Day 1 of Juicing!

 Let the juicing begin!  :)

I went to Walmart last night and purchased a GE juice extractor.  It was around 55 dollars, and got pretty good reviews on Amazon as well as a good consumer report.  Its super easy to take apart, which also makes it pretty easy to clean as well.  (All the reviews said the clean-ability of your machine was a make or break attribute.)

I had a made a list before I left the apartment of enough fruits and vegetables for a couple of recipes.  I went to Times Supermarket, since they generally have the best produce prices, and I didn't really want to shop at Foodland, Times, and Safeway last night to save a couple of dollars.  All of their prices were great--except green apples.  Green apples are pricy here in general, but Foodland did have them beat by .70 cent a pound.  (I paid $2.99/lb at Times).

For all the stuff in the picture on the left, I spent $30 bucks.  (The 4 apples was $6.50!  eek!)  Not too bad, but not fantastic either. 

The first drink I tried was very simple.  Just carrots and oranges.  The recipe called for 6 large carrots and 3 full oranges.  I prepped all the stuff and made the juice last night.  You're supposed to drink your juice as fresh as possible, but I had to work this morning, and I didn't want to be fumbling around with the machine at 6 AM.  So I made the juice last night and stored it in the fridge for the morning.



It was actually really good!  I had an 8 ounce glass when I woke up to get me going (I usually eat a banana before work), and then took the remaining 16 ounces to drink during my break.  Not having a coffee was more of a mental fight than anything else, because I was at work, and that's what I do when I'm at work!  I drink coffee!  Several of them!

My first juice!  Orange Carrot.

I felt okay through my shift--I was pretty hungry by the time my 9:30 break rolled around.  But after drinking the juice, I could feel that my stomach was full.  I was a bit light headed, but my appetite was satiated.

I got home and made one of the Mean Green juices, which were what the guy from Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead drank.  First off, I put WAYYYY too much ginger root in mine.  Apparently you're only supposed to put half a thumbs amount in.  I put 3 times that much!  Oops!  So my juice was VERY spicy.  I chilled it for a bit, and then was able to drink it.  Second, I accidentally bought collar greens instead of kale, but whatever--they look the same anyways.  Haha. 

I drank half the batch, and then went and crashed for a 2 hour nap.  Justin woke me up when he got home from work.  He had stopped at the farmers market, which was a FABULOUS idea.  He got just as much produce as I did at Times (plus REAL kale...lol) for $20.  Definitely need to be using markets here!  :)

Oh, and before I left work Cindy gave me a bag of homegrown baby tomatoes, and I took a big bag of watercress from the sandwich training session I had.   

All in all, its been an okay first day.  I haven't gotten a full blown headache yet (knock on wood) from the caffeine withdraws.  I didn't eat anything, though I almost popped a piece of orange in my mouth while I was cutting it up for juicing (obviously not the end of the world or anything, but I'm only supposed to drink!)  I did get a little weepy when we went on a walk.  lol.  But I'm not starving, I know I'm not, and after I drink my tummy is actually full for awhile.  It's a completely psychological need to put food in my mouth.  (Or drink coffee, as well.)  It may be nice to actually break that need.

I made a "fruit salad" for dinner, and am currently enjoying it.  It's super good!  The recipe includes 1 kiwi, 6 strawberries, 1 orange, 1/2 mango, and 1 cup pineapple.  The recipe yielded nearly 20 ounces of juice, and I've been slowly sipping it over the past half hour.  I definitely think sipping is the way to go for me.  Definitely don't need a straw!

I'm still keeping in the habit of doing my Weight Watchers tracking, though I haven't used any of my points!  (All the fruits and veggies are free.)  I wonder if I'll get a warning message from them about not eating any real food...haha.  I'll weigh in on my normal Friday morning day.  I figure it will be a good indicator of how all this is going, with 3 full juicing days under my belt.

See you tomorrow!

Activity! yay!

-1 pound!

I rocked the activity this week.  On Sunday, Justin and I went paddle boarding.  AMAZING!  :)  (Justin doesn't know, but I am going to buy a paddle board off of craigslist in a couple of hours...yay!)  My arms were SO sore after paddling, my abs a little.  My paddle was too long for me, so I wasn't using my core as much as my forearms.  Either way, a great workout, and I had A LOT of fun.  :)

I hit up water aerobics on Wednesday, and then on Thursday, Justin and I went hiking!  It was a 5 mile round trip hike, and was supposed to be "moderate."  Haha, I feel like a combination of a lying website and the fact that Justin and I are out of hiking shape let the trail kick our ass.  Haha.  But it was awesome because a majority of the trail was in a woodsy area, and it felt like we were back in Washington!  :)  Then, on the way back down, the clouds started to blow away, and the beautiful coastline appeared.  It was fantastic!  :)

I didn't wake up in time for water aerobics today, so I guesssss I'll have to let Bob kick my ass instead.  Haha.

