Day 11

Weight: 172.2. Phew! Finally moving forward this weekend. Down 1.4 from yesterday and 8.2 in 10 days. Absolutely amazing. I am 3 pounds away from the best weight I've achieved in all my failed diet attempts of the last 3 years. I have gotten down from 180 to 169 several times, usually with a month of frustrating dieting and then i just give up and gain it back. This is faster and way less frustrating.

As for today, I guess overeating salad has less impact than overeating winter squash. Slept 11 hours last night. Feeling a bit better, but overall am still fighting the urge to spend the day in bed. Instead I will spend it watching football, but need to rally in order to go see my favorite musician tonight. Really looking forward to that. Though when i bought the tickets six months ago - i had imagined a fancy dinner before hand and instead, we will just go straight to the show. I wish i knew if how i feel this weekend is just a blip or what. Tomorrow we have social plans again and it is with the same crew as friday, so i'm past the awkwardness of explaining my eating plan with them.

Breakfast - Usual with a twist
Carrot - celery - apple - lemon - ginger - cucumber - romaine the twist was some cuttings from the cabbage and fennel from last nights dinner. I loved the fennel flavor and plan to experiment more with this.

Another horrible football day. This time our real team and our fantasy teams seriously struggled. What happened Drew Brees?

Exercise - 3 miles
Started walking, ended running a 10 minute mile. Feeling stronger.

Linner - Warm Autumnal Salad
Raw Kale and Microgreens with Roasted Butternut Squash, Fennel, Mushroom, Onion, and Garlic. Loved this. Didn't sit well with the husband.

Then we were off for the early show of my favorite musician. It was totally awesome. Played one of my favorites that I hadn't heard yet. Still trying to hold on to this lovely memory.

Cheat - had a glass of red wine at the show. This is a big cheat, but maybe not the worst as it is fermented grape juice and i am missing those purple antioxidants from my diet as of late.
The big thing is to not let it happen again.

So we were smug about choosing the early show and returning home with plenty of time to get all set up for Monday morning. I set out to make juice and then BAM - plumbing nightmare is back on. I swear our plumbing issue is like Freddy Kruger or some other Halloween villain that just won't die. I begin to wonder if juicing is destroying our plumbing? it is from the 50s. But I do put the bulk of the pulp in the compost. Alas tomorrow I am off on a vacation day as I've worked from home too many times for our house problems and don't want to upset my boss. But this is good because I get to relax instead of trying to work and deal with plumber at same time. I have promised husband I will be a big girl and not get upset and remorseful about our house as my angst is getting to him.

Day 10

Weight: 173.6. No change. Definitely overate. Plus feeling very tired and suffering from having period. (It's actually day 3 of that, but some how i feel worse and had a terrible time sleeping).

Our final stage of the plumbing nightmare is this morning. I didn't manage to make juice before they arrive and have to wait a few hours for breakfast.

Breakfast - Savory Green Juice for two
A bit strange, but good. 2 cloves garlic - half bunch parsley - 2 carrots - 1 persian cucumber - handful of spinach - 6 ribs celery

I decide since i don't want to do anything all day anyway, i will juice fast until sunset again. I totally just watched Halloween Themed tv today and tried to enjoy my lethargy.

Lunch - Faux Blood Punch
Beet - carrot - romaine - cucumber - celery - apple - lemon - ginger
One beet and this juice was a deep red

Sunset Dinner - Salad Duet with Dilled Cabbage
Mache Pomegranate Salad with olive oil, raw cider vinegar, nutritional yeast, pink salt
Celery Fennel with same dressing as above
Shredded Cabbage sauteed with dill, onion and caraway seed.
All three were good, but the pomegranate and the cabbage stood out. Husband ate them all, but then eagerly made himself a vegan sausage. I ended up overeating quite a bit because you can't save salad for the next day and i couldn't help myself with the cabbage. This is day two of eating too much. Need to figure this one out. Also feel like i have been using too much olive oil.

Day 9

Weight: 173.6. Up 0.4 from yesterday. Bummer. Sleeping super solid.

Fast morning.

Bfast - Green Juice
wheatgrass (nearly killed the juicer) - carrots - romaine - celery - cucumber - apple - lemon - ginger

Late morning snack - banana

Exercise - Actually ran 4 miles in 38 minutes with new running buddy yay!

