Monday-Wednesday:

Today is the first day I'm not on any specific program, just raw on my own. My phone has been giving me trouble and I lost most of the photos.

Monday:

Breakfast was two grapefruits, I have an old pic:

Wasn't hungry for lunch, but I made a nut milk. Don't remember which, but it was good.

Tuesday:

Breakfast was a big honey crisp apple and a tablespoon of raw almond butter. No lunch because I was going out with my girlfriends for dinner and a movie. If you're thinking of seeing Fifty Shades of Gray don't bother. We actually walked out of it (I rolled out, ha ha) and got free tickets for another movie. Everyone who works at the theater said it was awful, but they aren't allowed to say anything.

We had dinner at The Lazy Dog, a mid-range restaurant. I told the waiter I was a raw vegan and asked him to see if the chef f could make me a salad with ALL the veggies they had on a bed of baby greens. I brought my own tahini based dressing. What came out made my friends a little jealous :) I got avocado, tomato, corn, sun-dried tomatoes, kalamata olives, and carrot n a huge bed of spring greens. It was huge! Turns out I'm not the first raw vegan they've had, there is a regular that they make meals for all the time!

Wednesday: I have pics!

Breakfast was Ambrosia! Macadamia nuts, dates, strawberries, young coconut, honey and water. Yumminess!

Lunch was leftover salad from The Lazy Dog:

Dinner was Green Lemonade, apples, lemon, ginger, bok choy, cucumbers, and celery. Very tasty!

For the first time, I was still a little hungry, and craving something sweet. So I made chocolate truffles out of raw almond butter, raw honey, and raw cacao powder. I rolled it into balls, and rolled the balls in more cacao powder. I'm in love!

Sunday:  Ending weight from the Weight Loss Rumpus 160! That's 10 pounds in two weeks! I'm so pleased with the results, and I was never hungry. So I'm gonna stay on it for another week. I may include a few recipes from the 21 and 28 day diets for some variety.

As far as appetite goes, drinking less water hasn't worked so far. I still have no appetite. I guess I'll just eat what I can and try not to worry too much. Pain level has been kinda high in the morning, but once I'm up and around, it goes down.

Breakfast:

I'm out of almost everything, so breakfast was four cups of fresh juiced apples. Yum!

Lunch was a salad, kale with a dressing with lemon juice, olive oil, and tahini. I sprinkled some pumpkin seeds on top. It was delicious.

 The afternoon snack of nut milk made me crave the Ambrosia. It's the first time I've felt hungry or craved anything in days so I went for it. It's nut based so it wasn't far from what I'd be eating anyway. Macadamia nuts, strawberries, young coconut water and meat, and honey.

It was so filling it was my dinner as well.

1,900 points for my house.

It rained today, really hard, so I spent the day curled up with my husband watching Supernatural reruns on Netflix. Great day!

Saturday:

Well, still not hungry but it's only been a day with reduced water consumption, so I'll give it time.

Breakfast:

I made a smoothie with all my leftover fruit and greens. Blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, almonds, and spinach with dates to sweeten it:

Not hungry for lunch or my snack, but I made dinner to go. We went to a friend's birthday party, so I juiced dinner and brought it with me. Sorry, no pic. It had apples, celery, lemon, cucumbers and kale. It filled two 32 oz bottles. Unfortunately one of them had the cap partially open and nearly the whole bottle spilled into my backpack! Crap!

1,500 points for my house.

On the upside I saw a lot of people who hadn't seen me in months. Their jaws were on the floor! They all said they couldn't believe how good I looked, and not just the weight loss. They said my face looked brighter, happier. They saw me on my crutches (most had never seen me out of my wheelchair) and couldn't believe how well I was moving around. I told them all about my diet and two wanted to sign up! I showed them Jinjee's article about me (for those who haven't read it you can find it at   http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=3962 ). They were very surprised at my weight loss and the affect of the diet on my pain. One of them is going to recommend the diet to a friend with M.S.

