Sophieologie

Sophieologie is one of my favorite blogs to read. This post especially is definitely worth the read! The way that culture tells girls to workout and eat is so distorted. Every girl is unique and has her own body type, her goal weight cannot be a number on a scale. A girl's goal weight, if she must choose one, is that weight at which she feels good about her herself, is eating food for nutrition and good portions and working out. Never forget that muscle weighs more than fat!! Since starting Advocare I have definitely lost weight, but I started to feel very mushy because I was really struggling to find the time in my schedule to workout. I started running and doing the T25 dvds a few weeks ago and I am SO sore but it feels good to know that I am pushing myself and am getting stronger. I have really been taking the time to stretch, warm up and cool down with each workout. Taking the 02 Gold supplements before each workout has really made a difference I highly suggest getting them for people who need a little extra help with cardio!

Please read:
http://sophieologie.me/2013/09/26/1200-calories/
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RECIPE: Zucchini "Pizza" Bites!

Soo I have been avoiding gluten to the best of my ability since July 2013 and the search for pizza options is always on my mind. If you live in Columbus, Harvest Pizzeria and Spagio have awesome gf pizza. I’ve also made my own dough before and was pretty successful. When I came across this recipe for pizza toppings on grilled zucchini slices I could not wait to try it!

The recipe called for an 8-ball round zucchini to have larger slices for the base, but as I mentioned I was eager and couldn’t find one at the store so I just picked the biggest zucchini I could. The recipe is really simple and flexible, I cut up the zucchini, sprayed a skillet with olive oil and grilled the slices on one side. Transferred the slices to a sprayed cookie sheet grilled side up. I added Prego to half and Kirkland (Costco brand-the best pesto oddly enough) Basil Pesto on half. Sprinkled a little mixed Italian cheese, put a piece of turkey pepperoni on the prego ones and  cut up small slices of cherry tomatoes and onion for the pesto pieces.

Baked it for about 7 minutes and that’s it!

The recipe I was working off of put the slices on an actual grill, grilled one side, flipped them, added the toppings and continued to grill. I liked the idea of baking them more and the topping/sauce options are endless! Be creative!

Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

This was how I asked the most important women in my life to be my bridesmaids! Custom labels with a P-J Peacock logo for the theme of our wedding #PriscillaandJesse! Put on their favorite type of wine (or vodka), I even got sparkling white grape juice for my junior bridesmaid! You can have them save the bottles or bring them to a specific wedding function, open them together and make sure to give the bottles back for them to take home!

The Brain Game

I’ve struggled with weight my whole life, much like most girls. Never been really been fat but never been as skinny as I wanted to be either. I wasn’t raised with the best eating habits, so I when I was old enough to realize I didn’t like my body I freaked out. In middle school my best friend and I (now my Maid of Honor), decided we could only eat a snack size bag of pretzels with either a banana or an apple cinnamon nutrigrain bar every single day for lunch, not quite a balanced meal. In high school I did the crash diets and all of the other lifetime movie shit because I couldn’t find the balance I was looking for and I reaally hated to exercise. 

I basically had to re train myself how to eat on everything from portions to timing to food selection. Kind of like how in high school I had insomnia and would never be able to sleep so then I would just pass out random places like one time on the steps up to my room (what? Yes that happened ask my friends). ANYWAY my doctor said that beds are for sleeping, not texting talking internet browsing eating tv watching etc. So when I would do all of those things in my bedroom on my bed without a night routine, my brain didn’t associate my bed or anything specific really with sleeping. I started doing the same few things every night around 11 and then going to my room, turning everything off and lying in bed. I still struggled and it took a while but things got SO much better. I had to train my brain how to turn off at a certain time of day.

The same is true with eating. Girls who eat one meal a day or skip dinner aren’t really doing themselves any big favor. If you only eat once every day, during the time in between your body freaks out and thinks it’s starving. So, when you finally eat something it IMMEDIATELY sends it to storage in case it’s the only food it will get. But, if you eat small meals all throughout the day, your body trains itself based on that, knows more food is coming and will start to burn and trash way more than it stores. Bonus, you aren’t starving, most of your small meals can be healthy but if you throw in some chocolate or a piece of pizza here or there it’s not as harmful.

What's For Dinner?

I have been engaged since July 2013 and my wedding is June 6th 2014 in Dublin, Ohio. It’s January, so a little over halfway there!!

I am the worst procrastinator and even though I have managed to put that nasty habit away to plan this wedding, it has affected my diet/workout regimen. The thing is I’m a pretty healthy eater unless I’ve been drinking, then all hell breaks loose.

I started having lots of health problems last June and ending up finding that avoiding gluten solved a LOT of my problems. I lost some weight, wasn’t as lethargic all of the time, almost all of my stomach problems went away, it was great. Except for the part where I couldn’t eat so many of my favorite foods. This is where Advocare came into my life!

I realized the diet for Advocare was really similar to what I was trying to eat for my gluten free lifestyle, but there were supplements and recipes and all kinds of things to help me. I did the 24 day cleanse in June and felt so amazing. But then I got engaged and moved, twice, and had so much going on that I completely lost track of the program. 

This is my 4^th day of the 1^st phase of the cleanse and I am feeling so motivated this time around. Part of the reason I’m doing this blog is to share the things I’ve learned, but also to keep myself accountable on here and stay on track not just until my wedding day, but long after! Especially because we are waiting until October for our honeymoon to save $$ so I can’t just balloon up once I’ve locked him in.