I just read this interesting tidbit on what happens to your body when you drink a coke:

* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
* 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
* >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
* >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
* >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

I wonder how much of this is true and how much is true for other sodas as well. I guess its good i gave up my mountain dew….. sigh….

Rather than trying to figure out how to get hold of you all individually, let me put this post out there! I love reading your blogs and sometimes I find things I want to comment on. But about half of you (blogger people raise your hands) don’t allow for comments by non-blogger members. You should change that!

Nuff said. Have a nice day

Making friends has never been easy for me as i tend to be pretty closed off and only let a select few “in.” A few months ago I got to know this girl and we talk about once a week on the phone, post on each others blogs and hang out every couple of weeks or so. Well, this weekend I ran into her husband at the grocery store. I had never met him before but I’d seen him numerous times so I knew who he was. I decided it was a good time to introduce myself so I did and he asked me how i knew his wife and had no idea who he was

For some reason I just felt sad like maybe she doesn’t feel the same connection I feel or something. Rather silly and school-girlish for a girl in her 30s, but I guess I just feel it b/c i don’t get close to very many people.

i was reading this post that explains that basically with exercise along or a combination of diet and exercise, your weight loss will eventually plateau. Well, I’m wondering how this is news.

Apparently the study is supposed to tell us how to overcome this plateau or something. I am extremely doubtful though, but wouldn’t that be cool!

I was reading Tracy’s blog where she brought up a good point about being out with friends and them not supporting her the way she needed it. I’ve experienced this before; you are out with friends, they expect you to eat as they eat and drink as you drink. Well, we all know what a night like that can do to our weightloss efforts.

I think though when friends try to get you to drink with them or eat what they are eating; that they aren’t trying to hurt your efforts, but instead just think you look fine the way you are and they probably feel like you are denying yourselves a good time.

It’s hard though, do you say something and risk offending your friends? Do you give in to their pressure? I wouldn’t do either unless it got overwhelming. I typically just say no thanks, I’m fine. I haven’t yet had to say something to a friend, but what do you do when things like that happen?

I was just sitting here, looking at my belly and thinking.. I wish there was an easy way. I know I’m not alone in this When we want to get healthy we want results fast, but we all KNOW, that the most effective way to maintain weight loss is to lose it slowly. but COME ON PEOPLE. Don’t the weight loss gods know that I’m impatient? I want to know all the tricks people have used to help and if there are any shortcuts… spill em!

I’ve been reading alot about hypnosis lately and have even considered that which is HUGE for me. I’m just tired and I think I just need some motivation. I’m at the point where I’ve lost about half the weight I want to lose and I’m becoming happier with my body and my health. I can run and exercise like i used to. I am a lot stronger, my body is more defined, and I just feel better about myself. I just now need to make sure i don’t get too comfortable in this skin and I persist to go all the way. I’m sure this is a feeling plenty of you have felt so I would love to hear any advice!

well, I wanted to lose 10 pounds in just a couple weeks time. I did not make that goal.. *sigh*… but I did lose 5 pounds and I looked fabulous! It’s fun to get all dressed up and feel pretty. It’s been a long time since I’ve had the opportunity to dress up and it was cool because of the weight I’ve lost. I still have more to go, but over the past few months I’m doing well.

I will try to get some pics up soon. I have some, but my battery has since died and I need to find the charger in order to pull them off.

Now, I need to figure out my next goal. The past couple of weeks have been extremely busy and I expect the next two to be just as busy as only 8 more days until christmas.. eek..