me and weight

look at that skinny booty! 

Update, Jan 2012. I've been at this weight loss deal for over 10 months and am down a wild and crazy 64lbs and think I'm done! And I am thinking I will return to being a vegetarian! The wee red dress that was kind of a little goal of mine is now too loose to wear! Hahahaha, maybe I'll have to gain a few lbs to have it fit like it did on our wedding day!

Ok, let's get it out in the open, like boxers and clean diapers on the line for all my neighbors to see!
I am 6' 1" with,what Josh callsfierce curves or as some just call it thick! I have been told pretty much my whole life "oh you must have been great in sports or MAN I bet you smoked the volleyball net!" thank you for thinking so but NO! That was not me!
I was the girl into rock climbing, writing letters to friends, learning about holistic health, hiking mtns in NY, road trips and such, NOT into sports one bit unless is was watching hockey on the tube.
So, let's start with it! We do organic, grass fed blah blah blah as much as possible so one might expect me to be thin. Hmmm, I currently am under the impression that my weight has not as much to do with what I am eating but more about how much I am eating.
OK, OK, for any of you hiefers reading this right now saying "so awesome, Jen just gave me the rights of passage to eat an my ice cream cake" stop reading and find another blog!
I have gone through seasons of wicked intense activity which burns alot of junk, I once was a runner of 3 miles a day and felt like a goddess even if at a higher weight! In this picture I was a size 10 and still 40lbs over the suggested medical weight for my height!

But I have also found seasons, like right after my back injury at the youth shelter in 05. I was laid up for 6months, not active and had gotten into bad patterns of not eating much food which in turns slows the metabolism. Stress hormones latch onto food and will not allow it to burn as it should as it does in a healthy burning frame of reference! The metabolism gets all sluggish creating a whole new hawt mess because then when I did decide to eat, no matter how fabulous and healthy my choice, without a fired metabolism things gets stored wrong! My fat turns to just that, PHAT. Even if I used organic grapeseed and used very little, without a burning metab. my veggies nutrients get routed elsewhere, fat is fat and gross is begets gross! And when I don't feed my metabolism my body has no interest in food and has no real hunger!






My old daily pattern of food:
7:45am: breakfast, hot coffee that actually gets enjoyed cold, around 11am.
11:30am: lunch, make lunch for kiddos and grab a handful of almonds for me.
3pm: snack, sliced apples, almond butter and chunks of cheese for the kids.
5:45 dinner: quinoa, smoked chicken, grilled brussel sprouts.

My new pattern: oh the meat!
7:45am: breakfast, 6 oz of milk, one scrambled egg with green peppers diced super tiny, cooked in a half tbl organic coconut oil and a slice of toast
already feeling ravenous
9am: snack: a whole organic apple
11:45: lunch, 6oz grilled chicken breast, 2cups raw organic broccoli or other veg or one cup cooked veg.
1:30pm: another snack, an organic orange
5:45: dinner, 6oz grass fed and finished smoked beef, 1 cup cooked cabbage, one apple
I work over 3 Nalgenes a day which equals my 10 , 8oz glasses of water!

And that is that! As you can see the only form of diary in my ways for now is milk with breakfast! I'm not doing any cheese, so very sad, salad dressing, no salt on every single bite, no butta, no beer, NO SUGA either, which i miss that and salt desperately and still feel the call of that wild!

As the 3wks have passed I have grown to enjoy my routine and have been feeling way way better about life. Not just because I am turning my leaf and thinning my junk out I'm not struggling with depression anymore and have a radiating energy. All from feeding my metabolism the way it was designed to work, from being hydrated and looking at food differently. Yes, it does feel a little boring at times but adore.
I made a smoked chicken salad tonight that I could sell!

6 smoked chicken breasts tossed into the food processor, 3 Tbl olive oil mayo, 2 cloves garlic, 1 Tbl mustard, 1 tsp smoked chipotle powder and a lite dash of salt! It was killer!

Josh and I always have these talks about the recipes I come up with in my head and how much one would pay for such goodness. If I ever owned a restaurant as he wants me too or a little granola bistro this would be on the menu.
Another quick easy remix for dinner for everyone else was
Make quinoa as instructed on pkg. let it do it's thang on the stove then toss in chunks of smoked chicken breast, a lg handful of organic raisins, handful of fresh pineapple chunks, 3 cloves of garlic diced sm, dash of cumin and smoked chipotle powder, curry powder, black pepper and a dash of lite salt!

can you dig it?