Detoxxx Time - I found my friend!

Yesssss! Talk about great morning - I love getting chats saying, "I'm going to try your detox again starting next week". YESSSS. Looks like I've got a detox buddy and I won't be miserable and alone...

K and I will be starting on Monday, anyone else wanna try it out? If you want to know the rules again, here they are!

Remove all of the following from diet for 4 weeks:
•Fried Food
•What
•Refined Sugar
•Dairy
•Alcohol
•Caffeine...

To put it easy... all you should be eating is lean meats, fruits, veggies, and long grain brown rice and if you need a potato, you can have sweet potatoes....

And ok ok ok I know no one can go 4 weeks without ALCOHOL... so if you NEEED to, just stick to vodka and water. That's it, Vods and WADS. Nothing more... NO CHEATING.

So since I'll be back on this again, if you see me cheat, KICK MY ASS... Because I know I'm going to be kicking Kim's ass.

Sweet... can't wait to start having proteins, fruits, veggies, humus and quinoa for the next 4 weeks straight... grrr... ok... enough bitching, TIME TO DROP SOME LBBBBB'S!!!!!

XOXOX

THE DETOX IS OVER!!!!!

Wow - 4 weeks gone... just like that - I remember when I started this I was like, there is no WAY in hell that I am going to last 4 weeks without dairy, booze, caffeine, wheat, sugars ---- noooo way. The first few days were sooooooo hard - but once I really got into it - I realized, it wasn't so bad... so what if my daily diet consisted of salads with no dressing, bananas, smoothies, and either chicken or beef for dinner with veggies??? So what if I learned a million ways to cook a chicken and make it actually taste good --- so WHAT if I feel a million times better...

I'm telling you people, if you want to feel better, have your skin look better, drop a few of those unwanted pounds, this is the way to go --- all in all i probably dropped a good 15lbs, dropped 2 pant sizes, but my skin looks amazing, I have the MOST energy I've had in the longest time - and I just feel amazing... Honestly, thanks to Mia, I feel the best I've felt since high school.

I even feel like I look better - I feel more confident in my awesome facebook photos - I'm just happier... and again, my friends have been amazing and I wouldn't have been able to do this without them!

For the past 4 weeks my diet has consisted of really nothing but proteins and fruits and veggies, and I thought the minute I got off this I would be back to my old ways... but no way - to be brutally honest, I had my first coffee in 4 weeks and I almost shit myself. my stomach hurt soooo bad. HAHA. It's so funny that your body just adjusts so fast to what you haven't been eating that when you do have it again, you feel like shit.

I made the awesome cupcakes from my blog - (click here for recipe) 

and they were great. I love that I can have a sweet non-super fattening treat when I want, but I don't feel the same as I did before - and I don't know if it's the wheat or the dairy in the frosting. Buttttttt, I tried with Gluten Free cake mix and I def. didn't feel as bad eating them - maybe I do have a gluten issue - who knows... 

Now my new big goals are 1st, looking hot and sexy for snowboarding season, and 2nd, getting into bikini shape so I can look super awesome for next years Jamaica trip! (who's with me?!?!)

Looks like I still have a lot of work cut out for me ahead, BUTTTTTTTTTT with the right diet, and working out, I can make it!!!! 

WOOOOOHOOOO! 

FAT KID (on her way to being skinny) OUT!

I've got some awesome friends...

Ever since I have started this blog I have found that my friends are AMAZING.... When I told them, or they read the blog, the texts, emails, facebooks started pouring in - and I know this sounds super lame, but I was so touched by the fact that my friends cared about me that much that I did this, and they helped out ---- so for that, my amazing friends, I thank you - Now, time for some shout outs ----

First and foremost - Juan has been my rock - even when he comes home with McDonalds, he at least warns me that he's coming home with it, and I run and hide in our room haha... That right there, is love. HAHA.

Sara - she's the enforcer - she makes sure that I don't go off track with her uber inspirational words like -

And all the nights we go to get food and she orders the same thing I'm eating! (chicken and broccoli from TGIF's people, only $4 if you want a cheap meal).... And all the countless phone calls, I WANT A COOKIE and her response being SHUT UP! hahaha -- without her, I don't know what I would do.

