A spin on fast food and 'cheat days'

I just met a new friend who is very fit and does not believe in cheat days. I actually agree with him. When I gave in to revenge V Day chocolates or fried foods as of late I was not really satisfied. I also sometimes feel sick or imagine what that sludge and carbon or whatever is DOING (yes [!!!]) to my body. I have a completely different way of looking at food now and I am on my way to eliminating the clogging food completely. I have made mistakes in 2012 and I think I have snapped into this "my body is a temple' mentality actually from making these mistakes. I'm 40. I want to look young and have tons of energy. I don't want guilt, resentment, sluggishness or sleepiness from food or evil beverages.

On that note I saw a commercial tonight for a fast food burger with jalepeños on it. I felt emotional and so excited, I drove in tonight's blizzard to get it! I'm a nut job but I'm glad I did, because I took it home and took it apart first. Oh THIS is why I've lost a ton of weight since 2003 from banning fast food chains! The 'toast' was as big as my head with oil or/and butter on both sides making your hands gross. Then the inside of the toast is buttered and mayo-ed. Top that with four slices of jack cheese and the burger, which I actually liked because (yeah I ate beef) it was juicy and had that crust on the outside. Oh yeah there were those spicy, tangy jalapeños too. So this is what I did: Discarded everything except for the burger and peños and ate them in-between mixed greens. I don't feel sick but I wonder how many calories alone the other stuff is. You could definitely make a healthier version at home easy.

Another thing is I don't know if I can go back to meat again because Supersize Me and Food Inc. have scarred me for life. I actually thanked and apologized to the animal for it's sacrifice and possible abuse. That's who I am.

Thanks,

Smobergirl

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I made another sunshine in a glass smoothie:

1 peeled grapefruit
1 peeled lemon
1 peeled orange
1 peeled lime
1 cup water
Ice cubes
1 tsp ground flax seeds
1 tsp maca powder
1 tsp chia seeds
1 scoop Lemon Lime Amazing Greens Powder

Then for Lunch I made Giada Di Laurentis' white bean salad. It's meaty, craemy, refreshing, and delicious!

This morning I did Hip Hip Abs and bought a foam roller. You roll your legs on it to get the fascia moving and to massage out the knots. Sometimes your muscles scream but that's the point. It hurts so good! I'm still pondering wether I should keep The Asylum and/or get Zumba. However I'm happy with how HHA makes me look and feel so far and I sweat every day when I do it.

Speaking of pondering, should I get my bangs cut again?

Smobergirl

Par-tay!

I feel like such a square when it's 10:00 at night and I think it's 'naughty' to get an iced coffee and eat granola with yogurt in bed. Oh and I'm just about 99% better. Stupid flu. Well I may be awake all night but it IS Saturday! Woo! I am a huge dork, but it's rewarding not to be inebriated instead. In fact, I wouldn't want to be a hip-hopping fool (more dorkiness) the last five mornings at 8:00 am if I was drinking. On top of that, someone found me on that workout DVD website (there's a huge workout community on there) and she's doing a challenge starting in March, Biggest Loser-style, which I'll be doing. No coffee, booze, dairy, sugar, and fried foods at least. That Insanity voice (The workout, not the voices in my head. That's a different blog.) is nagging at me and I lost it last night and ordered pt. 2, The Asylum. Because I have no life. Actually besides the fact I have no life this is a great time to get out my tensions and maybe look buff by May while I'm on it. I have enough guilts and frustrations even though that good karma keeps showing up. Exercising like an animal and eating cleaner  I'm sure won't make my life worse. Ill also finally quit coffee and I'll see if I feel any different, which I admit I felt calmer drinking Teechino for those 3-4 days without coffee.

