Dad's Day. (And Delayed Post! Oops!)

Hey Kids!! Happy Father's Day to all the great dads out there!! I have a kick-butt dad, who I love and who raised me well. He taught me to work hard, respect others and expect nothing. I so appreciate the way I was raised. It disappoints me to see the way some kids are brought up 'in this day and age' just being handed everything, never having a job, never having to earn a thing. That's no way to understand what life is all about. I started babysitting for my spending money when I was like 6th grade. As soon as I was old enough, I was waiting tables and I did that throughout high school (weekends) and college. I was never given a car, I was allowed to use my parents' cars when I asked, and when I wasn't grounded!! LOL. 

Some of the other things I remember about growing up:

• We were only allowed to have soda when we went out to eat or on the weekends. Other than that, it was orange juice for breakfast and milk with dinner.
• I wasn't allowed to buy my lunch at school like most of the other kids did- having pizza and burgers made out of God-Knows-What. I remember hating having a packed lunch but now I see that my mom gave me real FOOD and prevented me from being a junk food fattie.
• We ate dinner as a family every night. No TV was ever allowed, and we were never allowed to take phone calls during dinner. After dinner, we cleared the dishes and helped clean up the kitchen.
• We were never allowed to just sit and veg out and watch TV, we could pick 1 show to watch that was "family friendly" and that was it. Then it was time to go outside and play. 
• Here's a biggie- NO LOUD MUSIC. Haha now that is ONE thing that annoyed me back then and still annoys me!! Sorry dad, I like my music LOUD!!

Ok- sorry for not blogging yesterday- you guessed it, another crazy day. We had insane thunderstorms Friday, I hosted that Tweetup thing Friday night. Saturday I had to get my hair-did (yes I am doing that on purpose), then came home after picking out Father's Day gifts and my dad's birthday gifts and got my workout in. I did Cathe's Core Cardio Circuit and - wasn't able to finish it because I had guests coming over. But- I still got my sweatfest in and burned 300 calories. It WAS sweaty indeed. I really like the HIIT style workouts. And I love doing cardio before weights, not sure why.

I stumbled upon this Terri Turner gal on YouTube while searching for something else. I am so going to add in this move to build up my delt muscles. My arms are good, and don't get me wrong, I'm happy, but I really want to build up that cap on my delts. Love her tip, see below:

I actually recorded this vlog yesterday, because of this discussion on the Eat Stop Eat approach to "dieting". I was sharing with some people Friday night how I've been able to transition to eating whatever I want, but stopping when I've had ENOUGH. Saying "I've had enough" is a hard thing to do when you are eating something like a cupcake, or a burger and fries or a piece of pizza- because when you are still in that BFL diet mindset or a comp-prep-diet mindset, you view these types of food as "bad" or as "cheat" foods....so our mind can easily have that feast or famine approach to eating it. You either pig out/binge because you are thinking "Oh this is a cheat meal, and tomorrow and all week I'm going to punish myself and only eat broccoli and tilapia, so I better shove as much of this down my throat before midnight as I can." And if there is anyone out there that says they've never thought that way, GIVE ME A BREAK. 

Frankly, a lot of us don't know what enough is. ESE has trained me to realize my tummy can't really process a large amount of food. However, my mind knows that physical reality now, but I'm STILL working on the part of my mind that has denied myself anything outside of tilapia/oats/broccoli for so long, and that part of my mind wants to PIG OUT when I see french fries in front of me. But, I will tell you, ESE has brought out big changes in my control. Big changes and I'm leaving behind much more of the bad habits, the compulsive eating desires and the lack of control and I'm able to- much more- not all the time- control myself, to eat slowly and enjoy what's in front of me and say "that's enough.". 

That's a big deal. Big deal.