28 April 2012 @ 3:47pm

You are not going to lose weight.

I hate when people say they are going to start their diets tomorrow. People of the world, go on your diet now. Because you wont start it tomorrow, or Monday. just do it now. I don’t care that you had pancakes and bacon covered in syrup for breakfast. Have a quinoa salad for dinner. There. Diet started.

Also. I hate when someone eats something unhealthy and then reasons that they have already blown it for the day so they may as well have pizza and ice cream too. Why are people so dumb? Let me ask you something: If two people were shot… one of them just once, and the other one four times, would you say that’s the same thing? Sheesh.

I hate when people ask me how I lost weight and when I tell them I just got off my ass and stopped eating shit all the time they are almost always disappointed. Do you expect me to tell you that I met a magical unicorn who’s blood I drank to never have to diet or work out again followed by where you can find such a creature? Bitch please.

Don’t pig out all weekend and start on Monday, unless you think it makes sense to start a race from 50 yards behind the starting line.

26 April 2012 @ 3:27pm
Set your alarm for 6am. Don’t groan when it goes off and pull the covers over your head, get up and start your day. Put on a baggy top and running shorts. Go downstairs and pour yourself a nice big glass of ice water. Cut up some fruit and mix it in with yogurt. Add some granola. Now go outside. Stretch for 10 minutes. Skip for 5 minutes. Jog for 10 minutes. Run for 10 minutes. Walk back. Lay out a towel on the ground and lie down on it. Do 50 crunches. Yes, they hurt, but they are 100% worth it. When you’re done, get in the shower. Use a nice smelling shampoo and matching conditioner. Shave your legs and wash your body. Exfoliate your face. Get out of the shower and let your hair air dry. Look in the mirror. Do you like what you see? If you do, good for you. Do this every day and you will continue to love yourself. If you don’t like what you see, do this every day and pretty soon you will. Being lazy might feel good at the time, but being active feels better in the long run. How badly do you want it?
~ (via your-allure)
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26 January 2012 @ 4:06pm

BARF! Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Processed Food

  1. Deciphering food label ingredients leads to unappetizing results. Take the innocuous-sounding castoreum, which is used to enhance the flavor of puddings, candies, and some frozen dairy desserts. You might be surprised to know that it’s derived from beavers—beaver anal glands, specifically.
  2. Many foods get their red coloring—“carmine”—from ground-up insect shells that can cause severe allergic reactions in some people.
  3. The greater the number of cheap cuts of meat ground into a single patty, the greater the risk of contamination with E. coli. A standard fast-food burger contains the trimmings of dozens of cows raised around the globe.
  4. According to research from UCLA, it takes only two months to lower levels of brain chemicals responsible for learning and memory (like BDNF) on a steady diet of processed foods.
  5. Processed food is only as good as its packaging: In the summer of last year, Kellogg’s recalled 28 million boxes of cereal because a compound in the box lining (the company wouldn’t say what) was giving off a foul smell and tainting the taste of the boxed food.
  6. The same company that makes metal detectors for airports also sells them to food manufacturers, who use the devices to test processed meats for stray wires, metal shards, and hypodermic needles.
  7. The ingredients list for Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups doesn’t include…strawberries.
  8. Animal feed given to factory-farmed cows contains rendered roadkill and euthanized cats and dogs, as well as plastic pellets as a cheap form of “roughage.”
  9. There are more than 80 ingredients in one Oscar Mayer Lunchables Breaded Chicken and Mozzarella sandwich.
  10. The FDA allows 19 maggots and 74 mites in a three-and-a-half-ounce can of mushrooms.

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25 August 2011 @ 2:32pm

People keep asking me how I lost/am losing weight so I am going to try and do more posts about it because apparently telling y’all to get off your asses and stop eating shit all the time is not working, even though that is all you really need to know.

This is my new favorite thing. I’ve always liked brown rice but recently I have phased out white rice completely and now I am obsessed with it. It was not until a few months ago that I realized how many different things you can take out of your diet and replace with a brown rice alternative. For instance, I usually have organic water crackers with hummus, one of my favorite things to eat. They are very low in calories, but they’re white, and I wanted to find a whole grain alternative, so now I eat Brown Rice Snaps and I actually like them a lot better. In addition to that I have switched from normal rice cakes to brown rice cakes, and now I have found the holy grail: Brown Rice Pasta.

