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Love Yourself Without Loving Your Fat.

06 Friday Mar 2015

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Hello Friday! I just somehow deleted a whole post I had almost finished and was trying to highlight a sentence to delete and moved off the page somehow and lost my whole post!!!  Ah that was a waste of about 45 minutes! It’s probably better though because it was a bit of a negative ramble. I was rambling about my weight loss woes. Or should I say lack of weight loss.

I have been dieting or at least saying I am dieting forever! I have had some success and I don’t really know how. I lost a lot of weight on HcG. It was really nice! I felt so good while taking the hormone and I was never hungry, I was happy and felt in control. However it is not something you can stay on forever and the diet is not recommended for a long time. That is what gets me discouraged. Can I not follow a plan with out giving myself a shot every morning? I did loose like 10 pounds in January when I was doing no carb, dry January. I don’t know if that is sustainable for me either… I know that sounds like an excuse, But that is probably my best option!

I just want to eat and drink what I want. Or at least what I like even if it has to stay in the realm of healthy foods. I don’t really have a problem eating too much but really I know what not to eat, but most of the time my struggle is what to eat. So I end up not eating, which is just as detrimental. Especially after limiting calories etc for such a long time. My metabolism is all whacked out probably. Don’t we all want to eat what we want as much and whenever?

We have to fuel our bodies. Not our emotions, or boredom. Eat to live not live to eat. If you are a serial dieter (or lifestyle changer) you have heard this all. Don’t skip meals, carbs are bad, you need the right food combination, eat this not that…..diet soda is the answer then no diet soda is the plague… I could go on but I won’t!

Bottom line is we have to fuel our bodies. Not with artificial sweeteners or chemical laden foods that come from a factory! All the “diet” foods are mostly chemical shit storms! Eat real food. Foods natural to the planet, meat…yes! Veggies….yes!!! Fruits???? Of course. No Ice Cream, right??? NO! Eat Ice Cream….full fat ice cream the kind that has just a few ingredients milk and sugar come from this planet natually. You just have to eat less than you usually do. I think a “normal” portion of ice cream is a 1/2 cup, which is about one scoop-ish, I think, depending on who is filling it. We need to stop being so crazy with our food and diets! Eat healthy, mostly fruits veggies and meats that are lowly processed, without added chemicals, sugars or salts etc.

But the biggest thing we, OK maybe just I, need to learn is to love ourselves! Don’t accept being unhealthy but accept and love yourself! You can love yourself without loving your fat! I saw a news story this morning about Kelly Clarkson. A Reported (who’s name I refuse to say because she does not deserve the publicity) was talking really mean things about Kelly. Kelly Clarkson’s response was beautiful. She said “Oh, and she’s tweeted something nasty about me? That’s because she doesn’t know me. I’m awesome! It doesn’t bother me. It’s a free world. Say what you will.” Kelly was not wavered in her own self because of what people think about her weight Clarkson added, “I’ve just never cared what people think. It’s more if I’m happy and I’m confident and feeling good, that’s always been my thing. And more so now, since having a family — I don’t seek out any other acceptance.” Awesome

We need to take lessons from Kelly Clarkson here! We can be awesome even if we don’t get the approval of everyone. I believe we can work on ourselves and think we are awesome even when we want to improve ourselves. Accepting yourself does not mean you don’t try to improve. We don’t have to shame ourselves into a diet or out of one. You are beautiful, I am beautiful. Be healthy! Some of us will have muffin tops and thighs that touch and still be beautiful. Have a healthy relationship with yourself! Forget what the magazines say you should look like and forget the haters who call you fat or who pick at your every flaw. Don’t be a hater of yourself or even of your body or your flaws! Those, you are working on. Don’t give up on yourself, keep working but love yourself in the process. If you don’t love yourself you will never break out of the unhealthy cycle! Don’t seek out acceptance from others; first you must accept yourself! First you must love yourself enough to change for good!

Be awesome! Love you! Love your body! Focus on what you want out of your life not what you don’t want! You want to be healthy so make healthy choices! Don’t define yourself with a number! I will stop being down and sad because of the number on the scale on this Friday morning! I will be awesome and make healthy choices and let the scale fall where it falls. I will not over indulge and will not use food to fuel my emotions I will use food to fuel my energy! I am awesome, I will continue to be awesome! I will not let the models who are airbrushed on the cover of magazines tell me I am not!

Thank you Kelly Clarkson for the inspiration today and thank you Sex Love and Washing Clothes blog for giving me an outlet on this Friday morning to refocus my negative energy, and hopefully inspire some of you to enjoy your awesomeness and accept that you are awesome, even if you don’t see the number you want to see on that fucking box you stand on that tells you your relation to gravity! Have fun my awesome friends! I will continue to have sex with my beautiful husband who loves me at any size, you do the same!

