I completed my Resloution.. kinda

On Dec. 31 of 2010 I made the resolution that I will be mistaken for Jessica Alba. In other words.. I will lose the chub. I'm not a little girl, at 5'9" I tower over every female in my family and my structure is not petite in the least. So people say I hold my weight well, but it's bull. When I got pregnant with Raphael I put on 65 lbs. The day I delivered him I was 235 lbs. It seriously makes my stomach turn to type that. Let me also add here that this is really hard for me to talk about because my weight has bothered me my whole life. After I had my beautiful boy I dropped 20 lbs, you know baby+water+breastfeeding. And in the months following I slowly dropped 10-15 more, but by Dec 2010 I was hovering around 200 still.

Dec 24th 2010

                   I hate this picture so much, but for documenting purposes I suppose I can suck it up.

Well, I decided that instead of going on any diets or exercise plan that I was going to take tiny baby steps.

I would make better choices. Thats it. Thats the foundation of which all the weight loss will melt away from. And I did. Less fried food, less food period(my portions were way out of control), and you know little tweaks like that. The progress was slow but by April 2011 I had lost 15lbs. 

That month I had a horrible gall stone attack on which I was advised to remove my gall bladder immediately, but since I like all my organs in my body where they should be I decided an even more drastic diet change was in order. I googled up some guidelines on how to eat with gall stones and basically its low/no fat and low cholesterol. SO... NO fried food, NO fat diaries, no eating after 8:30, no processed food, no fatty meats, no cream sauces.. basically everything that made me happy. But, as I was cooking more and making my family eat how I was eating we were discovering that food can still be SO GOOD and healthy. I bought this cook book The Best of clean Eating which has the most awesome recipes.  Between May and Oct I lost 20 lbs more.

Oct 2011

Then in Oct My brother Matt and I watched this documentary Forks over knives. It goes into detail about how some Doctors are curing things like diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, even cancer using only a whole foods plant based diet. It's really amazing to see how we have made ourselves sick with animal proteins found in meat and diary. I suggest everyone at least watch it to see what incredible things a plant based diet can do for you. So after we had a family discussion we decided to transition into a plant based diet. Basically vegetarian to put it easily. And thats where we are now. We still eat meat when we want but 80% of our meals are meatless and we hope to totally transition over. The Forks over Knives website has a ton of cookbooks that are easy, I mean EASY to follow. I even made a vegetarian breakfast for my dad on Christmas morning and he said, "This is Awesome." So coming from my dad... Thats a major win.

Dec 26th 2011

So this is me last night getting ready to go out. I now hover around 155lbs.  And all that with ONLY diet changes. I haven't climbed one stair, walked one mile, or done one crunch. This is me changing ONE THING AT A TIME. Thats how you make lasting changes baby steps. My resolution for 2012 is not to hit the gym X amount of times, or work out X days a week, but just to be more active. I want to do something outside with my kids everyday and if not than something active inside. It's gonna be a challenge but little by little I will get there. I hope to lose 15 to 20 more lbs. and be the healthiest I've ever been. Heres to a healthy 2012!!

The Apple was better than the orange

I just got home from seeing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I will spare you my take on the film but what I can't stand , what makes my eyes roll far back into my head is when people say, "the book was better." OF COURSE YOU LIKED THE BOOK BETTER! Reading unlocks the door to the best movie theater you could ever visit. The one in your melon. The visuals are the strikingly real, like a memory. A picture that is painted so deep in your mind, you feel as if you're a character in a story that unfolds around you. Now... someone then decided that the images that came to life in their head were so AWESOME that everyone should see it that way. And they get a bunch of people together and they may take some creative liberties or painstakingly try to give life to every word but they make a film for all to see. Maybe you like it.. maybe you don't but it's a story retold... in another medium...sooo its not a book...it's not trying to be better than a book. Its a movie...it's not a book. Do we get that? Its like if I painted a picture about lyrics to a song, and someone whines, "I like the music better." SO from here on out the next time I see a movie adapted from a book, and you say the book was better, I give myself permission to kick you in the shin. That'll be better than the police report.