Lunch - leftovers - more "pasta" and some of last nights Mexico inspired roasted veg

Dinner - had to cook at friend's. Was a bit awkward, but so great to see people and do something fun. TJs bag of brussels, bag of duet broccoli/cauliflower, and acorn squash. Some people had some of the green veg I made, but by 10 pm, i had eaten it all. Round two was to deal with the cravings coming from their post dinner snackings. Think i over ate a bit.

Day 8

Weight: 173.2. Down 1.6 from yesterday and 7.2 overall. wow.

No time to write anything down yesterday. It was a good day though.

Bfast - leftover juice
Lunch - leftover roasted veggie "pasta"
Jogged 3 miles
Dinner - Sweet potato, poblano, onion roasted with cumin, smoked paprika and oregano a top bed of baked kale. This was not my best by any means. Needed a lot of oil. Plus my favorite salad.

Day 7

Weight: 174.8. Down 0.8 from yesterday and 5.6 pounds overall. When I hit 169, that will be the lowest weight i've managed since starting grad school in 2008. And I have tried many different diets. The reboot is only 21 days and the others i've managed a month before going completely back to my old ways. Fortunately, the reboot is helping me with the emotional stuff more because it's a fast not a diet, but the thought of going back to normal really worries me.

I slept heavily last night and was completely surprised by the alarm. I am feeling a bit out of sorts given that i cannot use the sink. So i can not clean up or prepare anything. Fortunately, husband had set coffee up before we discovered problem. At least I have been able to connect with work and i really hope i can be effective working from here today.

Breakfast - Red Delicious and coffee
1 bunch beet greens - 2 apples - 2 carrots - 1 cucumber - 1 lemon - 1 knob ginger
This actually features galas, but i called it red delicious for the gorgeous magenta color derived from the beet greens - amazing. I had some of this last night and shared some with husband this morning, so not the full amount presented here.

Here's some info on nutritional yeast, which i have been using as my main seasoning during this reboot. This plumbing situation has taken over my kitchen and made me feel robbed blind.

Lunch - Odwalla Superfood (pastuerized)
Bottle claims 2.5 strawberries, 1/10 banana 1/2 peach, 1/5 apples, 1/5 mango and 1500 mg of spirulina are in it.

It must be the house stress, or perhaps that i can keep to a regular eating schedule today, or perhaps that my period is dead set on arriving shortly, but my desire to cheat today has held steady and is growing rapidly by the hour. I long for a bowl of lentils and a huge glass of red wine. Huge.

It's been an exhausting day. I managed to get all my work done, but i've been pretty morose about this plumbing thing. We are underwater and everything in our house keeps breaking (and neither of us are handy). I get really frustrated because i think our house isn't worth the effort. I know i need to get beyond this as it is a problem that sets me back regularly. Sigh. I get that i am fortunate. I still have the house and i can afford to fix it. i guess it is just not what i want from my life. woe is me.

In my work at home day tradition, i've kept to juice all day though one was small and pasteurized, so I decide in honor of the working plumbing i'll make two juices now so i can be ready for tomorrow and have a snack before dinner. I think I'll drink today's in a wine glass.

Very green lemonade
5 leaves kale - 1 head romaine - 1 cucumber - 5 celery stalks - 5 green cabbage leaves - 2 apples - 2 lemons

Faux vino nobile
2 beets - 6 carrots - 2 apples - knob ginger

I've now had a wine glass of each while writing this and if i could do it over i would add one more lemon and one more apple to the lemonade and more ginnger to the faux vino. both are good though. Hmm. More "wine" for me now :)

Took an epsom salt bath. Husband is out with co-workers tonight. Sitting here wallowing in how i should have refused the plumbing work. I feel pretty robbed. I should have said no and gotten another bid. I need to have more strength to do that.

Going to make baked cauliflower with smoked paprika for dinner and have that salad again.

Day 6

Weight: 175.6. Well it's not dramatic, but I am up from yesterday. Is that too much solid food or is that PMS? I wonder how this whole thing will effect my cycle?

I slept really well last night. My husband is wearing earplugs and I think that is helping us both. He seems a lot perkier too, though he is hard to wake up now.

