Happy Monday everyone! I don’t know about you guys, but Mondays are the absolute HARDEST for me, diet-wise. Perhaps it’s because I’m usually grouchy about having to wake up for work, and feeling sorry for myself. Typically, Mondays are my most-tempted-to-binge days. I am usually pretty restrictive of myself over the weekends, so Mondays are when I just lose my mind. But not today!
Today, I was running low on juicing supplies, but that didn’t stop me from having my morning juice! This beauty turned out DARK red, because I was out of all my light green veggies to juice. Typically I juice one light green, like romaine or cucumber, and one dark green, such as spinach or kale, in each of my juices. Today, I juiced some kale and the rest of my Italian parsley, along with a large fuji apple, a beet, and half of a large lemon. It was surprisingly good! Must have been a really sweet apple…
For lunch, my fiancé came home and we watched an episode of Mad Men. We are trying to catch up to the current season, and we’re almost there! I think we have 3 more episodes in Season 2. I don’t know what it is about that show, because it starts off kinda slow, but I’m totally into it! Since I was distracted by my TV show, I totally flaked and forgot to take a picture of my lovely salad. I had a happy accident, trying to make some “key lime pudding” out of avocadoes, lime juice and stevia. I used way too much lime juice, and it became a liquidy mess! Way too thin for pudding, but perfect as a dressing! So I poured the whole thing over an entire bag of mixed greens, added some shredded carrot and half of a sliced pear, and it was perfect! Delicious! I’m not a HUGE avocado fan, but I know they’re good for me, so the more ways I can “hide” them in my food, the better. I will definitely be re-creating my salad again soon!
After work, I spent my time at the mall with my friend who will be doing my makeup for my wedding. She took me to the Bobby Brown counter to try out all sorts of stuff! My head was spinning by the end of it! Way too many options for me… I ended up only choosing my foundation and concealer for now. I’ll work on the eyeshadow another time. It was so overwhelming!
I felt like I got a good workout walking around the mall for a few hours, and found myself RAVENOUS by the end of our shopping trip! Of course, then I remembered I had NO juicing ingredients left! Darn it!! Poor planning on my part. I stopped by Trader Joe’s on my way home, but it was rush hour, and there was no parking spot in sight! Just a line of cars, waiting to stalk the next person to walk out of the store, so they could steal their spot! I was in no mood for those games. So I settled on a new dinner decision– I could eat a raw meal tonight, instead of a juiced one. I totally indulged in my favorite raw comfort food: bananas with raw almond butter! I know bananas are a “no-no” on the Clean program, but I got ripe bananas, which are supposedly okay as far as constipation-issues go. I love bananas, and I’ve lost weight eating them before, so I’m not eliminating them entirely. They make me happy, and on a Monday, when I would normally be binging anyway, I figured they were a better choice than most. I also munched away on some baby carrots, which my dog begged for the whole night. She is really getting into eating her veggies! I love it! Her favorites are butter lettuce leaves and baby carrots, but she’ll eat just about any leafy green.
Okay, I’m off to bed. Nite!
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