New Years Resolutions tips......

Courtesy from Rob from BUC Inc thought I'd share this because let's face it....YOU along with EVERYONE else out there maybe overinduldged during the holidays and want to get back on track.  Don't lie!  You know you had that piece of cake or pie and went on a carb overload!  lol!  Don't be that person who waits till AFTER new years...start right now! 

New Year's Diet Resolution No. 1: Go Slow
Resolving to get more fiber in your diet this year? Maybe more fish or fresh fruit? Any diet change is easier if you take slow, small steps. For example:

1.Vow to add a piece of produce to your brown bag lunch daily.
2.Designate a day as fish day.
...3.Package up a single serving of your favorite whole-grain cereal, then treat it as your midmorning snack.

 

New Year's Diet Resolution No 2: Water, Water, Everywhere
Water: It's cheap, fat-free, and gives your body a quenching boost.

1.Drink one glass first thing in the morning, before you brush your teeth.
2.Tempted by more soda? Another glass of wine? Drink a cup of water with a splash of your favorite beverage in it first.
...3.Resolve to drink one more cup of water today than you had yesterday.

 

New Year's Diet Resolution No. 3: Go for COLOR!
Colorful produce is packed with disease-fighting plant compounds, so when you shop, reach for a rainbow.

1.Designate a color-a-day. Maybe Mondays are yellow, with grapefruit, golden apples, or corn starring in meals, while Tuesdays are purple with plum and eggplant.
2.Build ...a green pizza with emerald bell peppers and artichokes, or a red chili.

 

New Year's Diet Resolution No 4: Tackle Mindless Munching
You're chatting with friends around the dinner table or watching a DVD -- and you just keep nibbling.

1.Pop a stick of gum or a sugar-free mint in your mouth.
2.Brush or floss your teeth.
...3.Pay attention -- look at each piece of food you plan to eat.
4.Busy your hands with a glass of water, a cup of tea, or cleaning off the table.

 

Start with small changes.  Remember...it's never a "diet", but a lifestyle.  Remember those fad diets...DON'T work!!!  They may work in the beginning but you'll most likely end up regaining the weight you lost and worse, even more.  Make smarter choices, get yourself an accountability partner if you think that may help and most important....STOP MAKING EXCUSES!!!!!!  =)  Let 2011 be the year for you!  

 

 

 

Rants

Part 2 of my life's journey will have to wait.  Because tonight I am going to just rant.  Now please note that 90% of his rant blog is all in good humor so if you get offended easily, DON'T READ IT!  The last thing I need is hate mail, hate comments etc from people who don't know my sense of humor.  Yeah I'm sarcastic as hell and my sense of humor can be very dry.......deal with it or move on!  =P 

I like to people watch.  It's quite entertaining.  Whether it's at the mall, at the restaurant, grocery shopping, hell, even at the gym.  ANd I've come to one conclusion.  This whole world is just f*cked up!!!  Am i saying that I'm Miss perfect?  Hell no!  I'm sure I'm pretty f*cked up too!  But it's actually quite comical.  Let's start with the pet peeves......

~Ok, so most of us go to the gym right?  Ok, this has ALWAYS been a pet peeve of mine.  I laugh when I see people who go to the gym fight for a parking spot closest to the doors.  Seriously???  What bothers me more is when I see employees do it!  I mean ok, if the parking lot is empty and you're there at the "non peak" times, then whatever....park up close.   I mean walking an extra 10 yards is NOT going to kill you.  Sheesh.....save the spots close to the door for the people with the little kids, the elderly, injured, etc.  Stop being a lazy ass and f*cken walk already!  And don't give me the bs excuse "But it's cold.....!"  Um, that's why they invented long johns, sweaters, coats etc.  NO EXCUSE.  And if you are an employee doing this...SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!  >=(

~I've noticed that the more you succeed, the more certain people want you to fail.  Dude, why can't you just be happy for us?  Why all the hate and jealousy?  Ok, you think I don't know....but all you sh*t talkers...I KNOW!!!  I just don't say anything to you because honestly......it's quite comical.  I'm so glad that my life has become the topic of your gossip mills, and sh*t talking.  You b*tches know who you are!  Seriously....it's always the b*tches who do the hating.  Guys usually don't get involved in the drama.  And i thank you for that.  Especially my guy sfriends.  Thank God!

