Interesting Info on fast food

So I am not a fan at all of fast food, thank goodness that wouldn't help my weight issues at all..LOL.  Luckily I also don't allow OJ to eat it for the most part, she had her first happy meal at the age of 3 and has had I believe two since..

Come to find out this little piece of info...  While McDonald's advertises that they use "100% pure beef" that does not mean the patty is 100% beef (just like fruit flavoured beverages will advertise that they use 100% pure fruit juice, it is only a portion of the ingredients, and it is mainly sugar and water), nor that the quality of the beef is high. In fact McDonald's pretty well owns the beef industry, as they order so much of it that they dictate the farming practices to produce quantity over quality. (this information was from http://www.altmd.com/Specialists/Spring-nutrition-lifestyle-reNUal/Blog/The-Four-Year-Old-McDonalds-Burger-Fries)

Gross..now I found this information while looking into the 4 year old McDonalds food pictures..how gross, the shit doesn't age.  Nasty, how many preservatives must they use in order to get them to not produce any mold??  UGH..so there goes that, not that its a huge problem for us to not eat this stuff, we won't be eating it again..NASTY.

Happy Birthday Dad

You would be 72 today, I miss you tons and wish you could see all the amazing things that OJ is doing...shes grown so much since you last held her.

Things are going...slowly.

But I know that every day that I exercise and take care of myself that I am doing something good.  I haven't lost any more weight and no more inches lost but I believe I am building lots of muscle.

I have added spin classes to my regimen which definitely do kick your ass (like for real) I have never before felt as though I had humped a piece of aluminum.  I have gotten used to it now and no longer have the pain that I felt for days after that first class.  I was interested though to find out what kind of calorie burn I do in a day so I have purchased a polar heart rate monitor.  I am going to wear it for 24 hours to see what I burn in a normal day and then I can back down on calories from there.  I wore it to spin class yesterday and even though the teacher told me I would burn about 600 calories in the class initially, I only burned 389 total for the 45 minutes.  Its pretty cool though, the HRM tells me where to keep my heart rate for burning fat and it keeps weekly goals for the 3 training zones.


Other than that I am just enjoying time with my little one and laughing at all the awesome things she says.

Updates on "Tings"

So updates on everything here..its long but broken up to keep it straight.

I have officially lost 5 inches off of my waist,  1.5 inches of my hips (thank god - lets keep this number going up) and then 1/2 inch off of my thighs yet I have only lost 3.8 lbs.  I am really excited about this although I still have a ways to go, I can't figure out how to work on my hips but I assume the weight will come off with the exercise and diet..

I have yet to do P57 this week because my allergies are so incredibly bad I couldn't bear the thought.  I went to the gym today feeling better and so this afternoon I am *hoping* to do it.  I am doing pretty good with the diet although I have my times that I don't do so great.  What I have been trying to do is eat basically the same meal every day for lunch so I eat a grilled chicken breast on one of these yummy 7 grain deli flat things from pepperidge farm with honey mustard and red onion.  I really like it so that works for me and I am a creature of habit so really, if I like it, I can stick to it for a long time and I don't get bored.

I told Karl the other day that if I didn't have this all over layer of fat going on I would be hot.  LOL.

I have finally called in an interior designer, AJ from this amazing place..what gorgeous rooms.
 http://www.deborahleamanninterior.com/portfolio.html

They seem to do the rooms in the style that I really like and I am pretty sure I would have them recreate any of that into my home if I had the room that those people do.  I just cannot seem to finish this house off, I can't pick a color to bring the whole place together.  Hopefully AJ can do that and I have every confidence that she can.  After the whole curtain issue I have decided that I really just need some gentle guidance.

We have Alex's friends coming over to hang out this weekend before she heads off to her big Italy trip and the maids canceled today...fuck me. So, I had to call one of those franchise places and they charge 155 an hour and could be here anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 hours cleaning the place.  I guess i don't care but I think thats a bit much given that I pay my regular cleaning people $90 a week to come and clean.  But they can come tomorrow which is what I need.

Also, I am pretty excited because I am a gadget geek but I purchased a 3D television last night..I didn't get the 3D blu ray player yet because the guy informed me that the new ones will come out in the fall and the movies won't really start coming out in 3D until the end of the summer anyway.  Lets just hope that netflix carries them!!

Well, that is the update, everything else in my life is amazing, especially my OJ.  She rocks.

A word of warning during this allergy season...

DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT hold back sneezes..lol

I know this sounds ridiculous but yesterday I held back some sneeze while I was driving and immediately my throat burned and I had horrible neck pain.  After a while the pain subsided so I didn't worry about it until I woke up this morning at 5am with my throat burning and it hurt to swallow...take a look and everything in there is blood red and swollen so I coated up with chloraseptic and went back to bed.  Woke up at 7 with it again.  This is so stupid so I figured you all might laugh about it...  :o)

Apparently sneezes can come at speeds up to 100mph and holding them back *CAN* cause severe damage.

P57 Arm and Ab Booster DVD

Uh, yeah, if I got through half of this I am lucky..these women can literally balance their entire body weight on their tailbone in some sort of convoluted V position..what the fuck?  I'm just speaking out of jealousy.  I wish I could do that.

These women are so long and lean, honestly sometimes I can't follow them because my body and theirs look nothing alike, they have such amazing core strength, they can hold their legs up in the air straight for what seems like a half hour.

I wish so badly I could share these with all of you just so you would understand all of this..but I started looking around youtube and found these which will give you some idea of what its about...no lie this is the shit they have you do..for 57 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYCX9FdEe4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWUxFKWdE8&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExJcsRv7G78&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq74Ubq4dvc&feature=channel

Restoration Hardware Shore Scent

I am leaving Big K for it...

I got the soap and the surface cleaner and I am in love.  I have cleaned everything that I thought might need a touch up and the cleaning peeps come tomorrow.  Go get some.