Breakfast - Green Juice and coffee
3 leaves Kale - Handful of Spinach - 2 Apples - 3 Carrots - 1 Lemon - 4 Celery - Ginger
This made enough juice for two, but I think my husband is on a break from this and I'll drink it all this morning.

Late morning snack - Raw Persimmon
Thanks to co-worker's family tree. OMG this was delicious.

News from the day: I found a news article to justify my continued coffee drinking. I also note how much more fresh water I drink at work compared to home, which, in my mind, really justifies the Britta purchase yesterday. Last night we only drank Pelligrino though, which I am also a big fan of. And my co-worker asked if i would run with her on Friday! Very excited as my last running buddy moved to Shanghai. This will be great for me.

2nd late morning snack - banana

Exercise - 3 mile jog
Great run outside in gorgeous weather with a friend. I am feeling a bit sluggish though most likely as a result of this fast.

Lunch - Autumn Veggie Bake
Butternut squash, brussels sprouts, broccoli - left over from last night, still delish.

After work, walked 20 minutes in sunshine to meet husband at car in an attempt to avoid viadoom traffic. We still had to wait in incredible traffic. Husband had very frustrating day and desired beer. I agreed to stop at store with him and busied myself over-purchasing veggies while he selected a six pack.

Got home, began our combo of chores/cooking. He put away dishes and took out recycle, while i got to work on dinner. Mid-way through I discovered a bit puddle of water on the floor, he went to investigate sink and garbage disposal fell out of it. Absolute horror. We managed to get it cleaned up, but had to microwave dinner in the end. He enjoyed a beer after and i had a small glass of the juice I had made for breakfast tomorrow as my feel better drink. I have to work from home tomorrow to deal with the plumber, but i guess at least i can do mostly juice then. I have to say that the zen state and the juice somewhat helped as I was extremely upset. This is the 5th major issue we have had with our house since July. I am nervous that my boss is grumpy about how much i have had to work at home because of these problems.

Dinner - Roasted Vegetable "Pasta" and Salad
Spaghetti squash - eggplant - red pepper - zucchini - onion - mushroom - usual toppings
Spinach - avocado - green onion - tomato - usual dressing
I am still in my habit of chop up veggies to roast then make juice while they are roasting. This combo was excellent. The nutritional yeast braggs combo brought the spaghetti squash to new heights, i had tried it before with brown butter and sage, but this totally topped that. I could really eat this meal every day. Plus we are seriously loving that salad combo of the avocado/tomato/green onion. So good.

We ate late again re: problems with kitchen and watched two episodes of Luther. I love this show, but had been putting it off in favor of lighter stuff, but the grittiness of this show really matched the mood i was in last night. All in all, i think this reboot and the zen state helps me. This house stuff has put me in hysterics in the past and i think i recovered ok from the mini-coma that occurred when the dishwasher first fell out of the sink. my only concern is that in the end i told husband, please don't leave any beer with me while i am at home tomorrow, and he delightedly indulged in the whole six pack. I feel like i should have been stronger and not encouraged him to do that as it's too much and i feel for his liver now. I better give him some of my juice it has beets and other liver cleansers in it.

Day 5

Weight: 175.4. Same as yesterday. Not sure what to make of that.

I fell asleep fast last night, which was a relief, but man that early alarm was brutal. I did get my 7-8 hours though. I seemed a bit dehydrated this morning. Was very glad i organized most things last night and had the time and impulse to do some dishes this morning.

Breakfast - Green juice from yesterday and a bit of cold coffee.
I don't feel like i had enough coffee and seriously doubt this juice will get me through to lunch. Will probably eat early at the rate i am going.

11 am snack - banana

12:15 light lunch - Autumn Veggie Bake
Leftovers from last night - about 1.5 cups maybe

Exercise - Walk 3 miles
Didn't have it in me to run, but it was gorgeous out!

2 pm big lunch - Italian Veggie Bake
Asparagus, red pepper, mushroom, garlic, zucchini
This was seriously filling.

I felt fine today, but maybe a little too zen for the work. I'm not as quick and spaced a meeting. Fortunately, I was able to catch up and chat with the person I missed. As the day drew to a close though, all I could think about was happy hour and how desperately i wanted to go to it. It was almost a crippling sensation. I don't know if this is just the reality of work and mondays or if it has some other deeper meaning that i need to find a more fulfilling thing for myself or whatever. All i know is that happy hour is what i crave.

