skinny tea day two

So I've decided to dive right into the latest health/weight loss trend, Skinny Tea. It smells like trees and I'm okay with that. The truth is this summer has not been kind to me in the weight department, everyone says I look the same but the scale begs to differ, not by much but any change to my BMI puts me in frenzy. CARBS, BEER, BREAD, CHEESE, MORE BEER. The memories of every bite creeping back into my head and sticking to my thighs is just not going to work. I want to wear my new leather leggings without regret and I cant do that if I feel like a Jenny Craig before picture. So anyways, yesterday I started with this cleanse and so far I haven't noticed a difference physically (obviously) but I've noticed a change in my appetite. I feel full and bloated which makes me not want to eat which is great!

The directions instruct you have a cup of their hot skinny tea when you wake up, leaving 30 minutes in between the tea and your breakfast. Every other night you're supposed to drink a tea right before you go to bed, this is the cleanse tea. I'm doing the cleanse tea tonight for the first time.

The meals that I'm eating are healthy, for example, for breakfast I had an egg whites, cheddar, and avocado on a skinny bagel from Au Bon Pain. Usually the 300 calorie breakfast sandwich would only last me 3 hours but today I didn't eat anything after that until around 4:30 pm. Water is also another key ingredient in this little tea venture, it makes me sooo thirsty (i'm on my 4th cup today). For lunch I had a small portion of roasted eggplant soup (120 calories). Sorry for the calorie counting.. its just I'm used to.

Tonight I'm going to the gym and then to grocery store where I plan to buy all vegetables, fruit, nuts, and yogurt.. that's it. I've cut out all meats for the next two weeks until the detox is over. I'm also trying to cut out cheese, even though I had some this morning (baby steps), which is so hard because cheese is my favorite food group.

In conjunction with this post, I've been looking up some other blogs and I've become a huge fan of Taste of Runway, love it, love it a lot.

For all you vegetarians out there please share some tasty recipes! I'm new to this diet with no chicken/fish and I need your help.

I leave you with Cults new single "High Road", an absolute treat. Look out for their new album Static coming out in October because its sure to be mind blowing.

thanks all.

back at it

Well my summer was eventful to say the least. Started a new job as Marketing Director of The Daily Targum (the Rutgers University paper) and moved out of my house, into the depths of New Brunswick. The streets of New Brunswick are now littered with the trail of my mistakes and poor decision making thanks to the works of tequila, you sneaky bitch. Another shout out to tequila for the added cellulite and love handles that were not on my body three months ago. I have become very fond of leggings and oversized boyfriend tees, also thanks to my running shoes for always reminding me how I don't run and should start. Just kidding about that last part, I've actually been going to the gym consistently for the past two months, working on my fitness and all that good stuff. No carbs after 2pm is also a new healthy venture I've been trying out, its works until friday, then tequila takes over again and doesn't give me back the reins until Sunday morning, which I've come to accept.

The weekend is for fun, not for calorie counting.

So school started last week, cant say i'm exciting about doing work, but I am excited about my assorted notebook collection and new MACBOOK PRO. Thats right, I have joined the Mac family.. $1,300 later and it feels great. "Why not?" I told myself over and over again, everyone said I would fall in love with it, and after the buyers remorse fizzled away, all that was left was love. They were oh so right.

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until next time.