Reboot Day 12 Weight: 172.2 Temp: 98.4

 

 

I've lost 10.2 pounds!!! Last night I was pretty sure I was going to give up and just quit. But after I saw the scale today I'm feeling a little more motivated to keep going. I was only planning on doing this until we go to the beach and then starting up again when we get back. The beach is only 12 days away. So I've reached my halfway point. If I can manage to lose another 10 by then I'd be walking on air, I'd be so happy. Even though I won't be able to juice at all at the beach I won't be in short supply to find fish, which is a healthy meat choice. I just have to worry about the fact that down here in the south, EVERYTHING is fried!

Reboot Day 11 Weight: 174.0 Temp: 97.9

I'm not too excited about that weight up there. It only went down a small fraction. Although, I'd much rather have a decrease than an increase. I'm starting to get a little tired of the same tastes everyday. I tried to mix it up and make a tomato "soup" last night from a recipe I found online. It was okay but VERY tomato-y and I'm not crazy about tomatoes. But I like to have something warm at night. It makes it feel more like a meal to me than just having iced juice. I think my hardest challenge is going to be tonight...I'm going to the movies. I've been wanting to avoid that for as long as possible. The worst thing to smell when you want to eat something is popcorn. And I'm going with a friend of mine who is not the best person to be around during a diet. He's what I've heard referred to as a "Naysayer." He will say stuff like "A little bit won't hurt you" or "It's not bad for you so go ahead" but I will be strong. No popcorn! No delicious, warm, buttery, salty, popcorn...Oh, Lord...

Reboot Day 10 Weight: 174.2 Temp: 97.0

Phew! It went down again. Good. Now I just have to keep it doing that. I worked out last night. It was hard. I was ready to pass out but I felt amazing afterwards. I'm doing the Insanity workout until I go to the beach. That's another thing I'm worrying about. I'll be at the end of the juicing when I go to the beach and won't be able to take a huge juicer with me. I'm going to have to eat actual food the whole time I'm there. I guess when I get back I can juice for like a week and get whatever I gain off me. Maybe...
I did cave yesterday a little. I ate a stalk of celery and peanut butter. I kind of felt sick afterwards. It's crazy that that little bit of food would make me nauseous but I'm glad it did. It will help me to stay focused. Only five more days till my halfway point and 6.8 pounds to lose at the end. I think if I can stay focused on my workouts, school, and work I'll just be able to do this. Bring it on!

Reboot Day 9 Weight: 175.4 Temp: 98.2

Ugh! Do you see that number up there??? It went UP! That's sad, sad news. I thought with me not eating any solid food yesterday it would have went down. I was really struggling yesterday with not caving. I feel a little more determined today to not cave just to make those numbers start on the decline again. I felt like I was watching porn last night on the Food Network. My mouth was watering for some of the burgers and sandwiches featured on Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives. Maybe I gained because I was envisioning myself eating those cheesy, greasy, foods. Dieting, it seems to me, is a lot of mind over matter. My roommate thinks that I should have a cheat day somewhere in the middle as a reward of some kind but I worry that if I cheat once, I'd be like an addict getting a taste of their favoirte drug of choice. In a way, food has become somewhat of an addiction in America and I don't think that we've come to realize that as a nation just yet. What makes it harder is being outside around lunchtime and smelling the delicious foods. When I came home last night there was speghetti on the stove. It was so difficult to not want to just start devouring the food. I've never even been a huge fan for speghetti but at that moment I was it's number one groupie. I just keep telling myself, "Just get through this one week. One week. That's all it is. If you can get through this one, you'll be able to do the next one." I know at the end of this week I'll have reached my halfway point. I just hope I'll be strong until then.

Reboot Day 8 Weight: 174.8 Temp: 97.1

So today starts week 2 of my reboot. I will not be eating any food this time. Well, I hopefully will not be eating any food. It's getting harder and harder not to cave. I thought it would be easier by now but I feel like the real temptation is here now. Whispering in my thoughts and wafting in to my nose. I thought the biggest thing I would miss would be the fast food resturants and suprisingly enough it isn't. It's the Combos, Little Debbie Snack Cakes, and Milky Way bars. It's hard having to go into the grocery store and knowing that they are right there! I feel a little disappointed when the scale didn't drop today but I am very happy that it didn't rise. I feel that this next week of no food will get the numbers to start on their decline once more. I adjusted very well last week after a few days and I just hope that it does the same thing this week. I think the fact that I didn't get much sleep last night is wearing on me as well.

