BlueRose

So guess what I got as my holiday gift from my awesome aunt? Sprouted lentils and sprouted mung beans. SHE IS PSYCHIC. <3 <3 <3 <3

Stomach in amazing amounts of pain. I don't know if it's just being super finicky, I ate something off, I ate too much of something, I don't know what. I do know that I look forward to going to the supermarket tomorrow to buy some nice, healthy food because I think my body is happiest on a raw diet with wheat and gluten being sometimes foods. Trying to learn what my body likes and doesn't like in terms of food is a serious pain...no pun intended. I had a serious amount of Gardein beefless tips then the veggie parm casserole thing...maybe it's rebelling? I'm going to go drink tea and pray it goes away....

Every time I have to listen to the uneducated claiming vegans are emanciated and don't get enough protein, I just send them pictures of you. Seriously. Thanks for being such an awesome role model.

I love this advice. The sole thing I am EVER tempted by is chocolate. I find that by having enough healthy versus unhealthy sources of it curbs that craving. I also notice that the more healthy food I eat, the less likely I am to crave unhealthy food.

Thank you!! I am trying. I HATE this time of year with a passion, but if there's anything that gets me through it, it's the right foods and staying active. Usually around this time I am gaining weight, not maintaining or losing. So I am really freakin' grateful I am finally no longer undoing a full year's worth of work!

So on Saturday before I left, I did Kenpo Cardio Plus. Great workout!! I even ate healthy food along the way, too. And I got there and found out the huge amounts of food my mom had made for me? She had left it at home. All I had to eat while I was there were bagels, pasta, the double chocolate chip cookies I made, and some veggie lentil soup. Oh yeah, and some small oranges and cucumbers. That's it. D: Naturally, not enough. So I ate a few more cookies than planned, but the bagels and pasta killed me. I woke up on Sunday night in the middle of the night in amazing quantities of stomach pain. Two days in a row of wheat products did me in. I spent my day today eating at the Organic Garden in Beverly, all raw organic food, 99% vegan. I eat of the 99%. I am also freakin' EXHAUSTED, and my head is pounding. I'm guessing 60% of it is dehydration and the rest is just my body feeling amazing amounts of ick after eating certain foods and types of foods after subjecting it to all of that healthy goodness it loved so much. Also, the six hour car ride yesterday killed me. I'm going to do a morning workout tomorrow, plus an evening if I can manage it. Good news, though: I didn't eat to the point where I was full or worse, I ate to the point of comfort. I've long found that if you indulge, indulging to excess will not help.

How does everyone know everyone's names?? He knows me via Facebook. Correct!

Oh, I'm WAY too visual. Baby Herc

Thanks! I love doing new things with food.

WOOOO! He's a coach! Booyah! I gotta order more stuff from veganproteins, speaking of which. I'm down to three of those VegaSport protein bars in my box and I'm kinda addicted.

Thank you! Results are slow but the fact that I'm even getting them around this time of year is phenomenal. Breaking old patterns, YAY!

New pic

Okay! I have some progress pics. The changes are subtle, it's only been a little over a month of P90X plus I was sick for two weeks. But I can see a diff: Before: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/Pre-P90X10-10-201b.jpg After: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xd.jpg Before: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/Pre-P90X10-10-2011.jpg After: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xc.jpg http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xb.jpg http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xa.jpg My arms are definitely more toned. Those are honestly the hardest for me to tone along with my glutes, so the fact that there's progress makes me want to do the happy dance. I'm also seeing the ab definition again, something I was starting to lose after I lost the 24 or so pounds. I'll take another set in a month's time.

Okay! I have some progress pics. The changes are subtle, it's only been a little over a month of P90X plus I was sick for two weeks. But I can see a diff: Before: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/Pre-P90X10-10-201b.jpg After: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xd.jpg Before: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/Pre-P90X10-10-2011.jpg After: http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xc.jpg http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xb.jpg http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy74/TeaAddictedGeek/2011-12-2340daysP90Xa.jpg My arms are definitely more toned. Those are honestly the hardest for me to tone along with my glutes, so the fact that there's progress makes me want to do the happy dance. I'm also seeing the ab definition again, something I was starting to lose after I lost the 24 or so pounds. I'll take another set in a month's time.

Gah. What kind of sick world do I live in when my contact lenses aren't even vegan?

Food log so far: Breakfast: 1 scoop chocolate Vega Whole Meal Optimizer, 1 scoop chocolate Sunwarrior warrior protein, one small banana, 1 cup mint chocolate soy milk in a blender with ice. Snack: 1 toasted Ezekiel bread with natural PB. Lunch: the leaning tower of baby spinach, kale, alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, roasted salted pepita seeds, 1/2 avocado, oil free hummus, diced cucumbers, and Annie Organic's Goddess dressing. Snack: 1/2 grapefruit, 1 Lulu's raw chocolate and almond bar. Given it's almost Christmas when I will be chowing down on vegan eggplant parm (my guily pleasure made with Daiya cheese OM NOM NOM) I am tempted to do something that's a treat tonight but don't want to overdo it. Hm. Dinner: went with Tofurky hickory smoked "turkey" with homemade garlic aioli with baby spinach on toasted slices of Ezekiel bread. Had four double chocolate chip cookies I made. They were small. And I had to test to make sure they were okay for my relatives to consume.... Workouts: Morning: Tony's One on One Fountain of Youth yoga. I love it, 45 min of P90X yoga versus 90. <3

Crunchy and starchy-tasting. Very satisfying but you need to eat a ton of them to feel full. Baby Herc I sprout them. Literally. Baby Herc Instructions please!

Crunchy and starchy-tasting. Very satisfying but you need to eat a ton of them to feel full. Baby Herc No, I mean where. How do you find them. Like, literally.

I am CONSTANTLY getting comments on how healthy my food looks, total strangers from the different companies on my floor stop, stare, and ooh and ahh. It's like they've never seen people eat healthy food. I prepare it fresh, so they watch me chop up the cucumbers, add the kale...it's like they've never seen real food before.

I'm prepping for P90X2! Doing the plus version to get myself in good shape. But their meal plan is pretty damned sweet.

Love P90X! Currently doing the plus version myself

I'm @TeaAddictedGeek! *follows*

What's that dressing? Annie Organics Goddess dressing. <3 <3 <3 <3 https://annies.alice.com/products/1276096

AHHH! My office is crazy, but it serves me well. Apparently they got an edible arrangement they have in the kitchen to share. It's made up of fruit and...KALE Someone actually watched me take off the kale, chop up the strawberries for a salad and was like...what is that stuff? I didn't know it was edible. It's KALE. You poor, sorry, deprived people. D: Enjoying my apple, strawberry, and kale salad with lite balsamic vinaigrette. OM NOM NOM