A journal of a 30ish woman who suffers from PCOS (google it folks) that is chronicling her weight loss while trying to raise two little mcbutterpants on a public forum. Hey I am hoping Oprah (I will take Ellen too) will read this and have me on her network!! I will make millions! And this face pretty much sums up how I am personality wise, but no matter I am awesome! Also, kids are hard to raise yo!
This lady! I really fell off the wagon after my daughter's birth. She was born three weeks early and well you are never prepared even if you think you are prepared you are not when you have your first child. So strike one. My husband was commuting from Atlanta to Chicago and so he only came on weekends. Strike two. Also we were in the middle of moving to Chicago but waiting until after my daughter's first vaccination (Yes I do vaccinate my baby and please do not go all Jenny McCarthy on me okay, Autism is a serious condition that is something that cannot be attributed to one thing and it is a serious disservice to parents of autistic children to simplify it in the manner that crazy lady does, okay I am done.) Strike three! And food was my savior. What can I say food is always there for me and never hurts me or so I thought.
Yeah me too. I have been neglectful of this blog and maybe because times are changing and people don't write on blogs anymore. There are these things called The Tumblr and The Twitter. Actually I have not been writing because I have had a whirlwind of changes occurring in my life. YES A WHIRLWIND! I have experienced so much change in these past five years that normally people experience this in decades, DECADES! Let's see first I started this blog after my father passed away and then two years after that we moved to Atlanta. THENNNNNNN we got pregnant and then one month before I was due my husband got a job in Chicago. So we moved AGAIN when our Turtle was 2 months old. Let me tell you moving with a newborn, DO NOT RECOMMEND IT!
So now after ten years of not posting on here (seems like it has been ten years) I am finally settling down and ready to post. I tried once before while playing with my daughter and typing a post on my cellphone and FAIL. I erased it with my big fat fingers. I had intentions of introducing you guys to her but then it got erased. We call her Turtle because she likes to shrink up like a turtle in a shell. It is really cute, her aunt gave her that nickname.
Anyways what I am trying to say is I am back. I have been gone and not living a healthy lifestyle at all. I am calling myself out. I went to the doctor in December BAD NEWS BEARS and I gained all the weight I lost in Atlanta in less then a year! So to my two readers I will be sharing once again my trials and tribulations of learning how to live healthy and shed fat. Yeah shedding this FAT. So I wanted to let you guys know I have changed my outlook on what types of foods I need to eat BIG TIME. For instance did you know Leaf lard is better to cook with then any vegetable oil. Your body can process it in moderation. I am not saying go enjoy that deep fried chicken with some battered fries but seriously people that cook with lard have more healthy benefits! MIND BLOWN! Also cooking with grass fed butter and eating grass fed beef. Dudes seriously all the things we grew up thinking that were bad are good. Next up CRACK IS NOT WHACK, I kid I think it still is bad for your brain until we see that Dr. Oz episode that says crack is misunderstood and we need it to function. So just like the Terminator promised...I did come back!
Well I gotta story to tell and my two readers probably already know but yes, we had a baby. The story is unbelievable and crazy on how we ended up with a little lady who has a big personality. So be patient with me soon enough I will post the story with the hilarious timeline.
I know! I know! No duh Captain Obvious junk food is addictive. Well did you know that men in black suits spend years of research to make sure it is addictive and you keep buying more. WHAT MIND IS BLOWN!!!!!!!! I know this sounds like I am a conspiracy theorist that finds good company with others that believe in area 51 and that Elvis and Tupac live on an island cranking out hits from the "after life." Here is where I am coming from, I started this blog to chronicle my life "struggles" to be healthy and bring awareness to PCOS. Well I was lost and went off path thanks to Holidays and Fatcations (vacations where you gain 10 lbs just by shoving pounds of food down your gullet). I found my way thanks to my recent diagnosis of hey you need to watch what you eat lady you are borderline going to get diabetes for the rest of your life!!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds dramatic but it is true. If I don't get back to this I will risk having diabetes before I am forty years old. Not cool. Not cool.
