So here's the deal about us. Joh is a student of Nutritional Sciences and a jack-of-all-trades (Seriously. From baking cakes shaped like man-eating cows, to waiting tables, to painting entire apartments). If she had a super power, it would be to have blood that would cure any disease. I (Rebekah) am a waitress, sometimes college professor. If I had a super power, it would be to siphon the super powers of others. I feel like the super power thing sums up our personalities in a fairly accurate manner.
We met about a year ago, while we were working in the same restaurant. On my second day of work, Joh told me she was going to bake me a designer cake for my birthday. She did. We then created an oral contract in which we stated that we would be best friends for the summer of 2011, but once the summer ended, we were donezo, and back to being acquaintances. Although we held firm to the first stipulation of the contract, at the end of the summer, we decided to renew our friendship contract. And that's how we ended up here.
Joh's been talking about wanting to lose weight since I first met her. She was originally on some weird 17-day diet. And she did lose weight, but it didn't change her overall eating habits, so some of the weight came back. She's also been on every crap diet known to man--Atkins, South Beach, and so forth. These diets actually led to her interest in nutrition. I, over the past 2-3 years, have dropped close to 40 lbs by changing my overall diet and by adding exercise to my life. However, for the past year, I've been stuck in that plateau zone of "I just want to get these last 10 - 12 lbs off."
Joh's created a meal plan for her dad, and his progress has been amazing (www.respectthefood.blogspot.com). So she knows that she can coach someone to lose weight and provide someone with the support one needs to lose weight, but she wanted some support of her own. That's where I came in. I asked Joh to make me a plan so that I could drop the final few and learn some healthier eating habits. Joh agreed to do so, if I would be her support system for her own plan. And so here we are. Joh has created a meal plan for each of us. I have to eat certain amounts of dairy, grain, proteins, fruits, and vegetables throughout the day. Joh's plan is similar, but she is also allowed certain amounts of fats in her plan. I am allowed good fats on the days that I eat low/no fat dairy in lieu of cheese. We are each allotted a certain amount of Discretionary Calories (DC's) per day and these can be used for small extras or, as will more often be the case, booze.
Although the idea of the blog is centered around eating, having a social life is important to both of us. We like to get our drank on every now and then. So we're having to temper the amount of alcohol we drink (2 servings of wine/vodka/whiskey 2x a week or 4 servings of the same 1 time a week). And we've got some fun experiments planned. For example, what would happen if we went to a bar and did 4 shots off whiskey straight off the bat, and then drank water the rest of the evening? Como se dice "bad decisions"? Anyhow, that's who we are and what we're about.
We met about a year ago, while we were working in the same restaurant. On my second day of work, Joh told me she was going to bake me a designer cake for my birthday. She did. We then created an oral contract in which we stated that we would be best friends for the summer of 2011, but once the summer ended, we were donezo, and back to being acquaintances. Although we held firm to the first stipulation of the contract, at the end of the summer, we decided to renew our friendship contract. And that's how we ended up here.
Joh's been talking about wanting to lose weight since I first met her. She was originally on some weird 17-day diet. And she did lose weight, but it didn't change her overall eating habits, so some of the weight came back. She's also been on every crap diet known to man--Atkins, South Beach, and so forth. These diets actually led to her interest in nutrition. I, over the past 2-3 years, have dropped close to 40 lbs by changing my overall diet and by adding exercise to my life. However, for the past year, I've been stuck in that plateau zone of "I just want to get these last 10 - 12 lbs off."
Joh's created a meal plan for her dad, and his progress has been amazing (www.respectthefood.blogspot.com). So she knows that she can coach someone to lose weight and provide someone with the support one needs to lose weight, but she wanted some support of her own. That's where I came in. I asked Joh to make me a plan so that I could drop the final few and learn some healthier eating habits. Joh agreed to do so, if I would be her support system for her own plan. And so here we are. Joh has created a meal plan for each of us. I have to eat certain amounts of dairy, grain, proteins, fruits, and vegetables throughout the day. Joh's plan is similar, but she is also allowed certain amounts of fats in her plan. I am allowed good fats on the days that I eat low/no fat dairy in lieu of cheese. We are each allotted a certain amount of Discretionary Calories (DC's) per day and these can be used for small extras or, as will more often be the case, booze.
Although the idea of the blog is centered around eating, having a social life is important to both of us. We like to get our drank on every now and then. So we're having to temper the amount of alcohol we drink (2 servings of wine/vodka/whiskey 2x a week or 4 servings of the same 1 time a week). And we've got some fun experiments planned. For example, what would happen if we went to a bar and did 4 shots off whiskey straight off the bat, and then drank water the rest of the evening? Como se dice "bad decisions"? Anyhow, that's who we are and what we're about.
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