So Quinn and I committed ourselves to each other for this diet. We came together and married ourselves in this diet. Well I can say that Quinn has been cheating on me with multiple carbohydrates. It's sad really. I never though that I of all people would be cheated on and it hurts. It really hurts. I, who have never strayed since we took our vows of low carbery am very disappointed. Today I found out the worst...she cheated on me with not one but 4 cookies! Who would do that? I bought her low carb ice cream and bars, but she still couldn't hold back. So needless to say on week 4 I am the only honest non carb eater. The funny part was that in week 1 she said to me, "Wow you are complaining a lot! It would just be easier to be on this diet by myself." That really hurt too because look who is the cheater. Hey, I may complain a bit but at least I don't cheat.
Brittany
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
It's Never Too Late
Well I am at work. I was very stressed out this morning, had bad cramps and just didn't feel good in general. So we had some amazing looking cookies lying around and i had....4. After the first one i thought, well I already blew it and had one, so I had another one. I already blew it and had 2 so maybe one more would top it off...and i just kept going. I could have kept going too, but I stopped myself. My sister gave me a little scolding and a reality check. She said, it is a lot easier to burn off 1 cookie than 4. This is so true. I always do this. I mess up once and then I just feel like oh well might as well go all out. Let me just say it is never to late to start over and put yourself back in a good mindset. End the day on a good note, wake up and try again!
Quinn
PS at least i didn't eat a pizza...which is what i really really want
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Break Through
I am so happy I broke the 190 barrier!! Woo Hoo. Man I just thought I was never going to get past it! I am not far past it, just 189 but hopefully I can stay below. I promise myself that when I get to 180 I am going to get myself a massage so I am really looking forward to that. I made the best chicken soup today.
Throw everything in a crock pot on high and leave it for 8 hours.
28 oz of diced or stewed tomatoes
1 clove of garlic crushed
3 cups (or more) of chicken broth
1 can tomato paste or 1 cup of tomato sauce
1 cup salsa
2 tblspns cumin
either 1 can of green chilies or you can get a can of chilies in adobo sauce and take 1 chili and cut it up and add it with a little sauce (freeze the rest of the chilies so you can use them later, they are really strong)
4 chicken breasts cut in half
This is a recipe from my Aunt Kate. You can also add a can of corn and black beans to make it thicker and eat it with tortilla chips. Since we are off carbs those are out of the question, but this soup is still amazing!!
For Dessert:
1/2 cup of carb smart vanilla ice cream
you would not believe how much ice cream Britt can shove in a 1/2 a cup!!
Throw everything in a crock pot on high and leave it for 8 hours.
28 oz of diced or stewed tomatoes
1 clove of garlic crushed
3 cups (or more) of chicken broth
1 can tomato paste or 1 cup of tomato sauce
1 cup salsa
2 tblspns cumin
either 1 can of green chilies or you can get a can of chilies in adobo sauce and take 1 chili and cut it up and add it with a little sauce (freeze the rest of the chilies so you can use them later, they are really strong)
4 chicken breasts cut in half
This is a recipe from my Aunt Kate. You can also add a can of corn and black beans to make it thicker and eat it with tortilla chips. Since we are off carbs those are out of the question, but this soup is still amazing!!
For Dessert:
1/2 cup of carb smart vanilla ice cream
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I Just Keep Licking Things!
My parents were here last week and I did have a few slip ups, but I am back on the wagon this week. Even with my bread binge and a piece of cake i am still 6 pounds down. I am having trouble breaking past 190. I just seem to hang there. I am hoping that this week I will. I have started off good too, and then today there was oreo cookie cake with whip cream frosting. I cut the cake and didn't have a piece. Then when I was putting it away I saw the spatula. It had that whip cream oreo frosting alllll over it. Before I knew what I was doing the spatula was in my mouth!! Oh No! It was so amazing, i wanted more. That is why you can't slip up and lick the spoon or put the spatula in your mouth. It is like crack. I wanted more so so bad, but I didn't have more, even with the sweet taste in my mouth.
