Day 2, 3 and 4. Already behind! Day 100+

Well...starting again. I put on 20 pounds over the last year and a half since my car accident. Partly because I haven't had a car so it was hard to get places like the gym and to surf. But also because it was extremely depressing and lastly because I stopped taking diet pills.
I  determined to get back to my fighting weight (140 pounds) without help. Every time I've lost the weight in the last 15 years it was with help. Now I gotta figure out how to do it on my own. Since money has been tight with no vehicle it meant that I couldn't afford my allergy meds or diet pills. Yes it's a good thing to be off of both but the bad thing is that I tend to eat when I'm bored.  Lollipops seem to help especially in the afternoon but it would be nice not to need those either. Yes they are full of sugar but they only have 80 calories and last me an hour and curbs my craving to eat other stuff.
The other piece is that I'm not hungry when I eat a lot of the time. It takes a lot of self control to stop myself. Especially after 5pm when I know metabolism is at its slowest. I'm usually home and tired and my body wants a pick me up so it goes for junk and sugar. This is when the lollipops help the most. Gonna try to just have 2 a day from 5pm on for 30 days and then try to cut them out from there.
Its crazy how sugar can take over your life. I also think I need more fiber to help with the sugar. I heard that the sugar craving may be in part due to lack of fiber and since my meds make constipation a problem it may be making it even worse than that. Gonna try bran muffins and see if that helps too.
Okay. Here we go. Day 3. Keep up the good work!
Oh...I should mention how hard I workout. Surfing, yoga, swimming, weight room. I workout intensely for about 2 hours a day or more sometimes. I am not sitting on my ass doing nothing. I am currently the fattest person at yoga and it Pisses me off. You would never know that I've been there for 7 and a half years. It looks like I've been there 7 days!

What you don't see...m

What you didn't see from yesterday's food intake was the costco frozen yogurt, the 3 lollipops, and the handful of nasty easter candy plus the 10 crackers I had. Crazy right? Well its actually an improvement for me as of lately. Thats the problem. I'm hoping tracking it will help. I'm not sure if it's bored or depressed or craving causing it. I've never had my sugar intake this way. I have a feeling it's also thst since I took stimulants out my body is trying to replace it. Normally I would exercise and it would go away but since my transportation has been hit or miss I get stuck at home and stressed and then I eat sugar.

Today's food intake:

Breakfast: coffee, 2 trader Joe's pop tarts and 1 lollipop and an orange.
Lunch: goat cheese, crackers,  and an apple.
Dinner: sausage, homemade pretzel and green beans.
Snack: protein bar (Luna) and fruit

Although yesterday was better I know it has to change way more still. It'll be the first time in my adult life that I've changed it on my own. It all started with my knee surgery and went from there. Since I couldn't exercise like I wanted to and the doctors wanted the extra weight off my knee and I had no transportation. ..I found that metabolife worked for me. That was almost 20 years ago now. Every time I've gone off of it, I gain it back. Every time I go back on it, I lose the weight. I'm not even hungry. Just my body asking for what it thinks is missing...may e vitamin deficiency?  I know its not a protein thing which is what so many articles claim is the problem. I take iron, magnesuim, zinc, and b complex too.

Here goes today!

Starting over.....again

Well....here I am again. Posting another blog that I probably won't follow through with. Guess I'll start with how much things have changed.
Going on my 3rd month of being kicked out of my own home. Big fight in december and carols solution was to have me go back and forth between my moms and home when the kids aren't there. Made things harder not easier. No one else sacrificed anything but me.
Second. Finally got permission to start my own team! Yay! Except I have no idea how long it will take nor how to do it. But I'm gonna make it work somehow.
Third. I owe a bunch of bills and no money. Truck sucked up 2500 thus far which was the last of my settlement money. After next week I gotta hope that unemployment kicks in.
4th thing. I'm heavy and sick and in pain. I put on prob 25 or more pounds and it needs to come off now! Ive never been able to without diet pills. About a year and a half ago I finally got off diet pills and zyrtec d which has a stimulant in it. I have been on both for about 10 years. Same thing happened the last time I went off of them.
Its not that I'm hungry. Some of it I think is that with the meds I'm on my body is craving something to clean out my system. Sugar seems to be the thing it wants most. Even though I don't eat processed sugar that's what it wants. I'm giving myself til the end of may to take it off but I need to track what I eat. Its still calories in and out but I need to go back to way Way less after 5pm. Its the only thing that has worked before. Not sure how my body will react without the stimulants to help it along. But its gotta change. For now, this blog will be my tracking system. I'm not willing to weigh myself yet but I know that in 2 weeks I mustve put on at least 5 more pounds. My shorts BARELY fit now. Not happy.

