MMMM Fried Food....how I miss you

It’s not until you give up something that you notice how much you use it or want it. Its been one week and I have not had any fried food, and I know that this was going to be a hard challenge but damn how I want to stick my head in a bag of Lays sour cream and onion chips and just Hoover them down…num, num ,num. Or dive in headfirst and swim around in a pool full of French fries, or to just have a thing of cheese sticks.  Just thinking about all of this is making my mouth water. MMMMM fried food, because you know everything is always better battered and fried or at least that’s what I thought. Now here I am a week into this no fried food kick and although I do miss those foods I’m finding that there are better things out there that can replace everything fried, and I’m going to let you in on a secret this shit taste good who would have thought. Healthy food can taste good if not better then the fried stuff for example I love fries, I am a burger and fries kind of girl.  Yet this is what I have found, one I can make a very good hamburger at home, not that pre-pressed crap but taking the time to make hamburger patties and its grilling season, time to bust out and put them on the grill. The nice thing about doing this you can flavor your food however you want and to supplement the fries I have found that white sweet potatoes are my new friend, little salt, little olive oil and bake away, shit is good and I’m not a sweet potato girl…well until now I love it. Or those great pop-in chips they are not too bad and have great flavor to them as well. Basically I’m finding that you can have any food you want that was fried but find away to bake it and make it just as great, because lets face it eating is about how things taste and if you can make it taste great then why not eat healthy.

I will say this, the hardest thing about this challenge, is not so much the giving up food but its trying to explain to people what you are doing and why. When you tell someone that no you don’t eat fried food or no you don’t eat fast food you get this look of “I don’t get it” (a valley girls voice), and the truth is most people won’t get it, and when your answer is I’m doing it because I want to be healthy and stop eating that’s when you get the blank look…they still don’t get it. So now if I have to tell someone, and they ask why, my answer I’m a little crazy felt like doing something different in my life. They seem to understand that a little bit more, which makes me wonder how many people think I’m a little off my rocker and are ok with that.

Over all my goal of not eating any fried food is going well, challenging but good and as for the losing 5 pounds this month, well I will find out how I did with that when I weigh myself in at the end of the month. No matter stay positive and keep pushing to accomplish the goal.

Tell next time; keep pushing to accomplish your goals

Fat girl out.

Another month down...

Another month in and well I can say the month of March was not a very good one. It started with my car breaking down and then got better when it was fixed but in retrospect it was just an ok month. I had bit of a falling off the wagon month. Now I can say that I didn’t gain any weight but I didn’t lose anything either. Although on a positive note I did fit in my size 18 jeans and a pair of dress pants so bonus.

I can also say that I went 40 days and 40 nights with no fast food which was so cool to be able to make it that long, now I can say that the idea of eating fast food doesn’t sounds good at all which I never thought would happen, because I have always been a fast food girl. I mean I should have taken up stock in that crap with as much money as I spent. It was a little hard at first and I know its hard when I’m with a group of people but, I feel so much better knowing that I have passed on a juicy greased filled cheeseburger.

Accomplishing this challenge leads me to my next challenged on this whole changing food habits and things of that nature, and this one will be a major, but I feel that I can meet it head on….. I’m going to give up fried food all the way around, which means no French fries when you order food at a restaurant, no more potato chips unless they are baked, no more hot wings, no more cheese sticks, chicken tenders, seriously no more fried food. Talk about a challenge because everything today seems to be fried, well at least all the good food is fried, because everything is better battered and fried with a ton of butter. So how long am I going to challenge myself? One month I’m going to try this challenge for a month and I feel it’s going to be a hard one but another good change.   Think about all the different foods I will be trying out and trying to replace all the food that I can’t have anymore and for the record White Sweet Potato French fries baked are AMAZING!!!!  

