Five Peanut M&M's...

So day 3 into Making the Cut, and I've already broken the eating portion of the diet. Now going into this I knew I had no self control when it comes to eating, drinking, going out... basically I have no self control.

Example1: Never Knowing When Enough is Enough:

When first moving to the city, I was temping as a receptionist at this law firm. Right around Halloween, the company decided to put a pumpkin full of candy on my desk to share with the rest of the office and the clients coming in. BIG MISTAKE! Now any normal person would have had self control and maybe eaten one or two pieces of candy a day MAX... not me! I would throw back a fun size snickers, peanut m&m's, and a babyruth in just one sitting. Now you may say oh 3 pieces a day, that's not that bad... well my friends, I would do this about 5 times a day, averaging 15 pieces of fun size candy, and let me tell you nothing was fun size about me after a few days of this. I say a few days because on day 4 the pumpkin was removed from my desk because Fred, the office manager, told me he couldn't keep refilling the pumpkin for my personal pleasure. I hated Fred at the time, but I thank him now... Does anyone really need 15 pieces of candy a day?!?!?

Example 2: Loosing All Inhibitions

I was on a very important conference call. I was supposed to be taking notes and answering various questions of the client... however, I had a chocolate peanut butter cookie from Specialties in my hand.

For those of you who don't live in San Francisco, Specialties has the best cookies in the WORLD. And yes I can make that statement because I am a cookie connoisseur. People from all around the world come to me for cookie advice... they know not to share though because I will not give a cookie back once it has been placed in my hand [process: cookie to the hand, to the mouth, to the tummy... mmmm coookiess].

So, as the meeting was progressing, more questions where being asked, and my face was all over this cookie. Now this is where it all gets a little fuzzy. At some point between manhandling my chocolate peanut butter cookie and smearing it all over my face, I blackedout. I came out of my blackout licking the chocolate off the tips of my fingers, and to someone on the phone saying my name repeatedly, and sounding VERY annoyed, "JUNE! June! Are you there?!?!? JUNE?" I finally came to it and said "Yes, I'm here, I'm sorry I had another call..." The rest of the conversation went as follows:

Very Important Person: "Well can you take care of that?"
Fat Kid: "uhh...Yes, of course I can."
VIP: "When will you be able to start?"
FK: "Ummm, whenever you'd like."
VIP: "Excellent! I'll have the papers messengered to you today!"
FK: ".... and I'll sign for them!"
VIP: "Uh, sure... Moving on!"

Clearly I had no clue what to do. Papers? What would I be using these papers for? Messengered today? These must be VERY important papers, why are they sending them to me? For the next 10 minutes I tried to think of what these papers could possibly be. Didn't figure it out, and had to let my boss know that I didn't hear what the VIP said... and let me tell you he was THRILLED! I mean and why wouldn't he be, who wants their main connection to the meeting to pay attention, weird!

Hopefully those two examples have given you a little insight to my self control level, ZERO.

With all this said and done, I'm going to get into the details of Day 3 of Making the Cut. It started out as a normal day, as you will see in my Daily Food report, however at around 7pm it turned for the worst. I "H" the "B" and ate some amazing Pad Thai with fried tofu. Now reading the above paragraphs, you know I didn't stop here. I also ate a bag of peanut butter m&m's, five sour patch kids and seven Pringles. Why I needed snacks after, and entire entree is beyond me, but I guess I just wasn't satisfied.

Now really this wouldn't be that bad if:
a.) I wasn't on the Making the Cut diet
b.) Had attended track practice (yes I go to track practice, and I am no longer in school)
c.) Done a Making the Cut workout
d.) or Just had a medium level workout

As I'm sure it isn't a surprise to most, I choose e.) None of the above. I ate what I wanted for dinner and dessert, and prior to this I had only walked 2 mi. (I had to rest from running due to a foot injury...3 days off running & ice.) After I stuffed my face with the thai food, m&m's, and pringles, I walked another 1.5 mi. hoping that would maybe burn .00056% of the calories I just ate. Who knows if it did, but I am back today ladies and gents MAKING THE CUT! So enjoy a laugh the Daily Food and Workout for yesterday, but today I will be coming back STRONG!!! Lars... I'm stronger than you AND specialties!!

DAILY FOOD:
Breakfast
1/2 cup of low fat cottage cheese
2 slices of pineapple

Lunch
1 fake chicken wrap
(98% fat free/ whole wheat wrap w/ red pepper hummus, 1/4 cup Morningstar chik'n strips, 1/2 tablespoons of fat free jalapeno cheese, avocado, lettuce and tomato)

Snack
1 red apple
1/2 tablespoon of all natural peanut butter

Dinner
1/2 serving of Pad Thai
1 bag of Peanut M&M's
5 Sour Patch Kids
7 Pringles

WORKOUT:
3.5 mi. walk (including hills & speed walking)

Jillian Michaels Works for Satan

I would like to start today's blog entry little off the topic... my roommate is crazy. Now I'm not talking about fun crazy, love to go out crazy, I'm talking about straight up psycho biOTCH crazy! I came home last night to find that she had thrown out all of the pots and pans, pot holders, dish towels, etc. Now why she did these I am not sure, but nothing has been replaced. So today I went and bought ONE pan. One glorious pan! One that I decided I will not share with crazy people. The pan's name is skiddle, and she is purple. I love her.

