Any of you out there reading our blog that is looking for some weight loss or weight management tools should check out Livestrong.com . You are able to enter your current weight and age and height and it gives you a nice baseline for what you should target for calories. While it isn't as accurate as having a proper metabolic test done, it is free and at least a rough idea. You can also log your food and it will allow you to enter your own recipes. That is all FREE! If you want you can have sharing of stats with a friend or two so you can keep each other honest. Pretty cool stuff.
You can adapt very quickly to eating most of your veggies whole and uncooked. The hardest thing to get used to is the extra energy you get from them. I haven't even considered a nap since we started this adventure. That kills me a little since we haven't had any coffee or chocolate either.
Juicing is likely the easiest and tastiest way a person could lose weight while still maintaining the vitamins and minerals you need. Our midmorning juice has 160 or so calories but it has 3-4 carrots, 1/2 a beet, 1/2 a lemon or lime, 1/2 inch of ginger root, 1/2 a cucumber, and 1/2 a green apple PER SERVING! I guessing that accounts for at least 3 of your veggie and fruit servings a day. The only down side is the initial cost of a machine ($230 or so), but you get hooked and when you start adjusting and creating on your own you can't be stopped.
Enough of the FYIs. This "fiber shake" from our book should honestly be called sludge or runny mud pie or something like that. Man this stuff is funky. Not only does it taste like dirt, it has a very funky mouth feel to go along with it. Yuck. Luckily we just need to drink it 4 times a day. I know! 4 times a day! Other than that the colon cleanse it going along swimmingly.
We actually went out for lunch at the Top of Tacoma. RELAX, we had a garden salad with balsamic vinaigrette on the side and water. Raw Raw Raw.
I have become the king of the green salad this month including everything I can think of like mandarin slices, blueberries and apples just to name a few. We probably have eaten 3 times the avocado we were eating before as well. I keep making my raw broccoli salad with a different twist every time. This one is a lemon and lime vinaigrette with curry which is tasty.
OK. Enough about us. Back to your lives. More soon.
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