Say what?!

Hey guys, been a few days since my last post. Getting everything ready for our upcoming trip and the kids birthdays this week. 

 Matthew and I were decorating kylee's chocolate cake/chocolate frosting with the sixlets beads/pearls and realized just how hard not eating all the yummy goodness the kids want to eat for their birthdays will be. 

The kids each get their own cakes since they are a few days apart and then get another at grandma and grandpas ahh so much junk food. 🎂🎂🎂

Well let's get back to my reason for writing. The last few days Matt has been confronted with a few questions. Now I am not gonna say the aren't valid. They or at least some of the questions or statements make sense or it's easy to understand that point of view. The last few weeks on Matt's podcast(TerriblyDisappointing(available on iTunes) the other guys ask how he is doing on his plant based whole foods diet. On one hand to kind of motivate his but also to joke around with him when he takes a free day. 

The reason I mention this is because one of the guys(possibly both, idk I heard the conversation from Matt) commented on him eating pizza and then how Matt said he had been good. He(other guy) said that eating even 5000 calories of fruits/veggies isn't good for you(I'm assuming weight loss wise). 

This is the comment I was saying you can see the trail of logic. If you have ever been on a diet( probably even if you haven't) you have heard the you need to eat less calories to lose weight. 

It's all quite confusing because I have also read that it isn't a long term solution because our bodies can last on so few calories and if we raise our calorie allowance we will likely gain weight.

Well damn should I eat less or make sure my body can "run" properly. I can't say for sure how I am eating is "healthy". However, I am fairly certain it's healthier eating bananas and such than it was  regularly eating pizza and mc Donald's. 

As for the 5000 calories of fruit/veggies making you gain weight. I did a little math of one of my meals the other day. 

Here is one of my meals 

 Great smoothie by the way. I actually doubled this recipe for the one meal. So approximately 720 calories. Which is probably about 3 pizza slices. Which is about what I use to eat. This was one of my 5-6 meals that day and i weighed myself the next morning now I may have only lost a few ounces(not sure of exact amount) but I know I certainly didn't gain any.

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The next comment was in regards to Matt's lunch(well one of them). 

Matt had gone to kfc with a coworker. Matt did not partake of the restaurant food and instead ate his pistachios and raspberries. 

While sitting with his coworker who was munching away at his chicken and mashed potatoes he told Matthew that both the raspberries and pistachios were bad for him. Having texted me if it was true(would love to know what your search turned up/thoughts) I told him I don't think so. Asked what the guy was saying was bad about the pistachios. Matt said it was kind of an in general thing. 

However Matt later said the guy mentioned good cholesterol and bad. Referencing the pistachios. 

He(other guy) said that the raspberries were no better for his than the fried chicken he was consuming. Now in general I would say that's total hogwash. However, his reasoning was pesticides. 

So that is my question to you are raspberries now better for you than fried chicken if sprayed with chemicals? 

Pizza is my Drug

It has been a bit since I last posted on here. 

Since then we have had our ups an downs.  We went to a birthday party this last weekend for a friends kid and we decided to partake of their bbq. It was enjoyable. 

Should we have done it? Probably not, especially since, we both had stomachaches after, even with only eating a little bit of the food. 

I am now dying for the gooey cheese and the nice warm sauce. I probably seem crazy since, I baked some bread and now it is really hot in our house. 

Food addiction: 

 "Food addiction is a very serious problem and one of the main reasons some people just can’t control themselves around certain foods, no matter how hard they try

What is Food Addiction?

Food addiction is, quite simply, being addicted to junk food in the same way as drug addicts are addicted to drugs.
It involves the same areas in the brain, the same neurotransmitters and many of the symptoms are identical (1).
Food addiction is a relatively new (and controversial) term and there are no good statistics available on how common it is.
This is very similar to several other eating disorders, including binge eating disorder, bulimia, compulsive overeating and having an “unhealthy” relationship with food.
."-authoritynutrion.com

I can't remember if I told you about this time recently. It was a week or so ago, and I decided I wanted to go to Game Stop. We bought a few games, and then proceeded to the grocery store 2 doors over. Matthew and I discussed what we would be eating for dinner. 

I didn't mention that between the grocery store and Game Stop there is a pizza place. Who happens to have a monday special where the pizza are about 3.99 on Mondays. 

Anyways, so we are standing there discussing/trying to talk ourselves out of ordering pizza, and I eventually say ok lets just go home. Get away from the temptation. 

 Matthew seems to be annoyed so I say ok if you really want it lets go get it. He says no, and continues to tell me why we can't as we are walking out the door. Out the door and around the corner towards the pizza shop. I asked him where he is headed and I think he said something about to the car and I said its about 100 feet in the opposite direction. It was then that he realized he was kind of on auto pilot. 

Eek, do you deal with things like this. Does food have a power over you?

Trials

I realized that with the last post I didn't state how much we have each lost. 

Matthew's starting was 275

and he is currenlty

256

My starting was 235

and I am currently 225

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I hope you guys, who celebrate, had a good Easter.

Matthew unfortunately had to work, but he was able to see the kids "open" their baskets before he left for work.

Then after he got off work we went and had an Easter Egg hunt with family.

Video here

While getting the kids baskets ready the night before I came to the realization that candy is one of my problem areas. 

As I was buying it I was sitting there thinking that I could just eat whatever jelly beans don't fit into the eggs. 

That was the first reason yesterday was tough for me. Matthew said candy isn't a problem for him. 

However, I know good and well he had trouble with the other 2.

Since, Matthew, his dad, and I are all on this Whole Food Plant Based "diet", we all decided to do a potluck. 

I tried a few recipes yesterday, just for us to decide on corn bread.

Matt's dad made some approved chili. It was really good. However, it was Matt's sister made wings. Not hot wings like I had thought, which would have been way worse, but chicken nonetheless. 

His other sister made a banana cream cake. 

Those weren't nearly as bad as the trial we faced later.

If you read yesterdays post, then you know that normally Matthew and I would order pizza. Actually, truth be told. We would order 4 from Dominos. Then proceed to eat to our hearts content, and then eat leftovers the next day. While watching our shows on Sunday nights, Walking Dead, Shameless, Game of Thrones, etc.

Last night we were good, and fought the urge to order it. Wasn't that difficult until one of the characters in Shameless said I ordered pizza, yada yada, I will heat it up. Then the other said nah its better cold. We both had to fight the urge at that point to not order that dang cheesy goodness.

Have a great Day guys.

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