A big FAT thanks!

After only writing a few blogs, I have received tremendous amounts of comments, help, amazing opinions, and "I love your blogs!" Soooo, I just want to take a few minutes to say thanks!! You all are awesome and make this clean eating, working out, life journey, much more manageable and enjoyable. The amount of facebook messages of people supporting the blog and my "new" eating are redic. My friends have been so overly supportive, and have only had kind words of encouragement!! Hooray! We can do it together!!



I also want to say a HUGE thank you to my sister!! She probably doesn't realize this but I think she is totally an inspiration!! Homegirl, started her weight loss at a work event to be the "biggest loser" and she is kicking some serious booty!! Carrie has cleaned up  her eating, and rocks out at the gym, and boy has it paid off! She has lost 41 lbs the last time I asked her about it!! The last day of the competition is in 2 weeks-ish. And in that time, Carrie will be going on a cruise with her family. I dont know about y'all, but on all the cruises I have been on, I came back hella full of food and weight about 7 lbs heavier. I asked her if she was going to weigh in before she went on vacay so she could stuff her face, and her response was simple, "No Pig, I cant just go back eating shit the way that I used to just because I am on vacation." (PS she has called me some variation of *Pig* my whole life) How awesome is that! Way to go dude, you're freaking awesome and I hope you win the competition! Thanks for inspiring me  to feel better and maybe this can turn into a family thing where the rest of the fam takes steps towards a healthier lifestyle too!!

My inner fat kid loves Jenna Marbles

Ahh Jenna Marbles. My best friend and far away neighbor. Or so I would like to think if we ever met each other. She basically is hitting the nail directly on the head today with this one about falling off the wagon, into the ocean of eating. Damn inner fat kid. I want to put my butt in a bikini.

 

Keeping with Jenna's fat kid confession theme, here is a list of jacked up things that I have done that have involved food in the past few weeks.

1. The answer is, YES I have scrounged up change in the apartment to buy cheeseburgers. No one wants a charge on their credit card that says McDonald's...$4.58 

2. Leveled off 6, 8 inch round cakes and eaten the top cut off parts of ALL OF THEM

3. Tried a spoonful of Crisco, just to see how my frosting was going to taste

4. Eaten a whole bag of chocolate chips, and Hershey kisses which are just giant chocolate chips

5. Oh those new Lays flavored chips- bought all three-demolished the by the next day (My favorite is chicken and waffles BTW)

6. Sometimes I eat sprinkle cheese right out of the bag, with my hand.

7. I have made butter cream just to eat-not to frost a cake. Same goes with Cookies. 

8. I have bought a pre-made, microwavable, personal apple pie, which I ended up eating at 10:30 at night!! WTF

9. Spoonfuls of peanut butter don't really cut it for me. My average PB consumption in one sitting is somewhere around 1/4-1/2 a cup of the creamy, delicious, smooth, delicacy. YUM

10. And lastly, sometimes we roll to the grocery and just by shit because we can. We call them fat nights. Two pizzas, some breadsticks, chicken wings, a gallon of milk, E.L.Fudge elf man cookies, and some oreos really balance it out.

Too bad I was not lifting weights while I was typing this.

Pick up something heavy and we will move it together :)

peer pressure for the win

Well, obviously I have taken a bit of time off for my non-existent blogging life. Whatever. In the last year, have been all over the map.  I lost 30 lbs for the wedding like I had planned, honeymooned (gained 5 lbs), over-indulged in married life (+4 lbs),  watched my husband go through taking the NC bar (+2 lbs), recently realized that I can bake pretty legit cakes, and people buy them, whaaa??? [Translate that as "I am eating creme and cake like a fatlard" (+4 lbs)] and finally, begun the wonderful process of purchasing a house! Add another fat 2 pounders to the total and you get....17 lbs gained back. shame. By the time we close in April, I will be into my groove again!!

So you may be asking, "Whats the deal with the peer pressure Linds? Why the title??" Well, my friend Amy has been kicking some serious booty losing weight and frankly I'm jealous. I have been watching her shrink and then going home and stuffing my face with peanut butter, thinking that it was okay because I just taught a spin class. [yes true-overweight spin instructor right here--this will be addressed in another blog I'm sure at some point] I need a reality check and she has given me one. Thanks Amy!! I am finally on board with you and am geared to rock this out!!

In the mean time here is look at my sick cake action. It is ridiculous how awesome I am. They are all butter cream and not printed decals...I'm pretty proud!!

UNC Ehyyooooo

KISS- You cant go wrong!!!

Dr. Seuss!!