It's raining. Again. It's freezing. Again. Soup for dinner, third night in a row? Yep! This weather keeps me in the house and also a little crazy. I am losing the desire to do much when it is so cold and rainy out. And there are no gifts under the tree, pine scents, or Christmas music to help. Although I have listened to Christmas music twice in the past 3 days and it has definitely brightened my day. But that is about it.
Just before the awful weather set in, I started a new diet. What else is new? I wish I could be happy with myself, I really do. And for the most part, I really am. But I got a new book from the library and bought another one by the same author and it has changed my way of thinking about food, a lot. I didn't even weigh myself before I started because this diet claims to make you feel so much better that I wanted feeling good to be my motivating factor, not the scale. I must admit a few days later, I was really wishing I would have weighed myself. Today marks the 7th day. So tomorrow, I think I will start out on the scale.
The books I have been reading are both by Natalia Rose. One is called Detox 4 Women and the other is Raw Food Life Force Energy. I have enjoyed them both so much and have been eating a lot differently because of them. Somedays are really hard and some days I feel so good that it is just so easy. This diet is pretty much a raw/vegetarian/vegan/gluten-free diet. When people tell me they eat like this, I laugh inside and say to myself, "I could never do that, it's crazy!" The one thing I love about her philosophy is that you don't need to do this all 100% Especially starting out. And they way her books read, it was more about getting fruits and vegetables in your body and less about what you can't eat. That makes things a lot easier. The biggest change I have implemented is juicing. The ideas about food made so much sense to me that I went and bought a juicer. Every morning I drink about 2 tall glasses of mostly vegetable juice. And I love it! This morning I juiced an entire bunch of kale, about 4 medium sized carrots, 1 cucumber, 6 stalks of celery, a whole lemon, and 2 apples. I really love my juicer. I worried about working out and not eating protein in the morning, but the juice is amazing and I haven't missed my old routine at all.
However, it is hard. Especially yesterday. Which is what inspired to me write about this anyways. I have been trying to spend some one on one time with my kids. Yesterday was Jacob's day and he wanted to go to Red Robin for lunch. Insert audible groan for me. I LOVE their french fries! I love their bbq whiskey chicken wrap. It got worse when he wanted to order mozzarella sticks for an appetizers. The one thing I have missed is cheese. I ordered a veggie burger, no cheese, wrapped in lettuce with a side salad, no dressing. I couldn't even finish by veggie burger or my salad. I did however eat 4 french fries and 1 cheese stick. So I vowed to be better the rest of the day.
For dinner we had baked potato soup and rolls. This soup is my favorite! And since my day was already off, I picked up 1/2 a roll and dipped it in the soup, it was so, so good! And I didn't feel too bad about that. I ate half a sweet potato for dinner, but my night got worse. My visiting teachers came and brought warm pumpkin chocolate chip bread. I LOVE pumpkin chocolate chip anything. So I ate some and it was good. Then at 9:30 the doorbell rang and my friend (who is a great cook) delivered a chocolate cake covered in chocolate sauce and sprinkled with nuts. It was beautiful! What would you do? I had some of that too. Later when I was laying in bed, my stomach hurt and I did NOT feel good. And I was thinking, "I used to eat this kind of stuff all the time, how come I didn't die?" I really did not feel good at all. It was all the ammunition I needed to get up and eat better the next day. So I drank my juice this morning and had some watermelon and cantaloupe. Watermelon is my favorite right now.
Then I sat down and read a few pages from Detox 4 Women and I'm starting to wonder if I should put my whole family on this diet. There are so many benefits to eating fresh vegetables and fruit. I definitely need to incorporate more. I am not perfect and won't be on this diet, but so far it is the best I have ever done. I really do have more energy, I have noticed a difference in my skin, I feel like I've lost weight, and I don't feel so dead tired in the afternoon. I want all of this to continue, so I guess I'd better get busy trying to put together something for lunch.
