9AM
Weighed this morning - 146 lbs. I made my first 60oz. green smoothie with bananas, pears, spinach, water, and ground flax. It tastes delicious, and I'm not just saying that. =) This should keep me most of the morning - I'm off to shop some garage sales with some kids and will be bringing the GS's with me in case I get hungry. I'm feeling very motivated, optimistic, and excited! I also plan to stop by Costco later today to stock up on more greens, and frozen fruit.
3PM
So far, so good. I've made 3 60-oz green smoothies and drank 120oz. so far. I feel a little bit spacy and have a slight headache like I get when I don't eat enough. I am treating this in my mind like a master cleanse. I have successfully completed 4 of them - 10 days, 21 days, 29 days, and 39 days. Each time the first couple of days were SO. HARD. Once I literally had to sit on my hands so I would not reach for those tortilla chips. Another time I physically got in the car and DROVE to the store so that I could buy cheese puff chips. What is it with chips? I didn't get them, and was sooo happy when I got over that "hump" of detox and cravings in those first 3 days.
I just made a gross smoothie. I put in 2 big bunces of spinach, then added 4 bananas, 3 stalks of celery, and a cucumber. Duh, those aren't exactly sweet, I don't know what I was thinking. I might dump it all back in the Vitamix and add some frozen fruit but I'm feeling kind of lazy. I'm also really, really tired from being up at night with the 2 month old.
BUT!! I am very much looking forward to tomorrow!! I can't wait to see that scale go down again - I so hope that I can lose 1 lb a day, that would be awesome. I'm also finding that I'm really thirsty - so, lots of water for me.
Tonight is a birthday party for my sister, she wanted a game night with all her siblings and their spouses. You can bet there will be lots of snacks that I love - cake, ice cream, donuts, chips & salsa.....but I'm going to make sure I have lots of bananas in my smoothie so that I feel full and don't have that empty feeling in my stomach.
DH is gone doing errands but I'm really hoping I can go running before the party tonight. I try to do 45 minutes of powerwalking with 7 1-minute sprints sprinkled in there. It's my favorite form of exercise, hands down!
10PM
I never got to go running, but that's okay - I started to feel on the weaker side this evening. I didn't feel good the rest of the day, kind of like I was coming down with a cold. My family IS currently battling the common flu with aches, runny nose, low fever, cough - but I very very rarely get sick. So I'm assuming this is probably detox. I feel a headache coming on, that feeling when it is kind of on the verge but not full blown yet, and could possibly get better instead.
At the party yes it was true, there was cake, donuts, cookies, chips - everything I thought there would be. I wasn't tempted at all, but that actually wasn't really a surprise. I'm rarely tempted to eat unhealthy OR binge in front of people - lots of people know about my diet so it helps me to stay strong when I'm around others who are watching me. But when I'm alone - oooooh boy, totally different story.
I weighed myself before bed tonight, shouldn't have done that. I'm not obsessive with the scale, but I love to see out of curiousity what it says. To me, my clothes fitting are a way better picture of how my weight loss is going - currently, they are tighter than normal. =( I weighed 148, EXACTLY the same as last night. Boo. Oh well, guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.
When I am eating mostly green smoothies, I notice that I have a bowel movement almost every time I go to the bathroom. And it's green, sorry if that's TMI! But they have not turned green yet, which tells me that even after a full day of LOTS of green smoothies in my system, it is not yet cleaned out...there is still stuff in there from yesterday. So, maybe I'll see weight loss in the morning.
G'night!
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