I resisted, despite the horrible traffic. We went to Home Depot and dealt with bundle number one of errands. Hit Costco for juicing supplies. Got gas. Went to the library. Unloaded the car. Fixed up the new Britta, did dishes, made juice for tomorrow, made roasted veggies and salad, fixed the coffee, made lunch and then finally settled down with Dancing with the Stars.

We didn't get to eat dinner until 9 with all the stuff we did. Amazingly I am just getting used to not eating much. But I am a little worried that after 3 meals of roasted veggies and perhaps too much olive oil, I'll be up in weight tomorrow. Plus I am PMSing. Sigh. I need to relax about this and not get obsessive. I'm following the rules and I could use the extra fuel after a mostly juice weekend, but I also do not want to mess up all the good work i've done.

Dinner - Autumn Veggie Bake and Salad
Roasted Butternut Squash, Chanterelles, Broccoli, and Brussels Sprouts with the same topping. Arugula, Spinach, Tomato, Green Onion, Avocado, with the same topping as on the bake.

Day 4

Weight: 175.4. 0.2 loss. Not much, but that is probably healthier and maybe that means yesterday's loss is real, since I didn't gain? 5 lbs total loss in 3 days.

I woke up feeling pretty good. No detox symptoms to speak of and my eyes seemed less puffy than usual. Though I have not done much today. Just emails and football. Looks like both my real team and my fantasy team are sucking today.

Last night I felt bad that I hadn't done anything spa like today, so i foam rolled and then lay in shavasana pose with my head in the neck cradle and a cold eye mask on. My husband played the guitar for me as I lay there. It was super relaxing.

Despite my relaxation, I still had a hard time falling asleep. It's like i am too energetic. Once I fell asleep though, I slept super well.

Breakfast - Grapefruit Juice for two and coffee
3 Grapefruits

I've now been awake for 3 hours and that is all i had. My husband has reminded me to have more. It's weird because I haven't event thought about food. Highly unusual as I am normally food obsessed. Off to make some lunch juice.

Lunch - V28 from the reboot
3 Beets, 2 Carrots, 2 ribs Celery, 4 Tomatoes, 1/2 bunch parsley, 1 serrano pepper, 12 radishes
Reboot reports these stats for the juice Calories: 340, Protein: 17 g, Fiber: 2 g. I had half of this and my husband had the other half. It was sweet hot, but decent. I may go back to my usual juice soon as yesterday's mojito juice was a little weird too. My husband thought the lime was bitter.

Well, my fantasy team recovered, but my real team did not. And my husband has a migraine. I am a little perplexed about this. He says he's been fighting it all week, but he has been eating healthier than normal while i do this and i've been sharing my juice with him. I would think he'd be feeling as good as i do. One thought is that he isn't eating enough since I am not cooking for him as i usually do. He has lost 2 pounds in these 3 days. I heated up some bean curry from trader joe's for him while he rested with some Excedrin. The food seemed to do him some good. I tried really hard not to covet it while i was preparing it. I did have an insane hunger for it, while i was standing right over the bowl, but then i gave it to him and turned to the blog and was fine. I may eat solid food a little earlier than usual today. Food and excedrin seem to have improved his condition, but we are clearly going to be very lazy today. Scratch that, he's off to bed with Maxalt.

I honestly am a little nervous about tomorrow, when I leave this little weekend oasis I've been in. I hadn't planned on juicing this much, but I'm into it and just following my bliss here. But tomorrow I will definitely be going back to more solid food. I need to think ahead for that and prepare my lunch tonight. Maybe getting through tomorrow will merit my first reward!

We are planning to go to costco tomorrow and that will be good for my juice coffers. I have used up all the radishes, beets, mint, and cucumbers that i bought yesterday. Plus half the parsley and 2/3s the limes. Going to try to run now.

Exercise - 3 mile jog
Ran fast at times, but then would have to walk because I obviously don't have enough in the tank
to do a serious run right now. Finished with my usual time. The intervals were very effective at making me sweat out the toxins. I am just dripping. Note though the theory of whether sweat actually detoxes you is controversial and it is important to replenish your fluids. Off to shower.

