Whelp, my faithful followers, it's the (almost) end of week one! (Insert mini-victory dance right about here.)
Believe it or not, it has been the less annoying, stressful, downright pitiful first dieting week I've had in a looong time, and yes, there's been a lot of firsts. Haha. Why do I say this though? Simply because I've never been so motivated, even though it's only day six. Generally, this is where I hit the "Jesus. Enough of the damn vegetables! " stage. I know, so soon.
Anywho. I've been finding myself balancing between getting creative every few nights, with things we just have in the house, and just grabbing yogurt/eating a turkey burger (sans bun, obviously).
Actually, I'm quite in love with how easy it is to throw a turkey burger on the grill and have something tasty that's nothing but pure protein (essentially). I had that and one of these spinach souffle things that are delicious for dinner, but I think I'm gonna have to limit the spinach things to once/twice a week - only because they do have a bit of potato and rice flour in them. Not that it's SUPER cheating, considering it's mainly spinach and egg, but it still feels like baby-cheating.
One thing I've really been playing with is cabbage. Personally? I friggin' love cabbage. Always have. St. Patty's day is like, heaven for me. All of the cabbage. It actually started when I wasn't feeling well and mom told me to make some soup, but I didn't quite want soup. I ended up making cabbage-turkey soup with ground turkey, savoy cabbage (it's the one that looks all wrinkly), chicken broth, salt, pepper, parsley and dried chives. That was it! And it was actually really good, hit the spot just right and even made me feel significantly better later that night.
The other night I still had this half a head of the cabbage laying about in the fridge, so I thought to myself . . . why don't I make something like stuffed-cabbage, without the rice? So I did! It was actually REALLY good. Unfortunately, when you're on this type of diet, you have to make it mass quantity, because I made a 10 inch skillet full of it, and at half of it by myself, no problem. Haha. Upside - It's all veggies and protein! (For those of you looking for the recipe, I'll post it on here once I get everything written down and figured out for sure.)
Another thing that I really want to talk about is a term that I've just recently been told about: Thinspo. Now. From what I've been told, it has a generally negative connotation because the concept primarily revolves around wonderfully healthy, beautiful girls who are already a healthy size, craving to be in a size 00. No joke, one post I saw on Tumblr about it was a girl wishing she could see her ribs, or another girl wanted that triangle that scary-skinny girls get between their cooter and their thighs, so their thighs never actually touch. Some of it's just straight-up horrible, but some girls do it right.
I believe there was an Aussie girl who was somewhere up near the 230 range who had successfully dropped down to 135 (the healthy way), but she posted all of her "thinspo" things on her Tumblr too.
The whole concept is that you just post things that inspire you to be thin - thinspiration, or, thinspo.
My shameless thinspo?
Lady Gaga, as seen in Marry the Night and Bad Romance. Holy wow.
Judge as you will, I can't give a what. Love the girl, no matter how bat-shit crazy she may be. Here's what I'm talkin' about though:
Super image heavy, I know, but do you all see what I'm talking about? I don't know how photoshopped she is in her own music videos, but even when she's bent completely backwards and lying down, you only see a hint of ribs. And her arms? They aren't disgustingly skinny. Or the shot of her in the red outfit - there's no visible pelvic bones there. She doesn't look scary. She's got a decent amount of meat on her. Now, I know my body is not Lady Gaga's body, but I can at least aspire to look close.
I want to be thin, and fit. Not a stick. I've got new tunes to rock out to, and a whole lot of excerise routines to keep me going. I also understand that this is a serious undertaking. Lady Gaga, in the Bad Romance video, I believe was about 5'3" and 120 pounds. That's actually really healthy for her. For 5'4", which I know I am, the healthy weight is between 108 and 132, depending on frame size. At the moment, if I can even make it to 135 by April, I'll be over the moon. We'll see. I know that I've got my work cut out for me, and there's no such thing as cutting corners here. If I'm gonna do this, I have to do it the right way, and really stick to my guns.
Luckily, I've found that writing in my personal journal every night really does keep me on top of things. It also keeps the super-bitchy comments away from the internet and all to me onesies. Anywho. Sorry for the super long blog! Just thought I'd share what's going on so far. :)
Oh, and? 160. Progress is happening. :)
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