Quinn
PS
I am obsessed with taco salads. I swear all I want is taco meat, cheese, salsa and an avocado on salad...so so good. And I just got done reading the Hunger Games series and I highly recommend it! Very good, can't wait to see the movie (don't let me have any popcorn :) !
Quinn
PS
I am obsessed with taco salads. I swear all I want is taco meat, cheese, salsa and an avocado on salad...so so good. And I just got done reading the Hunger Games series and I highly recommend it! Very good, can't wait to see the movie (don't let me have any popcorn :) !
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Easy Way Out
After I long hard night at work I came home to put up my feet and peruse all of the junk mail that we got for the day. I found The South Bay Monthly which is a magazine advertising all of the great deals in the area that I live in. As I started flipping through I noticed something pretty funny. There the bright yellow coupon glowed with the words "$500 off Laser Liposuction". I'm thinking to myself, wow if I have a $500 off coupon how much is the actual procedure? Then I started to think, hell this could be my easy way out, I mean this magazine is promising that this it is "virtually painless". That is when I snapped back into reality and realized that I had just had a very long day that was making me crazy. I don't know what was more ridiculous the stereotypical old man white "doctor" or the coupons. Glad it was only a brief thought because lets be honest, I want to be real.
Brittany
Brittany
Friday, March 9, 2012
F is for...
I was going to write this the other day but I was so exhausted so i am hoping the inspiration is still fresh.
Well I had some really bad news this week. I didn't get into the graduate program that I applied to. I mean I worked so hard on my application. I had great recommendations, a great personal statement, the only thing I can think that I could have done better was maybe get a better GRE score...which I didn't do that bad. I was so so devastated (still am). I just wanted to cry. It was hard. My parents came in Sunday night and Monday I stayed home from work. I was looking on my phone and saw an email titled Admissions Decision. My heart stopped...I mean it can't be good if you get an email. It said Dear Quinn, you are just not good enough, sincerely the dean of admissions. Well, it didn't say that exactly but it might as well have...there is no good way to give rejection. It was the worst time to find out. I was excited to see my parents and hang out and be together and then all of a sudden there was a dark cloud over my day. I didn't want to tell anyone, I needed to just think about it and take it in. Really I needed to just be alone and cry a little, but I was around all of my family. I didn't want the twenty questions, what is plan B, what about this, what about that. So I just kept it to myself. Of course I was acting weird, I couldn't even try to act happy, I just tried to fade into the background or get left behind so i could have a minute to cry...which is bad because once you start you don't want to stop and then you have that lump in your throat like you can't swallow and the tears are right on the edge of spilling over and causing a flood. So I wallowed and kept it to myself. I know everyone thought i was just being a moody brat. The next day I was actually happy to go to work to be busy and not think about anything. I was still feeling bad though so I did the unthinkable. I turned to bread to drown my sorrow. I bought a loaf of garlic Parmesan bread from the Home Boy Industry http://homeboy-industries.org/ booth at the farmers market. Of course everyone knows I am on a diet and that I have been really strict about it so I told them I was getting it for my family. Secretly I was thinking that if I eat this delicious bread I will feel better and it will soak up all of my sorrows. I went back to my cubicle and shamefully ripped off a chunk of the bread. I knew I would have to answer to my sister, but i felt like I needed it. I have to say it was the best bread in the world. Soft, the outside had the salty flavor of Parmesan and there were random gewy pieces that had whole cloves of garlic, Yummy! I had a big hunk of the bread and I feel like it made me even more hungry even though I had already eaten lunch. That is the great thing about this diet, I have never felt hungry. The protein, fat and veggies fill me up quick so I was surprised at how much bread i ate before i was satisfied. Needless to say the bread did not soak up my sorrows, in fact it expanded them making me feel sad..and bloated. Later that night I figured I had already messed up so i had some caramel ice cream and three cookies..a little overboard. So long story long, I am back on the wagon with the diet and still a little depressed. I need to do some soul searching and figure out my next move. I realize that you cannot drown your sorrows in bread, in fact it makes the situation worse because you feel physically bad as well as mentally exhausted. Moral of the story, stick to the diet and try not to fail at life! It's never too late to start over!!
