5 pounds...whoop...whoop

{This never got posted last night so finishing it up today!}

Tonight ends my 3 day juice cleanse!

The reason I chose 3 days is because I thought 

I would never be able to do it and would never last.

Well I proved myself wrong. It was way easier then I thought.

Well the prep of making all the juices was time consuming 

but other then that easy! I never craved for a thing.

It wasn't hard for me to make meals for the family and not eat it.

I even went to bunco last night and didn't eat a single snack.

I think most of my eating habits are just it is there and I can eat it if I want to.

I don't need to eat it but I can so I will.

I need to break away from that.

Just because there is a piece of garlic bread left from dinner

doesn't mean I have to eat it. It can either get thrown away

or stored in the fridge. 

I don't have to lick, taste, nibble and

eat because it is in front me.

I am a live to eat instead of an eat to live.

I ready to change that around and this has proved I can do it.

The only "side effect" I had from cleansing I was 

cold all the time and I did go to bed last night and wake up this morning with a head ache.

For the next few days I am going to eat only fruits and veggies

and homemade dressings that are dairy free.

We will see how that goes. As I have said before the more options

I have the harder  it is for me to stay on track. I don't want to stray back

to just eating anything I want just because I can.

Today {Thursday} I am starting my first day of juicing and a little eating.
I had my juice around 8:30 am and then around 11 I started getting hungry.
I am slowing eating some cut up potatoes that were baked in olive oil
last night. Usually when I eat I eat really fast but now I find myself taking a bite
and feeling satisfied. I don't need to have the next bite ready to shovel in.
This is all so new and not normal for me.
I feel I have already created some new habits of the good.
I went and cleaned up my pinterest boards this morning.
I didn't crave a single thing I pinned and had no problems deleting old ones.
I am at this point scared of following back into my old ways if I give myself
an inch. We will see. I will keep updating and not make this my everyday topic.
In the three days I juiced I lost 5 pounds which is a great jump start on the 25
I would like to lose! I plan to stick with this plan for another two weeks!
I will also be continuing to run 3 days a week. On the days before I run I will
eat some cooked veggies or a veggie only salad to help fuel up for this!

juice for the day

I am almost to the end of day one of my juice cleanse.

Right now I have Josh munching away on chips

right next to me on the couch while I drink my "dessert" of apples and carrots.

My goal is small and is to last three days.

If I feel up for it I will extend it until Friday for five days.

I made all my juice for the day this morning.  

That really helped for when hunger hit.

This picture shows about one meals worth of fruits and veggies.

 Surprisingly today wasn't that bad at all. It helps I stay

pretty busy and don't have a lot of down time.

I did have a couple times where I felt really hungry but

then I would get busy doing something and it would pass.

I kept up with water a lot today too.

I do better being very limited in what I can have.

If I have to many options and more likely to stray off course.

It was hard to make meals for others that I knew I wouldn't 

get to eat but I think tomorrow is going to be a lot harder then today.

I am following the reboot plan which you can check out here.

go juice

I decided last week I wanted to start introducing

juicing into my diet.  I am bad with getting close

to my daily servings of fruits and veggies.

Over the weekend I bought the cheapest juicer on the shelf.

I didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars on something I 

did for a week and then quit :)

Monday morning I wanted to jump right in.

I am going to to substitute my go to breakfast of

coffee and an english muffin with a glass full of juice!
I am also going to drink my 64 oz of water a day.

The only problem was I didn't have time to 

go to the store. Well...honestly that's a lie.

I had all day Sunday to but I chose to sleep

and lay on the couch all day since I had the house to myself.

Anyways, come Monday I only had what was in the fridge 

to juice with. I had two apples and a huge Costco size

bag of baby carrots.

Mondays recipe was

2 apples

15 baby carrots

Surprisingly it was good.

I don't know if was my glass full of fruit and veggies

or the 11 hours of sleep I got but I had energy!

I hit the ground running and cleaned like a mad woman.

I did the dishes which moved into me pulling out

everything from under the sink and wiping it all down,

throwing out stuff, reorganizing, wiping off the hand held vacuum,

cleaning the garbage can, and then putting it all back.

Halfway through cleaning under the sink I remembered Josh

saying the other day how you couldn't see through 

the little window on the stove.

I then remembered I just read something from pinterest on that.

So I covered the inside of the stove door with a baking soda paste.

Let it sit while I finished my first task.

I scrubbed the oven for like an hour
and you can now see through the glass!

Tuesday I still hadn't gone to the store so
I juiced like 25 baby carrots with 2 cups of
defrosted mixed berries.
This was yuck :(
I drank it down though.
I decided I needed to make it the Green Barn.
I got lemons, limes, ginger root, kale leaves, oranges, apples,
celery, cucumbers, and pineapples.

Wednesday I used a recipe I got from Reboot Your Life.
Mean Green Juice

1 cucumber
4 celery stalks
2 apples
6-8 kale leaves
1/2 lemon
1" ginger

Juice
Pour over ice
Enjoy!

I could not decide if I "enjoyed" this or not.
It made a huge glass.

Thursday I tried Great green fruit blend but changed it a bit.
I juiced
1/4 a pinapple
1 apple
2 oranges
1/2 lemon
I dumped all that in the blender then added
2 cups chopped up kale leaves
10 frozen strawberries

This is actually a very yummy juice/smoothie!
It is very filling.

I even made Cohen {my nephew}some apple juice.
He thought it was pretty tasty too.

Friday I experimented more with just throwing things in.

I didn't have time to juice over the weekend.
It is quite the process in the morning to get everything
prepped, chopped, peeled ect.
Then you have to clean all the juicer parts after.

Come Monday though I was right back at!

So why I am trying to get juicing into my daily life.
well....
I need to eat way more fruits and veggies
I want to get fit and healthy
I want to lose weight
I need ENERGY
and I need help with keeping things regular
I am hoping it will help me with my over well being

By Friday of the first week I did drop 3 pounds with the help of calorie counting.
But then I went to a wedding had some wine and pasta, ate pizza on Sunday,
and wasn't as active as I should have been.
So honestly 2 pounds for the week!

Now that I have juicing down for breakfast
{I am sipping one now!}

I have a few goals I want to work toward
Goal #1
Get a little more adventurous with veggies!
Some recipes call for things like
beets
fennel bulbs
plum tomatoes
red radishes
broccoli
cabbage
red onion
peppers

I am not close to be ready to drink an all veggie juice
but I would like to work towards it.

I played it safe with
kale leaves
cucumbers
celery
and carrots

Goal #2
the long weekend reboot
where you juice only for a weekend.
I would probably do it during the week
since much easier for me!
I am thinking middle of December.

Goal #3
the classic reboot
15 days of juicing and eating only fruits and veggies!
I want to show myself I can set my mind to something,
follow through, and do it!
I plan to do this in January
after all the hub bub  of Christmas.
January of course the time of year to start fresh and clean!