Update to the post: Juicing Diet

It's been three month since I started that juicing diet.  And let me tell you, nothing comes easy, especially when you work, have friends, are bored and even more so, when you have family.  Here's why....

My first two weeks, I was doing GREAT.  Dropped 12 lbs..mostly water and all that crud that your body holds in your big intestines.  But then, work and friends at work slowly started to creep into my diet bubble.  That's what I called it my juicing diet, bubble sounds better than diet and basically "dieting" never really works...the lifestyle change is what works.  Anyways, friends at work would say hey "we're all going to lunch for so-and-so's last day"..well, I didn't want to see like I didn't care they were leaving..so, I went to lunch.  Then, my boss would say.."were all working long hours and hard, so why don't you go and get pizza for everyone and we'll just have lunch in"..great, more food.  Oh, man, then at family dinner (every Saturday night we would have dinner at my mom's), here I an doing really well getting use to hardly any solid foods, and what does she bust out...baked potatoes, sour cream, butter, green bean with the crunch onions on top and rib eye steak..  BOOM, from that day on, my juicing went out the window.

I've come to realize that either 1) I wasn't ready for a lifestyle change 2) I love food too much 3) I have no will power and 4) I wasn't serious.  Come to find out...it's all 4 reasons.

I ended up gaining back the weight I lost, plus 5 more. FML

At the moment, I'm happy to say, I've found something inside myself that has allowed for me to start to change.  I started doing things that make me happy and not worrying about what other think of me.  I've started back at the gym.  I'm not crazy hardcore like some people, but a simple 10 or 15 miles bike ride on a stationary with one of my favorite movies playing is great.  I've been trying to get into the lap pool, but it's hectic at my gym.  I've also found that if I drink a protein shake in the morning, eat some veggies or a salad at lunch I can pretty much eat no dinner or have very little food without losing energy throughout the day.

The main reasons for this change in my life has roughly to do with 3 things.  One, I need to become more healthy.  Two, I need to become more healthy because planing for a family is in the very near future. And lastly, I need to become healthy for myself; my well-being, my physical nature and my mental nature.

What are your reasons?

The Dark Knight Rises - Design By Humans

So, I work for this company Design By Humans.  We just finished this insane contest with Warner Brothers.

First a little bit about the company  the way I view it.  DBH is an online t-shirt and artist community.  Basically, we sell shirts that have art on them.  Not like Picasso, but the artist who can envision a whole different world.  It so crazy what some of these artist can do.  This site holds so many different type imagery and emotions, more than I ever thought.  I get lost in looking at all of them.  Usually when you look for tshirts...you look for the coolest design or if the design is "in style" However, when I look at the designs, I find myself wondering what these artists were feeling or what they were trying to express.  In the end, I end choosing shirts that go with my mood, shirt that express what I'm feeling or who I am.  And thanks to these artist, I have another means of expressing myself.

Now, how does this relate to this crazy Dark Knight contest.  Check out the submissions for this contest.  The vision and the amount of detail is ridiculous.  Even though I haven't been a huge of Batman ever since Christian Bale took the role, I still have give props to these artist and this movie coming up.

For the past couple of months we have been working around the clock and nonstop gearing up for this event. We've gone all out, even Christopher Nolan picked the top three designs, were doing live feeds with the artist who won, and all I can really think about is....how the hell did these artist envision something that so many people would connect to.  I mean, everyone has t-shirts, but when it comes to connecting with a drawing, how you feel when you put it on...that's so crazy.  I've been looking at all of the submissions for weeks and there has always been this one shirt that I keep going back to.  Staring at it, letting my eyes follow wherever it is being led to by the artist design.  I mean, I'm  not one to pan over batman items, but still, when I think of a shirt on the design by humans site, I can only think of one.

Obviously, you can tell I'm nothing close to an artist...I think my closest creation was some project with pop-sickle sticks or chalk.  But just like everyone else, I'm a dreamer and a day-dreamer.

Tell me, just look at some of the designs on the DBH site and give some of your feedback...I'd love to hear!