Quinn
God is Good!
Well I had some really bad news this week. I didn't get into the graduate program that I applied to. I mean I worked so hard on my application. I had great recommendations, a great personal statement, the only thing I can think that I could have done better was maybe get a better GRE score...which I didn't do that bad. I was so so devastated (still am). I just wanted to cry. It was hard. My parents came in Sunday night and Monday I stayed home from work. I was looking on my phone and saw an email titled Admissions Decision. My heart stopped...I mean it can't be good if you get an email. It said Dear Quinn, you are just not good enough, sincerely the dean of admissions. Well, it didn't say that exactly but it might as well have...there is no good way to give rejection. It was the worst time to find out. I was excited to see my parents and hang out and be together and then all of a sudden there was a dark cloud over my day. I didn't want to tell anyone, I needed to just think about it and take it in. Really I needed to just be alone and cry a little, but I was around all of my family. I didn't want the twenty questions, what is plan B, what about this, what about that. So I just kept it to myself. Of course I was acting weird, I couldn't even try to act happy, I just tried to fade into the background or get left behind so i could have a minute to cry...which is bad because once you start you don't want to stop and then you have that lump in your throat like you can't swallow and the tears are right on the edge of spilling over and causing a flood. So I wallowed and kept it to myself. I know everyone thought i was just being a moody brat. The next day I was actually happy to go to work to be busy and not think about anything. I was still feeling bad though so I did the unthinkable. I turned to bread to drown my sorrow. I bought a loaf of garlic Parmesan bread from the Home Boy Industry http://homeboy-industries.org/ booth at the farmers market. Of course everyone knows I am on a diet and that I have been really strict about it so I told them I was getting it for my family. Secretly I was thinking that if I eat this delicious bread I will feel better and it will soak up all of my sorrows. I went back to my cubicle and shamefully ripped off a chunk of the bread. I knew I would have to answer to my sister, but i felt like I needed it. I have to say it was the best bread in the world. Soft, the outside had the salty flavor of Parmesan and there were random gewy pieces that had whole cloves of garlic, Yummy! I had a big hunk of the bread and I feel like it made me even more hungry even though I had already eaten lunch. That is the great thing about this diet, I have never felt hungry. The protein, fat and veggies fill me up quick so I was surprised at how much bread i ate before i was satisfied. Needless to say the bread did not soak up my sorrows, in fact it expanded them making me feel sad..and bloated. Later that night I figured I had already messed up so i had some caramel ice cream and three cookies..a little overboard. So long story long, I am back on the wagon with the diet and still a little depressed. I need to do some soul searching and figure out my next move. I realize that you cannot drown your sorrows in bread, in fact it makes the situation worse because you feel physically bad as well as mentally exhausted. Moral of the story, stick to the diet and try not to fail at life! It's never too late to start over!!
Quinn
God is Good!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Burgers Galore
I have been sticking with Phase 1 very well with no slip ups. The only thing that has helped me through is none other than the double double from In-N-Out. You can order the "double cheeseburger" aka double double protein style and it will just come wrapped in lettuce and whatever toppings you want on it. Sad to say that in the last 5 days I have consumed 4 double doubles. Technically without the bun they are around 400 calories each, so not bad, but for some reason I feel like I am cheating on my diet with them. Maybe because they are so good. If you have never had In-N-Out come to California immediately if not sooner and get yourself a double double. AMAZING!