Oh!  And I'm going to start juicing this week.  I'm going to buy a cheap(er) juicer today (but it still has good reviews), and start on Tuesday.  I work a short shift on Tuesday (from 7-noon), and then I have Wednesday and Thursday off.  So when I'm weak and cranky and coffee detoxing, Justin is the only one that will have to deal with me.  I'm going to shoot for a 7 day juice cleanse, but I'm going to feel it out.  It might be 5 or it might be 10.  I'm really curious to see how this cleanse will affect my weight loss.  More so, I'm just excited to feel better!  And kicking the coffee habit will be nice as well, because I'll admit, its gotten kind of out of control lately.  Then I have to try and stay off of it!  That in itself will be the greater challenge.  :)

See you guys next week!

Current weight: 140 pounds
Zen sushi mini-goal: 3 pounds
Weight to lose to meet final goal: 10 pounds

I work out!

Down another pound! Yay!

I blogged right after my first biggest loser work out for the week, and I managed to work out again the next day. My body actually felt wayyyy better after the second work out.

I had planned on doing it again last night, but I was SO sore, I couldn't bring myself to it.  Lol. BUT, I will be leaving for water aerobics here shortly.  Which not only is great exercise, but I think it will help relieve some of the pain I'm feeling from all the sore muscles that haven't been worked in months.

I was flipping through pictures last night of myself, and was looking through the Kauai 2010 album.  Its so....I don't know what it is.  I remember being so proud of myself at that point, so proud of how much weight I had lost and how great I looked.  (And I had done a great job, I'm not belittling that at all).  But I look at those pictures, and I think, "Nope, still fat there."  And I honestly don't know if that reaction is healthy, or if its just more proof that I need to focus more on loving myself, no matter what I look like.  Do psychologists have to take a "Psych 452- The psychology of weight loss?"  Because I feel like I could sure use the help some days.  :)

Justin lost another pound last week.  He now weighs 135.  I told him if he keeps losing weight with me, we're going to weigh the same when I get to my goal weight, not the next mini-goal I set for myself.  What a putz....lol.  But I did change the name of my mini-goal, because I felt like I was lying every time I updated it.

Have you guys heard of this juicing phenomenon?  My mom, aunt, and BFF told me about it when I was home for Andrew's wedding.  There's a movie that goes with it, "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead."  Justin and I have been meaning to watch the movie, but we haven't yet.  One of my good friends has been doing it for 4 days now and has lost 13 pounds!  WOW!  When he told me that, I thought maybe I should give it a try.  I was just struggling with only drinking my food for a week.  But I think if I really put my mind to it, I could.  But Justin can't do it with me...lol.  I think I'll attempt to watch the movie sometime this week, and see after that!

Well I gotta run, or I'm going to be late for my date with the Kihei senior citizens!  :)

Current weight: 141 pounds
Zen sushi mini-goal: 4 pounds
Weight to lose to meet final goal: 11 pounds

Round is a shape, yeah? :)

Hello Fat blog followers!   :)

I neglected to post on Friday, considering I did not have much to say.  I pulled another zero last week, and I'm pretty glad that zero was the outcome.  I had a pretty exciting food week (lol, word choice), and ate out quite a few times.  If you live on Maui, the 808 Deli is amazing, and half Guinness, half some other kind of light beer in a giant mug at the Outback is also amazing.  Haha. 

These food choices in themselves may not have been the absolute worse (I didn't go to a all-you-can-eat buffet or anything), but I do get nervous when I can't be really sure what my point values are.  The guy at Outback who bought me the Guinness mix told me that Guinness beer actually has less calories than a Budweiser--which, I just googled, and he wasn't lying to me.  12 ounces of Guinness has 126 calories, while a normal Budweiser has 147.  Interesting!

I did one Biggest Loser workout last Wednesday, and then hobbled around for 2 days because my legs and hips hurt so badly.  When I did I become so out of shape?  Oh yeah, when I stopped working out!  I walk all the time, and both of my jobs require me to stand for long periods of the day, but I haven't done the traditional work-out since I left Pullman.  (On a side note, I miss the WSU Rec Center SO much.  I wish I would've used it WAY more than I did when I had it.) 

I just got done letting Bob kick my ass with a 35 minute moderate work-out.  I'm feeling good right now, which is a vast improvement from last Wednesday, because I was already hurting a half hour after the routine.  My goal is to get at least 1 more workout in with Bob before Friday, 2 if I'm lucky. 

