3athletejen

Yeah, you read that right. When I fall off the wagon, I fall hard and on the way down I eat nitrate-filled meats and over-frosted cake. Damn you, co-worker, for getting pregnant and having a baby shower will all sorts of delicious, processed food. If there is any good to be taken from this situation, my system was "detoxified" enough after nine days of clean eating for my  binge-o-rama to have quite an effect. The afternoon was spent slumped over, moaning and hoping no one came into my office. Of course, I can't precisely pinpoint which food caused this because there were so many. (Did I not mention the punch, sour cream dip or cream cheese mints? Oops.) The sad thing was, I didn't even care. Here's why. On Monday morning, after seven days of eating like a freaking rabbit, I stepped on the scale. This was going to be fantastic. Every night I'd gone to bed with my stomach feeling like it was eating itself, but the pay-off was going to be worth it. As the nu...

Yes, I'm still doing the cleanse, detoxifying, eating so clean it hurts thing. While I was far from perfect, I did better than anticipated. Grade for week one - B+. Some of the recipes were good, others I didn't make. By the end of the week, it was pretty much roasted vegetables for dinner. Husband had some pasta and I did steal a bite. It was so good. I also took a bite of his roast beef sandwich this weekend. Since I made the sandwich, I consider it a toll. On the good side, I haven't had sugar, processed foods or booze. With the exception of the sandwich bite, no meat or dairy either. Things learned: 1. When all you eat is vegetables, fruit, nuts and lentils, you will go to bed hungry. 2.  Spoonfuls of organic almond butter are a fine substitute when you can't have sugar. 3. The program says you'll feel bloaty and icky the first week. The program is right. 4. I'm not "springing out of bed" in the morning yet. (Does anyone with a baby s...

Started out the day with forty minutes of yoga, green tea and cleaning up a poop explosion courtesy of the Bean. (How can so much come out of something so little?) If interested, the plan I'm following can be found http://www.wholeliving.com/216880/2013-whole-living-action-plan along with the recipes. Some things have been modified since I won't eat foods I don't like. (Beets, I'm looking at you.) I'll also rate the recipes I try using one through five, five being excellent. 8am: Blueberry-Mint Smoothie (4.5, surprisingly good, but used less avocado than it called for) 9am: Celery with almond butter 10:30am: Apple, Excedrin (this is not part of the plan, but I don't care so much about cutting caffeine) 11am: Trail Mix (3.5, it's good but would require something with chocolate to earn a 5. Old habits die hard, I guess.) 2:30pm: Lentil soup, salad with vinegar and olive oil, orange 3pm: Now is when I usually get an afternoon snack of the sugar vari...

This will be brief, but I'm hoping for some accountability. Tomorrow I begin a 21-day cleanse. This pains me as I've always thought the whole cleanse-detoxify-colonic thing was total bunk. (I still think colonics are whack.) However, last week my sugar addiction reached a new low as I found myself eating spoonfuls of frozen buttercream frosting multiple times a day. So after an intensive weekend of yoga teacher training, tomorrow seems like as good a day as any to start this experiment. Week one is vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds and lentils. I anticipate being mean as a snake. Husband best plan a work trip.

My blog post mini-hiatus is not due to lack of material. It's also not due to the new mom fallback reason of I just don't have time. (I have time to look at houses on the Reece & Nichols web site, so I have time to blog.) The real reason is, I get halfway through an entry and don't have a tidy way to wrap it up so it gets scrapped. Previous unfinished posts have been about yoga teacher training (awesome), my parents selling the house I grew up in (not awesome) and turning 40 (awesome and not awesome simultaneously?) Today's post, because I'm lazy, is yet another list of parenthood insights I have gained from the Bean. 1. Always go to the bathroom before you leave work to pick your kid up from daycare. This will be your last opportunity until your spouse gets home or the baby goes to bed, whichever comes first. 2. The baby will always have the biggest poop ever within an hour after a bath. 3. The should give out a Ph.D. in baby toenail trimming. 4. Yo...