piggy piggy June 10, 2007

Yup, I certainly ate a lot today. I’m feeling pretty awful too. Nothing like a good pig out to get you back on track sometimes. I was relieved when the party was over, and I’m certainly looking forward to tomorrow so that I can eat healthy food again.  I knew today would be too difficult to control what I ate, so I allowed myself to eat anything and everything. However, I can’t eat as much food as I used to. I had a few types of salads, lots of veggies and dips (lots of dips) some tortilla chips with more dips, and a couple little pieces of cake over the course of the afternoon.

Tonight I made an extra effort to get in a really good walk on the treadmill. I was able to get myself up to a climb of 3 and up to a maximum speed of 3.1 mph. I ended up doing about 37 minutes total including a bit of a warm up and cool down.

Oceangirl made a comment yesterday to drink lots of water. I have been pretty consistantly, but the past few days as I thought back, I realized that when I increased my green smoothie intake, I stopped drinking as much water. This probably caused my “problem” the other day. I’m back to drinking 32 to 48 oz of water. I think I was only getting 16 to 24 oz while I was having trouble there. - Thanks Oceangirl!

weight today was 221.8 - i expect to be up a bit tomorrow.

Update day June 9, 2007

I’m still not feeling so great today, but much better than yesterday. Good thing too, as I’m way too busy preparing for my daughters party to be sick!  I was able to stay raw again no problem today. I think it’s mainly because I feel too off to eat much.

breakfast was a green smoothie, lunch was the leftover carrot salad from yesterday, and I think tonight I’ll just have another green smoothie, and some fruit if I can stomach it.

Tomorrow is going to be so not raw! I just got back from the grocery store with all of the food for tomorrow. Assuming I feel well enough to eat all those yummy dips and assorted chips and flat breads….I will. And then of course there’s the birthday cake, and the homemade cupcakes (had to make those for the kids with peanut allergies), which will probably be better than the store bought cake. The cake though is a fancy tinkerbell decorated thing. It looks quite incredible.

Weekly stats

Weight - 222 (down 3.0 lbs for the week, and down 24 lbs total)

Arms - 16.0 (-1.0)

Bust - 44 (-2.5)

back - 38.0 (-3.0)

waist - 40 (-2.0)

hips - 55.0 (-3.0)

thighs - 29 (-1.0)

calves - 17.75 (-.25)

quick note June 8, 2007

I’m feeling awful this evening, with horrible stomach cramping, so I’ll keep this short and sweet until tomorrow which is update day.

morning - 1 metamucil (not working yet) grrrr…

10oz green smoothie, and an additional 1 1/2 quarts of green smoothie throughout the day

lunch and sorta dinner was a shredded carrot, sunflower seed, raisin, coconut salad from Alissa Cohen’s book, Living on Live food.

I also had a handful or two of the kids plain popcorn, and I think i’ll be taking some more metamucil. This is unbearable.

weight today was the same 223.4

avocado June 8, 2007

by © mcauleyhs

I need to profess my current love affair with the avocado. I think about them, crave them, fondle them in the grocery store to find the perfect fruits. I’ve had guacamole for dinner two nights in a row, and that’s what I want to eat all day tomorrow too. Since I am trying to lose weight, I really should limit myself, plus I highly doubt a mono diet of guacamole is really all that healthy

My stomach has been bothering me today. I’m not sure if I’ve eaten something slightly off, or if I just need to get things (ahem) moving along a little better. Hopefully, this will clear up by tomorrow.

I stuck with green smoothies throughout the day, as I couldn’t really stomach solid food earlier. I had 2 quarts of green smoothies over the course of the morning/afternoon.  I also brought a ton of fruit with me to work, but I couldn’t eat it. I did have no problem eating a half of a raw chocolate bar from Shazzie.  Dinner of course was guacamole, with baby carrots. When I ran out of baby carrots I grabbed a slice of sprouted grain bread, and heaped my guacamole on that.

My body seems to be happier if I eat at least a little cooked food, maybe this will change the longer I consume more raw foods. I find if I stay 100% raw for more than a few days, then I start to insatiably crave junk. I’d rather have the odd piece of bread, rice, or even a bit of chicken than end up on a junk food binge. I’d say that currently, on a weekly average I’m a little over 75% raw. That’s pretty awesome considering what I ate before!

I haven’t been keeping up with my excerise plan this week. We got so busy redecorating the house, and then my littlest one who’s two, was very sick last night. Neither my husband nor I got much sleep, so we passed out earlier tonight after the kids went to sleep. Of course, I woke up at 1am, and here I am still up. It’ll be a long night.

