Yay Friday!!

8:00am - TEA. superfruit unity green tea to start this day.

9:00am - shake time! Breakfast of champions. I actually missed having my shake yesterday. Today we mixed with almond milk (8oz), and a couple ice cubes in the shaker cup. easy peasy, people are coming to look at the house today, and i don't want to deal with the blender. I've had enough fun dealing with trash / recycling / dishes this morning. Not to mention makeup and "real" clothes!! *shock and horror*

12:00pm - made a yoga margarita. YUM. 1 liter water, juice from 1 lime, 1 tsp salt. I used kosher salt from Penzey's.

1:00pm - i'm a bad human today. I regret it already. potstickers for lunch. my guts are already bubbling and growling lol. girls night tonight ... with baked ziti.

Posting Sunday - rebuilding Friday. I'm pretty sure I had an apple + cheese for an afternoon snack.  Dinner ended up being snacky-foods: prosciutto, manchego, crackers, mozzarella, and CHIPOTLE PESTO.  holy freaking I can't even describe how delicious it is. HEB carries it, kinda by the deli counter / cheeses depending on the store.

I did have about a liter of water while snacking at Megan's tonight, one small consolation prize.

Thursday

9:20am - breakfast today is an apple with a couple oz of cheese, and some goji berry white tea. I needed a bit of a change this morning, which means I need to have a shake mixed with water for a later snack today.

11:30am - snack - laughing cow "sundried tomato and mozzarella" cheese wedge with 1/2 serving of wheat thins

2:20pm - 6oz chicken breast with a little bit of guac

5:00pm - slice of processed cheeselike product. i was weak *hangs head in shame*

6:32pm - need a real snack. I'm pretty sure i'm a little behind on the day. may finish the other half serving of wheat thins and another wedge of cheese. that is not a terrible caloric value snack, surprisingly.

7:00pm - rioja. man, i need this. so delicious.

8:00pm - dinner - 4oz chicken, marinated & baked. half a bag of Bird's Eye brussels sprouts. however the hell they are spelled. jason had a couple more than me, but it was roughly half.

9:30pm - red table wine. yum. and water. i'm done for the night, save the rest of this glass, and water.

Wednesday

Dark skies made it challenging to get out of bed this morning.

7:23am - made coffee. Bad, I know. I DID cut back on the cream that went into my coffee.

8:55am - holy shitsnacks, I forgot I need breakfast. Threw together a shake in the blender with 1 C almond milk, 1 scoop Shakeology, and half a banana.  YUM!

10:52am - officially creating the daily blog post. I'm behind on my water consumption. Coffee and shake have been my morning liquids.

12:13pm - need a teeny snack, have to get test scripts reviewed before I feel OK with a lunch break :( - 2 cheese cubes.

3:04pm - back to back meetings along with doc review have kept me from lunch. and now i'm waiting on GD realtors. who were going to be here at 3pm. and another set at 3:45. Guess i'll shake up a shake for lunch. salad with albacore tuna sounded so good though :(

5:30pm - apple with a couple oz of cheese for snack. water.

10:00pm - holy crap I didn't have dinner!! small bowl of "phase 1 stew" for dinner, then water and stayed up till about 11:30 to ensure better digestion than going straight to bed.

Tuesday

Today began with a bang. I had a 9am dr appointment, so I thought I'd go simple and just shake my breakfast up with some water and a couple ice cubes. Shaker cup was in the actively-running dishwasher. Dammit. Really didn't want to get out the blender and make more shake than I needed (plan b). Plan C was scrambled eggs. All forks, in the dishwasher. Cool no problem, I've got plastic.

Cracked my eggs and scrambled them up with some Fox Point seasoning, then diced a little bit of ham and put it in the little skillet. Added some feta when the eggs were almost done, and voila! Delicious.

That was at 8:00am.

It is now 11:30 and I am still paying for the feta, lol. I love feta more than it loves me. It loves me better if I've been eating it somewhat regularly. C'est la vie.

