A New Challenge

I feel so alive Hello and welcome to fit ready

go weight loss and healthy living episode 6 I'm

your host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining

me is my other host Mary The one who's too lazy

to lean forward into the microphone So we've

concluded our vegetarian month challenge You

can probably hear the cats beating each other

in the background with the dog. We concluded

our vegetarian challenge of the month of January,

despite not doing more than eight or nine videos

the whole month, just because we got busy. How

do you think that whole process went, despite

everything? I think it was fine, honestly. I

didn't miss the meat all that much. Maybe a little

bit, the texture of certain things bothered me

some of the time, a little bit chewier than what

we're not used to, but besides that, it really

wasn't a big deal. But I definitely would say

what came out of it is we'll be eating probably

about half vegetarian and half meat. whereas

in the past I've always believed oh to get protein

you have to have meat at every single meal and

I learned that I could get my protein in without

having meat so like today for dinner I did put

some steak in the or beef steak whatever in a

like a cauliflower rice but That was the only

meat I had today. I had a taco salad for lunch,

which was still the TVP. I don't plan on switching

back to meat for tacos, because honestly, in

my opinion, the TVP is better. There's scrambled

tofu, so I'm going to go back and forth between

eggs and scrambled tofu, because scrambled tofu

is very, very good. Made a huge difference. It

will affect our eating habits now because we

won't have meat for everything Um I will say

I did miss eating meat Although the some most

of the stuff we ate wasn't bad, so it's not like

it's that big of a stretch for me But uh I'm

still hankering for hamburger and like steak

and like you had steak and the rice. Yeah, it's

not the same But it I want to like, you know

steak steak but uh So we did we did do the challenge

it was fine I Had a full checkup of the doctor

and because I had no meat and because I don't

eat Because I don't eat beans and I won't eat

like peanut butter and I wouldn't eat, you know

anything that's that's got cholesterol or High

protein that was part of the vegetarian diet

because I'm a picky eater I Had for my because

in my family blood pressure runs high and cholesterol

runs high Possibly partially because of what

they eat but partially because I think it does

run in some of the family But because of what

I was eating when I had my blood work done my

blood pressure was normal and my cholesterol

was low Which I didn't expect to hear that I

heard I expected to hear it normal, but it was

low so in other words I got to eat more saturated

fats, and I was told to exercise, but I'm too

lazy for that so I got to make up for it with

my eating Yeah, you're not gonna just sit there

and eat a whole bunch of saturated No, because

you won't let me you make me healthy so yeah

whether I want to or not so Which leads us to

what our next challenge is right up out of the

meat chant no meat challenge we have Gone and

started today No sugar, no added sugars we are

doing Through two servings a day is what I've

allowed us one for breakfast the first the one

serving has to be during the breakfast and then

the other serving at any point I know doing my

sugars earlier in the day is the better with

fruit. They always suggest that but I know my

weakness. My weakness is after dinner so I saved

my second fruit for after dinner. I had some,

my wonderful friend a few months ago had let

me borrow her dehydrator so I have dehydrated

apples and dehydrated bananas and I I snacked

on a couple of those after dinner because I knew

that that's when I always really, really want

my sweets. And it did enough to control that

sweet tooth. But it was a rough first day, I

do have to say, and I knew going into this sugar

detox was going to be much, much harder than

the meat. No meat. No meat is not a huge deal

for me because... Really, we didn't eat a ton

of meat before like but the sugar I mean sugars

and everything it's in bread. It's in your tortillas.

It's it's in literally everything and It's even

hidden sometimes. You know I'll say one gram

of sugar but Then you read the ingredients, and

it has high fruit high corn high fruit fructose

corn syrup whatever with just their sugar or

there's so many different names for sugar and

they'll be in there so I'm actually making homemade

whole wheat bread now and so that has no sugar

in it well it has honey in it but it's again

a natural sugar that is if you buy the right

kind so the first three days or three I don't

know three to four days. I've decided that we're

not doing any grains or milk, no dairy. So really

it's very, very bland. I'm trying to make it

so that our bodies get kind of shocked, if you

would say, into not needing that. So today for

breakfast we each had some eggs and are serving

a fruit. And then for lunch I had the taco salad,

Steve had a turkey salad. And then we both snacked

on vegetables. Some cashews. And that's about

it that we're able to eat. And then for dinner

I made a cauliflower fried rice. So you actually

rice cauliflower. and then put, it's supposed

to be peas and carrots, I did, to stay away from

the sweet peas, I did carrots and celery. And

then I put some beef in it and a couple eggs

and it was really really good. But yeah, so it's

kind of very bland, but today I started feeling

really really sick which the whole family is

coming off of a cold so not sure exactly which

way but I'm pretty sure I was having sugar withdrawals

and because I started I started craving carbs

first thing this morning so I deterred it by

getting peanuts and I actually bought for it

while I'm at home anyways peanuts with the shells

on them because it takes longer to break into

them So I got some of those and I had stacked

on that to stop that and then I had a hard -boiled

egg because actually eating fat kind of stops

that sweet craving. So a healthy fat obviously.

