Religious Bigotry

This really troubles me:

http://nation.foxnews.com/nbc-news/2012/04/04/nbc-news-ridicules-mormons

If you have Mormon friends and you hear garbage like this, talk to them about it. Get the facts.

Reboot Update 4

I feel great! I lost another two pounds, so I'm now where I was in June 2010. I'll be able to wear that dress on Easter. 'Cited!

I made a smoothy today that was SO yummy! I was supposed to use a young coconut, but I didn't have one, so I use some cocoanut water and a little light coconut milk. It had fresh pineapple, a lime, a little agave, a touch of vanilla, and spinach. Seriously tasty!

My regular black skirt is getting baggy whereas in January I wasn't sure I could wear it. I also started P90X again. Man but those make me feel good!

Ed continues to eat more veggies and fruit, and he's not eating nearly as much bread as he used to. But he's got such a sweet tooth I don't know how much longer he'll go. At least his weight is steady.

Reboot Update 3

Ed's sneaking more and more things, but he says he's committed to eating better still. As he said this morning, he needs to get back on the wagon.

Time will tell.

I lost nearly 2 pounds. I was disappointed, but what can I say? I'm feeling great, and I'm liking what I'm eating and drinking. I'm not hungry, and my blood sugar level is steady enough. That's good, right? And I fit into a smaller size than I was able to wear two weeks ago. That's definitely good.

My goal is to be able to wear a dress I got two years ago for Easter in two weeks.

Cross your fingers!

Reboot Editorial

Um, yes. I told you so! 

What did Ed have for dinner last night? 

I'll let you guess.

Reboot Update 2

Okay, so today begins the new week of the reboot. Because of work limitations, I have had to tweak the 5 days of eating a veggie-fruit based diet/5 days of fruit/veggie juices. So far, I haven't hit the horrible sluggish day, although every day for Ed has been sluggish, and he's been in a lot of pain. Of course, Ed also has Fibromyagia (a pain condition) and two kinds of arthritis. He's also a prime candidate for amazing success when (unbeknownst to him) he's given  sugar pill. That old addage that our perspective control our reality is absolute truth--and for some people even more so.

I was excited yesterday when I put on a pair of my fat jeans, and they were loose. So, I was hoping for at least a 5-pound loss for the week. So you can imagine how thrilled I was with an 8.6-pound loss. And I feel great. I tend to low blood sugar, so I have to be careful how long I go between eating. This has been one of my biggest concerns about this program. The fact that I usually have a blood sugar crash before I experience hunger is also a problem, because suddenly I'm in trouble before I have any warning.

But it hasn't been a problem. I don't understand it. There are times when I know my blood sugar is getting low, and I need to eat/drink something. If that happens when I'm somewhere I can't eat, that's a problem. We went to the store yesterday, and I got that feeling just before we left. I grabbed some unsweetened applesauce, and we left. It wasn't enough to keep the feeling from returning--and we visited two stores. But the blood sugar crash never happened.

I'm thrilled!

Ed's already starting to cheat, so I don't know if he'll really give it long enough to see if it will help or not. He's a big boy. I'll leave him to his decisions.

The truth is, he wants his cookies.

And his Pepsi.

A steak wouldn't hurt, either.

Well, it would, but I'm not sure he'd see it that way.

Reboot Update 1

Ed's about saladed out, but he's lost about 5 or six pounds since we returned from Hawaii. He really wants some meat or eggs, and it's tough for him when I'm not there in the evening to help with the dinner preparation--like last night. The city council meeting went until 11:30 p.m. last night, and I'm dying today.

I haven't weighed myself, so I'll have to see how it goes when I weigh again on Sunday. Good thing: my blood sugar has been steady. I don't usually experience true hunger because my blood sugar crashes before I do. And so far, unless I've not eaten in many hours, I've been fine. I did eat a tortilla as part of dinner at the meeting (but I didn't eat the meat or the cheese), and it was so late I ate a cookie my deputy gave me. After listening to person after person get up before the council and say basically the same thing, my resistance was low. Hopefully it won't sabotage my efforts. And I've been good today even though there were still cookies leftover.

Because of my oral surgery last week, the hardest thing for me is drinking or eating things with acid in them. You know, like salad dressing (vinegar) or juices (even green juices have fruit in them). Today has been a pretty good day so far. Hopefully, I'll heal faster now, which should help.

The Reboot

So, I've talked before about trying different things to help out with Ed's health and my weight. While we were at Erin's, she and Spencer talked about a movie--Forks Over Knives--they had watched that changed how they looked on what they ate. So we watched it.



I commented on Facebook about it, and a writer friend mentioned another movie--Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead--so we all watched it, too.



So, today, Ed and I started a 10-day reboot, which is what was recommended for me. This is a bit different from Joe's 60-day juice cleanse. For one, we get to eat some of the days. Since Joe talked about a tough third day--and that writer friend mentioned that she also had a bad third day--I'm trying to schedule this so that third juice day is on a Saturday.

It's interesting for me, since I had oral surgery last week, and my mouth is still pretty messed up--both the inside and my lip. But so far, so good.