Ugh!!

I picked the worst time to start eating healthy. I told Susan before we started our new kick that I was going to set aside one day a week in which I could eat junk food. Well, that day this week, was yesterday. I think the healthiest thing I ate last night was popcorn. It sort of went downhill from there.

In the morning I had peach tea, a mini bagel with a very small portion of whipped cream cheese (it's all about proportion control right?) and homemade canned pears for breakfast. For lunch I had oatmeal, eggs, and some more tea (I have been trying to fight off being sick, and my throat has been fairly sore). I also had some baby carrots, since I've been craving carrots lately. I wonder what it is in the carrots my body is crying out for?

Last night was girls' night for me. It was planned months ago, and since it is rare that I am ever childless with other women who are also childless, I wasn't about to change my plans. Let's see if I can even remember everything I ate lol.

We ate Red Robin food, so I had their yummy mushroom burger with cheese and mayonaise, fries, and fried cheese sticks (my weakness!!). As the night progressed I had a lot of popcorn and quite a bit of Root Beer (my other weakness lol). On the plus side, Susan brought her yummy healthy oatmeal cookies. They weren't really very sweet, but oh my goodness are they addictive! There is such a yummy blend of flavors in there that it's hard NOT to pick up another one!! So there's my healthy snack anyway :D

Special thanks to Charis, Jennifer, Robin and her daughter (okay so we weren't totally childless, but her daughter was pretty cool) Susan, and Julie for making last night the best girls' night EVER!!!! I didn't get home until 4!! Wild girls lol Not really, we just watch the 3 Twilight movies all in a row!!! Go Team Edward!!!! hehe. Seriously though, I do enjoy my girl's nights, however few and far between they are :)

Since my blog is about living healthy, not just eating healthy, I should point out that I have been bouncing on the trampoline with Luke every day, for at least half an hour (or until I collapse from sheer exhaustion, whichever comes first lol) It's fun, gets my heart rate up, gets the burn going in my legs, and did I mention it's fun? Best birthday gift for Luke EVER!!! He is hard to tear away from it!

I am now (apparently) a mental patient!?

Oh my goodness... if ever the time came to use the acronym "rofl" (rolling on floor laughing) now would be that time. This is (of course) stolen (ahem, copied) in it's entirety from another person from: here

(NaturalNews) In its never-ending attempt to fabricate "mental disorders" out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet: Healthy eating disorder. This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs.

The Guardian newspaper reports, "Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder" and goes on to claim this "disease" is called orthorexia nervosa -- which is basically just Latin for "nervous about correct eating." But they can't just called it "nervous healthy eating disorder" because that doesn't sound like they know what they're talking about. So they translate it into Latin where it sounds smart (even though it isn't). That's where most disease names come from: Doctors just describe the symptoms they see with a name like osteoporosis (which means "bones with holes in them").

Getting back to this fabricated "orthorexia" disease, the Guardian goes on to report, "Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out."

Wait a second. So attempting to avoid chemicals, dairy, soy and sugar now makes you a mental health patient? Yep. According to these experts. If you actually take special care to avoid pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified ingredients like soy and sugar, there's something wrong with you.But did you notice that eating junk food is assumed to be "normal?" If you eat processed junk foods laced with synthetic chemicals, that's okay with them. The mental patients are the ones who choose organic, natural foods, apparently.
What is "normal" when it comes to foods?I told you this was coming. Years ago, I warned NaturalNews readers that an attempt might soon be under way to outlaw broccoli because of its anti-cancer phytonutrients. This mental health assault on health-conscious consumers is part of that agenda. It's an effort to marginalize healthy eaters by declaring them to be mentally unstable and therefore justify carting them off to mental institutions where they will be injected with psychiatric drugs and fed institutional food that's all processed, dead and full of toxic chemicals.

The Guardian even goes to the ridiculous extreme of saying, "The obsession about which foods are "good" and which are "bad" means orthorexics can end up malnourished."Follow the non-logic on this, if you can: Eating "good" foods will cause malnutrition! Eating bad foods, I suppose, is assumed to provide all the nutrients you need. That's about as crazy a statement on nutrition as I've ever read. No wonder people are so diseased today: The mainstream media is telling them that eating health food is a mental disorder that will cause malnutrition!

Shut up and swallow your Soylent GreenIt's just like I reported years ago: You're not supposed to question your food, folks. Sit down, shut up, dig in and chow down. Stop thinking about what you're eating and just do what you're told by the mainstream media and its processed food advertisers. Questioning the health properties of your junk food is a mental disorder, didn't you know? And if you "obsess" over foods (by doing such things as reading the ingredients labels, for example), then you're weird. Maybe even sick.

That's the message they're broadcasting now. Junk food eaters are "normal" and "sane" and "nourished." But health food eaters are diseased, abnormal and malnourished.But why, you ask, would they attack healthy eaters? People like Dr. Gabriel Cousens can tell you why: Because increased mental and spiritual awareness is only possible while on a diet of living, natural foods.Eating junk foods keeps you dumbed down and easy to control, you see. It literally messes with your mind, numbing your senses with MSG, aspartame and yeast extract. People who subsist on junk foods are docile and quickly lose the ability to think for themselves. They go along with whatever they're told by the TV or those in apparent positions of authority, never questioning their actions or what's really happening in the world around them.

