Day 24 - 137

It feels strange to be writing "Day 24". It feels so endless....like I'm in a dream and just keep on having green smoothies day in & day out. Normally with any type of diet I am counting the days and gritting my teeth through it. But honestly, not with this. Yes, yesterday I had an emotional eating blip, but I was able to get a handle on it and for the most part, was back to green smoothies for the rest of today (I had a handful of homemade garlic croutons, then forced myself not to eat any more). Today the green smoothies are especially fulfilling and deliciously icy cold straight out of the fridge. I feel very "up" today and every time I drink one, it's like I'm drinking "life"!! It feels so so good.

I weighed 137 AGAIN today, despite eating the heavy and sugary cinnamon roll and gingerbread cake. Plus, all the salt in the chips - it honestly got salty for me VERY fast and I wasn't able to eat very many of them. Yuck. Same with the garlic butter croutons - they were just too fatty/buttery tasting and bleh, even though the crunchy part was yummy.

It's fun to think that tomorrow might be another pound! But also, not to get my hopes up because it did take me an entire week to lose 1 pound this past 7 days.

Today I'm whipping up a delicious smelling pot of taco soup and am going to bake some homemade bread (in the bread machine) and then possibly make a dessert for tonight's meal. All this is not meant to make you hungry, lol, but to point out that I am seriously enjoying baking while not craving it. I love that!! I hated it when I would bake something yummy with 100% intentions to serve it to my family and not eat any of it, and then proceed to eat like half of the entire thing because it tasted good and because "I can". It feels sooooooo good to be freeeeeee!!! =)

I really doubt that I'm going to stop at day 31. I have a feeling I'm going to keep going with this until I reach my goal weight. I just can't imagine stopping, and having to make food decisions again and then dealing with my weight going back up. Ugh. Not a fun thought......I gotta' keep green smoothies as my MAIN course and then maybe, maybe add in some other things like a big salad for dinner, or a baked potato, or brown rice & veggies. But very carefully and non-bingefully. (like my new word? lol)

I wanted to comment that the picture on the right of my blog is starting to look a little bit funny to me. Like a little bit overweight compared to how I see my face in the mirror. I might just be imagining it (I probably am, lol) but I am definitely going to take an after picture (including a closer face picture) when I'm done with green smoothies and compare!