I think I have my wine  cravings at bay, at least until May. Hey I'm a poet. It's this exercise thing. It's more important than the cheap-thrill binge. Because you know when this middle-ager binges, she ain't want nuttin to do with working out for two days y'all. I also do a "Sliding Doors" thing in my head. It's the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow when when plays two different scenarios with her character, like a 'what if' plot. For example she trips in the Subway stairs and misses the train only to arrive late but still finding her loving fiance at her condo. Then it shows the same scene where she doesn't trip down the stairs to the train, and makes it home just in time to catch said fiance with another woman. So when I binge, it's a COMPLETELY different next day than if I didn't. Hint: The latter is usually the better next-day scenario. When I binge, I'm usually up at 1:00 pm wondering what I could had done with the last 5 hours or so, happy, carefree, being productive, living instead of 'dying'. You get the picture. I also have this cheeseball thing now when I make a blueberry smoothie on some smober mornings and say that's my healthy red wine. I may be dramatic but it keeps me going. I don't want to be miserable and make others so anymore. I drove past the club tonight where I hosted a big Best Of party in 2006 and I was drug out of the club early after oh, three glasses of wine at home before and maybe 4-5 more before I started hosting and 1-3 during. I remember paying to get my hair done for the event and I wore this slinky James Perse jersey number. I woke up around 5:00 am on my bed, face down, with my hair still up. I cried so hard I couldn't get back to sleep. Fudge now I'm crying. Okay fu.....dge-cicles! I was ashamed and what-ifed myself for the last six years. The club is close to where I live and I sink every damn time I pass it. This is why I want to get in great shape. Endorphins, lifestyle change, more karma. Parhaps a full-time job at something I love to do. I'm sick of being burned out. I was inspired by Adele who was on 60 Minutes just before the Grammy's this year and she said that she filed records in the back of a local store in England after her Grammy in 2011 and no one knew. There is a local shop here where an old co-worker of mine lasted there for about a week or two because he hated mopping. If Adele can file records I'll sure as heck mop. Sorry friend. I still love ya. It could be fun for me to do. And since I'm kinda a big deal still I could probably find a job at a record store easily. :p I'm such a prima donna.

Kitty is great. He gets a little vet visit next week. He only looks lethargic in this photo. This is him just being his lazy self. I love my little man. Sir Rubber Kitty apparently! I can't believe how amazing some creatures are.

I'm into these Breakfast Smoothies from my trip to Arizona now ever since I got back. You mix oats with berries, and it's best with yogurt and honey. It's like a granola shake. Then I add all of my weird seeds and powders. It's pretty amazing and I feel more satiated. Highly recommended. I still also swear by the green powder which you can find in any health food store. Amazing Greens is what I'm consuming at the moment. Just mix it in a big thing of cold water with lemon. Up there, that's Michael Simon's wife Lizzie's granola I made today. It has no sugar, just honey and cinnamon. Again, highly recommended.

So party on. I may play Words With Friends (it's Scrabble) on my late night buzz and do more dancing manana. Calves feel sooooo goood. And when I say sooooo goood I mean sore.

Smobergirl

Still getting over the flu.

My fever broke days ago but I'm still a little congested. What doesn't help: The mocha stracciatella gelato I had with my healthy home-made tomato and white bean soup. So that has to go in the trash. It put a brick in my stomach, and I had only about 1/3 a cup. No more bad sweets. This blog is about food and feeling. What does help: Green drink powder. I love Amazing Greens lemon-lime flavor.

I need new photos. Bandit is being quite photogenic the last two days. He acts like he's back to normal. He just has a wire in his jaw and a few less teeth. We go back to the vet next week to get looked at, but he's playing and rough housing with his toys. Good boy.

I also made a colorful blueberry breakfast smoothie this morning. Again, I'm sorry I didn't take a picture. But it looks berry-licious.

1 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 cup 0% fat yogurt
1 cup water
1/3 cup raw oats
1 tbs honey
1 tsp chia seeds
1 tsp flax seeds
1 tsp maca powder
1/2 packet frozen acai (Sambazon)


It's filling and delicious. So is that soup! Here's the link:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/hearty-tomato-soup-with-lemon-and-rosemary-recipe/index.html


I did yoga this morning and Hip-Hop Abs yesterday. Through all that has happened I really want to get back into Insanity. I even ordered the next set of DVDs: The Asylum. The military drills in Insanity really get the tension out as well as blast belly fat. My lung capacity grows and I see my abs contract as I breathe. It's pretty sexy. At least for now with this cold the yoga, smoothies, and green drinks are helping incredibly with my mood. Go maca!