Got through dr appointment and back to the house in time for snack!! I had a hardboiled egg, because it sounded like a good idea. That was about 10:45am. I'm hungry already :(

I liked this schedule so much better when my food was planned out for me!!

Oh. One more thing. I've gained 18lbs since 8/2010. That's gotta go. End of story.

11:49am - energy is waning.

12:30pm - lunch! blended up 8oz almond milk + 1 scoop shakeology + half a banana to the tune of about 280cal (estimating 50cal for the half-banana)

12:40pm - shake has an extra vitamin-y aftertaste today. blech.

1:36pm - so full.

3:15pm - starting to consider a snack, maybe in the next 45min or so.

3:35pm - sliced Fuji apple, with a little bit of aged cheddar to compliment the flavors

8:50pm - hard boiled egg. Dinner / soup is on the stove. Small bowl of that, and I should be done for the night.

10:00pm - small bowl of "Phase 1 Stew" and I'm done for the night! It was delicious :)

See, what happened was ...

We had fajitas last night.

Lots.

Of delicious wonderful fajitas.

and rice :(

8:37am - I am absolutely starving this morning. Time for a shake! And I believe I'm going to go with coffee as a base this morning, to make a mocha :) I hope this turns out as well as I think it will LOL

10:45am - snack time! Half an avocado, and half a tomato. Why? because i'm out of apples and my bananas are frozen LOL Poor planning on my part. They were tasty fruits though :)

12:00pm - I'm delaying lunch till at least 12:30... hopefully. My tummy thinks it is hungry. I am trying to convince it otherwise. Holy crap, i'm behind on water intake!!! Chug chug chug ...

1:04pm - chicken fajita meat in a soft taco for lunch. Which begs the question ... at what point do fajita and soft taco cross?  And are soft tacos really just small burritos?

6:04pm - crap! I completely spaced out on afternoon snack!! I'll throw some yogurt at my belly, then have dinner around 730 or 8. (and by "throw some yogurt at my belly" I mean "eat some yogurt")

7:12pm - yogurt isn't sticking around very well.

7:30pm - lunch meal all over again!

First real-world Sunday

Been awake about an hour, decided to shake up some Shakeology with almond milk this morning for breakfast, alongside my coffee. Now I just have to drink it lol.

It'll be an interesting day - we are going for a mountainbike ride around 1, so I need to have breakfast now, a bit of a snack around 1130, then I will carb-up for the ride at 1.

Oh - and I hate the scale. this morning it said i basically gained 5lbs yesterday. I know I didn't eat that much food! GRR!

3/28 oooooooops totally forgot to come back here for updates!!

Rebuilding Sunday -
12:00pm had a brisket sammich to pre-carb for the ride

1:05pm had a bottle of HEED, which is a simple carb mixture to give my body something to burn going into the ride

1:30pm - HIT THE TRAILS. Ride ended up being about 6.5 miles, in about 1hr 45min. Lots of cardio rest breaks, because I'm apparently out of shake LOL

3:45pm - meximart from Chuys. Crack sauce + chips. half order of steak fajitas. the crack sauce and chips were my downfall.

~8pm - chicken fajitas for dinner! pre-marinated cilantro lime chicken, grilled in the back yard. Fixins included sour cream, guac, rice, and shredded cheese

I might've also had a beer or 2.

I was bad on Sunday.

First real-world Saturday

Woke up around 8:30 today. Scale showed that I'm down almost 7lbs from Monday, woohoo!

9:45am - Breakfast was a chopped brisket/potato/egg taco from Rudy's - we were out running errands.

12:00pm - snack/lunch was the other brisket/potato/egg taco

I was absolutely stuffed, so I didn't eat around 2.

3:30pm rolled around, time for more food! had not quite half of my chinese food leftovers (about 1/3 of the original dish)

6:00pm - time for a snack! Had the hungries. I peeled a hardboiled egg and called it snack :)  dinner should be ready around 7-730.

