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.