Fat Hell Ninjas

I have some friends from college who I've been email food journaling with for a while - several weeks. Mostly since I got put on the "Keep your waist 28" or under" fit-modeling plan at work. I got quite a scare and luckily, I have some close friends who were in for getting fit & healthy with me.

When my seamstress measured me and found that my waist was creeping over 28" she was gobsmacked when I told her I had been eating and drinking WHITE BREAD and BEER! She fell the fuck out. I'm 30 and need to straighten-up now anyway!

We've been emailing our confessions of what we slipped-up and ate and we've also been inspiring one another to eat better! Sometimes we share recipes and strategies. Snack Strategies and Skinny Girl Snacks are imperative!

We sometimes threw in some photos and one person in the group really likes photos. I think it's another great way to keep yourself accountable for what you've ingested.

Sometimes, when disgusting food is before me, I think "I should not put this in my body!" Like McDonald's fake coffee drinks!

I'm also inspired by words from the insane book "Skinny Bitch" about envisioning what you put in your body/eat - seeping out of your pores. Like, you want your skin to be gorgeous so don't ingest POISON!

So, with no further adue, I present in conjunction with some awesome friends: Fat Hell Ninjas.

To Arkansas & Back

I think I should have put up a warning post - I have been away. I've been pleasantly "unplugged" as well. No real internet for days and days. I refused when offered.
This farm was an exhilirating sight for my NYC dirty-sidewalk-and-greasey-pigeon eyes.

I did a lot of thrift shopping but I mailed almost all of it home. It will be several days before it gets delivered and cleaned or aired out and worked into the wardrobe, but I'm excited to take pics and share the goodness!

My first morning in Arkansas, I had a euphoric Wal-Mart Experience.
All of this wonderful booty was less than $50.


$15 wal-mart outfit! I asked a few people and no one believes in Keds. It's almost like - I didn't ask you - I'm telling you - adorable girls in New York City are wearing Keds and the fact that wal-mart has these cute ones for $5... and you don't care? Get into it.

The romper is OP at Wal-Mart and it's a size 11 - 13 from the girls section. Fake wal-mart keds $5.
I think I'm the skinniest I've been since I was 20 and had a crazy summer break-up and sad time where all I did was go running and go to my ONE summer school class.


I tried to eat "well" in Arkansas. It's super hard! But I barely ate Sonic. I went into Kroger grocery stores MANY TIMES to buy huge containers of cut-up fruit to eat, but of course, I fell into the arms of fat-hell a few times. When I did fall, I only ate half of it.

My blog gets traffic from people looking for "Skinny Girl Snacks" and I have news for you- It's fruit. Fruit is the #1 Skinny Girl Snack in the world.
This "coffee drink" at McDonald's made me want to cry, it's so fat-nasty. This is like a sugar water with a "pump" of fake coffee flavor in it. I drank some of it then added diet coke to make it less horrific. It tastes amazing but I wanted to cry because I was putting it in my body. (I ran the next morning, literally, around the neighborhood.)


Peaches for breakfast -

Then I peeled an orange and ate that sucker!

Of all the price comparisons I did - NYC vs. Arkansas - Fruit prices weren't really cheaper than NYC. Sad.
A banana is $1 at Sonic and a banana is never ever more than fifty cents in New York.

Weekend Food & Exercise Report

VERY home alone this weekend. Friday night - Leftover tomato/shrimp/basil pasta and an early bedtime. Maybe I ate a little bit of Breyer's. Just a little. Like half a cup.

Saturday: WOKE UP, walked Bonnie, drank coffee. Almond Milk. Sent Matt off to camping-camp.
JOGGED to the Central Park Reservoir. Ran around it once at a great pace, sun-blaring, felt so good I decided to do a 2nd lap. That's over 3 miles right there not including the trip from and back to the apartment all the way on the East Side.

I fixed 2 egg whites, 2 veggie sausage patties with salsa and 2 pc. of Fiber & FLax bread-toast with butter.


I packed a bag to spend the day at Central Park with full intentions of reading the new John Waters book, "Role Models" because I'm going to see him tomorrow night at the NYPL @ Bryant Park.


MY CENTRAL PARK BAG CONSISTED OF: The only drink I had in a travel-bottle. I found a HUNK of Frozen Club Soda in the back of our refrigerator. Matt took all the travel bottles camping and I refused to buy a plastic water bottle. I added some juice to the HUNK of Frozen Club Soda and a little Tito's Vodka. I'm super crafty and classy, I know.

I took Wheat Thins to snack on and a Granola Bar thing. I used the empty juice bottle to carry water for Bonnie-dog and I packed some Milk Bones for her to snack on. I was serious about spending the whole daylight day in Central Park reading.


SUNDAY: Walked Bonnie - Head was BUMPING I think because I sleep so much longer on the weekends that My body freaks out from the Coffee Consumption Delay. "Coffee Consumption Delay Distress" CCDD. I've been coming up with some sweet diagnoses lately since my doctor husband is SUCH a terrible family practitioner. He's a specialized specialist, therefore, useless for doctor stuff around the house. He knows any Mother with a Redbook MD trumps whatever he says.

So anyway - I was drinking a ton of coffee so I could get jazzed to clean the apartment. I got a major coffee high and cleaned our shit like Martha Stewart is coming over. Amazing job.

So my breakfast was 6 VEGGIE buffalo wings around noon.
At 3 I ate a bowl of Kashi cereal with Almond Milk - DELICIOUS.

At 4pm I went to the GYM. I lifted some awesome weights then ran 3 miles @ 10min/mile pace.

Then I was fucking STARVING so I drank a bunch of water and walked Bonnie.

I ate MORE LEFTOVER wheat pasta with basil/shrimp and tomatoes.

Then I met Tyler for Pinkberry. Luckly it's like frozen weird yogurt so I don't feel damaged by it.
Then I was snack-crazy and just ate a roll of Turkey deli meat. Tracy Anderson HATES deli meat but I can't be perfect all the time.

NEW IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE SKINNY SELF: Never eat YELLOW CHEESES or any Yellow cheese products and NEVER EVER eat Ranch Dressing Ever again. Not in any form. Not even a Ranch potato chip.

I've been googling "Skinny Girl Snacks" and there is a lack of resources so I'm going to start presenting "Skinny Girl Snacks"
#1. Eat a fucking piece of fruit. I've been doing good eating Oranges and other Fruit Cart items.