Day 21....Stay Focused and Motivated

I started using a new scale today. Our old scale had been purchased years ago at a thrift store. It worked well enough for the time but I was ready for having something more accurate. I found that this new scale is better than the old and shows that the old scale was off by 3 lbs. That means that when I started this 21 days ago, I weighed 203 lbs. As of this morning I weigh 185 lbs.

I have a dawning excitement growing in me. I have lost 18 lbs. in 21 days! That is so very encouraging. The last couple of days I had been discouraged. I had seen a picture of myself from a couple of months ago and for some weird reason I had this thought of, "yuck! Look at all that. It is going to take me absolutely forever to get healthy."

Seeing the reading on my brand new scale was just the pick me up I needed. Then this afternoon I stopped by the grocery store for a specific reason. I walked to the baking isle and stacked two 10 lb. bags of flour together and picked then up just to hold for a minute and impress on myself an example of what I have lost so far.

I know over these last 3 weeks I have listed so many changes for the good that I am recognizing. And the numbers aren't the bottom line to being healthy. But they sure are nice.
Thank you God!

Celebrating God's goodness!

Day 18

Today has been a busy day to say the least. Taking care of loved ones, cleaning for weekend company, impromptu errands for way more time than I allotted.  I didn't plan my juicing out to accommodate my events. So while we were out today I ordered a fresh mango fruit smoothie from a local coffee shop.

Tonight I am feeling irritable, tired, having a hard time focusing and munchy cravings are hitting me hard. Why? Probably a combination of not having my usual 4-5 juices in a day and I wonder if I should have asked more questions about the ingredients of that smoothie.

Positive side: I never gave in to anything. The pastries at the coffee shop didn't call to me. Nor did I have a hard time baking chicken for my family tonight.  Eventually I will eat chicken. For now, I am not ready to start introducing anything more into my system aside from 'plants'.

We are heading into quite the eventful weekend. I proved to myself with preparing for jury duty those two days that I can own my choices and prep a day full of healthy nutrition. So I need to keep that in mind and not lose all the control I have gained.

Thanking God and celebrating His goodness!

Day 17....Trying New Things

So nice to have a home day today.
I decided to experiment today. I made a big batch of my current favorite juice: 4 carrots, 1 granny apple, 1 orange, 1 cup fresh pineapple and 4 handfuls of spinach.  Then I took about half of the fiber and mixed it with the extracted juice in my blender and threw in some frozen strawberries for a chill factor.

The texture was a bit thick for me but I think I will try it again and purpose to leave out the carrot pulp. Maybe that will be better. It really wasn't bad and it is a viable way to get the mega nutrients as well as the fiber content.

I have been seeing recipes that call for fennel bulb. That was totally new to me. I know I have baked with it from a spice jar. But aside from that, I had to google it to know what it looked like. I bought one this morning and decided to be brave.

I used a recipe from Brenna Ryan at the Reboot website.

Orange Fennel Juice
1 cucumber
1/4 purple cabbage
1/2 fennel bulb
1 apple
2 oranges
4 kale

Wow was I pleasantly surprised! My husband was really pleased with it too. Interesting since he doesn't like the taste of cabbage.

That brings up a really good point. As we clean out our bodies and learn new habits, our taste buds are changing. Not only are we learning the emotional side of food but our bodies are learning how to crave real food and enjoy real taste instead of variations of synthesized chemicals.

Celebrating God's goodness!