Juicing Diet

So, one night I was laying in bed going through my Netflix movies and saw something called "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" .  Anywho, I stayed up and watched it.  It blew my mind.  So after much deliberation, I decided to try juicing.  I bought myself one of those juicers, the "Hamilton Beach 67650 Big Mouth Pro Juice Extractor".

I guess I should give some particulars.  I weighed myself when I started this, which was yesterday 2/22/2012.  Yup, I've gained some weight, I'm a whole 190lbs.  Sometimes I think back to about 5 years ago, before I met my fiance, a whole 45lbs lighter...I like to blame our relationship, but there's only one person to blame..me.

So, not only have started to juicing, i started to use the iPhone app: Lose It!  It totally tracks calories and such.  Which is great.  Keeps you honest, when you start to plus in the data, there is really no use if you lie to yourself.

Ok, here I go: 
I am 190 lbs as of 2/22/2012.  My goal is to lose 40lbs and be my best healthy weight of 150lb.  According to my "Lose It" my daily goal of calories is 1,235.  This will essentially allow me to
"lose" 2 lbs per week.  Mind you, this is with no physical activity.  I'm sure it will increase if I start back up at the gym.  I think that Lose It said that by the beginning of July or middle of July, I'll be my 150lbs.  We'll see!!!


I'll report once a week and give my feedback and results!

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: How often do you day dream about being a different...

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: How often do you day dream about being a different...: Honestly, I have to admit, I do it a lot. It helps me focus and become more driven to reach my goals. Yesterday, I saw a news broadcast ab...

How often do you day dream about being a different version of you?

Honestly, I have to admit, I do it a lot.  It helps me focus and become more driven to reach my goals.  Yesterday, I saw a news broadcast about "women in technology" and later that day, I began to think, "well, I work for a "tech/eCommerce" business, why shouldn't I try to further my career in this industry?"

Let me take a step back real quick.  I love my job.  I couldn't be more happier right now at any other company, especially my last one, but that's a whole other story.  I work for a company who owns a couple of online t-shirt sites.  But somewhere in this fast pace growing company, creation of websites comes into play.  I am not a designer or developer, but I know how projects are supposed run and I have great all-around business knowledge; which is why I work here.  My titles in this business are: Project Manager, Human Resource Manager and Office Manager.  Now to get back to the topic.

Because the company I work for creates web pages, I'm not that fined tuned into the lingo and how things work, but that really doesn't stop me from doing my job.  After listening to that news broadcast I mentioned above, it made me realize that if I had more knowledge about programming, I could totally do little end jobs here instead of having to wait for my senior developers.  How amazing would it be to be asked to task one of my developers with a small and easy task, and then turn around to my boss and say, well, I can just fix it!!!

This is why I day dream about being a different version of me.  A better version.  I think day dreaming is a great way to see yourself in the future.  

Unforgettable Moments

Has moments in your past ever come back to haunt you?  It happens to me all the time...when I'm driving, doing my hair, shopping; all the time.  Unforgettable moments that aren't necessarily bad, but moments that makes you literally stop what your doing and freeze while your brain is reliving those moments.  These moments are usually started when something out of the blue happens.  For example, I was sitting at red light and to my left a car was trying to make a right hand turn.  Because traffic was so bad, the car kept inching closer and closer to the curb that was to the right of them.  They had inched so much that their right front tire ended up on the curb.  As their light turned green, they proceeded, but much to their dismay, their tire came down off the curb but ended up scratching the hell out the rim.  All of a sudden, there I was remembering when the same thing happened to someone I was in the car with.  Yet, even though I wasn't driving, I was being yelled at and the memory continues.  I started to laugh once the moment was over, but I couldn't help to think; what would that person who was yelling at me do now, now that fancy rims aren't that important anymore.  Would I still get yelled at, would the events after that occurrence still happen, or would they just yell "SHIT" like everyone else, go home, look at it and then shrug their shoulders?   

It's these unforgettable moments that make you think about growth, understanding and most of all, how some people can just be idiots and at the time, rage is in the air, but in the future, it makes for good conversation.