About Me
I’m Alley (Lauren is my real name see bottom for more) I’m 22 and i use to be big. I got tired of starving myself doing bull shit eat this and don’t eat that garbage with no results. Except to still be large and depressed. Until one day I realized you are what you eat, and you always will be.
When i was young i swam all day long was in great shape almost had a 6 pack. I come from a long line of hunters…. My dad his sister and 2 brothers who taught all there kids to do the same thing. I had no problem eating meat. I ate a lot of venison ate it all the time and loved it. One day I got on a NEW and awesome birth control called depo prevera. And I went from 120 pounds of lean muscle to almost 200 pounds by the end of that year (it was only a 8 month period). I was crushed and depressed. I went from loving cooking and loving food to it being a way to hide my anger and depression. I was a bitch to everyone so they couldn’t see my pain and even started using drugs. I was miserably I blamed every one but me.
Then one day I watched a movie called food inc. It kinda shows you where your food comes from. I also read a book (well listen to the audio book. I hate to read) called the China Study. It kinda showed me what I was doing was wrong. Now what I mean by that is what I was taught, what my family knows is different than what will make me healthy and in turn, be skinny. I never thought it was what i was doing was making me stay the way I HATED to be. I wanted the old me back but didn’t want to change what i was doing. I wanted to be lazy and eat McDonald but didn’t want to pay with my body and life. That’s not fair to myself or my family. So one day I decided to make a change for the better.
I’ve lost 15 pounds since January 1st 2010. I am not saying that any one needs to follow me to lose weight. Follow me to be healthy and happy. The rest will follow.
My beliefs:
-Organic: Eat everything organic. Fruits, veggies, and some other stuff if its organic EAT IT!!!!
-Meat: Don’t eat that much of it even in the Bible it says eat meat sparingly. The more meat you eat….. the more meat you’ll have on your body. Besides you can get all the protein from veggies and beans.
***I’m a very picky eater i don’t like a lot of different kinds of food BUT if I can grind food up to a pulp that’s what I do!!!! LMFAO***
The site was bought as a site about sports. I said to my bf what if alley was a girl and the site is about organic stuff? And here we are!!! So my alter ego in a sense is alley. I think its kinda cool.
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Wow…this is so Awesome Lauren…so proud of U! I too am into lots of natural foods n products! It really does make you feel good about yourself and it rubs off on others! Keep up the Good work…n tell Ted I said Hi!
Thank you, I’m trying. And congrats on the natural food u keep up the good work too. The site is just starting so stop back…. It will have motivation, recipes and some workouts. and other stuff. He says hi also!!!!!
Hi Lauren,
After finding your blog from the website http://www.organicauthority.com I felt compelled to write to you. I am a bit older and a mom to three children. Our family watched Food Inc together and practice exactly what you are preaching. “You are what you eat.” I find it very frustrating that our children go to school and are not able to order a healthy snack or drink. After much research we have found what we believe every individual on this earth should be putting into their bodies. 100% organic. Check our website out and if you have any questions or comments please contact me.
Best of luck to you and keep up the good work.
Christine/John Hill and family
Hey hill family,
It is very frustrating that the bad practices that corporate America is pushing on every one has no reserve towards pushing it on children. The way i have came to see them is as a snake. A rattle snake, and they want to bite them when there young so all they know is poison. Schools now have pizza huts, McDonald’s, and other fast food places in there environment of learning and wonder why kids are always sick or why people are getting obese or even juvenile diabetes is running wild. Because corporate America has keep us in the dark, most people are scared to know whats going on because of there beliefs. Most of my family thinks in crazy for me not eating much meat or because i eat organic. All i can say is until the veil is lifted off of America people are gonna think i am crazy and the same with you. But here is the thing if you believe in something enough people will eventually hear what you have to say. Once they make sure its not just a “fad” and its what you believe and see it has made you healthy. Also i heard of a healthy school lunch thing. I don’t know much about it but maybe together we can find it. And i never let go of something i believe in. I’m not a quitter!!
Thank you so much for your input,
Lauren (Alley)
Hey Lauren,
Good for you for taking on a life long challenge – finding the right foods to eat and sticking to your plan. 15lbs is a huge accomplishment. Well done!
Are you planning to re-institute the blogcarnival that used to appear here? I’m sure you can find a lot of bloggers interested in your topic to send their best posts to you.
hey funny Cheryl,
Ya I’m in the process of re-vamping it now. I should have it ready to go next week. I’m looking forward to ur submissions.
