What’s ORTHOREXIA? Scroll down…
Why NOT exercise on Mondays? Scroll down further…
I know you want to see my before and after photos first, so here they are:
I am wearing my grandmother's velour set, with elastic band and a very dark blue color. My father sang that night, New Year's Eve, I smiled in his face; but I felt like a large farm animal. Look at my bloated face!
A little over 3 weeks later (1/24/10), after starting the HOT Minky Plan on 1/4/10, my love, took the pictures below:
Side view; muffin top be gone!
And one more…
Frontal view, bye, bye velour ... I can finally fasten my pants again!
Those of you who listened to last week’s HOT Minky show, know that I couldn’t fasten my pants since Halloween. I don’t feel like I was on a ‘diet’. I will continue this plan after the 3 weeks. I wasn’t hungry all the time… BUT when I was a little hungry, I embraced it, ’cause I knew I was in ‘fat-burning mode’. I actually got a thrill feeling those slight signals from my body letting me know that it was almost time for some ‘real food’.
I didn’t feel the need to run the a vending machine, or get a headache, or get nasty because I didn’t eat…That’s crazy!
That’s a person who eats (all carbs, wrong fats) like a bagel and cream cheese and a coffee light & sweet on their way to work around 9:00am, then want to eat their own hand by 11:15 am. They get busy again, and finally get to lunch at 1:30pm…Passed hungry. They only have 28 minutes to eat, they have a salad with no/low-fat dressing, an apple, and a couple of those orange crackers with brown stuff spread inside, that they confuse with peanut butter. They think they ate ‘healthy’.
They ate crap. They ate nothing to satisfy their ‘real hunger’. They are ’starved for nutrients’. But they read every label, counted fat grams, and the package said it was a ‘low-cholesterol’ food …
They have Orthorexia.
According to Michael Pollan in his book, “In Defense of Food…An Eater’s Manifesto”… an orthorexic is a person with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
Unfortunately in an orthorexic’s case; they are so obssesed with with the media and label reading has put into their heads…they ignore the signals from their own body. Would your great grandmother know what ‘Go-gurt’ is? But an orthorexic knows it’s got calcium in it and no fat and some vitamin D in it. How will their child absorb the fat-soluble vitamin D with no fat in the yogurt is not a concern because many othrorexics are ’sheeple’. They walk around with that 200 and under cholesterol on their sleeve thinking that they are”healthy”. Not realizing that it’s inflammation that kills; not total cholesterol. They follow the herd or the pack of the mainstream instead of their own way or pattern. Can they imagine listening to their body’s own wisdom?
Can you?
If you relaxed about food labels, calories, cholesterol, fat grams, exercising 6 days a week… what would happen? I watch this young women jog up and down our street almost everyday and I ask what happens when (not if) she stops. There’s no way she can keep this up for life. Poor soul is destroying her bones and will gain weight as soon as she stops. Her joints will soon remind her that they don’t like what she’s doing and will begin to yell at her. If she ever fell down, could she lift her body weight one time? You know, one full military-style push-up? Probably not.
Want to try enjoying full macro-nutrient meals, exercising strategically and naturally burn fat in your sleep? Here’s what I did today:
- Up at 9:00am, watched Joel Osteen – while doing 1 &1/2 minutes of froggies while still in the bed. (boyfriend up & out of bedroom by now)
Men can’t watch…well, they can…but? - While watching Creflo Dollar, another 1&1/2 minutes of stick squats (standing on floor) …Done with my 3-minutes of exercise for the day.
- At 10:15 am, I had 3 venison sausages that my father made, 2 eggs and a toasted roll, coffee w/ heavy cream, no sugar and 8 ozs. of water.
Oh yes, I always sprinkle freshly ground flax seed on my food. The package I buy of full flax seeds:
Looks like this. Remember to get a $20 grinder (coffee) from Walmart. Sometimes they say linseeds.
- At 3:30pm started to feel the hunger signals. Made nachos with raw, full fat cheese and jalepenos and stone-ground tortillas, of course, with fresh salsa. I had a fresh Bloody Mary (with fresh tomatoes, celery, carrots, a little horseradish and lemon and oh yeah, vodka) to toast the JETS game. I use my Montel Healthmaster for this and my other raw dishes.
- At 7:30 pm, I made a Lousiana creole shrimp pizza and a salad. 3 meals a day, no snacking. Satisfied, no stress and NO EXERCISING ON MONDAY! (Which is tomorrow. But bootcamp on Tuesday.) No more eating till tomorrow morning.
Why not exercise on Mondays? Mondays are “Heart Attack” day. Even before I heard the research; I felt in my gut that it was true. Statistically, there is a 25% increase of having a heart attack on Mondays. My mom did; so did newsman Tim Russert. Both after very enjoyable weekends and then exercising that following Monday. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
After a stressful weekend (even if it was enjoyable; it was still stressful). You’re starting the week (a new). Just thinking a ‘new’ week is stressful. The food you ate over the weekend and probably the drink you had, has worn out your GI system. Your heart, skeletal muscles, and GI systems are tired. Give them a rest. They need rest…NOT a “60-minute cardio confessional” because you feel guilty.
On the HOT Minky Plan; we DO NOT exercise on Mondays…period. I now look forward to Mondays! 
You can do it too. The HOT Minky Plan. www.hotminky.com Listen to the HOT Minky Show for more about orthorexia. Are you an orthorexic?
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