Still Living La Vida Loca

I skipped yesterday's blog and just wanted to say I am still with it and happy about it.  Made a 2 day supply of morning kefir tonight.  I am actually sort of a chef in my kitchen.  Sort of.

I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty!!

Absolutely and completely pooped out.  Yoga kicked my butt today.  Still ON IT!

11 pm and Guess Where I Am Headed!

Well, almost made it by 10pm but 11 is better than 2:30am!!!

What Sleep?

This week is going to be about getting some.  Sleep that is.  Husband snoring next to me with the occasional passing of gas, yes, you heard it right, plus itchy arm syndrome plus TOO MUCH TO DO not conducive to sleeping by 10 pm but this is my goal for this week, and drinking the amount of water I need to really flush my body of toxins.  I have definitely gained an abundance of energy from this diet, now to regulate it better!

No thank you.

Made it through Pass the Parmesan without eating anything but salad with no dressing.  And it was fine, just fine.  Now splurging a bit on baked blue corn chips and hummus but heck, better than a bunch of garlic bread, no?

Oops!

It was a loooong week of several trips to Doctor's office and i needed to unwind so I did the dirty deed and did a little unwinding right off my bwell diet but not too bad, just enough to get me through and i will be back at it and strong tomorrow I assure you!  So looking forward to my Iyengar intensive tomorrow and my long walk on Sunday morning.  Need time to plan the upcoming meals and shopping list!!  Love bwell!  So bwell your self.

Feeling Good, Feeling Fine

I'll write because I promised myself I'd write even when it is late and I should be sleeping.  Had such a busy day; I waited too long between meals and yet, my 'balanced breakfast" of manna with raw tahini, one egg and some sort of fruit, I can't remember what, really sustained me until lunch.  Then I made the most delicious coconut chicken noodle soup with yummy veggies and even a homemade paste of red bell pepper with a little jalapeno thrown in for good measure for dinner.  Plus, I made some bwell chocolate ice cream that I loved and definitely overindulged in.  It feels so good to feed myself and my family this high quality food.   Life is good.  Life is life.  I am happy to be alive.

Up, down and All Around

I am tired.  Couldn't remember how to get to my blog to blog.  Dirt tired.  I am also supposed to be doing the work for my online class in counseling but of course, I'm not.  I think my cortisol level reached maximum capacity today when I feared my youngest had diabetes or a kidney infection.  Fortunately the blood and urine checked out okay. Thank god!  My husband was praying in his office "I know you (god) don't give more than I can handle so please let everything be okay".  I was thinking the same but also bracing for a new reality in my little health adventure roller coaster with my sweet, little boy.  But, as I said, all checked out okay.  So, sigh of relief.  For now.  File it back in the back.  Keep one eye open and all that.

On another note, ate well today!  Enjoying this detox very much.  I just might be able to pull this off!  Gotta plan a salty treat for Woody Allen movie on Friday.  Maybe popcorn is okay if its air popped?

Conscious Craving Is All I Knew

It's late.  I ate too much today.  All good food and food on the detox but way too much once dinner arrived and up until about 5 minutes ago.  Like a tornado, it just sucked me up and away we went!  Blame it on the rain.  From this his morning.  Just that sorta day.  That's okay, guess that is going to happen.  By the way, I eat alot of FAT!!  No wonder I am getting so tubby!  I really didn't know!  Tomorrow I need to work on less fat and I think I am going to try a mixed diet.  I am starting to think protein metabolic type is incorrect because I crave carbs so much and feel like they give me so much of the added energy I need.  And yet I still need to start eating more proteins and I feel like my choices are limited because I don't like too many of them and I am skipping soy.  Nothing witty to say today except: that rye manna bread with coconut butter is heaven on earth!  I have a feeling you are NOT supposed to eat half the loaf in one night tho'.  I also took a lavender bath while sipping a cup of organic nighty night tea with 5 drops stevia english toffee.  yummy.

Flat Tire

Word of advice, do not stay up until 1am the day before you start a detox.  It will make the day MUCH harder!