Thanks,
Lauren (alley)
Lauren!!! This is awesome. I’m right there with you on the trying to be healthier thing…i lost 25lbs in the last year, and i’ve been trying to keep it off! You look amazing. Keep it up! It’ll be awesome to see all your progress…and the website is great. I hope it helps other women in their strive to make healthy changes to their lives.
THAT IS AWESOME!! I love hearing other success stories. U keep it up too. If u have any before and after pics or would like u share ur store i would love to have it on my site.
Thanks,
Lauren (Alley)
Hey girl,
I love your site ,and your advice. You keep it up. I am switching alot of my diet as well. I will send some pics when I chisle out the rest of this six-pack !! (I got the first 4)
T.J.
Hey T.J.,
Please do I love seeing success stories. If u need any help with any thing and i’ll try to help u. Keep up the good work!
Lauren (Alley)
Hey Lauren,
This is your BF “brother from another mother” Robert & Uggie too! We just started today our new none-meat eating “life style” and also eliminated all dairy as well as a family.
We are going to be drinking soy and almond milk instead and both of them have all of the calcium and vitamin D my kids could ever need without all of the drugs that are put into cows to get them to produce more milk.
Not to mention that dairy products cause the body to produce massive phlegm in a lot of people because your body is trying to get rid of the “dairy” product you just ate.
That is one of the main reasons for phlegm production in your body to begin with. You will notice even on Wikipedia for “mucus” it state’s:
“In the respiratory system mucus aids in the protection of the lungs by trapping foreign particles that enter it”
Also, on a side note – the only good thing about mucus is the fact that if it did not coat your stomach your stomach would digest itself!
Back to what I was saying… Dairy is considered “foreign” because for one it is from another animal and for two we are the only animal in the entire world that drinks “milk” from another animal. Not only is this ridicules it is totally not necessary for our survival as a species.
Also, the body can’t even produce the necessary enzymes to digest dairy properly because it is from another animal and that causes issues I won’t even get into for the digestive system.
Sorry – I went off on another one of my tangents…
This is the first time my family has joined the vegetarian / vegan way of living so I think this time it will “stick” because I will not have to deal with my family eating junk while I am trying to eat the right way.
Anyway, when I was married in 1991 (at the age of 21) I was 128 pounds and WAY below what I should weight considering I am 6′ 2.5″ tall. So, a long story short I am right now at this minute 246 pounds at the age of 40. So, in 19 years I am almost doubled in weight!
I am working towards getting down to 180 of lean muscle.
I’m sure I will get there now since the problems I have had in the past are NOW exactly that “in the past”. Granted, my kids are not that happy we are doing this but they will adjust I am sure.
Brandon can attest to me being on and off the “lifestyle” change for years now. I lose a lot of weight and then I quit and gain a lot of the weight back. So, now is the time to fix it once and for all!
But, now Uggie will help me stick to it for sure…
By the way, make sure to click on “Robert & Uggie” above and it will take you to uggie’s myspace page with his songs that are featuring your BF and of course Uggie too.
Take care Lauren and I look forward to watching your journey.
Sincerely,
Robert & Uggie too!
Well its very nice to meet u ive always wanted a brother…… And especially one who agrees with me. lol
I agree with what ur saying 100% about what they do to the poor cows. And people wonder why the gain weight or there kids hit puberty early. It cause of all the hormones. Its scarry for me being a woman and look at back in the day women use to start there period when they were 15 and that was a super young age all the way up to 18 & 19 years old that scarry. That means something were doing today is putting WAY to much hormones in our body that its causing our bodies to change. UMMMM….. WTF that should be a simple fix but because we are told by big corp. that this is healthy and that is healthy its what we think is healthy and normal. I drank a gallon or milk in 2 days for most my life. By the time i was 12 i was on my period with a full c cup and bearly weighted 115 pounds. Most people with a small frame and has a family with a smaller chest is not sapose to have a big chest but no. I belive it is because of hormones that they feed the poor animals. Maybe one day we will learn from our mistakes, So dont forget to vote. and what i mean by that is when u cut out ur fast food and eat organic food it is a vote for organic growers everywhere.
Thanks bro lol,
Lauren (Alley)
Wtg hun. Glad I’m not the only one who pays attention to the world and what its doing to our kids. Congrats to you on this. Definatly gonna spread the word of the site and hopefully people can see the problem and make a change. Hugs girl.
