Over night oats!!!

Over night oats are simple and easy for when you are in a hurry and on the go!

Usually, I don't have that much time to sit down and enjoy a nice breakfast, especially now that school has started up again! But now, I have the best quickie option for everyone, Over Night Oats !!!

It may look like a parfait to some, gross to others, and delicious to few ... Let me tell you though, it was a hallejujah moment when I ate it this morning!! 

-----get some chia seeds, THEY'RE BIG IN FIBER, and it's NATURAL! So put away your fiber chewies and eat the good stuff! 

I massed up one banana ( my mom told me to use the bananas bc they were going a little brown ) 

So I massed one banana with about 1/4 cup of chai seeds ( which also expand to any liquid that is mixed with it ) and I added 4 TBS of liquid egg whites and A LOT of cinnamon ( this mixture was all in a desperate bowl) 

I than took 1/4 cup of oats, added them to the bottom of my jar, added a few TBS of the chai/nana/whites concoction and added another 1/4 cup of oats and than the rest of the concoction ontop! 

Put that baby in the fridge and went to sleep :)

In the morning, I took the lid off and popped it in the microwave for about 1:00 ( my microwave is pretty powerful ) . 

I took it out, ( everything expanded) and than I popped the lid back on...

Got ready for work and class... And than I took it in my car with it and enjoyed :)

It tasted like a warm, delicious treat!

Enjoy and let me know what you think :) 

sugar, go away!

Hello everyone!
So, I'm not too sure about eating dairy, and if it is considered to be "clean" or not.

I suppose if I were to buy organic milk, than that would be considered "clean", or if I were to buy "natural" yogurt, that would be considered "clean" as well.

You may ask yourself, what is a "clean" diet like?
Everyone seems to have their own definition of "clean" eating. Some people consider it just being that you consume dairy, veggies, protein, complex carbs, fruit and water.

Well, you see, there is A LOT more to eating "clean" than you think!

To begin, there are many food products that get away with being "clean", because the product may have a "whole wheat" food label onto of the packaging, or maybe the food product will read the words "all natural ingredients", so people may assume that this food product is good for them.
There is more truth to all of this than you may think, boys and girls.

Have you ever actually read your ingredients in the food you are eating?
What is aspartame? ( its horrible for youre body, look it up. )
Why is my bread that I am buying at the super market made with high frutose corn syrup ( sugar that is bad for you. ).

Its time to get smart about the ingredients you are putting into your body!!
I know, I know, to many of you who are just starting out on your clean eating journey, you may think that reading the ingredient list is now an extra item on your todo list, but in all honesty, not trying to be dramatic, but you are saving you, and your loved one or ones lives by looking at that ingredient list. Chances are, you will not know what half of the ingredients are that you are consuming on the regular.
And if you think you do know what something is, but you still might wonder about it, please, LOOK IT UP. Chances are you will be really informed and very SHOCKED about what the food companies are getting away with to put into our food products.

anyway, sorry for this off rant that I just had!
ADHD ALERT.
any who, let me let you know what my CLEAN EATING is....
clean eating to me, is eating any food in its natural, purist form that it was grown or killed for ( i like meat. )
If a food product has more than a handful of ingredients in it, chances are I will not put it in or around my mouth. :0

and you know what, I honestly feel as if I am born again on earth once I started eating clean!
good bye nasty head aches, food comas, sugar rushes, addicting like behaviors, and so much more!

Food additives ( ingredients and chemicals that are added to our food to hold it together) should not exist! If i have to eat something that is made from chemicals, I should not be eating that!!

so, finally back to dairy, I was reading my moms greek yogurt nutrition label...
and I was looking at the sugar content, 21grams of sugar, doesnt seem like too much.
Yet, it is 21 grams of sugar OUT OF the 25 grams of carbs, 21 OF THOSE CARBS ARE PURE SUGAR.
that is not healthy for you!!!!
You can find better, natural ways to consume vitamin D ( if thats why you need to get your greek yogurt )
Sugar is addicting, its like crack, and you ALWAYS will want and crave more.

clean it up and out of your diet people, see what happens.

xoxo.
peace and love

and goodnight hugs!

jenny lo

Body Image & eating disorders

we are going to discuss how attaining a healthy body weight has to be balanced with a message about developing a healthy body image, setting realistic goals, and maintaining emotional well-being.

