Diet Chronicles: Day 6-8

Diet and Lifestyle Advice from Jack Dorsey

Ok, to say that I have fallen off the "diet wagon" is an understatement. The weekends are always tough for me to stick to a diet. I usually go home to my parents house or to visit friends. I can't seem to shake the "it's the weekend and I can do whatever I want" mentality and the s'mores at a family bon fire this weekend were too good to resist. So much for a diet that is low in sugar. I'm pretty sure just one ingredient in a s'more is over the 26 grams of sugar you are supposed to have a day, let alone the rest of them. 

However, yesterday marked the first day of a new week and a new week allows me to get back on the wagon with all the other sugar deprived. While a diet low in sugar  may not be as trendy as other diets (or technically a diet at all, more of a healthy way of eating) or have as many celebrity endorsers, it does have a few famous promoters. Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, recently mentioned avoiding sugar as part of a keys to success speech at the Y Combinator's Startup School. 

Some of his rules:

DO:

-Stay present.
-Be vulnerable.
-Drink only lemon water and red wine.
-Do six sets of 20 squats and pushups every day.
-Run for three miles.
-Meditate on this list.
-Stand up straight.
-Spend 10 minutes with a heavy (punching) bag.
-Say “hello” to everyone.
-Get seven hours of sleep.

DON’T:

-Avoid eye contact.

-Be late.

-Set expectations you can’t meet.

-Eat sugar.

-Drink hard liquor or beer during the weekday.

Click here for the original source 

I must say I'm a little iffy on some of his rules. I don't know about only drinking lemon water and red wine. Where's the coffee or tea? I don't own a heavy punching bag nor do I have access to one. Meditate on this list? Is he making fun of us? But I do think, that for the most part his list seems pretty clever, sort of a rough guide to living a motivated and positive lifestyle. 

And who am I to not follow the advice of a billionaire? Thank you Jack for motivating me to stay on my low sugar diet. I just hope that someone doesn't say anything to me that is mean when I awkwardly make eye contact with them at they gym (bound to happen) since I will be very vulnerable and tired after running three miles.  

P.S. Jack forgot to mention 
Do:
- wear Dior Homme cotton poplin reverse collar shirt ( a favorite of his)

Diet Chronicles: Days 3 & 4

When does this....

turn into this?

Its only been 4 days and I am hitting my first wall. Aside from a "splurge" meal of mexican that I had yesterday for lunch my diet has been pretty good and broccoli filled. After many meals packed with fiber, good fats, and enough broccoli to kill a horse I have yet to see any changes to my body or my motivation. I realize that these things takes time but in a world of instant everything I find that I am having a hard time being patient. 

In order to make up for my bad meal I decided to take a Zumba class and it totally killed me. The fact that a 60 year old kindergarten/Zumba teacher can shake her ass better than me makes me sad but also proud at the same time. 

Note to self: master ass clapping so I can show the young'uns how we did it in the 20-teens.

Diet Chronicles: Day 02

Will this lead to that? (picture below)?

Lets hope so.

So the second day of my dieting adventures started off kind of crazy. They say that one of the key ways to keep up with a healthy diet is to always be prepared. Keeping this in mind I bought granola bars yesterday, not the good ones, but the good for you ones with flax seed and stuff. Those granola bars would have been so handy to grab and go when I woke up this morning at 7:25! I have to be at work at 8:00 and that includes a 10 minute drive, so I was super rushed. Turns out (after I wasted a few minutes of precious time looking), the granola bars must not have come home with me so I was forced to eat like 3 spoonfuls from half an avocado I had already cut, coffee, and a plastic shot glass full of cereal (it was the only thing I had that could be taken on the go). Note: Buy paper bowls

While there isn't a breakfast much more satisfying than drinking coffee out of a tall plastic glass and eating cereal in my car, I can think of a few other options I might have preferred. Needless to say I was extremely hungry at lunch. So I ate the rest of the leftover chicken and rice that I had yesterday for lunch. Not super high on the healthy foods list but not that bad either. At least it wasn't a brownie, (regular or special).

Dinner was an unexciting but pretty tasty chicken burrito with green beans and a salad. A weird combo, I know, but its what I had in the fridge. 

As for exercise I have decided, much like Miley,  to work with what I was given and ignore what I wasn't. Miley has decided that since she's kind of flat in the back she's going to show what she does have: her fupa and nipples. Similarly, since I don't have much going on up top, I'm going to have to focus on getting the best behind that I can. I want to look Brazilian by the end of this.  Or Israeli. Or Australian. Or any of the Victoria's Secret models and the countries they represent. 

As a result I went to a step class at the local gym. While I originally thought it was going to be the only young person in a sea of fading estrogen and that I would absolutely kill it, the class turned out to be a mix of young and old and I absolutely got my ass handed to me. The actual step part of the class wasn't so bad but the arm workout was brutal. At one point I, we were doing lateral raise (or that's what I think they are called) and we were supposed to lift our weights to form a T with our arms. By that point my arms were so tired that the best I could do was raise them a 1/3 of the way and was left looking more like a sad A than a strong T. 

Oh well. At least I've made it through 2 days without too much struggle.

Diet Chronicles: Day 00

Girl loved mimosas, fired chicken, bacon, and mashed potatoes on her diet. Sounds like a diet I wouldn't mind being on!

Maybe Marilyn was onto to something with her diet of raw eggs whipped into milk? It certainly did a body good!

She sometimes dieted on a baked potato with sour cream and caviar one time a day. Not much food but look at those collar bones! It worked girl!

If you look at my previous posts, it doesn't seem very likely that I'm the type of person to post about diet and fitness. I mean my previous food related posts have been about pancakes and alcohol and I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure those are diet no no's. However, I love reading about bloggers or journalists attempts at following the newest or crazy diet out there. Some of my favorites include Rebecca Harrington's account when following the Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe, and Liz Taylor's diet. Those fashionable ladies ate some pretty weird stuff and thanks to Ms. Harrington we get an insightful and hilarious look into what dieting was like for the glamourous. 

Also great is Stacy London from TLC's What Not to Wear's description of her time trying the paleo diet. I attached links to all of these articles. Definitely worth a read!

So as I am inspired by these witty and probably hungry ladies I have decided to chronicle my diet and fitness. I promise not to take them too serious and be annoying about it. I promise not to only post healthy recipes that are made to look and taste like unhealthy things but in reality do not end up tasting remotely like what they are supposed to...or good. Seeing as I'm an adult I would however, like to master the whole diet and exercise thing down to portions and repetitions so hopefully this will be a fun read for you and effective for me. 

As far a fitness is concerned. I have decided that I need to step it up a notch from my usual routine of not wanting to run but sometimes doing it. 

So diet and workout regime starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed!