Urban Cave Girl

SOOOOOO last week I did something COM-freaking-PLETELY out of my comfort zone!

I went to a casting call for 24 hour fitness.  They were looking for new faces for their print and commercials.  It was so out of character for me, really.  I mean I know I pretend to be a supermodel but I never really put it into practice.

After they took a few pics of me, watched me do some random exercises and asked me a few questions, they sent me on my way with a "we'll call you don't call us" type message.  If I was one of the few selected I'd hear from them the 22nd.

Flash forward to the 22nd.  This morning, my phone breaks.  Goes completely on the fritz!!  I'm panicking!!!  I'm expecting a VERY important phone call today!!!

I go to the apple store, wait for-EVER and finally they have to give me a new phone (no, not the NEW NEW phone coming out thursday) but just a new one like mine.  Let's give a huge shout out for extended warranties people!!

So, I get home and try to get my voicemail messages cause of course I forgot the password.  I finally get in and who left me a voicemail???  24 Hour Fitness!!!!!!
YAY!!!!!  I called them back and I was picked!!!  I'm one of the 6 people!!  They did casting calls in several cities all over the country I guess, I thought it was just my city cause we are where the corporate offices are, but guess not.  It was real American Idol style!  That makes is doubly exciting to me!!!  They fly me to Vegas next week for the photo and video shoots.  4 Days in sin city people!!!  Model by day and pole dancer by night!  JUST KIDDING.....maybe.  I might want to make a few extra dollars while in town.
I can't cut or color my hair or change anything about my looks.  I have to be just how I was when they took my pics last week.  I will be getting a wax though.  They clearly weren't close up enough to see that I had a five o' clock shadow going on.

I'm shaking.  Seriously nervous and excited and scared.

Hope I don't look fat.

I better get in the gym.

And NO, I didn't just get baptized!

I've been doing my fat fast for a couple days now.  Today is actually day 3.
Tuesday ate normal Paleo.
Wednesday did the Fat Fast
Thursday did the Fat Fast
Today got on the scale and I've lost 6 pounds since TUESDAY?!
WTF?!  I'm known to retain tons of water, but 6 pounds of it?!
WOWZA!

I know some of the controversy on the Fat Fast was that it said people who normally lose weight easily will lose weight too fast if they follow the program and that it can be "unsafe"

hhmmmmmm

Now considering I did it to squash my sugar cravings and not lose weight I'm not too concerned.  But really what would the difference be?  I mean I'm still doing it.  And I still don't really have a hard time losing weight normally.

So am I in the "unsafe" category??

I still feel the need to go for two more days (today and tomorrow) because even though I'm not particularly hungry,  I am finding myself craving a few things:

Almond Milk Lattes (cause yes I gave up the almond milk)  The organic stuff was crap and the processed gonna kill me kind was....well....gonna kill me.

Pastries.  Not PASTIES, those are for your titties.   I'm talking Pastries!!!  Deliciousness that I love to bake and eat.......the entire pan of.

Will I always crave these things no matter what???

We got our Farm Fresh delivery today of veggies and fruit and when I opened it there was cauliflower and lettuce and berries and even dandelion.  Holy hell!  I wanted to eat it ALL!  Right there, RAW!  It all looked so yummy to me.  And smelled yummy too!!!

I had read some place the other day....man I can't remember whose blog it was now, but I'll find out later and link it.  But anyhow it was talking about fasting and especially intermittent fasting..(was it kelly??)  and how when you fast, even for a few hours, the next time you eat you're HUNGRY and so therefore healthy food looks even more delicious.  It's not like when you're just eating out of boredom or pms, that is when you reach for the shit.  But when you're actually hungry, you will eat ANYTHING!  Including raw dandelion.  Which BTW I need to find a recipe for cause I've actually never cooked with it.
I'm thinking that is why I have been doing so well with my Primal eating (well, good up until the last couple weeks) because I would do IF and when it was time to eat....wowza, those grilled veggies and meat looked and tasted phenomenal!

Go ahead.  Give it a try.  Fast for a little bit.  It's not gonna kill ya.
Then see how fantastic that healthy food tastes!

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Oh I found where I read it, here, at Skwiggs blog.

Just now I accidentally grabbed my 1/2 tbsp measuring spoon instead of my tsp and filled it with my Carlsons fish oil and drank it.  After I was done I thought, "damn, that felt like a lot of oil"...DUH!
Guess I'm good for the day in that department.

Just finished my "lunch"

1/4 cup (approx 1 oz) of chopped up chicken breast
2 tsp of mayo
1/4 of an avocado

I'm doing a fat fast right now.  A Kekwick type plan for a few days.  WOW and talk about controversy!! Oh my god!!  I was doing some research on the plan, also called the fat fast I guess, and people were so opinionated.  Especially on message boards and such.  Relax people!
The drama comes up because supposedly it's something you're only to do if you can't lose weight (I believe Dr Atkins has it in his book also).  Like say you're severely insulin resistant or something.  Then you try this fat fast and it's supposed to cure you and show you that you can lose weight.  Then after the 3-5 days on the plan you reintroduce carbs in the form of veggies (preferably those greens) very slowly.  Or at least that is the jist of everything I read.  People were all up in arms cause sometimes people wanted to do it for other reasons I guess and those hardcore peeps were NOT having it.  Almost comical!

Well, I had also read that it can help cure you of cravings, especially sugars.
Hence where I'm at now.
If you were covered in lemon icing and standing next to me yesterday, I might have ate you!
However today.....I wouldn't give you a second thought or sniff.  So, it's working.