Doing pretty alright on water, i'm a little behind my consumption during the cleanse, but i'm doing pretty alright. I have discovered that I don't really care a lot for the water-enhancer that I was using, it is raspberry lemonade flavor. that's the first time i've actually dumped a liter of water out. I just really had no desire for the taste!  I made up some raspberry lemon mate' iced tea instead, YUM.

"The Real World" - day 1

I'm having coffee, dammit.

3 solid days without caffeine was plenty. I staved off a caffeine headache yesterday/last night.

breakfast at 8:30am, shakeology with almond milk, almond butter, fresh banana, and a little ice to cool it down. DELICIOUS.

Oh, and I totally put cream in my coffee.

just a little bit.

PS - It may be the banana ... but I love the slightly-gelatinous texture that my shake has this morning. It's doing its own shake-shake!!

/i'm really not delirious, i promise

PPS - NO MORE banana in shake. HOLY CROW I AM FULL. Ridiculously full. Like, I should've stopped halfway through and had the rest for my midmorning snack.

10:55am - I am having a couple bites of cheese for my mid-morning snack, since I essentially already had those calories.

1:42pm - need to eat lunch. it is past time.

2:30pm - finally ate lunch. mean cuisine, 300cal. will have some tea in about an hour or so.

4:05pm - brewing up some mate vana iced tea. Did you know .... matevana tea has a bit of a natural appetite suppressant?

6:00pm - need a snack! couple hrs behind. having a FEW carrots with boursin. I'm weak, i know. but carrots make me eat the boursin slower than if I was using wheat thins!

dinner was around 8:30pm - jason wanted chinese, so we got delivery. I ate about a quarter to a third of what they brought for me (shrimp + cashews + veggies in brown sauce, and some fried rice). I didn't feel "full" at the end of the meal, but I didn't eat anymore. after about 20 minutes, all the rice expanded and i was STUFFED.

Day 3 schedule

I suppose it is time to get started!

8:56am - green tea #1. shake is made, ready for consumption. probably in about 30min.

9:30am - shake #1, breakfast!

11:35am - snack #1, apple - SO SWEET. after being off so many processed foods for the last 2 days, this apple tastes like it is coated in sugar!

oh - and I had a scale-check around 11am, which showed that I'm down 4lbs. this week.

2:30pm - shake #2, lunch

4:00pm - green tea #2

5:20pm - snack #2, banana

7:00pm - dinner: salad with a little bit of diced ham, sauteed onions, black beans, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, avocado, a little bit of parmesan, and a bit of basil lime dressing. i'm going to be burping onions all night.

Since I didn't finish my salad last night, I made tonight's a bit smaller. I finished it all, and still felt like I might be hungry .... but after sitting for a few minutes, I don't believe that I am. I'm off to have more water, and perhaps some cranberry juice with a touch of vodka and lime.

Start of Day 3

I couldn't finish my salad last night. It was so delicious and tasty, I just couldn't do it.

My stomach doesn't feel as ... awkward? as it did yesterday, I take that for a good sign. I've already started on my water for the day, which is a habit I intend to keep even past today - the LAST day of the cleanse / kickstart. What's even better, I still have plenty of salad fixins, so I can continue to have tasty and delicious salads! At least for a couple days, haha.

I'll create a separate post for my schedule today. I'm not sure what, if anything, I will do with the schedule data, but it does help me to remember to consume everything I am supposed to consume, and helps me to figure out "just another 45min!" if it's getting near hungry-time according to my body. Yesterday WAS easier than Tuesday. To hear Gretchen, today is the worst, especially in the afternoon. She thinks I will be cursing her. I don't really see it lol.

LOVE YOU GMONEY!!!

Day 2 schedule

I've decided that creating ONE blog entry and updating it throughout the day is easier than writing my times and consumptions down on a piece of paper, with any hopes of keeping it handy. Here we go again!!