Sam - yeah, sure she was a pusher while I was in NYC, but still, one of my biggest fans - always telling me to blog, giving me healthy recipes, letting me know that I can dooooooo it haha - I love her and her pushing me!

Nicki and Chris - when I walked into their door and they said, we know you are on a diet so we will help you, I mean come on, what's better than that (except I totally ate like crap that weekend because I was stressed, but STILL)

Amy - Her email to me, which will just have to be a whole other blog post, was amazing - the first thing she said was, "just wanted to let you know how happy and proud of you I am for starting this process" those words mean a lot! :)

Mia - THIS DETOX - if she hadn't had lunch with me on that Wednesday, I wouldn't have ever felt as amazing as I am right now - and for that, and the continuous support, has been amazing...

Betsy and Katie - coming out and working out with me and just being an amazing support system, has been the best thing ever. They came out, took TRX with me, and are constantly helping me improve myself --- I don't know what I would do without them! :)

Cousin Sarah - for all the inspirational words and FABULOUS comments about how I can do it --- I love you.

Lisa - for encouraging me to keep blogging and to stick with it - she lost a good amount of weight for her wedding, and not because she needed to, but because she wanted to, and she wanted to feel better - and that is what I want, I just want to feel better, I love who I am, but you push me to want to better myself...

I'm sure I'm missing people, but here is a compilation of comments from people that I just love! :)

Really though, from the bottom of my heart, friends and family - YOU ARE THE REASON I KEEP DOING THIS... Thank you for all your support ---- I LOVE YOU.

SKINNY KID OUT!

I CHEATEDDDDD!!!!!!!

So last night, Jo and I went to our friend Tony's birthday happy hour... Little did I know, while we were walking around the corner, that the party was on 14th and P - otherwise known as THE STREET SWEET GREEN IS ON!

I need to take a quick break for Steph to let me know how I looked last night - simple, but I thought it was cute, I added brown high boots to complete the look - now take note, the layers, they made me feel skinny last night - haha -

Now, one of my biggest weaknesses is sweet green... because it's amazing - the good thing is that sweet green's "philosophy" is: a place where you can get fun, fashionable food that's both healthy for you and aligned with your values. Simply stated.... food that fits. We source LOCAL and ORGANICE ingredients from farmers we know..... SOOOOOOOOO I guess if I had to cheat, sweetgreen is the place to cheat.

After happy hour, I turned to Jo, and I said... "JO IT'S CHEATING TIME". Thankfully, she had a few glasses of wine, so she didn't hold back... we were off --- 3 doors down and we were there... standing in the amazing sweetgreen.... ahhhh, there's no turning back from here --- Ordered, chicken caesar wrap - which, has not only wheat in the wrap, but dairy in the cheese and dressing - double cheat. OH WELL. Screw it - I had to do it... I was cheating, but I was cheating healthily! :)

As we sat, and we both DEVOURED our wraps - I felt amazing - That was the first time I had dairy in over 15 days..... ahhhh if I could do it again I would - 

I proceeded to text Mia, 

I LOVED her response --- she was right, chill out Andrea, I didn't go to Five Guys and binge on fries and burgers, I simply got a nice healthy wrap..... I don't feel so bad after all. 

Ok time to go work out to work off this cheat! 

FAT KID OUT! 

2 weeks down, 2 to go.

So, it's been TWO WHOLE WEEKS since I've been on this detox.... let me tell you - I feel amazing... I really do - This weekend I went on a serious drinking binge with my cousins in NYC and then at the Giants game, and I don't know how I did it with only like 4 hours of sleep, but I made it, and I made it like a champ. I wasn't tired at all - and I KNOW if I wasn't on this diet, I would have felt like shit and probably wouldn't have even made it to the Giants game on Sunday....

