11.43 am woke up this morning without the usual thirst or hung over feeling from eating sugar before bed. Lot’s of energy. Husband and son wanted to try the Berry Mango Smoothie for breakfast. Son loved it, husband commented on the seeds. At least they are volunteering to try the juice, a victory! I’ve been hungry this am so about an hour and a half after breakfast I made a new juice that was absolutely delicious. See following recipe. Am satisfied for the time being. My taste buds are waking up today and I pulled out my Hamilton Beach Juice Extractor for the second breakfast juice. It did a great job, and thanks to Chelsea who gave it to me.
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July 26, Evening 2
Made it through dinner, now I just have to stay focused til bedtime. Watching Avatar, a vegetarian movie?
July 26 Day 2
Almost lost it, I’m hungry but not starving. Grabbed a half sour pickle from the fridge and a glass of mint tea. OK, I can do this.
July 26 Recipes
Mint Tea w Stevia
I decided to grow Stevia this summer and now that it is a healthy plant with many branches I trimmed one branch with maybe 20 leaves on it and added it to 10 stalks of fresh Spearmint and 2 stalks of fresh peppermint. Steeped in 2 quarts of just boiled filtered water it makes a delicious cold or hot tea. The Stevia was actually too sweet so next time I will cut it back to 10 leaves per 2 quarts of water.
July 25 Recipes
Soy Shake with Strawberries: 1 cup lite soy milk, plain, 6 to 8 frozen strawberries, 1 scoop Plant Protein Powder, 1 stick of Inulin Fiber. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. You can substitute any fruit, fresh or frozen. One of my favorites is a banana and a tablespoon of cocoa powder.
Blackberry Mango Shake: 1 cup fresh blackberries, 4 large strawberries, handful of frozen mango, 1 cup apple juice. Place all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.
Fresh Vegetable Soup: Place 1 stalk celery, 1 seeded red bell pepper , handful fresh parsley, 1/2 cup water, in the blender and blend until smooth. Add 2 medium baked and peeled beets and 1 baked carrot. Puree until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste. Add juice from half a lemon or lime and possibly a tablespoon of greek nonfat yogurt.
Baked Beets and Carrots: It’s hard to blend some of the vegetables and I don’t have a juicer, yet, so I place the beets and carrots in a foil pouch and bake them in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Just until they are tender. Then peel the beets and puree.
July 26 Day 2
Last night was hard, I didn’t feel hungry but was tempted by the meal that I fixed for my family. I can tell that evening dinner time and before bed are going to be tough. However, I survived by eating three small pieces of bagguet dipped in a little bit of olive oil and a taste of dessert. Darn, almost a perfect day.
9:30am running around, late for my first Doctor’s appointment. My daughter made my Soy Shake w Strawberries for me and out the door I went. Drank it in the car. The routine physical revealed that my blood pressure, EKG, heart, lungs, and skin are healthy. The weight loss was a nice surprise, even on their scales. I will schedule blood work and get a x-ray of my left knee. The right knee seems to be getting better. Yeah!
11:30am home from the doctor. Made a Berry Mango Fruit shake and left again to get the x-ray.
12:30pm Ate a large plate of steamed kale with balsamic vinegar and a glass of Mint w Stevia tea. I’m satisfied, my stomach feels pleasantly full and no cravings. However, the other end of the digestive tract is very active today. Clean out time!
July 25 Day 1
Last night I was reading the home page of a Face Book friend and I noticed that she liked a documentary named, Fat,Sick and Nearly Dead by Joe Cross. So I downloaded it from Netflix and watched it. This is the boost I’ve been looking for with my own eating plan. The Reboot juice fast will be perfect for this time of year, especially since we have a vegetable garden. So, here goes, I’m going to stay on the juice fast for 15 days adding in steamed vegetables and occasionally whole grains, and nuts and plain soymilk. #fatsickandnearlydead.com
Began my morning with a soy shake made from : 1 cup plain lite soymilk, handful of frozen strawberries, 1 scoop Protein Powder and 1 stick of Inulin Fiber. This is basically the same shake I’ve been drinking for breakfast for years. It is very satisfying, especially in the early morning when my stomach isn’t ready for food.
About 20 minutes before drinking my shake I have taken a Glucose Health supplement. It helps support glucose metabolism.
10:30am Just returned from pulling weeds in the vegetable garden, 2 hours worth! Also picked fresh blackberries and corn, pulled carrots and beets and snipped fresh kale. So, that gives me lots of choices for todays juices and steamed vegetables. I will post the recipes that I come up with under the Healthy Recipes category on this blog page. Just look for todays’ date.
Fat, Hurting and Unhealthy
It’s time. It’s time to stop overeating, bingeing, practicing poor nutrition and lying to myself about it. I am a 56 woman, post-menopausal, who has a BMI of 35 (healthy BMI is 25 or lower), and I am emotionally tied to food. I am also a nurse and own an online nutrition business. So, I know what I have to do and finally I’m doing it.
In January, I began taking a cholesterol lowering drug. The hip and joint pain was ferocious and by April I had extremely tight IT bands in both legs and my knees became painful and swollen. So OKAY, UNCLE, it’s time. Time to take the excess weight off of my knees and lower my cholesterol. Those are the goals. Follow my daily journey to better health and if you need it, apply what you learn here to your own. We are in this together.
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