Day Thirty Eight

Worked out my arms today kayaking and at sunset we worked out our legs on a 5 mile bike ride! I am sore! We went on a new bike trail, loved it. This is such an amazing place to live, not only beautiful, but the smells coming from the neighborhoods of Hawaiian BBQ, AMAZING!! I don't have to eat meat, but I can enjoy the smell :) We came home and bbq some zucchini, peppers and onions. Still yum. Even though we are 22 days away from completing 60, we are still going to keep juicing for our breakfast. Our workouts are already getting more and more intense, from here on out we are going to add more every week. Down 5 more lbs this week! YAY!

Day Thirty Six

Still going strong. Feeling more and more amazing everyday. Hoping I reach my goal of losing 60 lbs. We are exercising more and more. I did pick up a few more recipes I need to post :) This week I am going to make Dr. Oz veggie soup. I'll post more later!

Day Thirty Two

Finally, I am feeling better from camping! Guess my body hates sausage..Today on the Facebook page of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, there was an article on how amazing juicing is for your skin, how it puts the red, yellow pigment back and thats why we get a glow. Loved it! Especially juicing, beets, carrots, tomatoes and spinach. So this morning Chris juiced me 1 beet, 2 carrots, a cup of strawberries and kale. It was so good!! I made some tofu lettuce wraps tonight, they turned out! I just can't only do the juicing, I am mainly juicing with a small snack at lunch and small dinner. We have cut out so much!! Coffee, alcohol, meat, dairy, sugar...I think we are doing fine. We did add one more rule, no more eating or drinking juice after 7pm. Went on our walk tonight, we are both feeling great! ;)

Day Thirty!

Wow! Half way there and our camping trip, did mess us up!! I am still sick and I only sampled a couple pieces of sausage and a few crackers with artichoke dip. The last day we went on a hike and I didn't eat anything, that was a huge mistake! So not enough eating the good stuff and sampling a few bad things, I am paying for it! Oh well, moving on...Yesterday, we were back on juice and had veggie soup for dinner. I'm having some beet juice today, hopefully it will finish cleaning me out. Back on the scale on Friday! We did have a blast on our camping trip, but next time we 'll have to plan it a little better ;)

Dr. Oz's Two Day Cleanse

We are going to try this after the 60 days, its suppose to help your body run better.

Breakfast
Quinoa with Prunes:
 cup of water
1\2 cup quinoa
1\2 cup chopped prunes
nutmeg
grated ginger
1\2 cup rice milk
Bring water, quinoa, nutmeg and ginger to a boil, reduce heat, cover for 10 mins. Stir in rice milk and prunes, cover pot again and cook for 5 mins.

Lunch
Revitalizing fruit smoothie
1/2 cup almond milk
1\4 cup frozen blueberries
1\4 banana
1TBSP flaxseed
ice. Blend.

Dinner
Veg broth with side of Sauerkraut and Apple slices
2 quarts water
2 red onions, chopped
2 stalks celery chopped
1fennel bulb chopped
4 cloves of garlic
1 cup sliced shiltake mushrooms
1 cabbage chopped
2 tsp. caraway seeds
fresh oregano chopped
paprika
sea salt and pepper
cayenne pepper
parsley sprigs

Bring ingredients to a boil, cover and simmer for an hour.

Snack
Pineapple kale juice

1\2 cup pineapple
4 cups kale
2 large cucumbers
1 lemon
1\2 cup mint
2 artichoke hearts
Juice in a juicer..

So quinoa is a whole protein, has a ton of fiber. Prunes have fiber too and a natural laxative. Blueberries work as a antioxidants. Banana has B6 that help recharge detoxifying enzymes through out the body. Flaxseed supply more fiber and omega 3's. Fennel helps stimulate bile that removes toxins from liver. Parsley is a diuretic. Fermented sauerkraut provides probiotics. apple slices for more fiber. Kale and artichoke support enzymes in the liver.

Day Twenty Four

We are getting ready to go camping for 4 days. Got all my veggies cut up. Going to make a big thing of salsa, and red peppers will be our chips. Im making lettuce wraps, with only veggies inside. We are going to do tinfoil veggies and potatoes. We will be doing lots of hiking, can't have as much juice as I would like :( When we get back we are going to do only juice again for a few days
. Tonight I had five chips with organic chilli and cheese that we made for the kids and I feel like I ate a whole buffet..yuk! Don't like this feeling..Excited for our little staycation, we have a lot of our friends coming up. I am DETERMINED to eat right the whole time. Guess my next post will be on day 28! Aloha :)

Day Twenty Two and Twenty Three

Still going...I'm a very mathamatical person, so the scale is driving me CRAZY!! Hate that thing..haha! I'm going to forget about it until Thursday. My clothes feel great and I am sticking to my juice. Last night, we made the kids spaghetti with gluten free noodles and local, organic meat and sauce. I did have a little sauce on my aspargus and a half of sweet potatoe. Love my bedtime tea at night, not quite like a glass of wine, but I don't need the wine! My tea is good enough, so I am going to stick to having tea at night and I will have wine occasionally :) Never knew how much alcohol sabatoges your diet!! This weekend we are going camping, so we have to do some major planning for our food and we are going to bring juice, not as fresh as I would want it, but better than no juice.

