The Blonde Diaries

Guest post written by Aaron Wilkinson

Unfortunately, I spent Valentine’s weekend by myself this year. But it wasn’t so bad because that meant that for once in a few years I didn’t have to worry about doing anything that someone else wanted to do. I thought that it would be good if I made myself a nice meal sometime.

So I went online with my www.wildbluedeals.com to figure out what I should cook. I thought about fixing dinner, but then I decided that I should fix breakfast because most of the time breakfast food is so much easier to cook anyway.

I found a really good sounding recipe for buttermilk biscuits and decided to try those out, which gave me enough biscuits to eat a couple of different meals with them. I thought about cooking some sausage with them, but I just decided to eat them with jelly instead of going to the trouble of fixing other stuff. I had a set of 24 DVDs that I had to get through this weekend anyway.

So I’m in the final 30 day countdown until I go on vacation. I am so excited that I just can’t contain myself. I am starting the laundry and packing for the trip this week. Yipee!

Also starting this week is going to be 30 days of workouts. Yes, I’m trying to workout everyday before I leave town. I need to kick my butt back into gear for long-term weight loss, lose a few pounds so I can stand to gain just a couple from the beer and buffet foods on the boat, and in general get ready for the beach! So I’m going to wake up, throw on workout clothes, hang some laundry, wash a little more, and dust off the treadmill. I’m hoping to get a good 30 minutes in at home and hit the weights at the gym tomorrow night.

Since I’ve never worked out 7 days a week for an extended period of time, I am trying to figure out the best way to prepare and recover. I like the Gatorade G series with the pre workout supplements, during workout supplements, and post workout supplements. It just seems so easy to follow and it makes training and nutrition so simple that anyone could do it. I’m just not sure about the calorie content so I’m also researching vitamins like the Bs to see what adds natural boosts and energy, drinking water as much as possible, and trying to get in a little extra protein via canned tuna. I have always believed everything helps so why not right? Hoping to have good results to report at the end of each week.

I know I’m not the only one that has been wondering about this. I mean in most other industries there are industry terms and there is a lot of plain English used to discuss products, services, etc. I feel that the use of plain English has skipped over the legal and medical professions. Legal tends to use Latin words and phrases and medical tends to use chemical names. I don’t know about you but I can’t remember what each chemical is called or what it does and I certainly never learned Latin in my life.

I so often feel lost, confused, and frustrated with this. Just the other day I heard about this new drug/supplement/whatever called nuphedragen and had no idea what it was for. The name just didn’t help me out at all so I had to turn to Google and find out. So if you are curious like me, nuphedragen is a new weight loss aid that mixes appetite suppression, increases energy, and helps burn fat. Such an easy concept and something that is so easy to understand you sometimes wonder why plain English never took off. Maybe there is some tradition or something they learn in Medical school to explain all of this.

I hate needles. There is nothing fun or exciting about them. They hurt and cause pain long after it is all over in the form of the tape you have to rip off your skin once you are done bleeding. It doesn’t matter how much soap or water you use to try to loosen the tape up. You can submerge it in the tub and it will still cause pain and suffering. So needless to say I tried to drag out my latest blood work as much as possible. Two weeks this time around before I cracked. I knew if I drug it out much longer my doctor’s office would give me a buzz like they did in February when I forgot about the blood work I
was suppose to do in December. “oops”?

So I made sure I was really really good last week – ate fruits and veggies, cut the alcohol, and even went to the gym regularly. Well, I guess I’ve been working on that all month. But it seems like that helped me out because I got an improvement report from October. Triglycerides are down, vitamin D levels are up, and my thyroid is normal. Yay for me! So I guess I have to continue this new health regimen so I get better results when I have to do this all over again in August. Bleh!

Oh yeah baby! My quick weight loss diet can begin on Tuesday. Ok so maybe quick isn’t totally true but my treadmill is being delivered on Tuesday between 9 and 5pm and then I can start using it to walk/jog/run and get back into shape. I am so looking forward to building up my stamina and seeing the pounds and inches melt away. I’m hoping to lose a quick 10 pounds in the next few months. I think it can be done. We’ll see what happens though.