20 lbs lighter

Wohooo hit the 20 lb mark this morning soo happy to see this number. Today we're off to the beach and I'm planning on "cheating" on the juicer I'm bringing juice but I'll also eat hoping this doesn't set me back to far! I'm also getting ready to start my period so I know I'm going to gain so bloat the next few days. As long as I stay on track with the juicer I'll be fine and the bloat will disappear as fast as it came.
Off to enjoy this beautiful day with my family!

212

I'm so close to 199 I can taste it!!!:) I have said for years now, if I could just get to 199! now I'm almost there and I can't wait go keep going.
This morning we went to my nieces softball game, it's so cute seeing 4-6 year olds leaning to play! I can't wait till Judah is old enough! I hope she plays. Anyways we stayed for my best friends son game too so three hours at the ball field nachos everywhere, pizza the kids had a ice cream sandwich yummy! I made sure and had my juice before I left I made a good one again, strawberry, orange, peach and kale. Normally i would add more veggies, but im running low on veggies injave to go shopping today! Anyways i knew I wasn't hungry at the game but the temptation was so big just to snack eat sunflower seeds even! After that we went out to lunch at bravo burger. If your from around here then you know how amazing their breakfast burritos are ack! I almost got a salad but I quickly remembered how badly I want to be 12lb lighter this time next week. I know that it could be a out of reach goal but I really really would like to see 199 before Saturday night, we're going to a party and I know I'm going to eat and enjoy myself which will put me back over that 200 mark but I will have seen it and will work that much harder to get it.
We're having beautiful 80 degree weather this weekend and were playing hooky from church and going to the beach tomorrow. I'm so excited to just relax in the sun while the kids play. It's going to be really really hard not to snack on anything tomorrow, we usually snack and eat the whole time were there. So I'm planning on bringing juice as well as fresh cut veggies and fruit to snack on. Not really what I want to be snacking on but in all honesty if i really ask myself I don't want to snack on anything I want to keep going and loosing weight. But I know I need to bring something.

214

down a lb a little disapointed its not two lbs but seriously excited Im below 215 AT LAST :)
I made grape, pear, cucmber spinach & carrot juice this morning. wasnt my favorite but I drank up. I have two cups left for lunch and Ill make something new for dinner. My honey is going to start juicing dinners with me. Im excited because he is jumping on the juice wagon and I wont have to make full on dinners for the kids, they dont care what they eat for dinner as long as they like it. Making dinner has been the hardest part of this journey, well not just dinner making food for all of them in general I just want to grab a bite one small bite and all would be ok in my head... so tonight I think ill let the boys make pigs in a blanket for themselfs they will have fun and keep me from having to be in the kitchen haha :)
The kids are currently enjoying their pigs in a blanket which by the way smell amazing hah and I'm
Waiting for my juice partner to get home from work so we can make our dinner.
I wonder will I ever get to a place in this journey were I won't want to taste the bad things? It's not really a craving as much as it is I like food, I enjoy dinners with friends I enjoy the taste of something delicious. I don't want to spend the rest of my life obsessing over every little thing I put in my mouth. I want to enjoy life and my life that means enjoy food. We eat pretty healthy so its not like eating bad 24/7 is my life. I'm not sure what the answer to this is for now I'll drink my juice and watch the weight fall off and deal with every day life as a skinny fat girl when that time comes.
If you follow me on pintrest you'll know I have been pining food like its going out of style. I could look and pin food all day long if time permitted. I'm
Not sure if it's filling the empty food place in my life back up with food or what but I have found some amazing dishes I can't wait to someday try lol.

215

I'm BACK to where I was on Saturday morning!and officially down 16lbs YAY only took me all week long! 16lbs in a little over two weeks isn't bad huh?! bummed because if I hadn't eaten in there I would be down more..its ok I'm back and can only go down from here right? I'm juicing for 9 more days and will eat and prob go right back to juice for a few more weeks. getting to my goal of 180 just seems so achievable. I am a little nervous for when I do start eating food full time, healthy or not it seems to make me gain weight I need to figure out how to fix that. To days juice was AMAZING Pineapple, Strawberry, Orange, Carrots Cucumber & spinach YUMMY wish I had more still. I did grab another pineapple from the store tonight so I can make this juice again very soon!


This morning I threw some chicken in the crockpot for the families dinner tonight and boy it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard smelling the amazing smell all day. I wanted to take a bite each time. it had bellpeppers in it so the smell was sooo good. I fed the kids dinner before Bill got home and was out t he door for our walk before he was even home. the kids and I went around our neighborhood while bill got home and changed. it made dealing with dinner time EASY for me. when we got h ome I drank my juice while bill made his own plate and ate. I still wanted just a bite but it was easier then having to sit at the dinner table while all of them are chowing down on good food and Im sipping my juice (like this a few nights ago)

216

Today has been a hard day to juice I don't know why I want food so bad, my juice has tasted good but I long to eat today. I'm down one lb from yesterday so that should be exciting and enough to keep me going right? it doesn't help that I'm planning on eating dinner with my sister in law tonight. I'm taking her to a baby shower in LA that Jessica Alba is hosting. she should leave with lots of great stuff for baby boy welsh and I'm excited for her. the plan is were going to grab sushi on the way there. they have appetizers, deserts and mocktails. I hope I stay away from most of it :)
just got home from the baby shower it was alto of fun and Bri got some cool stuff LOTS of cool stuff. we grabbed sushi and I had salmon & albacore sushi and a CA roll I didn't eat all the rice under the sushi and didn't finish the CA roll. I felt good not stuffed but just right. I had some raw veggies with NO dip at the shower and one cranberry and tonic drink I know I have gained tonight which is frustrating why cant I get below 215?!?! its ok I plan on only juicing from now till the 10th when I have a birthday party to go to. hoping by then I can be at or below 200?!?! I'm so close I know I can do it!!!

217

Well I have been a bad blogger, not because I wasn't juicing but because life is just well you know busy. keeping up with Three littles and a active husband isn't always easy. I kept juicing last Friday night I ate raw veggies in a soup I made. I was sick fever body aches the whole nine yards and LONGED for some warm food. so I threw together tons of veggies, in veggie stock it LACKED in flavor but it was warm and just want I needed.

the next day we had a funeral for our friends little boy who pasted away in her belly at 38 weeks. Let me just say I DON'T for one minute think its fair that any parent should have to lay to rest their little ones, its something I don't get nor will I ever. I do however know God is bigger and able and has BIG plans with little cooper hart and his family.
anyways I didn't want to have to deal with juice all day so I stepped on the scale and didn't loose one lb that morning I don't know if it was because I had ate raw veggies the night before or what but I was pretty disappointed. so I made bill and myself some yummy juice one of my favorites so far Beets, Carrots, Apples and Oranges YUMMY

and we went out the door, I ate some food at the reception but not tons I was stuffed after a few bites, I stayed away from desert and made sure I only drank water. I was still not feeling great so I had french onion soup for dinner,and a cobb salad which I ended up not even eating half of it. I made sure to eat the avocado and chicken out of it so I got some good fats. The next day Sunday I woke up really just not feeling great so I stayed home from church and decided I would eat again today and start juicing again Monday morning. I ate SUPER healthy all day, Breakfast I had egg whites with mushrooms, lunch I ate this beauty and it was SOOO good

Dinner I ended up juicing. we went on a walk to the park as a family, it felt good to be active and able to include the whole family. I felt really great about my day and my choices over the weekend until this morning came and I stepped on the scale again and I was up two and a half lbs. from Saturday morning (I was at 215 now 217)
Today I have juiced all day long and felt pretty good, I'm finally getting over being sick and I really have enjoyed my juice today :)

Week one

I think this picture shows it all :)SUPER excited to see the results from just one week of Juice. for some reason last night I made juice and was expecting to have to chug it down yet again but to my surprise I actually made a juice that tasted pretty good, I was so excited to pair good juice finally with a AWESOME number on the scale. it made it where I think and feel like I can keep going!!!!
I think I found the trick to making GOOD juice less ingredients I was putting 6-8 diffrent things in my juice trying to get enough calories and make sure it was more veggies then juice. but I will tell you todays juice I only put 4 things in and agian it was GOOD!!!! so todays plan to keep going I CAN do this and I will do this!!! :)

Day 6

Well Im just in the start of this day I did my "cleanout" with this baby, a friend told me to make sure it was cold and it would taste like sprite. while it didnt taste like sprite but it was easier to get down then the juice. I drank the whole bottle then drank a whole bottle of aquafina I was instantly bloated and uncomfortable. but I was successful and hopefully will be doing way better today. I feel a headache coming on but I havent drank any more water nor have had any juice yet and its 1pm yep I dred the juice so much I put it off till I have to. I havent felt hungry yet this morning so it has been easy to put off drinking the juice.
I did just take a shower though and this is the first time in two years where I didnt have clumps of hair in my hands when I washed it. I did still have a couple hairs but I mean like 2 or 3 not the 30-100 I was having each time I washed my hair. this is exciting!!!
it was pretty hard tonight preparing chicken tacos for the family and not eating. The guacamole was sooo tempting. I almost talked myself into eating the raw avocado but I didn't :) I might add some raw veggies and fruit next week just so I can chew something but we will see I really want to make it 14 days and I'm almost half way there! It did help my juice tonight was for the first time in 6 days good! I made a apple, spinach & cucumber juice and it was delicious. I wonder if maybe I'm trying to add to many different things to my juice and it just is to much. I'll try another easy juice in the morning for my brunch juice.
I didn't weight myself today because I fluctuate so much durning the day I figured I would wait till tomorrow.