Hmm. Well, I must say between football being a bust today and my husband's migraine, I am starting to feel bored today. This is bad because i start to think the diet is isolating me and I am extroverted. It's 4pm and i've got 6 hours to kill until bedtime and no plans and not even much in the way of chores to do.

My husband decides a solo walk with music is the answer to his headache. I decide to busy myself with preparing for tomorrow and make juice (kale - apple - carrot - celery - romaine - ginger). And three sets of roasted veggies. This is a lazy way to cook, but it's an easy all vegetable meal. My husband texts from walk and offers to bring home more veggies. I am excited thinking he is better, but instead he vomits as soon as he gets home. I wonder if this is flu and not migraine? I tuck him back into bed and feel quite discouraged. Too listless to bother tidying up in the kitchen I decide to drink some of the juice I made for tomorrow in the hopes that it perks me up.

And it worked, plus husband started to feel better. We watched walking dead and all is right in the world again.

Dinner - Autumn Veggie Bake and Salad
Same dinner as yesterday plus arugula, avocado, tomato and green onion. Salad was divine as was veggie bake, however i think i am seriously overcooking my roasted veg.

Accomplishments - lunches packed for tomorrow.

Forgot spa thing. Am sore from run. Will probably have to rest a bit.

Day 3

Weight: 175.6. Wow. That is quite a loss. 3.6 pounds in one day and 4.8 in two days. I immediately begin to doubt the loss can be maintained without continuing to juice for most of my meals.

Honestly, I don't feel that great this morning. i don't know if that is the detox (i had the coated tongue, a big symptom) or the dramatic weight loss or running or the cold that my husband and i have been dealing with. he is not feeling that great this morning either and has been eating normally.

Nonetheless, eating the solid food last night never did make my headache go away and i couldn't sleep well because of it. I finally fell asleep around 2 and slept until 10 or so. I guess I actually did get 8 hours and it is the weekend, so I guess that is actually not too bad. I guess also as i sip my coffee and type this i am starting to feel better (although now that i am detoxing i wonder if i should give that up as well). Keeping track of the journey like this is pretty cathartic. I think i'll go make some juice.

Breakfast - Basic Juice for two
2 carrots, 1 apple, 4 ribs celery, 1 head romaine, 1 lemon, 1 knob ginger

I got upset about something and acted like a real bitch to my husband. And then tried to make it up to him by being really honest about why i behaved badly. This is new and I think really positive. It doesn't make up for my bitchiness, but I feel like we moved forward in some way.

I went to go meet a friend and instead of having food or coffee or anything, we just sat and talked. it was really refreshing. I always thought i couldn't be social if i am trying to be careful about what i am eating. instead we just focused on the conversation. I told her all about what i am doing and we went vegetable shopping together. $20 later i am inspired to try a bunch of juice recipes. So far it's 3:40. I've been up since 10 am and have only had half the above juice for sustenance today, but I am feeling really good. Though my husband just came in here and said "you need to juice right now to keep your energy up today" and i think he's right. Off to juice!

Lunch - Mojito Juice for two
2 apples, 2 limes, 2 cucumbers, 1 head romaine, a few sprigs of mint (one store package)

When I went downstairs to give my husband his juice I discovered he'd started a big project in the basement. We spent the next two hours completely reorganizing the main room down there. It looks awesome! We moved the treadmill to a better spot and I decided to try it out.

Exercise - 3 mile jog
I am getting faster, this might have even qualified as a run. I sweat a ton and had to shower before dinner. Also feeling like juice is energizing me despite slow start this AM.

Dinner - Autumn Veggie Bake for two
I popped 2 sweet potatoes, 2 cups brussels sprouts, 2 cups chanterelle mushrooms, 1 small onion, and 6 cloves garlic in before my run. It maybe cooked too long, i really enjoyed the melty brussels. My husband had his half with a vegan apple sausage and we both had nutritional yeast, braggs, olive oil, pepper, and pink salt.
Bed time tea

Water: 5 cups + 375 ml pelligrino

My friend asked me about protein and I told her what the website says, that vegetables have enough protein to sustain us the 15 days, but i've added nutritional yeast to my list of allowed spices as it has protein and b12 and is better than soy sauce in my mind. I am keeping the spices and oil to a minimum though, but this was still delicious. It tasted thoroughly indulgent after having juice all day.