I am also going to briefly go over our society's obsession with thinness and dieting and eating disorders. 

shit is going to get real homie.

first of all, lets just give the media a big FUCK YOU for brain washing us all int believing what is beautiful, what looks good and what doesnt,what may or may not be the latest trends, what is "best" for us, and what goes.

I may get a little off topic for a moment, but that is only because I do not understand who the fuck decided that dolce and gabbana was going to say that a brown bag on my leg is going to be the next big thing ( this didnt really happen, but lets go with it for the point ). WHO THE FUCK made him the man, the one to call the shots? What if my out of wack fashion sense is just as fucking good as his own, I just have to rock the confidence and be able to make a few shirts, know my fabrics and shit, im a fashion designer. The advertising industry and the media are relentless in selling the American consumer an image of the ideal body, and many of us buy into WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY ARE SELLING!!!!! FUCK YOU MESSAGE OF THE MEDIA for being so fucking powerful.

oh, us poor souls who don't have the back bone to fucking not give two cares.

but, for all you out there who enjoy being told what to do and what to wear and how to look, it may or may not be effecting you emotionally, mentally, and physically, so stop! 

alright, so, just like all ideas, values, attitudes and beliefs, body image is the mental representation that a person has of his or her own body, including perceptions, attitudes, thoughts, and emotions----- all which are strongly influenced by culture.

lets take females.

The female body is portrayed by the media as an object of desire, and this beautiful objectification reinforces women's focus on their appearance.

the lovely media ( said with heavy sarcasm ) place a heavy emphasis on women's physical attributes rather than on their abilities, performance, or accomplishments.

since the 1950s,what is held to be the ideal female body in US culture has been getting thinner and thinner. Can we really keep up?

Yes, I get that now we have research on healthy body weight and obese, but, marilyn monroe was curvy, healthy, and beautiful. 

 * studies have shown that after women view media images of thin women, they are less satisfied with their own bodies than they are after viewing images of AVERAGE sized women.

this really scared me. 

eating disorders are most likely to develop during adolescence. 

this is because the hormonal change that happens in the females body causes increase in body fat, especially on the hips, buttocks, and thighs. 

if you or anyone you know has an eating disorder, or you believe they may, here are a few symptoms and characteristics of one.. 

Certain characteristics or thought patterns associated with eating disorders, including:

• Low self-esteem
• Self-critical attitude
• Belief in the importance of thinness
• Black-and-white thinking
• Feelings of emptiness
• Need for power and control
• Difficulty expressing feelings
• Lack of coping skills
• Lack of trust in self or others
• Perfectionism 

Anorexia is due to starvation, anorexia carries the highest death rate of all psychiatric diagnoses.  to the left is a picture of how it effects each part of your body.

Bulimia is another eating disorder that can also be deadly.

 < not all of these will be present in all people with the disease

VALUE yourself based on your GOALS,TALENTS, & STRENGTHS

rather than your body shape or weight.

How to treat a eating disorder :

• First step: Recognize problem

• Effective treatment 
• Therapeutic therapies ( I will make a separate blog for this! ) 

• multidisciplinary 
• multimodality team

• Possible hospitalization
• Once weight has been stabilized, the next phase is behavioral modifications through:

• Psychotherapy
• Behavior relearning and modification
• Nutritional rehabilitation and education 
• Medication

This next disorder is for my fellas as well as my ladies, but it is found more with the male than females!

Body Dysmorphic Disorder :

• Preoccupation with an imagined concern about a slight defect or exaggerated defect in appearance
  
• Preoccupation causes significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
  
• Other concerns related to this disorder are:

• Muscle Dysmorphia (obsession with muscle building) .. i may make a small blog for this disorder!

**TIP**

-try going a week without making any critical comments about your body- or anybody else!