Today I took a turn for the worse, so to speak. I haven't had good sleep since my daughter was born, obviously, and the past week she's routinely been going to sleep around 12-1am, then gets up at 3:30am and I wake her up at 7am to nurse and start my day getting the 4 kids off to school.
I am just dragging today. I did everything in slow motion it seemed like, and got the kids to school a good 15 minutes late. I didn't care, I am so so so tired from nights upon nights of no/little sleep.
Since this is my green smoothie blog and not my regular blog, I won't get into it anymore, lol. But my point on here is that I want to just pop in a movie and chow down on something really bad for me to counteract the "bad day" that I am having. I want to just stuff myself with hot salty buttered parmesan popcorn, and after that, eat something WARM because I'm freezing. (icy cold green smoothies from the fridge will do that to you!)
But you know what? I'm not going to. I knew when I started this, that there would be hard times. That it would not always be easy, smooth sailing, with no thought or desire for regular food.
Yes, I'm at 21 days - yippee, by the way! =) I really am happy about that! So technically tomorrow I could say, would be the first day off of green smoothies. I really have accomplished quite a bit. But it's not enough in my eyes (is it ever?)! I really want to lose the last 13 pounds hanging on my small 5'2" frame because it really doesn't look so nice on there. Plus, I've promised Jen that we'd do the 2-week challenge together. So - as much as I feel reluctant to do so, I'm going to change my blog title once again from 21-days to 31 days. (That's the end of the 2 weeks).
I read on another person's blog who was doing a juice fast, that they didn't know how long they were going to go, but they made a rule that they would NOT quit on a bad day. They could decide at any point that "tomorrow" they would quit, but it was not allowed for them to just decide to take the rest of that day off, or to just up & eat regular food.
I decided on the spot that love that rule.
And I think I might incorporate that into my general eating style once I do go off green smoothies - telling myself that tomorrow will be this or that, but that TODAY I must finish off the day 100% on my diet.
A couple of days ago I dug into my box of clothes from early fall '08 when I was at my goal weight. They all fit! They're a little snug, but still wearable and the jeans especially I have been wearing - oh it does feel so nice to fit into them again! Amazing what a difference 8 lbs can do.
Tomorrow is measuring day!
Here's a question from TL"
"I was wondering how you do for your evening diners. Do you take your smoothie to the table and sit with everyone? I think my husband would be upset if I had only some green juice for dinner..."
Answer:
"Well...my husband is kind of used to my crazy diet stuff by now. Specifically, the raw food diet. So he doesn't actually pay attention or notice anything I eat or lack thereof. Plus, we have many small children which makes for quite the busy and noisy dinner time.
Personally, what I do is either drink my green smoothie during dinner, or do it beforehand. I don't keep a schedule anymore of breakfast/lunch/dinner - I just eat when I'm hungry, and then tend to the needs of my family's meals. Often times it helps to drink a large smoothie before dinner so that I'm not tempted by the rolls or other enticing looking things.
If you really want something to "eat" for appearances sake and so that you can sit with your husband/family and all share a meal, you could always make your green smoothie thicker than normal and eat it as a soup. You could even chop up some strawberries and put them in there after you blend it, and some blueberries, sprinkle on some flax, etc to make it sort of a bowl of green smoothie but also with some chunks and "chewable" stuff in there. That way you're eating with him - it'd also look really pretty! =)"
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