My weight today was 223.4

back to normal June 6, 2007

Except that I forgot to go grocery shopping. Everything that I’ve pulled out of the fridge tonight has seen better days. I’ve got a guacamole half made, as my last avocado was off. My husband has just run out to the store to provision. Hopefully he’ll be back soon…I’m starving, but I’m staying 100% raw, at least for today after yesterdays botched dinner plan.

My new vitamix arrived today. No more chunky smoothies for me

I didn’t eat much today, as I was way too busy at work. I had a 1 quart green smoothie, with mixed greens, 1 banana, 1 kiwi, and 1 apple.

a spinach, walnut, and berry salad for lunch,  along with a banana, and an orange in the car on the way home.

Dinner will eventually tonight be guacamole with carrots, cauliflower, and cucumbers.

I was up a bit in weight from yesterday (No surprise there) to 224.6

Off the wagon June 5, 2007

Yikes. Really not a good day. The day started out on a wrong note. We couldn’t get in our kitchen this morning, so no green smoothies. I found I was starving all day. Probably due to not having my smoothie. I ate tons of fruit, gogi berries, and nuts, since that was all I could manage to reach in the kitchen. All of our furniture was crammed in there due to the carpets being steam cleaned.

Since we couldn’t get in the kitchen, and the carpets were wet, we had to take the kids out to dinner that had a play place. We tried to keep them out til bedtime.

Anyway, we ended up going to Dairy Queen. Prior to entering, I had my meal all planned out…a salad. Well, temptation got the better of me, plus I was still starving for some reason. So, I had a huge burger, fries and a chocolate sundae. I have never before in my life salivated over crappy food before. This just tasted sooooo good to me today. I didn’t even feel guilty about eating it, really weird. Plus even after all that i was still hungry. At that point, I made all of us leave before I ordered something else

So, with that out of the way, and out of my system at least for a while, i’m hopping back on the wagon. I can now get in my kitchen, and make green smoothies once more.

todays weight was 223.6

fairies and princesses June 4, 2007

I’m in full birthday party mode right now. My eldest daughter will turn 4 this Saturday. On Sunday, pretty much her entire daycare class, plus assorted friends and family with their children will be descending upon my way too small house for this many people. My daughter is the epitomy of a “girly girl” so unlike myself, who remains somewhat of a tomboy. The little mermaid is hosting the dressup party, faries and princesses for the girls, and pirates and princes for the boys. We now need to seriously get my house in order. Tomorrow, we’ll be moving out a bunch of assorted clutter, getting the carpets cleaned, and moving a bunch of furniture. I’ll certainly get my exercise in tomorrow.

Speaking of exercise…I haven’t been noting my workouts in my blog, so I’ll have to start doing that now.  A month ago, I started walking very slowly on the treadmill as I have some health issues. I didn’t want to push it, but in the last couple of weeks, my stamina has improved greatly. I’m now up to 1.5 miles on the treadmill, with an incline of 2.5, and i slowly increase the speed over the walk to 3 mph. This is the first time I was able to get up to 3! I’m very excited about this, and I’m going to try to push myself just a little bit harder every day until I’m able to jog.

I didn’t have the nerve yet to try the grenadilla’s. I found a bunch of conflicting reports on whether or not the seeds were edible.  I think I’ll take the safe route and juice it through a sieve.

Today I ate a green smoothie, magic musli (shazzie breakfast delights) with almond milk, a huge navel orange, 2 salads, a banana, a date, and some nibbles of my kids swiss chalet dinner.

I’m a bit peckish, so I think I’ll make another green smoothie tonight.

I’d really like to be able to go 100% raw, even if just for a week or 2 to see if I could do it. But I’m not going to fret about it. I’m doing way better than ever before!

weight today was 223.4 - Down 22.6 lbs!

Fruit of the day June 3, 2007

I never did get back down to Whole Foods, but while I was stocking up on my usual arsenal of banana’s, apples, pears, and oranges, I also picked up 2 Granadilla’s.  I’ve never tried these before. I’ll keep you posted on how I like them. I’ll probably eat one later tonight.

I’m pretty wiped, as I spent the day teaching an art class. Whenever I do weekend classes, it leaves me completely exhausted. I don’t get this way during the week.

I’ll keep this short so I can go veg. on the couch

breakfast - green smoothie (or part of one) Hubby made this one, and it wasn’t quite blended properly. I don’t like having to chew my smoothies! - dandelion, lettuce, lemon, and apples.

larabar, banana, salad with sprouts, and walnuts and non raw dressing….it was in the fridge. This week, my goal will be to make some  raw dressings that will keep for a few days.

dinner was guacamole with carrot sticks,  and then I had to try the manna bread that my husband bought the other day. I’ve never had it before, so although it’s not raw I had to eat it anyway :-)  - I put raw almond butter on top.

