Being Healthy update

Well it has been a long time since I have said how I have been doing with trying to change my eating habits and getting healthier. I do not juice much anymore do to struggling with the money to buy the good fruits, however once financial stuff starts stabilizing some I will start doing morning juices again. Right now I am in the middle of a 30 day challenge of eating vegan foods only that I get from a local vegan restaurant. It has been great for many reasons, one it helps me get a better idea of portion size, to gives me good ideas for types of vegan foods I can make for quick meals and snacks and 3 it gives me healthy food to eat without any of the prep work :). I have found on my 30 day challenge I have started eating less during each meal and realizing that I don't need a large of portions as I thought to get full. I have had good energy with sold meal schedule and not eating so late at night and even lost a few more pounds during the challenge so far. One thing I have not been staying on top of as much is my exercising and running, I tend to get consistent with one or the other. Eating right or exercising regularly, and I am working on combining the 2 together even if it is just small workouts. As far as my update goes just saying that even though it has been quiet awhile since my cleanses I am still trying to eat healthy and have been staying clear of most sodas and sweet items. The cleanse was just a good start to help me get on the right track and hopefully, even if there are a few slips here and there ;) this experience can help me make a good healthy lifestyle change.

the struggles of staying healthy.

Its been another week after the end of my 2nd juice cleansing,  I've still been juicing breakfasts but not my other meals. I eat vegan meals but still struggling with correct portion sizes. Even with my workouts it is not making up for the regular meals I am eating and I am not mainting the weight loss I had from my cleansings :( which is kind of disappointing, but I am kind of determined to figure out how to maintain a healthy weight without having to juice all my meals, so have a stronger desire too try and really monitor my portion sizes. I'll let you know if I'm successful in that.

update on transation from cleansing to vegan

Okay so my 14 day cleansing has pretty much ended, even though it hasn't quiet been 14 days. I am at the end of my transition week (juicing breakfast and lunch and vegan meals for supper). It has been more difficult then anticipated to make sure I do correct serving sizes and I have been constantly juicing breakfast, however only juiced lunch sun-wed then started just eating small raw snacks for lunch because I was drinking late breakfasts. For my supper I have been eating a baked bean casserole I made and this evening a vegan meat loaf I made. The recipes were slightly more difficult then anticipated but have been pretty good. I am really needing to work on my portion sizes and exercising more. I plan on attempting to jog with the dogs and I am still doing my 10min beach body workouts twice a day for most of the week. ( I dont' always do it every day). This past week I have just been making my own juice recipes when I do juice. This morning I just ate fruit instead of juicing it. I don't have the recipes I made with me, they are at home and I am at my parents. But I will post those if you are interested because they were all pretty good, even the veggie one. Well this cleansing wasn't as successful as I had hoped, but I am still making a lot of progress with how I eat and with exercising more, so my change has been baby steps but I feel has been some what successful. I'll keep you updated on my progress with getting/staying healthier.

day 1 and 2 of week 2 cleansing

This is an update on how my second week is going on my cleansing. Sunday I did a juice drink that was mainly fruit but had some veggies (don't remember which one sorry :)) I turned it into a smoothie with ice and banana and spent most of the day drinking it (it turned out pretty good). I then had a taco salad for supper. If you have  noticed by the fact I had a taco salad for supper I am starting to introducee other foods this week besides just raw foods,  along with more exercises. I am enjoying having extra food such as the veggie beans that were added to my salad however it is adding extra calories I am needing to adjust for if I want to maintain my weight loss. Today's breakfast drink was so large that I drank half of it for breakfast and finished the rest with lunch as well as having a store bought bagged salad I added almonds, broccoli and cherry tomatoes too. My supper was just snacks, but not as healthy of snacks as I should have had. Tomorrow I plan on having juice breakfast and a juice lunch and will have a regular vegan supper that will be a baked bean casserole I made this evening. I will keep you update with my transition/cleansing week and let you know how it is going. The recipes I will be making for my vegan meals are difficult to re post so if you want the recipes for my vegan meals you will have to ask me and I can e-mail them too me. I will still post the juice recipes, however I did not keep track of today's juice recipes very well and can not remember the exact recipes, sorry I will keep better track tomorrow :).