I was so worried going into this weekend - I got to the city on Friday before Sam got out of work... I was like well shit, what am I going to do? I guess there isn't anything to do but drink... so, that's what I did. I went to the bar around the corner of their building (The Mason Jar) and started in on my Vodka and Waters (which will now be called, VODS AND WADS). Waiting for Sam, I only had 2, but as I sat there waiting for her, I thought, well shit.... what am I going to do all weekend about eating? I knew that Sam has basically told me that there was no way I was going to be able to stay on this detox while in NYC... with the bagels, the pizza, all the other delicious street treats... But thankfully, Sam was awesome and totally catered to my needs... For dinner on Friday night, along with the Vods and Wads that we were drinking, she made this amazing stir-fry dish with chicken, quinoa, and veggies... it was amazing, and it totally filled me up and was detox approved.. :) Thankfully Friday night was chill, and all we did was sit on the couch, drink vods and wads and watch Jersey Shore! :)

RECIPE FOR the dinner that Sam cooked on Friday night:



1 cup quinoa
2 chicken breasts diced

Garlic powder to taste

Pepper to taste

1 small red onion, chopped

2 carrots, thinly sliced

2 cups steamed broccoli florets (I buy the ones that you can just steam in a bag)

2 cups snow peas

1/4 cup teriyaki sauce (the lower sodium kind)

Bake chicken seasoned with garlic powder and pepper in oven at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes. Cook quinoa as directed on the box. Meanwhile, spray a large pot with cooking spray and add carrots and onions. After about 5 minutes, add snow peas, broccoli and teriyaki sauce. Cover and cook for another 5-10 minutes, stirring every couple minutes. Dice chicken into bite size pieces and add to the veggie mix. You can either mix in the quinoa at this point (that's how I did it for us) or take a scoop of quinoa and put it on a plate and then top with the veggie/chicken mixture. Add more garlic/pepper/teriyaki to taste.

Saturday was the tough day.... Jon woke up and the first thing he did when he woke up was went and grabbed a dozen bagels... Now, anyone that has been to NYC knows that their bagels are the best.... THE BEST. (don't event try to fight me on that, I will win). And do you know whats even better than NYC bagels? NYC bacon egg and cheese's on bagels hahaha.... Anyways, Jon rolls in with bagels and cream cheese, Sam looks at me and says, your having one. There's no way around it, you can't NOT have one... and I thought back to when Mia said it was ok to have a cheat day once a week.... so I said fine, ONE bagel but with peanut butter (for protein) instead of cream cheese. LET ME TELL YOU, that bagel was amazing, and that my friends, was the only, yes the ONLY time I cheated these whole 14 days.... But, at the time, I didn't think that was going to be a true statement. I thought to myself, there is no way I am going to go out tonight, not get drunk and not want a slice of NYC pizza... but whatever.

So during the day we went around and shopped, got a Jamba Juice, love love love and got back to the apartment to get ready to go to dinner and go out. Thankfully Jon and Sam had picked this awesome spot called Wine 30 for dinner... I had chicken and roasted potatoes for dinner, detox approved, and we indulged in some amazing wine... Now this was 7pm - we probably had our first drink around 6. The night was filled with beer pong, shots, wine, everything you could think of, we had it. I was wasted..... and guess what? I had to be up at 7:30am the next morning to get my ass to Jersey to meet up with Val and Rog and crew for the Giants game.... When my head finally hit the pillow at 3am, I thought, I am sooo sooo SO FUCKED.

7:30am on Sunday. Wake up, feel a little woozy, maybe a little drunk still, but I thought I would be much worse... Got in the car, ate one of my awesome already cooked chicken breasts that was sitting in Sams kitchen, and headed up to the game. 9:30am I cracked my first beer.... hahaha

Now, one would think, omg she must be exhausted... How did she do it - she probably only had about one beer... nope, shit I probably had about 10 - I totally surprised myself... I didn't even feel tired! In fact, I didn't even go to bed till like 11pm that night! If you ask me how I did it, I will say this detox. HAHAHA.... Even at the tailgate - I stuck to my guns and only had chicken and a hamburger without the buns and some pop chips --- even INSIDE the stadium when we went to get hot dogs - I just got peanuts... I was so proud of myself. But the more I thought about it, the more I knew that if I wasn't on this detox, that Sunday would have sucked and I would have been miserable.

I have honestly been living off of, chicken, veggies, fruits, smoothies, quinoa, and sweet potatoes and thats really it for the past 2 weeks.... I never thought I could do it - but I did! :)

I have been up and down, but honestly, I feel 1,000,000 times better, and I don't want to ever feel the way I did before...

OH AND THE GIANTS WON. Yeah, we are awesome.