Pam and family
I want the world to b a happy healthy place were kids grow the way they r suppose to. we live the way nature intended and die the same way. All happy with no need for medicine or watching love ones b hurt by something that can b fixed. I know i cant change the world but if a handfull of people affect there kids and familys to be and make healthier decesions ive exceeded my goal.
Thanks,
Lauren (Alley)
I agree with you “Sis” that it is the “Agra-Corp” that are screwing up this planet and killing us all off slowly. Why do you think the USA is the #1 country with the #1 killer as “Heart Disease”.
Check this out: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
You will see this was updated December 31st, 2009 so basically a little over two months ago!
Also, notice that at least 5 if not more of those 10 are all “diet” related and are fully treatable. Especially cancer – your body is either acidic or alkaline and if it is acidic (most people are) then it is a breading ground for sickness.
But, if your body is more alkaline then acidic then it is impossible for cancer to ever form / grow since cancer only feeds on acidic bodies and can’t even exist in alkaline bodies. But do you think the “SickCare” industry tells you any of this? Hell no!
I went to my allergist last year for my yearly checkup and at that time I was down a lot in weight and he asked what I was doing and I told him I was not a vegan (I was at that time) and that is why I lost all of the weight and did not need any of my asthma meds (at the time) anymore.
He said diet has nothing to do with if you need medicine or not since allergies and asthma are strictly “environmental” and food has nothing to do with it.
I laughed because this is the crap they learn in medical school that food has nothing to do with illness? You know if we as a society get “better” by eating right and not eating all of the animals we would not need the “SickCare” industry any more.
So, I just wanted to point out that the companies that are profiting off of our “Western” sicknesses do not want to “cure” anything. They only want to control it since controlling it means money forever and curing it means the gravy train is over.
Kinda like the diabetes association stating that it is an incurable disease. Considering that type 2 is the most common and it is totally curable by your diet and this has been known for years by many people.
But, the government keeps it hush, hush because a cure stops the donations from coming in and the drug companies won’t give to the government anymore so the government stays in there pockets by allowing them to spread these lies that society believes.
Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox now… It just chaps my ass how much the government is corrupt and how they allow so much poison to go into out food supply on a regular basis all for money.
To hell with all of the people who die DAILY from food related illnesses – granted the hospitals will also never admit it is food related…
Anyway, I’ll stop talking now…
Take care “Sis” and give a shout out to my brother Brandon as well!
Robert
Just found the site. There is a lot of good information here! I like how your site has “Alley” in it. It’s kind of like your pen name.
Good luck on your continued fitness. I’ll be keeping tabs on your blog. Take care!
Ya thats how we thought of it to be a woman and BAM i got the site.
Hope u check back often sorry about being slack just had a lo going on lately.
Check back soon alley
Your ideas are very good in improving individual bodily health and the community as whole
Congrats on losing the weight, you look terrific.
I’ve currently set my goal to lose 15 pounds. After reading some of your posts I definitely feel I can achieve this.
Thanks for sharing your tips with those still struggling. Wishing you all the best
Yes but it is hard and can b fun.
If u fall of and eat bad again just remember what it is that u want to do.
Just make sure u reward ur self one day a week.
My days r Sundays but urs can b whatever day u want.
Just keep ur head up!
This is a great site, I need to lose around 20lbs to make my ideal weight but have really lacked motivation, until now, thanks for this great site, its great to read about your progress.
AWESOME i love that ur inspired now!!!
But sometimes the best inspiration is ur favorite song turned up!!
It helps me a lot when i’m feeling a little lazy.
But the key rule to loosing weight is watch what u eat!!!
This is really an amazing site,you sharing me a lot good idea ,i would say you have a rich knowledge and a unique painting style. thank you again !
Congrats on you health success. I loved Food Inc and was deeply affected by it also. The only meat I eat is grass-fed and organic. Since changing my diet I have leaned out and feel much healthier.
Congrats to you. STICK WITH IT! I’ve been vegetarian for over a decade now. It doesn’t guarantee fat loss but you will be healthier (there’s more to health than just fat). You’re right that Food, Inc. is a very important film for our time. The China Study is also excellent. Do what you know is right.
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Hey Lauren,
I stumbled upon your blog…
But I read your story and I am very happy for you taking a life long challenge. I also changed my life. From beeing the fat guy to an MMA fighter….
I wish you good luck for your journey and I am sure you will make it to your “old you” again.
All the best
Andreas
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Thanks K and yep we listened to the whole China Study on audiobook and that was great too, thanks again!
That’s awesome Andreas, congrats, and thank you!