Today I weighed in at 224.4

Cherimoya June 2, 2007

Oh, my god! I have never tasted anything quite so scrumptious as a cherimoya. According to Wikipedia

Mark Twain called the cherimoya “deliciousness itself”.  It was a little custardy, quite sweet, but It’s hard to describe the taste. In any case, I’m going to purchase more of them today. It was certainly worth the $5!

This morning I made an excellent smoothie with dandelion greens, baby spinach, watermelon,  and a little bit of mango (maybe a half mango) The mango was frozen, so it was a little hard to tell how much I used.

For lunch I whipped up a neat salad. 1 zucchini spiroolied into noodles, 1 avocado, juice of a 1/2 a lime, a handful of various bean sprouts purchased from whole foods, and a handful of sunflower seeds. It needed something, but I didn’t feel like just adding oil, so I threw in a little bit of garlic/lemon organic non raw salad dressing.

I’ve snacked on a couple medjool dates, and I had a bit of Mango, papaya, banana ice cream that I whipped up today. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before. It’s so easy! Just process or blend it all, and put it in a bowl in the freezer. It tastes awesome. Especially in the heat we’ve had today.

Dinner was only sort of raw tonight. I made another salad with the sprouted beans, lettuce, pumpkin seeds, cabbage, carrots, and raw walnuts. More of the non raw dressing from lunch. I also ate 2 barbequed shrimp skewers. It was a nice treat, and I’m not feeling too guilty - also I shared a nice big bowl of cherries with the kids.

 added in late - I just ate a raw chocolate bar. I feel like I ate a lot today, but I was really hungry. I’m curious what effect this will have on my weight in the morning.

Weekly stats

Weight - 225 (down 2.2 lbs for the week, and down 21 lbs total)

Arms - 16.5 (-.50)

Bust - 44 (-2.5)

back - 38.5 (-2.5)

waist - 40 (-2.0)

hips - 55.5 (-2.5)

thighs - 29 (-1.0)

calves - 17.75 (-.25)

Yummy! June 1, 2007

I went to my first ever “raw” food restaurant. Above is a pic of Live in Toronto. The food was awesome, and I was even way too full for desert. Unfortunately, I’d like to go more often, but with the kids, and the fact that we live out in the boonies makes it a bit of a trip. I sometimes miss living in the city. Especially when it comes to food. The only restaurants we have here are the major chains. I’d rather eat at home.

So, another raw day for me! After dinner we went to Whole Foods Market, and I bought a bunch of stuff I didn’t need, but again…I can’t get these sorts of things where I live. I’m anxious to try the cherimoya - I only bought one as they wanted 4.99 for the single fruit. I also bought some mixed sprouted beans. I’ve already got a salad planned for that.

The girls at work are becoming quite curious about my diet. My buyer even suggested that we get a blender for the office, so that we can all make green smoothies at work. I’m just floored by this. I was very quiet about my diet just in case they all thought I was completely nuts (and I think they did) However, it’s become obvious that I’m much healthier than ever before. And the changes have been dramatic, and fast! I’ve only been doing this for about two months, and the first month was far more haphazard than it is now (which is still somewhat)

 Here’s what I ate today

A large green smoothie (lettuce,  spinach, apples)

a peach, and a banana

a huge pomegranite juice  (i purposely didn’t eat much as I was saving my appetite for dinner)

For dinner to start : Fairy Dust
grapefruit, hibiscus flowers, anise, sparkling water

and then I had the huge sampler plate of these: (no, not full size portions of each)

Bohemian ‘Wrap’sody A flax and fresh herb ‘pita’ dressed with a Kalamata Spread and filled with a Kale, Tomato, Avocado Medley topped with Fresh Sprouts; Served with Root Veggie ‘chips’ a Caper Sunflower Seed Dipping sauce. Nut-free	$11.50
The Rat-a-tat Primavera An Italian influenced Ratatouille served over Cauliflower ‘rice’, and topped with a Balsamic ‘reduction’; served with Garlic Sesame ‘Bread’; Nut-free!	$9.00
Spaghetti & Neatballs Noodle-like Zucchini topped with our Fresh Sun dried tomato marinara, sprouted walnut sunflower seed veggie neatballs’ and finished off with a scrumptious Kale pumpkin seed pesto. Delish!	$10.00
The Dhali Baba Pizza A sprouted buckwheat crust topped with an Eggplant Baba ganoush, marinated Fennel, Red peppers, and Leeks in a Spinach pesto, and topped with a cashew ‘feta’ cheese; Super Duper!	$8.75
Add side of mixed field greens salad

The deserts looked really good, but I just couldn’t stuff any more in. I’m getting a little peckish now though, so I’ll have a few dates, and maybe that cherimoya.

My weight today was 225.8 - whohoo finally going down again!

til tomorrow….