I am not a huge fan of whole wheat pasta. I either eat normal pasta or none at all. A huge dish of pasta with a ton of sauce is one of the main things I want to eat all the time, so it’s really REALLY annoying that it makes my stomach feel like that of Fat Bastard’s from the Austin Powers films. I know everyone loves pasta, not just Italians, but I am Italian and can tell you there are few things better in life than eating, especially things like fat-laden meats, pasta, mozzarella, etc.

So I was really REALLY anxious to try the brown rice pasta and now I am in heaven because it tastes almost exactly the same as white pasta. It doesn’t have that…I want to say… nutty? flavor of brown rice, it just tastes like pasta. If you put a low fat fresh marinara on it, it’s so ridiculously good, I really can’t even tell you. I also like it with a LITTLE bit of olive oil and some spices, or with (again a very small amount) of margarine and salt. I can eat brown rice on its own but the pasta I need something on it, so that’s what I do. If I wasn’t trying to lose weight, I would probably eat this pasta with whatever sauce I wanted, so try that for a healthy alternative. I think if it was slathered in my favorite sauces I would not even notice it was brown rice pasta. One of the other great benefits of brown rice is that it is really filling so you can have a smaller amount of it and really fill up. One of the #1 things I HATE about being on a diet is feeling hungry in the evenings b/c I don’t want anything to sit in my stomach all night, and if I have this for dinner I’m usually fine.

If you eat meat and want a healthy version of spaghetti and meatballs, also get the Trader Joe’s turkey meatballs. Two of them are 100 calories and they are a pretty good size. I couldn’t believe how much I LOVED these meatballs because I am used to fresh, homemade beef meatballs made by the amazing women in my family, so I side-eyed frozen turkey ones. Well it just goes to show how much I know because they are totally delicious. Watch it with the Trader Joe’s frozen section though, just because it says organic and all that doesn’t mean it’s great for you, look at the Nutrition Facts. I mean, ALWAYS do that of course, but especially don’t be fooled by stuff like that.

If i’m being honest with myself, I’m probably eating too many products made from brown rice, but it’s so good for you and is helping my weight loss along fantastically so I’m not going to stop until I see something negative happen.

23 May 2011 @ 8:58pm

fuckfuckfuck

i hadn’t gone to the gym/worked out in general in 3 days and holy fuck i just got back and i feel like death. even when i was in indiana drinking myself into oblivion, i worked out on the days that gina went to work but for the past like 2 weeks i have been in a “fuck off everyone and everything in general” mood so i finally let it get to me these past 3 days and god damn it.

whatever, i am gonna go watch real housewives of nj and there better be lots of hot footage of albie and i hope teresa throws something. ok bye.

19 May 2011 @ 3:36pm

Fuck off if you think eating frozen diet meals and chocolate “health” bars are going to make you thin and healthy.

My friend has just started on Nutrisystem despite all my kicking and screaming. With all due respect to her… I think she is a moron. Not sorry. True friends tell the truth because they care enough to maybe get into a fight over something they know you are wrong about.

I’m annoyed with anyone stupid enough to fund companies like Nutrisystem. Don’t buy into their vacuum sealed by a machine in a factory weeks and weeks ago bullshit. And as much as I love Kendra Wilkinson, she’s a jerk for promoting this Ab Cuts shit - another thing another friend is trying. Kendra knows that you do not need any diet pill to lose weight. I wouldn’t be surprised if she doesn’t take the Ab Cuts. I get that she has a son to take care of and it’s money and I still love her. But it’s still annoying to me.

I’ve gone from an 8 to a 4 (not done yet!) and I eat none of that shit and I take no diet pills. Nor will I ever because I am not a lazy asshole. Any weight loss solution that comes in a box or a bottle is total bullshit.

People seem disappointed when they ask me how I lost weight and I say “Get a load of this. I don’t eat shit all the time and I get off my ass every day.” They want me to say this: “I’ve discovered a 100% natural and safe pill that you can take that will burn ALL YOUR CALORIES no matter what you eat. And it’s free! Here you go! Now let’s go ride some unicorns down by the forest of money trees.”

Even the Reebok Easy Tones annoy me. It’s funny and sad that people think they need these shoes. Like going for a run in normal shoes is somehow not effective enough. If you go outside and run you will lose weight. Period.

Want to lose weight? Don’t buy any product. Just stop eating like you’re going to the electric chair and move your fucking ass. This has been a PSA from Capria Moon. I’m on my way to dance. Calories will be burned. My size will go down again thanks to me, not any pathetic corporations. BAI.