That basically sums up March no weight change, all though I fit in a size 18 jean, and made it 40 days and 40 nights with no fast food, oh yeah and lets not forget a little fall off the wagon. Although with all that I will admit part of the stalling out was due to lack of inspiration so to speak, which happens sometimes you just hit those potholes along the road which might make you stubble a little bit, but just when you need that little pick me up something happens, like someone telling you that you inspire them to do something different to take the stairs instead of the elevator, or that you find out that more people are reading your blog then you thought and that you are inspiring them to start to make a change. It was hearing thing like that in the past week or so that has given me more energy to keep pushing forwarded and to keep working towards my goal. Just think at some point in time we all need each other just for that extra push. So here we are the start of April and time to keep pushing forward and achieving my goals. A month and 6 days away from my birthday so I need to make some progress and drop some more weight like Apolo Ohno always says “Zero Regrets” got to get up and do everything and push myself and accomplish my goals.

So I say we make April a month of accomplishing goals. Write your goals down look at them every day, for me my goals this month are no fried food, staying with my no fast food and also losing another 5 pounds. Yes they will be hard but they will be worth it. Just think goals don’t have to be huge, start small give yourself a time frame and fight to accomplish your goals, and then after achieving them keep building on them. They always say set short-term goals that lead you to your long-term goals, and I think that April is a perfect month to do just that, “Provehito In Altum”.

Tell next time reach for the highest and have Zero Regrets”

            Accomplish her goals Girl Out.

Fat Friend

             It’s that wonderful time of year again, we get to pack up the big bulky clothes and bring out the tank tops, shorts and flip flops, and lets not forget the sundresses as well. This also means that people are coming out of hibernation and going back out to the clubs. I will say I do the same thing, my girls and I don’t really go out all that much during the winter, but when the weather becomes nice where all about going dancing.

            Now I’m going to say this and it may sound mean but it’s the truth…. here it goes everyone has a “fat friend” and I mean everyone.  Even the skinny bitches that only hang out with other skinny bitches have “fat friends”.  A Skinny girls fat friend is the one who is a size 6 compared to all the other size 4s..,aka the “fat friend”.  Now if your saying to yourself “I don’t have a fat friend” chances are you’re the ‘fat friend”.  Even “fat friends” have “fat friends who have “fat friends”. Ladies we all know this is true so there is no reason to try and deny this point.  I can safely say in my group I’m the “fat friend” and I’m ok with this because there are some benefits to having a “fat friend” and being the “fat friend”, and here they are:

1.      Your skinny friends always know that they have back up

2.      The girls who think that their tough shit and want to talk shit to you and your friends will take one look at your “fat friend” and will normally walk away in fear that your “FF” will kick her ass.

3.      Now if you are the “FF” and you can shake your butt, are cute and have a big chest its free drinks for you and your friends….Yes myself and my partners in crime have used this to our advantage many times and we will as long as it keeps working.

Now I bring all of this up because of my skinny friends lets just call them AB and SB these two ladies are my normal partners in crime and it never fails something crazy will happen when we close down a bar.  Before I get started on that…Hold on I need to get on my soap box.  Lets talk about what to wear.  You know when you have true friends when you put something on and ask if you look ok in this they will tell me the TRUTH. Ladies if your friends ask you if they look ok and their your “FF” please tell them the truth I’m sorry but girls nothing looks good when you are wearing something that is to small or too tight and letting your chub rub show. To start no one wants to see that, you may think you look sexy and your friends might have told you, you look sexy, but the truth is you don’t and your friends SUCK because they should have never let you leave the house in that look.   Second come on now an chubby girl knows that if your chub rub is rubbing and its hot out you’re chaffing. So lets try something new this clubbing season and stop lying to our friends about how they look and wear the right clothes. We can all look sexy and not let the rolls show, and skinny girls, yes you are right, you can get away with wearing the tight skirt and the short shirt with the hooker heals, but ladies please wear something underneath that skirt no one wants to see your world on the dance floor.  We have a word for that its call SLUT. Ok. I am finished with the soapbox.  Luckily AB & SB tell me when I am presentable enough to leave the house, they don’t mind being seen with a “FF” but not one in an ugly outfit.