Smobergirl

Getting over the flu.

This was a nasty one and I hardly get sick. I wouldn't be surprised if worry and stress had something to do with it. So I'm eating my way better. For the last three days I've been putting in a fresh 1-inch knob of ginger into my smoothies. Ming Tsai (celebrity chef) cooked a big immune booster soup on Dr. Oz this morning and he swore by ginger, jalapenos, garlic, and shiitake mushrooms. Since this blog is about food and mood I want to elaborate on garlic. From personal experimenting, I only smell garlic through my pores when I eat it roasted. When I started on the raw eating kick I ate a ton of raw garlic and no complaints from myself nor my friends and co-workers, unless they were just being polite, but I don't think I smelled bad. Unless you beg to differ please tell me. About a month ago I ate 1/2 of a roasted garlic bulb and the next day my boyfriend said I smelled like ammonia. I was scared to eat any garlic for weeks. However raw garlic has saved me from many a cold (especially with tomatoes, raw or in a soup). I also have all the ingredients except for garlic for Giada's white bean and tomato soup recipe, so I may have to grab some. The cold does seem to be on it's way out though. I did get a cold sore under my nose on Valentine's Day. Great timing! I was so fed up with the illness that I sweat my butt off this morning. I am attempting to sweat it out. I don't feel any worse. Don't call me stupid. (Yes that is A Fish Called Wanda reference) Then I made a blueberry, pear, mixed greens, cilantro, ginger, and coconut oil smoothie. I also ate a hard boiled egg. Ha ha speaking of going out to get garlic the new Harmon's downtown just opened so I have a strategy. I'm going to shop at the newest Whole Foods in hopes that it will be dead and everyone will be at the new Harmon's. It did mellow out after about three months after opening though. I still feel clever.

Well, here's to health and remember: Food IS medicine! Take care of yourself, sick or not.

Smobergirl

Sick.

Bandit fell off the balcony (and frankly he's doing much better than I am right now!!) after my 7 1/2 years of paranoia living three floors up from ground. The little daredevil. What is worse actually is that I was out of town and the guy I'm dating was watching him. He looked for the cat for two hours then rushed him to the animal hospital at 2:30 am. Poor poor guys, well after freaking out for a day and probably giving myself the flu for three (still got it) he's rolling around, jumping, pooping, eating, scratching the door frames. Basically everything's back to normal except for his mouth. All that got damaged were teeth and a hair-line crack in his jaw which is wired (just the bottom). I still freaked out and drank even MORE iced coffee, sugar, salt, sausage (yeah), and sweets more than ever. Emotional eating, is it necessary? Because hot, steamy, brothy soups (you thought I was going to say sex) are just as delicious. I actually go out of my way to get Thai noodle soups when I do get sick. The bf read my mind and brought one over yesterday. He's really the best. So that's the latest. I'm going back to smoothies in the morning. Bandit gets mushy food for 2-4 weeks. I did gulp three cans of coconut water last night. My sore throat and clogged nose kept waking me up every two hours and I got a case of coconut water from Costco in the fridge, so I kept gulping those down. Tonight it's Nyquil. I'm not a conventional medicine gal but I want to be knocked out tonight. Speaking of the boyfriend insisted I get Zicam and it worked yesterday, but it didn't cure my soreness or clogged nostrils at night. I found Ricola Dual Action drops which are pretty great. Spicy food helps.

I hesitated in posting because I slipped.

I'll give you an update later. Everything is fine ESPECIALLY the cat. "What fall"? It is actually pretty amazing. My sympathies to my guy and this all will pass.

Love,

Smobergirl