The Sensible Mom

The partial juice fast is over, and I’m glad I did it. I had juice six days this week (including today – Saturday), and that’s a big accomplishment.

I’m feeling good other than being sick, and I’m looking forward to incorporating exercise into my daily routine. I might as well, since the treadmill is almost finally clear of all the boxes that were stacked on it. 😉

I’m hoping to unpack the final, huge, and overly-full box on Sunday. It’s the one with a bunch of random stuff in it that I don’t know where to put yet.

Anyway, here is what I ate on Friday: 

Breakfast: This is not the norm, but I ended up skipping breakfast. 🙁 After I woke up on Friday morning, I got busy with cleaning, getting the kids breakfast, and helping them with school. Before I knew it, it was nearly lunchtime, and I hadn’t eaten…or showered.

Snack: It gets worse. After skipping breakfast and getting a shower in, I shared a fun-size twix candy bar with my baby girl as my first piece of food of the day. Bad, I know.

Lunch: coffee, hamburger, tater tots, corn, and broccoli

For some reason, the hamburger didn’t sit well with me. I had that “hard to breath” feeling that I get sometimes when I eat chinese takeout. No one else complained, but when my husband had leftovers later that night, he told me he was having that same feeling. Weird, but we ended up getting rid of the rest of the leftovers. I think I read somewhere or watched something that made me think we are probably having an allergic reaction to the hamburger.

Anyway, moving right along.

Lunch Dessert: plain cupcake without frosting

Snack: juice (apples and lemon) — I love this juice! I could drink it everyday. It tastes like lemonade.

Dinner: We had a highly unstructured dinner, which isn’t normal. But I ate asparagus (which was mushy, because it overcooked while I chatted with my mom :)), greek yogurt, tortillas chips with a cheese dip that my mom brought over, and coffee

Snack: tea and popcorn

I’ll post my total weight lost this past week on Monday, and I promise to post my “before” pictures as soon as I can. For now, it’s back to my to-do list…

How was your week? Did you enjoy reading these posts? I’m thinking of sharing more juice recipes here on the blog and possibly doing a partial juice fast with updates like this maybe once a month.

I know it’s almost over, but “Happy Valentine’s Day!”

We had a great day aside from most of us being sick again. I need to get to the store and pick up some homeopathic medicines, which we are mostly out of. I know we have some homeopathic cough medicine somewhere in a box, but I haven’t come across it. Each day we’re unpacking a little more, and we’re surprised and thrilled when we find things we’ve been missing. 🙂

Anyway, here’s what my meals looked like today:

Breakfast: waffles and hash browns

Snack: coffee, juice (carrot, apple, pear), crackers — Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I do drink coffee and juice at the same time. It’s not uncommon for me to have both juice and coffee at the table during a mealtime. 😉

Lunch: potato leek soup, toasted bread n’ butter, and  juice (carrot, apple, pear)

Snack: popcorn, coffee, and a few chips

Dinner: potato leek soup (It was so good, we had it for lunch AND dinner. 🙂 There isn’t any left.)

Dessert: cupcake (My daughter made these from scratch with help from her little brother, and they turned out to be delicious. I had to show some restraint, because I could have totally eaten more than one.)

Late Night Snack: tea (while I occasionally have my husband add rice milk to my tea – since he is the one that usually makes it for me – I normally have it with nothing in it…plain with no sugar or sweeteners)

What did you eat today?