No spa-like thing today. I spilled my fancy serum sample from the aesthetician and I'm very sad about it. I hadn't decided if i was for sure going to splurge on this for myself yet, and now i guess it's first in line for my reward. Now i have to figure out when i get rewards though, so it's probably good this prompted it.

Accomplishments: dishes, basement, saw friend, bought suet, bought veggies.

Day 2

Weight: 179.2. Down 1.2 pounds in one day. I'm not really sure what to make of that since my weight fluctuates a lot anyway.

Thoughts from last night: I was jealous of my husband getting to eat other types of food, but I also think it is good because when I see it in the house i think, oh i should just eat that or it will go to waste, but then i remember no, he will eat that. So it is good that i am doing this by myself as it is hard to clear out a pantry of temptations before starting anything. Also worth noting, I slept well and he didn't. I doubt this is really related to the differences in our eating yesterday, but maybe it is?

This morning I received an email from the reboot nutritionist saying that 21 days is ok, but I should talk to my doctor. I'm sure that was a CYA move on their part, but I should note that if I start to feel bad, I will follow their guidelines for transitioning back. The worst thing would be to binge on junk food, but if i need to eat some rice or beans on day 16, i think that is ok. I don't really want to talk to the doctor. I do have health insurance, but I do not have a regular doctor, so I would be going to see someone i've never met and that has no appeal.

Breakfast - Fresh Juice and coffee
(1 carrot, 2 celery ribs, 1 cucumber, 1/2 apple, 1/4 inch ginger, 1 lemon, 1/4 head romaine - delicious!) Note, I had this at 7:30 am and by 10:30 am starving. Was thinking of doing juice all day today. Stay tuned for that one.

Lunch - Carrot Apple Ginger Juice
2 carrots, 1 apple, 1 knob ginger
I got absorbed in work for awhile and forgot i was hungry, then decided to go ahead and make juice. Was pretty inspired and made 3 different kinds and then decided i could be a real super hero and workout while my juice chilled in the fridge.

Exercise - 3 mile jog
Did it on the treadmill while watching vampire diaries. Took me the entire 40 minutes. I started slow and gradually increased my speed. It didn't feel terrible, but I had to fight the urge to quit almost the whole time. Fortunately in this episode Elena is getting fit so she can fight the "bad" vampires, so that kept me from wimping out. Drank full water bottle on Tmill and then promptly drank carrot juice. Very sweaty.

Afternoon Snack - Grapefruit Juice
3 Grapefruits
Detox Tea

Dinner - Green juice
1 head romaine, 4 ribs celery, 1 lemon, 1 cucumber, bit of ginger.

About 2 hours after that, I got desperately hungry and my head started to hurt, so I decided to eat some whole vegetables. Part of me wanted to do the full juice day, but I'm in the entry program, which doesn't require juicing and i don't want to get discouraged. So...

Second Dinner - Italian Roasted Salad
Same as yesterday, but no tomato sauce.
Mint Licorice Tea

Thoughts for the day: I think that I will reboot more effectively if I couple my efforts with some spa and other personal care type treatments. Not only can they help me detox, but feeling relaxed and pampered will help keep me motivated. I am looking out for groupons for this purpose, but in the mean time I took an epsom salt bath. Not only was it super relaxing, it also helps to reduce inflammation in the body. I loofahed my skin twice, shaved and used my olay facial brush.

In the past, I haven't succeeded in losing weight because it is a rather spartan endeavor and i start to feel cut off from others or like i never have any fun. I realize though, that this weight problem of mine is holding me back from truly having fun with others. I will feel more happy with myself if i do this, and that confidence will generate more fun for me in the future. However, while I am doing the spartan thing, spa treatments will surely help!

Water: 4 cups + 375 ml pelligrino

Accomplishments: met with electrician, met with window guy, filled bird feeders, fixed fantasy football team, dishes, catboxes, bathroom tub, took out trash, took out recycle.

Will be very curious as to how I will feel tomorrow.

Day 1

Start Weight: 180.4. This is up a bit from my "last supper" last night. A healthy weight for my height can range from 110-140. I've got some work to do.

