A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Clearly I did not write this peice but thought it was very interesting so I am putting it here. You would know I wrote it if it had:

“cake” looks like a celebration must eat.

My boss brought in a box of doughnuts.  At least a dozen.  They are on the counter…..right….over….there.

She even opened them up, displaying and sending the sweet aroma of deep fried batter and sugar through the room.  Standing at the counter (where the evil doughnuts are) describing the different kinds she got for everyone. 

No one is touching them.  The three women here seem to be immune (that’s three OTHER women)  The young man across from me just sneered is all.

I am sitting here, thinking about them, refusing to be the fat girl that dives into the doughnuts first.  Refusing to dive in at all, instead blogging about them.

AND I’m actually down a couple pounds.  I see my girlfriend next week and I do not want to put them back on before that (or at all in fact), which one bite of one doughnut would do.  Cause that would result in eating the entire doughnut and perhaps when no one was around another one (or two). 

Its not even like you can tell I’ve lost anything but it feels good.  The early morning workouts are working.

……this just in, they are not immune they are now looking at and cutting up to “share” or just have a “taste”.  Fat girls and skinny girls are just different beings!

Small baby steps, but better then crawling or flailing around whining.

Getting up in the mornings (read 4am) for cardio, getting in more regular stretching and slowly building stamina on the running.  What I have noticed increasing is the ****** desire to run ******  yes you read that correctly. 

Last week when my evenings were consumed with the deck, oh and unrelenting cold and rain I missed the running.  I was looking forward to running on Sunday, the first day I could fit it in.  Again a week down made me wonder where I left my lungs but the recovery was so much quicker and I was done, back home and feeling great in no time.

I have been getting up in the mornings at 4am and doing cardio.  But my other workouts this week have been building a deck.  Lots of work.  Feels good to be on fitness “project deck”.

Gotta love all the natural workouts that summer provides.  Not that you can tell its summer by the weather around here but the deck work and the garden work are surely adding to my exercise these days.

I realize I haven’t blogged on this site for nearly a month.
That doesn’t mean I had completely fallen off plan and am under the table in some chocolate induced comma. I am still maintaining despite all of the distractions lately.

It has been quite a month. First being layed off and then having family arrive on leave from the air force. They flew in on the 12th of April and so I had a house full for 3 weeks. Visiting and catching up and meeting my newest niece was fantastic. It did mean the already interrupted schedule because of no job was even more disjointed. I did manage to continue working out and running just not as much as I could have. The food brought into my house was not stuff I would usually buy and I did partake of more calories then I should have but I have been continuing to make good choices.

I am now in California for eleven wonderful days with Chari. I brought workout gear with me and plan on getting some excersize while I’m here. We went to Monterey Bay over the weekend and I had some fantastic food and I did split a piece of chocolate covered cheesecake (on a stick) with Chari but am pretty happy with my choices.

There is also a lunch interview tomorrow and hopefully soon a job offer to follow (4th interview with this company). I know once I’m back to a normal routine with a job and normal schedule the workout’s and blog’s will be more routine as well.

Last night I wanted Chips and Salsa, I had the salsa and chips were only a brief trip to the store away. But I resisted. I was not hungry, I was not bored, I was a bit stressed from working on my resume but there was no “need” for this snack.

In fact I don’t have any typical snack food in the house, except maybe a piece of fruit there isn’t anything that doesn’t need to be prepared in some way. I know I often have the thought, I will buy these “chips”, “ice cream”, “cookies”, “snack foods” and I will limit myself to one serving if I decide to have them. When everything is on track that can be done. However I know that food is an issue for me, I abuse it when I’m bored, lonely, stressed, and currently I’m stressed and depressed about being layed off.

I have come to realize that I should never buy “snack foods”, truthfully there is no need for them. There are always fruits and veggies in the house and if in fact I’m hungry one of those will sound appealing. If I’ve already had my calories for the day and I’m not hungry there is no need for a snack, even if I’m bored and it sounds good.

How is snacking taking care of myself?

Also because I resisted, I am not retaining any water from all the salty chips I did not eat last night.

I have seen this twice on other blogs this week. It is worth watching and is so telling.

Staying on course, or rather getting on course takes day after day after day dedication. Getting into a routine, making your workout a priority, getting up early to do it, or skipping evening events to fit it in. It takes determination to succeed. Once you are in the routine and get to a place that you are enjoying and actually craving the workout (Ok, I know some of you are saying,,,,ya right!) it is easier to stay on course. That is until you miss a day, or a weekend. Like I did two weekends ago when I had to work so much. Then I was completely spent for the rest of the week and even though I was actually missing the workout I was to damn tired to do it. Then Chari came to town and we were determined to both get back on track. We took a couple long walks but my gym door never opened.

And would you look at that, it has been 2.5 weeks since I worked out……HOW does that happen, oh wait I jut explained how it happened.

I even got up this morning at 4:30 to work out, but I didn’t, I drank coffee and watched the news and again didn’t open the gym door.

**********coming soon, the post about how I am back on course
(any friggen day now)*****

There will be no workout today. In fact when my 4:15 alarm went off and I was at my desk still from yesterday it scared the heck out of me. I have been at work since yesterday afternoon except a 90 minute window at 1:30 am to go home shower and change out of my (workout, housework, shouldn’t leave the house in fugly) sweats.

So here is today’s goal……to not eat like a sleep deprived sophomore. By the time I leave this afternoon I will have been here for 24 hours, minus said shower time. I will have been up far many more hours then that and the temptation to eat to stay awake should be hitting here very soon and will be in full force by the time I get home this evening.

That is the only goal I have the energy for, and I will be much better off if I can stick to it.

Oy this week.

So my goal for the week was to get a week under my belt (so to speak) with working out daily and tracking my food. Not just working out but getting good workouts in and not just tracking my food but staying in the goal range for calories and not eating more then I use.

Its Thursday. I have gotten up earlier every day this week and found a way to get good cardios in every morning. The plan was to focus on weights and stretching at night. Well Monday night I cleaned the carpet instead and then Tuesday I worked late, not getting home until almost 8pm. Last night I met up with Leslie and Char to discuss the Marathon training and our weight loss and fitness challenges and didn’t get home until 8:40pm. I will be working late tonight and most likely tomorrow along with possibly working both days this weekend.

It makes it difficult to get up at 4:15 if I don’t go to bed at 9pm but I feel like I’m in 8th grade going to bed so early. But even with the schedule challenges this week I have been working out and I have been tracking my food and staying in range.

I feel pretty good about it. Somehow I have managed to get everything else done on my list as well. Perhaps it is just that If I get less sleep to get more exercise I need less sleep and have more energy. Self fulfilling prophecy perhaps. But firmly planted on the track this week (including my food choices while eating out) Woo Hoo me.