Breakfast was a smoothie of unsweetened almond milk, 1/2 banana, peaches, some cinnamon and 2 scoops of green. I drank that along with 2-24 ounces of water before 9. Reminder - I was up at 3:30 this morning.
I also took my supplements, which consisted of omega-3, fiber, cleanse and gymnema(which is suppose to help with carb cravings).
At 10:30 I was hungry. I ate my power greens salad with carrots and 1/2 small avocado, tossed with a little bit of garlic.
12:30 - I had another smoothie - unsweetened almond milk, 1/2 banana, mixed berries and my supplements.
Around 2 I am exhausted. I have been up for over 10 hours and I could crash. I decided to take a break and went and ate an entire bag of frozen broccoli steamed. Yes, probably a little overkill, but I was hungry.
Get off work at 5. Drive directly to HEB, do not pass go. I thought about stopping in at a deli and getting a salad bar instead, but realized that I would probably eat something ridiculous instead.
So, for all those negative ninnies out there. I bought 4 bags of vegetables for $35. It will last me through Saturday and my family will be eating some as well. So - I don't know how that is SO expensive.
I bought Brussel sprouts, asparagus, red onions, portabello mushrooms, beets, carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, a spaghetti squash (which was $6 by itself), broccoli/cauliflower mix (2 bags).
Now, did I buy all or any of this organic? No, I did not. I am starting off with the dirty dozen which are rated the highest in insecticides/chemicals. They include:
- Peaches
- Apples
- Sweet Bell Peppers
- Celery
- Nectarines
- Strawberries
- Cherries
- Pears
- Grapes (Imported)
- Spinach
- Lettuce
- Potatoes
The 12 I won't EVER be buying organic, unless the price is less expensive than non-organic are the ones that are rated the safest (least amount of pesticides) Those include:
- Onions
- Avocado
- Sweet Corn (Frozen)
- Pineapples
- Mango
- Asparagus
- Sweet Peas (Frozen)
- Kiwi Fruit
- Bananas
- Cabbage
- Broccoli
- Papaya
So nothing on my list today needed to be organic.
Anyway, I went home and started making my salads for tomorrow.
I made a beet/carrot salad that has olive oil/honey/cinnamon dressing that it is marinated in. Then I made my favorite cucumber/red onion salad that has apple cider vinegar/vinegar and it normally calls for sugar- I used honey as I don't have stevia at the house which is the only approved sweetener other than honey.
While I am busy cutting up my veggies- I start cooking some small sweet potatoes for my dinner. I wish I had taken pictures as they were tiny ones. I ate two for dinner which was really the equivalent of 1/2 a regular one. I ate it with guess what - BUTTER. It was delicious. I normally eat mine plain, but I hadn't had enough fat today logged, so I got to have a pat of butter.
I thought I would be able to sleep as I was so tired, but not going to happen. Around 8, I decided to try my salads and had a small scoop of each. Delicious. I have some tweaking to do, but so good.
I spent the next couple of hours on pinterest stalking my healthy friends boards to find some good veggie recipes.
What about protein - don't freak out on me. My smoothies have tons of greens in them - kale, spinach, chard and they all have protein. :)
I am not hungry or less than satisfied. I did drink a TON of water today and spent a lot of the day walking back and forth to pee. Which is good - get all those yucky toxins out of my body.
Hopefully I will be able to get a full night's sleep. I feel accomplished today. I did want to cheat at dinner when the boys are heating up their meat and it smelled so good, but I just ate some mushrooms instead.
Side effects today: I was tired from no sleep last night so I am going to say my grumpiness was really from lack of sleep instead of the food changes.
I had a headache a few times today. I know that is the caffeine withdrawal though. I am a coffee/tea drinker so switching to all water was hard. And guess what gets rid of the headaches...MORE WATER.
I did get on the scale this morning just to have a starting point. I will report periodically if there are "weight loss" benefits of this, but I am more about feeling good.
Getting back on track with my exercise hopefully on Friday. I had to take an entire week off from having oral surgery last week and I should get the go ahead tomorrow!
That's all for now. Thanks again for those of you that gave me a little extra push today with your kind words. It's time like these you really know who your friends are.
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