Day 6 thoughts

I am majorly detoxing today..... all I want to do is sleep!
Also, I noticed when I was walking this morning that a pain came back to my top left leg.  I seem to detox in this area - it has gone away with colonics so I think a call into my friend Sarah Moore is due.

Cravings are gone - lightness is here!

My skin has more elasticity - of course I did notice this after I took a 3 hour nap! haha!

I had a large glass of carrot juice, walked for 30 minutes and then took a 3 hour nap.  I'm about to go make a green smoothie and have fun with the family! :)

my gift to myself!

Yay!!!  I would have loved to get the Vitamix but that's just not in the budget right now.  I've heard good things about the Ninja!  Excited to try it!

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Day 1-3

Day 1
Food:  grapefruit for breakfast, raw tabbouleh for lunch, and jicama/guac for dinner.  My weakness was in the kids eating cheezits for a snack and I had several handfuls.  I'm not beating myself up but will work hard at being more self controlled.
Exercise:  10 minutes of yoga, walking 30 minutes, evening stretches

Day 2
Food:  Apple and grapefruit for breakfast, several glasses of kombucha through the day, greens and beet salad for lunch, kale and salsa for dinner.  At 10:00 I was starving and ended up eating 2 bowls of cereal with almond milk.  I think the best thing for me when I feel like that is just to go to bed.
Exercise:  I really didn't get anything in for exercise this day.
Thoughts:  When I feel that desire to eat and snack at night I should just go to bed!!!!  Also, the journaling exercise today asked what are our fears?  That is a big question that I could fit into different categories.  Of course my biggest fear is having one of my children die.  I don't know a mother that wouldn't list that as their top fear of their life.  I have had friends experience this and it is just heartbreaking and beyond tragic.  I don't see a relation to how that fear fits in to my eating and diet but if I were to talk about a fear that is related I would say having a disease because I'm not eating right would be my biggest fear.  I want to make good choices and feel great for my family!!!  I need more energy!

Day 3

my intro to 21 days

21 day fall cleanse

I did it!!!  I signed up for the 21 day fall cleanse and 28 days raw program!!!
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It starts Monday - I am downloading and printing everything off right now..... the cool thing is that Storm and Jinjee give a refund if you keep a journal, review, and post pictures of your transformation!!!

I have a ton going on in my life (kids, piano, sewing) but I have been so convicted the past several months about my health.  I need to be better about my food and activity choices!!!  I can't wait to start!

Yay 1st week!

What an encouragement to step on the scale and see a 3 pound weight loss!

 I also measured and I'm down 1" in hips, 2" in waist and 2" in bust!

Here's what I've been doing:

• Wake up - drink 20-30oz lemon water and green coffee bean extract 
• Do some exercises - wii Just Dance or Biggest Loser cardio 
• Take Shaklee multivitamin with breakfast 
• Watch what I eat at lunch and dinner 
•  I also have taken walks twice this week at night. 

 For food, there are times that I've had more than what I should for portion control. I know that portions have always been a real struggle with me. I admit, I've opened a bag of chips and finished them in a day. It might turn out to be a snack, and another snack and hour later, and so on!!!! I want to focus this week on my portions. Hopefully when I write my next post I can successfully say I've gone a week with meeting this expectation! Here's a great food portion graphic:

Water, water, water!

I've been drinking a BUNCH of water the past few days and I've noticed a huge difference in my skin!  It has more of a glow than normal and looks healthier!  I've also had a lot of fresh juice but I can tell an improvement in my health from just the water that I've been drinking! :)

I did cave today and drink a cup of coffee - since I haven't had any the past few days I had a headache all day.  I'll have to gradually step back from that habit.  It's amazing that I usually only have 1 cup of coffee a day but even cutting one glass out I still have caffeine withdraws!

I'm looking forward to watching Biggest Loser next week and starting our 90 day challenge!  I'll try to post a favorite recipe or two each week!  Right now the main workouts that I've been doing are the Just Dance 4 dances!  They are lots of fun but I know I'm going to have to add in some more intense cardio and weight training to get the weight to come off.  I guess I'm considering these first few days of January a prelude to the hard core dieting and working out that I want to do!

Here's to a new me in 2013! *raising my glass of water*