So as yours truly was reading in bed with her huzzband and as I was reading the latest celebrity gossip (HEY real news makes me sad), he was reading a New York Times article about junk food. He seemed engrossed in the article and was dumbfounded yet not surprised by the articles findings. I was like meh I am busy reading about Duchess Kate and her baby bump watch mmmkay. So I left it at that.
Fast forward to a week later and I stumble on a Huffington Post blog written by a doctor that stated a calorie is not a calorie. I said hmmm I gots to read this. Well as soon as I read it it linked to another article which linked to another article which then linked to the New York Times article. DURRRNIT Foiled again so I guess this was a sign for me to read the article. Well folks I read it and man this stuff is as bad as reading about cigarette companies trying to appeal to teens to get them to smoke!!!!!!!!!! I mean they package their food in colorful sugary packages and it appeals to kids! No wonder we have one of the highest obesity rates in our children! I read about the man who invented lunchables and how UNHEALTHY they are and now he educated people on healthy whole foods nutrition. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?! Side note I never liked lunchables just the crackers. My mom got them once for me because it was tiny lunch meant and tiny cheese and crackers and it was gross. I was fortunate that my mom rarely gave into my junk food demands when I was younger. Now my dad well that is another story heh heh heh heh. The man knew I loved chocolate Moon Pies and RC cola. (You can really tell I grew up below the Mason Dixon line from that sentence.) Anyways you need to read the following articles: New York Times, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food and The Huffington Post, Still believe "A Calorie Is a Calorie?"
Reading these articles made me realize why we complain about how hard it is to lose weight. Yeah when your economical food choices that are widely available are just basically a box of sugar in disguise no wonder your fat jeans are now your skinny jeans! I wish they would research and write about obesity and poverty. There is a serious correlation there. I recall grocery shopping in an area of Houston that was located in a economically challenged area and there was some fresh food choices some but a plethora of giant aisles filled with processed foods. Hello heart disease and diabetes. The area was predominantly Hispanic and it saddened me that families would grab two bananas but boxes and boxes of Pop Tarts and Popsicles and you name it they had that sugary treat in their cart. No wonder they state that some children do not know what some vegetables and fruits look like. Well anyways this is my soap box post and I think it is time to get informed on what we are eating and how it affects us. As I have found my way back to the healthy promise land I make sure I move everyday and eat food that is food. I am even getting better at not ingesting processed sugars! (Although you cannot really avoid sugar it is in EVERYTHING look at the packages y'all) Huzzah! I have too. I gotta think about my health and future child(ren)'s health. I want my family to make choices that are good for them. I know we cannot avoid junk food because it is there and by God or god (Big G or little g?) I grew up on it and dangit sometimes you want that milkshake from Fast Food USA that is filled with antifreeze and corn syrup and you cannot help it!!! But at least I will know what is going in my body and so will my family.
1. First of all I resolve to be better at posting on this little blog.
2. I also resolve to actually practice what I preach.
3. I didn't have internet for two weeks and I know that is know excuse but it really sucked.
(FYI it takes an act of god to get Comcast to install your cable or a husband that pretty much connected the cable himself since the technicianS that came were unable to do so! Long story there but no matter we got it now!)
4. Oh yeah we moved! We are still in Atlanta but different address. Well it happens when you rent a house and the housing market is hot hot hot (at least in the area we rented in). Yup the owners of said house decided to sell, so yours truly moved! Also we live near a DUNKIN DONUTS!!!!
I met the lady who actually baked the donuts for the commercial BOOM!
