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I am still doing great! Through several guests coming into town and several "girls nights" I have proudly remained Vegan! I cannot say that it was fully easy to not eat pizza with them or milk shakes - YUM - but I remained strong and stuck with my version of "shakes" and gluten-free, dairy-free pizza! Although I do have to say that I did not stick with as much greens as I should have been so starting on Sunday I'm going to do a cleanse to shock my body back to where it should be! I am oh so ready too!
Eating "bad" has not necessarily made me feel awful, but I can definitely tell the difference when all my amazing greens were missing and too much sugar was there!<---YUMMY gluten/dairy free pizza & salad!---- Exercise - my other demon as of lately. I was doing GREAT for about two weeks. I started training for 5k's (amazing training website: www.coolrunning.com ) and was doing Kettle ball work outs mixed with some Zumba on my off-running days for some strength training. Then I came down with a miserable sinus infection that put me out for a few days. Only a day or two after that my best friend came into town and we stayed busy. So needless to say that whole week the only walking I did was when we went downtown, or out (which was a bit - but not nearly enough exercise). I can proudly say though that I jumped back on the track yesterday though and ran 3 miles and am going to do some weights today! O! I promised you my weight... well not technically my exact weight (not even my husband knows that)! But I had told you before that half way through I had lost 9 pounds, well when it was all said and done I had lost a total of 13 pounds! YAY me! I have stayed pretty stable at that weight, which makes me a little sad, but hopefully it will still slowly fall off as I continue to eat healthy and exercise. I promised my life this change for a solid six months and that is what I am going to stick with. In six months I am praying I will see a difference that will make me want to make this promise into a lifetime promise!
As far as meditations and prayers - I definitely need to work more on that! I find myself "too busy" but I KNOW that I am NOT that busy! My prayer time is usually when I drive and other times throughout the day, but time to actually sit down, take in deep breaths and meditate... really need to work on that!
---Enjoying time downtown!----------->
Daily affirmations - still having to work on that as well! I think I have been doing better though. I am not as negative as I used to be and now try to constantly lift up others around me as well. So many people are so negative and down on themselves which makes me sad. But I was once that bad if not worse and now it makes me want to shake them and slap them back to reality that no matter how the world tells you to look or what size pant you have to squeeze into that morning,
YOU ARE AMAZING.
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.
YOU ARE UNIQUE.
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.
YOU ARE UNIQUE.
And NOBODY can take that away from you!