I can't wait to see friends at the Renaissance Faire in April who haven't seen me in a year when I weighed 190! I hope to be down to 150 by then, but I'm shooting for 145. 130 is my goal weight.

Friday,

Still not hungry. I juiced all my leftover grapefruits for breakfast:

Lunch was another big salad, kale with my favorite dressing with a twist. Usually it's just hemp seeds and nutritional yeast, but I added lemon juice and apple cider vinegar to make it less powdery and more dressing like:

Exercise was 45 mins on the hand cycle and a new record of 5.31 miles! Yay! It felt great, I can feel my arms getting stronger. I'm really building up arm muscle and no longer have those old lady "jiggle" arms :)

2,000 points for my house.

Still no appetite, don't know why, my pain level is still low. Weird. I'm going to start drinking less water, maybe I'm not hungry because my stomach is still always full of water. My minimum is 90 oz a day, usually more. So as of today I'm setting a cap of 64 oz. And I'll see if that works. Contrary to popular opinion, eating so little is a bad thing. Your body freaks out, thinks you're starving, and holds onto fat. So I gotta get eating so I can lose as much weight as possible.

Thursday:

Not very hungry today. I woke up late so I skipped breakfast and went straight to Lunch: Mixed greens salad with tomato, avocado, and pumpkin seeds with a lemon, olive oil and fresh herb dressing.

Dinner was Almond milk:

Exercise was 15 mins on the WII. My arms were sore from yesterday.

1,700 points for my house.

Pain level is still low, so I'm not sure when my appetite is, kinda weird. I'm just not hungry.

Wednesday:

Back to my old self! Man that ride yesterday felt good. Just getting out of the house and moving around did wonders for my back and my morale!

Pre-breakfast water and lemon 300 points.

Breakfast smoothie was two big honey crisp apples, raspberries, OJ, almonds, and kale. I totally made it up and liked it. The OJ (I juiced five oranges) really sweetened it. 500 points.

Snack was cashew milk. I think this is my favorite. It's so smooth, and very little flavor aside from a little sweetness. I added nutmeg and honey and downed it in a flash after my hand cycle ride. Protein and minerals never tasted so good! 500 points.

Dinner was out at a restaurant, I went with my husband to Bike Night, he's in a motorcycle club. I brought along some dressing I made with lemon juice, olive oil, vinegar, rosemary, thyme, and salt. Then I asked the chef to whip up a salad with every raw veggie they had. I got a salad too big for me to finish, and they only charged me $3.50 for a side salad! 500 points.

Exercise: two days in a row, so far so good. I did my regular three laps in 30 mins on my hand cycle. 500 points. Tomorrow perhaps I'll try to get back to 4.08 miles. My goal is 5 miles, after that I want to work on speed and see if I can enter a hand cycle race. Wouldn't that be awesome?!

2,300 points for my House.

Tuesday:

Doing soooooo much better, even woke up early for once!

Obligatory pre-breakfast water with lemon 300 points.

Breakfast was, as always, smoothie: 500 points

Two apples, a peeled orange, an avocado, blueberries, almonds and spinach. Looks good, right?

I won't say what it looks like blended. But it was sweet, rich, and filling. It lasted me all morning and afternoon.

Snack was pumpkin seed milk. Very good and another milk with cinnamon. Yummy! 500 points

I also juiced dinner, finally starting to make all my meals. Juice was apples, lemon, kale and cucumbers. Very refreshing and great to drink after my workout. 500 points.

Exercise: That's right, I'm back on the hand cycle! 30 min and 3.64 miles. I had been averaging 4.08 miles, but after a week off I figured I'd take it easy. I was surprised, my back didn't hurt nearly as much as I thought it would afterwards. I might be back to 4 miles within a week, but no worries, I won't push myself too hard. 500 points.

Total for my house: 2,300 points.