On a positive note, I found out that grapes juice very well and taste delicious. They're cheap, in season all year, and make a large amount of juice. I think this will become a well used item from now on. But I think that's all I'm going to write today. I'm tired, and not entirely looking forward to my juice tonight instead of tuna salad. I hope it's a better day tomorrow.

Reboot Day 6 Weight: 175.4 Temp: 97.8

I'm not having the greatest of days today. The silver lining is the fact that it's day 6 and I've lost 7lbs! Plus I made my morning juice and it...was...SO-FREAKING-GOOD. It was about a tablespoon or two worth of kale juice, a tablespoon of carrot juice, two golden delicious apples and a sprinkling of cinnamon. Yummy! I have alot of homework to get done this weekend so I may not post too much on here. I've got to think of a name for this concoction...

Reboot Day 5 Weight: 177.0 Temp: 97.3

So I found out that I love having ice and fruit in my juices. I'm going to try a recipe I found on that woman's blog I put in my last post. And see how that goes. I was a little surprised to see that I still lost weight after Ruby Tuesday last night. I caved and had one cheesy, sour cream, bacon covered fry. I wanted to gobble that whole plate down! But I still had a large salad and a huge piece of tilapia. I so want to eat some junk food but I know I can't. All I have to do is go look at my recent pics and see how much weight I've put on. I can do this!

Reboot Day 4 Weight: 177.4 Temp: 97.8

Day 4, I can't believe it. I know I haven't been drinking juice as often as I should. It's taking some time to get used to making it and knowing what I like and how much to make. I ended up pouring out most of my "Mean Green" juice yesterday. I tried to add strawberries to make the taste bearable but that only made it worse. So today I experimented. I think I created my new favorite recipe! It's not the 80/20 (That's 80% vegetable and 20% fruit to all you non-juicers) but I can drink it and like Sarah says in her blog "It's still better than a donut!"
(You can view her blog here: http://planetsarah.com)

I think I am going to dub this juice recipe as Orangutan Juice*. I don't really know why but it just seems to fit for me:

2 Cups Spinach
2 Cups Kale
2 Oranges (Seedless and peeled)
1 Mango (Peeled and pitted)
(by the way, if you've never bought a mango and had to take it home and do all the stuff to it, be prepared, it's difficult. There's a long skinny pit that runs down the middle of it.)

I like to juice my spinach and kale before anything else because they don't produce much juice. The other juices tend to help get more of it out of the juicer. Also, drink juice with ice. It really helps it taste better. After juicing, it tends to be kind of foamy, like the end of a smoothie, so the ice helps with that.

Tonight is going to be a big test for me. It's one of my best friend's birthdays and we're going out to eat at Ruby Tuesday. I'm still allowing myself one meal a day but the test is going to be to order the right kind of food. PLUS being around a bunch of delicious looking goodies.

*I'm sure I am not the first person to mix these ingredients together but I didn't see anything out there when I looked. I hope I don't step on anyone's toes.

Reboot Day 3 Weight: 178.2 Temp: 97.6

I missed posting yesterday. I had a horrible headache and I think it was from my body trying to adjust to these new changes. Here are my stats from yesterday: Weight: 180.2 Temp: 97.9  I'm so excited to see progress already. It's really pushing me to keep going. I posted on my Facebook that with me only eating one meal a day it makes that meal taste sooo good. And it's true! The two weeks of no food will be really hard. I hope I can do it. I think with progress like this I will be likely to continue and push through. I just wish it tasted better!

Reboot Day 1 Weight: 182.4 Temp: 98.0

So I didn't do as well as I would have liked today. I was fine until about 3 pm and then I just wanted food so bad I couldn't stand it. I just kept thinking about the White Cheddar Popcorn that was sitting on the counter.
"There isn't much in there." I thought "I should have just finished it off last night before bed."
But I didn't. I finally gave up and finished off the popcorn. It has never tasted as good as it did in that moment. When you can't have something, you want it that much more. I was going to eat tuna with a lettuce wrap for dinner but it took way too long to go to the store so I ended up eating the leftover Buffalo Wild Wings I had in the fridge. And then I snuck and ate some gummy worms before my roommate took them away from me. I also ate some sunflower seeds.
I feel bad that I didnt do as well as I would have liked but I am hoping to get back on track tomorrow. I bought A mango, kiwi, sweet potato, ginger root, kale, spinach, strawberries, blueberries, golden delicious apples, oranges, and a cucumber. I need to find some recipes to make my two meals tomorrow. This first week I plan on eating something for dinner and then maybe the next week doing just the juice. Wish me luck!