She said she just didn’t feel very good about herself because everyone was doubting and underestimating her.  So she decided, that’s it: I’m making a huge decision to leave the show and do something that I know I’m good at to prove everyone wrong.

She wrote a book, “LA Candy” about a girl, much like herself, who spent her late teen to early twenty years filmed in front of a camera on a reality TV show. Not exactly original or creative, but it’s a huge accomplishment–writing a NY Times best selling book. In fact, she’s already writing another one.

This is also around the time that she launched her new clothing line at Kohl’s, which she describes is “much more me” than her other high end designs.

In the midst of all this change and breaking out of her shell, she proved herself that she is determined and can stay committed to becoming and staying fit. She has been practicing a strict regiment of eating healthy and exercising every day.

Her diet consists of watermelon, organic salad greens and tuna.  She does a workout regiment that you can do anywhere–which helps  because she’s on the road so much for her book signing, etc.

One of her workout plans is doing 3 sets of 12 to 15 reps of squats, in order 2 or 3 times a week. You should rest for 30 seconds between sets.

How to:

Works legs, butt, and shoulders
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and loop the center of a resistance tube under your arches. Hold a handle in each hand next to shoulders with palms facing forward. Bend knees, lowering hips until thighs are parallel to the ground, then rise up as you press your hands overhead. Return to start position and repeat. 

 Image source: insider.com

Now that the holidays are half way over you might want to start forming a fitness regime that includes losing all the holiday food you have been scarfing. I find that many of the over the counter brands make me feel dizzy, sweaty and very well… “cracky”. (For lack of a better term..)

Well one of my friends recently told me about some sort of apple-vinegar pills that helped her shed some weight and were healthier. I haven’t tried it, but it seems interesting.

Here are the claims:

1. Suppresses the appetite so you eat less
2. Enhances calorie and fat burning
3. Encourages weight loss when used along with a healthy diet and exercise plan
4. Binds bile acids in the small intestine and then facilitates its elimination from the body
5. Helps maintain healthy blood sugar and cholesterol levels already in normal range
6. Supports healthy circulation of blood and oxygen throughout your body
7. Provides superior support to your entire cardiovascular system
8. Promotes joint health, comfort, and flexibility
9. Promotes better digestion and relieves occasional heartburn
10. Regulates the pH balance in your body so it is not too acidic or too alkaline
11. Breaks down fat faster so it moves out… fast!
12. Provides life-giving minerals, trace elements, and vitamins to every cell

Hmmm, seems like something worth trying! I’ll give it a go and let you guys know how it goes..

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Ummm.. so call me fickle but one of the most inspiring tales to come out of the Beijing Olympics is the epiphany of Michael Phelps daily calorie intake and how he still manages to have those ABS!!

Yeah, yeah I know the man has honed his body to a chiseled dreamy swimming machine but still, the sheer volume and “type” of food that Phelps consumes is staggering by any standards.

Keep in mind that the average recommended daily calorie intake is 2,000 calories. He consumes 12,000!

Here’s the breakdown:

Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise - two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelette, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

Lunch: a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread, capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

Dinner: carbohydrate-rich foods—such as a pound of pasta and an entire pizza—which give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen. He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

Whoa!!   

My point with all this is how amazing the human body is, like what a finely tuned machine it could become when necessary.  Granted his workout and diet are both EXTREME but the major lesson to walk away with is that you can allow yourself a few “extravagances” in diet as long as the ratio between “crap food” and “excercise” is 1:4. One part crap food, four parts exercise?

What do you guys think? Sound about right? Or is Michael Phelps just the exception to the rule?

P.S. - The lads face could use some work… but who is looking at his face! Hahahaha….  

I had dinner with four of my best gal pals last night. After a fun filled afternoon of discount shopping at our local retail stores. Major topic of discussion: Diet Pills

Basically boiled down to what we all have tried, what works and what made us feel like crack heads?

The conversation started with my friend who recently had a baby yet somehow managed to shed all the baby weight in about 4 months! Miraculous by “regular” people standards. Turns out she has been taking “ALLI” diet pills. Bottomline it doesn’t make you sweat or feel overheated like (Hydroxycut and Xenadrine) and you don’t get the racing heart syndrome and shakes that accompany those products, what you do get though is ANAL LEAKAGE!

Straight up! If you eat bad stuff (ex. fatty foods, oily foods, etc.) what Alli does is prevents your body from absorbing it. So if you’re not absorbing it, there is only one other place it could go? OUT! She said she started spotting “oil” when she first started using it and it made her gasy.

Strange part is, as gross as she said it was, she actually thought it was kind of cool because she felt it worked since she could actually see the results in her underwear. Yeah, go figure I have strange friends right? Sorry but I thought that part was super gross. The “anal leakage” she says provided the incentive in eating well, to avoid the gas and perhaps “accidents” while out.

Well, in her case it worked. The lass lost the weight, but I ask you… is the anal leakage worth it?

I use to work in the pharmacy and this product reminded me of what use to be a prescription drug, Xenical that garnered similar results, turns out the Alli diet pill itself is a reduced strength version of the prescription weight loss drug Xenical (also known as Orlistat). So that makes sense.

Well girls it works if you are interested, as for me … I think I will sit this one out.

Price $59.95 for 150 capsules

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