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.