I had a YUMMY salad for lunch!

OMG. I had a freaking great salad for lunch: Half spinach, half romaine, some dried cranberries, sliced almonds, and edamame. Also a cut-up hard-boiled egg and MorningStar chik'n patty. Dressing? Annie's roasted garlic - just a bit though!
I'm also very happy because I did a run before this salad. I got it from a website, basically it is interval training.

1) Walk on a treadmill for 5 minutes at a moderate pace (between 3.5 and 4.0 on most treadmills)

2) After 5 minutes, speed up the treadmill to a jogging pace for one minute (start at 7.0 or 8.0)

3) After one minute of jogging, slow back down to your set moderate pace (somewhere between 3.5 to 4.0 as discussed before)

4) After one minute of moderate, speed up the treadmill to your previous jogging pace, but this time add .5 to the speed (so if you first did 7.0…now you are going to set it at 7.5)

5) After one minute of jogging, you are going to go back to the same set moderate pace for one minute.

6) Alternate every minute between jogging and walking for 20-30 minutes…making sure that you use the same walking speed each time, but increase to jogging speed by .5 until you can't jog any faster for one minute.

I sprinted for about 15 min, total time 25 minutes. Then, I did a little arm work and 30 second plank. Felt good to be back in the game. I was inspired by the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Who wouldn't be inspired by Erin Heatherton?

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Besides the most beautiful models ever (save Karlie Kloss who, no offense, is NOT VS angel material), I've been reading up on tea and how it help metabolism and all that good stuff. I have a link, of course it is trying to sell something... The important part to take note of is how great wulong/oolong tea and green tea are for fat loss. In fact, I had some oolong for breakfast. The big problem with oolong is that there is some special version of it in the mountains and the altitude and blah, blah, blah. Long story short, 2-3 cups a day! Decaf is  not bad either!

Yesterday = Bad

Somehow I was under the impression that I should/coud eat a brownie a la mode yesterday. Very stupid. If there is one thing that my throat can't seem to swallow (NOT a dirty joke, okay? ;) ) it is ice cream! So, of course, I ended up puking much of it into a cup... in my boyfriend's room... because the girl's bathroom is very public and very far away. Don't worry, he wasn't there! But it brought me back to time in my life when that was pretty customary. And I'm sad to say that puking yesterday felt oddly, well, it felt good and reviving. Pretty gross. So I started searching for HEALTHY inspiration. Something I think I should think about before I eat and when I make stupid excuses for NOT working out.
I'm very, very glad I found fitspo because thinspo makes me cry and fitspo makes me feel empowered. I think this calls for a pic comparison!
My inspiration then:


My inspiration NOW:

 

I'm concocting a workout routine and calendar, as well as healthy eating "rules/suggestions/guidelines" for my next post. Until then, I got homework and finals in the next few days... Blehhhh.

Cleanses

Okokok. I have this friend (no really... I swear it isn't me!)... So this friend of mine, she thinks that if she constantly goes on and off of colon cleanses, she will be "skinny". While she is my friend... let's just say we aren't friends based on her smarts... Either way, she was crazy about this one brand that she had bought two or three times. "Select Greens" is the brand I believe... She was so pumped about how it made her "shit her brains out" and "never feel hungry" and "lose, like, seven pounds!" And I was pretty skeptical. I did a colon cleanse awhile ago with my mom (we have Irritable Bowel Syndrome so my mom thought it might help). In my opinion, it just made me have to go to #2 more urgently... But that was over two years before my friend did her whole colon cleanse phase (which she has yet to overcome). Short story, shorter: I did a colon cleanse (not Select Greens) and, honestly, wasn't impressed. Especially because I live in a dorm so I had to do my "business" very secretively and in random building... AND it made me sooo hungry that I was eating up a storm. So I'm not sold on colon cleanses, but I am trying it again. This time I'm modifying the regimen though. I'm taking the recommended amount (2 capsules) a couple (2-3) hours before bed. I drink 8-16 fl. oz. of water with it too. Most importantlyyyyy, I'm doing it every OTHER night. So far (third or fourth day... I can't quite remember) this has really only helped me be more regular. The one thing I have noticed about severely restrictive diets is that you don't eat much so you don't shit much. I don't feel good when I don't "go".
Ok. Enough of this TMI stuff...
I read this article about colon cleansing and why IT DOESN'T WORK and HURTS YOU and IS A SCAM. It is very interesting. Basically, the cleanses take the toxins and release them into your blood stream which only creates a toxic environment in your blood. Ideally the cleanse should release toxins through urine or feces. So yeah. It is trying to sell you a product (of course) but the science seems legitimate. I looked for, like, 20 minutes to find it... Can't. BUT I will keep trying and post it. :(

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So I've been having a big problem lately with... cookies. My boyfriend knows that I'm trying to be healthy but sometimes he finds me when I'm having a "I'm so fat! Why can't my love handles disappear?! I swear my butt got smaller and my legs have gotten bigger!!!" episode (which I try to keep private... -_- ). He tries to be really supportive by telling me how pretty I am and how when we met he constantly thought about how good my thighs looked and stuff like that... You see, that is phase 1 for him, phase 2 is going out and getting me cookies. Two - four a day. Everyday. As much as I love him, HE IS KILLING ME WITH COOKIESSSS! He specifically gets me cookies because he knows they are my weakness (formerly ice cream, but I'm lactose intolerant... and in my opinion so is everyone else in the world... DOWN WITH THE DAIRY INDUSTRY!). He thinks that I'm depriving myself by avoiding cookies. This is false. I feel really positive about myself when I avoid the free cookies in the cafeteria at my college. And when I eat them... I feel worse! So bringing me cookies is a double whammy of sadness! And he thinks it makes me happy... then again he also says that he thinks I look "so cute" when I eat cookies because I look "so guilty". Umm... what? Yeah. This has been going on for almost 3 weeks now. I neeeed to have another "serious chat" with him about my hatred of cookies... or desired hatred. Ughh!

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Today's Stats and inspiration:

W: 141 (Goal: 138 --> this is my old plateau)
UG: 35-26-35 (w:h = 74%)

Photo inspo: