Well, day 26 has come to and end. The day itself was easy enough. Someone ate chili at work and MAN it smelled so amazing!!! That was a hard hour to sit through.. smelling it the whole time. Then I came home and decided to make dinner for my family as my husband was muddying our living room (we are remodeling for those of you that do not know). Let me tell ya, I made an amazing dinner (if I do say so myself)... then I sat there and watched my family eat it. Um.. yeah.. just a bit on the hard side
I have exciting news!! I can take my ring off!!
I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's progress for me. You see, I got a new ring last year in March. I don't remember how much I weighed, but I must have been less than what I weight now. The ring was an average size 7, which is actually too big for me when I am skinny.. (which isn't too often, lol)... Anyway, I bought the ring and had to get it sized to a 5 1/2. When I went to pick it up, the guy was really confused. He didn't understand how a size 5 1/2 ring could fit ME!! Its really weird, but apparently I have skinny fingers (when I am skinny of course). So fast forward a few months, I gained who knows how many pounds and lo and behold, I can no longer take my ring off. It is really annoying. At times I get claustrophobic just thinking about it and if I start freaking out about the fact that I cannot take my ring off, I instantly feel my finger swell up which obviously makes it harder to take the ring off...
ANYWAY, this weekend my ring came off!!! Not too easily, but it came off without pain or soap or lotion. I was very pleased.
Onto my weight area... um... not sure what's going on. I am still stuck at the same 177.4 weight. Its annoying, but I am not getting too frustrated with the scale. I know that doing this juicing cleanse is healthy for me and that's why I am continuing on with this.. that and cause Jenni won't let me quit.. lol... (which I'm grateful for )
I have come to a (kinda scary) decision. I have decided to do a water fast for the next 10 days.
At first it freaks me out, but then when I give it some thought, it should not be any harder than what I have already been doing for the last 26 days. Might be easier seeing how I am so tired of these juices that I just gag from them. Plus, this will save us money, which is always a plus!!
So starting tomorrow until Thursday, October 27th, I will not be putting ANYTHING into my body except for water (so help me God).... see... there it goes freaking me out again... lol...
I want to do it not for weight loss (cause I am not told that not only should I NOT lose any weight while water fasting, but I might actually gain some...so I am aware). I want to do it for the extra healing benefits to my body. This way, it can totally relax and not have to digest ANYTHING and it can go ahead and devote itself fully to healing me.
So I look forward to starting a new journey tomorrow and sharing it with you.
Today was a good day. I had a few tough moments, but thank God I got through it quite easily.
I don't like juicing. I don't like the act itself of putting everything through the juicer and then the cleanup, nor do I like actually drinking the juice. So to make life easier for myself, either I or my sweet husband will juice me 64 ounces of juice at one time to last me the whole day. Yeah, I know, its not the best way to go.. but it works for me.
So this morning I juiced this: 1/3 box of organic leafy greens, 1/2 a beet with greens, 4 apples, 1/3 lemon, 3 red kale leafs, and about 7 carrots.
This didn't quite fill my quota of 64 ounces, so separately I juiced 1 whole lemon and 2 apples. It tasted quite good, like lemonade (a bit on the sour side).
We went to my nephew Phillips 1st birthday party. It was a wonderful occasion. I had a superb time with my family (I absolutely love family get togethers!!). There was plenty of delicious food, and yet, for some odd reason, I did not have a hard time resisting. I did a lot of smelling once again, and yes, I even took a few sucks of the amazing chicken that was there. But other than that, I was perfectly ok. Just enjoyed my time with my family members.
So like I said, today was a good day.... I sure hope that tomorrow morning makes me happy again and puts me on the 15 pounds lost milestone marker.
Oh, I decided to put on a tightener for tonight's occasion. I used to wear them almost every single day, but I have not worn it even once since I've been juicing. Well let me tell ya... yuck!! I absolutely hated being it in. So I think I will not be wearing one ever again... hopefully.
That's all for now.. off to finish some laundry, then to sleep I shall go... Hopefully tomorrow will be a fantastic day and not hard at all to resist eating all the yumminess at my mother in law's house....
Oh!! My amazing sister and her husband surprised Vlad & I tonight with some movie tickets (we want to see Courageous) and offered to baby sit our boys... We are planning on definitely taking them up on the offer.. so I am looking forward to a date night here soon... it sucks that we can't go out for dinner though... but the movie should still be fun!! Thanks Jenni & Valik!! Love you lots!!
Today started off wonderfully!!
