Thursday, April 26, 2012

Fast or Feast

 Depending on who you talk to it's a "juice fast" or a "juice feast"
For my mind's sake, I think I'll try to keep telling myself its a feast. Fasting reminds me of something my mother made me do with her as a kid. No fun!

Hello my friends! I'm back... Miss me? :P

So, my last post was quite awhile ago, eeks.
Quick refresher... I was obsessed with eggs and also mentioned how decision making is not my strong suit. Turns out that last part is directly affected by  my internal communication and I can talk myself into doing anything regardless of how stupid it might be :P
Take for instance eggs. I was well aware that eggs would be a slippery slope and open up my incessant internal chatter to constant bargaining. I'll allow eggs... hmm... cheese will be fine...

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Eggs and dairy... ummm, they led to cookies!! haha! I knew it would happen, I totally let it happen and yes, during the cookie eating season also known as Christmas, New Years, President's Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's... I gained back 10 pounds. booo!

I started doing a little juicing again this month and cut out a bunch of crap that has sneakily made its way back into my diet. With those small changes I was able to take off the "holiday" 10 but have come to a bit of a stalemate with weight loss and to be honest- motivation. I have a million reasons to be health conscious but it only takes a teensy little suggestion and cheese makes its way past my teeth even though I know I'm going to get that sluggish, heavy feeling. Why the heck do I do this to myself? Ugh, age old question.

Anyway, I've been considering the reboot thing again and am taking the plunge. It's just so much more difficult to juice with two munchkins but I'm doing it-- and when I say I'm doing it, I mean... reeeeeallllyyyyy doing it!
Juicing for as long as I can stand it. Looking at the statistics from my previous experience 3 days was hell but I managed to make it 5 - kicking and screaming the whole time. I'm going to challenge myself to beat 5 days and I will allow carrots and celery here and there when my teeth start driving me nuts because of the lack of gnawing.

To break it down, everything will be in juice form as long as I can hold out. We'll be heading to Washington at the end of May so my goal is to juice until the day we leave. I'll have to make other arrangements at that point because running my juicer while driving is just not safe :P
Between now and then there is Mother's Day and we'll be in Palm Springs so that should be interesting with my new juicing challenge. I might have to eat raw that weekend, we'll see.

Ok, I'm off to make a new playlist-- an anthem of sorts to help me get through the rough moments. I have a feeling it'll be an angsty mix!