What have I been doing....

Well as you can see it's been a long freaking time since I last blogged... What have I been doing you may ask.  Well nothing that fantastic.  2012 was not one of my favorite years. I spent to much time and energy working and was stressed out to say the least.  The unfortunate thing about me and stress is I eat.  A lot.  Cheese, chips, pizza, DESSERT, SUGAR.  All the oh so not good for you foods.  It's like the more stressed out I get the more I talk myself into eating crappy foods and out of eating what makes me feel good.

I feel like a broken record and like well a yo-yo.  Eat crappy for years, vow to lose weight, loose nearly 60 pounds!  Feel great, decide it's ok for me to indulge in a cookie that leads to 12 and everything is out the door.  All the hard work, all the good choices, flushed down the crapper.

So here I am back up to 180 pounds!  Yikes!  Seriously no good. On my small frame I look like a sausage.  But you know what, I don't feel hard on myself.  I really don't.  I made some bad choices or some bad and stressed out choices and it got me here.  It's not a mystery how it happened.  How I let it happen.  But I also know I can lose it because I have before.  That one thought or realization makes me feel lighter and happier about the whole thing.  I know I can take it off.  I know exactly what it is I need to do to get it off of me.

So this is my plan.  I have created a large 100 day calendar and it's smack on my fridge. As of today the 6th of January I am starting my 100 day juicing and raw food diet.  Everyday that I stick to my goal I will get a sticker and at the end of the 100 days I will reward myself.  I am not sure what the reward will be yet but I will give myself one.

I am super excited to be starting these next 100 days.  I will be checking in as I go along probably with juice recipes and the trials and triumphs I have along the way.  

First Week Back on Raw Food

So it's the end of my first week back on Raw.  Why do I ever stop eating this way?  It's taken 1 week, 1 week for me to feel 100 times better.  You may be shocked but eating crappy food makes me feel like well crap.  One week of eating whole raw foods and lots of juices and smoothies and I have energy, I feel lighter and happier in my body.  One week! If you've ever wondered about raw food try it out for just one week, the first few days will be tricky, as will the weekend but stick with it and just see how you feel.

Here is an outline of what I have been eating this last week:

Breakfast Juice and Afternoon Juice Snack:
(I usually make a double batch of juice divide it and take half to work in a jar filled to the brim.  The less air the better, less oxidization.  This recipe is a double, and can be adapted to suit your tastes.)

3 Medium Apples
1 English Cucumber
3 Stalks of Celery
1/2 a bunch of Parsley
1/2 bulb of Fennel

Lunch Green Smoothie:

1 large handful of Spinach
1/2 a cup of Blueberries
1 Medium Banana
1 tbs. Chia Seeds
1 tbs. Hemp Seeds
1 tsp. Chlorella
1 tsp. Maca
Fresh Almond Milk

Snack:

Either a Banana, Strawberries, or an Orange
+ My Afternoon Juice

Dinner:


Either Zuchinni Pasta with an Olive Marinara or Salad.

Pasta take:
2 Medium Zuchinni's spiralized into pasta with the spirooli


For the Marinara blend together:
1 tomato
6 olives
1/4 or less sweet onion
1 sweet bell pepper
1 tsp. capers
Fresh herbs like Parsley or Basil
dash of sea salt
pepper

Blend Pasta with Sauce and Enjoy:)

Or

Salad
Fresh Corn Salad

1 Ear of Corn (chopped)
1 tomato chopped
1/2 a bunch of cilantro
1 avacado
1 tbs. Pickled Jalapeno's with juice (not completely raw unless you make them which I didn't)
I eat this with Belgian Endive and Bell Peppers


Dessert:


Raw dried Raisins or Figs, just a few:)

Plus lots of Water and Tea throughout the day!