Boot Camp Week 4 Day 3

Maybe the publishing world heard us last week when we toldja our girl Jennifer Hudson was having a tough time getting a book deal about her weightloss. Well, things have changed! J-Hud signed a deal to write a book on her dramatic weight loss. The ‘Dreamgirls’ star will be opening up about how her unhealthy eating habits which she says began at an early age. The Weight Watchers spokesperson famously shed 80lbs in less than two years, going from a size 16 to a size 6.

She’ll share her weight issues, and some of her own best tips for losing and maintaining weight loss, fitting in exercise and keeping the pounds off. In the mean time, someone needs to share with her that with the weight shed those breast aren’t the same beast they use to be and she can hide the push bras and stretch marks, right now!

SOURCE: E! NEWS

Lunch: baked chicken, salad leaves, chorizo, onion and nandos sauce. Yum, nandos sauce is so good on salad if you like spicy food :)

I’m inclined to disagree with you knowing how to abandon a food, considering meat is different than cheese - meat doesn’t have casein. Casein is the milk protein that you’re addicted to.

We do deal with a lot, as vegans, and I commiserate with what you’re saying about getting shit from friends - I find that people being unsupportive of my diet, even though it’s no concern of theirs and doesn’t hinder their lives in any way, is the only hard part of this lifestyle for me. You know what, though? I don’t have any friends who say it’s stupid, because no ‘friend’ wouldn’t take the time to try and understand a life and moral change like veganism that literally hurts no one. If your ‘friends’ are being called stupid and aren’t willing to support you in something you care about, it’s really high time to get some new friends.

As for keeping up with everything, I’m not sure what to tell you - yes, there’s a lot of ingredient-reading in veganism. Yeah, there’s a lot of explaining. Worse, there’s a lot of substituting, especially when you find out our favorite alcoholic drink or shampoo, etcetera, isn’t vegan. But you do it because living cruelty-free means more to you than convenience and hopefully someday (as it’s been starting for years and years) veganism will be as convenient as an omnivore diet. We already have so many amazing products that make our lives easier (one being Daiya, obviously) and the list goes on from there. This day and age, it’s not hard to be a vegan - it’s just mind over matter.

Vegansoapbox has a list of how to get cheese out of your diet - I’ll throw it in for good measure: http://www.vegansoapbox.com/i-cant-live-without-cheese/

Fitness Fun Fact:

I love double and sometimes quadruple dating. My boyfriend and I have so much fun hanging out and connecting with our friends. This more than likely ends up with us all meeting up to go out to dinner to catch up or heading to the movies together and ordering the popcorn. Last night, we changed that. We met up with my best friend and her fiancée at the park last night! We laced up our shoes and went for a 2 mile jog/run. Afterwards, we raced each other to see who was faster in the park parking lot(of course my boyfriend and I won!). It was a different type of meet up but we all had a blast and the best part: we burned calories and drank water instead of consuming calories with food and alcohol. This is just one of the things that we have done together fitness wise. As a matter of fact, my boyfriend and I are actually in a competition with my best friend and her fiancée!  Two weeks ago, we took before pics together. The couple who has made the most improvement at the end of July will receive a prize from the other couple! Cool, huh? It’s funny because the men are so competitive that in return they have been pushing my best friend and I to work that much harder. So fitness fact of the day is, include your friends in your fitness goals. You will have fun and all get healthier at the same time. Now that’s what I call a win win situation! 

““The main thing diagnoses are good for is sussing out what your shrink thinks of you — Bipolar Affective Disorder means they like you, Unipolar means you’re boring, Borderline Personality Disorder means they hate you and Schizophrenic means you scare the shit out of them because they can’t keep up with your thinking.””

- Blackbridge 1997

great video!

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Lots of excitement today.

Always trust a yoga student

Hmmm no…The other day someone said he like this one picture of me two years ago because I was ‘busty”. No, I never have been- you can credit my supposed bustiness to a good bra and flattering shirt.

Oh and then he said I’m going to feed you so much so you can look like that again. So yea I took that in a negative way. I was ticked.

I went vegan out of pure disgust for what I was eating, and for what I’d eaten all my life. The truth of the matter is, I think cannibalism is fucking unbearably gross - and eating animals is not different. Whether it’s a product of an animal, the eggs, or the flesh itself, it’s all the same. I went vegan because I no longer wanted to be a speciesist hypocrite contributing to an industry that commits genocide on hundreds of thousands of harmless creatures with the same natural right we have to not be made to die prematurely or be exploited. As it says in my sidebar, the vegan lifestyle is devoid of murder, cruelty, speciesism, and contribution to the rape the dairy industry exists from. 

Beyond that? Veganism is the cleanest way to live (besides raw veganism, but that’s a step I cannot take yet). All the dairy you consume contains an incredible amount of fat, drugs, and not to mention byproducts you don’t want to be consuming (pus, blood, radiation from Japan…) the list goes on. I don’t want that in my body at all. We’re not meant to digest dairy or flesh - why do you think like 90% of the population of the world is lactose intolerant to some degree? That’s an insane amount. 

See my Dairy, Milk, Meat, and Animal Cruelty tags for more reasons why I’m vegan.

Saturday, June 11, 2011 8:46

Your health is not a number,

your health is a feeling. Stop paying attention to what the scale says and start looking at how much more energy you have, how you can walk up those pesky stairs without panting when you get to the top, how you actually ENJOY doing physical activity just because.

You are you. Your body type, proportions, and physical capabilities are different than those “thinspo” girls you may aspire to be. Don’t try to be them. Try to be you, at your best.

So instead of moping about how you can’t get those super-defined hip bones, or that gap between your thighs, see the improvements you have made since you first started becoming healthy. See how YOU, yourself, have caused all this change by hard work and dedication. Reaching your full potential don’t come for free, and you my friend are rich in the resources necessary to become fit and healthy—

Strength. Willpower. Hope.