Also, when I told my neighbor I was doing this, she called me back and had me watch this on the internet. I cried and cried because I was laughing so hard. Then I watched it again and cried again. Jim Carey on In Living Color was the best!
Just before the awful weather set in, I started a new diet. What else is new? I wish I could be happy with myself, I really do. And for the most part, I really am. But I got a new book from the library and bought another one by the same author and it has changed my way of thinking about food, a lot. I didn't even weigh myself before I started because this diet claims to make you feel so much better that I wanted feeling good to be my motivating factor, not the scale. I must admit a few days later, I was really wishing I would have weighed myself. Today marks the 7th day. So tomorrow, I think I will start out on the scale.
The books I have been reading are both by Natalia Rose. One is called Detox 4 Women and the other is Raw Food Life Force Energy. I have enjoyed them both so much and have been eating a lot differently because of them. Somedays are really hard and some days I feel so good that it is just so easy. This diet is pretty much a raw/vegetarian/vegan/gluten-free diet. When people tell me they eat like this, I laugh inside and say to myself, "I could never do that, it's crazy!" The one thing I love about her philosophy is that you don't need to do this all 100% Especially starting out. And they way her books read, it was more about getting fruits and vegetables in your body and less about what you can't eat. That makes things a lot easier. The biggest change I have implemented is juicing. The ideas about food made so much sense to me that I went and bought a juicer. Every morning I drink about 2 tall glasses of mostly vegetable juice. And I love it! This morning I juiced an entire bunch of kale, about 4 medium sized carrots, 1 cucumber, 6 stalks of celery, a whole lemon, and 2 apples. I really love my juicer. I worried about working out and not eating protein in the morning, but the juice is amazing and I haven't missed my old routine at all.
However, it is hard. Especially yesterday. Which is what inspired to me write about this anyways. I have been trying to spend some one on one time with my kids. Yesterday was Jacob's day and he wanted to go to Red Robin for lunch. Insert audible groan for me. I LOVE their french fries! I love their bbq whiskey chicken wrap. It got worse when he wanted to order mozzarella sticks for an appetizers. The one thing I have missed is cheese. I ordered a veggie burger, no cheese, wrapped in lettuce with a side salad, no dressing. I couldn't even finish by veggie burger or my salad. I did however eat 4 french fries and 1 cheese stick. So I vowed to be better the rest of the day.
For dinner we had baked potato soup and rolls. This soup is my favorite! And since my day was already off, I picked up 1/2 a roll and dipped it in the soup, it was so, so good! And I didn't feel too bad about that. I ate half a sweet potato for dinner, but my night got worse. My visiting teachers came and brought warm pumpkin chocolate chip bread. I LOVE pumpkin chocolate chip anything. So I ate some and it was good. Then at 9:30 the doorbell rang and my friend (who is a great cook) delivered a chocolate cake covered in chocolate sauce and sprinkled with nuts. It was beautiful! What would you do? I had some of that too. Later when I was laying in bed, my stomach hurt and I did NOT feel good. And I was thinking, "I used to eat this kind of stuff all the time, how come I didn't die?" I really did not feel good at all. It was all the ammunition I needed to get up and eat better the next day. So I drank my juice this morning and had some watermelon and cantaloupe. Watermelon is my favorite right now.
Then I sat down and read a few pages from Detox 4 Women and I'm starting to wonder if I should put my whole family on this diet. There are so many benefits to eating fresh vegetables and fruit. I definitely need to incorporate more. I am not perfect and won't be on this diet, but so far it is the best I have ever done. I really do have more energy, I have noticed a difference in my skin, I feel like I've lost weight, and I don't feel so dead tired in the afternoon. I want all of this to continue, so I guess I'd better get busy trying to put together something for lunch.
Also, when I told my neighbor I was doing this, she called me back and had me watch this on the internet. I cried and cried because I was laughing so hard. Then I watched it again and cried again. Jim Carey on In Living Color was the best!
No comments:
Post a Comment