Thursday:

Day three of my back sucking :(  My husband is still rubbing my back down every morning and evening, and that helps a lot. Today was light, I had a collard green smoothie for breakfast:

No lunch, no dinner, but I did have cashew milk, my new favorite. Not very sweet but very smooth. Very milky!

I drank a lot of water today, maybe because I feel like I'm starting to recover. I didn't have to take nearly as much meds today, which is very good!

2,500 points for my house today!

Wednesday:

Monday morning smoothie was supposed to have pears but mine still aren't ripe, so I made some substitutions. If I remember correctly (and my back was still screwed so I was pretty doped up) it had banana, blueberries, apples, collard greens, and almonds.

Looks gross but tasted good. Blue and green make grey :)

Lunch was bok choy salad

Too full for my afternoon snack, so I went straight to dinner, Chard Green Lemonade

Before

After. Very tasty!

My back was still in spasm, my husband rubbed it again. No exercise, still bed bound. This sucks!

1,200 points for my house.

Tuesday:

Sorry this blog is behind, but my back literally spazed out on me! I woke up with a pinched nerve on the back of my neck that swelled up to the size of a golf ball. My upper back began to go into spasm and by the end of the day my entire back was in spasm and I was loaded with medication.

I was scheduled to eat/drink Lemon Water, Green Smoothie, Big Salad, Nut or Seed Milk, and a Green Lemonade. That is the diet for the entire two weeks. I didn't even come close.

I had my 24 oz lemon water, and made my smoothie. I had to make some substitutions based on what was ripe. So. My smoothie had banana, papaya, orange, Apple, some spinach, avocado, and almonds. I added some dates for sweetness.

Before

After. It tasted much better than it looks :)

Lunch was baby greens and a sunflower seed dressing that was just amazing!

That was all I could manage. My loving husband rubbed my back down with a special muscle relaxant oil and helped me with my meals. What would I do without him?!

Points for my House, 1,200.

Monday:

Day one of the Raw Rumpus! Starting weight: 170

Before pic:

I'm eating even more now! You eat/drink five times a day on this diet. I was so full today I couldn't eat dinner!

Pre-breakfast 24 oz water with juice of half a lemon

Breakfast was a Creamy Coconut Green Smoothie. It was so rich and thick it took me over an hour to drink it!

Lunch was a Kale Salad, very good and filling.

Those are raw pumpkin seeds in there! Soooooo good.

Afternoon snack, which I drank after my hand cycle ride was a Sesame Seed Milk. It was supposed to have a pinch of cinnamon, but I opened the wrong side and kinda dumped it in there. So it was a Cinnamon Milk! It was still good, and my first sesame seed milk. I like!

Dinner was supposed to be Kale Green Lemonade, but as I said, I was too full!

I also rode 30 mins on my hand cycle, and did 15 mins on the WII.

We also get points for drinking water, I drank four glasses. 

All together I racked up 3,250 points for my House. Not bad considering I missed a meal. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have 500 more points!

Sunday:

I was out of food, so I kinda had to improvise. Breakfast was OJ/Grapefruit juice.

Lunch was a piece of durian, yumminess!

Dinner was the rest of my oranges juiced and blended with the last piece of durian. I decided to try Jinjee's recipe, I've never tried the OJ/durian smoothie before. I was worried it would spoil the taste of the durian, but it was delicious! I think I juiced four oranges and used one piece of durian. Awesome!

No exercise, very bad back day :(

Monday I start Raw Rumpus, a weight loss program. Hopefully it will get me back on track as I've managed to gain two pounds!

Saturday:

Breakfast was supposed to be Mandarin orange juice, but I can never get juicy ones, so I made OJ and grapefruit juice. Yummy!

Lunch was Watercress Treat with watercress, tomato, avocado, and lemon juice. Always good, and this time the watercress was super fresh and not bitter at all.

Looks good huh? I finished every bite!

Dinner was supposed to be a salad of pineapple, carrot, and cabbage. But the pineapple was so ripe and sweet that I just had the whole thing! Storm calls it mono-eating and says if out body craves it, go for it! In fact it's easier on your digestive system to only have to digest one food. My body sure lived it!

No exercise today, we went to the movies and saw Project Almanac. Good script, good acting, but the whole thing was filmed with the shaky hand camera and gave me a headache!

Good day today, low pain and my stomach doesn't hate me anymore!

Friday:

We all make mistakes. The day started off great.

Breakfast was four oranges and four grapefruits, juiced.

Lunch was Almond Milk, my fav!

So far so good, right? I exercised today, 30 mins on the hand cycle and I set a new record, four miles! Yay! It may not seem that far, but believe me, it's a long way to push yourself with your arms. I also did 15 mins on the weights.

Here's where I fell apart. I'm starting a new raw diet Monday (same website as the 21 day cleanse and the 28 day program) but this one is called Raw Rumpus and is designed for weight loss. Since the scale has not moved from 168 in past two weeks I'm a little frustrated. In my moment of weaknesses I gave in and had a cooked meal. With cheese. And fries. I spent the next hour and a half bent over a barf bucket. Talk about negative reinforcement!

I told my husband and roommate to make sure I didn't fall off the wagon again until I reach my goal weight. And I won't be eating cheese or fries again! Barf!! Jinjee says not to beat myself up, no worries, my stomach did it for me!!!