Day 5 221

Im down a full 10 pounds in just 5 days. Im feeling better each day but still not amazing. I think part of the reasons Im getting headaches are Im not drinking nearly enough water. Im drinking tons more then usual but its not enough to keep me up to par with these veggies. Im also uncomfortable because I havent been able to poop since I started this detox. the taste of the juice is still so bad like it leaves a bad aftertaste in my mouth, bill says it doesnt have a aftertaste, so maybe it really is all in my mind. Im determinded to make it the full 7 days at the very least. Im told if I make it there It will be smooth sailing to continue? we will see I plan on eating raw after I go off this at least for a bit so maybe Ill juice and eat some raw veggies/fruits? I feel like such a quiter and like Im letting down Bill. I asked him tonight how long I would need to juice where he would be proud of me? he didnt exactly have a answer nor was his words after kind. he said it seems like everything you guys start you quit. OUCH truth hurts huh? He just doesnt get it, his weight loss journey while it may have not always been easy for him was a heck of a lot easier then mine. he has time to exersice where it doesnt take away from our family time. he has time to himself and can go pick up a healthy snack here or there and its afordable for just one. I have a whole entourage of kids in toe, which I love dont get me wrong but it doesnt make for this journey to be easy! Im going to do a laxetive cleanse in the morning to try to help me poop and maybe make me feel better?! here to hoping

day 4 223

I still have a headache and still nauseous but not as bad as yesterday. I REALLY still long to eat. in fact I put a mouth full of food in my mouth today and chewed it for as long as I could and spit it out. it was great! haha Yep I have problems huh? my juice this morning was HORRIFIC like I couldnt stand to suck it down. It seems like everyday it gets worse?! maybe its a mind over matter thing maybe not. the weightloss is great dont get me wrong but I know as soon as I start eating Im going to gain some of this back so it isnt enough for me to keep juicing. I was wanting to only juice for 14 days but honestly not sure ill make it :( Im trying HARD I want these medical issues to resolve themselfs and if a simple detox helps then great! I have noticed my sense of smell is amazing these days I never knew I didnt have good smell hah. also my acne is starting to clear up which YAY thats one thing down. hopefully I can keep going.

Day 3

Todays been by far the hardest, I want to eat sooooo bad just the act of chewing something would be amazing! things I dont normally think are good look amazing haha I have been having with drawl symptoms today too I had a horrible migraine I was nauseous all day and I couldnt suck down the juice the way I should have. hoping tomorrow is easier

Day 2

Well yesterday was easier then today, I dreaded getting up to drink the juice. it just wasnt very tastey today but I got it down and made it through day two. Im pretty tired and sluggish and I LONG to eat food. it has been hard not to take a bite of the kids food as Im making it or not to just take a drink of their drink. I never realized how much I did this untill now hah a bite her a bite there must really add up. I weight in this morning and I was already down 5lbs but Im SURE its all water weight because Im peeing like crazy. wish I would have take a picture of the scale Ill try to be on top of that.

Day one of Juice Detox 231

Here I go again.... Yep AGAIN I stopped going to boot camp back in September when I got hurt pretty bad there. I fell off a jump block and landed on my ribs. it took me a long time to heal up and then it was holiday season and more excuses. I never lost weight in bootcamp although I was feeling great and I was loosing inches.
let me see if I can get you up to date again, the past few months I have been noticing hormonal issues going on but I hate the dr so I just put up with them. I have been loosing hair by the clumps since having Judah almost two years ago, my acne is worse then it ever has been, I have ovarian cyst again, and I am growing hair in places I shouldn't be,(I know lovely huh?!) Im tired all the time and against my best attempts I cant loose any weight. I have been following ww's again and not one lb has come off. anyways over the holidays I watched a documentary Sick, Fat and nearly dead and have had it stored in the back of my mind that it would be nice to do it someday. since this time more and more people I know have done juice detoxes and they swear by them. one of my best friends husband started three weeks ago and he says he has never felt this good. (not to mention he is down 20lbs). Both my friend and I have vacations coming up and my 30th birthday, so we decided we would do a weight loss challenge 100$ to the person who looses the most by April 14th 60 days. We both are starting off with a Juice detox I would LOVE to rid myself off all the hormonal crap and drop a few lbs. on it. Today is day one and I have found sipping my juice all day is helping me get it down. So far I haven't been hungry once and Im feeling ok about not eating. We will see how I feel tonight :) here is my starting weight in picture


Im so thankful my husband is so supportive. he took the first drink because it just didn't smell good hah