Ok, that's it for my weekend wrap-up -
FAT KID OUT!

Get me into bed.....

Haha - here is my round-up of the first 5 days on this detox ----

Wanna know the quickest way to get me into bed at 9pm???... Guys take note.... THIS DETOX... Fuck my life... On day ONE I'm pretty sure I was texting, crying, holding my head all around 9pm from my BED!.... First... Let's discuss what this detox is taking OUT of my diet...

Here is the email from Mia (my super awesome diet/running/workout friend who is doing this detox with me...)

So basically, I am cutting EVERYTHING out of my diet except meats, veggies and fruits... which I'm totally cool with - if I could eat steak for breakfast lunch and dinner everyday, I would be the happiest girl alive... but right now, I'm not.

Day One: 
What I ate - 
1 Scrambled Egg
2 Pieces of turkey bacon
Big salad with cucumbers, green peppers, carrots, and some italian dressing and grilled chicken
Almonds for a snack
Banana for another snack
WATER WATER WATER
And a Small Filet with 1/4th of a Sweet potato and broccoli for dinner... 


How did I feel after day one, after not having my 4 cups of coffee or having a PSL from Starbucks? HORRIBLE. I died... Like I said, in bed by 9pm crying my eyes out like a big freaking baby... But guess what, the next day, I woke up, (still with a horrible headache) but felt like a million bucks. I had more energy, and I just felt better about myself... That only lasted about 5 hours till the next headache decided to kick-in hahaha but for those 5 hours I felt like a million bucks...

I know you are asking, what about working out? Well, I don't know about you, but when my head is pounding out of my skull, the last thing I want to do is work out.... so right now, I am working on getting the food part of this detox down, then I'll go run a marathon.... so be patient. This is hard enough as it is people!

Day Two: I basically ate the same thing --- see when you are a picky eater, it's really hard to do something like this - I shopped in Wegmans for about 3 hours reading labels, trying to figure out what I can and cannot eat, what I actually like, and then ultimately only buying like 6 meals... so it was back to Wegmans to try and figure out a few more foods to grab... OH! I had a smoothie on day two... hahaha - wow, talk about trying something new!

Day Three: 
This was the hardest... I woke up, and it was an AMAZING crisp fall morning - and every little bit of me wanted to get out of bed and run to starbucks and pick up a nice hot chai tea latte... There's just something about that white cup in your hand on a nice fall morning that makes you feel so much better about your day... but for me, my hopes and dreams were killed... this detox is still going on and it's only day 3. FML.

Day Four: 
When I said that 3 was the hardest, I was wrong... 4 was... Only because my dick neighbor decided, LET'S HAVE A PARTY.... oh but wait... a party??? Yes... you know I'm always in for a good party... but I'M ON THIS FUCKING DETOX! What do I do??? Well, you work with it... hahahahaha - Vodka and V8 Fruit Juice Fusion! :) Hey, I'm getting my daily serving of fruits and veggies while drinking ---- why not... hahaha... I am actually super proud of myself... while people were scarfing down hotdogs, drinking beers, eating chips - I had my vodka, and my chicken breast, and I was good to go - Sara asked me today if I had cheated yet, and thankfully I can say no, besides this little binge I had on Saturday.... Which made Sunday HORRIBLE.

Day Five: 
I think I'm glad I was hungover, it made for a good day to not really eat much. hahaha... We went out to breakfast, and I had an egg, with turkey sausage and fruit, and I could barely keep that down... So eating for the rest of the day wasn't really an issue....

Day Six: 
Today... today... today.... Well I woke up and had a smoothie, but it's really hard to focus on the computer today - my eyes are all buggy and my head hurts... I think my body is finally telling me that it's time to eat some carbs.. but I WON'T - I'm sticking to my guns... I'm not doing it --- NOPE. NOT DOING IT. We will see how today goes, but it should be ok ---

As for my progress - I hate the scale, so I'm going to say I have probably lost about 6 pounds (give or take) hahahahaha thats just me taking a guess on how I feel - so I could be totally wrong... but I will say, I have more energy and I just feel better about myself... I love food, but I love feeling this way so much better.....

Ok, I need to write some more posts -
FAT KID OUT FOR NOW.