I weighed in at 177.4!!! That's 14.6 pounds lost thus far. Finally, the scale moved in my favor!! 4 more ounces to lose and I will be at my next goal mark.. 15 pounds lost!! Can't wait!
This morning I decided to go through pretty much all my clothes. I must say, it took a lot of time and energy, but I did it!! And to my great surprise and joy, all my clothes fit me!!! I must admit, some can still wait till I lose a few more pounds, but the majority fit wonderfully!! Not only did they fit, some I had to just get rid of cause they are just ridiculously big now and look absolutely disgusting on me!! That was a WONDERFUL feeling!! I have a few work pants that still fit OK, but I think come next weekend, I will probably have to go shopping for a few pairs of pants. Shirts are great. They used to be really tight on me, but not they just fit right.. so I'm OK on shirts for a while.
This is really exciting!! I'm glad to see and feel results, definitely makes it a lot easier to continue doing this. When all is well, I actually get sad that the fast is over in just 16 days... then as soon as I see/smell food like at this moment (my family is enjoying a meal right behind me as I sit here blogging) then 16 days seem like insanely too long and I just want to quit. But I'll keep doing what I've been doing. Taking it one day at a time. Whining. Smelling every one's food. Whining some more. I do A LOT of whining on this fast in case you didn't notice. But I've gotten this far. 24 days!! What's another 16... lol...
If average weight loss on this is 1/2 pound a day, in 16 more days I should lose 8 more pounds. Mathematically, that would put me at a 22 pound weight loss in 40 days. Not bad I'd say. Hopefully I will lose at least 22 pounds if not even more...
Anyway.. The day has just begun... (well, its 11am, so it began a few hours ago, but I was busy) I still haven't had a single juice yet this morning... better go juice something... this is how the thought of juicing makes me feel... lol..
This is how I feel right now:
I don't even want to blog at this moment, but I don't want to keep putting it off either...so here I go...
I have concluded my crazy 11 hour a day work schedule. Done. Finished. Now back to my regular job/time. Within the last 10 days, I worked 105 hours. That's 25 hours OVERTIME!! No wonder I didn't feel like doing anything except laying on the couch when I got home. Eew. Thank God it went ok for the most part and now its over.
I wasn't thrilled with the scale this morning, but for some reason, it didn't bother me too much. I actually don't remember exactly what it said, but it was either 178.6 or 178.8. Just a 2 ounce difference, so no biggie. Anyway. I am not understanding why the annoying scale doesn't want to budge. Its so frustrating. I mean I am NOT eating anything. How can my body do this to me? I am drinking my full 64 ounces of juice AND 64 ounces of water. What is wrong with my body?? I thought by now I'd be down around 23 pounds!! I really was hoping to lose a pound a day on this cleanse, but it looks like right now I am averaging 1/2 a pound a day. Well, I gotta say, losing 1/2 a pound a day is definitely a lot better than not losing any weight or even worse, gaining.... so I'm ok with it.
I'm done whining now for the most part. On to the good news!!
I have been getting bombarded with compliments left and right!! It's almost like I have my own personal cheerleaders. At work there is one particular girl who screams her head off whenever she sees me. And its always nice things like how hot or beautiful I look... but it makes me feel quite uncomfortable. 1st of all, I have never considered myself hot nor beautiful... but this girl really does scream it for everyone to hear... um... I don't like that... but the thought is sweet.
I didn't tell many people at work that I am doing this cleanse. Yesterday I was at the copy machine and a lady from the office walked in. She stopped and did a double take and said "You've lost weight"... then we proceed to converse a little and she said the the weight loss is definitely visible and just cannot be missed....
A few minutes later and ex co worker walked in. He just kinda looked me and said "don't take this the wrong way, but you look smaller." I was flattered....
My sisters know this about me, but I will share it with the rest of you. Probably 75% of my closet is small clothes. I don't know why, but I have way more clothes that is too small for me rather than clothes that fit me. Wishful thinking I guess. I seem to buy "for when I WILL lose the weight". Well, up until this point, it has just been hanging there. I have a few pairs of pants that fit me this way
Lol.... gross, I know.. this picture is not of me, but you get the idea... Anyway, yesterday morning, I was able to put on a pair of pants that I used to not be able to buckle and they buckled way too easily. I wore them all day at work, and fell quite good with myself.
This morning, I decided to try on a pair of jeans that I really liked but have not been able to wear for a LONG time... I hesitantly put them on, and they fit PERFECTLY!! I was super thrilled!!
I felt really "cute" at work today and it made me very happy... I took some "self portraits" in the bathroom during break... So this is how I look 23 days into this cleanse, 13 pounds lighter.
