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!

sleep!

Since I am a college student, this blog about sleep was a must have topic for me!

We as humans spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping!

Now, according to a study,
individuals with severe sleep deprivation ( staying awake 19-24 hrs ) scored worse on performance and alertness tests than people who are legally too drunk to drive (0.1 % )

Symptoms of Sleep Deprivation:

• day time drowsiness
• sleepy while reading
• sleepy while watching tv
• if you fall asleep the instant your head hits the pillow ( a well rested person only takes 15/20 minutes to fall asleep)

NREM sleep ( non rapid eye movement ) 75% of sleep time

• stage 1- relaxed/ half awake (10 sec-10 mins)
• stage 2- brain activity slows, you stop moving (10-20 mins) beginning of your actual sleep

^ - people awaken during these two stages say that they weren't really sleeping

• stage 3/4- blood pressure drops, heart rate and respiration slow, blood to brain shorten (20-40 mins)

^- people awaken in stage 4 feel groggy,  your in a "deep sleep"

REM sleep ( rapid eye movement ) 70-90 minutes after falling asleep

• breathing and heart rate go up
• brain activity is similar if you were awake
• experience first dream ( although you can in all stages )
• no muscle tone
• body can't move
• ideas are filed in long term storage

- if you sleep for 8 hours, your body cycles 5 times in the sleep cycle of NREM & REM

** IMPORTANT**

- memory may be impaired if sleep time is insufficient, as a result to memory impairment, the ability to learn new skills is also impaired. performance in learning a new skill does not improve until an individual has had 6 hours of sleep; performance improves even more after 8 hours of sleep!

  

things to remember when trying to get a good nights rest!

1. ideal sleep temperature is 62-65, temps above 75 and below 54 cause people to awaken
2. caffeine doubles sleep time
3. take no longer than 45 minutes of naps, you'll enter stage 4 of deep sleep and it will be more difficult to wake you up and you will feel more groggy
4. 7-9 hours of sleep a night is ideal for optimal health and growth 

Email me if you have any questions and need help on falling asleep and how to get a propers nights rest!

hope you were somewhat informed!!

GOT THE POWER! keep up the motivation

Hey everyone! So I know I haven't kept up with my writing but A LOT has happened. From school, to work ( current weight watchers employee!) to loosing my power for two and a half weeks :/ to currently studying my ass off for my anatomy class, it's been a nightmare!!!
I haven't gotten a good workout in for about two and a half weeks now!
But, I was doing some ab work and lite leg work by candle light!! Lol

But, i will be posting a food log, I had to keep track of my emotions with what I ate daily and what I ate at each meal and all that good stuff for one of my nutrition classes in school !!!

Today's Moto : don't be lazy. You'll become hazy. Instead, WORKOUT LIKE CRAZY!!!! :)

Im about to go work out.. but remember, Rome wasn't built in a day .. Neither will you're hot body if you do it THE HEALTHY, RIGHT way :)

If you do it healthy and go on a well balanced diet and exercise program, you will KEEP that fat and flab away because you WORKED hard for it :)

Ciao!

Healthy shrimp stir fry!

Little sister made dinner!!! Looks like she was trained right!
Recipe for shrimp stir fry

Ingredients:
*baby shrimp
*2 frozen bags of natural mixed veggies
*tri colored whole wheat pasta
*some olive oil ( we hardly measure that)
*fresh basil
*splash of lemon juice
*pepper
*dash of sea salt ( its better for you than regular salt)
*any other added flavoring ( we like to create our own flavors in my house, lol )

Directions:
*cook the baby shrimp in a low pan first
*add the veggies and seasoning to the shrimp while adding your oil( don't over do the oil)
*in a separate bowl, boil your pasta
*when the pasta is ready , add to the shrimp and veggie mixture
*add a little bit more seasoning and enjoy!!
From my sister to you guy!!

first blog ya'll!!!

hey hey hey!! whats everyone eatin/cooking in their kitchen today?

I once read a book called "skinny bitch". It helped me get on the right track with my healthy eating, AND it was really informative on what I thought was healthy vrs what actually is healthy.

I advise everyone to read that book!! Back in my high school years, girls on my basketball team noticed my lbs really started to shed off yet they saw how OFTEN i was EATING! huhhh???
got to owe it all to my friends and the publishers of skinny bitch!!! and shout out to my cousin, Jessica who introduced that to me!

I am now feeling totally awesome and love my life!
skinnybitchbooksite

I loveeee cooking my own food. Cooking is a type of THERAPY for me and helps me cope with certain disorders. It not only is a type of therapy but it also gets me involved and really take care of myself.  thanks me!

Today for breakfast I had a a cup of fruit and some cereal with chocolate soy milk! :) YUM!
dig in everyone for lunch!!! its also almost pilates and yoga time!! (WINNING!!!)

leave any comments and or thoughts! woo hoooo!

oh, ps, i found my "little pink book!" 
its my tiny notebook where i write all of my thoughts on healthy living!
enjoy your day everyone!
love.live.give.accept. go on