But then... Just started feeling really sick

like sick to my stomach my Shoulders were weak

my legs were weak like I just I was at work,

and I just did not feel good at all and My head

I haven't had such a bad headache and Forever

I mean the back of my neck hurt the front of

my head hurt Everything hurt my ears hurt And

then once I ate lunch it did get better. I had

my spark, which I'm sure helped, and I ate my

salad and I think that's what really did it because

I did use just a tiny bit of salsa and then I

had a chili that I had made a couple days ago

and I put that on it so I know it had like a

little bit of sugar maybe in there. Just like

Steve, he put a little bit of Italian dressing

on his salad, but we're not getting to the point

that we're gonna say, oh my goodness, we had

two grams of added sugar today. I mean, we'll

be fine with that. So. It's trying to live on

the bare minimum of the. sugar levels that are

artificial and Yeah, because obviously sugars

and everything and it's addictive. I mean think

about it I was having and I was telling Steve

this earlier. I was having sugar Withdrawals,

I mean come on if there's really a food out there

That when you don't eat it you have withdrawals

your body starts reacting you start getting headaches

And you start aching and you start feeling sick.

I mean is that really something we should be

putting in the to our body. And am I saying I'm

never gonna have sugar again? No, that's not

what I'm saying because I'm gonna have sugar

after this month is over. But when I go back

to it, I'm not gonna have it on a daily basis

as I am right now. I eat too much chocolate.

I may not eat chocolate every single day, but

I eat it at least a few times a week. I don't

really need that. Maybe a special occasion or

I've been at a friend's house and they baked

up something, maybe I can have one. but I've

got to myself get off of the sugar addiction

because I mean honestly for one I would like

to lose a little bit more weight but it's more

so I don't want my body depending on something

like that so um so yeah just the fact of how

I felt today was so rough just and it's all because

of a drug I'm putting into my body so yeah maybe

I'm not I don't do cocaine, I don't do weed,

like I've never gotten into that stuff. Well

they said sugar is actually as addictive as cocaine.

But it's very addictive. And to take yourself

off of something and have those type of withdrawals,

then you know it's something that shouldn't be

entering your body in the first place. So I'm

very happy we're doing this. I know the first

few days are going to be really rough, but we'll

get better. I'll start adding in dairy. I'm thinking

dairy's gonna come back about Thursday. And I'm

gonna try to wait at least until Sunday probably

to add in some grains and then it's gonna be

whole grains. So oatmeal, which Steve's gonna

cry about. And then I'm gonna make some homemade.

Pancakes, which I already make a lot of the time

which you can't you have to have the homemade

to usually I make the homemade for myself And

then mr. Whiney here has the buttermilk. Yeah.

Well get over it. That's not coming back into

the house. Yes Yeah, keep pushing. Yeah, well

Then what's the point in leaving doing this?

I? Mean seriously, what's the point you'll rot?

So we're in other words he's saying we're gonna

go through 30 days or this month's 29 days of

torture just so that he can go right back to

it. Well, then I go right back to it. No, and

the biggest... Well, because I don't use... I

don't need syrup. And I don't need... But do

you realize how much sugar is actually in those

pancakes? Why do you think I've always... I always

make them on my own, like... But I like the bagged

powder. Oh, well. Anyways... I like to eat the

batter, too, so... So, yeah, and he also wants

cereal every morning of his life. And that drives

me nuts, because there's nothing good about it.

I don't care. I don't care even if you do Cheerios.

There's just nothing good about cereal. It's

a filler, like there's nothing to it. But yeah,

so that's what our challenge is now, and it's

much more difficult than the last. We're gonna

want to kill each other. Yeah. Basically. Surprisingly,

I wasn't moody today. I just was sick just didn't

feel good. I I'm normally I'm pretty tired right

now like I'm about to crash for those that are

Wondering we're recording this on February 1st,

and it'll be released February 2nd. So there's

a little bit of a time delay there, but Like

I I'm normally a not very nice person on a Monday

morning I had to have the spark to kickstart

me and wake me up like all the way like mentally.

Yeah I go without my spark so I had that but

I usually try to wait till the afternoon. I need

it in the morning because like I'm trying to

wake my faculties up in my head and so that helped

actually a lot and then I was able to actually

go on with my day and eat my vegetables and my

non sugary food and then I started getting like

Hunger pains like expecting to eat something

sweet at some point because normally I have junk

sitting in my desk somewhere that I can snack

on if I'm or it gets sent in my lunch, but There's

nothing there. So yeah plenty of food in his

lunch No, I'm not saying I didn't get I'm not

saying I didn't get plenty of food. I did get

plenty of food I'm just saying like normally

I was I was looking for the sugar and there wasn't

any Yeah, so I am I'm happy we're doing this.

It's going to be difficult, but the fact that

I actually have Steve on board is very nice because

a lot of this weight loss I've done with him

not, you know, he's always been supportive of

me. He just has never done any of it with me.

So it's kind of nice having that because then

he's not sitting there eating a bowl of ice cream

while I'm supposed to be just twiddling my thumbs.

Well, granted we haven't had ice cream in forever,

but I get the concept. It's also winter, so whatever.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I've got Smarties sitting

directly across from me, but they're candy cane

things, but I don't... No, if it was a bag of

Smarties, I'd have a hard time not eating them,

but they're candy canes, so I don't have any

reason to jump over there. But, yep, so this

is our February challenge. I have no idea what

we're gonna do for March, if we're gonna do anything

at all. I have a few things coming, but if you

have any suggestions for a challenge you would

like to see us do Let me know as long as it's

not something outrageous and we might do like

the video vlog like a Couple times a week over

every day because it was pretty hard to try and

find time after the kids go to bed to yeah, and

we try to do some Bible studies and some devotionals

some nights and Then try to have some time on

our own and oh Steve gets to shave the cats when

we're done here because those they haven't been

shaved in Six months probably so yeah, it's been

like once or twice since no one's been born so

that's whenever we got that stupid table, but

I was over the summer So yeah. That's about it?

Yeah, that's about it. So we'll catch you on

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