Happy Hump Day!

Hey Kids!! Has your Hump Day been a kick butt one?? ;-) Has mine? um, yes. Totally. My workout today was Cathe HIIT 30/30 followed by Cathe Butts N Guts, a personal favorite. I burned 705 calories for a WOOT!!!! Amen.

And on that note, to answer your question Chelle, the intermittent fasting (Eat Stop Eat) has NO effect on my ability to do workouts. At all. I've done a killer workout, like today's workout which was an hour and a half, on a total empty stomach/fasting day, and I'm fine. I'm not weak throughout the workout and I'm not dying of hunger later in the day. I seriously can't believe how much easier it is to get through a fasted day than I would have imagined. Don't get me wrong, I do have many times where my stomach gets a twang and I think that I'd sure like - whatever- but that's the key- I THINK I want something.  You just have to say to yourself, this is just for today, it is NO big deal, so stick with it. It is much more of a mind thing to conquer and when you do- at least for me, I find that the following days I am far MORE aware of true hunger, and I only want to eat when I'm really physically hungry. And then when I do, I'm filling up faster than ever before. So overall, I'm so pleased. This is an amazing fit for me and I see myself incorporating this technique or way-of-eating year-round. 

**PLEASE do yourself a favor and read this post from Julie Go Lean. CLICK HERE. She nails it right on the head. Losing weight isn't easy and guess what?? It doesn't stop when you get there, it is a lifelong effort. Commit to it!**

Anyway, I saw this picture somewhere today (it really scares me sometimes how awful my short term memory is. My long-term memory is epic and I remember EVERYTHING, small details you'd never think anyone paid attention to, but ask me what I did this morning and I'll tilt my head and really have to think about it....queer, I know.) and it blows my mind. Not sure why I'm even surprised, but seriously- why why WHY do advertisers still insist on photo-shopping EVERYONE so that look completely inhuman?? I mean, really, the message we are sending here is frightening in that some of the people they photo-shop i.e. Faith Hill, Britney Spears, Kelly Ripa, Madonna, Gwenyth Paltrow, etc. - um hello?? They are pretty hawt naturally! Take a peek at what a normal Britney looks like on the right, and her photo-shop fantasy-I-am-a-Barbie-doll look is on the left. #FAIL on Candies. 

And we wonder why 8 year old girls are starting to go on diets. Sad thing is, girls, you go on a diet and look perfect to try to attract the boys, and then they'll still go all Tiger Woods/Hugh Grant/Prince Charles/Jesse Whatever/Halle's Ex/Mutt Lange on you. OOPS. Did I sound a little negative there? Sorry. ;-) I'm just calling a lamea** a lamea**.