I used skiddle tonight to make an amazing meal that was actually 100% healthy AND filled the demanding stomach of Lars. A meal that Jillian Michaels herself would have eaten and told everyone about it, kind of like I am doing right now. I'm not sure if the meal was amazing because of what I actually made, or if it was because I did my first Making the Cut workout... and when I say workout I mean some routine Satan himself put together. The routine went from walking on flames, to pouring salt in my wounds, and ended with multiple squirts of lime juice in my eye. Needless to say my legs and arms are still shaking... literally!

Now I know this blog entry is much shorter than my first, but I am exhausted so I'm going track my food intake (which btw I am strictly on the Making the Cut diet. I started last night instead of Thursday... Lars def needed it!)

DAILY FOOD:
Breakfast
1/2 cup of low fat cottage cheese
2 slices of pineapple

Lunch
1 fake chicken wrap
(98% fat free/ whole wheat wrap w/ red pepper hummus, 1/4 cup Morningstar chik'n strips, 1 1/2 tablespoons of low fat feta cheese, avocado, lettuce and tomato)

Snack
1 red apple
1 tablespoon of all natural peanut butter

Dinner
1 tablespoon of hummus
1 whole wheat 98% fat free tortilla
1 cup boiled mixed vegetables
1 piece of pan seared tilapia with Mrs. Dash lemon & pepper seasoning

WORKOUT:
Dumbbell presses & flys on the body ball
Squats
Plank holds
Close-grip push-ups
Inner thigh raises
Burpies.. (these are fun!)
Sumo Squats
Squat thrusts
W shoulder presses w/ leg extensions
Bench Dips
Rope tricep presses
Static lunges w/ lateral shoulder raise
Mountain climbers
Holding Boat Pose
.... and all of this was done with 1 minute jump roping and one minute sprinting (speed 7 on treadmill) throughout (3 sprints / 2 jumping rope)

I'm starting with the Man in the Mirror... I'm asking Him to change his ways!

As many of you know I am currently training to run the Anchorage Alaska Mayor's Midnight Marathon this June. Right now I am trying my hardest to get into shape, and I dunno maybe put on a bikini in the VERY near future. The only problem is that since I started training for the marathon I have noticed my eating habits have become very similar to a 450lb weight lifter named Lars. As much as I'd like to think running 8 miles cancels out a 3,500 calorie meal, it just doesn't! So today, I am making a commitment to myself, and anyone else who reads this blog, to say "Goodbye Lars, and Hellooo you sexy beast, YOU!"

[Insert Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" chorus here]

It's a pretty well known fact that it is much easier to achieve your goals when you write them down. Now I'm a big fan of "lists," however, I figured I would follow in the footsteps of a good friend of mine, let's call her "Cookie," and create a blog so I can keep up with/ monitor my eating and workout habits.

Now, I'm sure you all are are on the edges of your seats wondering how I am going to get rid of Lars, so I will let you in on a little secret... Cookie and I have decide to "Get Ripped!" using Jillian Michaels' Making the Cut. Seeing that Jillian preformed what I would call miracles on The Biggest Loser, I am willing to take her advice and GET RIPPED! Now I will not actually start the Making the Cut diet until Thursday (03/27), but up until then I will be eating healthy and completing the workout routines, in addition to my marathon training of course. Thursday's post will go into detail of the foods I will be eating, and why... so stay tuned!

As of right now, I do not currently know my weight (before training for the marathon I was at 130lbs... FATTY!), but hopefully some of that poundage has come off. I will be taking my measurements tonight, and will post them tomorrow so I can accurately track my success (if I don't get embarrassed of Lars).

My Goals are as follows:

1. Loose 10lbs
2. Loose two inches in my waist
3. Loose one inch in my thighs
4. Stick to my diet 100%
5. Stick to my workout plan 100%

In order to achieve these goals I will be using this blog to keep track of everything I eat, as well as my exercise routines. So... with one last breath... I say "Goodbye Lars, goodbye..."

DAILY FOOD:
Breakfast
1 cup of fruit (honeydew melon & red grapes)

Lunch
2 pieces of sourdough toast
2 pieces of low fat swiss cheese
1 clementine
1/2 cup light sour cream & cheddar Ruffles

Snack
100 calorie pack of Jello Chocolate pudding

Dinner
1 tablespoon of hummus
1 whole wheat 98% fat free tortilla
1 cup boiled mixed vegetables
1/2 cup Morningstar Chik'n Strips

WORKOUT:
60 minute outdoor run