In contrast to that, people who eat health-enhancing natural foods -- with all the medicinal nutrients still intact -- begin to awaken their minds and spirits. Over time, they begin to question the reality around them and they pursue more enlightened explorations of topics like community, nature, ethics, philosophy and the big picture of things that are happening in the world. They become "aware" and can start to see the very fabric of the Matrix, so to speak.This, of course, is a huge danger to those who run our consumption-based society because consumption depends on ignorance combined with suggestibility.

For people to keep blindly buying foods, medicines, health insurance and consumer goods, they need to have their higher brain functions switched off. Processed junk foods laced with toxic chemicals just happens to achieve that rather nicely. Why do you think dead, processed foods remain the default meals in public schools, hospitals and prisons? It's because dead foods turn off higher levels of awareness and keep people focused on whatever distractions you can feed their brains: Television, violence, fear, sports, sex and so on.But living as a zombie is, in one way quite "normal" in society today because so many people are doing it. But that doesn't make it normal in my book: The real "normal" is an empowered, healthy, awakened person nourished with living foods and operating as a sovereign citizen in a free world.

Eating living foods is like taking the red pill because over time it opens up a whole new perspective on the fabric of reality. It sets you free to think for yourself. But eating processed junk foods is like taking the blue pill because it keeps you trapped in a fabricated reality where your life experiences are fabricated by consumer product companies who hijack your senses with designer chemicals (like MSG) that fool your brain into thinking you're eating real food.If you want to be alive, aware and in control of your own life, eat more healthy living foods. But don't expect to be popular with mainstream mental health "experts" or dieticians -- they're all being programmed to consider you to be "crazy" because you don't follow their mainstream diets of dead foods laced with synthetic chemicals.

But you and I know the truth here: We are the normal ones. The junk food eaters are the real mental patients, and the only way to wake them up to the real world is to start feeding them living foods.Some people are ready to take the red pill, and others aren't. All you can do is show them the door. They must open it themselves.In the mean time, try to avoid the mental health agents who are trying to label you as having a mental disorder just because you pay attention to what you put in your body. There's nothing wrong with avoiding sugar, soy, MSG, aspartame, HFCS and other toxic chemicals in the food supply. In fact, your very life depends on it.

Oh, and by the way, if you want to join the health experts who keep inventing new fictitious diseases and disorders, check out my popular Disease Mongering Engine web page where you can invent your own new diseases at the click of a button! You'll find it at: Link.
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Um, hubby is against me!!!

So, in all fairness, I haven't made my healthy intentions clear to my husband yet, but do you know what he is bringing me? Tacos. From Taco Bell. I think I can justify it like this: It's lettuce, tomatoes, ground beef, and cheese. That's dairy, vegetables, and meat. It also is wrapped in a flour tortilla, so there you have the grain. MWAHAHA!!!!!

I had rice this morning (grain) and just drank some tea (hmm... if it's peach tea does that qualify as a fruit?). Now I just need to come up with something uber healthy for dinner. Maybe I'll just have a huge helping of carrots... I seem to be craving those lately... so juicy and yummy. Actually, I made homemade pork and beans last week and it's in the freezer - maybe I'll have some of that. And milk. Susan is staying away from dairy, but it doesn't affect me the same as it does her, so maybe I'll be okay with it. If I hit a weight loss wall, maybe I'll give up dairy (*sniffle*), but for now, milk, yogurt, and cheese, oh my!! :D

Updated to add: It's all about portion control! The soft taco I ate was quite small, yet filling. Instead of eating 2, as is my norm, I stopped at one, gave it time to settle, and guess what? Fifteen minutes later, I realized I wasn't hungry. So, give it up for eating small portions slowly! And water. Let's definitely give it up for water. Did you know that often, when you think you're hungry, drinking water cures the feeling? Turns out you're dehydrated, and the symptoms of hunger and dehydration are similar. So the next time you feel hungry, even though you've just recently eaten, grab a glass of water!

Starting the Journey

Today is my first step on to the road to healthiness. The goal of this blog is to keep track of my new life, not just the amount of weight lost, but also the amount of exercise I do, as well as how healthy I'm eating. My goal is to not just lose weight, but also get into shape and be healthy. Losing weight does nothing for you if your muscles are sagging and you can't walk up a small hill without becoming winded. So, with that in mind, follow me (and my friend on her blog that I have posted the link for) on our journey to healthy living!

I hope you will enjoy hearing about our attempts at exercise (I think this will be easier for me than her at first, seeings how she's just had a baby lol), eating better (which will probably be easier for her than me at first, since she actually manages to cook full meals for her family of 5 - 1 of whom is breastfed - while I have a hard time pulling a box of noodles out of the fridge for my family of 4 - 3 of whom actually eat real food), and seeing the pounds (hopefully) melt off our bodies until we are the hot mommas we know we can be!!!