Brittany
Brittany
Friday, March 2, 2012
I Licked It
Today was a hard day at work, very stressful in general. Then one of our kind therapists brought me a yummy pecan caramel candy bar...which i LOVE. She didn't know i was on a diet so I just said thanks and took it. i opened it, I smelled it, and I broke it apart and watched the caramel ooz out. Then disaster struck, I put it on my tongue. Oh god oh god, the sugar, I want it. I called out for my co-worker friend i share a room with and she came running. As she ran in I basically yelled TAKE IT, TAKE IT, I licked it, but just TAKE IT hurry!! Bless her soul she immediately picked it up and popped it in her mouth, crisis averted. phew. i had to fan myself for a minute.
I ended the day by taking myself to a violent movie. First time I have ever gone to a movie alone.
Quinn
I ended the day by taking myself to a violent movie. First time I have ever gone to a movie alone.
Quinn
Withdrawals
Some people are addicted to drugs or cigarettes, well I am addicted to food. It is so bad. I guess I should rephrase that...I am addicted to all of the foods that you shouldn't eat. Today was bad as I was driving home from work at about 10pm I had a freak out. I called Quinn and said I want a cookie....NO I WANT 1000 COOKIES!!! NO I WANT SOME COFFEE CAKE!!! I had to break into the gum in my purse. Technically we aren't allowed to have gum because they say it will lead to other temptations, but I had no choice I was freaking out. Basically I was having withdrawal symptoms from all my favorites. So to solve all my problems I came home and ate bacon for dessert
Exibit A B and C of me not feeling too happy about having bacon for dessert instead of cake.
Brittany
Getting sick of meat yet? Only for dessert!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Training Trials/Different Strokes
Today we had an all staff training. I didn't bring any food except for a snack because they usually have something with a salad which I am fine with. Well they only had pasta and sandwiches. I took a couple sandwiches and just ate the meat and veggies off, which was pretty good. Every presenter handed out candy and chocolate so there was a pile on my table all day...no big deal. Then the cookies come out. i mean these are white chocolate macadamia nut cookies 4 inches in diameter and I know how good they are. i have had them many times. I could smell the combination of sweet nut and chocolate. I wanted it, I almost justified it to myself too thinking life is too short, what is one cookie going to do, but i didn't have any...i thought about breaking off just a piece, but i didn't! I am looking at the bigger picture which is a healthier me. I don't think i got in enough veggies today, but i am lucky i stayed on the wagon at all. Do you know how hard it is being at an extremely boring training with cookies and candy right in front of you?
Another funny story. I was at a stoplight coming home from downtown LA. It was a really long light and there was a bus blocking my lane. i started to look around and I noticed a guy with his back to me on the sidewalk with a huge bag. i thought it was a little weird, but whatever. As i kept watching him he took his jeans off. No big deal he had boxers on, whatever. I just thought to myself maybe he is a traveler changing his pants for the evening, I mean it is a really major street so an odd choice of dressing locations, but whatever. I kept watching him. The next thing I know he whips his boxers off, butt naked!! I could not believe it and I could not stop starring. A couple of people on the street screamed and went on with their business, but most people didn't pay it half a glance. He bent over :( grabbed another pair of pants and took his time putting them on. I mean I don't take that much time trying on clothes in a dressing room, let alone changing on a major street in LA. I just laughed to myself and was happy to go on my way when the light was green. Different strokes for different blokes!
Another funny story. I was at a stoplight coming home from downtown LA. It was a really long light and there was a bus blocking my lane. i started to look around and I noticed a guy with his back to me on the sidewalk with a huge bag. i thought it was a little weird, but whatever. As i kept watching him he took his jeans off. No big deal he had boxers on, whatever. I just thought to myself maybe he is a traveler changing his pants for the evening, I mean it is a really major street so an odd choice of dressing locations, but whatever. I kept watching him. The next thing I know he whips his boxers off, butt naked!! I could not believe it and I could not stop starring. A couple of people on the street screamed and went on with their business, but most people didn't pay it half a glance. He bent over :( grabbed another pair of pants and took his time putting them on. I mean I don't take that much time trying on clothes in a dressing room, let alone changing on a major street in LA. I just laughed to myself and was happy to go on my way when the light was green. Different strokes for different blokes!
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