~Speaking of guys.......you men confuse the hell out of me and probably always will!  99% of you DON'T know what you want.  ANd if you do, you STILL like to play games.  gahhhhh!  =)

~People with NO common courtesy.  I even have friends with this problem.  You know who you are!  And if you are thinking you are one of them.....that's your guilty conscience speaking and you probably are! 

~If you have kids.....CONTROL AND HANDLE YOUR DAMN KID(s)!!!!!!  I can't stress this enough!  Like for example, if you are at a restaurant and your kid is at the table misbehaving and/or screaming to the point where people have to turn and look......that is a problem!!!!!  You're right, no I do not have kids so I can't say how hard it is to raise them or whatever.....but I know that if my kid is misbehaving I will leave or remove us from that situation.  That's just common courtesy.  Another example...like if you bring your kid(s) to my house and they are making a mess, spilling things, etc......DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!  Don't sit there and f*cken laugh and act like it's not happening.  I see this ALL THE TIME!!!!  Yeah they are "just kids" but if you know they are going to make a mess, etc....LEAVE THEM AT HOME!!!!  And yes i am talking about family members too!!!!  You know who you are!!!!

~What is up with the drivers in this area???  It rains and people freak out.  It snows and they freak out even more.  If you even have to freak out over rain, snow, etc...then you should NOT be on the roads period!  You can't fight mother nature. 

~Speaking of being on the roads.  There are road ettiquettes.  Ok, I'll be the first to admit, I tend to drive on the faster side.  No I am not wreckless per say, I just have no patience (which is a flaw that I admit to).  I STAY in the left lane.  If you are going the speed limit or under, you should NOT be in the left lane!!!!  PERIOD!  No if's ands or butts!  Also, if you are on ANY major freeway and can't even keep up with the speed limit, then you should NOT be on it.  If you are...be warned...anyone who honks at you, curses at you, flashes high beams, gives you the finger etc...YOU DESERVE IT!!!!

~Crocks.  i don't care who you are.......crocks are the ugliest things in the world and if you wear them, please don't talk to me. 

~People who think they are better than you.  Yeah sure, you act like your sh*t don't stink!  Get over yourself! 

~People who say they are going to do something...but DON'T.  Again common courtesy is the theme here.

~Chicks who wear pants/shorts with writings on the butt.  Seriously?  Ok, it's cute when you are like 14 but if you are a grown ass women and wearing that....um...yeah...NO!

Did I hit anyone's nerve yet?  haaaaaaaa!  Like I said.......all in good fun.  EVERYONE has pet peeves.  This is just SOME of mine.  I'll admit, I am guilty of some of these things too.  I never said i was perfect, but it sure is fun to vent.  =)  Ok, can't think of anymore.  Tired.  good night bloggers!

My life's journy....part 1.

Are you guys keeping up with this season's The Biggest Loser??  I'll be honest, this is the first season where I've actually watched.  I started watching probably mid way through.  EVERYONE who knows me always tells me "Jeanie you remind me of that asian chick on The biggest loser!"  And i say "Pshhh why?  CUz we're both asian???"  And they say "No, because she kicks ass and works soooo hard and kills it every time!  Just like you"  I actually take that as a compliment.  =)

Growing up was not easy for me.  I don't know when or how it started, but I guess i was always a "chunky" kid.  I was always active, but I also loved to eat.  I started cooking as early as I can remember at the age of 3.  My grandmother watched me as a little kid while my mom worked and I remember always being in the kitchen with her helping her.  I always used to cook with my mom too. 

Kids are cruel.  I grew up with that.  You would think that by the time high school rolled around that those "kids" would grow up, but nope.  I think it actually got worse.  The relentless teasing, bullying, tormenting.....for what?  All because I was overweight.  But it didn't only come from kids at school.  From my OWN family.  You would think that your family would try to help you out, but I swear it's an asian culture thing or korean culture thing....they think that they are helping you if they cut you down and belittle you.  I grew up with that.  I thought that getting made fun of and being belittled was normal.  I mean kids at school did it, hell, even my own family did it. 

"I wish I had a beautiful daughter like the other mothers do."
"Look how skinny and beautiful your cousins are.  WHy can't you be like them?"
"You will never be anything if you are fat.  Only skinny people are beautiful and successful"
"I wish you were never born.  I'd rather have no daughter then a fat ugly one."