8:13am - green tea #1

9:23am - shake #1 (breakfast)

11:33am - half a banana (snack #1) - I am "allowed" to have the whole banana, but want to try half and see how that does for me. I haven't had as many "OMG WHY AREN'T YOU EATING" moments as yesterday, so far.

12:28pm - other half of banana (i'm still counting this as snack #1)

1:50pm - time for shake #2 (lunch)

3:40pm - time to make tea #2!
and holy smokes - I'd gotten behind on my water intake, but now i'm starting liter #3... wheeeeee!

5:40pm - shake #3 (snack #2) almost snuck past me!! Dinner will be a little later now, but that's alright!

7:45pm - dinner! salad with tomatoes, cauliflower, avocado, and 2 small artichoke heart halves.

nom freaking nom. i'm so full.

MORE WATER.

Beginning of Day 2

Well ... I did survive day 1. Pretty alright, if I may say so. I am at the start of day 2, which is green tea for pre-breakfast. My stomach feels a little ..... odd this morning. Not hungry, not angry, not indigestion, just odd. Hmm. Likely because it's had a full 180-degree shift on food intake between Monday (last day of vacation including onion rings, and amazing fettucine alfredo with broccoli for dinner) and Tuesday (shakes, green tea, and salad). This may come back to haunt me today. Not sure yet. As I go make my tea, know that there is more to come.

End of day 1

It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Then again, I didn't really pay attention to what I was getting myself into till about ..... 3pm yesterday. Maybe it's better that way?

I had all my tea, shakes, snacks ... then a salad for dinner. 4oz baked chicken on spring lettuce mix, roma tomato, half avocado, and maybe a quarter cup of black beans. Some vinaigrette to top it. I was probably a little heavy on the dressing, will measure tomorrow.

And can I tell you what?!? OMG CHEWABLE FOOD.

I'm so ridiculously full now.

I've consumed 3L of water today, and just filled my bottle for a 4th. We shall see how far I go with it.

Day 1, thus far

Let's see if I can recall my schedule:

8:15am - green tea

9:00am - shake #1 (breakfast)

10:40am - apple (snack #1)

1:50pm - shake #2 (lunch)

remaining: another green tea, shake #3 as snack before or after dinner, dinner of salad with chicken or fish

oh and more water. I'm already 2L in.

woo!!

the desire to snack is strong. water does not fake me out as much as I'd like it to.

Edited to add:
3:54pm - green tea #2, and the start of 3rd liter of water

5:30pm - shake #3 (snack #2)

dinner still to come!!

Well, good then.

I suck pretty well at this whole blogging-regularly thing. As if you couldn't tell.

So, over the last 3 weeks, I've been very good about having Shakeology for breakfast, a reasonable lunch, fruit and cheese snacks, and dinner hasn't been terrible.

Until this past weekend.

Now let me add a caveat that I knew going into it that I was going to be "bad". See, it's the annual mother-daughter St Patrick's Day vacation. In Arkansas. Home of fried-everything. Some meals were better than others .... and then there's the beer.

My amazing friend Gretchen offered to do a three-day Shakeology cleanse with me if I was interested, and we decided to start today - the day I return to the land of sensible eating. My diet through Thursday consists of green tea, Shakeology mixed with water, fruit optional as a snack, and salad with fish/chicken. Oh and water. LOTS of water.

I used to be really good about drinking all my water each day, to the tune of about 3L. Granted, it is much easier to do when you're in a home-office environment, because the water is *rightthere*, and the bathroom isn't a 17 mile hike. So, back to the water we go!

Now the bad news .... I have a second major-project at work, through the next 3 weeks, which requires me to do a ridiculous amount of overtime. Translation, unless I get my ass out of bed at like 6am or earlier, there is no time for physical activities during the week. And let's face it, I'm not exactly a morning person. I'm just starting the hell-weeks today, and will be playing around with my scheduling so I don't get completely burned out and make a permanent butt-print in my office chair.

More to come, friends.