It's day two of my fat fast now and although yesterday was soooo hard, I managed to get thru it.
What it comes down to are 5 meals.  Each meal is approximately 200 calories with 75-90% (depending what you read) being fat.  That's it.  No coffee, no tea, no nothing.  Just water.
Which by the way I drank 150 oz yesterday!  GO ME!!!  that is the first time in a long time I was able to get that much water down.  Right now I'm going on 70oz as of 12:30pm.  So just chalk another gallon up for me today cause I'm gonna make it!!!  Other things I've been eating are macadamia nuts and deviled eggs.  Some of the "menus" I read included other things like cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, and brie.  But I don't do dairy so that leaves me with less options.  I could probably come up with a few meals on my own but let's face it, I'm a little lazy sometimes.

I'll do this Kekwick or "fat fast" (say that 10 times really fast..lol) for 4 days I think.  By then I should be good to go and all my cravings gone!  I'd love to blame my husband because as soon as he went into the hospital and got sick things went very south for me.  I ate and ate all things that don't agree with me and all things that set me up for craving sugars.  How I long to be one of those people who can't eat when they are stressed.  Because me, I eat EVERYTHING when I'm stressed.  Such a bummer really!

Anyhow, what led me to this Kekwick-fat fast thing was my new favorite book of all time, Primal Body Primal Mind.  It's by far one of the greatest books I ever read.  Seriously people!!!  It touches on EVERYTHING!!  And in the book she made mention of the Kekwick diet and it really intrigued me.  For YEARS I was a fat phoebe.  But, not anymore!  Bring on the coconut oil and the butter!

The book also makes an amazing mind body connection.  There is so much information but she really does a fantastic job of breaking it down so you can understand and absorb it.

By far and beyond one of my favorite parts was on the ADD or ADHD.  I've for a long time now been CONVINCED these conditions were caused more by a poor diet than anything else.  Nora goes into great detail about how the foods we eat effect our mind and how the medications we take to put a bandaid on these problems only make them worse.  Incredibly interesting stuff!!

I'm actually getting ready to read the book AGAIN because sometimes when I go back and reread things or even watch a movie again, I always find stuff I missed.  Maybe I have ADD???  

5.  It's hot here.  I think that summer has FINALLY decided to show her bright face.  It was crappy and rainy and cold....and THEN, it was 80!   I love Mother Nature.  She clearly suffers from mood swings just like the rest of us.

4.  I got a new book today.  Amazon I adore you once again for offering my impatient ass 3.99 overnight shipping.  No one else could ever get me so excited at such a bargain.  Today I'll begin reading Primal Body Primal Mind.  Can't wait!!
















3.  Not that you care but the other night I woke up at 1am with the WORST ever cramps!  Like nothing I've ever had aside from being in labor.  It was the middle of night and I was walking around the house in agony.  The whole time thinking OMG I must be pregnant!  I must be in some kind of labor.  I'm going to be one those random strange girls in those stories you hear about on like 20/20 or Dateline where they're pregnant and they don't know till they are in labor and the baby is coming out. YES, that's it!!  That's what is happening to me!!!!  After scouring the cabinets for DRUGS I ran across some medication the Dr had given me for my shoulder when I hurt it last summer.  WTH I thought, I'll try these.  They did NOTHING for my shoulder pain, but after just 15 minutes of taking it, my cramps were GONE and I felt all light and tingly!   WOW.....nothing like a good high to get you back to bed and resting easily.
Two days later.....aunt flow showed up instead of another baby.  There really must be a god.  Or at the very least someone looking out for my sanity.

2.  I've been in the kitchen making some random stuff.  None of it primal in any way, shape or form. Remember a few posts down I talked about lemon scones and how I loved them and they were delicious and I really wanted to make some, better yet wanted someone to make them primal and then give me the recipe?  Well anyhow, I made some.  No, they weren't primal.  But OH MY GOD, were they good!!!  SOOOOO GOOD!!  SOOOO damn good in fact that I alone ate all of them but two.  Yes, I let my daughter and my husband have one, but JUST one!  Do I feel terrible about it?  No, not really.   Then yesterday I made a Mexican inspired dinner for the family and the only thing I could think of to top it off was a margarita.  However I had nothing to make a margarita with but tequila.  Thinking that was probably the most important pc I dug out my trusty vitamix, poured in a rather generous amount of tequila, a handful of frozen strawberries, half of a banana from my daughters leftover breakfast, and a tbsp of pure organic sugar (the real stuff cause I'm not doing artificial anymore) and mixed it all up.
What came out was the most delicious adult beverage EVER!  And, I didn't share.

 




1.  I'm back!!  Yes, I was missing for a few weeks.  Getting life back together and the family healthy and back to work and school and just back to "normal"...whatever the hell may be.  It feels good to be back.
Focused and energized.  Ready to take on the summer with gusto (and possibly a few more adult beverages).  I've notice by not eating primal most of the time though my energy was getting low and I was really relying on caffeine to get me by most days.  Speaking of which my daughter's teachers gave me a Peet's gift-card yesterday for helping in the classroom this year.  So sweet!  I'll definitely use it.  But only to buy decaf americanos, promise!!  Because although I've had some caffeine in the past few weeks, I'm not at all addicted again and I plan to stay that way!
So, I'm back eating the way my body was designed to eat and feeling great!  Cause really, that's what it's all about in the end, Feeling Great!!! And, let's not kid ourselves here,  looking great naked counts too.....counts a whole hell of a lot!!