Back on Track

Dear Readers,

Sorry it has been so very long since I have posted! I was student teaching this semester and attempting to graduate from college. I DID IT! I graduated this past Saturday! Woohoo!! In the whirlwind of grades, lesson planning, projects, and stress, I gained some weight this semester. Quite honestly, I was scared to look, and didn't. If I had to guess I'd say I got up in the upper 170's. I say this based on how my body felt (heavy) and how my clothes fit. I have been out of school for about two weeks now and have been juicing. I was trying to lose some weight before graduation. I DID! I was juicing 2-3 times a day and doing 2 a days in the gym! I lost down to 168!

Hey, that's not bad at all! I know I didn't actually weigh myself, but I definitely lost AT LEAST 6 pounds, but I feel more like I lost 10 or more. I feel lighter, my clothes fit better, and altogether, I am just happier! :)

I am going to continue in my weight loss journey now. I am aiming to be at my  target weight by the end of the summer: 150! Yet I am secretly hoping to be at 145! 145 is the maximum weight for my height to be considered "not overweight." A lot of people have been like, you don't need to lose that much. I am NOT trying to be a stick. But I am SICK of going to a doctor and feeling like when he writes the number down, that he is actually writing in big bold letters STILL OVERWEIGHT.

I am ready to change. And have been ready! So here we go! I weighed myself yesterday. My starting weight loss weight is 168! That's 18 pounds for my goal!! Lets do this!!

I will keep you updated this summer on my progress.

If you have any juicing stories, and would like to share e-mail me! You can even be a guest speaker!

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Love,

Rebecca :)

Excuses Excuses

Dear Readers,

I must apologize for not writing in so long. My life has been crazy with student teaching and being sick. I am FINALLY feeling much better!!

I don't have much to report on the weight loss front. However, I can tell you, that through juicing, I lost 11 pounds, and when I stopped juicing constantly, because of money issues, adding one juice a day in, has helped me maintain my 11 pounds.

Because of my internship, I am not able to walk around drinking juice all day. I make no money doing this and I can't carry a juicer with me. Therefore, as of this morning, I have decided to combine my original weight loss program, that brought me from 200 pounds to 165 pounds, Advocare, and add some juicing with it.

I am going to order my 24 Day Challenge sometime today (once I remember my user id on the website.) I know these two weight loss ideas work, so what will happen if I combine them? I am hoping for a massive change!!

I will keep you posted as the journey begins!

I only have 5 more weeks until graduation!! So I will be writing more, I hope!

Thanks for all your love and support,

Becca

Juicing and How It Works

My friends,

It is my joy to write to you and to continue sharing my experiences with you. I have been juicing now for almost three weeks. Not straight, and I wish I could tell you I stick to it gun ho, but I haven't.

I will tell you I believe in this!!

This is how I started, and how I continue. I began with taking a 10 day cleanse. I lost 10 pounds. I juiced and ate my vegetables and fruits. This is a great way to start! I actually encourage you to start with eating and juicing. This will get tough. The first two days, you will be strong. You will want to continue and fight. By day three, four, and five, life will get tough. You will want all of your favorite foods!! That's when you need to find a healthy food that you love eating. For me, it's guacamole. Fresh guacamole is good for you, its super tasting, and filling!! It just must be ALL fresh fruits and veggies.

Your body will grow to love these foods. This will be all you want eventually. It will take time though. I can honestly say, I don't crave foods the way I used to.

I will tell you where I fail. I recently went to a party where the food consisted of everything I was not supposed to eat. In fact, there was only one thing I could eat there. What do you think I did? I cheated. I hated myself. And then, it became like starting over. I started having cravings because I allowed myself to get pulled into the sweety richness fake unhealthy foods offer.

Don't cave!! Be tougher than me!! KEEP GOING!!

Because I was bad, I decided to do Juice Fasting when possible. Right now, it's this weekend. It's the only time I am home all day to do it.

I'll let you know how two day fasting goes!!

Good luck all!!

E-mail me with questions, and subscribe to my blog!!!

Happy Healthy Living,

Becca

Magic Weight Loss

Dear Readers,

Remember back when I did the Military Diet, and it almost seems like a magic way of losing weight?? Well, unfortunately, I am here to tell you, it's not magic. The diet is supposed to change the chemicals in your body and make you lose weight fast, although, if you will notice, most people can't keep it off. I believe a bunch of people are confused, as I was. Look at what you are eating, grains/bread, meat, even fruits. But you are lacking in the vegetables. Unless you make grains and meat fresh yourself, you are more than likely not thinking about how those foods were processed. Even corn. Think about it, corn is a very common food, but do you know where it came from? Corn originated from a Mexican grass called teosinte.

This is what "corn" looked like before going through mutation, caused by humans!

I hate to tell you bad news, but what you are putting in your body, is damaging your body. I encourage you to check out my post "It's not just what you're eating, It's also what's eating you." 

The Magic Solution

All you have to do, to allow your body to heal itself is, cleanse. For some of you, that may mean a 30-60 day cleanse. For others, it may only be 10 days. Even, for those of you who need 30 days, but would struggle completing 30 days, start short. Go for a 10 day cleanse, take a break and then continue!! That's what my mother and I are trying to do!

We are both starting with the 10 day cleanse! My mother has the biggest success of the two of us. She has been on this cleanse for four days, and is already down seven pounds!!! She has more energy than she has ever had before, and to me, she simply seems happier!!! This is great news for all of us!!

Congratulations to my mother for keeping to this and do so well on it!!!

I am on day five, and I am down six pounds!! Of course I didn't weigh at the beginning, so I could even be down more than that!

If you decide juicing might be for you, first, visit my post "it's not just what you're eating, it's also what's eating you," to learn about an awesome documentary that can point you in the right direction!! Also, if you need some guidance on how and what to start juicing, feel free to send me an e-mail!

Happy Healthy Living,

Cleanse Your Body Cleanse You Mind

Dear Readers,
Sorry  I have not posted this week. I began student teaching, and my life has been consumed with teacher's meetings and such. However, I do have some awesome news to share.

After watching the movie, "Hungry For Change," I ordered my first juicer. YAY!

I began a ten day cleanse three days ago! So far, I have lost 4 pounds. The first two days of eating nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables  I felt amazing!! Nevertheless, as many people have told me, DAY THREE IS ONE OF THE HARDEST. All day today I have just been craving anything and everything, but I am sticking to it!!!

I do love this "diet," NO IT'S NOT A DIET, this LIFESTYLE! The juice really wakes me up and motivates me! Aside from today, I have had more energy, in fact, I have been skipping coffee at 4:00 in the morning...tough time to wake up. I did make coffee just to smell it yesterday morning.

I am going to continue posting about this new lifestyle as often as I can. I will also give you my recipes and tell you whether they are actually good or not.

Here are a few pictures from the past week of shopping for the food and the juice :)

First Shopping Trip

First Juice: Green Lemonade

This recipe calls for 1 lemon, 2 sticks of parsnip, and a TON of broccoli. Juice a handful or two of broccoli first, and then add enough to make a whole cup of juice! :) And, I got this juice from blendhappy.com

My First Concoction 

Half a cucumber, 1 lemon, a small bunch of parsley and cilantro, lots of spinach, and a handful of spring mix.

This one isn't FANTASTIC, but it is good. I LOVE LEMON in my juice :)

V8 style Fusion

three carrots, two big tomatoes, half a cucumber, ginger, and one green apple

I really enjoyed this one; however, the carrot has a very distinct taste. Go easier on them than I did, maybe one or two carrots tops.

The Gross Machine

Cayenne, spring mix, cucumber, lemon, ginger and aloe Vera. Not exactly tasty...but it supposedly opens the blood stream but I know the aloe is great for cleansing. So down the hatch :) 

I hope you have enjoyed a few of the juices I have done, or at least reading on it. As weekends approach, I will do my best to continue posting juices, and facts on what and why certain things are good for you!!

Good luck!!

Happy Healthy Living

<3

"It's Not Just What You're Eating, But Also What's Eating You"

"It's not your fault, this is how we are as mammals...you are programmed to put on fat whenever there is food available..."

Overview

Since early high school, I have been dieting. I have longed for a way to change my body. I have striven to lose weight, be skinny, look pretty, be confident, be active, be happy and more. I thought that in order to fix my body to make it what I want, I had to "deprive it." I had to take away the ice cream, chocolate, the beef, the calories, everything had to go. My whole view changed in about an hour and a half.

My boyfriend Wes loves watching documentaries. I on the other hand, hate them. On the other hand, I love that HE loves them. He has so much knowledge and information in his head, and I can learn from him. He was flipping through the documentaries on Netflix and pointed out "Hungry for Change." I was captured by the title, and I would never admit I was interested in a documentary to him, although now he will know. He was in town spending time with me for three weeks. The day he left, I was incredibly sad. I thought I have to get busy, to take my mind off of being without him. I went to the library and checked out three books on weight loss, but if you know me, you know I am not much of a reader. I came home, and I logged onto Netflix, and said, "Well, I just start with a documentary."