                        Wait I forgot one more soapbox item….I was in the mall the other day and I saw a girl who had to be maybe fifteen or sixteen dressed like a whore, in a tight pink miniskirt that might have been a tube top for all I know, with a bright pink shirt coming off the shoulder that was cute in the back so you could see her black bra, heels, big sunglass and her hair done up Jersey Shore style. Now I saw this girl and my first reaction was if that girl was my daughter going out looking like that she would have been grounded and never see the light of day…that’s when I realized how old I was, but also I noticed that all of the boys and older men where looking at this girl, and again really what are you trying to say that “Hello I’m easy please come and screw me” Serious girls get your heads out your asses learn to dress sexy with out looking like you should be walking Colfax looking for your next car to get in….Ok I’m done, really.

Anyway this past weekend going out with the girls, now I will say we all looked a little funny when we went out as AB and SB where in onezys pj’s and I had a press pass that said Nikki Burgundy on it, we know that we looked crazy as we had just come from Beer Olympics. When we go dancing we are out their having fun, not trying to show off our moves, not trying to get anyone to dance with us, heck for that matter we are normally watching other people on the dance floor and if your dancing crazy more likely than not we might try to reenact what you are doing.  If you’re a girl who thinks she is hot shit on the dance floor and believe you own the floor, I can guaranty that we are watching you and possibly laugh at you while your dancing.  Why? I feel that if you are trying to own the floor you’re asking to be judged, I’m just saying.

Now having given you my views let me tell you about this girl that night at the bar doing just that and yes she had a fat friend with her, in clothes that I’m sure her friend said she looked really good in, that she lied to her. So here we are dancing and this girl is shit talking to AB and SB.  So of course the girls do what they do best… copy her dancing.  The problem with this the drunk girl notices and pretends to punch AB in the back of head and thought she was tough shit until she realizes I was watching her, because I got my girls back and the other girl danced back to he friends very quickly. Now at this point AB, SB and I are laughing because really… is about all you can say.

 As the night goes on I loosen up start shaking my grove thing, and I will say I may be fat but I can shake my money maker with the best of them, and I notice this girl is trying to make fun of how we are dancing and judge us…first of all honey don’t try and judge use we are masters and if you make the attempt don’t let me catch you. Now this girl thinks its time for a dance off, never a good thing. So this girl tries to out dance SB, well that is never going to happen SB can dance like Beyonce and the best this girl could come up with is doing Zumba moves, again sorry honey but not going to work, then she tries to dance off with AB and gets pissed because I’m sure that AB is black from the waist down and the last thing you want to do is booty shake against her, she will kick your ass, and she did, then the girl punched her in the face.  Now here is the difference between AB’s fat friend and the other girl’s fat friend, I was watching to see what my next move was going to have to be…I was ready to throw down the other “FF” was fading away into the crowed.  Again, I go back to my statement of your skinny friends always know their fat friend has their back, as long as they tell their fat friend that they look like crap and don’t let them go out into public looking like the ugly “FF”.  Needless to say sometimes we are older and wiser and did not start a big fight. Instead we let the bouncer to his job made the drunk girl walk away and well we laughed at the whole event.  Shortly after that whole event it was time to leave and I think the dancing queen wanted to say something more to us until her friends made her walk faster out of the club.   Another thing fat friends are good for, they sometimes are the mom’s if the group.

Now I wish I could say our night ended there but it didn’t we got hit on by some guys coming out of the bar I was even told that one of them loved me even though I was being a bitch to him because well he was drunk and I didn’t want to deal with it. Then AB was swing on a pole and the Cops pulled us over for swinging and walking, and told us that if it had broke then it would have been a crime, really the officer was telling AB that she was fat in not so many words. I’m sure we would have asked him but he did threaten to take us to detoxic if we said one more word. You know that saying “nothing good ever happens after midnight” this is a very true point, but there is also a saying that “your friends will bail you out of jail, however, your true friends are the one’s sitting next to you in the jail cell laughing” also a true statement except we were not in jail just sitting on the curb.

So really to sum up everything, its time to hit the clubs wear sexy clothes that look good on you, don’t lie to your friends in hopes you will look better it never works out. Everyone has a “fat friend” that has your back unless you lie to them and say that they look good and let them go out in public look bad, oh yeah and don’t be that girl who takes up the whole floor and then get pissed when someone can out booty shake you because more then likely it will AB and I will be laughing my ass off at the whole thing.

Tell next time

            Fat Friend out