Happy Thanksgiving!

UPDATE: I've been a faithful green-smoothie drinker now for a couple months...and I've lost 15 pounds! My clothes are loose, I sleep better, no more caffeine drinks, my blood pressure dropped, and I'm jumping for joy:D I have tried for YEARS to stop drinking diet drinks-always with no luck. When I went cold turkey with this new lifestyle, I had no more headaches to slow me down. My mood has been pretty even and I handle stress so much better.

My hubby's pretty impressed that I'm sticking with the whole nutritional and healthy food. He helps me pick out spinach and kale for our meals, and even drinks the smoothies with me in the morning. I'm completely sold on the fruits and veggies approach, and have to hold myself back from sounding too preachy to others now- when I hear their ailments. This IS the way to do it though folks-really!

I'm so grateful for my family! They support me and help me stay on track. We laugh at some of the crazy things I drag us into...health food stores, farmers markets, and even Walgreens looking for vitamins. My kids have thrown out all their Halloween candy (saving the chocolate for later) and watched my shopping habits during the weeks. We keep carrots and celery handy and nuts for my midnight snacks. We are about to travel down South for the holidays, and my kids are thinking of what great deals we can get for Black Friday *I've asked for a juicer for Christmas. I really can't see myself reverting back to processed food and pop again. This is so important to me now. Thanks for asking for an update on my life everyone. I'm doing great!

 Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Family Night Dessert

Beets and Bananas

Today, I gathered all my strength...and went back to work. My dear friends gave me high-fives and thumbs-up when I stated that my throat was fully healed. I was ready to start hauling Christmas decorations around again!

A funny thing happened during the day-(I thought I'd share with ya') My friend, Lee, was in Wood 'n Lace helping a customer, when I walked through. The customer told Lee, that for a dollar...he would share a sure fire way of losing weight. This diet was given to him by the hospital staff and dietitians up in Salt Lake. He had shared this with lots of people-all for only one dollar! She looked at me and smiled, then she pulled some change out of her pocket and frowned. She told him that sorry she didn't have enough. I pulled thirty-five cents out of my pocket and gave her my change. Even though it wasn't enough...he still wanted to share his secret:)

This is the menu plan he gave us...for breakfast, you can only have four items:

The next part of the menu for lunch...included: a tomato, a carrot, one beet and some kind of protein (only a pack of card size). This is the same for dinner...the meat can only be skinless and no fat. The one treat for the day-ONE tootsie roll to suck on (not chew). If you can't make it without munching on something, you can have plain popcorn. There should be nothing on any of your food. There should be NO sauces, No butters and No gravy. He was guaranteeing weight loss within the first week. Lee and I both agreed that it's only because your basically starving yourself! We've decided that we'd try the menu for one week, and just see how it FEELS to eat so very little. At the very worst, we just feel grumpy from lack of flavor and variety. I know that night times will be the most challenging! *(Especially since it's almost THANKSGIVING!!!) All this talk about food is making me hungry-how about you? I could go for some sushi...