Day Twenty One

The scale this week is so frustrating!!! Down only 2 lbs this week? Arghhh!!! Its gotta be my monthly, but Im just going to focus on the fact that I am down a size, (Thank you cousin for pointing that out). Still feel great! And hopefully next week I will see more results on the scale. Still staying focused, almost half way to completing  phase one..YAY!!

Day Twenty!!!

Yay! Felt great today, did nothing but juice!! I am a little hungry, but I have absolutely no cravings. Went on our walk and I am already so much stronger!! Made it up a huge hill without having to stop, it felt great. I might hold off on my weigh in until Saturday. Sooo happy I did this and we are both staying focused. Making slow changes with the kids. I changed their bread this week to all organic. Got them gluten free waffles and whole grain crackers. Yesterday, they drank a full cup of juice. I had to go and buy some clothes today, my clothes are falling off! Loved that!!! Day 20..Woohoo only ten more days until 30!

Day Nineteen

Not the best day, ugghhh..cramps and blah..We did go to a raw bar here, and it was so good. I got the local kombacha made here! Loved it. We went to Chris' workmates house for a dinner that we kept putting off. I had a small taco and a plate full of salad. Didn't go on my walk, in too much pain!!!

Day Eighteen

Two more days, to be at Day 20? Thats crazy!!! So this week I have been a little moody, as you can tell from my last post. Then this morning, I jumped on the scale, (I know I couldn't hold out) and I was UP three pounds! WHAT??! So today I was so annoyed at work, wondering what was going on...well tonight I got my answer, you know ladies, moody, emotional, bloated! So now Im so happy to know that its just my time of the month. I usually gain about 7 lbs from retaining water. So tonight I am having lots of lemon in my tea, to get rid of the retention and tomorrow lots of lemon, cucumber water :) Chris is doing awesome! He had a couple days off work, so he took our boy hiking and cliff diving today. We are getting up early to do our walking on the beach..Hopefully by Friday I can weigh in without the water weight. Excited for this week, can't wait to reach the half way of 30 days!! ;)

Day Sixteen and Seventeen

Had a great day at work yesterday, everyone could tell I had lost, so that is always good to hear. Chris and I both are ready to bump up our work outs, so we are going to start figuring out our plan. We have some friends of ours juicing too, so that is fun to talk to them and get ideas from each other. I can see the difference in their skin too. Well off to work!

Day Fifteen

This morning we were out the door by 7:15am, had to get to the farmers market before everything good was gone. Then we went on our walk, gorgeous morning! I refrained from the scale this morning, it was SOOO hard! I need to just weigh myself once a week. I seem to stick to my plan more when I only weigh in at the end of the week. Because sometimes  I reason that I lost weight even though I cheated and before you know it I am cheating everyday.
  This week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, we are going to try just juicing, no food at all. That thought is hard right now because I am starving after our walk. Forty five more days to go for our first goal, Then it's "Phase Two" which will be eating a plant based diet and lots of weight training and major cardio!

Day Fourteen

I can't BELIEVE it is DAY 14!!! So official weigh in for the second week, I am down 10.3 lbs! In just one week, wish I knew what the first week was, but oh well moving on..Chris is down 11lbs, it would take a miracle to lose more than him :) I'm excited to really start seeing results.
 I guess all the nutrients is suppose to smooth out cellulite, we will see. My sis has been doing green smoothies for breakfast (Kale, spinach, juice and a banana) and she look so FAB, she kinda already did, but her body is practically perfect now with no cellulite and her daughter is not even two yet. Last night I did some major stretching, it makes me feel so much better and I sleep better.
 So, continuing on to Week 3, YAY!

Day Thirteen

Wow! almost to two weeks and down almost a pound this morning. For dinner tonight, we had the Sweet Potato Sliders, they were delicious! You have to try them. Final weigh in for the week tomorrow, so we will be pushing extra hard on our walk tonight. I did have a slight headache today, but other than that what can I say, I FEEL GREAT ! As Joe Cross says "Juice on"

Another Yummy Recipe

Sweet Potato Sliders

2 Sweet Potatoes  cut into circles

12 mushroom caps

Sea salt and pepper

Herbs- basil, oregano, cumin

1/2 cup chopped Kale

1/2 a cucumber sliced

tomato sliced

red onion sliced

 olive oil

 Preheat 425..Place mushroom caps and sweet potato slices onto a baking sheet-Drizzle olive oil, sprinkle herbs, salt and pepper. 

Bake 30 mins flipping halfway.

Spread:

1 avocado

1tsp olive oil

1 TBSP water

2 cloves garlic

1/2 onion

Sea salt and pepper

squeeze of lime

Blend in a blender

Take out of oven and let cool. Spoon avocado spread on sweet potato circles. Add mushroom, top with kale, cucumber, tomato, red onion..add more spread to sweet potato circle and top it.