Breakfast - Smoothie and coffee
About 2 cups of frozen tropical fruit mix
1 container Vita Cocoa Coconut Water (only form of coconut allowed in program)
Note - this was probably too high sugar. The program recommends mixing fruit and veggies for smoothies. It was great though! You are also not supposed to have coffee, however not drinking coffee holds no interest for me, so I am ignoring that advice.

Mid-Morning Snack - Raw Veggies
1/2 cup broccoli, 1/2 large carrot, 2 ribs celery
Peach Detox Tea

Lunch - Autumn Roasted Veggie Mix
1 Sweet Potato, 1 Cup Brussels Sprouts, dab of olive oil and pink salt

Afternoon Snack - Raw Apple

Dinner - Roasted Italian Salad
Raw Kale lightly dressed with lemon, braggs, pink salt, olive oil and nutritional yeast topped with fresh tomato sauce and lightly roasted Italian vegetables. (About 1 Cup of Kale, 1 Tomato, 2 cloves Garlic, 1/4 Onion, 1/2 small eggplant, 1/2 red pepper, and 4 mushrooms.)

Overall thoughts on meals for the day - maybe not enough raw stuff, trying not to over cook stuff. Note all measurements are approximate, but it looks like - Fruit Servings: 5. Vegetable servings: 13? Wow. Have not been hungry.

Water - 4 cups plus 1 Liter Bubbly Water

Exercise: 3 mile jog
Was a tiny bit sluggish, but this was likely do to lack of exercise lately more than new diet.

Thoughts: I realize that I have been unsuccessful in losing weight because I have been living moment to moment and reacting to situations rather than planning ahead for them. I need to be thinking more about my long term goals and developing a plan to get there. Also, I realized that I always put this off because "I haven't lost weight yet." I have definitely caught myself thinking "I can't do that until i lose weight" more than once today.

And it's not just long term plans. I planned ahead for what I would eat this morning and for lunch and that made me successful today. I will have to think more about this and less about instant gratification to get me through these 21 days.

What kind of stuff have I been putting off you might ask? Things that popped into my head today are: horseback riding lessons, yoga retreats, parkour classes and buying pants that fit. I bought a groupon to remedy the horseback riding. Now I just need to schedule it (and get into my riding pants and feel fit enough to get on a horse, LOL).

Some potential rewards for sticking to the program: test drive the MINI that I covet and buy the facial serum that I think I might need. Also worth noting, I have heard that plant based cleanses can really improve your skin and I find that very motivating as I've noted some sun damage. And, at 35, I have started to notice my aging a bit, so I want to make an effort to be more on top of this.

Other: I did have an afternoon slump, but managed to get some stuff done after work. Went to library, did dishes, made juice for tomorrow morning, fed cats, and remembered to put on night cream.

My Reboot Entry

This morning I started the Reboot Entry Program from Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. The program is for people who aren't really ready to juice fast, but want to benefit from a plant based reboot of the system. I am hoping to lose some weight and gain some perspective.

I recently finished a graduate program and gained 30 pounds during it. I was a bit overweight before starting graduate school, but I was a runner and close to hitting the 2 hour mark for the half marathon. I couldn't be further from that now and I feel a bit lost. I thought after finishing school that it would be easy to lose weight, but so far, I lost ten pounds and then re-gained it as soon as I stopped putting the effort in. I have also stopped and started a number of exercise programs. But I seem to be holding really steady at the weight I achieved in grad school. Achieved. HA!

So maybe it's crazy to do something even more extreme after I've fiddled about with so many things and been unsuccessful at sticking to them. And maybe it is. But i am starting to feel a little desperate and the idea of rebooting is appealing. Like this is a time out. Hopefully, I will emerge from this feeling lighter and with more perspective on what I want from myself in the coming year.

The Reboot Entry Program is basically a vegetables only diet. I'm allowed a dab of olive oil and seasonings, but will make an effort to keep this minimal. You can blend, cook or juice. Juicing of course is encouraged. Joe's website recommends 15 days, but I am going to go for 21. I have done a number of 30 day efforts already this year that lasted for exactly those 30 days. But I am hoping that the results of the 21 days will motivate me to continue or that this blog will help me move into phase two in a more healthy way (ie don't just regain the weight and go back to my old self).