Like a Phoenix from the Ashes!

[Melanie]

Alright, this is a partial achievement as well as a 'WTF rant' - you have been warned

 

Yesterday morning before work I managed to do all of this within 3h 45min.:

• Got up late - 10am
• Had breakfast
• Prepared lunch for later on
• Cleaned kitchen, bathroom and WC as well as hoovered the entire flat
• Did my amended workout while simultaneously cooking lunch (that's where a steamer comes in handy!)
• Taking a shower afterwards
• Eat lunch
• Get ready for work

 

I was so proud I still managed to do my workout properly and when I woke up today (or rather while I was still asleep - I incorporated the

feeling into my dream xD) I noticed that my muscles were sore all over the place (especially true for my quadriceps, my calves

and the biceps/shoulder parts).

 

Why does this make me happy? Because it means that I gave my body enough stimuli in order to be worn out, i. e. I broke down some

muscle tissue which is now repairing itself and I'll end up even fitter and stronger than before (I can already see some major changes

regarding my leg and arm muscle toning (imagine what it will look like after three to four months!!).

 

Today's success:

I found organic free range eggs at the shop around the corner (which I couldn't even find at the big retail store where I usually go to -

at least they didn't label them as 'organic'). Plus, I bought some 'decent' butter *rant starts here* (i. e. not organic, but better than

the artificial crap I was eating before - boy, I had NO idea what I was doing to my body). I thought it was healthy, because it's made of

olive oil *massive face palm*.

 

Take a look at the ingredients and see the horror:

 

Water, Bertolli Olive Oil composed of Refined Olive Oils and
Virgin Olive Oils, Vegetable Oil, Vegetable Fats, Modified Tapioca
Starch, Salt (1%), Buttermilk, Emulsifiers (Mono and Diglycerides of
Fatty Acids, Sunflower Lecithin), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate),
Citric Acid, Flavouring, Vitamins A & D, Colour (Beta-Carotene).

 

Refined:

never read anything decent about refined foods

- deprived of any nutrition that 'might' have been

present before

 

Vegetable Oil:

my last vegetable oil turned out to be made of GM soy...

and they don't exactly specify which kind of vegetable oil they're

using in here either, do they?!

 

Modified (bla bla bla) Starch:

modified = bad, starch = even more bad...

 

Salt:

every salt except for sea salt is utter crap! (read up on the different

kinds of salt if you don't believe me - I would love to point you to my

source, but I'm afraid it's in German).

 

Emulsifiers/Fatty Acids:

is a mixture of animal and vegetable fats... origin: who knows...

who cares anyway? (umm, me...!? :S)

 

Lecithin:

almost nearly made of sunflower, soy or rapeseed oil - and we're

back with the vegetable oils...

 

Potassium Sorbate (preservative):

can cause allergies in rare cases as well as skin and mucomembranous

irritation in sensitive people - but otherwise completely harmless as it

can be 100% broken down by the body... (I actually looked that up! -

in German, but Google translate should do the trick ).

 

Flavouring:

I thought there was the goodness of olives in there, so why the heck do

I need flavouring? And what kind of flavouring are we bloody hell talking

about? Hm? HMMM?!

 

Vitamins A&D:

I always get very
suspicious if somebody has to ADD vitamins... you want to sell your
product as part of a more healthy lifestyle or what?

 

Colour:
meaning that your product would otherwise look so disgusting that I
wouldn't go anywhere near it? Or is it supposed to make the margarine
look 'more healthy' yet again?

 

*rant finished*

 

So, yeah, the only reason I actually bought butter (probably full of hormones too as it's non-organic -.-) was because I'm still eating bread

at the moment as I need some time for the full transition to organic meat (which I will have to order online and they only deliver on certain

days of the week). But that would make no sense right now as I will be off to Germany tomorrow for a couple of days. Afterwards - or I can

even do it while I'm in Germany - I will order my stuff and ban bread from my life (which is not too hard in England with all that flabby stuff

which they call bread - before anybody is offended: have a go at real bread first, then we can talk ).

 

But yeah, all in all, I'm making progress ^^