7-day Detoxification

Last week, my mom told me about this detoxification diet she had read about and suggested it to me. Now, let me tell you....my first thought was, "No Way!" as she told me I was only to eat raw fruits and vegetables. If you know me at all, then you know I don't like fruit, never have, and swore I never will. But, I thought I just might try it just to see if I could do it and try to learn to like fruit. I gave David a list of things I wanted and he went to the store on Saturday to stock up. There are lots of vegetable that I like, so that wasn't an issue. It was hard coming up with the fruits to buy though. I decided on watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple, apples, and peaches. For breakfast this morning, I had pineapple, cantaloupe, and orange juice. I found this morning that I'm not a huge fan of cantaloupe, but can stomach it. I do LOVE pineapple though in spite of its stringiness (that usually grosses me out)! For lunch, I'm eating a salad with avacado, onion, mushroom, bell pepper, and light balsalmic vinegar, with lots of black pepper to taste. It's actually pretty good, although I do miss the cheese a little bit. I think I can do this for a week! The only things I'm worried about are staying full, working out while doing this diet, and getting burned out. From what I've read, I should stay full because I can have as much as I want all day long, but it takes me a lot longer to eat I've noticed just because these aren't meals I would naturally choose. I'm afraid I'll be a little lightheaded from the negative caloric intake and then try to workout. I don't want to over-do it! For supper, I plan on having a bowl of beans. I LOVE beans, so that will be something to look forward to. Beans are high in fiber and they fill you up, so that's probably a good choice to end the day on. I probably will have to take some sort of fruit snack or some broccoli to munch on though because I start class tonight which means I will have to eat supper around 4:30 and then I go to class from 5:45 to 10:15. It will definitely take some getting used to. But it's only for a week and I can do ANYTHING for a week!! Wish me Luck!!

New Earrings

Madelyn has finally made it the 8 weeks to change her earrings for the first time. She's talked about it for weeks and decided a few weeks ago to go with her new ice cream earrings to coordinate with her ice cream shirt for the first change. Daddy sat down with her tonight for the big reveal. They were a little tender and she cried just a tad, but she did awesome. You'll see in the pictures that her little eyes are red from the few tears. She wants to wear her monkey earrings tomorrow, so it looks like we'll be changing them often now. Have a look!