifications regarding foods and/or diets. Anything you try, found on this blog, is at your own risk. It is recommended that you consult with your doctor before attempting any of these diets/programs, or any other ones you might come across on your own for that matter. Be safe! Be healthy!***

Oh yes yes yes, my photos coming soon! Eeeeek, its stressful to think about it! :)

Here goes Nothing!!! Join me in my Journey!

Hi! :)

A little introduction to me and the reason i created this blog:

I am a 27 year old married woman living in Cape town, South Africa. I have no kids, but I do have a beautiful miniature dachshund, and she is almost like a child to me :) I'm super in love with my hubby of two years and he has just started a business with two other partners. (PROUD!!!)

Life is good! I'm happy! ..... 

BUT... ( Isn't there always a but?)

I am not happy when I look in the mirror!!!!

YES! I said it, like just about almost every other woman in the world, I do not like the way I look!

I am overweight (severely obese, as the doctors would say. Just a little bit plump, as my husband would say) in my opinion, I'm just plain ol' fat! And I have been struggling with this fact for quite a few years. In fact, at times you would find me sitting in a dark corner of my house, curled up in a blanket, golfing down some sort of super fattening, calorie loaded yummy thing, bawling my eyes out and longing for the days that I was oh so skinny! We can be so ridiculous if we want to! ;)

And then just the other day, something clicked in my brain.... (Cue the crazy lady music) 

"If I want to be thinner and healthier, then I have to Do something about it." 

Before you think "ya duh lady! Seriously? Thats your big epiphany?" Let me explain...

Its not that I didn't know this little fact, I mean if I could have 10 dollars for every insane attempt of mine to lose weight, I would be a friggen millionaire! Its just that it finally sunk in! I realized that I could either be unhappy looking in the mirror; try to lose weight and fail because I already admitted defeat before I even started; cry and BINGE to get back at the world (seriously, only the food fairies could possibly understand that logic, but it makes so much sense in the moment..); and forever be overweight... OR... I can say, "enough is enough! I am saving me from myself and taking serious control over my weight and unexplained inability to lose the weight! No more excuses! If there is a problem, find a solution! If I am not motivated enough, create motivation!"

Its simple! Never give up! Never surrender! And if you mess up along the way? Then do as Dori from 'Finding Nemo' says; " just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming swimming, just keep swimming!"

So the reason for this blog, you say?

Well, I need motivation! And I have figured out a way to create just that! This blog is my "accountability partner".  I do not know how many people will read and follow my blog, maybe no one will... But that's okay. My fear of someone coming across this blog and then seeing that I have failed is motivation enough for me to keep going! I hate disappointing people! Its one of my weird quirks. ( I have quite a few) 

SO...

Here's what i'm planning:

My goal is to try a whole lot of different ways to lose weight. YES, you just read that right, your eyes did not deceive you. I think we all know deep down inside that eating healthy and exercising is the best way to lose weight, but for some or other (unexplained, yet again...) reason, we have this obsession with different ways and means to lose weight.. Finding that Something that "works for you".  So I am going to try out a few different things and see how they work.  From detoxes to different workout methods, to different diets and maybe even some "psychology". Keeping in mind  that I don't want to be skinny, I want to be healthy, and being healthy means (in my case) losing some serious weight! 

I chose the name "phat girl on the run" because I am more than just an overweight woman! I am intelligent, I am funny, I am loyal and fun and so much more! Every woman needs to realize that your weight DOES NOT define who you are! We are beautiful, and we all have a bit of glitter in our veins! We are PHAT woman who want to make a change to one facet of our lives! 

 

I cannot wait to start! And I cannot wait to share all of my info with you! And Iam hoping that this blog will inspire you to lose weight too and share your experience, ideas and results with me! Its not fun going at this huge challenge alone. Having someone beside you, holding your hand during tough times, motivating you and sharing and laughing with you during good times and bad; THAT is what's going to get us to where we want to be!

LETS DO THIS LADIES!!!!

Photos of me coming soon! As well as my first challenge!

***please note that I am not a doctor, nutritionist or have any qualifications regarding foods and/or diets. Anything you try, found on this blog, is at your own risk. It is recommended that you consult with your doctor before attempting any of these diets/programs, or any other ones you might come across on your own for that matter. Be safe! Be healthy!***