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LIW +4.0
Overnight 0.0

Here is my menu for the day before – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: leftover steak and shrimp
Lunch: super salad with bagel and cream cheese
Dinner: chicken wings with mustard sauce, fruit salad
Snacks: green smoothie, cottage cheese and mango and strawberries

A total of 2397 cals divided: 112 fat grams (42%), 172 carb grams (27%), 181 protein grams (31%)

Challenge Totals:
Total of approximately 63 ounces of food eaten – 34 ounces of it was raw! YES! I met my goal again!!! I made it to 53% raw yesterday!

Well finally, my gradual climbing in weight over the last few days STOPPED. Geesh, ever since the french fry night, I couldn’t seem to do anything right. That’s just wrong. That is all I have to say about that.

There are a couple of new blogs out there that could use a little of our community love:

Phat Lady

Lyndsay

Pay them a visit and give them a little support. It’s our duty, as so called ‘veterans’ to make sure we let the legacy live on!

Two weeks from today, it will be our first injection for our 5th and final round, I seriously cannot WAIT!

Something else exciting … in my journey through cyberspace in researching the whole raw food lifestyle, I have come across a whole grass roots movement, and have become very familiar with names that keep popping up. Angela Stokes, Karen Knowler, Norman W Walker (when you have some time, look him up and read about this guy, he is simply amazing), Dr Joel Fuhrman, and Kristen – these are just a spot on the map of all the people that are sharing their knowledge and research about living the raw lifestyle. Just a couple of days ago, Kristen paid my blog a visit. How utterly cool is that? She is larger than life in the industry and she came to my little ole blog and commented. That just about made my day.

Green smoothies are still a very big part of my life. I found myself desiring one today, more than anything else. I couldn’t wait to get home from our outing this morning to make me one. They are simply just delish. I really cannot tell you enough how good these are. I hope that if you haven’t already tried them, that you will give it a shot. Regina (EweWho) and I were chatting the other morning on how we might add be able to add these smoothies to our P2 regimen…well, one can hope! ROFL

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Shelly - no worries darlin, just try to eat more raw, I am sure you do alot of raw already don’t you?

Mary - Did you send me an email yet? Did I miss it?

Becca - sweetie, don’t use the word fail, you know how I feel about those negative words! LOL – You found what works for you and I say GO FOR IT. You gotta do what you gotta do. My only encouragement for any of this is to offer some better choices for people. I know how hard it’s been for me to make sure I got a lot of raw into my body, and I found something that works, and like anything else, I want to share it with the world, ya know?

B - It’s about time you showed off your picture! I have seen it before, so I knew what you looked like – you are a most beautiful woman!

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LIW +4.0
Overnight gain 0.8

Here is my menu for the day before – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: plain yogurt with blueberries, peaches, mangos and strawberries
Lunch: green smoothie with a leftover piece of grilled chicken
Dinner: grilled shrimp, steak with huge kick butt salad with everything in it, grilled asparagus
Snacks: green smoothie, one glass of wine

A total of 1909 cals divided: 73 fat grams (34%), 155 carb grams (30%), 158 protein grams (33%)

Challenge Totals:
Total of approximately 80 ounces of food eaten – 50 ounces of it was raw! YES! I met my goal again!!! I made it to 63% raw yesterday!

Another day down on my challenge. I am starting to figure out combinations of my smoothies that I really enjoy. For one thing, adding the blueberries into the mix is a very good taste. And did you know that blueberries are a super food?

Yes, I know, I need to focus in on the super foods. That will be a task for Monday. Have I mentioned how incredibly BEAUTIFUL it is around these parts recently? Oh my, the sun is shining and I am spring cleaning and life is good.

I am up actually EARLY today! Let’s hope this lasts! I love the early morning, it’s like the only thing that exists in this world is me for a few hours. No phones, no children yelling “I’m Hungry”, no kids knocking at my door, no responsibilities!!! This time is MY time. I have been missing my time, now if only I can get my body BACK into this mode consistently I would be THRILLED!

Oh, and don’t worry about the gain? My grilled shrimp and steak were incredibly salty and I haven’t ‘gone’ yet this morning. And I also weighed in a bit earlier than I have been. I am trying to get back on a schedule!

Thanks for hanging in there with me!!!

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Becca - there are those old habits that seem to want to pop up every once in a while, ugh. I am paying for it that is for sure! Thank you SO MUCH for that bagel site, I am on that like white on rice! I haven’t tried it, but I will be ordering some, I absolutely LOVE my bagels!B - Thanks B! I will be, I know!

Lindsay - I followed you to your blog and posted something there. I have heard of some giving shots only 3 times a week, and I have heard that it does work, but I am sold on the daily injections with one skip day like Dr Simeons stated in his book. If you have any other questions feel free to write me ok?

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LIW +3.2
Overnight gain 2.2

Here is my menu for the day before – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: broccoli salad
Lunch: bagel and cream cheese, chips and salsa
Dinner: blue cheese salad with broccoli, spinach, pecans, evoo and balsamic, grilled chicken
Snacks: left over pizza, french fries, pepperoni, beer

A total of 2333 cals divided: 119 fat grams (45%), 167 carb grams (28%), 68 protein grams (11%)

No green smoothies yesterday, – and I went a little nuts on eating some french fries last night, and I am assured that this is the gain. I didn’t even like them, it was one of those “no one else is gonna eat them so I should because I don’t want them to go to waste” things. It was awful, seriously, I don’t know what I was thinking, and I knew I would pay for it today, and I did. Sadly. UGH

Drinking lots of water today and I intend on getting at least two green smoothies in for the day. Actually as I write this, I have already gotten one green smoothie down, so all I need to do is come up with another one.

Only time for an update today. I have a new program that hopefully will allow me to get back on schedule with my blogging, but it will take a few days to get used to it. So give me a bit of time to get that under my belt and I should be back to normal.

Normal? What is that?

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Jan - yeah, isn’t it amazing that we already eat the raw, just think what we are eating in raw with the fruit alone!

Becca – thanks girlfriend!

Tracey - I am so sorry that you won’t be able to join the challenge with us. But I’m sure there are people out there that would love to be able to have a clean out every time they ate raw. LOL

B - my point exactly! Yes, I believe that if we did eat more salads that the fiber that you get from eating it will benefit you.

Shelley - just let me know what you want to do about the raw food challenge as I’ll probably be doing it another week. So you can join in!!! It will be so much fun!

Mary - yeah, I ate a bagel yesterday! Actually, I have been eating bagels for awhile. And believe me when I tell you it wasn’t the bagel that gained the weight, it was in the demon french fries!