Don't correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I look quite good.. lol... I am really enjoying all the compliments and the way I am looking and feeling... but this no eating thing is getting quite old real fast. I just want some food already!! OMG!! I almost forgot!! My boys were having dinner. I was starving. I came up and was smelling Daniel's food.... then I picked up a small piece of chicken and licked it. Then, before I knew it, the chicken was IN my mouth!! Yes, inside my mouth!! Oh... I sucked that thing, then chewed a little... then spit it out. But WOW!! That tasted SO GOOD!!!!
I am worried about this weekend. Not worried that I will eat, but worried that I will feel like crap and want to do this
WHILE everyone is eating. We have my nephews 1st birthday to attend tomorrow evening and my sister is promising a delicious dinner. Which of course I cannot have. THEN Sunday we are going to my mother in law's for lunch after church. She always cooks up an amazing feast. Which I will not be able to have. Ugh. I am dreading just sitting there smelling all the yumminess and not being able to enjoy it.
Lol... 2 things that I keep picturing in my head. The yummy, delicious, juicy steak that I will eat as soon as I can after I finish this cleanse and how good I want to look in a swimming suit
Well, I am done whining for tonight. Praying that we have a wonderful weekend and that I will not have too hard of a time dealing with the not eating part of this cleanse.. oh wait.. that's the WHOLE part of this cleanse besides having to chug unwanted juices... bleh...
off to bed now...
I am officially 1/2 way done with this Juicing Cleanse!! Yay!! I am so super happy!! To be honest (lol, as if I always lie on here), I am super duper surprised that I have actually lasted this long. I tell my husband almost every day, that if it wasn't for Jenni calling me and checking up on me and encouraging me every single day, I would have quit on the very 1st day. But I can't let her (and myself) down so I continue to chug along...
Let my just summarize the last 20 days. OMG!!! CRAZY HARD!!! Valik put this wonderfully in his video blog. Juicing Sucks!!! lol
Quite honestly, I am very surprised at how fast the last 20 days have gone by. I would say that 80% of the time, it is very easy. But the 20% that is hard, is almost unbearably hard!! So it like over powers the 80% that is easy.
The hardest parts are when there is yummy food around, and I can't have any. Like tonight, my family was enjoying a super delicious meal while I just sat there.
I know I look happy, but don't be fooled.. lol.. I was very sad ; )
Anyway, I must say I am proud of myself for getting this far. I gagged my way through this. I whined my way through this (poor Jenni and Vlad, had to listen to me almost day & night...lol). I even cried my way through this. But non the less, I have gotten to this point, and it feels really good!! I just have to take it 1 day at a time. Not think of it as "Oh, another 20 days to go". No, when I do that, I freak out and want to quit. But I just tell myself I only need to make it to this evening and thats it. And I lie to myself like that every day. Lol, no wonder my body doesn't trust me ; )
At work today a salesman walked up to me and just kinda stood there. After a few seconds he said "You must be on some sort of a diet, huh?" I quickly looked around for any sign of my juice, but none was there, so I stared at him and asked why he would say that and to my happiness he said "I've noticed that you've been losing quite a bit of weight." That was quite pleasant for my ears. I guess it means that this is working!
So after completing this Juice Cleanse for a full 20 days now, I am happy to report that I am down 13.2 pounds. I was really hoping to lose 20 pounds in 20 days, but obviously that did not happen. But I am very grateful for the weight that I have lost. It has been impossible for me to get out of the 190's and now to be in the 170's, quite a good feeling. Don't get me wrong, I still want to lose at least another 24 pounds, but for now I am content with teh 13 that I lost.
Juicing Cleanse Stats:
Started Juicing: September 22, 2011
Starting Weight: 192.0
Evening of Day 3: 190.2
Morning of Day 4: 187.6
Morning of Day 5: 188.0 WEIRD!!
Morning of Day 5: 188.0 WEIRD!!
Morning of Day 6: 187.0 DOWN 5 POUNDS in 5 DAYS!!!
Morning of Day 8: 184.4 Down 7 Pounds in 7 days!!
Morning of Day 9: 183.4 Down 8.6 pounds in 8 days!!
Morning of Day 10: 183.2Down 8.8 in 9 Days!!
Morning of Day 11: Still 183.2
Morning of Day 15 (2 full weeks done!): 179.8 Down 12.2 pounds!!
Morning of Day 21: 178.8 Down 13.2 pounds!
20 days done, 20 more to go!!
13 pounds down, 24 more to go!!