Really, the rest of my weight loss journey is going to be so dependent on my activity levels.  I can keep cutting my calories, but I don't exercise along with it, my boobs are just going to completely disappear...lol.  The working out always feels good after, but I really have to talk myself into turning on the Xbox.  And really I'm burning even more calories than the program tells me because its hot as hell in our second floor apartment while I'm jogging in place.  Haha.

Apple pie baked in the apple!  :)

As for foods, I've been rocking the crockpot recipes for awhile now.  Last night, I ventured out of my comfort zone and made a dessert recipe a found on pinterest.  They actually turned out quite amazing!  :) 

The recipe for the apple pie can be found here.

The excavating of the apples was quite hard, and I just bought 2 more apples to use for the filling.  I cut her sugar/brown sugar/cinnamon stats in half, and used Truvia for the sugar.  And the topping is actually reduced-fat crescent rolls instead of pie crust, mostly because that stuff is expensive!  And I only need a little bit and not a whole pound of it.  :)  Justin ate one when he got home last night, and said he really enjoyed it.  I ate a couple of bites, and I liked it as well. 

I'm really loving pinterest for all the awesome recipes that folks post on there.  Some are already healthy, and others I can easily adapt to make them better.  The whole apple above is 4 points.  And I don't even think I could eat a whole one!

Well, I'm out for now.  Here's to keeping my workout goals and seeing some scale movement on Friday (of the down variety, of course!) 

Current weight: 142 pounds
Less than hubby weight: 5 pounds
Weight to lose to meet final goal: 12 pounds

Bob!

Attempted to go to water aerobics this morning, but apparently the high school had taken over the pool.  There were no senior citizens for me to exercise with.  :(

So I came home, and FINALLY turned on the Biggest Loser.  The last time I had used that thing, I weighed 170 pounds.  Oye!  So of course the game flipped out when I told it I only weighed 142 now...haha.  I obviously won the weigh-in for the week with a 16% percentage weight loss....lol.

I'm glad I turned Bob back on though, because I forgot how much I missed him!  I did 30 minutes of Circuit training, and 15 minutes of Yoga.  And....ouch.  I'm already hurting.  Bob really likes lunges, and I do not.  lol.  I did have to change a few of the moves, because I assume my downstairs neighbors would not appreciate me doing jumping jacks--so I did standing jack lunges instead.  owwwwww!  :)

We've eaten out quite a few times this week, so I'm a little worried about the weigh-in on Friday, but either way, it will be a good week because I finally got my work-out back!  :)

See you on Friday!

Another small milestone.

Yay!  I lost another pound this week, putting me at a total of 10 pounds lost since I rededicated my life to Weight Watchers.  :)

The sad news is that I completely failed my goal of doing any Biggest Loser workouts.  I didn't do any.  Ouch. 

But I did make Justin do an epic walk with me the other night, walking the length of two of the beaches near our apartment.  The Kamaole beaches are pretty, especially in the early evening.  :)

This week I've been working really hard to eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables.  I've discovered that cutting up a tomato and eating it with some salt sprinkled on top is the most amazing snack in the entire world.  In fact, for dinner the other night I had a sliced tomato, grapes, and a pita with guacamole smeared on it.  :)

I've been trying to also be more aware of food cravings when I get them, and then working to fight them off in a more proactive manner.  I know for a fact that closing the Coffee Bean is a huge trigger for me, because we're always INSANELY slow and there is always delicious food there.  After an hour of standing in the front with nothing to do, I really start craving blueberry scones and lemon crunch bars....uggghhhh.  Haha.  But I'm working on it.  And try to satiate those cravings with fruit.  Or chocolate fiber bars also seem to do the trick.  :)

This next week, I will make a bigger attempt to work out.  Because the scheduling at work has been so crazy, the next available day I can take off is Sunday the 20th.  But Justin and I have a paddle board date that day.  :)  I can't wait, even though I feel like I'm going to epically fail at it.  But I figured the more I fall off the board, the more engaged my abs will be.  :)

I've also been collecting recipes off of pinterest, so I'm hoping I'll have a moment this week to bake something delicious.  I keep coming back to these these breakfast cookies. Weight Watchers has a recipe builder so I can calculate the points of a whole recipe, and then portion it out.  Its really helpful when trying to make a recipe less overall points.  :)

Oh, and Justin lost another pound, but I'm not adjusting my goal again.  I told him if he loses anymore weight, I'm going to slap him.  lol.

Current weight: 142 pounds
Less than hubby weight: 5 pounds
Weight to lose to meet final goal: 12 pounds