If you haven't watched this movie, DO IT  NOW! In order to truly lose weight, we are going to have to understand our bodies. At the end of this blog, I will post links to help you find out more.

I hate to begin to describe this movie to you; because, the awesomeness of this movie, the science, the understand, and the realization of what is really going on, I cannot explain! However, I am going to sum up a few of my favorite points, quotes, and what I am have decided to do in my life.

"Hungry For Change"

These are just a few thoughts I have picked from the movie "Hungry For Change." To understand the science behind your body, you need to watch this movie.

On my blog, on the journey tab, you will see my story. This is a brief overview of my life. After watching "Hungry For Change," I realize, "obesity is not a problem, it's a solution." Therefore, when you are stressed, you gain weight. Even if you are eating healthy and exercising, your body will still gain weight! I cannot explain to you all of the science, but please watch the movie to find out more! Weight gain starts over a significant event in your life. For me, it was my parents divorce. Ever since then, I have battled my weight. My body realized I was stressed, and hurting, so it did what normal bodies do in times of stress, produce fat to protect the body.

Foods are made to be addictive. The food companies want to keep you coming back for more. "It's not your fault. We as mammals are made to eat when there is food around." We are a nation that is "over fed, but starving to death." We are eating, but we aren't eating the foods that our bodies need. Thanks to the food companies making food addictive, it becomes much harder to let go. The key is, don't deprive yourself. Start slow. Add in foods you need to stay healthy, your body will not reject this. After some time, this will be what your body craves.

Our ancestors lived off of clean and fresh foods. We need to go back to eating our vegetables. "Juicing is easy to absorb, and its fast...You can jazz up juices to taste divine." I cannot tell you how amazing juicing is yet because I haven't done it. WATCH THE MOVIE!!! YOU WILL UNDERSTAND!!! AFTER WATCHING THE MOVIE, I JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST JUICER. (This movie will share stories of life saving juicing!)

There are many more tips on this movie. Tips for cleansing periods and visualizations. As I enter my new life of juicing, I will continue sharing tips and hints that I first learned in the movie, and how they are applying to my life!

Here are the links to finding out more about "Hungry For Change:"
Facebook:    https://www.facebook.com/hungryforchangefilm?fref=ts
The Website:   http://www.hungryforchange.tv/
Hungry for Change Part 1:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-WWp9wlvwU&list=UUrrixaOr-bEIxIP_J1UUnsg&index=5
Netflix: You can also find this movie on netflix under documentaries!

I have done what feels like a thousand diets, and I now understand WHY THEY DIDN'T WORK. Please watch this movie! It's time to live a better life!

A Lot of Catching Up

Hey guys,
I have a lot of catching up to do with the blog.

For starters, the group, three day military diet. Wes lost three pounds. Hey, three pounds is still three pounds. I do have lots of comments about the diet and dieting all together, but that will be a post in itself in just a day or so. Come back on Tuesday evening and it will be up! I may even get lucky and have it up tomorrow evening.

Next, the polar plunge was awesome! Through family contributions, I was able to raise 15 dollars over my goal. I also have to tell you, I did not go all the way in and record it. On Tuesday of last week, I went to a buffet with my grandmother for her birthday. This blog is about healthy living, and buffets are bad for two reasons, and probably more. 1) They are simply unhealthy, and they make you think you can eat and eat and eat. 2) Buffets are dangerous to eat at for food poisoning. Think about it. They are making lots of food all at once, carelessness becomes easier with increased quantity. Also, as with most restaurants  you don't know who is cooking your food. Therefore, is the cook sick? Did they wash their hands? Are the utensils they or even you are using clean? I could go on with the questions, but I won't.
Well, thanks to this buffet, I became, what felt like, deathly sick for 24 hours. My poor boyfriend sat there taking care of me, and then 12 hours later he got it. (now you maybe thinking, that doesn't sound like you got it from the buffet, but, if I explained the timing of my sickness and such, just trust me, it was from the restaurant.) If you have ever had a bug of any type, you know you are still achy and aren't back to normal for at least three to four days.
And today is my first day of feeling pretty much normal.

I will post links of pictures and such later when people post them.

Well, I'll talk to you soon, and stay away from buffets!

Love,
Becca