day 7 (half way through)

Today is day 7 of  my newest cleansing. This time it is a 14 day cleansing. Although I still have some of the same struggles I have had from the beginning with just really wanting regular food I have made it to the halfway mark and today had a pretty good day with not really craving other foods as much. I feel that I am doing pretty good and that although I a may still just want to stop :) I will make it to day 14. Today's morning drink was Grapefruit, orange, and pineapple. I am not usually a fan of grapefruit but this drink wasn't to bad. I had a late breakfast so for lunch I just did a little snack pack that included raw broccoli, carrots and almonds. For supper I did a green juice recipe, in the paste the green juices have not been a friend of mine but this one was actually pretty good. Day 7 has been another pretty good day. Below are today's juice recipes.

Grapefruit, Orange, and Pineapple
-2 grapefruits
-2 oranges
-1/4 pineapple
-1/4 lemon

Delightful Green Juice
-1 apple
-1/2 cucumber
-1/4 green cabbage
-handful spinach (I was out of spinach and used a handful of Kale instead)

Day 6 of new 14 day cleansing

So I am now on day 6 of new 14 day cleansing. Today was a slow start because I wasn't really feeling very good so I slept in pretty late, but once I got going did pretty good today. I am getting a little tired of juicing and am looking forward to eating regular food (healthy regular food). However both of today's juices were actually really good my breakfast was called grape, orange and carrot, which is weird cause it doesn't have any carrots in it lol :). It should be grape, orange and apple. My lunch was carrot and asparagus juice which may not sound very good or really look very good :) but surprisingly enough was really good. then my supper was just salad with spinach/cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, avocado. Today was a pretty good day, besides feeling week and a little tired this morning. Below are today's juice recipes.

Grape, Orange, and apple
-3 cups green or red seedless grapea
-1 orange
-1 apple
-1/4 lime

Carrot and Asparagus
-4 carrots
-1/2lb asparagus
-4 celery ribs
-2 apples
-2 cups firmly packed spinach leaves

day 5 of 2 week cleansing

The longer I do this cleansing the harder it seems to be. I have little motivation when it comes to drinking veggie juices(and rarely finish them) and I just want to eat a sandwich , but I am still sticking with it despite the struggles. Changing your life style and how you do stuff is never easy and although the last time I did a 7 day cleansing I might have said it wasn't to hard and I could do it longer this time it is a lot different. My last 7 days I was at a different job, most of the time was spent alone(except treatment times with kids when I was not eating). At work I just went from school to school on my own, I stayed at home on my own making my own foods. At my new job there is always multiple numbers of  other therapists and children around eating many different things, little cracker snacks, candies, whole meals etc. I have also been spending more time going to visit my parents then I have in the past and it is difficult trying to make sure I have the stuff I need to juice and that I just juice while they eat regular meals. I have stuck with it and plan on trying my best to keep going, I just wanted to acknowledge the struggles I have had. Today I was able to sleep in really late so I had a very late breakfast juice called mango,orange, banana. Because my breakfast was so late I did not get around to lunch until getting home from work which ended up being a late lunch/supper combined. My lunch and supper where just a very large salad, I decided to do things a little differently and start to work in learning how to eat out healthy so my salad was actually from subway and when I got it home I just added avocado and cherry tomatoes, I also cheated a little bit and put a little bit of non dairy organic ranch dressing on it, in the future however I am going to try and flavor with lemons or limes or something like that. Yesterday I weighted myself after not weighing myself for a while and I was down another 5lbs. I don't think that is all just from the last 5 days but I'm sure a majority of it was lost from this current cleansing. It helped give me a little motivation to keep going along with pep talks from my mom and a close friend. I will keep you updated on how I am doing and if I do truly make it the 14 days this time around. Below is the recipe from todays juice.

Mango, Banana, Orange

-2 mangoes
-2 oranges
-1/4 lime
-2 bananas
(I only had one mango left so only made it with one mango but it was still good)