Breakfast was 1 pop tart and 2 handfuls of sweet and salty trail mix and 5 small size peanut butter cups. The single bite ones not the regular. See what I mean?

Lunch will be 1/2 container mac and cheese and an apple.

Dinner is orange chicken and either green beans or peas...not sure how to do it early tho cuz practice goes til 530 or 545 and I don't get home until after 7pm. Guess I will figure it out.

Eggs, gettem local if you can

Found a few interesting facts about the "natural" part of eggs today. I am definitely a proponent of buying local if you can. I happen to live in an area where I can do that, it just isn't always cheap or easy. My plan for the year is to really get our home garden going in order to help this problem. Fruit trees are not cheap though so I'm actually going to try growing a few literally from seed from a "local" organic piece of fruit. Same with some of the other items that we are going to grow. This year has been crazy dry and we are in the middle of the worst drought I can ever remember here. If it floods next year we will have very little fruits and veggies. 

Anyway, eggs are very easy to buy locally here. If you can do it too, here's why you should.

http://io9.com/americans-why-do-you-keep-refrigerating-your-eggs-1465309529

http://io9.com/what-if-natural-products-came-with-a-list-of-ingredient-1503320184

Water water water....its everywhere, but not for long!

Ask anyone in my family and they will tell you that my 2 pet peeves are dehydrated people and the toilet paper roll being on backwards. I would say that about 99% of people dont drink enough water and it causes a variety of problems when houre just A LITTLE dehydrated.
The formula works like this....you should be drinking half your bodyweight I  ounces per day. So if you weigh 150 pounds you should be drinking 75 ounces of water a day or roughly 2.5 liters. There's a ton of information to back it up which I will post when im not typing from my phone. They Mayo clinic being a big one.
Headaches, diarrhea,  nausea, cramps, blurred vision, etc. Are just some of the symptoms it can cause. Did you know that if you dont drink any water for 3 or 4 hours that you are already partly dehydrated?  In athletes its 2 to 3 hours. YOU HAVE TO TRAIN/TEACH YOUR BODY TO HYDRATE PROPERLY. I'm sure some of you have heard that if your body is telling you that you're thirsty that youre already dehydrated. True. Don't wait for that to happen! You should have water with you 24/7 and be sipping off of it all day every day!
Part of what I'm trying to do is teach kids at a young age to learn to properly hydrate so that they can not only get more out of their body as an athlete but also so they won't suffer from some of the same problems their parents do. They are a generation that has been told that they will die younger than their parents for the first time in history! Nutrition, including hydration, plays a part in that.
Go drink some water!!! I'll be posting more on this subject,  dont worry!!

Movie Fed Up

Was warching Katie Couric this morning who is a part of the film Fed Up which comes out in theaters today. Its about the sugar epidemic in this country and how it is killing us. People would and will be shocked at how bad of a problem this is. But will people watch it? Will you pay 10$ to go to the movies to see this? Im guessing that most people won't or at least not the people who really need this kind of information.  When it is vastly cheaper to buy food thats bad for you, parents especially, dont think that it matters what you buy or what brand but as long as theres ENOUGH food on the table thats all that matters. Its insane. A lot more people have watched Supersize Me and Food Inc now that its on Netflix and Amazon Prime and we have had longer to digest how screwed up the corn industry and fast food industry are. But now we are talking about nearly THE ENTIRE FOOD INDUSTRY in America. Its all sugared up, all of it. One bowl of cereal is equal to 2 donuts! If youre not gonna see the movie, do the research. Avoid added sugar, read labels. The next generation is the first that is not slated to live longer than we are, and we are the only ones that can help to change that.

What it's all about. Why I'm starting this blog about all the crazy food info.

I'm a woman in my 40's and I've been a swim coach for 20 years now. I was a competitive swimmer my entire life and am still extremely involved in other sports as well. I surf, swim, practice yoga, and weight train daily but food seems to have the greatest impact on my life and my body. My allergies have gotten worse as an adult and my food allergies have gotten even worse than that. But it's not just about me. The athletes that I train have very little nutrition understanding and are really confused about what's good and what's bad and what to eat and what not to eat. That's the big reason why I wanted to start this blog. I'm not an expert, I'm just a lady with an opinion and trying to help decipher all the crazy information on food out there.
We are a culture that focuses on food for lots of reasons. It's social, we celebrate, we date, we train, we over eat, we have comfort food, movie food......and it goes on and on. But what do we need? What makes us stop craving? What are we missing? I'm hoping to share what I know and what I've researched and hopefully shed some light on it for my athletes, my self and hopefully for some others out there.