Happy New Year!

I'm embarrassed to admit, I did succumb to the holiday eating and gained a couple pounds. I won't BS you all.
That being said. I've restarted on Power 90 today, and downloaded a ton of apps for iPhone to help me get this stuff under control. I hope everyone's doing well and getting close to goal weights and ship dates, sorry I haven't been around, I'm an awful blogger apparently. Keep motivated, I'm still here if anyone needs anything.

By the way, if you haven't been to www.futurejarheads.org yet, hop to it.

Stay moto, God bless.
-Jarrah

Veganism?

Alright so, I think I'm going to try this Veganism stuff. I want to try it. Not only for the weight loss benefit, but I've heard it just makes you all around feel better. More energy and whatnot, supposing you do still get the nutrients you need. SO, wish me luck with that. Other than that, I've lost a little more weight, which is always good. I got my driver's license finally, that's exciting for me since that means I can go to the gym whenever I want. I don't say that as in I couldn't walk there before, but because I have somewhat strict rules around the house about not leaving after dark, and that's when I'd be the most comfortable going is in the evenings. Anyways, I just figured I'd mention the veganism so maybe I'd have something in writing to hold me to it. Hope you're all staying motivated, if not, let me know and I'll give you some kind of motivational story or video or whatever.

If anyone's got any questions or anything too, ask it! I'm here to answer questions and help people, don't be shy. Stay motivated, God bless.

-Jarrah

Facebook question

Yesterday on FutureJarheads' Facebook fan page, I received this comment:
I can't lose weight for the life of me!! I run all of the time and I eat fairly healthy. I could do more PT but When I was doing it 4-5 times a week I STILL didn't lose weight. =/


Well Tina, a few things could cause that. 
1. Are you legitimately overweight? If your body has reached its ideal body fat percentage, it'll become incredibly hard to lose weight. You can always try a body fat percentage test to find out.
2. Assuming you are overweight, are you eating fairly healthy, but too much? The rule of thumb is about 10 calories per pound of body weight.
3. Is there sugar in your diet? Sugar is horrid for those in need of losing weight, and some foods are loaded with sugar without even seeming sweet. Be sure to be reading the labels.
4. Do you hydrate well enough? If you're drinking less than at least 64oz a day, it can hinder your weight loss. The rule of thumb for water is take half your body weight and put that in ounces, that'll be your daily intake.
5. Is your PT regimen repetitive, or too much of one thing? If you're doing constant cardio without weightlifting, or vice versa, you're going to have trouble. You need a good balance of cardio, strength training and a good diet to properly lose weight.
6. Have you already been losing weight? If so, you may have plateaued. If that's the case, change up your PT routine a bit and eat a little differently. The best thing for those wanting to lose weight is going by the lowest GI or Glycemic Index rating.
7. Carbs. Carbs pack on heavy weight. Breads, pastas, tortillas, anything starchy is carb loaded. That caused me to plateau around the 50 lbs lost mark, because I'm big on sandwiches. 


Stay moto-vated, if you have any other questions, comment anywhere on here. They're automatically sent to my phone, so you won't get ignored.


-Jarrah
  

Grossss.

I just found these on my old phone's SD card. I was suuuuch a gross fatbody. I'm still overweight, but in comparison? I'm not complaining.
Stay moto.

-Jarrah

Hellooooo Poolees, Future Marines, Fatbodies and Marines.

Been a couple weeks, I'm still here! Just had a lot of stuff going on lately with my fiancee having just moved in. No worries, we're not getting married during my career. I've already been warned by Marines to not cross my career with my relationships. He's moved in to the house though, which is nice. Anyway, this isn't about my love life. I did a TON of PT-ing and other physical stuff today, so I'm pretty exhausted. I just wanted to let everyone know I'm still around, didn't forget about you. I've been doing P90x again, and I love it. It feels so good. If you don't do it, you should. I hope everyone's staying moto-vated and feeling good, and if anyone has any lack in moto-vation, give me a holler! I'm always close by. A friend of mine starts the Crucible either today or tomorrow, I'm really excited for him. This is a really scatterbrained post because I'm doing a bunch of things at once, so I'm sorry if I sound totally random and this is poorly written. I promise I'm usually pretty dang good with my grammar and sentence structure! Haha. See you all later.

Stay motovated, God bless!
-Jarrah

Birthday resolutions.

I'll start by saying, happy birthday to me! :D I'm 19 years old today.

Now, normally people make those "New Years Resolutions". Well I decided today, it's a new year for me, so why not make a resolution? I've decided on making a lot of changes. I have a serious issue with anxiety, it drives me insane day in and day out, and I've gotten pretty good at pretending it isn't there to the outside world. Can't be a Marine if you're going to go crying about everything. That being said, anxiety's started hindering my Marine Corps goals, and that's just unacceptable. I'm not having that. So, how am I going to change it? Number one, I spend way too much time in the house, on this Godforsaken computer. So I'm changing that. Not by locking it up, or having it taken away, or something stupid. But I'm going to exercise my discipline and self control. This sounds lame, and really pathetic, believe me I do know that. Thus making me want even more to change myself. I really don't want to be that kid that people look at and go "wow, I got 10 bucks that says she plays Dungeons and Dragons.", not that I've ever played that in my life, but you know what I'm getting at. When more of your contacts in your phone are friends you met online than in person, you know you've got a problem. I plan to start dedicating my time to PTing and working on getting in Marine Corps shape. I really need out of the trapped life I'm living, and I'm going to get out of it. This is just ridiculous. I've started becoming an incredibly bitter person over the past two years or so, maybe longer. I have a lot of resentment and I know if I change the way I'm living, I'm going to feel some of that weight being released. Anyway, I'm getting tired now. Still anxious, so I guess I'm going to see about distracting myself. Goodnight to all, stay motivated, wish me luck, and happy birthday to me :P God bless.

I thought this was interesting.

In a couple of my posts and even in a v-log I mentioned that hydration is really important. Now I am horrible at hydrating, it's not even funny how horrible. So tonight I decided to Google the benefits of hydrating, and they're pretty important.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Benefits-Of-Adequate-Hydration-Are-Mind-Boggling&id=899372
Have a look at that