Well, it seems like it’s been more than 5 weeks since our family started on the path to healthy eating. But it hasn’t. Overall, everyone is doing wonderfully with the diet changes, even the kids. Although, they have lamented the fact that we don’t buy pepperoni pizza anymore. Pepperoni has nitrates (which have been known to cause cancer) in it which we are trying to avoid. They do realize that we are making changes in our diet in order to be healthy, and their attitude along the way has been positive overall.
Time for the update! This week I weighed in at 219.5 lbs. That means I lost one pound since last week, and I’m still well on my way to losing 50 lbs. this year. I was just telling my mom last night that I’ve lost 9 pounds so far, and this is the first time in ages that I’ve tried to lose weight and actually lost weight consistently every week since I started. It’s normally a roller coaster of going down a pound and then up a pound and then back down in order to finally keep that pound off.
I think at 219.5 lbs., I’m almost at the lowest weight that I’ve been at since giving birth to our fourth child, who is almost 2 years old in a couple of weeks. I think my actual lowest weight since having David is 218.5 lbs. We’ll see if I can get there for next week’s update!
I a finally noticing a change the the way my clothes fit….just a little bit better, and my face looks a little less round. I feel great overall, and I haven’t been starving myself in any way shape or form. I’ve been cooking (or should I say “cooking” because you really don’t cook when you make things raw…there’s a lot of food processor, blender, and dehydrating action going on instead) quite a bit this past week trying new recipes, and when I’m in the kitchen cooking, I’m eating. A lot.
Most of the raw foods recipes that I’ve tried have been delicious, but there are a couple that I know I won’t be making again. They’re the ones that just turned out okay, and I had to eat mostly by myself.
I’m hoping to share a few recipes with you this week that turned out deliciously!
Oh, and one last thing. I haven’t been able to kick the homemade frappe habit. I confessed to my mom that I had a frappe everyday last week, but only because I reasoned with myself that they’re really not that bad. I’ve “healthified” them. Okay….there’s coffee grounds, water (1/2 cup), lots of ice (nothing bad there…), almond milk (1/4 cup and in place of regular or even Organic milk), a little vanilla extract and about 2.5 tablespoons of raw sugar. See…not that bad. Right? I call these my vanilla frappes. 😉
keep up the great work! can’t wait to hear the recipes!