After a grueling eight-hour work day at school (wait, work? at school? I know, right?) I started my journey over to the health food store. It was a cute little store named Lovey's, and when I say little, I mean LITTLE! But packed into this little mini-mart was thousands of items I had never seen before let alone could have imagine existed! I was in health heaven! I will have to say, that as excited as I was the mere small space with lots of people in small isles with mini carts was very overwhelming. There were lots of workers but they were not the friendliest nor very helpful. I did finally manage to maneuver up and down the isles made for only very slim people and get most of everything on my list. I was putting things in my cart that I had never seen before and some things I did not even know how to pronounce!
I arrived home two hours later and my husband so kindly greets me, helps me tote in the environm
entally kind brown paper bags and continues on to help me unload and put away the groceries. He burst out in laughter and when I turned to look at him he looked at me, at the fridge and back at me to say, "so many leafy green things!" It is true, my fridge is now fully stocked with lots of "green leafy things" and any "normal" person who opened my fridge would wonder what I am doing! So - for today - day 1!
I woke up, had my cup of water with lemon and cayenne pepper (just a dash to help jump start your metabolism as well as to start cleansing your liver and other organs). I "meditated" for 5 minutes in a quiet place until I had a sneezing attack and decided it was time to stop. I then proceeded to do what I was excited to do - get my brand new juicer out and JUICE!
Now, I love the color green - its my favorite - and I love the green goodness and Naked juices so I thought this would be similar. Well, I got all of my ingredients together and it definitely smelled fresh and healthy in my kitchen this morning! I turned on the juicer and started to juice! The process was fun so surely I would love the product. I sipped it, not bad! I poured my glass then poured the remainder in little mason jars for later. My husband was even bold and ch
ugged a little glass! When I started on my glass my stomach was NOT as excited as I was. It smelled clean, fresh and it honestly didn't taste that bad, but for some reason it was a little bit of a shock to my body. I was able to finish the glass and was proud to say I did! I'm a little afraid of the 4 glasses in my fridge that need to be downed, but #1 I'm ready to be healthy and I know my body needs this and #2 It's way to expensive to waste! We continued on about our morning while I sipped on some herbal lemon tea. It was tasty. We got back home and I made Tofu Salad. (It's just like egg salad). We ate it on gluten-free bread and it was SO YUMMY!!! And did you hear that first part - WE! Yes, my husband braved it again and ate it with me and like it too! Yay!!! It's nice not having to do this entirely alone! He's the greatest! After cleaning up I did have that lovely sugar craving, so I simply took a large strawberry, washed it clean and it seemed to cleanse my pallet as well as kick that craving away!
Dinner tonight is a special treat! I am going to make gluten/sugar-free pasta noodles with an herbal tomato sauce for - ta da - spaghetti! I'm sure it'll be great!
The day isn't over, but I've had a good start! I'm so excited to keep this up! But for now I'm going to sign out, go outside on the beach and enjoy an amazing walk in the sunshine with the three loves of my life! (Hubby and furry friends!)
But before you go - I'll be back! So don't go far! Many of you have read and been reading my posts and I love and THANK YOU all for the encouragement so please don't stop! But DO turn off the TV, computers and other electronic devices and go enjoy some family time this beautiful weekend!
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