5. I am still trying to bust the sugars (but failed miserably today since I live near DUNKIN DONUTS!!)
6. I have plenty of posts I am excited about, recipes, how to plan meals, exorcise stories!!
7. Last but not least we are busy trying to get the new place situated so forgive me for about a couple of weeks if I don't do number 1 so much. Shhhhhhhhh
Well Thanksgiving has come and gone and now we are getting ready for Christmas (according to Target Christmas started in August). So raise your hand if you ate your weight in turkey, stuffing and all the sides. *Raises Hand!* Yeah me too. I try to have some constraint but it is so hard when food is so delicious. CURSES FOOD WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DELICIOUS! I pretty much gave myself a pass Thanksgiving week. I attempted to make a sad looking pecan pie but dang it tasted so good. My crust still looks horrendous and I even went to a cooking class! Remember how I said no sugar well that went bust last week. I ate nothing but sugar. It is freaking hard so I decided to limit my intake of sugar of once a week (very little like a taste). I cannot deny myself yet. I read an article that trying to give up sugar completely is like going cold turkey on heroin. *Picture Ewan McGregor going through detox in Trainspotting even with the creepy baby on the ceiling*
Yeah it is like that. So I am going to go easy on myself. Still avoiding white things, like PROCESSED SUGARS (maybe once a week), PROCESSED WHITE BREADS, PROCESSED WHITE PASTA, PROCESSED WHITE RICE, WHITE POTATOES, etc. Anyways here is what is going on in my Fatty Mcbutterpants life:
1. Ate like a fat fool for Thanksgiving TWICE. I had two Thanksgivings thanks to very nice amazeballs friends inviting us over for dinner and we had Thanksgiving on Saturday since Jonathan had to work that Thursday.
2. Back to eating healthy food.
3. Threw away junk food I bought with my mom, imagine that I bought Hostess powdered sugar donuts, marshmallows and crap.
4. Walking more this week and going back to Yoga ( I have not gone in a while YIKES!)
5. Oh yes I am very thankful my mom was here for Thanksgiving and made that delicious Tex Mex for us and now I know why I had gained so much weight after college. DAMN YOU DELICIOUS TACOS AND ENCHILADAS!
6. Be on the lookout for a new challenge soon!
I hope everyone really had a great Thanksgiving and you were able to spend time with family. Also it is Christmas time so don't pig out too much on baked goods. Okay well just a taste....
Hey there Ho there bleaders or roggers, what is a good combo word for blog readers?? Anyways I am here to announce my November Challenge and update you on what is going down with Delena. Hmm where to begin, where to begin....Oh so I have had a full two months of visiting family and even squeezed in a little known music festival by the name of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS. I went to the doctor. I was happy with some results and other results not so happy, like my triglycerides are still high but working on that, FREAKING OBESITY! My hormone levels seem to be balancing out thanks to crap I will admit it EXORCISING AND A HEALTHY DIET. Yeah amazingly enough if you don't eat crap and move around your body starts to heal itself. WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT??? I am also working on my mental health, yeah it is very important because as I have repeated time and time again yours truly is an emotional eater. Yeah this lady likes to get some eatin done when her emotions are all over the place. Now however I am beginning to think about it before I mindlessly munch on Pirate's Booty (a "healthier" version of Cheetos). Actually Pirate's Booty isn't so bad it only has 6 ingredients unlike Cheetos with probably has okay damn I just counted 21 ingredients!! So yeah processed junk foods out and whole foods in. Something I laughed about in my youth or never even heard of actually. Yeah case in point last night I made homemade mac and cheese with breaded pork chops. I used real cheese and whole wheat pasta and made the bread crumbs myself out of day old bread. I told Jonathan my mom made the same meal but with Velveeta Shells and Cheese and Shake'n Bake for the pork chops. (insert Cal Naught, Jr. and Ricky Bobby quotes here). Well I know that wasn't the healthiest meal I made but I made it all, I didn't open a box and dump. That right there my friend is why we are fat and Europeans are not. They don't have as much processed foods as we do. Anyways so that brings me back to another point, SUGARS!
