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Summer mission and nutrition rant

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To keep my on track and my eye on the prize, I’ve decided this summer, I want to be wearing this from Missoni (only £239.00 from Harrods -_- ) …

Not that ambitious but at least it will help me keep focus. I just want to see some abs… LOL. My bloating situation got worse this week and I blame it on dairy. I’d been having lactose free yoghurt but that doesn’t seem to help with the bloating. At least no gut wrenching pain for 2 hours.

Relaxed a little on food which isn’t so bad but would like to try and keep eating clean for the duration of the program. Still working through my intolerances and will be seeing a naturopath sooner rather than later to help me out. I love my daily and don’t want to miss out on the benefits of dairy. I don’t like the idea of having to buy fortified soy milk and the like. Tofu cheese just isn’t the same.

Today I feel I let myself down a little bit. I think it didn’t help I felt tired and a little bored. Ate really well up till lunch. Normally I’d be fine but today I went a little overboard. I nibbled on the following after lunch:

  • Handful of wasabi peas
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 celery stalks
  • 1 wedge of laughing cow light cheese
  • 1 mug of soy milk with cocoa powder and teaspoon of honey
  • 1 be natural dark chocolate muesli bar
  • 1 square of dairy milk chocolate
  • 1 small pineapple tart

EURGH. It’s awful I made some good choices and towards the end I just f-ed it all up. Then I got home had the prescribed dinner and dessert and added 3 sour cream and chives rice cake and half a muesli bar. God dammit. All up roughly 860 calories in snacks. OMG… Need to find lower calorie snacks. Still struggling to find high protein snacks I like and can eat. This lactose intolerance thing is a hinderance.

Looks like I need another sit down with myself and also need to look at my fluid intake again. Only 4.5 weeks to go and I shouldn’t blow it now, should I? You would think after last night’s video I would resolve to fix this but I didn’t. Do you think I am being too hard on myself? I did work out hard today to as I do every day. I’m trying to stick to the 80% nutrition, 20% exercise but the way I see it, at the moment I am doing it the other way around.

Consumer Ethics

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It came to my attention today when I replied to a tweet from Marie Claire Australia about Rimmel makeup. The tweet was:

And then I got a reply back from another Twitter user who said:

It got my thinking, “How many of my favourite brands test on animals?”. It’s a tough one because as I have found it, it’s A LOT! Now what would you do if your favourite cosmetics brands tested on animals? Would you boycott or just continue to keep using them? This has got me in a big dilemma. I still have more research to do but then, where do you draw the line? It then got my thinking about clothing. What about those big brands that mass produce products in overcrowded factories? I don’t know but sometimes we do have to close an eye to these things in this mass production world.

Everyone seems to get all touchy feely when it comes to animals. I know, they are cute, blah blah blah but I haven’t turned vegetarian. It was a huge thing recently when the Australian government decided to suspend the live export of cattle to Indonesia because of the poor treatment the animals received when they were going to the slaughterhouse. Erm, they were going to be slaughtered. Cruel enough from the get go. It was pretty gruesome stuff but you know, it’s a fact of life. Yes, the animals should be treated better but, YES but, they were on their way to the markets to be bought and cooked. I can’t see it being any better being slaughtered in someone’s backyard.

God, I know I’m going to get some flack for what I have said but I’m not going to apologise. I’m living the modern dilemma. I’m a Buddhist and this means treating everything with respect and not to kill, etc, etc. But I try to live the life the best I can but I’m sure if I can’t find a way around it, I can always try but please I think more needs to be done to help people like us make a better decision when purchasing products be it food, clothing or makeup. Our mass produced world is making us all hypocrites.