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Fuel Your Preparation

27 Friday Feb 2015

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Happy Friday! Today had a rough start. Actually it is not just today it is the lead up of the last week, no really month and today the results. I am in a weight loss challenge and it is weigh in day. I spoke a bit about it in my rant yesterday that this month has been rough. I had a great January, I lost almost 10 pounds! February I have gained half that back! This month weekly weigh ins have been up and down finishing off with today up 1.5 ish today from last week’s 2 pound loss, which was up 3 from my lowest!

I have been “off” this month. Diet has sucked, I haven’t been to the grocery store for a week and a half and I was on a roll cooking well and following my eMeals.com plan. But this last weeks has been rough. Schedule changes, and me being “off” has led to me not getting to the grocery store like I need to. Then the practices for baseball starting last week. Baseball and wrestling back to back, not to mention the Girl’s schedule has all lead to quick meals and crappy food choices… Bad food choices affect me in more than just on the scale. My brain chemistry is all out of whack! There has been a lot of research that I have read about food and brain chemistry. The problem being, I have read so much that the research kind of contradicts itself. And everyone’s brain is different and sometimes it seems one ingredient is causing the problem but a lot of food has a lot of stuff you just don’t know. Especially if you are going to restaurants, fast food, or premade meals. Which is why I tend to lean toward making everything from scratch but that takes planning and that is where I have slacked this month.

I feel bad because the Boy has been having a tough couple of weeks too. As previously stated, Baseball and Wrestling at the same time and I think he is affected by food the way I am. He won’t eat if he is not hungry but he doesn’t get that he has baseball at 5 then wrestling right after 6-8 and his sister has to be dropped off at 4 so even though he’s not hungry for dinner at 3:30 that is when he has to eat it. I think carbs or wheat or gluten is rough on him, just like me. He seems more flaky when he eats carb high foods. Last night he had a grilled cheese sandwich. Which is a favorite of his, but only ate less than half and it was just cheese with no extra meat like add for some extra protein to help him focus. He had a rough night last night. He was emotional (I think almost more than normal even) not focused. It was almost like he forgot that he is good at it! He was wrestling to not lose, not wrestling to win like he usually does. Yes he is the one on the mat so I can’t blame me but I blame me for not having fed him well this week. I know better than to have him eat a sandwich and crackers at lunch and then feed him grilled cheese for dinner, the day before they had pasta for dinner, no protein with it just pasta and he has had school lunch more than once this week which is always a bad choice for him… The Boy needs protein I know this it’s my fault. The Boy also needs to be responsible for himself as well. And I need to stop beating myself up but that is a different story…

Bottom line is I have failed to prepare all month! I have even failed on the Hubs this month, he has bought lunch this whole week. I have been too tired or have not had groceries to make lunch for him! It is time for me to get this shit together. Even if I have to go on the weekends to get groceries no more excuses! Feed your body right, and just pasta with butter is not a healthy meal to set your kids, husband or self up for success! Come on, Ruby, you know better than that!

This weekend is tournament day for the Boy and Dance Convention for the girl. Protein for breakfast. I will pack some meat and cheese slices for snacks for the Boy’s tournament for this weekend. The sugary or high carb snacks of crackers and chips are not a good choice to sustain the energy level they need! Same with the Girl. I need to pack her a snack bag for a convention same as the Boy they both need food that is easy to eat, not messy snacks and full of healthy nutrients for the day! I will also be applying oils and blending some focus and energy oil blend for them to apply throughout the day as well!Earn your body

You earn your life. What you put in you get out. It’s not just believing you can win it is preparing to. Part of the preparation to win is what your feed your body, or your kids bodies if you are the mom of young athletes. This weekend I will plan better and be ready and save on not having to buy all meals out. And then in our everyday life I will feed us all healthier meals. I will fuel my husband with lunches that will help him focus and sustain the energy that he needs to work as hard as he does. I am glad this month is over and it was a short one, as stated previously it was a rough one. It was like I was treading water to just stay up rather than actually swimming. I will in the words of Dory from Finding Nemo Keep Swimming. I need to reset my whole family! We will be healthier and happier. Mood and attitude in this house are definitely affected by poor nutrition! That is my department and I will be fixing it!

This is part of the Sex Love and Washing Clothes I am working on everyday! This is how I will be loving my family healthy and happy. We will have our nights of fast food but I think I am going to try to make it crock pot meals filled with nutritious ingredients, pre planned vs the grab and go food that really doesn’t work well for this family. I know this is sounding a little like I am taking all the blame for kids just needing to work harder or push through and be respectful but if they want to be the best and I know how much nutrition matters in my brain I need to give them the chance to succeed in the same way. Good enough is not good enough for this family of perfectionists! Maybe we need to work on self acceptance a little but in the mean time we will prepare to succeed in training, practice, the right mentality and nutrition! I will love myself and my family with healthy food! And the occasional fancy cake…but only occasionally!

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