Let's just say I did not pull off the frittata in the am (there's always tomorrow).  During the day I was pretty good despite the fact that I am really totally unprepared and my frig looks like a scene from a disaster movie.  Movie?  Buttered popcorn!!  Argh!! 21 days without buttered popcorn?  I don't know if I will survive it; I live for that combination.

My blog entries will be brief for awhile as I try to adjust to cooking and getting in bed by 10pm.  Also, homework for the kids started this week: fun, fun....

Two big hand fulls of shaved no salt turkey breast and 1/2 cup dulse/quinoa/peas.  Pretty good.  Not feeling deprived.  Definitely going to treat myself with a recipe form Olga's dessert section tomorrow; if i live that long.  Hurrah for my going to yoga yesterday and going again tomorrow morning.  It's not forever right?  My pocketbook (and husband) hopes not.

Nighty, night.

Cold Feet

In less than 30 minutes I start my detox.  This isn't a cleanse, none of that hardcore lemon/cayenne pepper drink for me as I would fall on my face due to my proclivity for hypoglycemia.  And, after much contemplation, I have to say I just cannot do raw dairy due to my possible immune system dysfunction.  Not this time anyway.  I figure if it is making me so nervous to eat it because I am afraid I might die, then I'd better listen to that anxious voice, at least for now.

Made sure to have two things I rarely have but know I will want simply because I CAN'T have them: a coke and a large order of jack in the box jalapeno poppers.  God, I love those things!

Bought a nice amount of raw, healthy snacks today: wheat free flax crackers, lime chili kale chips, and sprouted sunflower seeds are some of my faves and worth turning too when I am feeling deprived.

I have breakfast planned and taken from the recipe index of the bwell4life site, a yummy sounding sun dried tomato, goat feta cheese, red bell pepper frittata I will make in the morning for me and the boys.  Thank god I rarely drink coffee anymore.  My matcha green tea latte seems to do the trick!  Lunch is salad with small amount of balsamic vinegar dressing (if devoid of sugar, gotta check) and lots of no salt turkey on top.  Rest of the family will have salmon, brown rice and salad for dinner as I loathe seafood, serious aversion affliction!  I will be making bwell chili and give that to the boys for lunch on Tuesday after I buy them some good quality thermoses.  Their lunches tomorrow will be nitrate free turkey sausages with ketchup, some seaweed, a pluot and a few ginger cookies.  Sounds kinda gross doesn't it?  May have to rethink that one.  As a side note, I cannot believe how much healthier my older son has been since I have increased his protein intake and he is willing to do regular exercise, swimming three times a week.  He is more alert, happier and energetic than he has been in years!  He's a good role model for me. 

The famous musician next door gave me a bag of pistachios that a fan sends him from Iran and last time I made the most amazing pistachio ice cream, using matcha green tea for the coloring.  It was so good we ate it all that time so now amidst the detox, I am committed to making some more and giving most of it to them and saving a little for my family for tomorrow night's dessert (not for me of course, I plan to strictly adhere to the NO SUGAR of any kind rule for the entire detox).  Hope it won't be too much of a temptation.  I think it is better to get it out of the way at the beginning.  Still doing squats and crunches, summer 2011 here I come!!

  

countdown to Hell

If you are anything like me then knowing you are going to give up sugar or pizza for the next 21 days and go to sleep by 10pm means you have to eat as much of it as you can for the next 24 hours and stay up as late as possible!!  I am getting ready to watch a movie at 11:30pm and finishing off the quart of Coconut Bliss "ice cream"-sooo good if you are a coconut fan.  Earlier, I had my share, and then some, of homemade pizza.  I did make spinach for  a side dish so at least I'm heading in the right direction!  I was inspired by the film "May I Be Frank", which was shown at The Topanga Fim Festival this year.  Unfortunately, I didn't actually get to see the film, but I read about it and watched some trailers and it is very powerful even in this brief viewing.  It convinced me that I too can change my life in some ways that I actually have control over with the support of others, my fellow detoxers (new word?), and you, my readers, of course.

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