There goes the neighborhood...

So I didn't lift this weekend. My knee feels fine no worries about that I just didn't go. My house-mates and I were doing things and it just didn't get scheduled in. In other news KC made one of the most nutritional soups ever last night:

1 Huge jug of V8
1 turkey/chicken/low fat kielbasi
2 cabbages one green one purple(shred or chop)
couple cans of diced tomatoes
1 thing of Costco's chicken STOCK (not broth cause the stock just adds that much more flavor)
3-5 small red potatoes (chopped): each potato is about a carb if it is a small potato
4-5 stocks of celery (chopped)
Any other veggies you want to add
Salt and pepper to taste

Cut up the kielbasi and cook it in the pot some before anything else because it lets out the flavor and you get some nice color on it. Then add the celery(chopped), potatoes(chopped), diced canned tomatoes, V8 and stock. Let that cook at a low boil until the potatoes are tender. Add the cabbages, you don't want to add them too soon because they cook quick. Let that cook into itself. Serve once cabbage is done cooking. This makes AWESOME leftovers because the flavors meld together even more over night. This is also a pretty soup since there is a lot of color between the red, green and purple.

I confess...

I'm diabetic (type II) and I am 25 years old. This blog is going to be me talking about different things from my work outs, weight-loss and fitness goals to my blood-sugars, medications and anxieties. I am currently 392 lbs, though if you saw me on the street you probably wouldn't guess that much. At this point I am doing high intensity weight-lifting and even though I'm watching my calorie intake I have flat lined when comes to weight loss and have even gained some, though most of it is muscle. Because of this I am going to start adding in the "Couch to 5K" jogging exercises into my routine. This will hopefully do a couple of things: 1) aerobic exercise helps keep blood-sugars low and 2) it will increase my metabolism and help me loose fat weight. Though HIT with weights helps my blood-sugars stay low all around it is not helping me loose weight any more. So, hopefully, my post tomorrow will be about my first Cto5K workout.

PS: Look out for random recipes that I will post. I will try to add pictures at some point as well as nutritional info!