Yeah.  this is from my own family.  On top of that I was getting bullied, and teased non stop at school.  People even tried to pick physical fights with me.  For what?  Yeah, for being overweight.  Oh yeah I got into physical fights, but the good thing is that I was also very strong.  Every "fight" I got into I always usually ended up beating the crap out of whoever picked the fight with me.  (Thank God for martial arts, lol).  I have a lot of facebook friends who knew me back in the earlier days.  As early as elementary school.  Some know what I went through...hell, it was even some of you who put me through hell.  In a way I thank you.  Because of that I am who i am today.  I think i am a very sincere, caring person.  I would NEVER belittle someone or hurt someone that way (now unless you're one of those catty bishes who deserve it).  lol. 

Even today, watching and reading news reports about kids committing suicide because of bullying for being overweight, gay, "different"......that makes me very sad.  If you are a teacher and you see these signs please do something about it.  You would think that in today's society people would be more tolerant and accepting, but it's not that way. 

Anyway, yeah like I said, growing up was not easy for me.  I'll spare you all the details but what you read earlier just times it by 20 and yeah...that was my life.  I even remember my mom just started hitting me for no reason and when I asked her why the hell she was hitting me she said "Because you're so fat and I'm disgusted!!!!"  REALLY?????  For the first 25 years of my life, I grew up thinking my mom and dad didn't love me.  I felt like a failure to them.  Here I had cousins getting married, getting in wonderful relationships etc.  Even at one of my cousins weddings I had a family memeber tell me...."Jeanie, you would be getting married too if you weren't so fat."  Wow!!!! 

I guess that's another reason why I had so much problems putting down my wall.  I thought I was never capable of being loved.  I was told every day that no man will ever love me because I'm so disgusting.  That was back then.  Today, don't get me wrong, I have one of the BEST relationships with my parents and my family, but up until about 5 years ago......yeah, my life was hell.  It took a lot of healing....we still are.  But I'll be honest....the grace of God has a lot to do with it.  God's love.  Nothing is more powerful.  I don't mean to get all religious on you guys.  SOme of you don't beleive in God.  But I do, and I'll say that it's God's love and grace that saved my life and began the healing process for me and my family.  Most important, it taught me forgiveness.  Just as we were/are forgiven for our sins, i had to learn to forgive...so that I can move on.  And thus began my real journey.  More to come in part 2 of my transformation process and Gold's gym, etc.  =) 

Life's journey....part 1...er....half?

First and foremost, before I start this blog I want to give special thanks and shout outs to my friends who have stuck by me!  Those are TRUE friends!  Even family members doubted me and said negative things.  It's true that in the asian culture (especially koreans), they like to put you down, tell you that you are worthless, and even if you succeed, they tell you it could have been done better.  I don't know how much of you guys watch the Biggest Loser, but I actually watched last night and I was soooooo able to relate to that asian girl.  (Who by the way, was kicking ass!!!!)--For those who know me, know my famous saying...."it's cuz I'm/we're asian!!!"  haaaaaa!  =) 

Anyway, (sorry to get off topic).......

People ask me ALL THE TIME today about my transformation and how it started, and if i was always overweight, and what was the motivation, and how I did it....etc.  Well, this will probably be a very hard blog for me to write and it's so long (well we are talking about my entire life here), so I am going to section it in parts.......from HOW it started to what I did to get to where I'm at now...and STILL working at it.   From childhood, to weight gain, to being bullied, to an eating disorder, to finally being downright f*cken awesome!  (lol).  This will probably be the biggest therapy for me........BUT before you make assumptions, get to know ME and my story first.  I am damn proud of who I have become today!  But honestly, I wouldn't be who I am today if I didn't go through all the crap I did.........

There are only a RARE few who know the WHOLE story.  This goes back to my previous blogs about not judging a book by it's cover or making assumptions when you don't know.  I have a story too.  And I want to share with you guys because I am also living proof that ANYTHING is possible if you put your mind, heart, and soul into it.  It's not gonna just happen by you sitting there "wishing".  You gotta DO IT!  AND all things are possible through God!  In my experience, YES!  Part 1 of the story will be blogged later.  It's late right now and I need to get to bed.  =)  Sooooo many GREAT things have happened in the past few weeks and again...is PROOF that good things come to those who wait and to those who work their f*cken asses off, lol.  Stay tuned!  From my lowest in life to how many great opportunities have come........=)