Day One

5:30:  30 minutes on elliptical (while watching an episode of Revenge. I'm hoping that wanting to know what happens will get me out of bed tomorrow)

6:30:  hot water and lemon

I've done this before on another health craze and it doesn't get any easier. I don't know why it's so hard for me to get it down but I do not like the taste of    hot lemon water. I love it cold on ice, but this is entirely different.

7:00:  green smoothie

I made these yesterday because I didn't want to run the blender and wake Louis      in the morning. First, I don't think I added enough water and secondly, it got really thick overnight. This may not be a step I am willing to cut time on. We'll see. I'm also pretty lazy. If my options are getting up earlier or choking down a thick smoothie, I have a feeling sleep will win.

9:00:   detox tea

While the taste is good, it's definitely not coffee and that makes me sad. I also took ibuprofen with it to ward off the massive caffeine headache I'm liable to have by the end of today. I should have cut caffeine out more gradually last week, but I just love it too much

10:30:  clementines, water 

I love clementines. Love them! They are juicy, delicious and not too messy. They also make my office smell AMAZING! Side effect of all this water...I have gone to the bathroom half a dozen times already today. I don't have time to keep that up!

12:30:  salad (spinach, red cabbage, carrots, sunflower seeds, chia seeds with fresh avocado dressing), water 

I put WAY too much lemon in my avocado dressing. Holy buckets! Otherwise, the salad was good though. I wish I had someone to cook for me. I love a good salad, but it's so time consuming. Cutting everything and putting it all together. It's never as good when I do it myself! Gotta run off an fill up my water bottle again. I'm keeping the headache at bay by flooding myself, I think.

2:30:    cranberry-pumpkin seed trail mix, water 
Yummy. Yummy. Yummy. It was a struggle not to eat cup after cup of it though!

7:00:    roasted vegetables with olive oil

So glad Nev and Lou went to a basketball game tonight, I'm not sure I could watch them eat plates of spaghetti without being super bummed. I thought I would be starving by the time I got home, but instead I'm feeling less than interested in dinner. When I get off work tomorrow I plan on making a giant pot of soup (butternut squash) but I just don't have it in me tonight. 


8:00:    antioxidant smoothie, a date
This smoothie was tart but much more palatable than the green one. And the date tasted like dessert. A sweet way to end the day!


Things I'm thinking today:
I'm not nearly as hungry as I thought I would be.
I wish I had a personal chef. I don't mind eating healthy but the preparation is killer. 
I miss coffee. I love coffee. Sob. Sob. Sob.